Automatic detection of squats in railway infrastructure

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1980-1990

  Molodova, Maria ^a   Li, Zili ^a   Nunez, Alfredo ^a   Dollevoet, Rolf ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axle box acceleration (ABA); rail transportation maintenance; railway monitoring; surface defects on railway rails

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AXLE BOXES; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; RAILWAY RAIL;

EID: 84907607641     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2014.2307955     Document Type: Article

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