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Due to environmental changes and poor quality of construction materials, cracks may develop in the walls of the building which is critical for maintenance as well as the continuous exposure will cause the severe damage to the environment. One of the initial signs of the degradation of a concrete surface or a material is cracks. Manual inspection has many drawbacks like invisibility of the crack, time consuming and it completely depends upon specialist�s knowledge and experience. So automatic image-based crack detection is used as replacement for manual inspection which reduces the cost when compared to the manual approach. The proposed algorithm has been tested against various concrete crack images to study how effectively the algorithm is working, and how effectively it is overcoming the drawbacks of the present manual approach. The algorithm is projected to serve the purpose of various people by estimating the parameters of the crack so the bricklayer can take the necessary actions from the degradation of concrete structures.