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Automation in Construction 18 (2009) 587–596 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Automation in Construction journal h omepage: www.el /l ocate/ autcon Automated defect detection for sewer pipeline inspection and condition assessment W. Guo, L. Soibelman ⁎, J.H. Garrett Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: To regularly and proactively assess conditions of sewer infrastructure systems to ensure their structural Accepted 8 December 2008 integrity and continuity of services, it is critical to advance the state of automated pipeline inspection and condition assessment. Currently, a critical issue is to address realistic defect detection that deals with real Keywords: sewer inspection data. This paper presents the findings of a research project that seeks to enable automated Sewer pipeline detection of defects in sewer pipelines from inspection videos and images. The need for and the challenges of Inspection automated defect detection in sewer infrastructure condition monitoring are presented. Based on a general Condition assessment Automated defect detection detection and recognition model established in this paper, a change detection based approach which is Image processing