Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques

Road markings are vital to the infrastructure of roads, conveying extensive guidance and information to drivers and autonomous vehicles. However, road markings will inevitably wear out over time and impact traffic safety. At the same time, the inspection and maintenance of road markings is an enormo...

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Main Authors: Junjie Wu, Wen Liu, Yoshihisa Maruyama
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/23/7724
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description Road markings are vital to the infrastructure of roads, conveying extensive guidance and information to drivers and autonomous vehicles. However, road markings will inevitably wear out over time and impact traffic safety. At the same time, the inspection and maintenance of road markings is an enormous burden on human and economic resources. Considering this, we propose a road marking inspection system using computer vision and deep learning techniques with the aid of street view images captured by a regular digital camera mounted on a vehicle. The damage ratio of road markings was measured according to both the undamaged region and region of road markings using semantic segmentation, inverse perspective mapping, and image thresholding approaches. Furthermore, a road marking damage detector that uses the YOLOv11x model was developed based on the damage ratio of road markings. Finally, the mean average precision achieves 73.5%, showing that the proposed system successfully automates the inspection process for road markings. In addition, we introduce the Road Marking Damage Detection Dataset (RMDDD), which has been made publicly available to facilitate further research in this area.
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spelling doaj-art-1cb6ef1f44444067b7af86b20647fa522025-08-20T02:50:41ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-12-012423772410.3390/s24237724Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning TechniquesJunjie Wu0Wen Liu1Yoshihisa Maruyama2Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., 5-4 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8539, JapanGraduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, JapanGraduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, JapanRoad markings are vital to the infrastructure of roads, conveying extensive guidance and information to drivers and autonomous vehicles. However, road markings will inevitably wear out over time and impact traffic safety. At the same time, the inspection and maintenance of road markings is an enormous burden on human and economic resources. Considering this, we propose a road marking inspection system using computer vision and deep learning techniques with the aid of street view images captured by a regular digital camera mounted on a vehicle. The damage ratio of road markings was measured according to both the undamaged region and region of road markings using semantic segmentation, inverse perspective mapping, and image thresholding approaches. Furthermore, a road marking damage detector that uses the YOLOv11x model was developed based on the damage ratio of road markings. Finally, the mean average precision achieves 73.5%, showing that the proposed system successfully automates the inspection process for road markings. In addition, we introduce the Road Marking Damage Detection Dataset (RMDDD), which has been made publicly available to facilitate further research in this area.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/23/7724road markingsdamage detectioncomputer visiondeep learning
spellingShingle Junjie Wu
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Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
Sensors
road markings
damage detection
computer vision
deep learning
title Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
title_full Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
title_fullStr Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
title_full_unstemmed Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
title_short Street View Image-Based Road Marking Inspection System Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques
title_sort street view image based road marking inspection system using computer vision and deep learning techniques
topic road markings
damage detection
computer vision
deep learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/23/7724
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