“…To identify and clarify the position of GANs in the civil SHM field, in terms of the type of GAN applications studied by the researchers, an illustrative figure is made (Figure 9) which shows the classification of the applications of GANs in civil SHM and the corresponding studies with the GAN models used in each study. As the main concept of GAN is to learn data domain and data generation, some studies solely studied data generation [ (Kanghyeok and do Hyoung, 2019;Xiong and Chen, 2019;Zhang and Wang, 2019;Tsialiamanis et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2021;Yu et al, 2021;Tsialiamanis et al, 2022a;Heesch et al, 2021;Colombera et al, 2021;Luleci et al, 2022b;Luleci et al, 2023)] (a total of 11 studies) by using original GAN or other GAN variants. Thus, the data generation category is separated from other categories.…”