Drone-based bridge crack detection based on improved YOLOv8
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    To tackle the current challenges of low efficiency,poor performance,and inadequate real-time capabilities in bridge crack detection,this paper introduces a drone-based image detection method for bridge cracks using an improved YOLOv8 model.Firstly,the dynamic snake convolution kernel is integrated into the C2f module in the backbone of YOLOv8 to enhance the crack feature extraction.Then,the Context Augmentation Module (CAM) is introduced to improve the detection capability for small targets.Finally,the influence of low-quality datasets on detection results is reduced via optimizing the prediction box loss function.Experimental results show that the improved model achieves a GFLOPs of 14.4 and a mean Average Precision (mAP@50) of 94%,exhibiting a significant accuracy improvement compared to the baseline models.The detection speed reaches 147 frames per second,satisfying the requirements for real-time crack detection by UAVs.

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TANG Feifei, YANG Hao, LIU Na, JIANG Min, PANG Rong, ZHANG Peng, ZHOU Zelin. Drone-based bridge crack detection based on improved YOLOv8[J]. Journal of Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,2025,17(2):172-180

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  • Received:September 27,2024
  • Online: April 16,2025
  • Published: March 28,2025
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