Academic Articles & Research Papers

Deep Learning and Bidirectional Optical Flow Based Viewport Predictions for 360° Video Coding

The rapid development of virtual reality applications continues to urge better compression of 360° videos owing to the large volume of content. These videos are typically converted to 2-D formats using various projection techniques i...

A Self-Adaptive Traffic Signal System Integrating Real-Time Vehicle Detection and License Plate Recognition for Enhanced Traffic Management

Traffic management systems play a crucial role in smart cities, especially because increasing urban populations lead to higher traffic volumes on roads. This results in increased congestion at intersections, causing delays and traffic viola...

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...

A comprehensive analytical assessment of dino-based architectures for sustainable automated potato inspection in the Al Kharj Region

Abstract Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in computer vision, particularly for applications where labeled data are limited, costly, or labor-intensive to obtain. This paradigm is especially relevant to sustai...

Computer vision for computer games

The appeal of computer games may be enhanced by vision-based user inputs. The high speed and low cost requirements for near-term, mass-market game applications make system design challenging. The response time of the vision interface should...

A frugal automated contact angle analyser for low-cost surface wettability characterization.

Lightweight Two-Layer Control Architecture for Human-Following Robot

(1) Background: Human detection and tracking are critical tasks for assistive autonomous robots, particularly in ensuring safe and efficient human–robot interaction in indoor environments. The increasing need for personal assistance among t...

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...

A Wilson–Cowan reservoir computer for interpretable spatiotemporal vision

Abstract We present a Wilson–Cowan reservoir computer (WC–RC) that treats a retinotopic excitatory–inhibitory neural field as a structured reservoir. Travelling waves and bounded oscillations provide an interpretable spatiotemporal basis, w...

Strawberry plant wetness detection using computer vision and deep learning

Botrytis fruit rot and anthracnose are fungal diseases of strawberry. These diseases are a significant contributor to yield losses, requiring farmers to use fungicides frequently to prevent them. The proliferation of botrytis and anthracnos...

The Validity and Reliability of the My Jump Lab App for the Measurement of Vertical Jump Performance Using Artificial Intelligence

The countermovement jump (CMJ) is a widely used test to assess lower body neuromuscular performance. This study aims to analyze the validity and reliability of an iOS application using artificial intelligence to measure CMJ height, force, v...

Generalized Vision-Based Detection, Identification and Pose Estimation of Lamps for BIM Integration

This paper introduces a comprehensive approach based on computer vision for the automatic detection, identification and pose estimation of lamps in a building using the image and location data from low-cost sensors, allowing the incorporati...

Enabling scalable inspection of offshore mooring systems using cost-effective autonomous underwater drones

As aquaculture expands to meet global food demand, it remains dependent on manual, costly, infrequent, and high-risk operations due to reliance on high-end Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Scalable and autonomous systems are needed to ena...

Enhanced Combined Techniques for Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multiple-Attribute Group Decision-Making and Applications to Quality Evaluation of Large-Scale Multi-View 3D Reconstruction

With the widespread application of computer vision in many fields, quickly and accurately obtaining the three-dimensional information covered by the target object has become a concern in the field of vision research. Large scale multi view ...

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 ...

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...

Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision

Convolutional networks are at the core of most state-of-the-art computer vision solutions for a wide variety of tasks. Since 2014 very deep convolutional networks started to become mainstream, yielding substantial gains in various benchmark...

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 ...