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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,675 Views
19 Pages

Log Volume Measurement and Counting Based on Improved Cascade Mask R-CNN and Deep SORT

  • Chunjiang Yu,
  • Yongke Sun,
  • Yong Cao,
  • Lei Liu and
  • Xiaotao Zhou

26 October 2024

Logs require multiple verifications to ensure accurate volume and quantity measurements. Log end detection is a crucial step in measuring log volume and counting logs. Currently, this task primarily relies on the Mask R-CNN instance segmentation mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,869 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2023

As the unique identifier of individual breeding pigs, the loss of ear tags can result in the loss of breeding pigs’ identity information, leading to data gaps and confusion in production and genetic breeding records, which can have catastrophic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Livestock Farming)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,309 Views
13 Pages

Automated Detection of Greenhouse Structures Using Cascade Mask R-CNN

  • Haeng Yeol Oh,
  • Muhammad Sarfraz Khan,
  • Seung Bae Jeon and
  • Myeong-Hun Jeong

30 May 2022

Automated detection of the content of images remains a challenging problem in artificial intelligence. Hence, continuous manual monitoring of restricted development zones is critical to maintaining territorial integrity and national security. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IMETI 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,721 Views
19 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Different Object Detection Models for the Segmentation of Optical Cups and Discs

  • Gendry Alfonso-Francia,
  • Jesus Carlos Pedraza-Ortega,
  • Mariana Badillo-Fernández,
  • Manuel Toledano-Ayala and ,
  • Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez,
  • Juvenal Rodriguez-Resendiz,
  • Seok-Bum Ko and
  • Saul Tovar-Arriaga
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2022

Glaucoma is an eye disease that gradually deteriorates vision. Much research focuses on extracting information from the optic disc and optic cup, the structure used for measuring the cup-to-disc ratio. These structures are commonly segmented with dee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Eye Disease – Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,520 Views
19 Pages

Cascade Network with Deformable Composite Backbone for Formula Detection in Scanned Document Images

  • Khurram Azeem Hashmi,
  • Alain Pagani,
  • Marcus Liwicki,
  • Didier Stricker and
  • Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

19 August 2021

This paper presents a novel architecture for detecting mathematical formulas in document images, which is an important step for reliable information extraction in several domains. Recently, Cascade Mask R-CNN networks have been introduced to solve ob...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,169 Views
19 Pages

7 June 2024

The instance segmentation model based on deep learning has addressed the challenges in intelligently detecting water leakage in shield tunneling. Due to the limited generalization ability of the baseline model, occurrences of missed detections, false...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry, Finite Element Analysis, and Intelligent Sensing and Monitoring: Applications in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
12,096 Views
22 Pages

Towards Robust Object Detection in Floor Plan Images: A Data Augmentation Approach

  • Shashank Mishra,
  • Khurram Azeem Hashmi,
  • Alain Pagani,
  • Marcus Liwicki and ,
  • Didier Stricker and
  • Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 November 2021

Object detection is one of the most critical tasks in the field of Computer vision. This task comprises identifying and localizing an object in the image. Architectural floor plans represent the layout of buildings and apartments. The floor plans con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,019 Views
23 Pages

CasTabDetectoRS: Cascade Network for Table Detection in Document Images with Recursive Feature Pyramid and Switchable Atrous Convolution

  • Khurram Azeem Hashmi,
  • Alain Pagani,
  • Marcus Liwicki,
  • Didier Stricker and
  • Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

16 October 2021

Table detection is a preliminary step in extracting reliable information from tables in scanned document images. We present CasTabDetectoRS, a novel end-to-end trainable table detection framework that operates on Cascade Mask R-CNN, including Recursi...

(This article belongs to the Section Document Analysis and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,303 Views
15 Pages

The utilization of ear tags for identifying breeding pigs is a widely used technique in the field of animal production. Ear tag dropout can lead to the loss of pig identity information, resulting in missing data and ambiguity in production management...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access

12 November 2026

Automatedvehicle damage assessment remains challenging because damaged regions frequently exhibit irregular geometries, diffuse boundaries, substantial scale variability, and limited visual separability between categories such as cracks and scratches...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks and Computer Vision, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Citations
20,069 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Swin Transformer-Based Model for Remote Sensing Object Detection and Instance Segmentation

  • Xiangkai Xu,
  • Zhejun Feng,
  • Changqing Cao,
  • Mengyuan Li and ,
  • Jin Wu,
  • Zengyan Wu,
  • Yajie Shang and
  • Shubing Ye
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 November 2021

Remote sensing image object detection and instance segmentation are widely valued research fields. A convolutional neural network (CNN) has shown defects in the object detection of remote sensing images. In recent years, the number of studies on tran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,322 Views
18 Pages

Branch Identification and Junction Points Location for Apple Trees Based on Deep Learning

