Automated Detection of Urban Road Manhole Covers Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3258-3269

  Yu, Yongtao ^a   Guan, Haiyan ^b   Ji, Zheng ^c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deep learning; manhole cover; mobile laser scanning (MLS); random forest; road distress; road safety

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MULTILAYERS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FEATURE GENERATION; INVERSE DISTANCE-WEIGHTED INTERPOLATION; LASER SCANNING DATA; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RANDOM FOREST MODELING; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84959501030     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2413812     Document Type: Article

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