Abstract:Culvert disease detection is essential to ensure the structural safety and highway operation, and the traditional detection methods usually rely on the manual entry into culverts for visual inspection, but this method is limited by the narrow space and high safety risk in mountainous culverts, resulting in low detection efficiency and low accuracy. And it is also difficult to track and repair diseases. Therefore, aiming at the above problems, an automatic identification method of culvert disease based on YOLOv8 model is proposed. In this method, the YOLOv8 model is trained on the preprocessed image data set to generate a training model to identify the culvert disease images. The experimental results show that the used method can effectively identify the cracks and surface shedding diseases of the culvert body, cover plate and culvert bottom paving. The detection accuracy of the model reaches 0.831, and the average harmonic value is 0.796, indicating that the method has a relatively good performance in disease identification.