Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Systematic YOLO-Specific Model Selection for Mechanical Fault Identification in High-Voltage Insulators

Regular monitoring of outdoor insulators is crucial to ensure the reliable functioning of the power grid. With recent progress in computer vision technologies, traditional manual and expensive visual inspections can now be replaced by autom...

Performance Analysis of the SIFT Operator for Automatic Feature Extraction and Matching in Photogrammetric Applications

In the photogrammetry field, interest in region detectors, which are widely used in Computer Vision, is quickly increasing due to the availability of new techniques. Images acquired by Mobile Mapping Technology, Oblique Photogrammetric Came...

A review of computer vision–based structural health monitoring at local and global levels

Structural health monitoring at local and global levels using computer vision technologies has gained much attention in the structural health monitoring community in research and practice. Due to the computer vision technology application a...

Evaluation of quantization error in computer vision

Due to the important role that digitization error plays in the field of computer vision, a careful analysis of its impact on the computational approaches used in the field is necessary. The authors develop the mathematical tools for the com...

Computer Vision in Healthcare Applications

The research of computer vision, imaging processing and pattern recognition has made substantial progress during the past several decades.Also, medical imaging has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its vital component in...

Adversarial Attack on Object Detection via Object Feature-Wise Attention and Perturbation Extraction

Deep neural networks are commonly used in computer vision tasks, but they are vulnerable to adversarial samples, resulting in poor recognition accuracy. Although traditional algorithms that craft adversarial samples have been effective in a...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

An accurate, efficient, and accessible AI-powered solution for wildlife re-identification in conservation

Abstract Accurate wildlife re-identification is critical for a wide range of ecological studies, including density estimation via capture–recapture, demographic analyses, and behavioral research. We pr esent GIRAFFE (Generalized Image-based...

Head Pose Estimation in Computer Vision: A Survey

The capacity to estimate the head pose of another person is a common human ability that presents a unique challenge for computer vision systems. Compared to face detection and recognition, which have been the primary foci of face-related vi...

Structural Uncertainty Visualization of Morse Complexes for Time-Varying Data Prediction.

Artifact segmentation using the U-Net architecture for powder X-ray diffraction images

Modern synchrotron X-ray facilities generate X-ray diffraction (XRD) image data at rates that far exceed the capacity of manual analysis, yet critical processing steps such as artifact removal rely on human intervention. Rule-based algorith...

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Project Investment Risk Based on Computer Vision Technology

With the development of the economy and real-time embedded systems and the progress of science and technology, people’s economic income forms have undergone tremendous changes, and the concept of financial management has become clearer in p...

The Intelligent Ecosystem: How we are Architecting the Future of Environmental Services with AI

As the global economy confronts the dual imperatives of ecological preservation and technological advancement, we at Veolia, are executing a comprehensive strategy that places Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core of our operations and f...

Image decomposition using a second-order variational model and wavelet shrinkage

The paper is devoted to the new model for image decomposition, that splits an image $f$ into three components $u+v+\omega$, with $u$ a piecewise-smooth or the ``cartoon'' component, $v$ a texture component and $\omega$ the noise part in var...

Global Calibration of Multiple Cameras Based on Sphere Targets

Global calibration methods for multi-camera system are critical to the accuracy of vision measurement. Proposed in this paper is such a method based on several groups of sphere targets and a precision auxiliary camera. Each camera to be cal...

A comprehensive analytical assessment of dino-based architectures for sustainable automated potato inspection in the Al Kharj Region

Abstract Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in computer vision, particularly for applications where labeled data are limited, costly, or labor-intensive to obtain. This paradigm is especially relevant to sustai...

Automated Cell Foreground–Background Segmentation with Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images: An Alternative to Machine Learning Segmentation Methods with Small-Scale Data

Cell segmentation is a critical step for image-based experimental analysis. Existing cell segmentation methods are neither entirely automated nor perform well under basic laboratory microscopy. This study proposes an efficient and automated...

SnowMapPy: An automated GEE Python tool for snow cover mapping and monitoring in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

SnowMapPy is an open-source Python-based package developed to streamline the collection, processing, and analysis of MODIS snow cover data from Terra and Aqua satellites. By automating essential steps, including data clipping, reprojection,...

Problems In Indoor Mapping and Modelling

Research in support of indoor mapping and modelling (IMM) has been active for over thirty years. This research has come in the form of As-Built surveys, Data structuring, Visualisation techniques, Navigation models and so forth. Much of thi...

Video-Based Deep Learning Approach for 3D Human Movement Analysis in Institutional Hallways: A Smart Hallway

New artificial intelligence- (AI) based marker-less motion capture models provide a basis for quantitative movement analysis within healthcare and eldercare institutions, increasing clinician access to quantitative movement data and improvi...