Satellite remote sensing can be used effectively with a wide coverage and repeatability in large-scale Arctic sea-ice analysis. To produce reliable sea-ice information, satellite remote-sensing methods should be established and validated using accura...
In order to generate digital elevation models (DEMs) from high-resolution satellite images, the vendor-provided rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs) are commonly used. This results in a level of accuracy that can be improved by using ground contro...
Functional elucidation of uncharacterized protein structures is an important task in bioinformatics. We report our new approach for structure-based function prediction which captures local surface features of ligand binding pockets. Function of prote...
Brain asymmetry is associated with handedness and cognitive function, and is also reflected in the shape of endocasts. However, comprehensive quantification of the asymmetry in endocast shapes is limited. Here, we quantify and visualize the variation...
The sea surface displays dynamic characteristics, such as waves and various formations. As a result, images of the sea surface usually have few stable feature points, with a background that is often complex and variable. Moreover, the sea surface und...
Understanding the relationship between the displacement of the skin when tracing a textured object and the resulting subjective sensations is essential in designing tactile displays. Previous studies observed skin displacement using flat glass plates...
The freeform surface quality is limited by the measurement, and form error cannot be convergent via compensation machining. This paper proposed a surface matching measurement strategy based on the least squares principle and iterative precision adjus...
Three-dimensional feature description for a local surface is a core technology in 3D computer vision. Existing descriptors perform poorly in terms of distinctiveness and robustness owing to noise, mesh decimation, clutter, and occlusion in real scene...
Due to the advantages of coastal areas in the fields of agriculture, transport, and fishing, increasingly more people are moving to these areas. Sea level information is important for these people to survive after extreme sea level events. With the r...
Aiming at the problems of the poor robustness and universality of traditional contour matching algorithms in engineering applications, a method for improving the surface defect detection of industrial products based on contour matching algorithms is...
In recent years, significant development in the domain of dense image matching (DIM) can be observed. Meanwhile, in most countries, aerial images are acquired countrywide on a regular basis with decreasing time intervals and increasing image overlaps...
Objective: The precision of neuronavigation systems relies on the correct registration of the patient’s position in space and aligning it with radiological 3D imaging data. Registration is usually performed by the acquisition of anatomical land...
With FaSS-MVS, we present a fast, surface-aware semi-global optimization approach for multi-view stereo that allows for rapid depth and normal map estimation from monocular aerial video data captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The data estim...
Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a powerful technique to observe colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) directly in solution and obtain critical information about their physical-chemical properties. Nevertheless, a more comprehensive implementation of A...
Wind-tunnel experiments were conducted on Trionda, the official match ball of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Aerodynamic force coefficients derived from these measurements were incorporated into numerical trajectory simulations of kicked balls. The resulti...
The terahertz (THz) frequency range is incredibly important as it covers electromagnetic emissions typical for biological and molecular processes. All molecules emit THz waves in a unique fingerprint pattern, although the intensity of such signals is...
To obtain more accurate depth information with stereo cameras, various learning-based stereo-matching algorithms have been developed recently. These algorithms, however, are significantly affected by textureless regions in indoor applications. To add...
Tsunamis are some of the most destructive natural disasters. Some proposed tsunami measurement and arrival prediction systems use a limited number of instruments, then judge the occurrence of the tsunami, forecast its arrival time, location and scale...
This paper compares the performance of Deep Learning (DL) and multi-template matching (MTM) models for detecting small defects. DL models extract distinguishing features of objects but require a large dataset of images. In contrast, alternative compu...
In GNSS-denied environments, UAV visual positioning faces the critical bottleneck of low matching accuracy between heterogeneous images. To address this, we propose SemGeoFrame, a visual matching framework that leverages surface semantic information...
In this work, we propose a novel method of estimating optical flow from event-based cameras by matching the time surface of events. The proposed loss function measures the timestamp consistency between the time surface formed by the latest timestamp...
Three-dimensional matching is widely used in 3D vision tasks, such as 3D reconstruction, target recognition, and 3D model retrieval. The description of local features is the fundamental task of 3D matching; however, the descriptors only encode the su...
The current asphalt pavement design theory is a traditional line elastic theory. The voltage resistance recovery modulus is used as the material stiffness parameter in the design, which does not fully consider the significant differences between the...
The pressure pulsation characteristics of the blade’s surface have an impact on the lifespan of the multiphase pump impeller. To explore the influence of the gap matching relation on the pressure pulsation characteristics at blade’s surfa...
As the core issue for Digital Surface Model (DSM) generation, image matching is often implemented in photo space to get disparity or depth map. However, DSM is generated in object space with additional processes such as reference image selection, dis...
