Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

DAPS3D: Domain Adaptive Projective Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds

LiDARs are one of the key sources of reliable environmental ranging information for autonomous vehicles. However, segmentation of 3D scene elements (roads, buildings, people, cars, etc.) based on LiDAR point clouds has limitations. On the o...

A Framework for Instantaneous Driver Drowsiness Detection Based on Improved HOG Features and Naïve Bayesian Classification

Due to their high distinctiveness, robustness to illumination and simple computation, Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features have attracted much attention and achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, ...

TRust Your GENerator (TRYGEN): Enhancing Out-of-Model Scope Detection

Recent research has drawn attention to the ambiguity surrounding the definition and learnability of Out-of-Distribution recognition. Although the original problem remains unsolved, the term “Out-of-Model Scope” detection offers a clearer pe...

Machine Learning in Computer Vision

During last few years the computer applications have gone dramatic transformation from simple data processing to machine learning, thanks to the availability and accessibility of huge volume of data collected through sensors and internet. T...

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...

Computer Vision and Image Processing

Emerging Trends in Autonomous Vehicle Perception: Multimodal Fusion for 3D Object Detection

The pursuit of autonomous driving relies on developing perception systems capable of making accurate, robust, and rapid decisions to interpret the driving environment effectively. Object detection is crucial for understanding the environmen...

Machine eye for defects: Machine learning-based solution to identify and characterize topological defects in textured images of nematic materials

Topological defects play a key role in the structures and dynamics of liquid crystals and other ordered systems. There is a recent interest in studying defects in different biological systems with distinct textures. However, a robust method...

Overcomplete graph convolutional denoising autoencoder for noisy skeleton action recognition

Abstract Current skeleton‐based action recognition methods usually assume the input skeleton is complete and noise‐free. However, it is inevitable that the captured skeletons are incomplete due to occlusions or noisy due to changes in the e...

Exploiting Three-Dimensional Gaze Tracking for Action Recognition During Bimanual Manipulation to Enhance Human–Robot Collaboration

Human–robot collaboration could be advanced by facilitating the intuitive, gaze-based control of robots, and enabling robots to recognize human actions, infer human intent, and plan actions that support human goals. Traditionally, gaze trac...

Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithms for Dog Breed Identification—A Comparative Analysis

Deep learning and computer vision algorithms will be applied to find the breed of the dog from an image. The goal is to have the user submit an image of a dog, and the model will choose one of the 120 breeds stated in the dataset to determi...

Parallax attention stereo matching network based on the improved group-wise correlation stereo network

Recent stereo matching methods, especially end-to-end deep stereo matching networks, have achieved remarkable performance in the fields of autonomous driving and depth sensing. However, state-of-the-art stereo algorithms, even with the deep...

Automated diabetic retinopathy grading and lesion detection based on the modified R‐FCN object‐detection algorithm

In this work, we develop a computer‐aided retinal image screening system that can perform automated diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading and DR lesion detection in retinal fundus images. We propose a modified object‐detection method for this t...

Automated harvesting by a dual-arm fruit harvesting robot

Abstract In this study, we propose a method to automate fruit harvesting with a fruit harvesting robot equipped with robotic arms. Given the future growth of the world population, food shortages are expected to accelerate. Since much of Jap...

Part‐level attention networks for cross‐domain person re‐identification

Abstract Person re‐identification (Re‐ID) is in significant demand for intelligent security and single or multiple‐target tracking. However, there are issues in the person Re‐ID tasks, such as sharp decline in cross‐data sets detection accu...

Multi-scale attention and collaborative fusion for enhanced RGB-D salient object detection in weld quality inspection

Abstract Salient object detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in computer vision by mimicking human visual attention to identify and segment the most prominent objects in a scene. The advent of depth sensing technologies has propelled RGB-D ...

Resource-Aware Scene Text Recognition Using Learned Features, Quantization, and Contour-Based Character Extraction

Scene texts serve as valuable information for humans and autonomous systems to make informed decisions. Processing scene texts poses significant difficulties for computer systems due to several factors, primarily due to variations in image ...

Improving Image Embeddings With Colour Features in Indoor Scene Geolocation

Embeddings remain the best way to represent image features, but do not always capture all latent information. This is still a problem in representation learning, and computer vision descriptors struggle with precision and accuracy. Improvin...

Potential of machine learning approaches for predicting mechanical properties of spruce wood in the transverse direction

Abstract To predict the mechanical properties of wood in the transverse direction, this study used machine learning to extract the anatomical features of wood from cross-sectional stereograms. Specimens with different orientations of the ra...