Gaze-based interaction (GBI) techniques have been a popular subject of research in the last few decades. Among other applications, GBI can be used by persons with disabilities to perform everyday tasks, as a game interface, and can play a pivotal rol...
Camera-based mirror systems (CBMSs) are a relatively new technology in the automotive industry, and much of the United States’ medium- and heavy-duty commercial fleet has been reluctant to convert from standard glass, or “west coast&rdquo...
Visual inspection is an important task in manufacturing industries in order to evaluate the completeness and quality of manufactured products. An autonomous robot-guided inspection system was recently developed based on an offline programming (OLP) a...
This paper presents a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera-based displacement measurement system, specially based on the perspective distortion correction technique for the early detection of building destruction. The proposed PTZ-based vision system rotates t...
The concept of the “smart city” has emerged with the advancement of technology, but some facilities are not sufficiently intelligent, such as parking lots. Hence, this paper proposes an inexpensive and plug-to-play camera-based smart park...
In recent years, a steady increase in maritime business and annual container throughput has been recorded. To meet this growing demand, terminal operators worldwide are turning to automated container handling. For the automated operation of a crane,...
Determining the roughness of technical surfaces is an important task in many engineering disciplines. In civil engineering, for instance, the repair and reinforcement of building component parts (such as concrete structures) requires a certain surfac...
This paper introduces a new safety approach for Optical Wireless Power Transmission (OWPT), a technology that is integral to the new kinds of Wireless Power Transmission technology (WPT). It starts from the fundamental configuration of the current OW...
Assessment of respiratory function allows early detection of potential disorders in the respiratory system and provides useful information for medical management. There is a wide range of applications for breathing assessment, from measurement system...
In this study, we propose a single camera-based dual-channel near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging system that produces color and dual-channel NIR fluorescence images in real time. To simultaneously acquire color and dual-channel NIR fluorescence...
This paper introduces a novel approach to addressing the challenge of accurately timing short distance runs, a critical aspect in the assessment of athletic performance. Electronic photoelectric barriers, although recognized for their dependability a...
Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks are a prom...
The roughness of a surface is a decisive parameter of a material. In rehabilitation of concrete structures, for example, it significantly affects the adhesion between the coating material and the base concrete. However, the standard measurement proce...
Various gait parameters can be used to assess the risk of falling in older adults. However, the state-of-the-art systems used to quantify gait parameters often come with high costs as well as training and space requirements. Gait analysis systems, wh...
One of the most important parameters to be controlled during the production of textile yarns obtained by mixing pre-colored fibers, is the color correspondence between the manufactured yarn and a given reference, usually provided by a designer or a c...
In recent years, the advancement of micro-aerial vehicles has been rapid, leading to their widespread utilization across various domains due to their adaptability and efficiency. This research paper focuses on the development of a camera-based tracki...
One of the recent news headlines is that a pedestrian was killed by an autonomous vehicle because safety features in this vehicle did not detect an object on a road correctly. Due to this accident, some global automobile companies announced plans to...
Optical Wireless Power Transmission (OWPT) holds a significant position for enabling cable-free energy delivery in long-distance, high-energy, and mobile scenarios. However, ensuring human and equipment safety under high-power laser exposure remains...
This paper focuses on a method of rearview camera-based blind-spot detection and a lane change assistance system for autonomous vehicles, utilizing a convolutional neural network and lane detection. In this study, we propose a method for providing re...
Automated crop monitoring using image analysis is commonly used in horticulture. Image-processing technologies have been used in several studies to monitor growth, determine harvest time, and estimate yield. However, accurate monitoring of flowers an...
A two-dimensional (2-D) camera system with a real-time image processing-based safety technology is a cost-effective alternative that needs optimization of the cell layout, the number of cameras, and the camera’s locations and orientations. A de...
Automatic passenger counting (APC) systems in public transport are useful in collecting information that can help improve the efficiency of transport networks. Focusing on video-based passenger counting, the aim of this study was to evaluate and comp...
Visible light and infrared bands of the optical spectrum used for optical camera communication (OCC) are becoming a promising technology nowadays. Researchers are proposing new OCC-based architectures and applications in both indoor and outdoor syste...
With the active development of mobile devices, a variety of ultra-small, high-definition, and open platform-based cameras are being mass-produced. In this paper, we established an emulation system to verify the bio-imaging performance of the bulky an...
Visible light technology presents significant advancement for indoor IoT applications. These systems offer enhanced bit rate transmission, enabling faster and reliable data transfer. Moreover, optical-based visible light systems facilitate improved l...
