Abstract:With the increasing service life and number of bridges in service, the traditional manual bridge inspections are gradually unable to meet the growing demands of bridge safety operation and maintenance. Combined with the geographic information data and the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, the data of the upper structure and lower structure of the bridge are collected by utilizing the oblique photography and laser radar technique. The 3D holographic modeling is carried out through 3D point cloud technology. The deep learning algorithm is used to classify, identify and extract the bridge surface defects. The computer vision techniques are utilized to identify the dimensions of bridge defects to realize the rapid collection and intelligent recognition of bridge surface defects. This method is applied to carry out the UAV-based rapid collection, 3D modeling and defect recognition of bridge surface defects for Shengxin Road Bridge in Shanghai G1503 Expressway. The good application results are achieved.