Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2026, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (2): 488-496.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb.20240802

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Lightweight pavement anomaly detection algorithm based on vision

Jun LI1,2(),Fei-fan YANG1,Sheng GONG1,Ke-yu ZHOU1   

  1. 1.School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
    2.School of Automobile and Transportation,Chongqing Vocational and Technical University of Mechatronics,Chongqing 402760,China
  • Received:2024-07-18 Online:2026-02-01 Published:2026-03-17

Abstract:

To achieve rapid and accurate detection of various abnormal conditions on complex road surfaces, a road surface anomaly detection algorithm ATFL-YOLOv8 is proposed from a driving perspective. Firstly, the ADown convolution module is used to replace some of the ordinary convolutions in the baseline model (YOLOv8n) for efficient feature extraction and sampling; secondly, a Triplet attention layer is added at the end of the baseline model backbone network to enhance the model's perceptual ability; again, using the idea of partial convolution, a new lightweight module C2f Faster is constructed to replace the C2f module in the neck network of the baseline model; finally, the introduction of a brand new LSCD Head detection head further reduces the number of model parameters and improves model detection performance. The test results show that compared to the baseline model, ATFL-YOLOv8 has mAP0.5 and mAP@0.5 0.95 increased by 3.1% and 4.2% respectively, reaching 89.9% and 59.7%; at the same time, the number of parameters, floating-point operations, and model size decreased by 47%, 37%, and 45%, respectively, to 1.61 M, 5.2 G, and 3.31 MB. Through actual vehicle verification, it has been proven that it has the ability to detect road surface abnormalities at certain low speeds.

Key words: abnormal road surface, object detection, lightweight, vehicle engineering

CLC Number: 

  • U418.3

Fig.1

ATFL-YOLOv8 network structure diagram"

Fig.2

Comparison of CBS convolution and ADown convolution structures"

Fig.3

Triplet Attention Network Structure Diagram"

Fig.4

PConv and Faster Block network structure diagram"

Fig.5

Network structure of LSCD head detection head"

Table 1

Comparison experiment table of lightweight structure effectiveness"

模型mAP@0.5/%mAP@0.5:0.95/%Params/MFLOPs/G模型大小/MB
YOLOv8n86.855.53.018.25.99
YOLOv8n-ShuffleNetV279.744.11.835.13.74
YOLOv8n-MoblieNetV383.548.02.355.84.79
YOLOv8n-Ghost85.149.01.725.13.59
YOLOv8-ADown88.155.72.607.55.21
YOLOv8-C2f-Faster86.254.52.677.55.32
YOLOv8-LSCD-Head88.957.82.376.64.74
YOLOv8-ADown-C2f-Faster-LSCD-Head88.757.51.615.23.30

Table 2

Comparison of ablation experiments"

ADownTreplet AttentionC2f-FasterLSCD-HeadmAP@0.5/%mAP@0.5:0.95/%Params/MFLOPs/G模型大小/MB
86.855.53.018.25.99
88.155.72.607.55.21
89.155.53.018.26.00
86.254.52.677.55.32
88.957.82.376.64.74
89.956.52.607.55.21
89.657.61.955.93.96
87.553.62.677.55.34
89.359.12.376.64.75
90.559.61.955.93.97
88.757.51.615.23.30
89.959.71.615.23.31

Table 3

Comparison experiment table of detection model effects"

模型mAP@0.5/%mAP@0.5:0.95/%

Params

/M

FLOPs

/G

模型

大小/MB

YOLOv3-tiny88.951.78.6813.016.64
YOLOv5n88.058.61.774.23.73
YOLOv683.847.94.2411.98.32
YOLOv7-tiny82.747.46.0213.211.72
YOLOv8n86.855.53.018.25.99
YOLOv8s90.058.511.1428.721.49
ATFL-YOLOv889.959.71.615.23.31

Fig.6

Comparison of pavement anomaly detection effects"

Fig.7

Effect of 30 km/h road surface anomaly detection"

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