An asphalt road pothole image stitching algorithm is proposed to address the issues of low feature point matching accuracy, loss of pothole disease information, ghosting and deformation of the pothole when using traditional image stitching algorithms. The goal is to stitch the images captured by the pavement image acquisition equipment to form a complete asphalt pavement picture with the disease information of the pothole area intact. The stitched image's pixel point coordinates are transformed to the coordinates of the reference image using a single-strain matrix after first extracting the pit regions in the image and extracting feature points for these regions using the MSER-SIFT feature extraction algorithm. Next, the best matching point pairs are found using an improved random sampling consistency algorithm. Finally, a region-weighted averaging approach is utilized to merge the images. The experimental asphalt road images include pavement images with sufficient light during the day, pavement images with complete pothole disease information, pavement images with incomplete potholes, and pavement pothole images at night to test the effectiveness of pavement stitching under various conditions. The research results show that this splicing method not only improves the matching accuracy and speed of the traditional splicing algorithm, but also ensures the integrity and invariance of the pavement pothole information.
KEYWORDS: Point clouds, Roads, Feature extraction, Covariance matrices, 3D modeling, Data modeling, Asphalt pavements, 3D image reconstruction, Visualization, Contour extraction
To address the problem of low accuracy of the traditional 3D laser point cloud pavement potholes extraction algorithm, this paper proposes a road potholes extraction method based on the improved normal vector distance. Then, the normal vector distance of the sampled point is obtained by calculating the distance from the sampled point to the tangent plane of the quadratic surface of the local neighborhood, which is used to describe the 3D features of the sampled point; then, the normal vector distance is diluted and the features are extracted by the Douglas- Peucker algorithm. Finally, the Alpha-Shape algorithm is used to further fit the pit contour and remove the internal noise points, and the B-sample interpolation is used again to fit the boundary of the extracted pit contour to obtain the final pit boundary point cloud collection. The final experimental results show that the average relative error of the pit depth is 3.70%, which is 9.31% higher than that of the traditional method, the average relative error of the extracted pit area is 3.82%, which is 7.33% higher than that of the traditional method, and the average relative error of the extracted pit perimeter is 1.41%. The experimental results show that the method in this paper can extract the pavement pothole features well and improve the performance in terms of the accuracy of pothole feature description compared with the traditional method.
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