PIPE-CovNet: Automatic In-Pipe Wastewater Infrastructure Surface Abnormality Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network

Publisher:
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023, 7, (4)
Issue Date:
2023-04-01
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Regular inspection of multibillion dollar wastewater pipe infrastructure is crucial to any city around the globe. Traditional processes of inspection are laborious, time-consuming, and prone to human errors, such as the manual assessment of video and image sources obtained by closed-circuit television (CCTV). These limitations can be circumvented through the utilization of novel deep learning techniques. In this letter, we propose the PIPE-CovNet model, leveraging a convolutional neural network for automatic pipe surface abnormality detection. The proposed deep learning framework was trained and evaluated on a publicly accessible dataset. Evaluation results indicate the PIPE-CovNet achieves 82% accuracy and F1-score 0.82. In addition, the PIPE-CovNet outperformed other comparable deep learning models in terms of accuracy by at least 5% and F1-score by at minimum 8%.
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