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Sensors for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 472

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Prof. Dr. Jose F. Velez

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Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan sn, Mostoles, 28922 Madrid, Spain
Interests: computer vision; software engineering; document recognition

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Sensors for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision”, collates original peer reviewed papers in the field of advanced sensors for pattern recognition and computer vision.

This Special Issue aims to explore various topics related to the use of sensors and the data they generate, both in pattern recognition and specifically in computer vision problems.

For instance, we welcome papers addressing innovations in image capture devices or image sequence capture in their different forms: 2D, 3D, visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, MRI, and more.

Papers presenting new image datasets obtained from innovative types of sensors, accompanied by descriptions of these sensors and the applications that process them, are also welcome to be submitted.

Papers that describe pattern recognition or computer vision applications incorporating sensors in novel ways are also of interest.

Additionally, papers discussing novel algorithms or models to enhance data captured by existing sensors, applied to pattern recognition problems in general or computer vision in particular, are encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Jose F. Velez
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • computer vision sensors
  • pattern recognition sensors
  • image data augmentation
  • image data enhancement
  • cameras (RGB, 3D, infrared, multispectral, X-ray, thermal)
  • lidar
  • scanners
  • MRI
  • ultrasonic sensors

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A System for Real-Time Detection of Abandoned Luggage
by Ivan Vrsalovic, Jonatan Lerga and Marina Ivasic-Kos
Sensors 2025, 25(9), 2872; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25092872 - 2 May 2025
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In this paper, we propose a system for the real-time automatic detection of abandoned luggage in an airport recorded by surveillance cameras. To do this, we use an adapted YOLOv11-s model and a proposed algorithm for detecting unattended luggage. The system uses the [...] Read more.
In this paper, we propose a system for the real-time automatic detection of abandoned luggage in an airport recorded by surveillance cameras. To do this, we use an adapted YOLOv11-s model and a proposed algorithm for detecting unattended luggage. The system uses the OpenCV library for the video processing of the recorded footage, a detector, and an algorithm that analyzes the movement of a person and their luggage and evaluates their spatial and temporal relationships to determine whether the luggage is truly abandoned. We used several popular deep convolutional neural network architectures for object detection, e.g., Yolov8, Yolov11, and DETR encoder–decoder transformer with a ResNet-50 deep convolutional backbone, we fine-tuned them on our dataset, and compared their performance in detecting people and luggage in surveillance scenes recorded by an airport surveillance camera. The fine-tuned model significantly improved the detection of people and luggage captured by the airport surveillance camera in our custom dataset. The fine-tuned YOLOv8 and YOLOv11 models achieved excellent real-time results on a challenging dataset consisting only of small and medium-sized objects. They achieved real-time precision (mAP) of over 88%, while their precision for medium-sized objects was over 96%. However, the YOLOv11-s model achieved the highest precision in detecting small objects, corresponding to 85.8%, which is why we selected it as a component of the abandoned luggage detection system. The abandoned luggage detection algorithm was tested in various scenarios where luggage may be left behind and in situations that may be potentially suspicious and showed promising results. Full article
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