Abstract

The accurate classification of road surface conditions plays a vital role in ensuring road safety and effective maintenance. Vibration-based techniques have shown promise in this domain, leveraging the unique vibration signatures generated by vehicles to identify different road conditions. In this study, we focus on utilizing vehicle-mounted vibration sensors to collect road surface vibrations and comparing various data representation techniques for classifying road surface conditions into four classes: normal road surface, potholes, bad road surface, and speedbumps. Our experimental results reveal that the combination of multiple data representation techniques results in higher performance, with an average accuracy of 93.4%. This suggests that the integration of deep neural networks and signal processing techniques can produce a high-level representation better suited for challenging multivariate time series classification issues.

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Title
Evaluation of data representation techniques for vibration based road surface condition classification
Author
Raslan, E. 1 ; Alrahmawy, Mohammed F․ 2 ; Mohammed, Y. A. 3 ; Tolba, A. S․ 4 

 New Damietta Institute for Engineering & Technology, New Damietta, Egypt; Mansoura University, Faculty of Computer and Information, Mansoura, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 0342 6662) 
 Mansoura University, Faculty of Computer and Information, Mansoura, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 0342 6662); New Mansoura University, Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, Gamasa, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) (ISNI:0000 0005 0814 6423); University of Economics and Human Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (GRID:grid.10251.37) 
 New Heliopolis Institute for Engineering & Automotive and Energy Technologies, New Heliopolis, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) 
 Mansoura University, Faculty of Computer and Information, Mansoura, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 0342 6662); New Heliopolis Institute for Engineering & Automotive and Energy Technologies, New Heliopolis, Egypt (GRID:grid.10251.37) 
Pages
11620
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3057548178
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.