Academic Articles & Research Papers

RGB-D Tracking and Optimal Perception of Deformable Objects

Addressing the perception problem of texture-less objects that undergo large deformations and movements, this article presents a novel RGB-D learning-free deformable object tracker in combination with a camera position optimisation system f...

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...

A Methodological Review on Prediction of Multi-Stage Hypovigilance Detection Systems Using Multimodal Features

Several hypovigilance detection systems (HDx) were developed to avoid road-side accidents due to driver fatigue. They have suffered from several limitations. Notably many of these are focused on center-head position to define an area of int...

Development of a computer vision system to measure the color of potato chips

Computer vision and artificial intelligence in precision agriculture for grain crops: A systematic review

Unconstrained Bilingual Scene Text Reading Using Octave as a Feature Extractor

Reading text and unified text detection and recognition from natural images are the most challenging applications in computer vision and document analysis. Previously proposed end-to-end scene text reading methods do not consider the freque...

Melanoma Lesion Detection and Segmentation Using YOLOv4-DarkNet and Active Contour

Melanoma is the skin cancer caused by the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and has only 15-20% of survival rate. Late diagnosis of melanoma leads to the severe malignancy of disease, and metastasis expands to the other body organs i.e. li...

Bridging the performance–efficiency gap: a resource-efficient hybrid DL-ML framework for jackfruit disease detection

Complex environment variability and limited computational resources in agricultural settings create challenges in automated detection in tropical regions, where jackfruit diseases pose major threats to harvest productivity and food security...

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and...

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...

A Review of Basketball Shooting Analysis Based on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has promising applications in basketball shooting analysis, as it can help basketball athletes improve their shooting techniques and accuracy, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of both games and training sessi...

Using cascade CNN-LSTM-FCNs to identify AI-altered video based on eye state sequence

Deep learning is notably successful in data analysis, computer vision, and human control. Nevertheless, this approach has inevitably allowed the development of DeepFake video sequences and images that could be altered so that the changes ar...

Design of an Apple Harvesting Robot Based on Hybrid Pneumatic-Electric Drive System

This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency apple harvesting robot based on a hybrid pneumatic-electric drive system, capable of operating around the clock. The robotic system comprises a mobile platform with two degrees of freedom ...

Fundamentals of Computer Vision

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mat...

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...

Automated estimation of cementitious sorptivity via computer vision

Monitoring water uptake in cementitious systems is crucial to assess their durability against corrosion, salt attack, and freeze-thaw damage. However, gauging absorption currently relies on labor-intensive and infrequent weight measurements...

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

Inter-Session Repeatability of a Smartphone-Based Markerless System to Measure Segment Length and Lower-Limb Kinematics in Patients With End-Stage Knee Osteoarthritis.

Mechanisms of protein transport between subcompartments of the cone photoreceptor outer segment membrane system.

Advanced Swine Management: Infrared Imaging for Precise Localization of Reproductive Organs in Livestock Monitoring

Traditional methods for predicting sow reproductive cycles are not only costly but also demand a larger workforce, exposing workers to respiratory toxins, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic pain. This occupational hazard can even lead ...