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  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,530 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2019

Digital elevation models (DEMs) are an important information source for spatial modeling. However, data voids, which commonly exist in regions with rugged topography, result in incomplete DEM products, and thus significantly degrade DEM data quality....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,998 Views
17 Pages

3D Quantitative Characterization of Fractures and Cavities in Digital Outcrop Texture Model Based on Lidar

  • Bo Liang,
  • Yuangang Liu,
  • Yanlin Shao,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Naidan Zhang and
  • Shaohua Li

22 February 2022

The combination of lidar and digital photography provides a new technology for creating a high-resolution 3D digital outcrop model. The digital outcrop model can accurately and conveniently depict the surface 3D properties of an outcrop profile, maki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
14 Pages

Deep learning has shown significant advantages over traditional spatial interpolation methods in single image super-resolution (SISR). Recently, many studies have applied super-resolution (SR) methods to generate high-resolution (HR) digital bathymet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,443 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2022

Pavement surface texture is one of the prevailing factors for friction realization on pavement surfaces. In this paper, an overview of pavement texture properties related to the pavement frictional response is given. Image analysis methods used for p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,837 Views
14 Pages

Incorporating Surface Elevation Information in UAV Multispectral Images for Mapping Weed Patches

  • Theodota Zisi,
  • Thomas K. Alexandridis,
  • Spyridon Kaplanis,
  • Ioannis Navrozidis,
  • Afroditi-Alexandra Tamouridou,
  • Anastasia Lagopodi,
  • Dimitrios Moshou and
  • Vasilios Polychronos

9 November 2018

Accurate mapping of weed distribution within a field is a first step towards effective weed management. The aim of this work was to improve the mapping of milk thistle (Silybum marianum) weed patches through unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,487 Views
27 Pages

Geometric and Colour Data Fusion for Outdoor 3D Models

  • Pilar Merchán,
  • Antonio Adán,
  • Santiago Salamanca,
  • Vicente Domínguez and
  • Ricardo Chacón

25 May 2012

This paper deals with the generation of accurate, dense and coloured 3D models of outdoor scenarios from scanners. This is a challenging research field in which several problems still remain unsolved. In particular, the process of 3D model creation i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,421 Views
20 Pages

Advances in Thermal Image Analysis for the Detection of Pregnancy in Horses Using Infrared Thermography

  • Małgorzata Domino,
  • Marta Borowska,
  • Natalia Kozłowska,
  • Łukasz Zdrojkowski,
  • Tomasz Jasiński,
  • Graham Smyth and
  • Małgorzata Maśko

28 December 2021

Infrared thermography (IRT) was applied as a potentially useful tool in the detection of pregnancy in equids, especially native or wildlife. IRT measures heat emission from the body surface, which increases with the progression of pregnancy as blood...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,728 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2025

Three-dimensional printing, or additive manufacturing, produces three-dimensional objects using a digital model. Its utilisation has been observed across various industries, including the food industry. Technology offers a wide range of possibilities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
626 Views
28 Pages

25 September 2025

Accurately predicting soil particle size fractions (PSFs) and classifying soil texture types are essential for soil resource assessment and sustainable land management. PSFs, comprising clay, silt, and sand, form a compositional dataset constrained t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
13,134 Views
26 Pages

2 July 2020

The increasing efforts in developing smart city concepts are often coupled with three-dimensional (3D) modeling of envisioned designs. Such conceptual designs and planning are multi-disciplinary in their nature. Realistic implementations must include...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,020 Views
29 Pages

Detection and Analysis of Degree of Maize Lodging Using UAV-RGB Image Multi-Feature Factors and Various Classification Methods

  • Zixu Wang,
  • Chenwei Nie,
  • Hongwu Wang,
  • Yong Ao,
  • Xiuliang Jin,
  • Xun Yu,
  • Yi Bai,
  • Yadong Liu,
  • Mingchao Shao and
  • Nuremanguli Tuohuti
  • + 3 authors

Maize (Zea mays L.), one of the most important agricultural crops in the world, which can be devastated by lodging, which can strike maize during its growing season. Maize lodging affects not only the yield but also the quality of its kernels. The id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,771 Views
19 Pages

Extraction of Terraces on the Loess Plateau from High-Resolution DEMs and Imagery Utilizing Object-Based Image Analysis

  • Hanqing Zhao,
  • Xuan Fang,
  • Hu Ding,
  • Strobl Josef,
  • Liyang Xiong,
  • Jiaming Na and
  • Guoan Tang

