Road Deformation Detection

There's one death every 4 minutes due to road accidents in India. One of the main reasons for these road accidents to happen is poor road conditions. Lately, the roads are becoming harder to maintain due to the extreme weather conditions of India. It is a challenging task for the municipality to patrol across the city to check the condition of the roads. People complain about bad roads all the time but have no way to detect or report them at scale. To tackle this problem, we will be mounting a camera connected to a raspberry pi, onto a vehicle. This camera is going to capture the image of the road in front of the vehicle. An onboard object detection model will be run on the input images from the camera for detecting any road deformations like potholes, cracks, or ruts. When the model detects any kind of deformation on the road, the latitude and longitude of that location will be immediately logged into an onboard or online database. A GPS module can be used to detect the lat long coordinates. This information can then be passed on to the civic authorities with proper visualizations on a 2D map, which can be helpful for the construction workers to directly go to the location and do the necessary repair works, which means workers can spend less time finding potholes and more time fixing them.