Active shape from stereo for highway inspection

Abstract. This paper describes an unsupervised algorithm for estimating the 3D profile of potholes in the highway surface, using structured illumination. Structured light is used to accelerate computation and to simplify the estimation of range. A low-resolution edge map is generated so that further processing may be focused on relevant regions of interest. Edge points in each region of interest are used to initialise open, active contour models, which are propagated and refined, via a pyramid, to a higher resolution. At each resolution, internal and external constraints are applied to a snake; the internal constraint is a smoothness function and the external one is a maximum-likelihood estimate of the grey-level response at the edge of each light stripe. Results of a provisional evaluation study indicate that this automated procedure provides estimates of pothole dimension suitable for use in a first, screening, assessment of highway condition.

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