Bengaluru engineer Gaurav Sen has allegedly built an AI-powered system that detects potholes from dashcam footage and maps them to government road contracts. Using GPS and an accelerometer, the system identifies potholes and matches their locations with around 2,900 contracts to reveal the contractor, tender number and government officer overseeing the road work.

A Bengaluru-based engineer, Gaurav Sen, has allegedly built an AI-powered system that detects potholes using dashcam footage and cross-references their locations with government road contracts to identify the contractor and officer responsible for repairs.

How the system works?

Sen equipped his car with a dashcam, a GPS unit and an accelerometer to capture road footage during regular drives. The footage is analysed using AI vision models that identify potholes and classify them by size, according to his post on Instagram. The system then cross-references the pothole's location against a database of around 2,900 government road contracts to identify the contractor responsible for that stretch of road, along with the relevant tender number and the government officer overseeing it.

Linking defects to contractual accountability