❄️ Winter Road Surface Condition Recognition Using Image-to-Image Translation π
Winter road safety is a major challenge in snowy and icy regions, where rapidly changing surface conditions can lead to severe traffic accidents. Winter Road Surface Condition Recognition (WRSCR) aims to automatically identify road states such as snow-covered, icy, wet, or dry surfaces using visual data. By integrating image-to-image translation techniques , this research introduces an intelligent and robust framework that enhances perception accuracy under harsh winter environments. π§ Core Concept: Image-to-Image Translation Image-to-image translation is a deep learning approach that transforms images from one domain to another while preserving essential structural features. In this context, it converts complex winter road images into enhanced or normalized representations, reducing visual noise caused by snow glare, low contrast, fog, and lighting variations ❄️✨. πΈ Data Acquisition and Preprocessing High-resolution road images are collected from vehicle-mounted cameras u...