Abstract
To facilitate road image data collection, participatory sensing has been proposed in the literature utilizing a dashboard camera of a normal vehicle. It is not trivial to identify road cracks in such crowdsourced images due to the dynamic natures of photographing conditions which results in inconsistent the image quality. Although previous studies presented promising ways to identify road damages using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), the performance is insufficient to be implemented in practical monitoring purposes. This study investigates core problems in improving the road crack segmentation performance by applying state-of-the-art segmentation models based on CNN and transformer architectures. Using a benchmark dataset, it was found that coarse annotation on crowdsourced images is detrimental to the performance evaluation and further development of participatory sensing-based monitoring technology. Interestingly, segmentation models could be trained by training data with coarse annotation. This study will give a fresh insight of advancing the knowledge in participatory sensing-based infrastructure monitoring.
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This research was conducted with the support of the “2022 Yonsei University Future-Leading Research Initiative (No. 2022-22-0102)” and the “National R&D Project for Smart Construction Technology (No. 22SMIP-A158708-03)” funded by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and managed by the Korea Expressway Corporation. This research was also supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2020R1C1C1009314). Any opinions and findings in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the funding agencies listed above.
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Hyeon, J., Shin, G., Kim, T., Kim, B., Kim, H. (2024). Challenges in Road Crack Segmentation Due to Coarse Annotation. In: Skatulla, S., Beushausen, H. (eds) Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering. ICCCBE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35399-4_16
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