Academic Articles & Research Papers

Fruits and vegetables quality evaluation using computer vision: A review

In agriculture science, automation increases the quality, economic growth and productivity of the country. The export market and quality evaluation are affected by assorting of fruits and vegetables. The crucial sensory characteristic of fr...

Computer vision algorithms and hardware implementations: A survey

The field of computer vision is experiencing a great-leap-forward development today. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the recent progress on computer vision algorithms and their corresponding hardware implementations. ...

Computer Vision Techniques in Manufacturing

Computer vision techniques have played an important role in promoting the informatization, digitization and intelligence of industrial manufacturing systems. Considering the rapid development of computer vision techniques, we present a comp...

Automatic building detection and land use classification in urban areas using multispectral high-spatial resolution imagery and LiDAR data

Urban areas areimportant environments, accounting for approximately half the population of theworld. Cities attract residents partly because they offer ample opportunitiesfor development, which often results in urban sprawl and its complex ...

Machine Vision and Canny Edge Detector–Based Printing Image Detection and Recognition Model

Traditional image detection and recognition models face issues such as high miss detection rates, low classification accuracy, and poor real-time performance when dealing with complex printing images, including defects and flaws. To address...

Adversarial robustness of deep learning-based thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound.

Role of Smart Image Segmentation in Infection Diagnosis and Monitoring of Acute Surgical Wounds

Background/Purpose: There are challenges in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for acute wound healing assessment due to limited data availability, the dynamic nature of healing, and inter-patient variability. These challenges require fu...

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...

Annotated dataset for retinal fundus image segmentation: vascular arcade and optic nerve head.

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...

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 ...

Speeding Up Semantic Instance Segmentation by Using Motion Information

Environment perception and understanding represent critical aspects in most computer vision systems and/or applications. State-of-the-art techniques to solve this vision task (e.g., semantic instance segmentation) require either dedicated h...

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020

This special issue covers a wide range of topics from the area of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning.This breadth of scope is reflected by the papers included in this special issue, which touch topics including geome...

Computer vision for microscopy diagnosis of malaria

This paper reviews computer vision and image analysis studies aiming at automated diagnosis or screening of malaria infection in microscope images of thin blood film smears. Existing works interpret the diagnosis problem differently or prop...

Visual Localization and Target Perception Based on Panoptic Segmentation

Visual localization is a core part of many computer vision and geospatial perception applications; however, the ever-changing time phase and environment present challenges. Moreover, the ever-enriching spatial data types and sensors create ...

DualSight: multi-stage instance segmentation framework for improved precision

Abstract Powder properties, particularly their morphology (which includes size, shape, surface roughness, etc.), play a critical role in the quality of cold spray additively manufactured materials. A change in feedstock powder morphology ca...

Computer Vision: A First Course

Computer vision is a new discipline recently developed from image processing, which is able to take raw images, and, after suitable processing, derive information from them automatically. Computer vision applications are legion in the areas...

DAPS3D: Domain Adaptive Projective Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds

LiDARs are one of the key sources of reliable environmental ranging information for autonomous vehicles. However, segmentation of 3D scene elements (roads, buildings, people, cars, etc.) based on LiDAR point clouds has limitations. On the o...

Cross-Attention Joint Denoising and Semantic Segmentation for Robust Image Analysis

Semantic segmentation assigns class labels at the pixel level, forming a key part of various computer vision applications, including autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics. However, segmentation accuracy often drops significantly...

HawkEye: AI-Driven Software for Objective Analysis and Characterization of Nodular Cast Iron Microstructures

Metallographic evaluation of nodular cast iron is crucial for quality control in the foundry industry. Traditionally, this process relies on experts who visually interpret microscopic images. This study introduces HawkEye, a comprehensive s...