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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,798 Views
13 Pages

5 November 2020

Virtual reality is an important technology in the digital media industry, providing a whole new experience for most people. However, its manipulation method is more difficult than the traditional keyboard and mouse. In this research, we proposed a ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
13,337 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2021

Human action recognition has attracted considerable research attention in the field of computer vision, especially for classroom environments. However, most relevant studies have focused on one specific behavior of students. Therefore, this paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,831 Views
20 Pages

A Fast and Noise Tolerable Binarization Method for Automatic License Plate Recognition in the Open Environment in Taiwan

  • Chun-Cheng Peng,
  • Cheng-Jung Tsai,
  • Ting-Yi Chang,
  • Jen-Yuan Yeh,
  • Hsun Dai and
  • Min-Hsiu Tsai

18 August 2020

License plate recognition is widely used in our daily life. Image binarization, which is a process to convert an image to white and black, is an important step of license plate recognition. Among the proposed binarization methods, Otsu method is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,872 Views
28 Pages

Fuzzy System-Based Face Detection Robust to In-Plane Rotation Based on Symmetrical Characteristics of a Face

  • Hyung Gil Hong,
  • Won Oh Lee,
  • Yeong Gon Kim,
  • Ki Wan Kim,
  • Dat Tien Nguyen and
  • Kang Ryoung Park

3 August 2016

As face recognition technology has developed, it has become widely used in various applications such as door access control, intelligent surveillance, and mobile phone security. One of its applications is its adoption in TV environments to supply vie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,537 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2019

Automatic urban sound classification is a desirable capability for urban monitoring systems, allowing real-time monitoring of urban environments and recognition of events. Current embedded systems provide enough computational power to perform real-ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,036 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2021

For over a decade, urban road environment detection has been a target of intensive research. The topic is relevant for the design and implementation of advanced driver assistance systems. Typically, embedded systems are deployed in these for the oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,188 Views
17 Pages

24 June 2024

A visual system is a key tool for automatic fruit harvesting. It faces the challenges of varied occlusion and illumination in the field, resulting in difficulties in fruit recognition and picking. At present, there are many studies that lack a compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
24 Pages

27 August 2025

In this paper, we introduce a new vehicle automation model describing the latest intelligent vision systems, but not limited to them, based on interactions between the vehicle, its user, and the environment, occurring simultaneously or at different t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,131 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2024

Acoustic management is very important for detecting possible events in the context of a smart environment (SE). In previous works, we proposed a reflective middleware for acoustic management (ReM-AM) and its autonomic cycles of data analysis tasks, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,336 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Face Recognition System for Operating in Unconstrained Environments

  • Alejandra Sarahi Sanchez-Moreno,
  • Jesus Olivares-Mercado,
  • Aldo Hernandez-Suarez,
  • Karina Toscano-Medina,
  • Gabriel Sanchez-Perez and
  • Gibran Benitez-Garcia

26 August 2021

Facial recognition is fundamental for a wide variety of security systems operating in real-time applications. Recently, several deep neural networks algorithms have been developed to achieve state-of-the-art performance on this task. The present work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,143 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2025

According to South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor, approximately 25,000 construction workers suffered from various injuries between 2015 and 2019. Additionally, about 500 fatalities occur annually, and multiple studies are being condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,148 Views
14 Pages

26 February 2019

Recently, device-free human activity–monitoring systems using commercial Wi-Fi devices have demonstrated a great potential to support smart home environments. These systems exploit Channel State Information (CSI), which represents how human activitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
13,109 Views
19 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Traffic Sign Recognition System for Urban Environments

  • Chang-il Kim,
  • Jinuk Park,
  • Yongju Park,
  • Woojin Jung and
  • Yong-seok Lim

A traffic sign recognition system is crucial for safely operating an autonomous driving car and efficiently managing road facilities. Recent studies on traffic sign recognition tasks show significant advances in terms of accuracy on several benchmark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Citations
14,464 Views
25 Pages

2 July 2014

Recent advancements in depth video sensors technologies have made human activity recognition (HAR) realizable for elderly monitoring applications. Although conventional HAR utilizes RGB video sensors, HAR could be greatly improved with depth video se...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,504 Views
7 Pages

Smart Learning

  • Francisco José García-Peñalvo,
  • Cristina Casado-Lumbreras,
  • Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and
  • Aman Yadav

