Project Title: AI-Powered Pothole Detection and Road Condition Monitoring Using Smartphone Cameras
Description:One of the major challenges is the maintenance of roads, which directly affects traffic
safety and vehicle longevity. Potholes are one of the most frequent road defects,
causing accidents, vehicle damage and higher maintenance costs, especially in
developing countries. The project proposes an economical intelligent road monitoring
system that uses the camera of a smartphone attached to a vehicle to automatically
detect the potholes and send alerts to the drivers and the location to the maintenance
authorities.The proposed system uses YOLOv11x deep learning model for real-time
pothole detection. The Roboflow platform was used to collect a dataset of 4,136 road
images under various lighting conditions, road environments and camera viewpoints.
Images were manually annotated with bounding boxes and data augmentation
techniques were employed to improve generalization of the model. The trained model
was quantized to INT8 for smartphone deployment, which resulted in a smaller model
size and faster inference speed. A mobile application was built with Flutter for real
time detection and visualization. Experimental results achieved 91.9%
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with an inference speed of 8-12 frames per second on mobile devices. The results
indicate that smartphone-based pothole detection can be an effective, scalable and
cost-effective approach to road condition monitoring, leading to safer transportation
and more efficient road maintenance operations.
Uploaded At: 2026-07-05 13:53:48