An Application Study on Road Surface Monitoring Using DTW Based Image Processing and Ultrasonic Sensors

Country’s economy depend on well-maintained roads as they are major means of transportation. It becomes essential to identify pothole and humps in order to avoid accidents and damages to the vehicles that is caused because of distress to drivers and also to save fuel consumption. In this regard, this work presents a simple solution to detect potholes and humps and hence avoid accidents and help drivers. Potholes are detected using Image Processing Technique and Ultrasonic Sensors are used to detect humps. Controlling device used is Raspberry Pi. The system acquires the geographical position of potholes using Wi-Fi and transmits it to authorities to take corrective measures

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A Crowdsourcing Technique For Road Surface Monitoring Using Smarthphone Sensors

10.32920/ryerson.14655333 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shahram Sattar

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Surface Condition ◽

Road Surface ◽

Detection Accuracy ◽

Active Monitoring ◽

The Road ◽

Detection Approach ◽

Smartphone Sensors ◽

Road Surface Monitoring ◽

Surface Monitoring

Road surface monitoring is a key factor in providing safe road infrastructure for road users. As a result, road surface condition monitoring aims to detect road surface anomalies such potholes, cracks and bumps, which affect driving comfort and on-road safety. Road surface anomaly detection is a widely studied problem. Recently, smartphone-based sensing has become popular with the increased amount of available embedded smartphone sensors. Using smartphones to detect road surface anomalies could change the way government agencies monitor and plan for road rehabilitation and maintenance. Several studies have been developed to utilize smartphone sensors (e.g., Global Positioning system (GPS) and accelerometers) mounted on a moving vehicle to collect and process the data to monitor and tag roadway surface defects. Geotagged images or videos from the roadways have also been used to detect the road surface anomalies. However, existing studies are limited to identifying roadway anomalies mainly from a single source or lack the utility of combined and integrated multi-sensors in terms of accuracy and functionality. Therefore, low-cost, more efficient pavement evaluation technologies and a centralized information system are necessary to provide the most up-to-date information about the road status due to the dynamic changes on the road surface This information will assist transportation authorities to monitor and enhance the road surface condition. In this research, a probabilistic-based crowdsourcing technique is developed to detect road surface anomalies from smartphone sensors such as linear accelerometers, gyroscopes and GPS to integrate multiple detections accurately. All case studies from the proposed detection approach showed an approximate 80% detection accuracy (from a single survey) which supports the inclusiveness of the detection approach. In addition, the results of the proposed probabilistic-based integration approach indicated that the detection accuracy can be further improved by 5 to 20% with multiple detections conducted by the same vehicle along the same road segments. Finally, the development of the web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) platform would facilitate the real-time and active monitoring of road surface anomalies and offer further improvement of road surface quality control in large cities like Toronto.

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A Research for Evaluation of Life Span of a Tire through Image Processing Technique.

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1294.0982s1119 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S11) ◽

pp. 2492-2496

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Life Span ◽

Surface Deformation ◽

Principal Component ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Gray Level ◽

The Road ◽

Before And After ◽

Value Decomposition

The tire component of a car is the only one which is in direct contact with the road. They become defective because of factors like driver’s driving, wear out, pressure, overheating, wheel alignment. When the tire is worn, the threads shallow up and can cause the failure of the tires hence reducing safety. A new tire has the capacity of absorbing the heat whereas; the old tire does not absorb the heat and hence is prone to damages. Gray level changes in the image of the tire before and after its surface deformation are found. These changes predict the life of the tire, "more the gray level changes lesser is the life span of the tire and vice-versa". These gray level changes can be found out by using "SVD" The surface deformation of a tire is found by using SVD (Single value decomposition) with PCA(Principal component analysis) algorithm. PCA is used for the sake of Dimensionality Reduction. The principal components depending upon the variance of each training samples and the test samples help in the analysis of its life span. This paper proposes a robust image processing technique developed using the MatLab platform for nondestructive testing of a tire

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A Crowdsourcing Technique For Road Surface Monitoring Using Smarthphone Sensors

10.32920/ryerson.14655333.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shahram Sattar