5 October 2020

Artificial intelligence applied to the educational field has a vast potential, especially after the effects worldwide of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online or blended educational modes are needed to respond to the health situation we are living in. The tu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,113 Views
28 Pages

Explaining Deep Learning-Based Driver Models

  • Maria Paz Sesmero Lorente,
  • Elena Magán Lopez,
  • Laura Alvarez Florez,
  • Agapito Ledezma Espino,
  • José Antonio Iglesias Martínez and
  • Araceli Sanchis de Miguel

7 April 2021

Different systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are currently used in relevant areas such as healthcare, cybersecurity, natural language processing, and self-driving cars. However, many of these systems are developed with “black bo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,164 Views
45 Pages

An Overview of Autonomous Parking Systems: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Javier Santiago Olmos Medina,
  • Jessica Gissella Maradey Lázaro,
  • Anton Rassõlkin and
  • Hernán González Acuña

10 July 2025

Autonomous Parking Systems (APSs) are rapidly evolving, promising enhanced convenience, safety, and efficiency. This review critically examines the current strategies in perception, path planning, and vehicle control, alongside system-level aspects l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,772 Views
27 Pages

MosAIc: A Classical Machine Learning Multi-Classifier Based Approach against Deep Learning Classifiers for Embedded Sound Classification

  • Lancelot Lhoest,
  • Mimoun Lamrini,
  • Jurgen Vandendriessche,
  • Nick Wouters,
  • Bruno da Silva,
  • Mohamed Yassin Chkouri and
  • Abdellah Touhafi

10 September 2021

Environmental Sound Recognition has become a relevant application for smart cities. Such an application, however, demands the use of trained machine learning classifiers in order to categorize a limited set of audio categories. Although classical mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,002 Views
20 Pages

Construction of Human Behavior Cognitive Map for Robots

  • Wei-Zhi Lin,
  • Sui-Hsien Wang and
  • Han-Pang Huang

21 November 2019

With the advancement of robotics, the importance of service robots in society is increasing. It is crucial for service robots to understand their environment so that they can offer suitable responses to humans. To realize the use of space, robots pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,558 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2023

The accurate segmentation of apple leaf disease spots is the key to identifying the classification of apple leaf diseases and disease severity. Therefore, a DeepLabV3+ semantic segmentation network model with an actors spatial pyramid pool module (AS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,968 Views
27 Pages

7 July 2023

Environmental Sound Recognition (ESR) plays a crucial role in smart cities by accurately categorizing audio using well-trained Machine Learning (ML) classifiers. This application is particularly valuable for cities that analyzed environmental sounds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,336 Views
17 Pages

Human activity recognition (HAR) is vital for applications in fields such as smart homes, health monitoring, and navigation, particularly in GNSS-denied environments where satellite signals are obstructed. Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,662 Views
26 Pages

Personalized Smart Home Automation Using Machine Learning: Predicting User Activities

  • Mark M. Gad,
  • Walaa Gad,
  • Tamer Abdelkader and
  • Kshirasagar Naik

2 October 2025

A personalized framework for smart home automation is introduced, utilizing machine learning to predict user activities and allow for the context-aware control of living spaces. Predicting user activities, such as ‘Watch_TV’, ‘Sleep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,432 Views
24 Pages

Fall Detection System-Based Posture-Recognition for Indoor Environments

  • Abderrazak Iazzi,
  • Mohammed Rziza and
  • Rachid Oulad Haj Thami

26 February 2021

The majority of the senior population lives alone at home. Falls can cause serious injuries, such as fractures or head injuries. These injuries can be an obstacle for a person to move around and normally practice his daily activities. Some of these i...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,552 Views
9 Pages

3 November 2025

Towards the introduction of autonomous vehicles, studying their functionality is becoming increasingly important. Detecting the environment in a self-driving vehicle is a very complex issue. The combination of different sensors is essential for safe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,424 Views
26 Pages

Cross-Environment Device-Free Human Action Recognition via Wi-Fi Signals

  • Sai Zhang,
  • Yi Zhong,
  • Haoge Jia,
  • Xue Ding and
  • Ting Jiang

Human action recognition (HAR) based on Wi-Fi signals has become a research hotspot due to its advantages of privacy protection, a comfortable experience, and a reliable recognition effect. However, the performance of existing Wi-Fi-based HAR systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,489 Views
18 Pages

