Abstract

Pavement cracks are a major form of road infrastructure degradation, necessitating efficient and accurate detection for timely maintenance. Existing inspection methods rely either on labor-intensive manual surveys or automated systems constrained by high hardware costs and GPS dependency, limiting their flexibility for continuous surface assessment. This paper introduces a dual-channel crack detection model that integrates continuous pavement texture reconstruction with deep segmentation and high-precision boundary refinement algorithms, enabling on-site implementation and accuracy enhancement for longitudinal crack detection. A feature-based image stitching algorithm is developed to reconstruct continuous pavement textures from high-resolution images, enabling GPS-free crack localization. The proposed method further combines the YOLOv8-seg model with adaptive morphological operations to achieve pixel-level crack reconstruction. Comparative experiments reveal that the hybrid approach achieves superior segmentation performance with finer boundary delineation and improved branch recovery compared to the baseline model. The paper provides a practical solution for automated inspection and high-fidelity reconstruction of longitudinal cracks, effectively supporting pavement maintenance planning.

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elopment Program of China (grant number 2022YFC3801100); and Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (grant number SGDX 20240115110503006).

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