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Main Authors: Tankeu, Bachir Tchana, Bouteldja, Mohamed, Grignard, Nicolas, Jacob, Bernard
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11574
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author Tankeu, Bachir Tchana
Bouteldja, Mohamed
Grignard, Nicolas
Jacob, Bernard
author_facet Tankeu, Bachir Tchana
Bouteldja, Mohamed
Grignard, Nicolas
Jacob, Bernard
contents The identification and classification of vehicles play a crucial role in various aspects of the control-sanction system. Current technologies such as weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems can classify most vehicle categories but they struggle to accurately classify vehicles with lifted axles. Moreover, very few commercial and technical methods exist for detecting lifted axles. In this paper, as part of the European project SETO (Smart Enforcement of Transport Operations), a method based on a convolutional neural network (CNN), namely YOLOv8s, was proposed for the detection of lifted truck axles in images of trucks captured by cameras placed perpendicular to the direction of traffic. The performance of the proposed method was assessed and it was found that it had a precision of 87%, a recall of 91.7%, and an inference time of 1.4 ms, which makes it well-suited for real time implantations. These results suggest that further improvements could be made, potentially by increasing the size of the datasets and/or by using various image augmentation methods.
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spellingShingle Camera-based method for the detection of lifted truck axles using convolutional neural networks
Tankeu, Bachir Tchana
Bouteldja, Mohamed
Grignard, Nicolas
Jacob, Bernard
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The identification and classification of vehicles play a crucial role in various aspects of the control-sanction system. Current technologies such as weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems can classify most vehicle categories but they struggle to accurately classify vehicles with lifted axles. Moreover, very few commercial and technical methods exist for detecting lifted axles. In this paper, as part of the European project SETO (Smart Enforcement of Transport Operations), a method based on a convolutional neural network (CNN), namely YOLOv8s, was proposed for the detection of lifted truck axles in images of trucks captured by cameras placed perpendicular to the direction of traffic. The performance of the proposed method was assessed and it was found that it had a precision of 87%, a recall of 91.7%, and an inference time of 1.4 ms, which makes it well-suited for real time implantations. These results suggest that further improvements could be made, potentially by increasing the size of the datasets and/or by using various image augmentation methods.
title Camera-based method for the detection of lifted truck axles using convolutional neural networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11574