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The railway industry is searching for new ways to automate a number of complex train functions, such as object detection, track discrimination, and accurate train positioning, which require the artificial perception of the railway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Gianluca D'Amico , Mauro Marinoni , Federico Nesti , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo , Salvatore Sabina , Gianluigi Lauro

Automated inspection and detection of foreign objects on railways is important for rail transportation safety as it helps prevent potential accidents and trains derailment. Most existing vision-based approaches focus on the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Tiange Wang , Zijun Zhang , Fangfang Yang , Kwok-Leung Tsui

To enable fully automated driving of trains, numerous new technological components must be introduced into the railway system. Tasks that are nowadays carried out by the operating stuff, need to be taken over by automatic systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Tobias Herrmann , Nikolay Chenkov , Florian Stark , Matthias Härter , Martin Köppel

This paper introduces the task of "train ego-path detection", a refined approach to railway track detection designed for intelligent onboard vision systems. Whereas existing research lacks precision and often considers all tracks within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Thomas Laurent

Detecting potential obstacles in railway environments is critical for preventing serious accidents. Identifying a broad range of obstacle categories under complex conditions requires large-scale datasets with precisely annotated,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Qiushi Guo , Jason Rambach

One essential feature of an autonomous train is minimizing collision risks with third-party objects. To estimate the risk, the control system must identify topological information of all the rail routes ahead on which the train can possibly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jungwon Kang , Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili , Gunho Sohn , David Beach , Veronica Marin

In this work, a novel high-speed railway fastener detector is introduced. This fully convolutional network, dubbed FasteNet, foregoes the notion of bounding boxes and performs detection directly on a predicted saliency map. Fastenet uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Jun Jet Tai , Mauro S. Innocente , Owais Mehmood

Lane detection involves identifying lanes on the road and accurately determining their location and shape. This is a crucial technique for modern assisted and autonomous driving systems. However, several unique properties of lanes pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mohammadhamed Tangestanizadeh , Mohammad Dehghani Tezerjani , Saba Yousefian Jazi

As the demands for railway transportation safety increase, traditional methods of rail track inspection no longer meet the needs of modern railway systems. To address the issues of automation and efficiency in rail fault detection, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Jiale Li , Yulin Fu , Dongwei Yan , Sean Longyu Ma , Chiu-Wing Sham

With the rapid development of urban underground rail vehicles,subway positioning, which plays a fundamental role in the traffic navigation and collision avoidance systems, has become a research hot-spot these years. Most current subway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiajie Song , Ningfang Song , Xiong Pan , Xiaoxin Liu , Can Chen , Jingchun Cheng

Deep Learning methods have been extensively used to analyze video data to extract valuable information by classifying image frames and detecting objects. We describe a unique approach for using video feed from a moving Locomotive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Dattaraj J Rao , Shruti Mittal , S. Ritika

Manual labeling for large-scale image and video datasets is often time-intensive, error-prone, and costly, posing a significant barrier to efficient machine learning workflows in fault detection from railroad videos. This study introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Dylan Lester , James Gao , Samuel Sutphin , Pingping Zhu , Husnu Narman , Ammar Alzarrad

Accurate Defect detection is crucial for ensuring the trustworthiness of intelligent railway systems. Current approaches rely on single deep-learning models, like CNNs, which employ a large amount of data to capture underlying patterns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Rahatara Ferdousi , Fedwa Laamarti , Chunsheng Yang , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Lane detection in driving scenes is an important module for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In recent years, many sophisticated lane detection methods have been proposed. However, most methods focus on detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qin Zou , Hanwen Jiang , Qiyu Dai , Yuanhao Yue , Long Chen , Qian Wang

Tram-human interaction safety is an important challenge, given that trams frequently operate in densely populated areas, where collisions can range from minor injuries to fatal outcomes. This paper addresses the issue from the perspective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ondřej Valach , Ivan Gruber

Lane detection is an integral part of control systems in autonomous vehicles and lane departure warning systems as lanes are a key component of the operating environment for road vehicles. In a previous paper, a robust neural network output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zhe Ming Chng , Joseph Mun Hung Lew , Jimmy Addison Lee

Lane detection is an important component of many real-world autonomous systems. Despite a wide variety of lane detection approaches have been proposed, reporting steady benchmark improvements over time, lane detection remains a largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shenghua Xu , Xinyue Cai , Bin Zhao , Li Zhang , Hang Xu , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

Accurate and rapid railway track segmentation can assist automatic train driving and is a key step in early warning to fixed or moving obstacles on the railway track. However, certain existing algorithms tailored for track segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chen Chenglin , Wang Fei , Yang Min , Qin Yong , Bai Yun

Deep Learning became an ubiquitous paradigm due to its extraordinary effectiveness and applicability in numerous domains. However, the approach suffers from the high demand of data required to achieve the potential of this type of model. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Andrei-Robert Alexandrescu , Razvan-Gabriel Petec , Alexandru Manole , Laura-Silvia Diosan

Although training data is essential for machine learning, railway companies are facing difficulties in gathering adequate images of defective equipment due to their proactive replacement of would be defective equipment. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Takuro Hoshi , Yohei Baba , Gaurang Gavai