Academic Articles & Research Papers

Inactivation of microorganisms in the complex regions of transvaginal ultrasound probes by a UVC-LED light based disinfection system.

Sexual dimorphisms of the olfactory system are conserved across bumblebee species.

MoringaLeafNet: A multi-class leaf disease dataset for precision agriculture and deep learning researchMendeley Data

Moringa Oleifera, which has outstanding nutritional and health benefits, is prized around the world because its leaves are rich in essential vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals that support digestion, help the immune system, and fight infl...

Spatiotemporal patterns induced by four mechanisms in a tussock sedge model with discrete time and space variables

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal patterns of a freshwater tussock sedge model with discrete time and space variables. We first analyze the kinetic system and show the parametric conditions for flip and Neimark–Sacke...

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...

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...

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...

Computer vision in the interface

There are still obstacles to achieving general, robust, high-performance computer vision systems. The last decade, however, has seen significant progress in vision technologies for human-computer interaction....

Advances in Computer Vision

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 ...

Pharmacotherapy augmentation strategies in treatment-resistant anxiety disorders.

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 ...

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 ...

Enhanced Skin Condition Prediction Through Machine Learning Using Dynamic Training and Testing Augmentation

In recent years, deep learning has taken the spotlight in automated medical bioimaging. However, the performance of current state-of-the-art score stems primarily from well-tuned parameters and architecture. There is still only limited rese...

Resource-Aware Scene Text Recognition Using Learned Features, Quantization, and Contour-Based Character Extraction

Scene texts serve as valuable information for humans and autonomous systems to make informed decisions. Processing scene texts poses significant difficulties for computer systems due to several factors, primarily due to variations in image ...

Edge-intelligent lightweight vision system for perspective-corrected egg-cage matching in cage-reared ducks

In the stereoscopic cage-rearing system, monitoring the individual egg production of laying ducks is essential for identifying low-yield individuals and optimizing breeding management. To overcome the high deployment cost of multi-sensor mo...

Improving Image Embeddings With Colour Features in Indoor Scene Geolocation

Embeddings remain the best way to represent image features, but do not always capture all latent information. This is still a problem in representation learning, and computer vision descriptors struggle with precision and accuracy. Improvin...