Abstract:To address the issues of low efficiency, strong subjectivity and limited scalability of manual marking in road disease detection, a pavement disease detection system based on an improved YOLOv8 is proposed. Taking the line array camera images collected by the CiCSI-C multi-functional road condition rapid detection vehicle as the data source, a segmented data set containing 68310 images covering 7 types of pavement diseases is constructed. For the model improvement, a combination of multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism and dynamic snake convolution (DySnakeConv) is introduced to enhance the YOLOv8 baseline model, and an evaluation index of “grid-based mask IoU” oriented to engineering practice is proposed. The results show that the improved model achieves a precision of 80.4%, an increase of 0.9 % over the baseline model, thereby enhancing the recognition ability for complex pavement diseases and the overall detection performance. On this basis, an interactive recognition system integrating algorithm inference, grid-based processing and standardized output is designed and implemented, forming an “algorithm-based preliminary screening + manual review” operational mode, which can increase the detection efficiency by more than twice compared with the pure manual method, while ensuring the quality of disease marking and meeting the requirements for project delivery.