Comparative Analysis of Object Detection Algorithms for Pothole Detection Under Environmental Constraints
摘要
Road maintenance and safety are important activities and potholes detection that require accurate and efficient detection methods. In this work, we propose a YOLOv5-based pothole detection model and compare its performance with yolov3 and yolov8. Our dataset consists of 665 scaled images of 640 × 640 pixels, and the models were trained for 100 epochs. YOLOv5m output mAP (mean average precision) 0.927 (50% IoU), 0.913 (IoU force) 50–95% understandably better. Its performance in accuracy and inference speed was better than YOLOv3 and YOLOv8, with overall precision of 0.792 and a recall of 0.736. Due to its efficient design and impressive accuracy, the YOLOv5m model serves as an excellent candidate for real-time pothole detection, leading to improved road safety and maintenance.