Vehicular Road Crack Detection with Deep Learning: A New Online Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Existing Algorithms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18082v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:26:18 GMT
• Title: Vehicular Road Crack Detection with Deep Learning: A New Online Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Existing Algorithms
• Authors: Nachuan Ma, Zhengfei Song, Qiang Hu, Chuang-Wei Liu, Yu Han, Yanting Zhang, Rui Fan, Lihua Xie,
• Abstract summary: In the emerging field of urban digital twins (UDTs), advancing intelligent road inspection (IRI) vehicles is essential for maintaining civil infrastructure.<n>Deep learning-based road crack detection methods have been developed to detect cracks more efficiently, accurately, and objectively.<n>This paper thoroughly reviews the SoTA deep learning-based algorithms, including supervised, (2) unsupervised, (3) semi-supervised, and (4) weakly-supervised methods developed for road crack detection.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the emerging field of urban digital twins (UDTs), advancing intelligent road inspection (IRI) vehicles with automatic road crack detection systems is essential for maintaining civil infrastructure. Over the past decade, deep learning-based road crack detection methods have been developed to detect cracks more efficiently, accurately, and objectively, with the goal of replacing manual visual inspection. Nonetheless, there is a lack of systematic reviews on state-of-the-art (SoTA) deep learning techniques, especially data-fusion and label-efficient algorithms for this task. This paper thoroughly reviews the SoTA deep learning-based algorithms, including (1) supervised, (2) unsupervised, (3) semi-supervised, and (4) weakly-supervised methods developed for road crack detection. Also, we create a dataset called UDTIRI-Crack, comprising $2,500$ high-quality images from seven public annotated sources, as the first extensive online benchmark in this field. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to compare the detection performance, computational efficiency, and generalizability of public SoTA deep learning-based algorithms for road crack detection. In addition, the feasibility of foundation models and large language models (LLMs) for road crack detection is explored. Afterwards, the existing challenges and future development trends of deep learning-based road crack detection algorithms are discussed. We believe this review can serve as practical guidance for developing intelligent road detection vehicles with the next-generation road condition assessment systems. The released benchmark UDTIRI-Crack is available at https://udtiri.com/submission/.

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