CrowdSourcing Based Online Petitioning System for Pothole Detection Using Android Platform

To make city smarter every citizen is given an opportunity to selectively connect to the governing bodies in their location for sharing public views and issues that contributes to the general well being of the city. With this objective, this paper proposes an online petitioning system using smart phone that works on crowdsourcing process and image processing algorithms to inform about the pothole damages in the roads to the concerned authorities to take necessary actions. We show that the process involved in crowdsourcing such as data collection, data selection and data assessment can be applied to identify the potholes in the roads without redundancy. Further, we have tested our system for different types of input images and the detection accuracy is found to be better than normal image processing approach.