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In particular, under complex environmental conditions, detecting fine, irregular, or occluded cracks remains a major challenge. Traditional image-processing-based methods face clear limitations in feature extraction and detection efficiency in practical applications. To address these issues, we propose the CGSW-YOLOv5 algorithm, which enhances detection performance through the following innovations: First, a Concrete Crack Feature Enhancement Block (CNeB) is introduced to improve fine-detail capture. Second, an Adaptive Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation attention mechanism (AMFA) is designed to optimize convolutional kernel selection. Third, the Dynamic Gradient Focusing Weighted IoU loss (DGFW-IoU) is adopted to improve localization accuracy for small targets. Finally, a Lightweight Dual-Stream Convolutional Feature Enhancement module (LDSConv) is constructed to achieve efficient feature utilization. Experimental results show that the CGSW-YOLOv5 algorithm achieves detection accuracies of 71.74% and 72.85% on a self-built dataset and a concrete crack dataset under various environmental conditions (windy, rainy, and foggy), respectively. These results represent improvements of 4.49% and 4.6% over the baseline algorithm, demonstrating superior detection performance and strong environmental adaptability. The proposed method provides an effective solution for intelligent crack detection in concrete structures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17060890","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,6]],"date-time":"2025-06-06T06:11:08Z","timestamp":1749190268000},"page":"890","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["CGSW-YOLO Enhanced YOLO Architecture for Automated Crack Detection in Concrete Structures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-0132-2781","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gaoyu","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-9136-9208","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinkui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1016\/S0950-0618(00)00063-5","article-title":"On-site measurements of corrosion rate of reinforcements","volume":"15","author":"Andrade","year":"2001","journal-title":"Constr. 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