Abstract: Terraces are typical artificial landforms on the Loess Plateau, with ecological functions in water and soil conservation, agricultural production, and biodiversity. Recording the spatial distribution of terraces is the basis of monitoring t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,965 Views
23 Pages

A Digital Twin for Friction Prediction in Dynamic Rubber Applications with Surface Textures

  • Valentina Zambrano,
  • Markus Brase,
  • Belén Hernández-Gascón,
  • Matthias Wangenheim,
  • Leticia A. Gracia,
  • Ismael Viejo,
  • Salvador Izquierdo and
  • José Ramón Valdés

Surface texturing is an effective method to reduce friction without the need to change materials. In this study, surface textures were transferred to rubber samples in the form of dimples, using a novel laser surface texturing (LST)—based texturing d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
284 Views
19 Pages

Machine Learning-Driven SPAD Estimation from RGB Images via Color–Texture Fusion and Its Correlation with Potassium Levels in Walnut Seedlings

  • Jiahui Qi,
  • Qiuhao Xia,
  • Jiaxing Chen,
  • Yerhazi Yerzati,
  • Yangyang Ding,
  • Miaomiao Zhao,
  • Jingyu Zhao,
  • Kai Qiang,
  • Zhongzhong Guo and
  • Rui Zhang

28 February 2026

Rapid, non-destructive estimation of leaf chlorophyll content (SPAD) is crucial for assessing plant photosynthetic health and nutrient status. However, conventional methods rely on specialized instruments (e.g., SPAD meters and hyperspectral sensors)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,222 Views
25 Pages

Digital Mapping of Topsoil Texture Classes Using a Hybridized Classical Statistics–Artificial Neural Networks Approach and Relief Data

  • Sina Mallah,
  • Bahareh Delsouz Khaki,
  • Naser Davatgar,
  • Raul Roberto Poppiel and
  • José A. M. Demattê

The demand for high quality and low-cost spatial distribution information of soil texture classes (STCs) is of great necessity in developing countries. This paper explored digital mapping of topsoil STCs using soil fractions, terrain attributes and a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,139 Views
6 Pages

In the case of cucumber, postharvest challenges may focus on preserving the high quality and extending the shelf-life of the fruit. Digital image analysis provides objective information about the quality of food products and the changes in their prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,477 Views
13 Pages

Glioma Grading via Analysis of Digital Pathology Images Using Machine Learning

  • Saima Rathore,
  • Tamim Niazi,
  • Muhammad Aksam Iftikhar and
  • Ahmad Chaddad

2 March 2020

Cancer pathology reflects disease progression (or regression) and associated molecular characteristics, and provides rich phenotypic information that is predictive of cancer grade and has potential implications in treatment planning and prognosis. Ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,238 Views
19 Pages

DualNetIQ: Texture-Insensitive Image Quality Assessment with Dual Multi-Scale Feature Maps

  • Adel Agamy,
  • Hossam Mady,
  • Hamada Esmaiel,
  • Abdulrahman Al Ayidh,
  • Abdelmageed Mohamed Aly and
  • Mohamed Abdel-Nasser

The precise assessment of image quality that matches human perception is still a major challenge in the field of digital imaging. Digital images play a crucial role in many technological and media applications. The existing deep convolutional neural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,371 Views
21 Pages

Soil texture, defined by the proportions of sand, silt, and clay particles in the soil, is one of the most essential physical properties of soil. High-resolution soil texture data can provide critical parameter support for soil hydrological modeling,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,222 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2024

Adversarial attacks that mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) into making incorrect predictions can also be implemented in the physical world. However, most of the existing adversarial camouflage textures that attack object detection models only consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,655 Views
16 Pages

Winter Wheat Yield Estimation with Color Index Fusion Texture Feature

  • Fuqin Yang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jiayu Yan,
  • Lixiao Guo,
  • Jianxin Tan,
  • Xiangfei Meng,
  • Yibo Xiao and
  • Haikuan Feng

The rapid and accurate estimation of crop yield is of great importance for large-scale agricultural production and national food security. Using winter wheat as the research object, the effects of color indexes, texture feature and fusion index on yi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
210 Citations
13,093 Views
21 Pages

Combining Color Indices and Textures of UAV-Based Digital Imagery for Rice LAI Estimation

  • Songyang Li,
  • Fei Yuan,
  • Syed Tahir Ata-UI-Karim,
  • Hengbiao Zheng,
  • Tao Cheng,
  • Xiaojun Liu,
  • Yongchao Tian,
  • Yan Zhu,
  • Weixing Cao and
  • Qiang Cao

