In order to ensure the safety of railway transportation, it is necessary to regularly check for
faults and defects in the railway system. Visual inspection technology is conducive to …

Defects on the rail surface will hasten the wear of the wheels. At the same time, when the
wheel is periodically hitting and rolling surface defected, the defects will gradually develop …

The insulator is an important catenary component that maintains the insulation between the
catenary and earth. Due to the long-term impact of railway vehicles and the environment …

Rail inspection based on visual inspection system (VIS) has drawn much attention recently,
since VIS is automatic, fast, nondestructive, and objective. However, visual rail inspection is …

Rails are among the most important components of railway transportation, and real-time
defects detection of the railway is an important and challenging task because of intensity …

Rail surface defect detection plays a critical role in the maintenance of the rail transportation
system. Video analysis technology is a promising method to detect defects due to its low cost …

Vision-based automatic railway fastener inspection, instead of manual operation, remains a
great challenge. Even though many supervised learning-based methods have been …

Railway surface defect detection is an important technical measure to ensure the safe
operation of the rail transit system. Due to the complex and diverse features of rail surface …

Rails of unhealthy conditions are considered as major targets in the rail surface inspection
and this study focuses on inspecting five types of major rail surface flaws, corrugations …

Automatic detection of industrial product damage using machine learning is a promising
research area. At the same time, various machine learning methods based on convolutional …