Academic Articles & Research Papers

Lightweight Road Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Blind Guiding Scenarios

Image segmentation is a crucial technology for environmental perception, and it is widely used in various scenarios such as autonomous driving and virtual reality. With the rapid development of technology, computer vision-based blind guidin...

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...

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...

AN IMPROVED MASK R-CNN: EXTRACTION OF DOOR AND WINDOW INSTANCES ON VILLAGE BUILDING FAÇADE IMAGES

Rapid access to the basic structure of village buildings is conducive to the investigation of the load-bearing bodies of village houses and provides data support for disaster assessment and post-disaster rescue and reconstruction. The devel...

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...

Enhancing medical image segmentation with HCE-Net: A heterogeneous feature collaborative extraction network.

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...

UAC-Net: a unified multi-task network with aggregated contextual attention and cross-layer fusion for brain tumor segmentation and classification.

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...

Automated Cell Foreground–Background Segmentation with Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images: An Alternative to Machine Learning Segmentation Methods with Small-Scale Data

Cell segmentation is a critical step for image-based experimental analysis. Existing cell segmentation methods are neither entirely automated nor perform well under basic laboratory microscopy. This study proposes an efficient and automated...

Fruits and vegetables quality evaluation using computer vision: A review

In agriculture science, automation increases the quality, economic growth and productivity of the country. The export market and quality evaluation are affected by assorting of fruits and vegetables. The crucial sensory characteristic of fr...

Computer vision algorithms and hardware implementations: A survey

The field of computer vision is experiencing a great-leap-forward development today. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the recent progress on computer vision algorithms and their corresponding hardware implementations. ...

Computer Vision Techniques in Manufacturing

Computer vision techniques have played an important role in promoting the informatization, digitization and intelligence of industrial manufacturing systems. Considering the rapid development of computer vision techniques, we present a comp...

Automatic building detection and land use classification in urban areas using multispectral high-spatial resolution imagery and LiDAR data

Urban areas areimportant environments, accounting for approximately half the population of theworld. Cities attract residents partly because they offer ample opportunitiesfor development, which often results in urban sprawl and its complex ...

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...

Adversarial robustness of deep learning-based thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound.

Role of Smart Image Segmentation in Infection Diagnosis and Monitoring of Acute Surgical Wounds

Background/Purpose: There are challenges in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for acute wound healing assessment due to limited data availability, the dynamic nature of healing, and inter-patient variability. These challenges require fu...

Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Computer Vision: A Review of Techniques

Hand gestures are a form of nonverbal communication that can be used in several fields such as communication between deaf-mute people, robot control, human-computer interaction (HCI), home automation and medical applications. Research paper...

Annotated dataset for retinal fundus image segmentation: vascular arcade and optic nerve head.