CrackSense: A CrowdSourcing based urban road crack detection system

Liang Wang, Congying Yang, Zhiwen Yu, Yimeng Liu, Zhu Wang, Bin Guo

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Abstract

As a common road surface distress, cracks pose a serious threat to road infrastructure and traffic safety in cities today. Consequently, road crack detection is considered as an essential step for effective road maintenance and road structure sustainability. However, due to the high cost incurred by dedicated devices and professional operators, it is impossible for existing systems to achieve universal spatiotemporal coverage across citywide road networks. To fill this gap, in this paper, we present the CrackSense, a mobile crowdsourcing based system to detect urban road crack and estimate its damage degree. Specifically, for the heterogeneous crack data, we put forward a crowdsourcing data quality evaluation and selection mechanism. And then, by utilizing the multi-source sensing data aggregation, we propose tow algorithms, namely RCTR and RCDE, to recognize road crack types, i.e., horizontal crack, vertical crack, and net crack, and estimate the crack damage degree, respectively. We implement the system and develop a smartphone APP for mobile users. By conducting intensive experiments and field study, the results demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of our proposed approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages944-951
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728140346
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019
Event2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019 - Leicester, United Kingdom
Duration: 19 Aug 201923 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeicester
Period19/08/1923/08/19

Keywords

  • Image processing
  • Mobile crowdsourcing
  • Road crack detection
  • Sensors

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