Object Detection
ultralytics
yolo
yolo26
road-damage
pothole-detection
crack-detection
knowledge-distillation
Eval Results (legacy)
Instructions to use TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- ultralytics
How to use TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled with ultralytics:
# Couldn't find a valid YOLO version tag. # Replace XX with the correct version. from ultralytics import YOLOvXX model = YOLOvXX.from_pretrained("TamAko783/YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled") source = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg' model.predict(source=source, save=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
metadata
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
results:
- task:
type: object-detection
name: Road Damage Detection
dataset:
name: Unified Road Defect Dataset (held-out val
4509 imgs): null
type: TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset
metrics:
- type: mAP50
value: 0.64
name: mAP@50
- type: mAP50-95
value: 0.337
name: mAP@50-95
- type: F1
value: 0.625
name: F1
YOLO26n · Distilled v1 (1 teacher: Co-DETR)
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, single teacher. Co-DETR (Swin-L) pseudo-labeled the unlabeled RDD-2022 test set; student trained on GT + pseudo-labels.
Metrics — RDD held-out validation (4,509 images, 11,470 boxes)
| Class | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | Precision | Recall | F1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D00 Longitudinal | 0.590 | 0.324 | 0.675 | 0.520 | 0.588 |
| D10 Transverse | 0.594 | 0.299 | 0.683 | 0.504 | 0.580 |
| D20 Alligator | 0.687 | 0.375 | 0.713 | 0.617 | 0.662 |
| D40 Pothole | 0.688 | 0.347 | 0.737 | 0.614 | 0.670 |
| Overall | 0.640 | 0.337 | 0.702 | 0.564 | 0.625 |
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 | YOLO26n | 2.4M | — (GT only) | 0.635 | 0.334 | 0.621 |
| ➤ YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled (this model) | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 1 teacher (Co-DETR) | 0.640 | 0.337 | 0.625 |
| YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2 | YOLO26n | 2.4M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | 0.638 | 0.337 | 0.626 |
| YOLO26s_RDD_Base | YOLO26s | 9M | — (GT only) | 0.687 | 0.372 | 0.665 |
| YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2 | YOLO26s | 9M | 2 teachers (Co-DETR+RTMDet) | 0.692 | 0.375 | 0.672 |
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.pt")
results = model("road.jpg")
Models in this suite
- YOLO26n_RDD_Base · YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled (v1) · YOLO26n_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2
- YOLO26s_RDD_Base · YOLO26s_RDD_FRDC_Distilled_v2
Datasets
- Base: TamAko783/Unified_Road_Defect_Dataset
- Distillation sets: v1 · v2 (two-teacher)
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).