Real-Time Pothole Detection at night to prevent road accidents using YOLOV5

This article proposes a technique to create a pothole detection system that can operate both during the day and at night. This model was developed using the real-time object identification YOLO (You Only Look Once) technique. The potholes are located using a pre-trained model with YOLO v5. In its creation, the PyTorch framework is utilized. The first YOLO model created using the PyTorch framework is YOLOv5, which is a lot more user-friendly and lightweight. In a manner similar to real-time object detection systems, the proposed method displays potholes in real time and emphasizes them with boundary boxes for accurate identification. The accuracy achieved with this method is 97% during the day and 92% at night which is found to be satisfactory.