Academic Articles & Research Papers

Computer Vision Malaria Diagnostic Systems—Progress and Prospects

Accurate malaria diagnosis is critical to prevent malaria fatalities, curb overuse of antimalarial drugs, and promote appropriate management of other causes of fever. While several diagnostic tests exist, the need for a rapid and highly acc...

Clinician perspectives of an improvement bundle to improve integrated palliative care: a qualitative study.

Resting Posture Recognition Method for Suckling Piglets Based on Piglet Posture Recognition (PPR)–You Only Look Once

The resting postures of piglets are crucial indicators for assessing their health status and environmental comfort. This study proposes a resting posture recognition method for piglets during lactation based on the PPR-YOLO model, aiming to...

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...

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...

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 ...

Edge-intelligent lightweight vision system for perspective-corrected egg-cage matching in cage-reared ducks

In the stereoscopic cage-rearing system, monitoring the individual egg production of laying ducks is essential for identifying low-yield individuals and optimizing breeding management. To overcome the high deployment cost of multi-sensor mo...

AI and Chatbot-Supported Interventions for Physical Activity and Obesity-Related Lifestyle Behaviors: Scoping Review With Attention to Family Involvement

Abstract BackgroundAI-enabled chatbots and related conversational systems can facilitate human–computer interaction through natural language, personalization, and automated support. In pediatric health promotion, these tools hav...

Enhanced gradient learning for deep neural networks

Abstract Deep neural networks have achieved great success in both computer vision and natural language processing tasks. How to improve the gradient flows is crucial in training very deep neural networks. To address this challenge, a gradie...

Low illumination image enhancement algorithm of CycleGAN coal mine based on attention mechanism and Dilated convolution

The complex underground environment, filled with a large amount of dust and water vapor, and uneven illumination of artificial light source, leads to problems such as low illumination and loss of detail features in images collected by under...

Enhancing image caption generation through context-aware attention mechanism

Image captioning, the process of generating natural language descriptions based on image content, has garnered attention in AI research for its implications in scene understanding and human-computer interaction. While much prior research ha...

Assimilation of ASCAT Radar Backscatter Coefficients over Southwestern France

In this work, Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) backscatter data are directly assimilated into the interactions between soil, biosphere, and atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model using Meteo-France’s global Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS-M...

Boosting Neural Networks

Boosting is a general method for improving the performance of learning algorithms. A recently proposed boosting algorithm, AdaBoost, has been applied with great success to several benchmark machine learning problems using mainly decision tr...

Brain tumor grading based on Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks

This paper studies brain tumor grading using multiphase MRI images and compares the results with various configurations of deep learning structure and baseline Neural Networks. The MRI images are used directly into the learning machine, wit...

Controllable diffusion framework for imbalanced Phi OTDR events classification

Abstract The application of the $$\Phi$$ -OTDR (Phase-Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) system in real-time monitoring of power grid infrastructure has been proven effective in identifying and classifying various anomalies, such as digging...

Quantum Leap in Healthcare: A Comparative Analysis of AI/ML and Quantum Computing for Healthcare opportunities of the new era

The healthcare sector is undergoing rapid transformation driven by advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with quantum computing emerging as the next major breakthrough. This paper presents a comparative analysis of class...

Improving deep learning-based segmentation of diatoms in gigapixel-sized virtual slides by object-based tile positioning and object integrity constraint

Diatoms represent one of the morphologically and taxonomically most diverse groups of microscopic eukaryotes. Light microscopy-based taxonomic identification and enumeration of frustules, the silica shells of these microalgae, is broadly us...

Applications of Shaped-Charge Learning

It is well known that deep learning (DNN) has strong limitations due to a lack of explainability and weak defense against possible adversarial attacks. These attacks would be a concern for autonomous teams producing a state of high entropy ...