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Enhanced road infrastructure defect detection via attention-based visual inspection

Jul 2026 · Journal of Real-Time Image Processing · Vol 23 · 1 citation · 30 references
Computer Science

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A task-oriented lightweight crack enhancement block, ECEM, within the YOLOv11 framework, that integrates multi-scale depth-wise feature extraction, attention refinement, and background suppression to enhance elongated crack responses while maintaining lightweight computation is designed.

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