Academic Articles & Research Papers

Computer Vision, Models and Inspection

The main focus of this book is on the uses of computer vision for inspection and model based matching. It also provides a short, self contained introductory course on computer vision. The authors describe various state-of-the-art approaches...

Development of a 7-DOF robotic arm control system for autonomous grasping of user-specified general objects.

Adversarial domain adaptation for false-positive reduction in hospital-to-robotic echocardiographic screening under limited target-domain data.

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’...

Scale Accuracy Evaluation of Image-Based 3D Reconstruction Strategies Using Laser Photogrammetry

Rapid developments in the field of underwater photogrammetry have given scientists the ability to produce accurate 3-dimensional (3D) models which are now increasingly used in the representation and study of local areas of interest. This pa...

OmniVO: Toward Robust Omni Directional Visual Odometry With Multicamera Collaboration for Challenging Conditions

With the recent developments in computer vision, vision-based odometry plays an increasingly important role in the field of autonomous systems. However, using traditional visual odometry or simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) only...

A critical review on computer vision and artificial intelligence in food industry

Emerging technologies such as computer vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are estimated to leverage the accessibility of big data for active training and yielding operational real time smart machines and predictable models. This phenom...

Brain-inspired predictive visual attention for spatiotemporal semantic understanding of complex film and television videos.

Computer Vision: A First Course

Computer vision is a new discipline recently developed from image processing, which is able to take raw images, and, after suitable processing, derive information from them automatically. Computer vision applications are legion in the areas...

Cross-Attention Joint Denoising and Semantic Segmentation for Robust Image Analysis

Semantic segmentation assigns class labels at the pixel level, forming a key part of various computer vision applications, including autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics. However, segmentation accuracy often drops significantly...

Emerging Trends in Autonomous Vehicle Perception: Multimodal Fusion for 3D Object Detection

The pursuit of autonomous driving relies on developing perception systems capable of making accurate, robust, and rapid decisions to interpret the driving environment effectively. Object detection is crucial for understanding the environmen...

Exploiting Three-Dimensional Gaze Tracking for Action Recognition During Bimanual Manipulation to Enhance Human–Robot Collaboration

Human–robot collaboration could be advanced by facilitating the intuitive, gaze-based control of robots, and enabling robots to recognize human actions, infer human intent, and plan actions that support human goals. Traditionally, gaze trac...

Automated harvesting by a dual-arm fruit harvesting robot

Abstract In this study, we propose a method to automate fruit harvesting with a fruit harvesting robot equipped with robotic arms. Given the future growth of the world population, food shortages are expected to accelerate. Since much of Jap...

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision

The following topics are discussed: computer vision; image processing; face recognition; robotics; navigation; visual surveillance; indexing; image restoration; human-computer interaction; and medical imaging...

Computer Vision

This book presents research trends on computer vision, especially on application of robotics, and on advanced approachs for computer vision (such as omnidirectional vision). Among them, research on RFID technology integrating stereo vision ...

Multi-Modal Image Fusion Based on Matrix Product State of Tensor

Multi-modal image fusion integrates different images of the same scene collected by different sensors into one image, making the fused image recognizable by the computer and perceived by human vision easily. The traditional tensor decomposi...

Vision-Based Novelty Detection Using Deep Features and Evolved Novelty Filters for Specific Robotic Exploration and Inspection Tasks

One of the essential abilities in animals is to detect novelties within their environment. From the computational point of view, novelty detection consists of finding data that are different in some aspect to the known data. In robotics, re...

Building neural networks

Foundations. Motivation. Neural-Network Fundamentals. Single Neuron Computations. Network Computations. Network Simulation. Foundations Summary. Suggested Readings. Bibliography. Paradigms. The Backpropagation Network. The Counterpropagatio...

Neural Networks and Natural Intelligence

Stephen Grossberg and his colleagues at Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems are producing some of the most exciting research in the neural network approach to making computers "think." Packed with real-time computer simulations ...

Neural networks for signal processing

This collection of essays explores neural networks applications in signal and image processing, function and estimation, robotics and control, associative memories, and electrical and optical networks. Intended as a companion to Neural Netw...