Autonomous rail track inspection using vision based system

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, CIHSPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 56-59

  Singh, Maneesha ^a   Singh, Sameer ^a   Jaiswal, Jay ^b   Hempshall, John ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Corus Rail Technologies ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image processing; Rail track inspection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION;

AUTOMATED VIDEO ANALYSIS; BLUE CLIPS; RAIL TRACK INSPECTION;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 34247201465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIHSPS.2006.313313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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