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  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,342 Views
20 Pages

Portrait Segmentation Using Ensemble of Heterogeneous Deep-Learning Models

  • Yong-Woon Kim,
  • Yung-Cheol Byun and
  • Addapalli V. N. Krishna

5 February 2021

Image segmentation plays a central role in a broad range of applications, such as medical image analysis, autonomous vehicles, video surveillance and augmented reality. Portrait segmentation, which is a subset of semantic image segmentation, is widel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,778 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2024

Semantic segmentation of human images is a research hotspot in the field of computer vision. At present, the semantic segmentation models based on U-net generally lack the ability to capture the spatial information of images. At the same time, semant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,662 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2025

Video portrait segmentation is essential for intelligent sensing systems, including human-computer interaction, autonomous navigation, and augmented reality. However, dynamic video environments introduce significant challenges, such as temporal varia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
12 Pages

Bust Portraits Matting Based on Improved U-Net

  • Honggang Xie,
  • Kaiyuan Hou,
  • Di Jiang and
  • Wanjie Ma

Extracting complete portrait foregrounds from natural images is widely used in image editing and high-definition map generation. When making high-definition maps, it is often necessary to matte passers-by to guarantee their privacy. Current matting m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,380 Views
15 Pages

PSAIP: Prior Structure-Assisted Identity-Preserving Network for Face Animation

  • Guangzhe Zhao,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Xueping Wang,
  • Feihu Yan and
  • Shuang Qiu

17 February 2025

Face animation aims to render the source image according to the motion of the driving images while preserving the identity information of the source image. Despite significant advancements with the introduction of additional information, the literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
727 Views
20 Pages

Prerequisites for Developing a Classification of Phase Transitions in Systems Based on Thermosensitive Polymers: Use of a Semi-Empirical Model

  • Ibragim Suleimenov,
  • Rizagul Dyussova,
  • Dina Shaltykova,
  • Emin Atasoy,
  • Gaini Seitenova and
  • Eldar Kopishev

22 May 2025

It is shown that the extensive experimental material available in the literature reflecting the behaviour of thermosensitive hydrogels and solutions of thermosensitive polymers requires systematisation and generalisation. Additional evidence is given...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,995 Views
18 Pages

NEET (not in employment, education, or training) unemployment is one of the newer, most relevant, and least studied modern features of the youth labor market, making it an urgent problem to be solved. The purpose of this study is to identify the barr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,544 Views
13 Pages

Involuntary Breathing Movement Pattern Recognition and Classification via Force-Based Sensors

  • Rajat Emanuel Singh,
  • Jordan M. Fleury,
  • Sonu Gupta,
  • Nate P. Bachman,
  • Brent Alumbaugh and
  • Gannon White

9 October 2022

The study presents a novel scheme that recognizes and classifies different sub-phases within the involuntary breathing movement (IBM) phase during breath-holding (BH). We collected force data from eight recreational divers until the conventional brea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
985 Views
14 Pages

6 March 2025

In this study, we examine the bifurcations and dynamics of a piecewise linear van der Pol equation—a model that captures self-sustained oscillations and is applied in various scientific disciplines, including electronics, neuroscience, biology,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,663 Views
21 Pages

A Review of New Analytic Techniques for Quantifying Symmetry in Locomotion

  • Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler,
  • John D. Polk,
  • Karl S. Rosengren,
  • Jacob J. Sosnoff and
  • Sungjin Hong

14 June 2010

We present a review of novel techniques developed by our research group to improve quantitative assessment of human movement, especially assessments related to symmetric and asymmetric gait patterns. These new methods use motion capture data of the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,579 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2022

In recent years, image segmentation based on deep learning has been widely used in medical imaging, automatic driving, monitoring and security. In the fields of monitoring and security, the specific location of a person is detected by image segmentat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Views
27 Pages

Dual-Region Encryption Model Based on a 3D-MNFC Chaotic System and Logistic Map

  • Jingyan Li,
  • Yan Niu,
  • Dan Yu,
  • Yiling Wang,
  • Jiaqi Huang and
  • Mingliang Dou

