Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

MSDNet: A Multi-Scale Feature Representation Network Model for Tunnel Bolt Detection

Bolts are critical components of tunnel linings, essential for ensuring safe tunnel operation. Due to their susceptibility to corrosion and detachment, it is vital to closely monitor them during maintenance. However, identifying a large num...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Bridging the performance–efficiency gap: a resource-efficient hybrid DL-ML framework for jackfruit disease detection

Complex environment variability and limited computational resources in agricultural settings create challenges in automated detection in tropical regions, where jackfruit diseases pose major threats to harvest productivity and food security...

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and...

Attack-Aware Deepfake Detection Under Counter-Forensic Manipulations

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated and manipulated visual content requires forensic detectors that remain reliable after routine processing and deliberate counter-forensic modification. This paper presents an attack-aware deepfake dete...

Fruit freshness detection based on multi-task convolutional neural network

Background: Fruit freshness detection by computer vision is essential for many agricultural applications, e.g., automatic harvesting and supply chain monitoring. This paper proposes to use the multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm to build a d...

Computer vision vs. human vision

In object recognition (classification), it was known that the human brain processes visual information in semantic space mainly, that is, extracting the semantically meaningful features such as line-segments, boundaries, shape and so on. Bu...

Federated Learning in Computer Vision

Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a novel machine learning paradigm allowing to preserve privacy and to account for the distributed nature of the learning process in many real-world settings. Computer vision tasks deal with hu...

Reimbursement Design and Procedure-Level Gross Profit of Robot-Assisted Gastrectomy in a Publicly Financed Health System: Evidence From Japan.

Advanced Swine Management: Infrared Imaging for Precise Localization of Reproductive Organs in Livestock Monitoring

Traditional methods for predicting sow reproductive cycles are not only costly but also demand a larger workforce, exposing workers to respiratory toxins, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic pain. This occupational hazard can even lead ...

A Complete System for Automated Semantic–Geometric Mapping of Corrosion in Industrial Environments

Corrosion, a naturally occurring process leading to the deterioration of metallic materials, demands diligent detection for quality control and the preservation of metal-based objects, especially within industrial contexts. Traditional tech...

Lightweight Road Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Blind Guiding Scenarios

Image segmentation is a crucial technology for environmental perception, and it is widely used in various scenarios such as autonomous driving and virtual reality. With the rapid development of technology, computer vision-based blind guidin...

Sequential Normalization: Embracing Smaller Sample Sizes for Normalization

Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normaliz...

The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop

Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spre...

A human activity recognition method based on Vision Transformer

Abstract Human activity recognition has a wide range of applications in various fields, such as video surveillance, virtual reality and human–computer intelligent interaction. It has emerged as a significant research area in computer vision...

Experimental study of a novel contact-based pose detection approach for digital twin-driven high-precision micro assembly

This study presents a comprehensive study of a novel Contact-Based Pose Estimation Method (CBPEM) for enhancing precision in robotic assembly processes within digital twin frameworks. Conventional pose detection methods, such as laser and c...

Effectual pre-processing with quantization error elimination in pose detector with the aid of image-guided progressive graph convolution network (IGP-GCN) for multi-person pose estimation

Multi-person pose estimation (MPE) remains a significant and intricate issue in computer vision. This is considered the human skeleton joint identification issue and resolved by the joint heat map regression network lately. Learning robust ...

Image-Dehazing Method Based on the Fusion Coding of Contours and Colors

The dehazing of images shot in fog is a hot spot in the study of computer vision. Unlike dehazing methods, which use an atmospheric scattering model, the method proposed here is based on fusion coding of contours and colors. It simulates th...

Computer vision applications in vascular surgery: From preoperative mapping to intraoperative flow assessment

Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) are increasingly applied in vascular surgery for preoperative mapping and intraoperative flow/perfusion assessment, with potential to enhance safety and efficiency. However, the extent o...