Detecting plants on railway embankment.

Nyberg, Roger; Gupta, Naren K; Yella, Siril; Dougherty, Mark

Abstract

This paper investigates problems concerning vegetation along railways and proposes automatic means of detecting
ground vegetation. Digital images of railway embankments have been acquired and used for the purpose. The current
work mainly proposes two algorithms to be able to achieve automation. Initially a vegetation detection algorithm has
been investigated for the purpose of detecting vegetation. Further a rail detection algorithm that is capable of identifying
the rails and eventually the valid sampling area has been investigated. Results achieved in the current work report satisfactory
(qualitative) detection rates

Citation

Nyberg, R., Gupta, N. K., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2013). Detecting plants on railway embankment. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 6, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: Jul 28, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 28, 2014
• Print ISSN: 1945-3116
• Electronic ISSN: 1945-3124
• Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 8-12
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003
• Keywords: Railway Engineering; Railway Embankments; Condition Monitoring; Image Processing; Color Segmentation; Railway Maintenance; Vegetation Detection
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6965
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003