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Feb 20, 2026Featured

SMART Lab Students Excel at UAV Hackathon for Weed Detection

Joshua Asamoah's team placed 2nd and Eugene Denteh's team placed 3rd at the UAV hackathon focused on using drones for weed detection in agriculture. A proud achievement showcasing the lab's versatility in applying computer vision beyond transportation.

Feb 15, 26
Paper Accepted to Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: PavementsPaper Accepted

Our paper "PaveCap: The First Multimodal Framework for Comprehensive Pavement Condition Assessment with Dense Captioning and PCI Estimation" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements.

Feb 1, 26
Paper Accepted to Advances in Data Science and Adaptive AnalysisPaper Accepted

Our paper "Advancing Pavement Distress Detection in Developing Countries: A Novel Deep Learning Approach with Locally-Collected Datasets" was accepted for publication in the Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis journal.