A review on computer vision and machine learning techniques for automated road surface defect and distress detection

As the pace grows in the development of image processing techniques and the current applications rise in machine learning and deep learning techniques for visual inspections and physical assessment, this article reviews the existing literature. It provides a detailed synthesis of the overview of surface pavement conditions, computer-vision-based technologies for road damage detection, various datasets and data collection methods. We analyse and compare different machine-learning methods and models proposed in the literature and identify challenges that need to be addressed in the future in road surface defect detection.