Container Damage Detection and Classification Using Container Images

Abstract

In the logistics sector, digital transformation is of great importance in terms of competition. In the present case, container warehouse entry / exit operations are carried out manually by the logistics personnel including container damage detection. During container warehouse entry / exit process, the process of detecting damaged containers is carried out by the personnel and several minutes are required to upload to the IT system. The aim of our work is to automate the detection of damaged containers. This way, the mistakes made by the personnel will be eliminated and the process will be accelerated. In this work, we propose to use a convolutional neural network (CNN) that takes the container images and classify them as damaged or undamaged. We modeled the problem as a binary classification and employed different CNN models. The result we obtained shows that there is no single best method for the classification. It is shown how the dataset was created and how the parameters used in the layered structures affect the models employed in this study.