🚀 Smart Road Defect Detection Platform — v1.0.0

🚀 Smart Road Defect Detection Platform — v1.0.0

✨ Overview

This is the first stable release of the AI-powered pothole and crack detection system, featuring end-to-end workflows for defect reporting, automated detection, and administrative monitoring.

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🔍 Features Included

• YOLO-based detection model for cracks, potholes, patches, and road irregularities
• Flask inference API for real-time evaluation
• Citizen web app for submitting defect reports
• Node.js backend with MongoDB for report storage and processing
• Admin dashboard for reviewing, verifying, and analyzing defects
• Firebase authentication + cloud storage
• AI feedback service for automated classification

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📊 Model & Performance

• Total parameters: 3M
• Average mAP@0.5: 0.575
• Best class: pothole (mAP 0.664)

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📌 Improvements in This Release

• Stable production APIs
• Optimized backend routing
• Dashboard UI enhancements
• More reliable detection pipeline

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⚠️ Known Limitations

• Patch class has lower performance due to dataset imbalance
• Background confusion still observed in crack detection

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🔮 Planned Enhancements

• Dataset expansion and relabeling
• Adaptive threshold tuning
• Mobile app integration for citizen reporting
• Improved defect resolution workflow tracking