Academic Articles & Research Papers

A coarse to fine network for fast and accurate object detection in high‐resolution images

Abstract Because of the popularisation of high‐resolution images, detecting objects in these images quickly and accurately has attracted increasing attention in recent studies. Current convolutional neural networks (CNN)‐based detection met...

MaskDis R‐CNN: An instance segmentation algorithm with adversarial network for herd pigs

Abstract The current instance segmentation method can achieve satisfactory results in common scenarios. However, under the overlap or partial occlusion between targets caused by the complex scenes, accurate segmentation of pigs remains a ch...

A Systematic YOLO-Specific Model Selection for Mechanical Fault Identification in High-Voltage Insulators

Regular monitoring of outdoor insulators is crucial to ensure the reliable functioning of the power grid. With recent progress in computer vision technologies, traditional manual and expensive visual inspections can now be replaced by autom...

Implementation and Design of a Smart Pharmacy Automation System Using Raspberry Pi

Manual medication dispensing in pharmacies remains prone to human errors and is time-intensive, particularly under high patient loads, while existing commercial automation solutions are cost-prohibitive for small to medium-sized pharmacy se...

Early Termination of CU Partition Based on Boosting Neural Network for 3D-HEVC Inter-Coding

As an extension of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, the 3D-HEVC needs to encode multiple texture videos and depth maps components. In the 3D-HEVC inter-coding test model, a large variety of Coding Unit (CU) sizes are adopte...

Towards automated metaphase cell detection using foundation models: A SAM and DINO-based approach

Karyotyping is a widely used laboratory technique to detect abnormalities in chromosomes. Karyotyping consists of many steps, including collecting samples, cell culturing and metaphase cell detection. Cytogeneticists examine all the images ...

Artifact segmentation using the U-Net architecture for powder X-ray diffraction images

Modern synchrotron X-ray facilities generate X-ray diffraction (XRD) image data at rates that far exceed the capacity of manual analysis, yet critical processing steps such as artifact removal rely on human intervention. Rule-based algorith...

Deep-Learning based Melanoma Detection using Cloud Approach

The aim of computer vision techniquesand deep learning in the era of digitalization is to derive valuable insights from them and generate novel understanding. This makes it possible to employ imaging to quickly diagnose and treat a variety ...

Machine Vision and Canny Edge Detector–Based Printing Image Detection and Recognition Model

Traditional image detection and recognition models face issues such as high miss detection rates, low classification accuracy, and poor real-time performance when dealing with complex printing images, including defects and flaws. To address...

Real-Time Fire Detection From Video Surveillance Cameras: Where Are We Now?

Automatic fire detection in video surveillance is a critical capability for safeguarding industrial sites, public infrastructures, and natural environments. Although recent advances in deep learning have substantially improved early fire de...

Opportunities and challenges in training volunteer wildlife detection dog-handler teams for invasive plant monitoring.

Remote sensing image road network detection based on channel attention mechanism

Extracting and detecting road network consistency from high-resolution remote sensing images has been a hot and difficult problem in the computer vision. Although it has made significant progress, there is still a phenomenon of high trainin...

Convolutional-de-convolutional neural networks for recognition of surgical workflow

Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) has occupied an important position in modern surgery, further stimulating the progress of methodology and technology. In recent years, a large number of computer vision-based methods have been widely used in ...

Approaches to Improve the Quality of Person Re-Identification for Practical Use

The idea of the person re-identification (Re-ID) task is to find the person depicted in the query image among other images obtained from different cameras. Algorithms solving this task have important practical applications, such as illegal ...

A Lightweight Reconstruction Model via a Neural Network for a Video Super-Resolution Model

Super-resolution in image and video processing has been a challenge in computer vision, with its progression creating substantial societal ramifications. More specifically, video super-resolution methodologies aim to restore spatial details...

Evaluation of Modified FGSM-Based Data Augmentation Method for Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Classification

Computer vision applications demand a significant amount of data for effective training and inference in many computer vision tasks. However, data insufficiency situations usually happen due to multiple reasons, resulting in computational m...

Per-Sample Multiple Kernel Approach for Visual Concept Learning

Learning visual concepts from images is an important yet challenging problem in computer vision and multimedia research areas. Multiple kernel learning (MKL) methods have shown great advantages in visual concept learning. As a visual concep...

Sparse Representation for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Techniques from sparse signal representation are beginning to see significant impact in computer vision, often on nontraditional applications where the goal is not just to obtain a compact high-fidelity representation of the observed signal...

Deep Learning for Understanding Satellite Imagery: An Experimental Survey

Translating satellite imagery into maps requires intensive effort and time, especially leading to inaccurate maps of the affected regions during disaster and conflict. The combination of availability of recent datasets and advances in compu...

A Novel Mixed-Precision Quantization Approach for CNNs

Model size and inference speed have brought about major challenges for the deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in many applications. An effective approach to address this issue is model quantization, which achieves network co...