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Image Recognition and Parameter Analysis of Concrete Vibration State Based on Support Vector Machine
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Published on: January 5, 2024

A lightweight YOLOv8n-based method for rail surface defect detection in complex railway environments.

Weiqiao Zhu1, Weimeng Wang2, Weifeng Shi1

  • 1Institute of Computing Technologies, China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation Limited, Beijing, China.

Scientific Reports
|June 29, 2026
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Summary
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This study introduces a lightweight YOLOv8n model for rail surface defect detection, improving accuracy for small defects and complex backgrounds with novel attention and feature fusion modules.

Keywords:
Attention-guided feature fusionDefect scale priorFocal-EIoU lossLightweight object detectionRail surface defect detectionYOLOv8n

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Image Recognition and Parameter Analysis of Concrete Vibration State Based on Support Vector Machine
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Image Recognition and Parameter Analysis of Concrete Vibration State Based on Support Vector Machine

Published on: January 5, 2024

Area of Science:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Rail surface defect detection is crucial for safety and maintenance.
  • Existing methods struggle with class imbalance, small targets, and background noise.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a lightweight and accurate rail surface defect detection model.
  • To address challenges like small-scale detection and complex backgrounds.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized YOLOv8n as the base model.
  • Introduced K-means++ for defect scale prior optimization.
  • Developed a local-global collaborative attention module (CloAtt).
  • Designed an Attention-Guided Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (ABiFPN).
  • Implemented Focal-Efficient Intersection over Union (Focal-EIoU) loss.

Main Results:

  • Achieved an mAP@0.5 of 85.7% on the ProRail dataset.
  • The model has only 2.13M parameters and 7.5 GFLOPs.
  • Demonstrated improved detection accuracy and reduced model complexity compared to baseline YOLOv8n.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed lightweight YOLOv8n-based model is effective for rail surface defect detection.
  • The method enhances feature representation and multi-scale fusion while reducing complexity.
  • Future work will focus on edge-device deployment and real-time inference.