To determine the best investigations for restoration and storage procedures, a visual inspection can provide a preliminary screen for the colour processes used to print the photographs. The high costs of the instruments required to follow the protoco...
The present work intends to focus on the examination, analysis and treatment of Pace, a contemporary color photography experimental artwork created by Nino Migliori in 1973. Given the particular nature of the artifact, in which the photographic mater...
The bromoil process, developed in 1907, was a photographic technique highly esteemed by pictorialist photographers for its capacity for image manipulation, which aligns its expressiveness with traditional pictorial techniques. Despite the artistic an...
Enrico Van Lint (Pisa, 1808–1884) was a very prolific photographer, active in Pisa in the 19th century where he had a prominent photographic atelier. He was a meticulous experimenter, investigating the evolving photographic activity of his hist...
The buildings in a city are of great importance. Certain historic buildings are landmarks and indicate the city’s architecture and culture. The buildings over time undergo changes because of various factors, such as structural changes, natural...
In modern manufacturing industries with Industry 4.0 capabilities, the automated identification and classification of machined surfaces based on their texture will play a crucial role. Texture analysis through computer vision, image processing, class...
While whale cataloging provides the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of bio preservation as sustainable development, it is essential to have automatic identification models. This paper presents a study and implementation of a convolutional ne...
This paper presents the design of a system to support the identification of victims of disasters and terrorist attacks. The system, called ID Victim (IDV), is a web application using a mobile app and data server. The DVI (Disaster Victim Identificati...
The identification of film support material is of utmost importance for evidence-based collection management in cultural heritage institutions, especially the identification of cellulose nitrate for fire safety reasons, as nitrate is highly flammable...
Several identification approaches have recently been employed in human identification systems for forensic purposes to decrease human efforts and to boost the accuracy of identification. Dental identification systems provide automated matching by sea...
Agriculture plays an essential role in Mexico’s economy. The agricultural sector has a 2.5% share of Mexico’s gross domestic product. Specifically, tomatoes have become the country’s most exported agricultural product. That is why t...
Sketch re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve pedestrian photographs in the gallery dataset by a query sketch image drawn by professionals, which is crucial for criminal investigations and missing person searches in the field of public security....
This article deals with the issue of computer vision on a rolling mill. The main goal of this article is to describe the designed and implemented algorithm for the automatic identification of the character string of billets on the rolling mill. The a...
Vegetation state is usually assessed by calculating vegetation indices (VIs) derived from remote sensing systems where the near infrared (NIR) band is used to enhance the vegetation signal. However VIs are pixel-based and require both visible and NIR...
The reconstruction of historic buildings requires the integration of diverse data sources, both geometric and non-geometric. This study presents a multi-source data analysis methodology for heritage reconstruction using 3D modeling and Historic Build...
Urban parks and open spaces offer a unique setting that can play a vital role in improving health and quality of life in cities and towns, making cities more attractive places to live and work, and connecting residents to nature. Degradation of park...
Rapid, accurate insect identification is the first and most critical step of pest management and vital to agriculture for determining optimal management strategies. In many instances, classification is necessary within a short developmental window. T...
This study aims to optimize the object identification process, especially identifying trash in the house compound. Most object identification methods cannot distinguish whether the object is a real image (3D) or a photographic image on paper (2D). Th...
The Xi’an Beilin Museum preserves a large collection of archeological photographic negatives and films dating from the 1950s to the early 1980s. These images document significant archeological discoveries, including Tang dynasty imperial tomb m...
This study examined the recognizability of demographically altered facial approximations for potential utility in unidentified persons tracking systems. Five computer-generated approximations were generated for each of 26 African male participants us...
The basic identification and classification of sedimentary rocks into sandstone and mudstone are important in the study of sedimentology and they are executed by a sedimentologist. However, such manual activity involves countless hours of observation...
The species Halamphora kolbei is a rarely reported diatom, and information on its distribution and characteristics is limited. The original taxonomic description of this species is inaccurate and insufficient for identification, as the available lite...
Advances in semiconductor technology and wireless sensor networks have permitted the development of automated inspection at diverse scales (machine, human, infrastructure, environment, etc.). However, automated identification of road cracks is still...
The monitoring of a structural condition of steel bridges is an important issue. Good condition of infrastructure facilities ensures the safety and economic well-being of society. At the same time, due to the continuous development, rising wealth of...
Characterising phenotypic differentiation is crucial to understand which traits are involved in population divergence and establish the evolutionary scenario underlying the speciation process. Species harbouring a disjunct spatial distribution or cry...
