Paper Info
Title
Road Characteristics Detection Based On Joint Convolutional Neural Networks With Adaptive Squares
Abstract
The importance of road characteristics has been highlighted, as road characteristics are fundamental structures established to support many transportation-relevant services. However, there is still huge room for improvement in terms of types and performance of road characteristics detection. With the advantage of geographically tiled maps with high update rates, remarkable accessibility, and increasing availability, this paper proposes a novel simple deep-learning-based approach, namely joint convolutional neural networks (CNNs) adopting adaptive squares with combination rules to detect road characteristics from roadmap tiles. The proposed joint CNNs are responsible for the foreground and background image classification and various types of road characteristics classification from previous foreground images, raising detection accuracy. The adaptive squares with combination rules help efficiently focus road characteristics, augmenting the ability to detect them and provide optimal detection results. Five types of road characteristics-crossroads, T-junctions, Y-junctions, corners, and curves-are exploited, and experimental results demonstrate successful outcomes with outstanding performance in reality. The information of exploited road characteristics with location and type is, thus, converted from human-readable to machine-readable, the results will benefit many applications like feature point reminders, road condition reports, or alert detection for users, drivers, and even autonomous vehicles. We believe this approach will also enable a new path for object detection and geospatial information extraction from valuable map tiles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/ijgi10060377
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
road characteristics detection, roadmap tiles, deep learning, CNN, adaptive squares, combination rules
Journal
10
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chiao-Ling Kuo171.50
Ming-Hua Tsai200.34