Academic Articles & Research Papers

DualSight: multi-stage instance segmentation framework for improved precision

Abstract Powder properties, particularly their morphology (which includes size, shape, surface roughness, etc.), play a critical role in the quality of cold spray additively manufactured materials. A change in feedstock powder morphology ca...

Addressing practical challenge of using autopilot drone for asphalt surface monitoring: Road detection, segmentation, and following

According to the recent world bank report, around 80% of a life-cycle cost of a road is devoted to maintenance which includes monitoring and repair processes. To more effectively keep road serviceability, knowing the current status of road ...

ALGORITMO PARA O RECONHECIMENTO DE CARACTERES MANUSCRITOS

The handwritten character recognition in digital images is an important and challenging area of study in Computer Vision, with several possibilities for applications to facilitate the daily work of the people. This paper presents an alg...

Surrogate Modeling of the Electric Field in the End-Winding Region of Pumped-Storage Generator Stators Based on Deep Neural Networks

The end-winding insulation structure of stator windings in pumped-storage generator units is complex, with pronounced electric field concentration under out-of-phase conditions, making them critical concerns in insulation design and conditi...

Monthly Evapotranspiration Modeling in the Absence of Climatic Data Using the Soft Computing Methods in West and Northwest of Iran

Evapotranspiration (ET0), a major component of the hydrologic cycle, is important in water resources development and irrigation planning. The ET0 for west and northwest of Iran was estimated using the FAO Penman-Montieth method (FAO-56) as ...

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Corrosion Behavior of Ni–Zn Electrophosphate Coating on Galvanized Steel and Gene Expression Programming Models

Zn–Ni electrophosphate coating is one of the most commonly used materials in industrial applications. The corrosion resistance of this coating is very important in order to achieve the minimum corrosion current of the Zn–Ni electrophosphate...

Providing a framework for designing electronic and virtual learning environments based on the principles and criteria of cognitive flexibility

Background and Objectives: In order to solve the problem of education in complex and unstructured domains, Spiro and his colleagues proposed the theory of cognitive flexibility, in which they advocated multiple forms of pedagogical models, ...

SpykeTorch: Efficient Simulation of Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks With at Most One Spike per Neuron

Application of deep convolutional spiking neural networks (SNNs) to artificial intelligence (AI) tasks has recently gained a lot of interest since SNNs are hardware-friendly and energy-efficient. Unlike the non-spiking counterparts, most of...

Deep Learning for the Internet of Things

How can the advantages of deep learning be brought to the emerging world of embedded IoT devices? The authors discuss several core challenges in embedded and mobile deep learning, as well as recent solutions demonstrating the feasibility of...

Automated deep bottleneck residual 82-layered architecture with Bayesian optimization for the classification of brain and common maternal fetal ultrasound planes

Despite a worldwide decline in maternal mortality over the past two decades, a significant gap persists between low- and high-income countries, with 94% of maternal mortality concentrated in low and middle-income nations. Ultrasound serves ...

Presenting the students’ academic achievement causal model based on goal orientation

Introduction: Several factors play a role in academic achievement, individual’s excellence and capability to do actions and tasks that the learner is in charge of in learning areas. The main goal of this study was to present academic ach...

Integrating multi-source geoscience data with RF-weighted conditional variational autoencoders (CVAE) for porphyry copper prospectivity mapping: an application to the Ardestan district, Central Iran

Abstract Porphyry Cu deposits in the Urmia–Dokhtar magmatic belt constitute important exploration targets, yet the heterogeneous and multi-scale nature of geological, geochemical, and remote sensing data introduces substantial uncertainty i...

Estimating Uncertainty of Geographic Atrophy Segmentations with Bayesian Deep Learning

Purpose: To apply methods for quantifying uncertainty of deep learning segmentation of geographic atrophy (GA). Design: Retrospective analysis of OCT images and model comparison. Participants: One hundred twenty-six eyes from 87 participant...

Hybrid feature optimized CNN for rice crop disease prediction

Abstract The agricultural industry significantly relies on autonomous systems for detecting and analyzing rice diseases to minimize financial and resource losses, reduce yield reductions, improve processing efficiency, and ensure healthy cr...

Precision water quality indices forecasting through an optimized hybrid SMW-LSSVM-R model enhanced by SATLDE and uncertainty analysis

Precise forecasting of water quality indices (WQI) is essential for safeguarding ecosystems, human health, and sustainable water resource management. This study presents an innovative approach for evaluating river Water Quality Indices usin...

Optimization of Operational Parameters for Bio‑Oil Production from Municipal Solid Waste via Microwave Pyrolysis

The efficiency of bio-oil production from municipal solid waste was investigated using microwave-assisted pyrolysis. The effects of temperature, pyrolysis time, and microwave power on bio-oil yield were evaluated using Response Surface Meth...

KmerSignificance score: A discriminative and biologically informed framework for viral k-mer prioritization.

Integrating InVEST and machine learning to model mangrove habitat degradation trend in in Northern Persian Gulf, Iran

Abstract The expansion of human activities and environmental changes in coastal desert and semi-desert ecosystems significantly impact habitat quality. This study used remote sensing data on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform to generat...

A novel machine learning-based model for predicting the transition fatigue lifetime in piston aluminum alloys

The estimation of transition fatigue lifetimes for piston aluminum alloys was carried out using unsupervised machine learning (ML) with the K-means algorithm. For this purpose, an experimental dataset representing standard ISO specimens wit...

A metaheuristic with a neural surrogate function for Word Sense Disambiguation

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is one of the earliest problems in natural language processing which aims to determine the correct sense of words in context. The semantic information provided by WSD systems is highly beneficial to many task...