Kaiyuan Shen

Research Progress in YOLO-Based Road Crack Detection: A Critical Narrative Review of Architectures, Data, Evaluation and Deployment

Kaiyuan Shen, Fanpeng Meng, Song Hu, Lindong Li & Lingchao Chen · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2026

Road crack detection is a central computer-vision task in pavement inspection because cracks are visually sparse, geometrically elongated, highly variable in width and topology, and easily confused with shadows, joints, stains and road markings. The You Only Look Once (YOLO) fami...