The low light conditions, abundant dust, and rocky terrain on the lunar surface pose challenges for scientific research. To effectively perceive the surrounding environment, lunar rovers are equipped with binocular cameras. In this paper, with the ai...
Surface models provide key knowledge of the 3-d structure of forests. Aerial stereo imagery acquired during routine mapping campaigns covering the whole of Switzerland (41,285 km2), offers a potential data source to calculate digital surface models (...
In this paper, we propose a multi-view stereo matching method, EnSoft3D (Enhanced Soft 3D Reconstruction) to obtain dense and high-quality depth images. Multi-view stereo is one of the high-interest research areas and has wide applications. Motivated...
An Infrared (IR)-passive microwave (PMW) blended technique is developed to derive precipitation estimates over the Asia-Pacific domain through calibrating the temperature of brightness blackbody from the Japanese Himawari-8 satellite to precipitation...
Displacement and deformation are fundamental measures of Earth surface mass movements such as glacier flow, rockglacier creep and rockslides. Ground-based methods of monitoring such mass movements can be costly, time consuming and limited in spatial...
The Mw=7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan occurred in 1999 over the Chelungpu fault and caused a great surface rupture and severe damage. Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) has been applied previously to study the co-seismic...
Monitoring of the diurnal warming cycle in sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the key tasks of the new generation geostationary sensors, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-16/17 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), and the H...
Differences in acquisition time, light conditions, and viewing angle create significant differences among the airborne remote sensing images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Real-time scene matching navigation applications based on fixed referen...
Radiation from a cavity-backed circular aperture array antenna enclosed by a frequency selective surface (FSS) radome is studied using the hybrid analysis method, by combining the mode matching method, the ray tracing technique, and Huygens’s p...
Multimodal sensors are often employed by USVs (unmanned surface vehicles) to enhance situational awareness, and the fusion of LiDAR and monocular vision is widely used in near-field perception scenarios. However, this strategy of fusing data from LiD...
With the current extensive availability of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) datasets with high temporal (e.g., a repeat cycle of a few or a dozen days) and spatial resolution (e.g., in the order of ∼1 m), radar remote sensing possesses an increasin...
Establishing an effective local feature descriptor and using an accurate key point matching algorithm are two crucial tasks in recognizing and registering on the 3D point cloud. Because the descriptors need to keep enough descriptive ability against...
Accurate positioning and state estimation of surface vessels are prerequisites to achieving autonomous navigation. Recently, the rapid development of 3D LiDARs has promoted the autonomy of both land and aerial vehicles, which has aroused the interest...
The generation of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) through stereogrammetry of optical satellite images has gained great popularity across various disciplines. For the analysis of these DEMs, it is important to understand the influence of the input dat...
In most liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight modules (BLMs), diffuser plates (DPs) play the essential role in blurring the backlight. A common BLM consists of multiple superimposed optical films. In a vision-based automated assembly system, to ensu...
P21-activated kinase 4 (PAK4) plays a crucial role in the proliferation and metastasis of various cancers. However, developing selective PAK4 inhibitors remains challenging due to the high homology within the PAK family. Therefore, developing highly...
The use of high-resolution satellite stereo pairs for dense image matching is a core technology for the low-cost generation of large-scale digital surface models (DSMs). However, water areas in satellite imagery often exhibit weak texture characteris...
This technical note describes the usage of object matching to virtually compare different modes of reconstruction in orbital trauma and display the results to the surgeon and the patient pre-operatively via mixed reality devices for enhanced surgical...
To study the compressive properties of an elastomeric porous cylinder, a 360° 3D digital image correlation (DIC) system is proposed. This compact vibration isolation table system captures different segments of the object from four different angle...
The ability of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) to confine electromagnetic fields in a subwavelength regime enables the design of miniaturized antennas. However, the impedance matching scheme for miniaturized spoof plasmonic antennas has not...
Surface seismic data often suffer from limited bandwidth and uneven illumination, which degrade PSDM (prestack depth migration) in deep and structurally complex settings. VSP (vertical seismic profiling), particularly DAS-VSP, provides a higher signa...
A successful application of dense image matching algorithms to historical aerial photographs would offer a great potential for detailed reconstructions of historical landscapes in three dimensions, allowing for the efficient monitoring of various lan...
Laser ultrasonic technology can provide a non-contact, reliable and efficient inspection of train rails. However, the laser-generated signals measured at the railhead are usually contaminated with a high level of noise and unwanted wave components th...
Stereo disparity estimation is an essential component in computer vision and photogrammetry with many applications. However, there is a lack of real-world large datasets and large-scale models in the domain. Inspired by recent advances in the foundat...
The Bragg reflections of oblique water waves by periodic surface-piercing structures over periodic bottoms are investigated using the eigenfunction matching method (EMM). Based on the assumption of small wave amplitude, the linear wave theory is empl...
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