Academic Articles & Research Papers

Robotic Template Library

Robotic Template Library (RTL) is a set of tools for dealing with geometry and point cloud processing, especially in robotic applications. The software package covers basic objects such as vectors, line segments, quaternions, rigid transfor...

UPANets: Learning from the Universal Pixel Attention Neworks

With the successful development in computer vision, building a deep convolutional neural network (CNNs) has been mainstream, considering the character of shared parameters in a convolutional layer. Stacking convolutional layers into a deep ...

Segmentation of muscle tissue in computed tomography images at the level of the L3 vertebra

With the increasing routine workload on radiologists associated with the need to analyze large numbers of images, there is a need to automate part of the analysis process. Sarcopenia is a condition in which there is a loss of muscle mass. T...

Studying the causes of humidity fluctuations in food products within industrial environments

The production of processed foods and animal nutrition requires precise control over product characteristics to ensure consistent quality. Unexpected fluctuations in key parameters, particularly humidity, can lead to significant financial l...

An Input-Perceptual Reconstruction Adversarial Network for Paired Image-to-Image Conversion

Image-to-image conversion based on deep learning techniques is a topic of interest in the fields of robotics and computer vision. A series of typical tasks, such as applying semantic labels to building photos, edges to photos, and raining t...

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...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Working memory constraints on replanning following distraction.

AN EXTRACTION OF KEY VARIABLESFOR LONG-TERM TRENDS USING A MODIFIEDCROSS-IMPACT MATRIX

The traditional approach to forecasting lies in the assumption that, byapplying a set of powerful analytic tools, the future could be predictedaccurately enough to choose an appropriate strategic direction for it. Theprocess often involves ...

Estimating Black Oat Biomass Using Digital Surface Models and a Vegetation Index Derived from RGB-Based Aerial Images

Responsible for food production and industry inputs, agriculture needs to adapt to worldwide increasing demands and environmental requirements. In this scenario, black oat has gained environmental and economic importance since it can be use...

Computer vision vs. human vision

In object recognition (classification), it was known that the human brain processes visual information in semantic space mainly, that is, extracting the semantically meaningful features such as line-segments, boundaries, shape and so on. Bu...

Reimbursement Design and Procedure-Level Gross Profit of Robot-Assisted Gastrectomy in a Publicly Financed Health System: Evidence From Japan.

Prognostic relevance of [18F]FDG PET/CT in triple-negative breast cancer: Results from the triple negative (TRINE)-PET trial.

Stroke Risk After On-Pump Minimally Invasive Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With Right Axillary Artery Cannulation and Preoperative Computed Tomography Angiography.

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...

Improved U-Net Model for Road Crack Detection Based on Residual and Attention Mechanism

Road cracks are an important part of road safety detection，and with the development of deep learning and computer vision，methods for extracting crack information in road images using deep learning methods are maturing.Existing deep learning...

Multi‐object tracking using dominant sets

Multi‐object tracking is an interesting but challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most previous works based on data association techniques merely take into account the relationship between detection responses in a locally limite...

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...

Repurposing a commercial artificial intelligence vision platform for automated surgical instrument identification: a proof-of-concept study

Abstract Background Retained surgical items are classified as never events but continue to occur, and the count meant to prevent them is often recorded as correct even when an item is retained. Computer vision could provide an independent c...