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Surface Condition ◽

Road Surface ◽

Detection Accuracy ◽

Active Monitoring ◽

The Road ◽

Detection Approach ◽

Smartphone Sensors ◽

Road Surface Monitoring ◽

Surface Monitoring

Road surface monitoring is a key factor in providing safe road infrastructure for road users. As a result, road surface condition monitoring aims to detect road surface anomalies such potholes, cracks and bumps, which affect driving comfort and on-road safety. Road surface anomaly detection is a widely studied problem. Recently, smartphone-based sensing has become popular with the increased amount of available embedded smartphone sensors. Using smartphones to detect road surface anomalies could change the way government agencies monitor and plan for road rehabilitation and maintenance. Several studies have been developed to utilize smartphone sensors (e.g., Global Positioning system (GPS) and accelerometers) mounted on a moving vehicle to collect and process the data to monitor and tag roadway surface defects. Geotagged images or videos from the roadways have also been used to detect the road surface anomalies. However, existing studies are limited to identifying roadway anomalies mainly from a single source or lack the utility of combined and integrated multi-sensors in terms of accuracy and functionality. Therefore, low-cost, more efficient pavement evaluation technologies and a centralized information system are necessary to provide the most up-to-date information about the road status due to the dynamic changes on the road surface This information will assist transportation authorities to monitor and enhance the road surface condition. In this research, a probabilistic-based crowdsourcing technique is developed to detect road surface anomalies from smartphone sensors such as linear accelerometers, gyroscopes and GPS to integrate multiple detections accurately. All case studies from the proposed detection approach showed an approximate 80% detection accuracy (from a single survey) which supports the inclusiveness of the detection approach. In addition, the results of the proposed probabilistic-based integration approach indicated that the detection accuracy can be further improved by 5 to 20% with multiple detections conducted by the same vehicle along the same road segments. Finally, the development of the web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) platform would facilitate the real-time and active monitoring of road surface anomalies and offer further improvement of road surface quality control in large cities like Toronto.

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A New Image Processing Technique for STEM

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100052171 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 432-433

Author(s):

Yasushi Kokubo ◽

Hirotami Koike ◽

Teruo Someya

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Image Processing ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Elastic Scattering ◽

Field Emission ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Energy Analyzer ◽

Scanning Microscope ◽

Scanning Electron

One of the advantages of scanning electron microscopy is the capability for processing the image contrast, i.e., the image processing technique. Crewe et al were the first to apply this technique to a field emission scanning microscope and show images of individual atoms. They obtained a contrast which depended exclusively on the atomic numbers of specimen elements (Zcontrast), by displaying the images treated with the intensity ratio of elastically scattered to inelastically scattered electrons. The elastic scattering electrons were extracted by a solid detector and inelastic scattering electrons by an energy analyzer. We noted, however, that there is a possibility of the same contrast being obtained only by using an annular-type solid detector consisting of multiple concentric detector elements.

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A Comparative Study of Ant and Genetic Algorithms in Digital Mammography

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit183863 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 194-200

Author(s):

J. Magelin Mary ◽

Chitra K. ◽

Y. Arockia Suganthi

Keyword(s):

Genetic Algorithm ◽

Image Processing ◽

Medical Image ◽

Medical Image Processing ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Input Image ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Computational Time ◽

Image Mining ◽

The Individual

Image processing technique in general, involves the application of signal processing on the input image for isolating the individual color plane of an image. It plays an important role in the image analysis and computer version. This paper compares the efficiency of two approaches in the area of finding breast cancer in medical image processing. The fundamental target is to apply an image mining in the area of medical image handling utilizing grouping guideline created by genetic algorithm. The parameter using extracted border, the border pixels are considered as population strings to genetic algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization, to find out the optimum value from the border pixels. We likewise look at cost of ACO and GA also, endeavors to discover which one gives the better solution to identify an affected area in medical image based on computational time.

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An Enhanced Technique for Classification of Fruits using Shape Color and Texture Features

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse/v7i7/0107 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (7) ◽

pp. 408

Author(s):

Yashpal Jitarwal ◽

Tabrej Ahamad Khan ◽

Pawan Mangal

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Texture Features ◽

Automatic Classification ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Advance Technique ◽

Time Required ◽

Fruit Sorting ◽

Human Inspection

In earlier times fruits were sorted manually and it was very time consuming and laborious task. Human sorted the fruits of the basis of shape, size and color. Time taken by human to sort the fruits is very large therefore to reduce the time and to increase the accuracy, an automatic classification of fruits comes into existence.To improve this human inspection and reduce time required for fruit sorting an advance technique is developed that accepts information about fruits from their images, and is called as Image Processing Technique.

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