Adaptive Attention-Enhanced Yolo for Wall Crack Detection

Abstract

With the advancement of social life, the aging of building walls has become an unavoidable phenomenon. Due to the limited efficiency of manually detecting cracks, it is especially necessary to explore intelligent detection techniques. Currently, deep learning has garnered growing attention in crack detection, leading to the development of numerous feature learning methods. Although the technology in this area has been progressing, it still faces problems such as insufficient feature extraction and instability of prediction results. To address the shortcomings in the current research, this paper proposes a new Adaptive Attention-Enhanced Yolo. The method employs a Swin Transformer-based Cross-Stage Partial Bottleneck with a three-convolution structure, introduces an adaptive sensory field module in the neck network, and processes the features through a multi-head attention structure during the prediction process. The introduction of these modules greatly improves the performance of the model, thus effectively improving the precision of crack detection.