Multispectral Facial Recognition in the Wild

  • Pedro Martins,
  • José Silvestre Silva and
  • Alexandre Bernardino

1 June 2022

This work proposes a multi-spectral face recognition system in an uncontrolled environment, aiming to identify or authenticate identities (people) through their facial images. Face recognition systems in uncontrolled environments have shown impressiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,314 Views
20 Pages

Recognition of Activities of Daily Living and Environments Using Acoustic Sensors Embedded on Mobile Devices

  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Gonçalo Marques,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • Nuno Pombo,
  • Francisco Flórez-Revuelta,
  • Susanna Spinsante,
  • Maria Canavarro Teixeira and
  • Eftim Zdravevski

7 December 2019

The identification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is intrinsic with the user’s environment recognition. This detection can be executed through standard sensors present in every-day mobile devices. On the one hand, the main proposal is to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,018 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2023

Most conventional speech recognition systems have mainly concentrated on voice-driven control of personal user devices such as smartphones. Therefore, a speech recognition system used in a special environment needs to be developed in consideration of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,124 Views
16 Pages

Ground-Target Recognition Method Based on Transfer Learning

  • Qiuzhan Zhou,
  • Jikang Hu,
  • Huinan Wu,
  • Cong Wang,
  • Pingping Liu and
  • Xinyi Yao

20 January 2025

A moving ground-target recognition system can monitor suspicious activities of pedestrians and vehicles in key areas. Currently, most target recognition systems are based on devices such as fiber optics, radar, and vibration sensors. A system based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,767 Views
27 Pages

12 October 2022

Speech is a commonly used interaction-recognition technique in edutainment-based systems and is a key technology for smooth educational learning and user–system interaction. However, its application to real environments is limited owing to the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
375 Citations
38,861 Views
44 Pages

A Review on Video-Based Human Activity Recognition

  • Shian-Ru Ke,
  • Hoang Le Uyen Thuc,
  • Yong-Jin Lee,
  • Jenq-Neng Hwang,
  • Jang-Hee Yoo and
  • Kyoung-Ho Choi

5 June 2013

This review article surveys extensively the current progresses made toward video-based human activity recognition. Three aspects for human activity recognition are addressed including core technology, human activity recognition systems, and applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,299 Views
14 Pages

18 March 2022

Gesture recognition plays an important role in smart homes, such as human–computer interaction, identity authentication, etc. Most of the existing WiFi signal-based approaches exploit a large number of channel state information (CSI) datasets t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,003 Views
5 Pages

Vehicle in the Loop Testing of Traffic Sign Recognition Systems

  • Richárd Peszleg,
  • Márton Jagicza and
  • Dávid Józsa

1 November 2024

Modern passenger vehicles can indicate the speed limit for a given road section using GPS, cameras, or both. Sign recognition systems must comply with specified testing procedures before operation. Our goal is to create a cost-effective lab environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,407 Views
26 Pages

Seamless Tracing of Human Behavior Using Complementary Wearable and House-Embedded Sensors

  • Piotr Augustyniak,
  • Magdalena Smoleń,
  • Zbigniew Mikrut and
  • Eliasz Kańtoch

29 April 2014

This paper presents a multimodal system for seamless surveillance of elderly people in their living environment. The system uses simultaneously a wearable sensor network for each individual and premise-embedded sensors specific for each environment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
965 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2025

License plate recognition is a computer vision technology that plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems and vehicle management. However, in real-world road environments, recognition accuracy significantly decreases due to distortion...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,799 Views
24 Pages

A Review of Target Recognition Technology for Fruit Picking Robots: From Digital Image Processing to Deep Learning

  • Xuehui Hua,
  • Haoxin Li,
  • Jinbin Zeng,
  • Chongyang Han,
  • Tianci Chen,
  • Luxin Tang and
  • Yuanqiang Luo

24 March 2023

Machine vision technology has dramatically improved the efficiency, speed, and quality of fruit-picking robots in complex environments. Target recognition technology for fruit is an integral part of the recognition systems of picking robots. The trad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,237 Views
17 Pages

