RoadFusion: Latent Diffusion Model for Pavement Defect Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15346v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:01:08 GMT
• Title: RoadFusion: Latent Diffusion Model for Pavement Defect Detection
• Authors: Muhammad Aqeel, Kidus Dagnaw Bellete, Francesco Setti,
• Abstract summary: Pavement defect detection faces critical challenges including limited annotated data, domain shift between training and deployment environments, and high variability in defect appearances across different road conditions.<n>We propose RoadFusion, a framework that addresses these limitations through synthetic anomaly generation with dual-path feature adaptation.
• Score: 2.7215409221888476
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Pavement defect detection faces critical challenges including limited annotated data, domain shift between training and deployment environments, and high variability in defect appearances across different road conditions. We propose RoadFusion, a framework that addresses these limitations through synthetic anomaly generation with dual-path feature adaptation. A latent diffusion model synthesizes diverse, realistic defects using text prompts and spatial masks, enabling effective training under data scarcity. Two separate feature adaptors specialize representations for normal and anomalous inputs, improving robustness to domain shift and defect variability. A lightweight discriminator learns to distinguish fine-grained defect patterns at the patch level. Evaluated on six benchmark datasets, RoadFusion achieves consistently strong performance across both classification and localization tasks, setting new state-of-the-art in multiple metrics relevant to real-world road inspection.

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