Huiqing Xu1,2, Bin Chen2,3, Jian Qin4,5. 1. Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China. 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. 3. Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China. 4. Guangzhou Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China. 5. Guangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China.
Abstract
Accurate and robust detection of road damage is essential for public transportation safety. Currently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based road damage detection algorithms to localize and classify damage with a bounding box have achieved remarkable progress. However, research in this field fails to take into account two key characteristics of road damage: weak semantic information and abnormal geometric properties, resulting in inappropriate feature representation and suboptimal detection results. To boost the performance, we propose a CNN-based cascaded damage detection network, called CrdNet. The proposed model has three parts: (1) We introduce a novel backbone network, named LrNet, that reuses low-level features and mixes suitable range dependency features to learn high-to-low level feature fusions for road damage weak semantic information representation. (2) We apply multi-scale and multiple aspect ratios anchor mechanism to generate high-quality positive samples regarding the damage with abnormal geometric properties for network training. (3) We designed an adaptive proposal assignment strategy and performed cascade predictions on corresponding branches that can establish different range dependencies. The experiments show that the proposed method achieves mean average precision (mAP) of 90.92% on a collected road damage dataset, demonstrating the good performance and robustness of the model.
Accurate and robust detection of road damage is essential for public transportation safety. Currently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based road damage detection algorithms to localize and classify damage with a bounding box have achieved remarkable progress. However, research in this field fails to take into account two key characteristics of road damage: weak semantic information and abnormal geometric properties, resulting in inappropriate feature representation and suboptimal detection results. To boost the performance, we propose a CNN-based cascaded damage detection network, called CrdNet. The proposed model has three parts: (1) We introduce a novel backbone network, named LrNet, that reuses low-level features and mixes suitable range dependency features to learn high-to-low level feature fusions for road damage weak semantic information representation. (2) We pan class="Gene">apply multi-scale and multiple aspect ratios anchor mechanism to generate high-quality positive samples regarding the damage with abnormal geometric properties for network training. (3) We designed an adaptive proposal assignment strategy and performed cascade predictions on corresponding branches that can establish different range dependencies. The experiments show that the proposed method achieves mean average precision (mAP) of 90.92% on a collected road damage dataset, demonstrating the good performance and robustness of the model.
Authors: Liang-Chieh Chen; George Papandreou; Iasonas Kokkinos; Kevin Murphy; Alan L Yuille Journal: IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell Date: 2017-04-27 Impact factor: 6.226