Academic Articles & Research Papers

Lipid vesicle shape analysis from populations using light video microscopy and computer vision.

We present a method for giant lipid vesicle shape analysis that combines manually guided large-scale video microscopy and computer vision algorithms to enable analyzing vesicle populations. The method retains the benefits of light microscop...

Risk factors of digital eye strain among computer users at Al-Baha University

Background: Digital eye strain (DES) affects an estimated 60 million people worldwide, with a higher prevalence among populations that are occupationally reliant on digital display devices. Aim: This study investigated risk factors of DES ...

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...

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...

COVID-19 Control by Computer Vision Approaches: A Survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an urgent call to contribute to the fight against an immense threat to the human population. Computer Vision, as a subfield of artificial intelligence, has enjoyed recent success in solving various comple...

Robust Parameter Estimation in Computer Vision

Estimation techniques in computer vision applications must estimate accurate model parameters despite small-scale noise in the data, occasional large-scale measurement errors (outliers), and measurements from multiple populations in the sam...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

From Data to Decisions: AI in Varicose Veins—Predicting, Diagnosing, and Guiding Effective Management

Background: Varicose veins (VVs) of the lower limbs, characterized by palpable, dilated, and tortuous veins, affect 2–73% of the global population. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers significant potential to enhance healthcare efficiency a...

Exploiting Three-Dimensional Gaze Tracking for Action Recognition During Bimanual Manipulation to Enhance Human–Robot Collaboration

Human–robot collaboration could be advanced by facilitating the intuitive, gaze-based control of robots, and enabling robots to recognize human actions, infer human intent, and plan actions that support human goals. Traditionally, gaze trac...

Automated harvesting by a dual-arm fruit harvesting robot

Abstract In this study, we propose a method to automate fruit harvesting with a fruit harvesting robot equipped with robotic arms. Given the future growth of the world population, food shortages are expected to accelerate. Since much of Jap...

(Computer) vision without sight

Computer vision holds great promise for helping persons with blindness or visual impairments (VI) to interpret and explore the visual world. To this end, it is worthwhile to assess the situation critically by understanding the actual needs ...

Open real-time, non-invasive fish detection and size estimation utilizing binocular camera system in a Portuguese river affected by hydropeaking

The need for efficient approaches to track and assess fish behavior in rivers impacted by hydropeaking is increasing. Nonetheless, employing an automated camera system for underwater monitoring requires that the algorithms function under hi...

Network dynamics underlying OFF responses in the auditory cortex

Across sensory systems, complex spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity arise following the onset (ON) and offset (OFF) of stimuli. While ON responses have been widely studied, the mechanisms generating OFF responses in cortical areas h...

How structure determines correlations in neuronal networks.

Networks are becoming a ubiquitous metaphor for the understanding of complex biological systems, spanning the range between molecular signalling pathways, neural networks in the brain, and interacting species in a food web. In many models, ...

Shear banding and flow instabilities in wormlike micelles: Modelling and mechanisms – A review

Worm-like micelles (WLMs) are dynamic, self-assembling supramolecular structures that exhibit complex viscoelastic behaviour due to their ability to undergo reversible scission, fusion, branching, and sequence rearrangement. This review pro...

Links between chronic health conditions and sexual dysfunction in men: insights from a German population-based study.

A Complex Network Epidemiological Approach for Infectious Disease Spread Control with Time-Varying Connections

This work introduces an impulsive neural control algorithm designed to mitigate the spread of epidemic diseases. The objective of this paper is the development of a vaccination strategy based on a PIN-type impulsive controller based on an o...

Understanding transformation tolerant visual object representations in the human brain and convolutional neural networks

Forming transformation-tolerant object representations is critical to high-level primate vision. Despite its significance, many details of tolerance in the human brain remain unknown. Likewise, despite the ability of convolutional neural ne...