<p>Comparison of crack width calculation errors.</p>

Meanwhile, FCB compensates for feature distortion with extremely low overhead in skip connections, which enhances the recovery capability of fine-grained cracks. Experimental results show that, on the public dataset SDNET2018, the proposed model achieves an mIoU value of 81.25% and an mDice value of 88.57%. It significantly outperforms typical methods such as Unet, DeepLabV3+ and SwinUnet while maintaining low computational load.

Furthermore, the YOLO11-BD detection algorithm is combined to achieve crack detection and segmentation under complex backgrounds, which effectively improves robustness. Lastly, the orthogonal skeleton method is used to quantitatively analyse the segmentation results. As a result, the measurement errors of crack width and length are controlled within 5%, which provides reliable technical support for bridge structural health assessment and maintenance decisions.

The Feather SFASwinUnet proposed in this study provides an efficient and scalable technical approach for automatic crack detection and quantitative analysis of bridges under UAV inspection. In addition, it has high engineering application potential.</p></div>