“…Examples of the disclosed systems include IARIS [8,9], DHDV [10], AMPIS [3,4] and Crackscope [11] in USA, CREHOS [12] in Switzerland, PAVUE [13] in Sweden, GIE [14], ARAN [15] and LRIS [16] in Canada, Komatsu [17] in Japan, HARRIS in UK [18], SIRANO in France [19], etc. Girardello and Chung et al developed an automated road surface distress surveying and management system by integrating GIS and video image processing techniques [3,4,20]. Zhou et al applied the wavelet transform to detect, isolate and evaluate pavement distress [21].…”