  • Siyuan Tong,
  • Yang Yue,
  • Wenbin Li,
  • Yaxiong Wang and ,
  • Feng Kang and
  • Chao Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 September 2022

Branch identification is key to the robotic pruning system for apple trees. High identification accuracy and the positioning of junction points between branch and trunk are important prerequisites for pruning with a robotic arm. Recently, with the de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Farming with Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,776 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2025

The rapid expansion of the electric vehicle (EV) market has raised significant safety concerns, particularly regarding fires caused by the thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries. To address this issue, this study investigates the real-time fire det...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in Fire and Flame Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
8,384 Views
26 Pages

3 February 2021

By detecting the defect location in high-resolution insulator images collected by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in various environments, the occurrence of power failure can be timely detected and the caused economic loss can be reduced. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,216 Views
22 Pages

AIDCON: An Aerial Image Dataset and Benchmark for Construction Machinery

  • Ahmet Bahaddin Ersoz,
  • Onur Pekcan and
  • Emre Akbas

5 September 2024

Applying deep learning algorithms in the construction industry holds tremendous potential for enhancing site management, safety, and efficiency. The development of such algorithms necessitates a comprehensive and diverse image dataset. This study int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,044 Views
23 Pages

Rethinking Learnable Proposals for Graphical Object Detection in Scanned Document Images

  • Sankalp Sinha,
  • Khurram Azeem Hashmi,
  • Alain Pagani,
  • Marcus Liwicki and ,
  • Didier Stricker and
  • Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 October 2022

In the age of deep learning, researchers have looked at domain adaptation under the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm to leverage the gains in the natural image domain. These backbones and subsequent networks are designed for object detection in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,164 Views
26 Pages

Enhanced Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling Feature Fusion for Small Ship Instance Segmentation

  • Rabi Sharma,
  • Muhammad Saqib,
  • C. T. Lin and
  • Michael Blumenstein

21 November 2024

In the maritime environment, the instance segmentation of small ships is crucial. Small ships are characterized by their limited appearance, smaller size, and ships in distant locations in marine scenes. However, existing instance segmentation algori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,895 Views
25 Pages

4 July 2024

The accurate instance segmentation of individual crop plants is crucial for achieving a high-throughput phenotypic analysis of seedlings and smart field management in agriculture. Current crop monitoring techniques employing remote sensing predominan...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,599 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Instance Segmentation Method for Complex Elements of Farm UAV Aerial Survey Images

  • Feixiang Lv,
  • Taihong Zhang,
  • Yunjie Zhao,
  • Zhixin Yao and
  • Xinyu Cao

15 September 2024

Farm aerial survey layers can assist in unmanned farm operations, such as planning paths and early warnings. To address the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional layer construction, this study proposes a high-precision instance se...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,867 Views
16 Pages

Microbial Colony Detection Based on Deep Learning

  • Fan Yang,
  • Yongjie Zhong,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Yi Wan and ,
  • Zhuhua Hu and
  • Shengsen Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 September 2023

In clinical drug sensitivity experiments, it is necessary to plate culture pathogenic bacteria and pick suitable colonies for bacterial solution preparation, which is a process that is currently carried out completely by hand. Moreover, the problems...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine Learning and Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,830 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2023

In the pig farming environment, complex factors such as pig adhesion, occlusion, and changes in body posture pose significant challenges for segmenting multiple target pigs. To address these challenges, this study collected video data using a horizon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automated Monitoring of Livestock and Poultry with Machine Learning Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,431 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2024

Crack detection plays a critical role in ensuring road safety and maintenance. Traditional, manual, and semi-automatic detection methods have proven inefficient. Nowadays, the emergence of deep learning techniques has opened up new possibilities for...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,448 Views
19 Pages

The accurate assessment of Chinese bayberry (Myrica rubra) maturity is critical for intelligent harvesting. This study proposes a novel cascaded framework combining instance segmentation and multi-feature regression for accurate maturity detection. F...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Agriculture: Perception Technologies and Agricultural Equipment for Crop Production Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,712 Views
14 Pages

Partial Atrous Cascade R-CNN

  • Mofan Cheng,
  • Cien Fan,
  • Liqiong Chen,
  • Lian Zou and ,
  • Jiale Wang,
  • Yifeng Liu and
  • Hu Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Deep-learning-based segmentation methods have achieved excellent results. As two main tasks in computer vision, instance segmentation and semantic segmentation are closely related and mutually beneficial. Spatial context information from the semantic...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,345 Views
13 Pages

26 February 2025

Soldering of printed circuit board (PCB)-based surface-mounted assemblies is a critical process, and to enhance the accuracy of detecting their multi-targeted soldering defects, we propose an automated sample generation method that combines ControlNe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,515 Views
18 Pages

