The AI Mechanic: Acoustic Vehicle Characterization Neural Networks

05/19/2022
by   Adam M. Terwilliger, et al.
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In a world increasingly dependent on road-based transportation, it is essential to understand vehicles. We introduce the AI mechanic, an acoustic vehicle characterization deep learning system, as an integrated approach using sound captured from mobile devices to enhance transparency and understanding of vehicles and their condition for non-expert users. We develop and implement novel cascading architectures for vehicle understanding, which we define as sequential, conditional, multi-level networks that process raw audio to extract highly-granular insights. To showcase the viability of cascading architectures, we build a multi-task convolutional neural network that predicts and cascades vehicle attributes to enhance fault detection. We train and test these models on a synthesized dataset reflecting more than 40 hours of augmented audio and achieve >92 configuration, cylinder count and aspiration type). Our cascading architecture additionally achieved 93.6 fault prediction, demonstrating margins of 16.4 improvement over naïve and parallel baselines. We explore experimental studies focused on acoustic features, data augmentation, feature fusion, and data reliability. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of broader implications, future directions, and application areas for this work.

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