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Measuring the process of construction operations for productivity improvement remains a difficult task for most construction companies due to the manual effort required in most activity measurement methods. This paper proposed and described the elements, processes, and algorithms that comprise a computational and intelligent construction video interpretation method. A number of vision-based construction object recognition and tracking methods were evaluated to provide guidance for algorithm selection. A prototype system was developed to integrate the proposed video analysis processes and selected computer vision algorithms. Videos of construction operations were analyzed to validate the proposed method. Comparing to the traditional manual construction video analysis method, the proposed method provided a semi-automated video interpretation method. The new method enabled the interpretation of …