26 July 2019

Leaf area index (LAI) is a fundamental indicator of plant growth status in agronomic and environmental studies. Due to rapid advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and sensor technologies, UAV-based remote sensing is emerging as a promising soluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,933 Views
12 Pages

Different Techniques of Creating Bone Digital 3D Models from Natural Specimens

  • Edgars Edelmers,
  • Dzintra Kazoka,
  • Katrina Bolocko and
  • Mara Pilmane

The choice of technique for the creation of a 3D digital human bone model from natural specimens has a critical impact on the final result and usability of the obtained model. The cornerstone factor in 3D modeling is the number of faces of polygon me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,183 Views
20 Pages

Using Constrained K-Means Clustering for Soil Texture Mapping with Limited Soil Samples

  • Fubin Zhu,
  • Changda Zhu,
  • Zihan Fang,
  • Wenhao Lu and
  • Jianjun Pan

17 May 2025

Soil texture is one of the most important physical properties of soil and plays a crucial role in determining its suitability for crop cultivation. Currently, supervised classification machine learning methods are most commonly used in digital soil m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,375 Views
18 Pages

4 October 2025

This paper proposes a multi-sensor data-fusion-based method for real-scene 3D reconstruction and digital twin visualization of coal mine tunnels, aiming to address issues such as low accuracy in non-photorealistic modeling and difficulties in feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,518 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2025

Digital core refers to the use of three-dimensional physical imaging equipment and mathematical modeling to image the internal microstructure of a core and the use of computers to study the connectivity and pore distribution of the core microstructur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,187 Views
19 Pages

Fast Self-Adaptive Digital Camouflage Design Method Based on Deep Learning

  • Houdi Xiao,
  • Zhipeng Qu,
  • Mingyun Lv,
  • Yi Jiang,
  • Chuanzhi Wang and
  • Ruiru Qin

30 July 2020

Traditional digital camouflage is mainly designed for a single background and state. Its camouflage performance is appealing in the specified time and place, but with the change of place, season, and time, its camouflage performance is greatly weaken...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,275 Views
19 Pages

Estimation of Soil Salinity by Combining Spectral and Texture Information from UAV Multispectral Images in the Tarim River Basin, China

  • Jiaxiang Zhai,
  • Nan Wang,
  • Bifeng Hu,
  • Jianwen Han,
  • Chunhui Feng,
  • Jie Peng,
  • Defang Luo and
  • Zhou Shi

1 October 2024

Texture features have been consistently overlooked in digital soil mapping, especially in soil salinization mapping. This study aims to clarify how to leverage texture information for monitoring soil salinization through remote sensing techniques. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,438 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2020

Laser technologies for fast prototyping using metal powder-based materials allow for faster production of prototype constructions actually used in the tooling industry. This paper presents the results of measurements on the surface texture of flat sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
4,219 Views
26 Pages

True2 Orthoimage Map Generation

  • Guoqing Zhou,
  • Qingyang Wang,
  • Yongsheng Huang,
  • Jin Tian,
  • Haoran Li and
  • Yuefeng Wang

4 September 2022

Digital/true orthoimage maps (D/TOMs) are one of the most important forms of national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI). The traditional generation of D/TOM is to orthorectify an aerial image into its upright and correct position by deleting displac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,734 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2020

3D reconstruction of culture artifacts has great potential in digital heritage documentation and protection. Choosing the proper images for texture mapping from multi-view images is a major challenge for high precision and high quality 3D reconstruct...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
7 Pages

1 November 2022

Stone inscriptions and archaeological structures are an asset to humankind which contain the history of the past. Estampage is the traditional method used to obtain the replica of the inscriptions which is primarily used to decrypt texts and for docu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,939 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2021

Creating accurate digital maps of the agrochemical properties of soils on a field scale with a limited data set is a problem that slows down the introduction of precision farming. The use of machine learning methods based on the use of direct and ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
7,352 Views
22 Pages

6 February 2021

Rapid and accurate crop aboveground biomass estimation is beneficial for high-throughput phenotyping and site-specific field management. This study explored the utility of high-definition digital images acquired by a low-flying unmanned aerial vehicl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,433 Views
24 Pages

Selection of Image Texture Analysis and Color Model in the Advanced Image Processing of Thermal Images of Horses following Exercise

  • Małgorzata Domino,
  • Marta Borowska,
  • Natalia Kozłowska,
  • Anna Trojakowska,
  • Łukasz Zdrojkowski,
  • Tomasz Jasiński,
  • Graham Smyth and
  • Małgorzata Maśko

