Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cross-Correlation-Based Structural System Identification Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...

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...

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...

A coarse to fine network for fast and accurate object detection in high‐resolution images

Abstract Because of the popularisation of high‐resolution images, detecting objects in these images quickly and accurately has attracted increasing attention in recent studies. Current convolutional neural networks (CNN)‐based detection met...

Implementation and Design of a Smart Pharmacy Automation System Using Raspberry Pi

Manual medication dispensing in pharmacies remains prone to human errors and is time-intensive, particularly under high patient loads, while existing commercial automation solutions are cost-prohibitive for small to medium-sized pharmacy se...

AutoWindLoc: Precise Localization of Wind Turbines in High-Resolution Orthophotos for Enhanced Registers

The paper proposes a novel framework for automatically detecting wind turbines in orthophotos, transferring this information to a database, and linking detected turbines to an existing registry to minimize location inaccuracy. This inaccura...

AN IMPROVED MASK R-CNN: EXTRACTION OF DOOR AND WINDOW INSTANCES ON VILLAGE BUILDING FAÇADE IMAGES

Rapid access to the basic structure of village buildings is conducive to the investigation of the load-bearing bodies of village houses and provides data support for disaster assessment and post-disaster rescue and reconstruction. The devel...

TSER: A Two-Stage Character Segmentation Network With Two-Stream Attention and Edge Refinement

Segmenting characters in an image is a classic yet challenging task in computer vision. Correctly determining boundaries of adhesive characters with various scales and shapes is essential for character segmentation, especially for separatin...

Evaluation of quantization error in computer vision

Due to the important role that digitization error plays in the field of computer vision, a careful analysis of its impact on the computational approaches used in the field is necessary. The authors develop the mathematical tools for the com...

Recent Advances in Leveraging AI for Scalable and Extensible Biomedical Knowledge Management.

Collaborative Care and Everyday Planning in Care Counselling (CoPlan study): study protocol of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial and protocol changes to quasi-experimental evaluation during recruitment.

Assessing Wireless Sensing Potential With Large Intelligent Surfaces

Sensing capability is one of the most highlighted new feature of future 6G wireless networks. This paper addresses the sensing potential of Large Intelligent Surfaces (LIS) in an exemplary Industry 4.0 scenario. Besides the attention receiv...

Image Motion Extraction of Structures Using Computer Vision Techniques: A Comparative Study

Vibrational measurements play an important role for structural health monitoring, e.g., modal extraction and damage diagnosis. Moreover, conditions of civil structures can be mostly assessed by displacement responses. However, installing di...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

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...

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...

OpenCV for Computer Vision Applications

OpenCV is a powerful, open-source toolkit designed for handling real-time computer vision challenges and advanced image processing tasks. It enables automated systems to interpret images and videos effectively. This paper explores the capab...

Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision

Review of Weed Detection Methods Based on Computer Vision

Weeds are one of the most important factors affecting agricultural production. The waste and pollution of farmland ecological environment caused by full-coverage chemical herbicide spraying are becoming increasingly evident. With the contin...

State-of-the-art in automated image-based species identification systems.