Academic Articles & Research Papers

Artifact segmentation using the U-Net architecture for powder X-ray diffraction images

Modern synchrotron X-ray facilities generate X-ray diffraction (XRD) image data at rates that far exceed the capacity of manual analysis, yet critical processing steps such as artifact removal rely on human intervention. Rule-based algorith...

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Project Investment Risk Based on Computer Vision Technology

With the development of the economy and real-time embedded systems and the progress of science and technology, people’s economic income forms have undergone tremendous changes, and the concept of financial management has become clearer in p...

Multistage Convolutional Neural Network With Deformable Attention for Word-Level Offline Text-Independent Writer Identification

Offline writer identification is an essential component of biometric and forensic security fields, focusing on identifying the authors of handwritten documents in physical form. Historically, this approach has focused on text-dependent iden...

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...

Automated Cell Foreground–Background Segmentation with Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images: An Alternative to Machine Learning Segmentation Methods with Small-Scale Data

Cell segmentation is a critical step for image-based experimental analysis. Existing cell segmentation methods are neither entirely automated nor perform well under basic laboratory microscopy. This study proposes an efficient and automated...

Detection and Control Framework for Unpiloted Ground Support Equipment within the Aircraft Stand

The rapid advancement in Unpiloted Robotic Vehicle technology has significantly influenced ground support operations at airports, marking a critical shift towards future development. This study presents a novel Unpiloted Ground Support Equi...

Computer Vision and Image Processing: A Practical Approach Using CVIPTools

From the Publisher: True computer imaging for engineers! Digital signal processing has long been the domain of electrical engineers, while the manipulation of image data has been handled by computer scientists. The convergence of these...

Robust Techniques for Computer Vision

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Machine Vision and Canny Edge Detector–Based Printing Image Detection and Recognition Model

Traditional image detection and recognition models face issues such as high miss detection rates, low classification accuracy, and poor real-time performance when dealing with complex printing images, including defects and flaws. To address...

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

Which neighborhoods experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the phys...

'They should listen to what we want': striving for woman-centred intrapartum care in Sudan's fragile healthcare system, a qualitative interpretive study.

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...

MAT-Fly: An Educational Platform for Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aimed to Detect and Track Moving Objects

The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects. In particular, it is described MAT...

Per-Sample Multiple Kernel Approach for Visual Concept Learning

Learning visual concepts from images is an important yet challenging problem in computer vision and multimedia research areas. Multiple kernel learning (MKL) methods have shown great advantages in visual concept learning. As a visual concep...

Computer Vision – ECCV 2016

Artificial intelligence literacy and associated factors among gastroenterologists in China: findings from a multicenter survey with nationwide geographic coverage.

Online visual tracking by integrating spatio‐temporal cues

The performance of online visual trackers has improved significantly, but designing an effective appearance‐adaptive model is still a challenging task because of the accumulation of errors during the model updating with newly obtained resul...

Edge AI for Industrial Visual Inspection: YOLOv8-Based Visual Conformity Detection Using Raspberry Pi

This paper presents a lightweight and cost-effective computer vision solution for automated industrial inspection using You Only Look Once (YOLO) v8 models deployed on embedded systems. The YOLOv8 Nano model, trained for 200 epochs, achieve...

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...

DEEP LEARNING-BASED DOOR AND WINDOW DETECTION FROM BUILDING FAÇADE

Detecting building façade elements is a crucial problem in computer vision for image interpretation. In Building Information Modeling (BIM) studies, the detection of building façade elements has an important role. BIM is a tool that allows ...