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Title Automated Vision-based Construction Object Detection Using Active Learning
Authors 김진우(Kim, Jinwoo) ; 지석호(Chi, Seokho) ; 서준오(Seo, JoonOh)
DOI https://doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2019.39.5.0631
Page pp.631-636
ISSN 10156348
Keywords 건설현장;영상기반;물체 인식;액티브 러닝;컴퓨터 비전 Construction object;Vision-based;Object detection;Active learning;Computer vision
Abstract Over the last decade, many researchers have investigated a number of vision-based construction object detection algorithms for the purpose of construction site monitoring. However, previous methods require the ground truth labeling, which is a process of manually marking types and locations of target objects from training image data, and thus a large amount of time and effort is being wasted. To address this drawback, this paper proposes a vision-based construction object detection framework that employs an active learning technique while reducing manual labeling efforts. For the validation, the research team performed experiments using an open construction benchmark dataset. The results showed that the method was able to successfully detect construction objects that have various visual characteristics, and also indicated that it is possible to develop the high performance of an object detection model using smaller amount of training data and less iterative training steps compared to the previous approaches. The findings of this study can be used to reduce the manual labeling processes and minimize the time and costs required to build a training database.