Research Article

Automatic Road Pavement Assessment with Image Processing: Review and Comparison

Figure 4

Examples of the function . These two examples of sites with their respective neighbors show the behavior of the potential with the two considered aspects: orientation and distance. In example (a), with the help of the orientation term, the configuration is penalized and, is less penalized than . In example (b), with the help of the two terms about the distance, the site is penalized, compared to . On the contrary, the particular case of is favorable, and it compensates the penalty given by the orientations.
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