RAILWAY TRACK FAULTS DETECTION BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING USING MOBILENET

Abstract

The use of rail transport is increasing. Damaged rails interrupt traffic to carry out repairs. In fact, when a conductor or railway operator reports a damaged rail that interrupted the traffic in the affected area. A team of specialized agents dispatch to the site and carries out the repairs. Hence, the importance of automation of railway track faults detection to ensure track safety and reduce maintenance costs. In this work, we propose a method using image processing technologies and deep learning networks. We have studied the correlation effects of MobileNetV2 and optimization algorithms on accuracy and other performance metrics to generate a model that can achieve good performance in classifying railway track faults. The results show that the Rmsprop can improve the effectiveness of feature extraction and classification of MobileNetV2.