In high speed railways, the intelligent railway safety system is necessary to avoid the accidents due to collision between trains and obstacles on the railway track. The unceasing research work is being performed to reinforce the railway safety and to diminish the accident rates. The rapid development in the field of deep learning has prompted new research opportunities in this area. In this paper, a novel and efficient approach is proposed to recognize the objects (obstacles) on the railway track ahead the train using deep classifier network. The 2-D Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) is utilized as decomposition tool that decomposes the image in useful components. That component is further applied to the deep classifier network. The obstacle recognition performance is enhanced by the combination of 2D-SSA and deep network. This method also presents a novel measure to identify the railway tracks. In addition, the performance of this approach is analyzed under different illumination conditions using OSU thermal pedestrian benchmark database. This system can be a tremendous support to curtail rail accidental rate and monetary loads. The results of proposed approach present good accuracy as well as can effectively recognize the objects (obstacles) on the railway track which helps to the railway safety. It also achieves a better performance with 85.2% accuracy, 84.5% precision and 88.6% recall.

An intelligent railways safety system is very essential to avoid the accidents. The motivation behind the problem is the large number of collisions between trains and various obstacles, resulting in reduced safety and high costs. Continuous research is being carried out by distinct researchers to ensure railway safety and to reduce accident rates. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for identifying objects (obstacles) on the railway tracks in front of a moving train using a thermal camera. This approach presents a novel way of detecting the railway tracks as well as a deep network based method to recognize obstacles on the track. A pre-trained network is used that provides the model understanding of real world objects and enables deep learning classifiers for obstacle identification. The validation data is acquired by thermal imaging using night vision IR camera. In this work, the Faster R-CNN is used that efficiently recognize obstacles on the railway tracks. This process can be a great help for railways to reduce accidents and financial burdens. The result shows that the proposed method has good accuracy of approximately 83% which helps to enhance the railway safety.

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The deep learning approaches have drawn much focus of the researchers in the area of object recognition because of their implicit strength of conquering the shortcomings of classical approaches dependent on hand crafted features. In the last few years, the deep learning techniques have been made many developments in object recognition. This paper indicates some recent and efficient deep learning frameworks for object recognition. The up to date study on recently developed a deep neural network based object recognition methods is presented. The various benchmark datasets that are used for performance evaluation are also discussed. The applications of the object recognition approach for specific types of objects (like faces, buildings, plants etc.) are also highlighted. We conclude up with the merits and demerits of existing methods and future scope in this area.