Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Intelligent Algorithm for Rock Core RQD Based on Object Detection and Image Segmentation to Suppress Noise and Vibration

In the construction of the civil engineering infrastructure, the noise and vibration are affected by the geological conditions, adopting specific construction techniques based on the geological conditions is of great significance in suppres...

AriAplBud: An Aerial Multi-Growth Stage Apple Flower Bud Dataset for Agricultural Object Detection Benchmarking

As one of the most important topics in contemporary computer vision research, object detection has received wide attention from the precision agriculture community for diverse applications. While state-of-the-art object detection frameworks...

An Efficient Optimization Technique for Training Deep Neural Networks

Deep learning is a sub-branch of artificial intelligence that acquires knowledge by training a neural network. It has many applications in the field of banking, automobile industry, agriculture, and healthcare industry. Deep learning has pl...

A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision

Abstract In computer vision, a series of exemplary advances have been made in several areas involving image classification, semantic segmentation, object detection, and image super-resolution reconstruction with the rapid development of dee...

CG-DINO: Improved Network for Small Object Detection in Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Imagery Based on DINO

Object detection in uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) acquired images remains a challenging task due to extreme scale variation, dense object layouts, and complex backgrounds, etc. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers, an...

A Review on Conventional Machine Learning vs Deep Learning

In now days, deep learning has become a prominent and emerging research area in computer vision applications. Deep learning permits the multiple layers models for computation to learn representations of data by processing in their original ...

Understanding Deep Learning Techniques for Image Segmentation

The machine learning community has been overwhelmed by a plethora of deep learning--based approaches. Many challenging computer vision tasks, such as detection, localization, recognition, and segmentation of objects in an unconstrained envi...

A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Object Detection

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in people’s life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of ...

Deep Learning: An Update for Radiologists

Deep learning is a class of machine learning methods that has been successful in computer vision. Unlike traditional machine learning methods that require hand-engineered feature extraction from input images, deep learning methods learn the...

Image-based cotton leaf disease diagnosis using YOLO and faster R-CNN techniques

Abstract Cotton has, in recent years, become one of the most important cash crops worldwide while being impacted in yield from leaf disease which generally goes unnoticed in the early stage. Detection methods depend on manual efforts produc...

Contour-Based Wild Animal Instance Segmentation Using a Few-Shot Detector

Camera traps are widely used in wildlife research, conservation, and management, and abundant images are acquired every day. Efficient real-time instance segmentation networks can help ecologists label and study wild animals. However, exist...

Combining the YOLOv4 Deep Learning Model with UAV Imagery Processing Technology in the Extraction and Quantization of Cracks in Bridges

Bridges are often at risk due to the effects of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and typhoons. Bridge inspection assessments normally focus on cracks. However, numerous concrete structures with cracked surfaces are highly elevated or ...

Recent advances in deep learning for object detection

Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey

Abstract Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, seeks to locate object instances from a large number of predefined categories in natural images. Deep learning techniques have emerged as a ...

Application of Deep Learning for Object Detection

The ubiquitous and wide applications like scene understanding, video surveillance, robotics, and self-driving systems triggered vast research in the domain of computer vision in the most recent decade. Being the core of all these applicatio...