Despite significant advances in the development of high-resolution digital cameras in the last couple of decades, their potential remains largely unexplored in the context of input-output modal identification. However, these remote sensors could grea...
Patients with the COVID-19 condition require frequent and accurate blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring. The existing pulse oximeters, however, require contact-based measurement using clips or otherwise fixed sensor units or need dedicated hardw...
To reduce the cost of inspecting old sewer pipes, we have been developing a low-cost sewer inspection system that uses drifting wireless cameras to record videos of the interior of a sewer pipe while drifting. The video’s data are transmitted t...
Hereditary Amyloidosis associated with variant Transthyretin (ATTRv Amyloidosis) is a progressive and highly disabling neurological disorder that affects gait. Quantitative motion analysis is useful for assessing motor function, including gait, in di...
Vision-based perception modules are increasingly deployed in many applications, especially autonomous vehicles and intelligent robots. These modules are being used to acquire information about the surroundings and identify obstacles. Hence, accurate...
Coastal video monitoring has proven to be a valuable ground-based technique to investigate ocean processes. Presently, there is a growing need for automatic, technically efficient, and inexpensive solutions for image processing. Moreover, beach and c...
Drafting involves cycling so close behind another person that wind resistance is significantly reduced, which is illegal during most long distance and several short distance triathlon and duathlon events. In this paper, a proof of concept for a draft...
A number of studies have been conducted to enhance the pedestrian detection accuracy of intelligent surveillance systems. However, detecting pedestrians under outdoor conditions is a challenging problem due to the varying lighting, shadows, and occlu...
In this paper, we addressed the challenges in sorting high-yield apple cultivars that traditionally relied on manual labor or system-based defect detection. Existing single-camera methods failed to uniformly capture the entire surface of apples, pote...
Positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the most advanced imaging diagnostic devices in the medical field, playing a crucial role in tumor diagnosis and treatment. However, patient motion during scanning can lead to motion artifacts, which affec...
Falls are the leading cause of injury and death in elderly individuals. Unfortunately, fall detectors are typically based on wearable devices, and the elderly often forget to wear them. In addition, fall detectors based on artificial vision are not y...
A major problem related to chronic health is patients’ “compliance” with new lifestyle changes, medical prescriptions, recommendations, or restrictions. Heart-failure and hemodialysis patients are usually placed on fluid restrictions due to their hem...
In this work, we present a multi-camera surveillance system based on the use of self-organizing neural networks to represent events on video. The system processes several tasks in parallel using GPUs (graphic processor units). It addresses multiple v...
The linear array push broom imaging mode is widely used for high resolution optical satellites (HROS). Using double-cameras attached by a high-rigidity support along with push broom imaging is one method to enlarge the field of view while ensuring hi...
The alignment problem of a rotating optical measurement system composed of a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera and a turntable is discussed. The motion trajectory model of the optical center (or projection center in the computer vision) of a camera...
This research presents a study on enhancing the localization and orientation accuracy of indoor Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) operating under a centralized, camera-based control system. We investigate and compare the performance of two Extended K...
Ensuring that older adults perform chair-based exercises (CBEs) correctly is essential for improving physical outcomes and reducing the risk of injury, particularly in home and community rehabilitation settings. However, evaluating the correctness of...
To address suboptimal throughput performance in conventional intelligent apple harvesting systems predominantly employing single manipulators, a dual-arm harvesting robot prototype was engineered. Leveraging the AUBO-i5 manipulator framework and kine...
Advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) are critical for automotive safety. They rely on various sensors (especially with an increasing reliance on visual sensors to meet evolving safety standards) to capture relevant environmental data. The vali...
Stroke survivors often suffer from movement impairments that significantly affect their daily activities. The advancements in sensor technology and IoT have provided opportunities to automate the assessment and rehabilitation process for stroke survi...
In this article, we propose a method for automatic calibration of a LiDAR–camera system, which can be used in autonomous cars. This approach does not require any calibration pattern, as calibration is only based on real traffic scenes observed...
At present, there is a problem that the measurement accuracy and measurement range cannot be balanced in the measurement of shaft diameter by the machine vision method. In this paper, we propose a large-scale shaft diameter precision measurement meth...
The present paper proposes a smartphone-camera-based system to assist visually impaired users in recalling their memories related to important locations, called spots, that they visited. The memories are recorded as voice memos, which can be played b...
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is one of the most remarkable inventions of the last 100 years. Much research has been invested in the development of this flying robot. The landing system is one of the more challenging aspects of this system’...
Image-based localization is one of the most widely researched localization techniques in the robotics and computer vision communities. As enormous image data sets are provided through the Internet, many studies on estimating a location with a pre-bui...
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