Academic Articles & Research Papers

Scale Accuracy Evaluation of Image-Based 3D Reconstruction Strategies Using Laser Photogrammetry

Rapid developments in the field of underwater photogrammetry have given scientists the ability to produce accurate 3-dimensional (3D) models which are now increasingly used in the representation and study of local areas of interest. This pa...

OmniVO: Toward Robust Omni Directional Visual Odometry With Multicamera Collaboration for Challenging Conditions

With the recent developments in computer vision, vision-based odometry plays an increasingly important role in the field of autonomous systems. However, using traditional visual odometry or simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) only...

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...

Up-to-Date Scoping Review of Object Detection Methods for Macro Marine Debris

Being able to accurately identify litter in a marine environment is crucial to cleaning up our seas and oceans. Research into object detection techniques to support this identification has been underway for over two decades. However, there ...

Cross-Attention Joint Denoising and Semantic Segmentation for Robust Image Analysis

Semantic segmentation assigns class labels at the pixel level, forming a key part of various computer vision applications, including autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics. However, segmentation accuracy often drops significantly...

AnimalTA: A highly flexible and easy‐to‐use program for tracking and analysing animal movement in different environments

Abstract Computer programs for video tracking of animal movement are evolving increasingly efficient, using complex algorithms or artificial intelligence systems. Despite the consequent progress in this field, researchers still face some fu...

From hypoxia to thrombosis: a hypothesis-driven framework for pulmonary embolism risk in deep underground environments.

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...

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...

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...

Computer vision technology in agricultural automation —A review

Computer vision is a field that involves making a machine “see”. This technology uses a camera and computer instead of the human eye to identify, track and measure targets for further image processing. With the development of computer visio...

A Flexible Object-of-Interest Annotation Framework for Online Video Portals

In this work, we address the use of object recognition techniques to annotate what is shown where in online video collections. These annotations are suitable to retrieve specific video scenes for object related text queries which is not pos...

Addressing practical challenge of using autopilot drone for asphalt surface monitoring: Road detection, segmentation, and following

According to the recent world bank report, around 80% of a life-cycle cost of a road is devoted to maintenance which includes monitoring and repair processes. To more effectively keep road serviceability, knowing the current status of road ...

Real-Time Weapon Detection and Suspect Face Capturing System Using YOLOv8

The rise of violent crimes involving sharp weapons and firearms in public spaces, including educational campuses, demands an automated real-time surveillance system to assist security personnel. This study proposes a web-based weapon detect...

Evaluation of Indoor Thermal Environments Using a Novel Predicted Mean Vote Model Based on Artificial Neural Networks

The assessment of indoor thermal environments is crucial to achieving thermal comfort and energy efficiency. However, the inaccurate evaluation and strong nonlinear variations of thermal comfort parameters limit engineering designs. Therefo...

An Introduction to Neural Networks

Though mathematical ideas underpin the study of neural networks, the author presents the fundamentals without the full mathematical apparatus. All aspects of the field are tackled, including artificial neurons as models of their real counte...

Research on Kalman Filter Fusion Navigation Algorithm Assisted by CNN-LSTM Neural Network

In response to the challenge of single navigation methods failing to meet the high precision requirements for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in complex environments, a novel algorithm that integrates Global Navigation Satellite Sy...

Dynamic Elliptical Shaping Control for Swarm Robots

Solving the robotic swarm coverage problem for an elliptical area has various applications for exploring novel environments. Solutions for this problem should cover a specified ellipse and seamlessly adapt to changing numbers of robots. Pre...

Providing a framework for designing electronic and virtual learning environments based on the principles and criteria of cognitive flexibility

Background and Objectives: In order to solve the problem of education in complex and unstructured domains, Spiro and his colleagues proposed the theory of cognitive flexibility, in which they advocated multiple forms of pedagogical models, ...

A Review of Deep Learning Applications in Intrusion Detection Systems: Overcoming Challenges in Spatiotemporal Feature Extraction and Data Imbalance

In the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and large-scale distributed networks, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) face significant challenges in handling complex spatiotemporal features and addressing data imbalance issues. T...