Academic Articles & Research Papers

Implementation challenges of 3-month once-weekly rifapentine and isoniazid TB-preventive treatment in India.

Repurposing a commercial artificial intelligence vision platform for automated surgical instrument identification: a proof-of-concept study

Abstract Background Retained surgical items are classified as never events but continue to occur, and the count meant to prevent them is often recorded as correct even when an item is retained. Computer vision could provide an independent c...

User Interface Aspects of a Human-Hand Simulation System

This paper describes the user interface design for a human-hand simulation system, a virtual environment that produces ground truth data (life-like human hand gestures and animations) and provides visualization support for experiments on co...

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...

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...

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...

Optimal Coherent Point Selection for 3D Quality Inspection from Silhouette-Based Reconstructions

3D Geometric quality inspection involves assessing and comparing a reconstructed object to a predefined reference model or design that defines its expected volume. Achieving precise 3D object geometry reconstruction from multiple views can ...

Automated detection of bicycle helmets using deep learning

Bicycle helmets are a main measure for injury prevention in case of a crash and are a central variable in transport safety studies. Despite this, helmet use data is only collected sporadically, as the observation of helmet use in traffic by...

FIR-SDE: fast image restoration via mean-reverting stochastic differential equation

Abstract In computer vision, zero-shot image restoration—a technique enabling degraded image restoration without large-scale paired training data—has emerged as a pivotal technique for scenarios where data is limited or paired training data...

Vision-Based Novelty Detection Using Deep Features and Evolved Novelty Filters for Specific Robotic Exploration and Inspection Tasks

One of the essential abilities in animals is to detect novelties within their environment. From the computational point of view, novelty detection consists of finding data that are different in some aspect to the known data. In robotics, re...

Parametric Predictions for Pure Electric Vehicles

Demand for pure electric vehicles has been found to be increasing over the years. This has necessitated the development of a model that would serve as a predicting machine for manufacturing different types of pure electric vehicles. Direct ...

Dual-Channel Dynamic Gated Spatio-Temporal Graph for Traffic Flow Forecasting

Traffic flow forecasting is a critical and essential technology in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), as it plays a pivotal role in optimizing traffic management, improving road safety, and enhancing the overall efficien...

Fast reconstruction of SMS bSSFP myocardial perfusion images using noise map estimation network (NoiseMapNet): a head-to-head comparison with parallel imaging and iterative reconstruction

BackgroundSimultaneous multi-slice (SMS) bSSFP imaging enables stress myocardial perfusion imaging with high spatial resolution and increased spatial coverage. Standard parallel imaging techniques (e.g., TGRAPPA) can be used for image recon...

A deep-reinforcement learning approach for optimizing homogeneous droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips

Over the past two decades, digital microfluidic biochips have been in much demand for safety-critical and biomedical applications and increasingly important in point-of-care analysis, drug discovery, and immunoassays, among other areas. How...

A Survey on Deep Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to identify mentions of rigid designators from text belonging to predefined semantic types such as person, location, organization etc. NER always serves as the foundation for many natural language ...

Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey

Abstract Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, seeks to locate object instances from a large number of predefined categories in natural images. Deep learning techniques have emerged as a ...

Availability-Aware Multitask Learning for Robust Clinical Prediction from Incomplete Electronic Health Records

This study presents NORIA, an availability-aware multitask learning framework for clinical prediction from incomplete electronic health records (EHRs). We analyzed a public dataset of 77,724 patients and 107 numerical features. To prevent t...

A 9-mRNA signature measured from whole blood by a prototype PCR panel predicts 28-day mortality upon admission of critically ill COVID-19 patients

Immune responses affiliated with COVID-19 severity have been characterized and associated with deleterious outcomes. These approaches were mainly based on research tools not usable in routine clinical practice at the bedside. We observed th...

Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Complex Land Cover Mapping Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Imagery

Despite recent advances of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in various computer vision tasks, their potential for classification of multispectral remote sensing images has not been thoroughly explored. In particular, the applicatio...