Road Crack Detection Using Deep Neural Network with Receptive Field Block

Abstract

Cracks are common pavement diseases that affect pavement performance. To maintain the road in good condition, localizing and fixing the cracks is a vital responsibility for transportation maintenance department. However, traditional manual detection methods are considerably tedious and require domain expertise. Therefore, the research on automatic detection and identification of pavement crack is of great significance for ensuring traffic safety and pavement maintenance decisions. In this paper, we propose an automatic pavement crack detection network based on the Single Shot MultiBox Detector(SSD) deep learning framework, and introduce the receptive field module to enhance the feature extraction capability of the network, which ensures real-time crack detection and also improves the performance of accuracy in pavement crack detection.