23 January 2026

Facial information carries key personal privacy, and it is crucial to ensure its security through encryption. Traditional encryption for portrait images typically processes the entire image, despite the fact that most regions lack sensitive facial in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,108 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2022

In the portrait matting domain, existing methods rely entirely on annotated images for learning. However, delicate manual annotations are time-consuming and there are few detailed datasets available. To reduce complete dependency on labeled datasets,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,928 Views
37 Pages

Co-CrackSegment: A New Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Pixel-Level Semantic Segmentation of Concrete Cracks

  • Nizar Faisal Alkayem,
  • Ali Mayya,
  • Lei Shen,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Panagiotis G. Asteris,
  • Qiang Wang and
  • Maosen Cao

4 October 2024

In an era of massive construction, damaged and aging infrastructure are becoming more common. Defects, such as cracking, spalling, etc., are main types of structural damage that widely occur. Hence, ensuring the safe operation of existing infrastruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,654 Views
13 Pages

Earlier Detection of Brain Tumor by Pre-Processing Based on Histogram Equalization with Neural Network

  • M. Ramamoorthy,
  • Shamimul Qamar,
  • Ramachandran Manikandan,
  • Noor Zaman Jhanjhi,
  • Mehedi Masud and
  • Mohammed A. AlZain

MRI is an influential diagnostic imaging technology specifically worn to detect pathological changes in tissues with organs early. It is also a non-invasive imaging method. Medical image segmentation is a complex and challenging process due to the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,353 Views
23 Pages

5 March 2021

Shallow depth-of-field (DoF), focusing on the region of interest by blurring out the rest of the image, is challenging in computer vision and computational photography. It can be achieved either by adjusting the parameters (e.g., aperture and focal l...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,450 Views
27 Pages

8 February 2024

Whirl flutter is a phenomenon caused by an aeroelastic instability, causing oscillations to propagate in manned or unmanned rotor-nacelle type aircraft. Under the conditions where multi-segmented freeplay are present, complex behaviors can dominate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,370 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

Optical metrology has experienced a fast development in recent years—cross laser-pattern has become a common cooperative measuring marker in optical metrology equipment, such as infrared imaging equipment or visual 3D measurement system. The rapid an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,185 Views
23 Pages

Sketch Synthesis with Flowpath and VTF

  • Junho Kim,
  • Heekyung Yang and
  • Kyumgha Min

We present a novel sketch generation scheme from an image using the flowpath and the value through the flow (VTF). The first stage of our scheme is to produce grayscale noisy sketch using a deep learning-based approach. In the second stage, the uncle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,468 Views
14 Pages

Multimodal Ensemble-Based Segmentation of White Matter Lesions and Analysis of Their Differential Characteristics across Major Brain Regions

  • Saima Rathore,
  • Tamim Niazi,
  • Muhammad Aksam Iftikhar,
  • Ashish Singh,
  • Batool Rathore,
  • Michel Bilello and
  • Ahmad Chaddad

11 March 2020

White matter lesions (WML) are common in a variety of brain pathologies, including ischemia affecting blood vessels deeper inside the brain’s white matter, and show an abnormal signal in T1-weighted and FLAIR images. The emergence of personaliz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,423 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2018

The Indonesia government’s pledge on moderation climate change and greenhouse gas decline will affect the development of energy and transportation. However, shifting to these new green products is naturally problematic. Recognizing the prospective cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,049 Views
22 Pages

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations that incorporate explicit water-mediated hydrophilic/hydrophobic interactions are employed to track spatiotemporal evolution of diblock copolymer aggregation in initially homogeneous solutions. A phase po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,971 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2021

Time-series generated by complex systems (CS) are often characterized by phenomena such as chaoticity, fractality and memory effects, which pose difficulties in their analysis. The paper explores the dynamics of multidimensional data generated by a C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,353 Views
31 Pages

15 September 2023

We study a time-optimal problem in the roto-translation group with admissible control in a circular sector. The problem reveals the trajectories of a car model that can move forward on a plane and turn with a given minimum turning radius. Our work ge...