Pavement condition evaluation plays a crucial role in assisting with the management of the highway infrastructure. However, the current methods used for assessing pavement conditions are costly, time-consuming, and subjective. There is a growing need to automate these assessment tactics and leverage low-cost technologies to enable widespread deployment. This study aims to develop robust and highly accurate models for classifying asphalt pavement distresses using transfer learning (TL) techniques based on pretrained deep learning (DL) networks. This topic has gained considerable attention in the field since 2015 when DL became the mainstream choice for various computer vision tasks. While progress has been made in TL model development, challenges persist in areas of accuracy, repeatability, and training cost. To tackle these challenges, this study proposes hybrid models that combine DL networks with support vector machines (SVMs). Three strategies were evaluated: single DL models using transfer learning (TLDL), hybrid models combining DL and SVM (DL+SVM), and hybrid models combining TLDL and SVM (TLDL+SVM). The performance of each strategy was assessed using statistical metrics based on the confusion matrix. Results consistently showed that the TLDL+SVM strategy outperformed the other approaches in accuracy and F1 scores, regardless of the DL network type. On average, the hybrid models achieved an accuracy of 95%, surpassing the 80% accuracy of the best single model and the 55% accuracy for DL+SVM without TL. The results clearly indicate that employing transfer-learned models as feature extractors, in combination with SVM as the classifier, consistently achieves exceptional performance.


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    Title :

    Hybrid Transfer Learning and Support Vector Machine Models for Asphalt Pavement Distress Classification


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board




    Publication date :

    2024-05-05




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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