Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Video Frame Prediction Method Based on Latent-Space Autoregressive Modeling

Video prediction is a fundamental task in computer vision with broad applications in intelligent robotics, autonomous driving, and related fields. However, existing methods often struggle to simultaneously model long-term temporal dependenc...

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

Which neighborhoods experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the phys...

Computer vision syndrome: A review

BACKGROUND: Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a collection of symptoms related to prolonged work at a computer display. OBJECTIVE: This article reviews the current knowledge about the symptoms, related factors and treatment modalities for C...

Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of No-Reference Image and Video Quality Assessment Models with Frequency-Masked Gradient Orthogonalization Adversarial Attack

Neural-network-based models have made considerable progress in many computer vision areas over recent years. However, many works have exposed their vulnerability to malicious input data manipulation—that is, to adversarial attacks. Although...

Role of Smart Image Segmentation in Infection Diagnosis and Monitoring of Acute Surgical Wounds

Background/Purpose: There are challenges in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for acute wound healing assessment due to limited data availability, the dynamic nature of healing, and inter-patient variability. These challenges require fu...

Image fusion method based on simultaneous sparse representation with non‐subsampled contourlet transform

The image fusion method based on sparse representation in the single‐scale image domain has produced better fusion results than the classic methods based on multi‐scale analysis nowadays. However, due to the limited number of dictionary ato...

Convolutional-de-convolutional neural networks for recognition of surgical workflow

Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) has occupied an important position in modern surgery, further stimulating the progress of methodology and technology. In recent years, a large number of computer vision-based methods have been widely used in ...

Approaches to Improve the Quality of Person Re-Identification for Practical Use

The idea of the person re-identification (Re-ID) task is to find the person depicted in the query image among other images obtained from different cameras. Algorithms solving this task have important practical applications, such as illegal ...

Feature Rescaling and Fusion for Tiny Object Detection

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on computer vision, however, there are still challenges in detecting tiny objects in a large-scale background. The tiny objects knowledge become sparse and weak due to their tiny size, which ma...

Evaluation of Modified FGSM-Based Data Augmentation Method for Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Classification

Computer vision applications demand a significant amount of data for effective training and inference in many computer vision tasks. However, data insufficiency situations usually happen due to multiple reasons, resulting in computational m...

Per-Sample Multiple Kernel Approach for Visual Concept Learning

Learning visual concepts from images is an important yet challenging problem in computer vision and multimedia research areas. Multiple kernel learning (MKL) methods have shown great advantages in visual concept learning. As a visual concep...

Applications of Computer Vision in Plant Pathology: A Survey

Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Computer Vision: A Review of Techniques

Hand gestures are a form of nonverbal communication that can be used in several fields such as communication between deaf-mute people, robot control, human-computer interaction (HCI), home automation and medical applications. Research paper...

Knowledge, attitude, and practice among kindergarten teachers regarding vision and eye screening of preschool children

PURPOSE To estimate the level and determinants of knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAPs) of kindergarten teachers regarding vision and eye screening of preschool children of Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. METHODS As a part of a study to ...

Online visual tracking by integrating spatio‐temporal cues

The performance of online visual trackers has improved significantly, but designing an effective appearance‐adaptive model is still a challenging task because of the accumulation of errors during the model updating with newly obtained resul...

A Novel Mixed-Precision Quantization Approach for CNNs

Model size and inference speed have brought about major challenges for the deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in many applications. An effective approach to address this issue is model quantization, which achieves network co...

A Comprehensive Review on 3D Object Detection and 6D Pose Estimation With Deep Learning

Nowadays, computer vision with 3D (dimension) object detection and 6D (degree of freedom) pose assumptions are widely discussed and studied in the field. In the 3D object detection process, classifications are centered on the object’...

DEEP LEARNING-BASED DOOR AND WINDOW DETECTION FROM BUILDING FAÇADE

Detecting building façade elements is a crucial problem in computer vision for image interpretation. In Building Information Modeling (BIM) studies, the detection of building façade elements has an important role. BIM is a tool that allows ...

Survey on Videos Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Models

In most Computer Vision applications, Deep Learning models achieve state-of-the-art performances. One drawback of Deep Learning is the large amount of data needed to train the models. Unfortunately, in many applications, data are difficult ...

Speeding Up Semantic Instance Segmentation by Using Motion Information

Environment perception and understanding represent critical aspects in most computer vision systems and/or applications. State-of-the-art techniques to solve this vision task (e.g., semantic instance segmentation) require either dedicated h...