Road Surface Classification with Images Captured From Low-cost Camera - Road Traversing Knowledge (RTK) Dataset

Authors

  • Thiago Rateke Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Image Processing and Computer Graphics Lab (Lapix) at Brazilian Institute for Digital Convergence (INCoD), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-5765
  • Karla Aparecida Justen Image Processing and Computer Graphics Lab (Lapix) at Brazilian Institute for Digital Convergence (INCoD), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.
  • Aldo von Wangenheim Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Image Processing and Computer Graphics Lab (Lapix) at Brazilian Institute for Digital Convergence (INCoD), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2175-2745.91522

Keywords:

Road Surface Classification, Road Surface Quality Classification, Road dataset

Abstract

The type of road pavement directly influences the way vehicles are driven. It’s common to find papers that deal with path detection but don’t take into account major changes in road surface patterns. The quality of the road surface has a direct impact on the comfort and especially on the safety of road users. In emerging countries it’s common to find unpaved roads or roads with no maintenance. Unpaved or damaged roads also impact in higher fuel costs and vehicle maintenance. This kind of analysis can be useful for both road maintenance departments as well as for autonomous vehicle navigation systems to verify potential critical points. For the experiments accomplishment upon the surface types and quality classification, we present a new dataset, collected with a low-cost camera. This dataset has examples of good and bad asphalt (with potholes and other damages) other types of pavement and also many examples of unpaved roads (with and without potholes). We also provide several frames from our dataset manually sorted in surface types for tests accuracy verification. Our road type and quality classifier was done through a simple Convolutional Neural Network with few steps and presents promising results in different datasets.

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2019-11-30

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Rateke, T., Justen, K. A., & von Wangenheim, A. (2019). Road Surface Classification with Images Captured From Low-cost Camera - Road Traversing Knowledge (RTK) Dataset. Revista De Informática Teórica E Aplicada, 26(3), 50–64. https://doi.org/10.22456/2175-2745.91522

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