An adaptive fault diagnosis approach using pipeline implementation for railway inspection

Abstract

Railway tracks must be periodically inspected. This study proposes a new approach for eliminating two majordisadvantages experienced during rail inspection applications performed via computer vision. The first is the blurringeffect on images, resulting from physical vibration during movement on the rail lines. This effect significantly reduces thehigh accuracy rate expected from anomaly inspection algorithms. The second disadvantage is the need to operate in realtime. This study presents a new three-stage computer vision method approach that eliminates both disadvantages. First,a three-stage pipeline architecture is implemented and IMU-assisted blur detection is performed on images taken fromthe left and right rail lines. Next, a convolutional neural network is used for learning. In the third test stage, anomalydetection and classification training are conducted. By performing the implementation with parallel programming ongraphic processing units, a highly accurate, cost-effective computer vision rail inspection, based on image processing andcapable of operating in real time, is successfully carried out.