Academic Articles & Research Papers

Data augmentation approaches in natural language processing: A survey

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in...

Design and voice‐based control of a nasal endoscopic surgical robot

Abstract In traditional nasal surgery, surgeons are prone to fatigue and jitter by holding the endoscope for a long‐time. Some complex operations require assistant surgeon to assist with holding the endoscope. To address the above problems,...

SSAM: a span spatial attention model for recognizing named entities

Abstract Mapping a sentence into a two-dimensional (2D) representation can flatten nested semantic structures and build multi-granular span dependencies in named entity recognition. Existing approaches to recognizing named entities often cl...

AN EXTRACTION OF KEY VARIABLESFOR LONG-TERM TRENDS USING A MODIFIEDCROSS-IMPACT MATRIX

The traditional approach to forecasting lies in the assumption that, byapplying a set of powerful analytic tools, the future could be predictedaccurately enough to choose an appropriate strategic direction for it. Theprocess often involves ...

Attack-Aware Deepfake Detection Under Counter-Forensic Manipulations

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated and manipulated visual content requires forensic detectors that remain reliable after routine processing and deliberate counter-forensic modification. This paper presents an attack-aware deepfake dete...

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 ...

TRAMON: An automated traffic monitoring system for high density, mixed and lane-free traffic

This paper introduces a new visual dataset and framework to facilitate computer-vision-based traffic monitoring in high density, mixed and lane-free traffic (TRAMON). While there are advanced deep learning algorithms that can detect and tra...

High Performance GPU Strategies for Real-Time In-Cabin Monitoring

With the expeditious advancement in multicarrier automotive in-vehicle monitoring for a bus conforming environment with computer vision, there is an exigency for a setup subsisting on inspection cameras and an onboard embedded computing dev...

AN IMPROVED MASK R-CNN: EXTRACTION OF DOOR AND WINDOW INSTANCES ON VILLAGE BUILDING FAÇADE IMAGES

Rapid access to the basic structure of village buildings is conducive to the investigation of the load-bearing bodies of village houses and provides data support for disaster assessment and post-disaster rescue and reconstruction. The devel...

Effectual pre-processing with quantization error elimination in pose detector with the aid of image-guided progressive graph convolution network (IGP-GCN) for multi-person pose estimation

Multi-person pose estimation (MPE) remains a significant and intricate issue in computer vision. This is considered the human skeleton joint identification issue and resolved by the joint heat map regression network lately. Learning robust ...

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...

Deep-Learning based Melanoma Detection using Cloud Approach

The aim of computer vision techniquesand deep learning in the era of digitalization is to derive valuable insights from them and generate novel understanding. This makes it possible to employ imaging to quickly diagnose and treat a variety ...

A lightweight optimization framework for real-time pedestrian detection in dense and occluded scenes

Pedestrian detection is one of the most widely applied tasks in industrial computer vision. It encapsulates three core challenges of object detection: detecting small objects, handling heavy occlusion, and balancing speed and accuracy for d...

Image fusion method based on simultaneous sparse representation with non‐subsampled contourlet transform

The image fusion method based on sparse representation in the single‐scale image domain has produced better fusion results than the classic methods based on multi‐scale analysis nowadays. However, due to the limited number of dictionary ato...

Approaches to Improve the Quality of Person Re-Identification for Practical Use

The idea of the person re-identification (Re-ID) task is to find the person depicted in the query image among other images obtained from different cameras. Algorithms solving this task have important practical applications, such as illegal ...

Feature Rescaling and Fusion for Tiny Object Detection

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on computer vision, however, there are still challenges in detecting tiny objects in a large-scale background. The tiny objects knowledge become sparse and weak due to their tiny size, which ma...

Optimal Coherent Point Selection for 3D Quality Inspection from Silhouette-Based Reconstructions

3D Geometric quality inspection involves assessing and comparing a reconstructed object to a predefined reference model or design that defines its expected volume. Achieving precise 3D object geometry reconstruction from multiple views can ...

Per-Sample Multiple Kernel Approach for Visual Concept Learning

Learning visual concepts from images is an important yet challenging problem in computer vision and multimedia research areas. Multiple kernel learning (MKL) methods have shown great advantages in visual concept learning. As a visual concep...

FOCUS: a feature optimization and cascaded unified screening strategy for computer-aided pathology-based glioma molecular subtype classification.

Scale Accuracy Evaluation of Image-Based 3D Reconstruction Strategies Using Laser Photogrammetry

Rapid developments in the field of underwater photogrammetry have given scientists the ability to produce accurate 3-dimensional (3D) models which are now increasingly used in the representation and study of local areas of interest. This pa...