ELW–YOLO: A next–generation lightweight model for pavement defects detection
: Reliable pavement–distress detection remains difficult because defects vary greatly in size, geometry, and visual appearance. We present ELW–YOLO, a lightweight detection framework built on YOLOv2026n with three targeted additions: (1) an Enhanced Multi-Scale Attention (EMA) block at P3/P4 that captures spatial–chann...