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Furthermore, minor cracks can develop into large-scale cracks that may lead to structural failure when exposed to excessive external loads. In addition, the concrete crack width and depth should be precisely measured to investigate the effects of concrete cracks on the stability of structures. Thus, a nondestructive and noncontact testing method was introduced for detecting concrete crack depth using thermal images and machine learning. The thermal images of the cracked specimens were obtained using a constant test setup for several months under daylight conditions, which provided sufficient heat for measuring the temperature distributions of the specimens, with recording parameters such as air temperature, humidity, and illuminance. From the thermal images, the crack and surface temperatures were obtained depending on the crack widths and depths using the parameters. Four machine-learning algorithms (decision tree, extremely randomized tree, gradient boosting, and AdaBoost) were selected, and the results of crack depth prediction were compared to identify the best algorithm. 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