Dear Commissioner, Please Fix These: A Scalable System for Inspecting Road Infrastructure

Inspecting and assessing the quality of traffic infrastructure (such as the state of the signboards or road markings) is challenging for humans due to (i) the massive length of roads that countries will have and (ii) the regular frequency at which this needs to be done. In this paper, we demonstrate a scalable system that uses computer vision for automatic inspection of road infrastructure from a simple video captured from a moving vehicle. We validated our method on 1500 kms of roads captured in and around the city of Hyderabad, India. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the feasibility, scalability and effectiveness of our solution.

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