To ensure the safety and the serviceability of civil infrastructure it is essential to visually
inspect and assess its physical and functional condition. This review paper presents the …

Sewer networks and water distribution systems are among the most valuable and critical
urban assets for a community. These systems have their respective time span to provide …

The municipal drainage system is a key component of every modern city's infrastructure.
However, as the drainage system ages its pipes gradually deteriorate at rates that vary …

Surveys for assessing the condition of sewer pipeline systems are mainly based on video
surveillance or CCTV, which is a time-consuming process that relies heavily on human labor …

Video and image sources are frequently applied in the area of defect inspection in industrial
community. For the recognition and classification of sewer defects, a significant number of …

Most automated sewer inspection tasks are based on closed-circuit television (CCTV)
methods and focus on image classification or object detection but fail to obtain information …

The increasing aging of underground pipe networks and the lack of effective inspection
technologies present considerable challenges for whole life-cycle management of these …

Due to the advantages of economics, safety, and efficiency, vision-based analysis
techniques have recently gained conspicuous advancements, enabling them to be …

There has been enormous growth in the energy sector in the new millennium, and it has
enhanced energy demand, creating an exponential rise in the capital investment in the …

To regularly and proactively assess conditions of sewer infrastructure systems to ensure
their structural integrity and continuity of services, it is critical to advance the state of …