Image-Guided Pavement Defect Recognition in GPR Data with novel 3D Deep Learning Architecture
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a widely adopted non-destructive sensing technology for subsurface inspection in civil and transportation engineering. Despite its potential for pavement condition assessment, the large-scale application of GPR in automated inspection has two key challenges: the scarcity of annotated real-world datasets and the lack of deep learning models designed for the unique characteristics of 3-Dimensional (3D) GPR data. This study addresses these limitations by firstly introducing a cost-effective data preparation pipeline that integrates orthomosaic Red Green Blue (RGB) imagery with 3D GPR scans to generate annotated 3D GPR datasets. Authors: Yuandong Pan, Linjun Lu, Mudan Wang.
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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a widely adopted non-destructive sensing technology for subsurface inspection in civil and transportation engineering.