Academic Articles & Research Papers

Valorisation of agri-food by-products into bioactive compounds: Green extraction, microbial biotransformation and circular biorefinery strategies

Agri-food processing generates large volumes of by-products that remain insufficiently exploited despite their content of phenolic compounds, peptides, polysaccharides, carotenoids, dietary fibres and other functional constituents. These si...

Deep learning for natural language processing: advantages and challenges

Deep learning refers to machine learning technologies for learning and utilizing ‘deep’ artificial neural networks, such as deep neural networks (DNN), convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN). Recently, deep ...

Pre-trained models for natural language processing: A survey

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...

Link Predictions with Bi-Level Routing Attention

Background/Objectives: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are often incomplete, which can significantly impact the performance of downstream applications. Manual completion of KGs is time-consuming and costly, emphasizing the importance of developing a...

Mobile learning for less-commonly taught languages: design and application

The increasing development of emerging technologies contributes to ubiquitous and personalized language learning. Hence this study reported a project of designing and applying mobile learning for a less-commonly taught language, Fijian lang...

Long distance high precision positioning system of anchor digger

Aiming at the problems of high labor intensity, low degree of automation and low positioning accuracy of single way in the construction process of existing coal mine anchor digging machine, a long-distance positioning system suitable for an...

Culling Double Counting in Sequence Images for Fruit Yield Estimation

Exact yield estimation of fruits on plants guaranteed fine and timely decisions on harvesting and marketing practices. Automatic yield estimation based on unmanned agriculture offers a viable solution for large orchards. Recent years have w...

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...

Autonomous Driving Roadway Feature Interpretation Using Integrated Semantic Analysis and Domain Adaptation

Lane detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, yet remains challenging in complex environments with occlusions, ambiguous markings, and varied lighting. We introduce the Global Semantic Enhancement Network (GSENet), a groundbreaking f...

TranSDet: Toward Effective Transfer Learning for Small-Object Detection

Small-object detection is a challenging task in computer vision due to the limited training samples and low-quality images. Transfer learning, which transfers the knowledge learned from a large dataset to a small dataset, is a popular metho...

UPANets: Learning from the Universal Pixel Attention Neworks

With the successful development in computer vision, building a deep convolutional neural network (CNNs) has been mainstream, considering the character of shared parameters in a convolutional layer. Stacking convolutional layers into a deep ...

An Input-Perceptual Reconstruction Adversarial Network for Paired Image-to-Image Conversion

Image-to-image conversion based on deep learning techniques is a topic of interest in the fields of robotics and computer vision. A series of typical tasks, such as applying semantic labels to building photos, edges to photos, and raining t...

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...

Computer Vision – ACCV 2006

A novel nondestructive detection approach for seed cotton lint percentage using deep learning

Abstract Background The lint percentage of seed cotton is one of the most important parameters for evaluating seed cotton quality and affects its price. The traditional measuring method of lint percentage is labor-intensive and time-consumi...

A Review of Basketball Shooting Analysis Based on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has promising applications in basketball shooting analysis, as it can help basketball athletes improve their shooting techniques and accuracy, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of both games and training sessi...

Design of an Apple Harvesting Robot Based on Hybrid Pneumatic-Electric Drive System

This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency apple harvesting robot based on a hybrid pneumatic-electric drive system, capable of operating around the clock. The robotic system comprises a mobile platform with two degrees of freedom ...

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...

Improved U-Net Model for Road Crack Detection Based on Residual and Attention Mechanism

Road cracks are an important part of road safety detection，and with the development of deep learning and computer vision，methods for extracting crack information in road images using deep learning methods are maturing.Existing deep learning...