Detecting Type and Size of Road Crack with the Smartphone

Yingying Kong, Zhiwen Yu, Huihui Chen, Zhu Wang, Chao Chen, Bin Guo

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Abstract

Detecting crack type and crack size is crucial for road maintenance and management. Mobile crowd sensing is a new way to collect the information of cracks on roads. We propose a system named CrackDetector to detect cracks and estimate their types and size with smart phone in this paper. The type of a crack (i.e., horizontal crack, vertical crack, net crack) is determined by a coordinate transmission method based on three directions, including the direction of the crack in the photo (estimated through an image processing method), the 3D shooting direction (i.e., the rotation of the smartphone while photographing) and the direction of the road (obtained from the OpenStreetMap road network). In order to estimate the size of a crack (i.e., the width and the length of the crack), we use the camera's convex lens imaging theory and readings of the accelerometer and the magnetometer sensor. We collected pictures of 152 cracks with a specifically-developed android application by 8 volunteers. Experimental results show that our approach achieves an accuracy of 90.1% in crack type detection. Meanwhile, we get a 3.2cm RMSE error when estimating the crack width and a 13.2cm RMSE error when estimating the crack length.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages572-579
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538632215
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Aug 2017
Event20th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and 15th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017 - Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Duration: 21 Jul 201724 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
Volume1

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and 15th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou, Guangdong
Period21/07/1724/07/17

Keywords

  • crack size
  • crack type
  • Mobile crowd sensing
  • smartphone sensing

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