Academic Articles & Research Papers

Long distance high precision positioning system of anchor digger

Aiming at the problems of high labor intensity, low degree of automation and low positioning accuracy of single way in the construction process of existing coal mine anchor digging machine, a long-distance positioning system suitable for an...

Multi-Camera Machine Vision for Detecting and Analyzing Vehicle–Pedestrian Conflicts at Signalized Intersections: Deep Neural-Based Pose Estimation Algorithms

Over the past decade, researchers have advanced traffic monitoring using surveillance cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), loop detectors, LiDAR, microwave sensors, and sensor fusion. These technologies effectively detect and track veh...

Very large‐scale integration architecture for video stabilisation and implementation on a field programmable gate array‐based autonomous vehicle

Autonomous vehicles engaged in terrain exploration are typically equipped with a camera. The camera is subjected to vibration as the vehicle moves so that the videos captured require stabilisation to facilitate accurate interpretation by re...

Displacement and Illumination Levels Effect on Short-distance Measurement Errors of Using a Camera

Using a camera for measurement reading is simplified through the incorporation of computer vision application. The variations in the environment’s setting, however, may constitute to the occurrence of measurement errors. A study investigate...

RGB-D Tracking and Optimal Perception of Deformable Objects

Addressing the perception problem of texture-less objects that undergo large deformations and movements, this article presents a novel RGB-D learning-free deformable object tracker in combination with a camera position optimisation system f...

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and...

Computer vision vs. human vision

In object recognition (classification), it was known that the human brain processes visual information in semantic space mainly, that is, extracting the semantically meaningful features such as line-segments, boundaries, shape and so on. Bu...

Cross-Correlation-Based Structural System Identification Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...

A Complete System for Automated Semantic–Geometric Mapping of Corrosion in Industrial Environments

Corrosion, a naturally occurring process leading to the deterioration of metallic materials, demands diligent detection for quality control and the preservation of metal-based objects, especially within industrial contexts. Traditional tech...

Deep learning based computer vision approaches for smart agricultural applications

The agriculture industry is undergoing a rapid digital transformation and is growing powerful by the pillars of cutting-edge approaches like artificial intelligence and allied technologies. At the core of artificial intelligence, deep learn...

An Introduction to 3D Computer Vision Techniques and Algorithms

present basic low-level image processing operations for image matching, including a separate chapter on image matching algorithms; \n explain scale-space vision, as well as space reconstruction and multiview integration; \n demonstrate a va...

High Performance GPU Strategies for Real-Time In-Cabin Monitoring

With the expeditious advancement in multicarrier automotive in-vehicle monitoring for a bus conforming environment with computer vision, there is an exigency for a setup subsisting on inspection cameras and an onboard embedded computing dev...

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...

Performance Analysis of the SIFT Operator for Automatic Feature Extraction and Matching in Photogrammetric Applications

In the photogrammetry field, interest in region detectors, which are widely used in Computer Vision, is quickly increasing due to the availability of new techniques. Images acquired by Mobile Mapping Technology, Oblique Photogrammetric Came...

Calibration and Orientation of Cameras in Computer Vision

One of my greatest hates is the edited book with chapters from a number of different authors, some of which have evidently been written in haste against the final deadline, and most of which show marked divergence of content, opinion, notat...

Validation of Single-Camera MediaPipe BlazePose for Knee Joint Angle Measurement Across Multiple Functional Tasks: Concurrent Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Exploratory Test-Retest Reliability Study.

Image Motion Extraction of Structures Using Computer Vision Techniques: A Comparative Study

Vibrational measurements play an important role for structural health monitoring, e.g., modal extraction and damage diagnosis. Moreover, conditions of civil structures can be mostly assessed by displacement responses. However, installing di...

Autonomous Robotic Platform for Precision Viticulture: Integrated Mobility, Multimodal Sensing, and AI-Based Leaf Sampling

Viticulture is facing growing economic and environmental pressures that demand a transition toward intelligent and autonomous crop management systems. Phytopathologies remain one of the most critical threats, causing substantial yield losse...

A Self-Adaptive Traffic Signal System Integrating Real-Time Vehicle Detection and License Plate Recognition for Enhanced Traffic Management

Traffic management systems play a crucial role in smart cities, especially because increasing urban populations lead to higher traffic volumes on roads. This results in increased congestion at intersections, causing delays and traffic viola...

Global Calibration of Multiple Cameras Based on Sphere Targets

Global calibration methods for multi-camera system are critical to the accuracy of vision measurement. Proposed in this paper is such a method based on several groups of sphere targets and a precision auxiliary camera. Each camera to be cal...