Road Anomaly Detection Through Deep Learning Approaches

This paper addresses road anomaly detection by formulating it as a classification problem and applying deep learning approaches to solve it. Besides conventional road anomalies, additional ones are introduced from the perspective of a vehicle. In order to facilitate the learning process, the paper pays a close attention to pattern representation, and proposes three sets of numeric features for representing road conditions. Also, three deep learning approaches, i.e. Deep Feedforward Network (DFN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), are considered to tackle the classification problem. The detectors, with respect to the three deep learning approaches, are trained and evaluated through data collected from a test vehicle driven on various road anomaly conditions. The comparison study on the detection performances is conducted by setting key hyper-parameters to certain sets of fixed values. Also, the comparison study on performances of each detector with respect to different pattern representations is conducted. The results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed approaches and the efficiency of the proposed feature representations in road anomaly detection.