Road surface condition classification using deep learning

摘要

Traditional image recognition technology currently cannot achieve the fast real-time high-accuracy performance necessary for road recognition in intelligent driving. Deep learning models have been recently emerging as promising tools to achieve this performance. The recognition performance of such models can be boosted using appropriate selection of the activation functions. This paper proposes a deep learning approach for the classification of road surface conditions, and constructs a new activation function based on the rectified linear unit Rectified Linear Units (ReLu) activation function. The experimental results show a classification accuracy of 94.89% on the road state database. Experiments on public data-sets demonstrate that the proposed convolutional neural network model with the improved activation function has better generalization and excellent classification performance. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.