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Aug 2026
A Comparative Investigation of YOLO26 and RF-DETR for Thin Crack Detection and Segmentation in UAV-Derived Airport Pavement Orthophotos
Automated airport pavement inspection requires reliable instance segmentation models for detecting and quantifying thin cracks under real operating conditions. Building on a previously established UAV-AI workflow for airport pavement crack detection and quantification, and on an earlier investigation of sealed-crack cl...
Valerio Perri, Stefano Cimichella, Maurizio Crispino et al.
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