3 August 2019

Chassis assembly quality is a necessary step to improve product quality and yield. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of deep learning method, its application in product quality detection is increasingly extensive. The current limitations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,214 Views
24 Pages

CPISNet: Delving into Consistent Proposals of Instance Segmentation Network for High-Resolution Aerial Images

  • Xiangfeng Zeng,
  • Shunjun Wei,
  • Jinshan Wei,
  • Zichen Zhou and ,
  • Jun Shi,
  • Xiaoling Zhang and
  • Fan Fan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 July 2021

Instance segmentation of high-resolution aerial images is challenging when compared to object detection and semantic segmentation in remote sensing applications. It adopts boundary-aware mask predictions, instead of traditional bounding boxes, to loc...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
9,664 Views
24 Pages

HQ-ISNet: High-Quality Instance Segmentation for Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Hao Su,
  • Shunjun Wei,
  • Shan Liu,
  • Jiadian Liang and ,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Jun Shi and
  • Xiaoling Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 March 2020

Instance segmentation in high-resolution (HR) remote sensing imagery is one of the most challenging tasks and is more difficult than object detection and semantic segmentation tasks. It aims to predict class labels and pixel-wise instance masks to lo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,237 Views
26 Pages

Hybrid Architecture for Tight Sandstone: Automated Mineral Identification and Quantitative Petrology

  • Lanfang Dong,
  • Chenxu Sun,
  • Xiaolu Yu,
  • Xinming Zhang and ,
  • Menglian Chen and
  • Mingyang Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 September 2025

This study proposes an integrated computer vision system for automated petrological analysis of tight sandstone micro-structures. The system combines Zero-Shot Segmentation SAM (Segment Anything Model), Mask R-CNN (Region-Based Convolutional Neural N...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,307 Views
14 Pages

28 May 2024

In order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of multitarget detection of soldering defects on surface-mounted components in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) fabrication, we propose a sample generation method using Stable Diffusion Model and ControlNet,...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,583 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2024

Objects in cluttered environments may have similar sizes and shapes, which remains a huge challenge for robot grasping manipulation. The existing segmentation methods, such as Mask R-CNN and Yolo-v8, tend to lose the shape details of objects when dea...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,149 Views
14 Pages

Concurrent Learning Approach for Estimation of Pelvic Tilt from Anterior–Posterior Radiograph

  • Ata Jodeiri,
  • Hadi Seyedarabi,
  • Sebelan Danishvar,
  • Seyyed Hossein Shafiei and ,
  • Jafar Ganjpour Sales,
  • Moein Khoori,
  • Shakiba Rahimi and
  • Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Accurate and reliable estimation of the pelvic tilt is one of the essential pre-planning factors for total hip arthroplasty to prevent common post-operative complications such as implant impingement and dislocation. Inspired by the latest advances in...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
646 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2026

Center pivot irrigation systems (CPISs) are modern irrigation technologies that are widely installed and are strong indicators of intensified industrial agriculture and large-scale investment in agriculture. Currently, these systems are being increas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite-Based Remote Sensing for Land Cover and Land Use Mapping in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,250 Views
24 Pages

25 October 2025

Labor shortages in seedling nurseries, particularly in manual inspection and replanting, hinder operational efficiency despite advancements in automation. This study aims to develop a cost-effective, GPU-free machine vision system to automate the det...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Agriculture, Smart Farming and Crop Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,137 Views
18 Pages

23 March 2023

There are known limitations in mobile omnidirectional camera systems with an equirectangular projection in the wild, such as momentum-caused object distortion within images, partial occlusion and the effects of environmental settings. The localizatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,402 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2024

Blueberry fruit phenotypes are crucial agronomic trait indicators in blueberry breeding, and the number of fruits within the cluster, maturity, and compactness are important for evaluating blueberry harvesting methods and yield. However, the existing...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,173 Views
13 Pages

Particle Recognition on Transmission Electron Microscopy Images Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Catalytic Applications

  • Anna V. Nartova,
  • Mikhail Yu. Mashukov,
  • Ruslan R. Astakhov,
  • Vitalii Yu. Kudinov and ,
  • Andrey V. Matveev and
  • Alexey G. Okunev
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 January 2022

Recognition and measuring particles on microscopy images is an important part of many scientific studies, including catalytic investigations. In this paper, we present the results of the application of deep learning to the automated recognition of na...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue In-Situ Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Pollution Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,386 Views
16 Pages

Nanoparticle Recognition on Scanning Probe Microscopy Images Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

  • Alexey G. Okunev,
  • Mikhail Yu. Mashukov,
  • Anna V. Nartova and
  • Andrey V. Matveev

30 June 2020

Identifying, counting and measuring particles is an important component of many research studies. Images with particles are usually processed by hand using a software ruler. Automated processing, based on conventional image processing methods (edge d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Nanomaterials—Recent Advances in Nanomaterials for Energy and Catalysis)