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Main Authors: Phan, Trong-Nhan, Nguyen, Hoang-Hai, Ha, Thi-Thu-Hien, Thai, Huy-Tan, Le, Kim-Hung
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04475
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author Phan, Trong-Nhan
Nguyen, Hoang-Hai
Ha, Thi-Thu-Hien
Thai, Huy-Tan
Le, Kim-Hung
author_facet Phan, Trong-Nhan
Nguyen, Hoang-Hai
Ha, Thi-Thu-Hien
Thai, Huy-Tan
Le, Kim-Hung
contents Visual inspections of bridges are critical to ensure their safety and identify potential failures early. This inspection process can be rapidly and accurately automated by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated with deep learning models. However, choosing an appropriate model that is lightweight enough to integrate into the UAV and fulfills the strict requirements for inference time and accuracy is challenging. Therefore, our work contributes to the advancement of this model selection process by conducting a benchmark of 23 models belonging to the four newest YOLO variants (YOLOv5, YOLOv6, YOLOv7, YOLOv8) on COCO-Bridge-2021+, a dataset for bridge details detection. Through comprehensive benchmarking, we identify YOLOv8n, YOLOv7tiny, YOLOv6m, and YOLOv6m6 as the models offering an optimal balance between accuracy and processing speed, with mAP@50 scores of 0.803, 0.837, 0.853, and 0.872, and inference times of 5.3ms, 7.5ms, 14.06ms, and 39.33ms, respectively. Our findings accelerate the model selection process for UAVs, enabling more efficient and reliable bridge inspections.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning Models for UAV-Assisted Bridge Inspection: A YOLO Benchmark Analysis
Phan, Trong-Nhan
Nguyen, Hoang-Hai
Ha, Thi-Thu-Hien
Thai, Huy-Tan
Le, Kim-Hung
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual inspections of bridges are critical to ensure their safety and identify potential failures early. This inspection process can be rapidly and accurately automated by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated with deep learning models. However, choosing an appropriate model that is lightweight enough to integrate into the UAV and fulfills the strict requirements for inference time and accuracy is challenging. Therefore, our work contributes to the advancement of this model selection process by conducting a benchmark of 23 models belonging to the four newest YOLO variants (YOLOv5, YOLOv6, YOLOv7, YOLOv8) on COCO-Bridge-2021+, a dataset for bridge details detection. Through comprehensive benchmarking, we identify YOLOv8n, YOLOv7tiny, YOLOv6m, and YOLOv6m6 as the models offering an optimal balance between accuracy and processing speed, with mAP@50 scores of 0.803, 0.837, 0.853, and 0.872, and inference times of 5.3ms, 7.5ms, 14.06ms, and 39.33ms, respectively. Our findings accelerate the model selection process for UAVs, enabling more efficient and reliable bridge inspections.
title Deep Learning Models for UAV-Assisted Bridge Inspection: A YOLO Benchmark Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04475