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Road Damage Detection and Classification with Detectron2 and Faster R-CNN

28 Oct 2020arXiv:2010.15021archive 2025-07-28

Vung Pham, Chau Pham, Tommy Dang

The road is vital for many aspects of life, and road maintenance is crucial for human safety. One of the critical tasks to allow timely repair of road damages is to quickly and efficiently detect and classify them. This work details the strategies and experiments evaluated for these tasks. Specifically, we evaluate Detectron2's implementation of Faster R-CNN using different base models and configurations. We also experiment with these approaches using the Global Road Damage Detection Challenge 2020, A Track in the IEEE Big Data 2020 Big Data Cup Challenge dataset. The results show that the X101-FPN base model for Faster R-CNN with Detectron2's default configurations are efficient and general enough to be transferable to different countries in this challenge. This approach results in F1 scores of 51.0% and 51.4% for the test1 and test2 sets of the challenge, respectively. Though the visualizations show good prediction results, the F1 scores are low. Therefore, we also evaluate the prediction results against the existing annotations and discover some discrepancies. Thus, we also suggest strategies to improve the labeling process for this dataset.

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