A method for automatic digital inspection of a railway environment is disclosed. The method comprises receiving 102 at least a first video captured by at least one camera mounted on a rail vehicle, wherein the first video comprises video frames representing the railway environment; generating 104 point clouds using the video frames, wherein a given point cloud correspond to a given set of video frames; attributing labels 106 to each pixel of the video frames for generating annotated video frames evaluating 108 the annotated video frames and their corresponding point clouds using a set of predefined rules to at least determine whether or not at least one violation is present in the railway environment; generating 110 inspection information related to at least one violation, when it is determined that at least one violation is present in the railway environment; and sending 112 the inspection information to a user device. LIDAR and/or neural networks may be employed. The predefined rules may relate to linesides, vegetation, signs, signals, cesses or obstacles. Safety speeds may be considered.
AUTOMATIC DIGITAL INSPECTION OF RAILWAY ENVIRONMENT
AUTOMATISCHE DIGITALE INSPEKTION EINER EISENBAHNUMGEBUNG
INSPECTION NUMÉRIQUE AUTOMATIQUE D'ENVIRONNEMENT FERROVIAIRE
2024-03-13
Patent
Electronic Resource
English