Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Computer Vision-Aided Procedure for Seismic Safety Measures of Linear Infrastructures

Computer vision in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field has become popular, especially for processing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, but still has limitations both in experimental testing and in practical applications. Prior wo...

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 ...

Sparse Representation for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Techniques from sparse signal representation are beginning to see significant impact in computer vision, often on nontraditional applications where the goal is not just to obtain a compact high-fidelity representation of the observed signal...

Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Computer Vision: A Review of Techniques

Hand gestures are a form of nonverbal communication that can be used in several fields such as communication between deaf-mute people, robot control, human-computer interaction (HCI), home automation and medical applications. Research paper...

Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Using Computer Vision

High spatial resolution measurements of vegetation structure in three-dimensions (3D) are essential for accurate estimation of vegetation biomass, carbon accounting, forestry, fire hazard evaluation and other land management and scientific ...

Deep Learning for Understanding Satellite Imagery: An Experimental Survey

Translating satellite imagery into maps requires intensive effort and time, especially leading to inaccurate maps of the affected regions during disaster and conflict. The combination of availability of recent datasets and advances in compu...

Online visual tracking by integrating spatio‐temporal cues

The performance of online visual trackers has improved significantly, but designing an effective appearance‐adaptive model is still a challenging task because of the accumulation of errors during the model updating with newly obtained resul...

Monitoring pedestrian walking dynamics under environmental and policy influences in urban spaces

Abstract Understanding how environmental conditions and policy interventions jointly shape pedestrian mobility is essential for designing resilient, adaptive, and human-centered urban spaces. This study presents a computer-vision framework ...

Edge AI for Industrial Visual Inspection: YOLOv8-Based Visual Conformity Detection Using Raspberry Pi

This paper presents a lightweight and cost-effective computer vision solution for automated industrial inspection using You Only Look Once (YOLO) v8 models deployed on embedded systems. The YOLOv8 Nano model, trained for 200 epochs, achieve...

An Implementation of an optimized dual-axis solar tracking algorithm for concentrating solar power plants deployment

A recent assessment of a pilot concentrating solar power plant in Ghana noticed the failure of the tracking system to accurately align the multifaceted heliostats toward the sun and focus the sunbeams onto the target. A further review of so...

DEEP LEARNING-BASED DOOR AND WINDOW DETECTION FROM BUILDING FAÇADE

Detecting building façade elements is a crucial problem in computer vision for image interpretation. In Building Information Modeling (BIM) studies, the detection of building façade elements has an important role. BIM is a tool that allows ...

Survey on Videos Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Models

In most Computer Vision applications, Deep Learning models achieve state-of-the-art performances. One drawback of Deep Learning is the large amount of data needed to train the models. Unfortunately, in many applications, data are difficult ...

Computer Vision Face Tracking For Use in a Perceptual User Interface

As a first step towards a perceptual user interface, a computer vision color tracking algorithm is developed and applied towards tracking human faces. Computer vision algorithms that are intended to form part of a perceptual user interface ...

Enhanced Esophageal Cancer Detection Using Spectrum-Aided Vision Enhancer: A Comparative Study of White Light Imaging, Narrow-Band Imaging, and Algorithmic Narrow-Band Imaging-Like Imaging.

OmniVO: Toward Robust Omni Directional Visual Odometry With Multicamera Collaboration for Challenging Conditions

With the recent developments in computer vision, vision-based odometry plays an increasingly important role in the field of autonomous systems. However, using traditional visual odometry or simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) only...

Hardware and Software Optimizations for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks: Survey of Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep Learning (DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for medicine to autonomous driving of modern cars as well as other sectors in ...

Automated detection of bicycle helmets using deep learning

Bicycle helmets are a main measure for injury prevention in case of a crash and are a central variable in transport safety studies. Despite this, helmet use data is only collected sporadically, as the observation of helmet use in traffic by...

Vision-Based Trajectory Generation and Kinematic Modeling for Human-like Grasp Reproduction in a Robotic Prosthetic Hand

The use of prosthetic devices can significantly improve the quality of life of individuals with limb amputations. However, existing prosthetic hands face multiple engineering and manufacturing challenges, making them economically inaccessib...

The psychological impact of the Metaverse

Abstract The Metaverse is no revolution, but another step in the evolution of the internet. Today we can observe various 3D virtual worlds with different focuses and purposes, like meeting spaces, education, or classic gaming. Most of these...