Presentation 2019-10-18
Study of Recognizing Road Surface Conditions using Deep Learning Applied for RGBD images Obtained from an Environmental Monitoring Robot
Takuya Hayashi, Takeo Kaneko, Junya Morimoto, Junji Yamato, Hiroyuki Ishii, Jun Ohya, Atsuo Takanishi,
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Abstract(in English) An environmental monitoring robot that moves safely and autonomously needs a function to recognize the state of the ground area. This paper presents a novel two-stage approach for recognizing road surface condition from RGBD image sensed using Kinect v2. The first stage, based on convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier, lists the candidates for the obstruction class and road surface class label (attribute) information for each pixel from the RGB information. The second stage, a determinator using 3-D point clouds information (height or surface curvature features), generates an estimated label image by determining whether it is an obstacle or a road surface class. In this paper, we evaluated SegNet-Basic and ENet as a comparison of the CNN models used in the approach. In the evaluation, we used data collected for the actual natural environment. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the action determination for autonomous search based on road surface recognition using ENet network model and height information obtained from point cloud information.
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Keyword(in English) Deep Neural Network / SegNet-basic / ENet / 3-D Point Clouds / Recognizing Road Surface Conditions
Paper # PRMU2019-39
Date of Issue 2019-10-11 (PRMU)

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Committee PRMU
Conference Date 2019/10/18(2days)
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Chair Yoichi Sato(Univ. of Tokyo)
Vice Chair Toru Tamaki(Hiroshima Univ.) / Akisato Kimura(NTT)
Secretary Toru Tamaki(NTT) / Akisato Kimura(OMRON SINICX)
Assistant Yusuke Uchida(DeNA) / Takayoshi Yamashita(Chubu Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Study of Recognizing Road Surface Conditions using Deep Learning Applied for RGBD images Obtained from an Environmental Monitoring Robot
Sub Title (in English) Comparative Studies of SegNet-Basic and ENet as well as Height and Surface Curvature Features
Keyword(1) Deep Neural Network
Keyword(2) SegNet-basic
Keyword(3) ENet
Keyword(4) 3-D Point Clouds
Keyword(5) Recognizing Road Surface Conditions
1st Author's Name Takuya Hayashi
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takeo Kaneko
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Junya Morimoto
3rd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
4th Author's Name Junji Yamato
4th Author's Affiliation Kogakuin University(Kogakuin Univ.)
5th Author's Name Hiroyuki Ishii
5th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
6th Author's Name Jun Ohya
6th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
7th Author's Name Atsuo Takanishi
7th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2019-10-18
Paper # PRMU2019-39
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) PRMU-235
Page pp.pp.41-46(PRMU),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-10-11 (PRMU)