Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Methodological Review on Prediction of Multi-Stage Hypovigilance Detection Systems Using Multimodal Features

Several hypovigilance detection systems (HDx) were developed to avoid road-side accidents due to driver fatigue. They have suffered from several limitations. Notably many of these are focused on center-head position to define an area of int...

An empirical study of LLaMA3 quantization: from LLMs to MLLMs

Abstract The LLaMA family, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters, has become one of the most powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) and the popular LLM backbone of multi-modal large language...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Application of plant viruses in biotechnology with relation to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and nanotechnology.

Geo-Temporal Selective Approach for Dynamic Depth Estimation in Outdoor Object Detection and Distance Measurement

Accurate depth information is crucial for various computer vision applications such as augmented reality, 3D modeling, and autonomous vehicles. Recent advancements have significantly improved both supervised and self-supervised methods for ...

Unconstrained Bilingual Scene Text Reading Using Octave as a Feature Extractor

Reading text and unified text detection and recognition from natural images are the most challenging applications in computer vision and document analysis. Previously proposed end-to-end scene text reading methods do not consider the freque...

Estimating Black Oat Biomass Using Digital Surface Models and a Vegetation Index Derived from RGB-Based Aerial Images

Responsible for food production and industry inputs, agriculture needs to adapt to worldwide increasing demands and environmental requirements. In this scenario, black oat has gained environmental and economic importance since it can be use...

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...

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...

Fundamentals of Computer Vision

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mat...

Kernel Methods in Computer Vision

Over the last years, kernel methods have established themselves as powerful tools for computer vision researchers as well as for practitioners. In this tutorial, we give an introduction to kernel methods in computer vision from a geometric ...

Federated Learning in Computer Vision

Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a novel machine learning paradigm allowing to preserve privacy and to account for the distributed nature of the learning process in many real-world settings. Computer vision tasks deal with hu...

Automated estimation of cementitious sorptivity via computer vision

Monitoring water uptake in cementitious systems is crucial to assess their durability against corrosion, salt attack, and freeze-thaw damage. However, gauging absorption currently relies on labor-intensive and infrequent weight measurements...

Real Time Eye Detector with Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks

An accurate and efficient eye detector is essential for many computer vision applications. In this paper, we present an efficient method to evaluate the eye location from facial images. First, a group of candidate regions with regional extr...

Lightweight Road Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Blind Guiding Scenarios

Image segmentation is a crucial technology for environmental perception, and it is widely used in various scenarios such as autonomous driving and virtual reality. With the rapid development of technology, computer vision-based blind guidin...

Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Density Estimation for Detecting Human Activity Patterns from Geo-Tagged Images: A Case Study of Birdwatching on Flickr

Thanks to recent advances in high-performance computing and deep learning, computer vision algorithms coupled with spatial analysis methods provide a unique opportunity for extracting human activity patterns from geo-tagged social media ima...

Sequential Normalization: Embracing Smaller Sample Sizes for Normalization

Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normaliz...

Learn Computer Vision Using OpenCV

Build practical applications of computer vision using the OpenCV library with Python. This book discusses different facets of computer vision such as image and object detection, tracking and motion analysis and their applications with examp...

Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Brief Review

Over the last years deep learning methods have been shown to outperform previous state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in several fields, with computer vision being one of the most prominent cases. This review paper provides a brief ...

Deep learning based computer vision approaches for smart agricultural applications

The agriculture industry is undergoing a rapid digital transformation and is growing powerful by the pillars of cutting-edge approaches like artificial intelligence and allied technologies. At the core of artificial intelligence, deep learn...