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17TH World Congress on Road Winter Service, Resilience and Decarbonisation - Pre-proceedings of the Congress

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Winter Service Session 17 - Use of AI for winter maintenance

Thursday, March 12 11:30 - 13:00
Chair: Hiroki Matsushita, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan
Room: Hall E

This session highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence in winter maintenance, with speakers from the call for papers. Presentations will showcase deep learning applications for snow and ice condition estimation, real‑time road weather classification, scalable detection of weather‑related hazards, and AI‑based disaster search systems. Together, these innovations demonstrate how intelligent technologies can enhance safety, efficiency, and resilience in winter service operations.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Conclusion
  5. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

• Hiroki Matsushita, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan

Presentations

  • The test implementation of a wide-area road snow and ice condition estimation system using road CCTV cameras and deep learning
    • Akira SAIDA (Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.4MB)
  • Real-Time Road Weather Classification Using Neural Networks and Surveillance Cameras
    • Hamed OUATTARA (Univeristé Clermont-Auvergne, France)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.3MB)
  • Scalable Detection of Weather-Related Road Conditions Through Color Space Analysis and Deep Learning on Traffic Camera Images
    • Clemens LESSEUR (Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 957KB)
  • Utilization of a road disaster search system using deep learning techniques and its applications.
    • Ryoichi TSURUMAKI (Hokkaido Weather Technology Center Co., Ltd., Japan)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.3MB)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Hiroki Matsushita, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan

Conclusion

• Hiroki Matsushita, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Japan

Organization

Session Organiser: Horst Hanke, Leader of the German Winter Service Committee, Germany
Session Secretary: [To be confirmed]