Title: Detection of impaired objects in roadways using metaheuristic algorithms

Authors: Sambandam Ramachandran Balaji; Karthikeyan Santhanakrishnan; Manikandan Radhakrishnan; Albert Mayan John

Addresses: Department of EIE, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai Chennai – 600 123, India ' Department of ECE, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600 119, India ' Department of EIE, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai – 600 123, India ' Department of CSE, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600 119, India

Abstract: Roads have become the most fundamental element in land transportation system. In the long run, some malformations will appear on the road, such as potholes and cracks. Since manual inspection is unpredictable, subjective and prolonged, we go for computer vision-based methods. Thus our work focused on the automatic detection of the cracks and potholes. For the detection process, we acquire the video, convert them into frames and use metaheuristic algorithms to implement detection of the roadway damages (i.e., cracks and potholes). The novelty of this approach lies in using texture-based features to differentiate between crack surfaces and intact roads. Three different metaheuristic algorithms are used to detect the crack and potholes. The performance of the algorithms is evaluated using the different parameters. Based on the performance, it is observed that grasshopper optimisation algorithm outperforms well for this application.

Keywords: crack detection; pothole detection; metaheuristic algorithm; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; whale optimisation; grasshopper optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESMS.2022.123953

International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 2022 Vol.13 No.3, pp.209 - 217

Received: 14 Jul 2021
Accepted: 16 Aug 2021
Published online: 05 Jul 2022 *

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