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Fault detection for key components in the braking system of freight trains is critical for ensuring railway transportation safety. Despite the frequently employed methods based on deep learning, these fault detectors are highly reliant on…

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Reliable and cost-effective maintenance is essential for railway safety, particularly at the wheel-rail interface, which is prone to wear and failure. Predictive maintenance frameworks increasingly leverage sensor-generated time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Afonso Lourenço , Francisca Osório , Diogo Risca , Goreti Marreiros

In the field of railway automation, one of the key challenges has been the development of effective computer vision systems due to the limited availability of high-quality, sequential data. Traditional datasets are restricted in scope,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Josh Hunter , John McDermid , Simon Burton , Poppy Fynes , Mia Dempster

Railroad tracks need to be periodically inspected and monitored to ensure safe transportation. Automated track inspection using computer vision and pattern recognition methods have recently shown the potential to improve safety by allowing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Xavier Gibert , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

Recent work done on lane detection has been able to detect lanes accurately in complex scenarios, yet many fail to deliver real-time performance specifically with limited computational resources. In this work, we propose SwiftLane: a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Oshada Jayasinghe , Damith Anhettigama , Sahan Hemachandra , Shenali Kariyawasam , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara

Obstacle Detection is a central problem for any robotic system, and critical for autonomous systems that travel at high speeds in unpredictable environment. This is often achieved through scene depth estimation, by various means. When fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Michele Mancini , Gabriele Costante , Paolo Valigi , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia

Video surveillance is gaining increasing popularity to assist in railway intrusion detection in recent years. However, efficient and accurate intrusion detection remains a challenging issue due to: (a) limited sample number: only small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Xiao Gong , Xi Chen , Wei Chen

In this study, we explore the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for improving train speed estimation accuracy, addressing the complex challenges of modern railway systems. We investigate three CNN architectures - single-branch 2D,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haitao Tian , Argyrios Zolotas , Miguel Arana-Catania

We introduce a new table detection and structure recognition approach named RobusTabNet to detect the boundaries of tables and reconstruct the cellular structure of each table from heterogeneous document images. For table detection, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chixiang Ma , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

Detecting obstacles in railway scenarios is both crucial and challenging due to the wide range of obstacle categories and varying ambient conditions such as weather and light. Given the impossibility of encompassing all obstacle categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qiushi Guo

This paper presents a novel algorithm for non-destructive damage detection for steel ropes in high-altitude environments (aerial ropeway). The algorithm comprises two key components: First, a segmentation model named RGBD-UNet is designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yunqing Bao , Bin Hu

Modern deep-learning-based lane detection methods are successful in most scenarios but struggling for lane lines with complex topologies. In this work, we propose CondLaneNet, a novel top-to-down lane detection framework that detects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Lizhe Liu , Xiaohao Chen , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Visual patterns represent the discernible regularity in the visual world. They capture the essential nature of visual objects or scenes. Understanding and modeling visual patterns is a fundamental problem in visual recognition that has wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Hongzhi Li , Joseph G. Ellis , Lei Zhang , Shih-Fu Chang

Railway axle maintenance is critical to avoid catastrophic failures. Nowadays, condition monitoring techniques are becoming more prominent in the industry to prevent enormous costs and damage to human lives. This paper proposes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Antía López Galdo , Alejandro Guerrero-López , Pablo M. Olmos , María Jesús Gómez García

This paper addresses the limitations of current vision-based rail defect detection methods, including high computational complexity, excessive parameter counts, and suboptimal accuracy. We propose a Lightweight Pyramid Cross-Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jackie Alex , Guoqiang Huan

Globally rising demand for transportation by rail is pushing existing infrastructure to its capacity limits, necessitating the development of accurate, robust, and high-frequency positioning systems to ensure safe and efficient train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Cornelius von Einem , Andrei Cramariuc , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena , Florian Tschopp

This study presents a novel fault diagnosis model for urban rail transit systems based on Wavelet Transform Residual Neural Network (WT-ResNet). The model integrates the advantages of wavelet transform for feature extraction and ResNet for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zuyu Cheng , Zhengcai Zhao , Yixiao Wang , Wentao Guo , Yufei Wang , Xiang Gao

Stairs are common building structures in urban environments, and stair detection is an important part of environment perception for autonomous mobile robots. Most existing algorithms have difficulty combining the visual information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Chen Wang , Zhongcai Pei , Shuang Qiu , Zhiyong Tang

Recent CNN based object detectors, no matter one-stage methods like YOLO, SSD, and RetinaNe or two-stage detectors like Faster R-CNN, R-FCN and FPN are usually trying to directly finetune from ImageNet pre-trained models designed for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Zeming Li , Chao Peng , Gang Yu , Xiangyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng , Jian Sun

Overhead line inspection greatly benefits from defect recognition using visible light imagery. Addressing the limitations of existing feature extraction techniques and the heavy data dependency of deep learning approaches, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Weixi Wang , Xichen Zhong , Xin Li , Sizhe Li , Xun Ma