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Yanxiang Zhang¹, Yao Lu², Zijian Huo³

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This study introduces a lightweight USSC-YOLO algorithm for detecting road cracks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The enhanced model improves detection accuracy and efficiency for road crack monitoring, ensuring traffic safety.

Keywords:

YOLOv5s deep learning intelligent management machine vision multi-scale

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Background:

Traditional road crack detection methods hinder traffic flow.
Accurate road crack detection is crucial for vehicular safety.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a high-precision, efficient road crack detection algorithm using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
To improve the detection of road cracks at various scales, addressing complex background interference and computational costs.

Main Methods:

Proposed USSC-YOLO algorithm integrating ShuffleNet V2 blocks, coordinate attention (CA) mechanism, and Swin Transformer.
Replaced YOLOv5s backbone with ShuffleNet V2 for reduced computational overhead.
Incorporated CA mechanism to mitigate background interference and reduce detection errors.
Added Swin Transformer block to enhance detection of small cracks.

Main Results:

USSC-YOLO demonstrated reduced GFLOPs (Giga Floating-point Operations Per Second) compared to YOLOv5s.
Achieved a 6.3% increase in mAP@50 and a 12% improvement in mAP@[50:95] on the UNFSRCI dataset.
The model is lightweight yet provides excellent detection performance for UAV-based road crack identification.

Conclusions:

The USSC-YOLO algorithm offers a computationally efficient and accurate solution for road crack detection.
This technology facilitates intelligent road management and maintenance prioritization.
Future work will focus on assessing road safety and optimizing maintenance schedules based on crack detection data.