Academic Articles & Research Papers

Pre-trained models for natural language processing: A survey

A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing

Over the past few years, neural networks have re-emerged as powerful machine-learning models, yielding state-of-the-art results in fields such as image recognition and speech processing. More recently, neural network models started to be ap...

Assessing GPT's capabilities in consumer food survey analysis: A comparative approach for understanding food technophobia and novel protein perceptions

This study explores the application of GPT models for automating consumer food survey analysis, focusing on Chinese consumers' acceptance of plant-based foods, cultured meat, insect-based proteins, and microbial proteins. Traditional survey...

Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering

Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE) is an area of research and development that seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques, tools, and resources to the requirements engineering (RE) process, to...

Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications

The transformation of age-old farming practices through the integration of digitization and automation has sparked a revolution in agriculture that is driven by cutting-edge computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Thi...

Artificial intelligence-based masked face detection: A survey

The COVID-19 virus is causing a global pandemic. The total number of new coronavirus cases worldwide by the end of November 2020 had already surpassed 60 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that wearing masks is a cr...

A comprehensive survey on RGB-D-based human action recognition: algorithms, datasets, and popular applications

Abstract Due to the rapid advances in computer vision and deep learning, human action recognition has become one of the most important representative tasks for video understanding. Especially for human action recognition based on RGB-D data...

Perceptual organization in computer vision: a review and a proposal for a classificatory structure

The role of perceptual organization in computer vision systems is explored. This is done from four vantage points. A brief history of perceptual organization research in both humans and computer vision is offered. A classificatory structure...

Transformer in Computer Vision

Transformer is widely used in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in which numerous papers have been proposed. Recently, the transformer has been borrowed for many computer vision tasks. However, there are few papers to give a comprehensive ...

Computer Vision System for Automatic Counting of Planting Microsites Using UAV Imagery

Mechanical site preparation by mounding is often used by the forest industry to provide optimal growth conditions for tree seedlings. Prior to planting, an essential step consists in estimating the number of mounds at each planting block, w...

A Methodological Review on Prediction of Multi-Stage Hypovigilance Detection Systems Using Multimodal Features

Several hypovigilance detection systems (HDx) were developed to avoid road-side accidents due to driver fatigue. They have suffered from several limitations. Notably many of these are focused on center-head position to define an area of int...

Computer Vision Tools for 3D Modelling in Archaeology

In archaeological Cultural Heritage study 3D modelling has become a very useful process to obtain indispensable data for documentation and visualization. Nowadays the continuous request to achieve photorealistic 3D models has led to testing...

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

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...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

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...

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...

Head Pose Estimation in Computer Vision: A Survey

The capacity to estimate the head pose of another person is a common human ability that presents a unique challenge for computer vision systems. Compared to face detection and recognition, which have been the primary foci of face-related vi...

A survey of public datasets for computer vision tasks in precision agriculture

Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial intelligence, computer vision enables various tasks from planting to harvesting in the crop pr...

Learning by Watching: A Review of Video-Based Learning Approaches for Robot Manipulation

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain regarding generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale ‘in-the-wi...