“…Over the years, several methods have been developed by researchers and engineers to monitor civil infrastructure and evaluate its performance. Although conventional sensor‐based methods are still popular and effective (Amezquita‐Sanchez & Adeli, ; Amezquita‐Sanchez, Valtierra‐Rodriguez, & Adeli, ; Arabi & Shafei, 2019; Arabi, Shafei, & Phares, , ), recently new computer‐vision‐based methods, such as deep‐learning‐based computer vision solutions, have caught the attention of researchers in different areas of civil and infrastructure engineering (LeCun, Bengio, & Hinton, ). Although the main building block of deep learning, that is, neural networks, has been utilized by researchers for decades (Adeli, ), only recently has deep learning shown major breakthroughs due to increasingly affordable computing hardware, that is, graphics processing units (GPUs), and the increased availability of large‐scale datasets for training deep learning models (Russakovsky et al., ).…”