Image-Guided Pavement Defect Recognition in GPR Data with novel 3D Deep Learning Architecture

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19177v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:53:54 GMT
• Title: Image-Guided Pavement Defect Recognition in GPR Data with novel 3D Deep Learning Architecture
• Abstract summary: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a widely adopted non-destructive sensing technology for subsurface inspection in civil and transportation engineering.<n>Despite its potential for pavement condition assessment, the large-scale application of GPR in automated inspection has two key challenges.<n>This study introduces a cost-effective data preparation pipeline that integrates orthomosaic Red Green Blue (RGB) imagery with 3D GPR scans to generate annotated 3D GPR datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a widely adopted non-destructive sensing technology for subsurface inspection in civil and transportation engineering. Despite its potential for pavement condition assessment, the large-scale application of GPR in automated inspection has two key challenges: the scarcity of annotated real-world datasets and the lack of deep learning models designed for the unique characteristics of 3-Dimensional (3D) GPR data. This study addresses these limitations by firstly introducing a cost-effective data preparation pipeline that integrates orthomosaic Red Green Blue (RGB) imagery with 3D GPR scans to generate annotated 3D GPR datasets. The proposed method uses the aligned segments of RGB and GPR data, using pavement surface images as a reference to transfer labels of surface-visible defects to corresponding GPR segments, enabling efficient large-scale annotation in a real-world dataset collected on a highway section under operation. In addition to the dataset contribution, we propose a specialised 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture incorporating residual connections, mixed convolutional kernel sizes, and both depthwise and channelwise attention mechanisms to enhance feature representation and defect classification. The model is evaluated on binary classification tasks for detecting patch and crack defects in pavement structures. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed network outperforms baseline architectures across multiple evaluation metrics. Ablation studies further confirm the effectiveness of the designed architectural components. This work contributes a scalable and practical method for real-world dataset generation, along with a novel deep learning framework.

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