Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

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...

SAIN:structure-aware image inpainting for large missing areas

Abstract Image inpainting is crucial for restoring missing or corrupted regions in images, with diverse applications in computer vision and digital content creation. Existing deep learning-based methods, however, often struggle with large o...

A Survey on Underwater Computer Vision

Underwater computer vision has attracted increasing attention in the research community due to the recent advances in underwater platforms such as of rovers, gliders, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) , and the like, that now make possi...

A lightweight optimization framework for real-time pedestrian detection in dense and occluded scenes

Pedestrian detection is one of the most widely applied tasks in industrial computer vision. It encapsulates three core challenges of object detection: detecting small objects, handling heavy occlusion, and balancing speed and accuracy for d...

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...

An Improved Dense CNN Architecture for Deepfake Image Detection

Recent advancements in computer vision processing need potent tools to create realistic deepfakes. A generative adversarial network (GAN) can fake the captured media streams, such as images, audio, and video, and make them visually fit othe...

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...

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...

Spatially Aware Fusion in 3D Convolutional Autoencoders for Video Anomaly Detection

Surveillance videos are crucial for crime prevention and public safety, yet the challenge of defining abnormal events hinders their effectiveness, limiting the applicability of supervised methods. This paper introduces an unsupervised end-t...

Video Processing Using Deep Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review

Studies show lots of advanced research on various data types such as image, speech, and text using deep learning techniques, but nowadays, research on video processing is also an emerging field of computer vision. Several surveys are presen...

Gestalt Theory and Computer Vision

In the Wertheimer programme there are two kinds of organizing laws. The rst kind are grouping laws which, starting from atomic and local data, recursively construct larger groups in the perceived image. Each grouping law focuses on a single...

Computer vision syndrome: A review

BACKGROUND: Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a collection of symptoms related to prolonged work at a computer display. OBJECTIVE: This article reviews the current knowledge about the symptoms, related factors and treatment modalities for C...

Opportunities and challenges in training volunteer wildlife detection dog-handler teams for invasive plant monitoring.

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...

Feature Rescaling and Fusion for Tiny Object Detection

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on computer vision, however, there are still challenges in detecting tiny objects in a large-scale background. The tiny objects knowledge become sparse and weak due to their tiny size, which ma...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Computer Vision-Aided Procedure for Seismic Safety Measures of Linear Infrastructures

Computer vision in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field has become popular, especially for processing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, but still has limitations both in experimental testing and in practical applications. Prior wo...

A Lightweight Reconstruction Model via a Neural Network for a Video Super-Resolution Model

Super-resolution in image and video processing has been a challenge in computer vision, with its progression creating substantial societal ramifications. More specifically, video super-resolution methodologies aim to restore spatial details...

A Novel Mixed-Precision Quantization Approach for CNNs

Model size and inference speed have brought about major challenges for the deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in many applications. An effective approach to address this issue is model quantization, which achieves network co...

A Comprehensive Review on 3D Object Detection and 6D Pose Estimation With Deep Learning

Nowadays, computer vision with 3D (dimension) object detection and 6D (degree of freedom) pose assumptions are widely discussed and studied in the field. In the 3D object detection process, classifications are centered on the object’...