“…Autonomous crack detection systems aid short‐term and long‐term inspections in terms of decreasing human involvement during their operation, resulting in lower cost, higher reliability, and system efficiency. Concurrent to these developments in computer‐vision techniques, there has been a resurgence of machine learning algorithms in a variety of fields, including image processing and pattern recognition (Hashemi & Abdelghany, ; Koziarski & Cyganek, ; Molina‐Cabello, Luque‐Baena, López‐Rubio, & Thurnhofer‐Hemsi, ; Nabian & Meidani, ; Sonka, Hlavac, & Boyle, ; Torres, Galicia, Troncoso, & Martínez‐Álvarez, ; Wang & Bai, ; Wang et al., ; Wang et al, ; Wu, Zhang, Story, & Rajan, ; Zhang & Zhang, ). Meanwhile, the hardware implementation of training large‐scale neural networks also receives wide attention (Ortega‐Zamorano, Jerez, Gómez, & Franco, ).…”