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Rail inspection is an essential task in railway maintenance and is periodically needed. Inspection is manually operated by trained human operator walking along the track searching for visual anomalies. This monitoring is unacceptable for slowness and lack of objectivity. This paper deals with a patented Visual Inspection System for Railway maintenance, devoted to different tasks. Here, its Rail Detection & Tracking Block (RD&TB) is presented.
Ruvo et al. (Mon,) studied this question.