12 February 2022

As the detection of horse state after exercise is constantly developing, a link between blood biomarkers and infrared thermography (IRT) was investigated using advanced image texture analysis. The aim of the study was to determine which combinations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,600 Views
19 Pages

To study the effects of rock models with different fractal dimensions on their mechanical properties and fracture behavior, three representative numerical rock models, including the digital texture model, the Voronoi polygon model, and the Weibull di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,420 Views
15 Pages

22 September 2023

Understanding the movement, direction, and shape of sand dunes can contribute to reducing their impact on infrastructure and the environment. The Rub’ al Khali desert has a distribution of dune types. This study aims to identify and map the dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,469 Views
27 Pages

To address the challenge of rapid geometric model development in the digital twin industry, this paper presents a comprehensive pipeline for constructing 3D models from images using monocular vision imaging principles. Firstly, a structure-from-motio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,329 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2021

The work described in the paper emphasizes the importance of integrating imagery and laser scanner techniques (TLS) to optimize the geometry and visual quality of Heritage BIM. The fusion-based workflow was approached during the recording of Zee Ain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,149 Views
11 Pages

Modeling of Texture and Starch Retrogradation of High-in-Fiber Bread Using Response Surface Methodology

  • Jarosław Wyrwisz,
  • Małgorzata Moczkowska-Wyrwisz and
  • Marcin A. Kurek

12 December 2024

The texture of bakery products is considered the most important trait for consumers, which needs to be explored in new products developed, such as high-in-fiber bread. This study aimed to develop models for texture attributes and starch retrogradatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,083 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2023

Trace lines on the outcrop of a rock mass are usually the primary data source for the estimation of rock structure. It is important to obtain the data of trace lines precisely. Photogrammetry is well suited to finish this task. However, this is mainl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,800 Views
33 Pages

Digitization and Visualization of Greenhouse Tomato Plants in Indoor Environments

  • Dawei Li,
  • Lihong Xu,
  • Chengxiang Tan,
  • Erik D. Goodman,
  • Daichang Fu and
  • Longjiao Xin

10 February 2015

This paper is concerned with the digitization and visualization of potted greenhouse tomato plants in indoor environments. For the digitization, an inexpensive and efficient commercial stereo sensor—a Microsoft Kinect—is used to separate visual infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,365 Views
18 Pages

Passive sensors, operating in the visible (VIS) spectrum, have widely been used towards the trans-disciplinary documentation, understanding, and protection of tangible cultural heritage (CH). Although, many heritage science fields benefit significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,665 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2016

The determination of soil texture and organic carbon across agricultural areas provides important information to derive soil condition. Precise digital soil maps can help to till agricultural fields with more accuracy, greater cost-efficiency and bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,192 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2022

The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of machine learning based on image texture parameters to discriminate plum stone cultivars. The plums of cultivars ‘Emper’, ‘Kalipso’, and ‘Polinka’ were s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,683 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2018

This work tackles a recent challenge in digital image processing: how to identify the steganographic images from a steganographer, who is unknown among multiple innocent actors. The method does not need a large number of samples to train classificati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,235 Views
21 Pages

Building Facade-Completion Network Based on Dynamic Convolutional GAN

  • Zhenhuang Cai,
  • Yangbin Lin,
  • Xingwang Huang,
  • Zongliang Zhang and
  • Zongyue Wang

29 August 2024

Building facade completion is an important part of digitizing the structures of buildings using computer technology. Due to the intricate textures and structures in building facade images, existing image-completion algorithms cannot accurately restor...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,700 Views
17 Pages

Automated Low-Cost Photogrammetric Acquisition of 3D Models from Small Form-Factor Artefacts

  • Tim Collins,
  • Sandra I. Woolley,
  • Erlend Gehlken and
  • Eugene Ch’ng

1 December 2019

The photogrammetric acquisition of 3D object models can be achieved by Structure from Motion (SfM) computation of photographs taken from multiple viewpoints. All-around 3D models of small artefacts with complex geometry can be difficult to acquire ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,091 Views
22 Pages

24 June 2024

Sustainable digital cultural heritage is now an essential aspect of our lives. The rapid development of 3D technology in the historic preservation industry provides the means of documenting, recovering, and presenting cultural heritage items. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,597 Views
14 Pages

21 April 2023

The objective of this study was to evaluate the differences in texture parameters between freeze-dried and fresh carrot slices using image processing and artificial intelligence. Images of fresh and freeze-dried carrot slices were acquired using a di...

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