Structure Inspector Computer Vision Project

This COCO-Bridge_readme.txt file was generated on [2019-04-28] by [Eric Bianchi]

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: ***COCO-Bridge, structural details for bridge inspection

2. The author, a Virginia Tech graduate and PhD student, ERIC BIANCHI in the SEM (structural engineering and materials) program in the college of civil engineering.

Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Matthew Hebdon Institution: Virginia Tech, SEM, college of civil engineering Address: 105B Patton Hall, 750 Drillfield Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24061 Email: mhebdon@vt.edu

Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Pretap Tokekar Institution: Virginia Tech, ECE, college of electrical and computer engineering Address: 453 Whittemore, Virginia Tech, Blacskburg, VA 24061 Email: tokekar@vt.edu

Alternate Contact Information Name: Eric Bianchi Institution: Virginia Tech Address: 185 Sequoia Cir, Christiansburg VA, 24073 Email: beric7@vt.edu

3. Date of data collection: ***from (2018-08) to (2019-03)

4. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): ***Norfolk Southern Railway yard in Roanoke Virginia and from engineering firms (Clark Nexsen, VDOT)

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: ***National Science Foundation (NSF)

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: ***Cite the Dataset as outlined in #6 (Recommended citation for the data)

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: ***(Currently, no other publications use this data)

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: ***(http://COCO-bridge.com, https://github.com/beric7/COCO-Bridge)

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: ***There are no ancillary data sets included at the moment

5. Was data derived from another source? If yes, list source(s): ***NO.

6. Recommended citation for the data: ***(Bianchi, E. (2018).COCO-Bridge [Dataset]. University Libraries, Virginia Tech.)