Conventional planning of maintenance and renewal work for railway track is based on
heuristics and simple scheduling. The railway industry is now collecting a large amount of …

Condition monitoring of rail transport systems has become a phenomenon of global interest
over the past half a century. The approaches to condition monitoring of various rail transport …

The railway track fasteners play a critical role in fixing the track on the ballast bed. Achieving
full automation of the fastener defect detection is significant in terms of ensuring track safety …

The detection of fastener defects is an important task in railway inspection systems, and it is
frequently performed to ensure the safety of train traffic. Traditional inspection is usually …

The condition monitoring of railway track line is one of the essential tasks to ensure the
safety of the railway transportation system. Railway track line is mainly composed of tracks …

As a result of long‐term pressure from train operations and direct exposure to the natural
environment, rails, fasteners, and other components of railway track lines inevitably produce …

In this paper, we present a real-time automatic vision-based rail inspection system, which
performs inspections at 16 km/h with a frame rate of 20 fps. The system robustly detects …

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

The rail fastening system forms an indispensable part of the rail tracks and needs to be
periodically inspected to ensure safe, reliable and sustainable rail operations. Automated …

Traditional image features are not able to effectively represent railway fasteners under
varied illumination and conditions. We propose the line local binary pattern encoding …