Pavement defect detection algorithm SSC-YOLO for fusing multiscale spatial channels in YOLOv8 1School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, Anhui, China 2Anhui Provincial Medical Big Data Intelligent System Engineering Research Center, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui Province, China 3Intelligent Ancient Architecture Laboratory, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China DOI 10.7717/peerj-cs.3187 Academic Editor Doğan Aydın Subject...