Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Monitoring pedestrian walking dynamics under environmental and policy influences in urban spaces

Abstract Understanding how environmental conditions and policy interventions jointly shape pedestrian mobility is essential for designing resilient, adaptive, and human-centered urban spaces. This study presents a computer-vision framework ...

Toward Automated Structural Design for Controlled Vibration Characteristics Using Topology Optimization and Computer Vision in Space Missions

This study explores the integration of computer vision with topology optimization for additive manufacturing, with a focus on maximizing eigenfrequency in a design domain. Utilizing custom-developed photogrammetry software, high-resolution ...

Survey on Videos Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Models

In most Computer Vision applications, Deep Learning models achieve state-of-the-art performances. One drawback of Deep Learning is the large amount of data needed to train the models. Unfortunately, in many applications, data are difficult ...

Computer Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision

This book describes the design of a complete, flexible system for perceptual organization in computer vision using graph theoretic techniques, voting methods, and an extension of the Bayesian networks called perceptual inference networks (P...

Generative-augmented multimodal neuroaffective decoding for product evaluation: toward neurofeedback-driven human-in-the-loop co-design.

Hardware and Software Optimizations for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks: Survey of Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep Learning (DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for medicine to autonomous driving of modern cars as well as other sectors in ...

Thangka Mural Line Drawing Based on Cross Dense Residual Architecture and Hard Pixel Balancing

Thangka murals are precious cultural heritage for Tibetan history, literature, and art. Digital line drawing of Thangka murals plays a vital role not only as an abstracted expression of Thangka for art appreciation but also as a fundamental...

Vision-Based Trajectory Generation and Kinematic Modeling for Human-like Grasp Reproduction in a Robotic Prosthetic Hand

The use of prosthetic devices can significantly improve the quality of life of individuals with limb amputations. However, existing prosthetic hands face multiple engineering and manufacturing challenges, making them economically inaccessib...

A lightweight fully convolutional neural network for efficient and accurate tunnel crack detection

Introduction: Crack damage is a significant issue in tunnel environments, requiring efficient and reliable detection to ensure structural integrity. Many existing solutions are computationally expensive, making them unsuitable for the tight...

Robot Comedy Lab: Experimenting with the Social Dynamics of Live Performance

The success of live comedy depends on a performer's ability to 'work' an audience. Ethnographic studies suggest that this involves the co-ordinated use of subtle social signals such as body orientation, gesture, gaze by both performers and ...

Computer Vision: A First Course

Computer vision is a new discipline recently developed from image processing, which is able to take raw images, and, after suitable processing, derive information from them automatically. Computer vision applications are legion in the areas...

Design, modeling, and validation of a computer-vision-enabled 3D-printed soft robotic glove for stroke telerehabilitation.

HawkEye: AI-Driven Software for Objective Analysis and Characterization of Nodular Cast Iron Microstructures

Metallographic evaluation of nodular cast iron is crucial for quality control in the foundry industry. Traditionally, this process relies on experts who visually interpret microscopic images. This study introduces HawkEye, a comprehensive s...

Application of Graph Structures in Computer Vision Tasks

On the one hand, the solution of computer vision tasks is associated with the development of various kinds of images or random fields mathematical models, i.e., algorithms, that are called traditional image processing. On the other hand, no...

Object detection in crowded scenes via joint prediction

Detecting highly-overlapped objects in crowded scenes remains a challenging problem, especially for one-stage detector. In this paper, we extricate YOLOv4 from the dilemma in a crowd by fine-tuning its detection scheme, named YOLO-CS. Speci...

Vehicle Ego-Trajectory Segmentation Using Guidance Cues

Computer vision has significantly influenced recent advancements in autonomous driving by providing cutting-edge solutions for various challenges, including object detection, semantic segmentation, and comprehensive scene understanding. One...

CAGD-based computer vision

The authors explore the connection between CAGD (computer-aided geometric design) and computer vision. A method for the automatic generation of recognition strategies based on the 3-D geometric properties of shape has been devised and imple...

Aphid-ResNetSwin: An Image Recognition Method with Improved Attention Mechanism for Graded Identification of <i>Myzus persicae</i>

Myzus persicae is the most devastating piercing-sucking pest threatening tobacco production. Precise quantification of infestation severity is a prerequisite for precision pest management, making the integration of visual image analysis hig...

Learning Feature Fusion in Deep Learning-Based Object Detector

Object detection in real images is a challenging problem in computer vision. Despite several advancements in detection and recognition techniques, robust and accurate localization of interesting objects in images from real-life scenarios re...