Academic Articles & Research Papers

Computer Vision System for Automatic Counting of Planting Microsites Using UAV Imagery

Mechanical site preparation by mounding is often used by the forest industry to provide optimal growth conditions for tree seedlings. Prior to planting, an essential step consists in estimating the number of mounds at each planting block, w...

MSDNet: A Multi-Scale Feature Representation Network Model for Tunnel Bolt Detection

Bolts are critical components of tunnel linings, essential for ensuring safe tunnel operation. Due to their susceptibility to corrosion and detachment, it is vital to closely monitor them during maintenance. However, identifying a large num...

An empirical study of LLaMA3 quantization: from LLMs to MLLMs

Abstract The LLaMA family, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters, has become one of the most powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) and the popular LLM backbone of multi-modal large language...

Computer vision for behaviour-based safety in construction: A review and future directions

Geo-Temporal Selective Approach for Dynamic Depth Estimation in Outdoor Object Detection and Distance Measurement

Accurate depth information is crucial for various computer vision applications such as augmented reality, 3D modeling, and autonomous vehicles. Recent advancements have significantly improved both supervised and self-supervised methods for ...

Unconstrained Bilingual Scene Text Reading Using Octave as a Feature Extractor

Reading text and unified text detection and recognition from natural images are the most challenging applications in computer vision and document analysis. Previously proposed end-to-end scene text reading methods do not consider the freque...

Hyperspectral Methane Plume Segmentation Through Foundation Computer Vision Models

Efficient large-scale monitoring of methane emissions is crucial for sustainable environmental management, necessitating advanced remote sensing techniques that process hyperspectral imagery to provide detailed insights into the Earth&#x201...

Melanoma Lesion Detection and Segmentation Using YOLOv4-DarkNet and Active Contour

Melanoma is the skin cancer caused by the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and has only 15-20% of survival rate. Late diagnosis of melanoma leads to the severe malignancy of disease, and metastasis expands to the other body organs i.e. li...

Bridging the performance–efficiency gap: a resource-efficient hybrid DL-ML framework for jackfruit disease detection

Complex environment variability and limited computational resources in agricultural settings create challenges in automated detection in tropical regions, where jackfruit diseases pose major threats to harvest productivity and food security...

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and...

A Review of Basketball Shooting Analysis Based on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has promising applications in basketball shooting analysis, as it can help basketball athletes improve their shooting techniques and accuracy, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of both games and training sessi...

Design of an Apple Harvesting Robot Based on Hybrid Pneumatic-Electric Drive System

This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency apple harvesting robot based on a hybrid pneumatic-electric drive system, capable of operating around the clock. The robotic system comprises a mobile platform with two degrees of freedom ...

Fruit freshness detection based on multi-task convolutional neural network

Background: Fruit freshness detection by computer vision is essential for many agricultural applications, e.g., automatic harvesting and supply chain monitoring. This paper proposes to use the multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm to build a d...

Learning techniques used in computer vision for food quality evaluation: a review

GROND: automated characterization of periodic and rhythmic EEG patterns.

Advanced Swine Management: Infrared Imaging for Precise Localization of Reproductive Organs in Livestock Monitoring

Traditional methods for predicting sow reproductive cycles are not only costly but also demand a larger workforce, exposing workers to respiratory toxins, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic pain. This occupational hazard can even lead ...

Cross-Correlation-Based Structural System Identification Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...

Performance Benchmarking: Pre-trained Models and Custom Convolutional Neural Networks in Deep Learning

Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have significantly increased road safety. CNNs were used in this work to automatically detect and categorise traffic signs—a crucial ta...

TransCat: a hybrid CNN-transformer network with KAN for medical image segmentation

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision and plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Existing methods are mainly built on either convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or Transformer-ba...

A Complete System for Automated Semantic–Geometric Mapping of Corrosion in Industrial Environments

Corrosion, a naturally occurring process leading to the deterioration of metallic materials, demands diligent detection for quality control and the preservation of metal-based objects, especially within industrial contexts. Traditional tech...