Phat Tai Lam, Jaehyuk Lee, Yunwoo Lee, Xuan Tinh Nguyen, Van Vy, Kevin Han, Hyungchul Yoon
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Abstract
With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles, accurately identifying vehicle loads is crucial for maintaining and operating transportation infrastructure systems. Existing load identification methods typically rely on collecting vehicle load data from weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems when vehicles pass over them. However, cumbersome installation, high costs, and regular maintenance are the main obstacles that prevent WIM from being widely used in practice. This study introduces the visual WIM (V-WIM) framework, a vision-based approach for tracking and identifying moving loads. The V-WIM framework consists of two main components, the vehicle weight estimation and the vehicle tracking and location estimation. Vehicle weight is estimated using tire deformation parameters extracted from tire images through object detection and optical character recognition techniques. A deep learning-based YOLOv8 algorithm is employed as a vehicle detector, combined with the ByteTrack algorithm for tracking vehicle location. The vehicle weight and its corresponding location are then integrated to enable simultaneous vehicle weight estimation and tracking. The performance of the proposed framework was evaluated through two component validation tests and one on-site validation test, demonstrating its capability to overcome the limitations of existing methods.
期刊介绍:
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering stands as a scholarly, peer-reviewed archival journal, serving as a vital link between advancements in computer technology and civil and infrastructure engineering. The journal serves as a distinctive platform for the publication of original articles, spotlighting novel computational techniques and inventive applications of computers. Specifically, it concentrates on recent progress in computer and information technologies, fostering the development and application of emerging computing paradigms.
Encompassing a broad scope, the journal addresses bridge, construction, environmental, highway, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources engineering. It extends its reach to the management of infrastructure systems, covering domains such as highways, bridges, pavements, airports, and utilities. The journal delves into areas like artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, concurrent engineering, database management, distributed computing, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, geometric modeling, internet-based technologies, knowledge discovery and engineering, machine learning, mobile computing, multimedia technologies, networking, neural network computing, optimization and search, parallel processing, robotics, smart structures, software engineering, virtual reality, and visualization techniques.