Side-scan sonar is designed and used for a variety of survey work, in both military and civilian fields. These systems provide acoustic imageries that play a significant role in a variety of marine and inland applications. For this reason, it is extr...
This research presents an application of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology to the preservation of buildings of historic value. The study of the built heritage encompasses several aspects: namely, the collection of information, the...
Accurate identification of surgical instruments is crucial for efficient workflows and patient safety within the operating room, particularly in preventing complications such as retained surgical instruments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have...
A possible pathway to achieve disciplinary integration is through the use of the Engineering Design (ED) process, starting with problems in a real context that enable the mobilization of concepts from various disciplinary areas. The study reported in...
The long-horned caddisfly Brachysetodes Schmid, 1955 (Leptoceridae: Leptocerinae) is a small genus endemic to the Andean region, especially Chile. Four decades after the last taxonomic revision, a new species, Brachysetodes tricahue Desidério,...
One of the most promising research initiatives in the healthcare field is focused on the rising incidence of skin cancer worldwide and improving early discovery methods for the disease. The most significant factor in the fatalities caused by skin can...
Natural water content affects many geotechnical parameters and geological properties of soils, which can reduce cohesion and friction, leading to potential failures in structures such as foundations, retaining walls, and slopes. Identification of the...
Optical sensor arrays are widely used in obtaining fingerprints of samples, allowing for solutions of recognition and identification problems. An approach to extending the functionality of the sensor arrays is using a kinetic factor by conducting ind...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a trending topic in many research areas. In recent years, even building, civil, and structural engineering have also started to face with several new techniques and technologies belonging to this field, such as smart a...
Automated greenhouse production systems frequently employ non-destructive techniques, such as computer vision-based methods, to accurately measure plant physiological properties and monitor crop growth. By utilizing an automated image acquisition and...
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the analysis of molecular biology data is becoming increasingly widespread. The Western Blot (WB) technique, a cornerstone in proteomic research, facilitates the identification and analysis of protei...
Today, as data is easily exposed through various channels, such as storing data in cloud services or exchanging data through a SNS (Social Network Service), related privacy issues are receiving a significant amount of attention. In addition, for data...
Visual inspection of civil infrastructure for structural health assessment, as performed by structural engineers, is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, automating this process is highly attractive, which has received significant attention in re...
We present a microhistological key for identification of plant fragments consumed and partially digested by free-roaming, forest cervids based on collection of 92 plant species representing forage availability of the Western Carpathian forests. The k...
Rural settlement in Central Italy represents one of the most original heritages for understanding the link between architectural principles and the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the cultivated land. The scattered farmhouses are the b...
3 January 2020
Research shows that adolescents with mental illnesses have a bias for processing negative facial emotions, and this may play a role in impaired social functioning that often co-exists with a mental health diagnosis. This study examined associations b...
Wound healing is a complex and coordinated process involving interactions between cells and various messenger systems. This study conducted in vivo tests to determine the healing effect of propolis (PR)-based cream derived from the Amazon stingless b...
28 February 2021
The neurobiology of Parkinson’s disease and its progression has been investigated during the last few decades. Braak et al. proposed neuropathological stages of this disease based on the recognizable topographical extent of Lewy body lesions. This pa...
In this paper, the classification capabilities of perceptron and radial neural networks are compared using the identification of selected pests feeding in apple tree orchards in Poland as an example. The goal of the study was the neural separation of...
The automatic parking system based on vision is greatly affected by uneven lighting, which is difficult to make an accurate judgment on parking spaces in the case of complex image information. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a parking spac...
In the production of coconut oil for consumption, cleanliness and safety are the first priorities for meeting the standard in Thailand. The presence of color, sediment, or impurities is an important element that affects consumers’ or buyers&rsq...
In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)-based illumination processing of facial images has made favorable achievements. However, some GANs-based illumination-processing methods only pay attention to the image quality and neglect the r...
The succession process of trees and shrubs is considered as one of the threats to non-forest Natura 2000 habitats. Poland, as a member of the European Union, is obliged to monitor these habitats and preserve them in the best possible condition. If th...
Gully erosion is one of the main processes of soil degradation, representing 50%–90% of total erosion at basin scales. Thus, its precise characterization has received growing attention in recent years. Geomatics techniques, mainly photogrammetr...
This work describes a non-invasive, automated software framework to discriminate between individuals with a genetic disorder, Pitt–Hopkins syndrome (PTHS), and healthy individuals through the identification of morphological facial features. The...
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