Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Machine eye for defects: Machine learning-based solution to identify and characterize topological defects in textured images of nematic materials

Topological defects play a key role in the structures and dynamics of liquid crystals and other ordered systems. There is a recent interest in studying defects in different biological systems with distinct textures. However, a robust method...

Deeply Exploiting Long-Term View Dependency for 3D Shape Recognition

Recognition of 3D shapes is a fundamental task in computer vision. In recent years, view-based deep learning has emerged as an effective approach for 3D shape recognition. Most existing view-based methods treat the views of an object as an ...

Overcomplete graph convolutional denoising autoencoder for noisy skeleton action recognition

Abstract Current skeleton‐based action recognition methods usually assume the input skeleton is complete and noise‐free. However, it is inevitable that the captured skeletons are incomplete due to occlusions or noisy due to changes in the e...

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...

Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithms for Dog Breed Identification—A Comparative Analysis

Deep learning and computer vision algorithms will be applied to find the breed of the dog from an image. The goal is to have the user submit an image of a dog, and the model will choose one of the 120 breeds stated in the dataset to determi...

A Comparative Study of Physically Accurate Synthetic Shadow Datasets in Agricultural Settings with Human Activity

Shadow, a natural phenomenon resulting from the absence of light, plays a pivotal role in agriculture, particularly in processes such as photosynthesis in plants. Despite the availability of generic shadow datasets, many suffer from annotat...

SFCN: Symmetric feature comparison network for detecting ischemic stroke lesions on CT images

Abstract Ischemic stroke is the most common stroke and the leading cause of disability and death in the world. Computed tomography (CT) is a popular and economical diagnostic device for the stroke, However the ischemic stroke lesions are no...

Parallax attention stereo matching network based on the improved group-wise correlation stereo network

Recent stereo matching methods, especially end-to-end deep stereo matching networks, have achieved remarkable performance in the fields of autonomous driving and depth sensing. However, state-of-the-art stereo algorithms, even with the deep...

Automated diabetic retinopathy grading and lesion detection based on the modified R‐FCN object‐detection algorithm

In this work, we develop a computer‐aided retinal image screening system that can perform automated diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading and DR lesion detection in retinal fundus images. We propose a modified object‐detection method for this t...

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...

Attention mechanisms in computer vision: A survey

Humans can naturally and effectively find salient regions in complex scenes. Motivated by this observation, attention mechanisms were introduced into computer vision with the aim of imitating this aspect of the human visual system. Such an ...

Camus: a video-based framework for continuous behavioral monitoring in the mouse home-cage.

Does manufacturing specialization matter? Transfer accuracy of static surgical guides produced by general-purpose and dental-specific additive workflows: A paired in vitro study.

Part‐level attention networks for cross‐domain person re‐identification

Abstract Person re‐identification (Re‐ID) is in significant demand for intelligent security and single or multiple‐target tracking. However, there are issues in the person Re‐ID tasks, such as sharp decline in cross‐data sets detection accu...

Efficient One-Dimensional Network Design Method for Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition

Many studies have used various time-frequency feature extraction methods to convert ship-radiated noise into three-dimensional (3D) data suitable for computer vision (CV) models, which have shown good results in public datasets. However, tr...

Multi-scale attention and collaborative fusion for enhanced RGB-D salient object detection in weld quality inspection

Abstract Salient object detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in computer vision by mimicking human visual attention to identify and segment the most prominent objects in a scene. The advent of depth sensing technologies has propelled RGB-D ...

Generalizable stereo depth estimation with masked image modelling

Abstract Generalizable and accurate stereo depth estimation is vital for 3D reconstruction, especially in surgery. Supervised learning methods obtain best performance however, limited ground truth data for surgical scenes limits generalizab...

Tracking and Analysis of the Movement Behavior of European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in Aquaculture Systems

Monitoring and understanding fish behavior is crucial for achieving precision in everyday husbandry practices (i.e. for optimizing farm performance), and for improving fish welfare in aquaculture. Various intelligent monitoring and control ...