AIOZ AI Pothole Detection Challenge Overview
Potholes aren’t just annoying. They cause accidents, damage tires, and cost cities millions every year.
The Pothole Detection Challenge puts you in the driver’s seat: Build a computer-vision model that automatically finds potholes in real road photos and draws precise boxes around each one.
What Makes This Challenge Tough and Exciting
You won’t be training on clean, uniform footage. The images come from:
- City streets, highways, and country roads
- Daytime, nighttime, rainfall, glare, shadows, etc.
- Dash-cams, roadside CCTV, and even drone footage
A winning model must:
- Read subtle texture under harsh lighting
- Ignore cracks, patches, and stains that aren’t real potholes
- Stay quiet on perfectly smooth asphalt (no false alarms!)
What You Get: Data & Labels
- Training set: Thousands of real road photos + one small text file per image. Each line in the label file represents a single pothole: 1 0.45 0.62 0.18 0.12
(class 1 = pothole | rest = normalized center-x, center-y, width, height)
- Test set: Just images. Labels are hidden to ensure fair scoring.
Two Ways to Submit
1. Quick public leaderboard score
Upload a simple CSV with two columns: id, predict_label
Example row (two potholes detected in one image):
000123,1 0.98 0.45 0.32 0.18 0.12 1 0.87 0.71 0.55 0.20 0.09
All detections go into the same cell, separated by spaces.
2. Final private ranking (what really counts)
Upload your full code and model weights. The system runs your code on a hidden test set to prevent anyone from overfitting the public leaderboard.
How Winners are Chosen: Scoring
[email protected] = Mean Average Precision at 50% overlap
- Your model gives every detection a confidence score (0–1)
- A detection is correct only if the box drawn overlaps a real pothole by at least 50%
- Final ranking is based on the private test set only
Timeline: Mark Your Calendar
| Phase | Dates |
|---|---|
| Registration | Dec 3 – Dec 16, 2025 |
| Training | Dec 17 – Dec 30, 2025 |
| Validation | Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 13, 2026 |
| Final Submission | Jan 14 – Jan 20, 2026 |
| Judging | Jan 21 – Feb 3, 2026 |
| Results | Feb 4, 2026 |
Reward Structure:
Special Winner: 2,000 AIOZ Tokens
Top 5 Ranked Winners: 500 AIOZ Tokens for each
In total: 4,500 AIOZ Tokens
Ready to Make Roads Safer?
This challenge is a real civic problem you can help to solve.
From harsh lighting to multi-angle robustness, every hurdle you overcome brings us closer to smarter, safer streets.
Registration opened: December 3rd, 2025.
Jump in now: https://aiozai.network/challenges/pothole-detection-challenge-5598
Let’s patch the planet, one pothole at a time!