Road Scene Recognition of Forklift AGV Equipment Based on Deep Learning

  • Gang Liu,
  • Rongxu Zhang,
  • Yanyan Wang and
  • Rongjun Man

31 October 2021

The application of scene recognition in intelligent robots to forklift AGV equipment is of great significance in order to improve the automation and intelligence level of distribution centers. At present, using the camera to collect image information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,240 Views
22 Pages

20 March 2022

With recent developments in the field of autonomous driving, recognition algorithms for road environments are being developed very rapidly. Currently, most of the network models have good recognition rates, but as the accuracy rate increases, the mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,932 Views
24 Pages

Voice Communication in Noisy Environments in a Smart House Using Hybrid LMS+ICA Algorithm

  • Radek Martinek,
  • Jan Vanus,
  • Jan Nedoma,
  • Michael Fridrich,
  • Jaroslav Frnda and
  • Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk

23 October 2020

This publication describes an innovative approach to voice control of operational and technical functions in a real Smart Home (SH) environment, where, for voice control within SH, it is necessary to provide robust technological systems for building...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,216 Views
29 Pages

A CSI-Based Multi-Environment Human Activity Recognition Framework

  • Baha A. Alsaify,
  • Mahmoud M. Almazari,
  • Rami Alazrai,
  • Sahel Alouneh and
  • Mohammad I. Daoud

17 January 2022

Passive human activity recognition (HAR) systems, in which no sensors are attached to the subject, provide great potentials compared to conventional systems. One of the recently used techniques showing tremendous potential is channel state informatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,612 Views
13 Pages

28 October 2023

At present, COVID-19 is posing a serious threat to global human health. The features of hand veins in infrared environments have many advantages, including non-contact acquisition, security, privacy, etc., which can remarkably reduce the risks of COV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,119 Views
22 Pages

Multimodal Low Resolution Face and Frontal Gait Recognition from Surveillance Video

  • Sayan Maity,
  • Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb and
  • Shihab S. Asfour

Biometric identification using surveillance video has attracted the attention of many researchers as it can be applicable not only for robust identification but also personalized activity monitoring. In this paper, we present a novel multimodal recog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,971 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2024

The representation and utilization of environmental information by service robots has become increasingly challenging. In order to solve the problems that the service robot platform has, such as high timeliness requirements for indoor environment rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,381 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2020

In this paper, we propose a novel gesture recognition system based on a smartphone. Due to the limitation of Channel State Information (CSI) extraction equipment, existing WiFi-based gesture recognition is limited to the microcomputer terminal equipp...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,497 Views
11 Pages

Research on Multi-Source Simultaneous Recognition Technology Based on Sagnac Fiber Optic Sound Sensing System

  • Xinyu Zheng,
  • Ruixi Tang,
  • Jiang Wang,
  • Cheng Lin,
  • Jianjun Chen,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Yong Zhu and
  • Juan Ruan

1 September 2023

To solve the problem of multiple sound recognition in the application of Sagnac optical fiber acoustic sensing system, a multi-source synchronous recognition algorithm was proposed, which combined the VMD (variational modal decomposition) algorithm a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,346 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2024

This study proposes an Artificial Intelligence-based Real-time Catch Analysis System (AI-RCAS) for sustainable fisheries management. The AI-RCAS, implemented on a Jetson board, consists of fish recognition using YOLOv10, tracking with a ByteTrack alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,526 Views
24 Pages

Daily Living Activity Recognition In-The-Wild: Modeling and Inferring Activity-Aware Human Contexts

  • Muhammad Ehatisham-ul-Haq,
  • Fiza Murtaza,
  • Muhammad Awais Azam and
  • Yasar Amin

Advancement in smart sensing and computing technologies has provided a dynamic opportunity to develop intelligent systems for human activity monitoring and thus assisted living. Consequently, many researchers have put their efforts into implementing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,943 Views
23 Pages

Hand Gesture Recognition Using FSK Radar Sensors

  • Kimoon Yang,
  • Minji Kim,
  • Yunho Jung and
  • Seongjoo Lee

6 January 2024

Hand gesture recognition, which is one of the fields of human–computer interaction (HCI) research, extracts the user’s pattern using sensors. Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) sensors are robust under severe environments and convenient to use for h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,028 Views
12 Pages

21 December 2020

This paper proposes a small-footprint wake-up-word (WUW) recognition system for real noisy environments by employing the competing-words-based feature. Competing-words-based features are generated using a ResNet-based deep neural network with small p...

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