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Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    Different surface damage can cause harm to membrane structures, and traditional manual inspection methods are inefficient and prone to missed detections and false alarms. At the same time, the current mainstream detection algorithms are highly complex, which is not conducive to deployment on resource-constrained devices. To achieve automatic identification of typical surface damage in membrane structures, we construct a dataset comprising five damage types based on common types of surface damage in membrane structures and propose a lightweight identification algorithm for membrane structure surface damage, specifically EAC-YOLO. Firstly, the SPPF module is reconstructed, and the ECA lightweight attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the model\u2019s ability to distinguish easily confused features. Secondly, ADown is introduced to replace the original down-sampling method, improving the retention ability of multi-scale damage features. Finally, the CGBlock and C3k2 modules are combined and reconstructed in the neck network to reduce the interference of damage background factors and capture more features of the damage and its surrounding environment. Experimental evaluation results on the established dataset show that the improved mAP\n                    <jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>\n                    value reaches 87.5%, and the number of parameters, computational cost, and model size are reduced by approximately 28, 25, and 28%, respectively, compared with the original model, demonstrating the advantages of a small size and high accuracy.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcomp.2025.1700167","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,12]],"date-time":"2026-01-12T08:11:54Z","timestamp":1768205514000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["EAC-YOLO: a surface damage identification method of lightweight membrane structure based on improved YOLO11"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Zihang","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Limei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huarong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiuyue","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chongchong","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","first-page":"38","volume-title":"CECS 158\u20132015, Technical specification for membrane structures","year":"2015"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"103551","DOI":"10.1016\/j.compind.2021.103551","article-title":"Improved faster R-CNN for fabric defect detection based on Gabor filter with genetic algorithm optimization","volume":"134","author":"Chen","year":"2022","journal-title":"Comput. 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