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YOLO26n RDD FRDC Distilled v2

A YOLO26n road-damage detector (4-class CRDDC: D00 longitudinal, D10 transverse, D20 alligator, D40 pothole) on the Unified Road Defect Dataset.

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YOLO26n · Distilled v2 (2 teachers: Co-DETR + RTMDet)

A YOLO26n road-damage detector (4-class CRDDC: D00 longitudinal, D10 transverse, D20 alligator, D40 pothole) on the Unified Road Defect Dataset.

Method: Semi-supervised distillation, two teachers. Co-DETR + RTMDet pseudo-labels fused with Weighted Boxes Fusion; student trained on GT + fused pseudo-labels.

Metrics — RDD held-out validation (4,509 images, 11,470 boxes)

ClassmAP@50mAP@50-95PrecisionRecallF1
D00 Longitudinal0.5890.3230.6870.5110.586
D10 Transverse0.5940.3010.6830.5190.590
D20 Alligator0.6850.3760.7200.6030.656
D40 Pothole0.6840.3470.7350.6140.669
Overall0.6380.3370.7060.5620.626

Full model comparison (same held-out val)

All five models in this study, evaluated identically (imgsz 640):

ModelVariantParamsDistillationmAP@50mAP@50-95F1
YOLO26n_RDD_BaseYOLO26n2.4M— (GT only)0.6350.3340.621
YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_DistilledYOLO26n2.4M1 teacher (Co-DETR)0.6400.3370.625
➤ YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2 (this model)YOLO26n2.4M2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet)0.6380.3370.626
YOLO26s_RDD_BaseYOLO26s9M— (GT only)0.6870.3720.665
YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2YOLO26s9M2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet)0.6920.3750.672

Reading it:

  • Distillation helps — every distilled model beats its GT-only baseline.
  • Capacity helps most — the YOLO26s models (+~0.05 mAP@50) clearly outperform the nano ones on this val.
  • One vs two teachers is a near-tie at nano size; the two-teacher set's edge is small.
  • Cross-domain check (independent RDDC2024-ID, Indonesia, 8,901 imgs): distilled models generalized better than baselines, while the larger GT-only model generalized worse — evidence the distillation's added data improves robustness, not just in-domain fit.

RDD ground truth has known missing annotations, so absolute precision/recall are conservative for all models. The comparison is fair — every model uses the identical held-out val, never trained on.

Usage

from ultralytics import YOLO
model = YOLO("YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2.pt")
results = model("road.jpg")

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Credits

  • Datasets: RDD-2022 (Arya et al.) · UAV-PDD2023 · RoadDamageVision (Silva Zendron & Leithardt, CC BY 4.0).
  • Distillation teachers: Co-DETR Swin-L + RTMDet-x — FRDC (Wang Fangjun et al.), ORDDC'2024 winner.
  • Student: YOLO26n, AGPL-3.0 (Ultralytics).

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--- license: agpl-3.0 library_name: ultralytics pipeline_tag: object-detection tags: - yolo - yolo26 - road-damage - pothole-detection - crack-detection - knowledge-distillation model-index: - name: YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2 results: - task: {type: object-detection, name: Road Damage Detection} dataset: {name: Unified Road Defect Dataset (held-out val, 4509 imgs), type: TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset} metrics: - {type: mAP50, value: 0.638, name: mAP@50} - {type: mAP50-95, value: 0.337, name: mAP@50-95} - {type: F1, value: 0.626, name: F1} --- # YOLO26n · Distilled v2 (2 teachers: Co-DETR + RTMDet) A **YOLO26n** road-damage detector (4-class CRDDC: D00 longitudinal, D10 transverse, D20 alligator, D40 pothole) on the [Unified Road Defect Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset). **Method:** **Semi-supervised distillation, two teachers.** Co-DETR + RTMDet pseudo-labels fused with Weighted Boxes Fusion; student trained on GT + fused pseudo-labels. ## Metrics — RDD held-out validation (4,509 images, 11,470 boxes) | Class | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | Precision | Recall | F1 | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | D00 Longitudinal | 0.589 | 0.323 | 0.687 | 0.511 | 0.586 | | D10 Transverse | 0.594 | 0.301 | 0.683 | 0.519 | 0.590 | | D20 Alligator | 0.685 | 0.376 | 0.720 | 0.603 | 0.656 | | D40 Pothole | 0.684 | 0.347 | 0.735 | 0.614 | 0.669 | | **Overall** | **0.638** | **0.337** | **0.706** | **0.562** | **0.626** | ## Full model comparison (same held-out val) All five models in this study, evaluated identically (imgsz 640): | Model | Variant | Params | Distillation | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | F1 | |---|---|---:|---|---:|---:|---:| | [YOLO26n_RDD_Base](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_Base) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | — (GT only) | 0.635 | 0.334 | 0.621 | | [YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 1 teacher (Co-DETR) | 0.640 | 0.337 | 0.625 | | **➤ YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2** (this model) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | **0.638** | **0.337** | **0.626** | | [YOLO26s_RDD_Base](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26s_RDD_Base) | YOLO26s | 9M | — (GT only) | 0.687 | 0.372 | 0.665 | | [YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2](https://huggingface.co/TamAko783/YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2) | YOLO26s | 9M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | 0.69...

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