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Aug 2026
YOLO-Defender: A Lightweight CNN–Transformer Detector for Dike Crack Detection
Surface cracks are critical indicators of deterioration in flood-control infrastructure, yet automated detection from inspection imagery remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, elongated geometries, and variations in apparent scale. This study aims to develop a lightweight detector for accurate dike crack detec...
Xiu-Dong Xie, Chen-Yang Wang, Hong-Fei Huang et al.
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