Academic Articles & Research Papers

Link Predictions with Bi-Level Routing Attention

Background/Objectives: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are often incomplete, which can significantly impact the performance of downstream applications. Manual completion of KGs is time-consuming and costly, emphasizing the importance of developing a...

Autonomous Driving Roadway Feature Interpretation Using Integrated Semantic Analysis and Domain Adaptation

Lane detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, yet remains challenging in complex environments with occlusions, ambiguous markings, and varied lighting. We introduce the Global Semantic Enhancement Network (GSENet), a groundbreaking f...

Effectiveness of enrichment programs in developing cognitive, affective, and higher-order thinking skills among gifted students in Arab countries: a meta-analysis.

MSDNet: A Multi-Scale Feature Representation Network Model for Tunnel Bolt Detection

Bolts are critical components of tunnel linings, essential for ensuring safe tunnel operation. Due to their susceptibility to corrosion and detachment, it is vital to closely monitor them during maintenance. However, identifying a large num...

A novel nondestructive detection approach for seed cotton lint percentage using deep learning

Abstract Background The lint percentage of seed cotton is one of the most important parameters for evaluating seed cotton quality and affects its price. The traditional measuring method of lint percentage is labor-intensive and time-consumi...

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...

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 ...

Fruit freshness detection based on multi-task convolutional neural network

Background: Fruit freshness detection by computer vision is essential for many agricultural applications, e.g., automatic harvesting and supply chain monitoring. This paper proposes to use the multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm to build a d...

Sequential Normalization: Embracing Smaller Sample Sizes for Normalization

Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normaliz...

Computer Vision Meets Educational Robotics

Educational robotics has gained a lot of attention in the past few years in K-12 education. Prior studies have shown enough shreds of evidence and highlight the benefits of educational robotics as being effective in providing impactful lear...

Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy in improving body dissatisfaction and shape-related concerns in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa: a controlled, randomized, superiority trial.

MaskDis R‐CNN: An instance segmentation algorithm with adversarial network for herd pigs

Abstract The current instance segmentation method can achieve satisfactory results in common scenarios. However, under the overlap or partial occlusion between targets caused by the complex scenes, accurate segmentation of pigs remains a ch...

An accurate, efficient, and accessible AI-powered solution for wildlife re-identification in conservation

Abstract Accurate wildlife re-identification is critical for a wide range of ecological studies, including density estimation via capture–recapture, demographic analyses, and behavioral research. We pr esent GIRAFFE (Generalized Image-based...

Experimental study of a novel contact-based pose detection approach for digital twin-driven high-precision micro assembly

This study presents a comprehensive study of a novel Contact-Based Pose Estimation Method (CBPEM) for enhancing precision in robotic assembly processes within digital twin frameworks. Conventional pose detection methods, such as laser and c...

Computer Vision Applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Survey

As technology continues to develop, computer vision (CV) applications are becoming increasingly widespread in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) context. These applications are developed to improve the efficiency of transportation...

Multistage Convolutional Neural Network With Deformable Attention for Word-Level Offline Text-Independent Writer Identification

Offline writer identification is an essential component of biometric and forensic security fields, focusing on identifying the authors of handwritten documents in physical form. Historically, this approach has focused on text-dependent iden...

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...

Frozen Weights as Prior for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

In the fields of natural language processing and computer vision, the emergence of large pre-trained models has led to the adoption of fine-tuning them for downstream tasks as an important paradigm. However, the full fine-tuning approach of...

Spatially Aware Fusion in 3D Convolutional Autoencoders for Video Anomaly Detection

Surveillance videos are crucial for crime prevention and public safety, yet the challenge of defining abnormal events hinders their effectiveness, limiting the applicability of supervised methods. This paper introduces an unsupervised end-t...

Monitoring the spread of a pathogenic insect on vineyards using UAS

Globalisation has contributed to rapid economic growth but has also exposed vulnerabilities such as the spread of pests in agriculture. An example is the Popillia Japonica Newman beetle, introduced to Italy in 2014, which has caused signifi...