Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Enhanced Computer Vision With Microsoft Kinect Sensor: A Review

With the invention of the low-cost Microsoft Kinect sensor, high-resolution depth and visual (RGB) sensing has become available for widespread use. The complementary nature of the depth and visual information provided by the Kinect sensor o...

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

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...

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...

The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop

Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spre...

TSER: A Two-Stage Character Segmentation Network With Two-Stream Attention and Edge Refinement

Segmenting characters in an image is a classic yet challenging task in computer vision. Correctly determining boundaries of adhesive characters with various scales and shapes is essential for character segmentation, especially for separatin...

Evaluation of quantization error in computer vision

Due to the important role that digitization error plays in the field of computer vision, a careful analysis of its impact on the computational approaches used in the field is necessary. The authors develop the mathematical tools for the com...

PAMPAS: real-valued graphical models for computer vision

Probabilistic models have been adopted for many computer vision applications, however inference in high-dimensional spaces remains problematic. As the state-space of a model grows, the dependencies between the dimensions lead to an exponent...

Algorithms for image processing and computer vision

A cookbook of algorithms for common image processing applications Thanks to advances in computer hardware and software, algorithms have been developed that support sophisticated image processing without requiring an extensive background in ...

Computer Vision: Models, Learning and Inference

A modern treatment focusing on learning and inference, with minimal prerequisites, real-world examples and implementable algorithms....

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...

Computer Vision in Healthcare Applications

The research of computer vision, imaging processing and pattern recognition has made substantial progress during the past several decades.Also, medical imaging has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its vital component in...

Adversarial Attack on Object Detection via Object Feature-Wise Attention and Perturbation Extraction

Deep neural networks are commonly used in computer vision tasks, but they are vulnerable to adversarial samples, resulting in poor recognition accuracy. Although traditional algorithms that craft adversarial samples have been effective in a...

Nighttime Image Enhancement: A Review of Topical Concepts

With the increasing spread of nighttime images and their importance in human lives, and the development of computer vision, producing images with the highest possible quality is paramount. Nighttime images have been improved over the past d...

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 ...

Discriminant Affinity Matrix for Deterministic Motion Trajectory Segmentation

We present a novel algorithm (DAM) for deterministic motion trajectory segmentation by using epipolar geometry and adaptive kernel-scale voting. DAM is based on geometric models and exploits the information derived from superpixels to deter...

A survey of public datasets for computer vision tasks in precision agriculture

Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial intelligence, computer vision enables various tasks from planting to harvesting in the crop pr...

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...