An intelligent YOLO and CNN-BiGRU framework for road infrastructure based anomaly assessment
摘要
Deep learning has emerged as a transformative tool for intelligent road infrastructure management, overcoming the inefficiencies of traditional manual inspection, which is often hazardous, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. This study presents a novel, real-time monitoring framework that integrates YOLOv11 for object detection, CNN-BiGRU for temporal severity prediction, and a DT-driven simulation environment to model infrastructure context. The proposed hybrid system targets critical road conditions such as potholes, surface cracks, obscured road markings, and snow-covered surfaces. Leveraging the spatial precision of YOLOv11 and the temporal consistency of CNN-BiGRU, embedded within a DT environment, the system ensures adaptive and data-driven infrastructure analysis. Evaluations were conducted on the publicly available LiRA-CD dataset, containing over 30,000 instances across diverse environmental and structural conditions. The dataset was partitioned using a 70:15:15 training-validation-test split, stratified to ensure class balance. The model was benchmarked on an Intel i7-12700K CPU, NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU, and 32 GB DDR5 RAM. With input resolution of