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Utilizing Mean Teacher Semi-Supervised Learning for Robust Pothole Image Classification

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2023, 28(5), pp.17-28
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2023.28.05.017
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : April 24, 2023
  • Accepted : May 15, 2023
  • Published : May 31, 2023

Inki Kim 1 Beomjun Kim 1 Jeonghwan Gwak 1

1한국교통대학교

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ABSTRACT

Potholes that occur on paved roads can have fatal consequences for vehicles traveling at high speeds and may even lead to fatalities. While manual detection of potholes using human labor is commonly used to prevent pothole-related accidents, it is economically and temporally inefficient due to the exposure of workers on the road and the difficulty in predicting potholes in certain categories. Therefore, completely preventing potholes is nearly impossible, and even preventing their formation is limited due to the influence of ground conditions closely related to road environments. Additionally, labeling work guided by experts is required for dataset construction. Thus, in this paper, we utilized the Mean Teacher technique, one of the semi-supervised learning-based knowledge distillation methods, to achieve robust performance in pothole image classification even with limited labeled data. We demonstrated this using performance metrics and GradCAM, showing that when using semi-supervised learning, 15 pre-trained CNN models achieved an average accuracy of 90.41%, with a minimum of 2% and a maximum of 9% performance difference compared to supervised learning.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.