Passport background texture classification has always been an important task in border checks. Current manual methods struggle to achieve satisfactory results in terms of consistency and stability for weakly textured background images. For this reaso...
The study explored a deep learning image super-resolution approach which is commonly used in face recognition, video perception and other fields. These generative adversarial networks usually have high-frequency texture details. The relevant textures...
Paratuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease associated with substantial economic losses in livestock production. Histopathological examination remains an important diagnostic approach but can be time-consuming and dependent on specialist experti...
Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), which enhances low-resolution (LR) images by leveraging texture information from high-resolution reference (Ref) images, offers a promising solution for rapid, high-fidelity reconstruction from degraded measu...
Steel surface defect segmentation is a critical task in industrial visual inspection, with direct implications for quality assessment, process control, and in-service safety. However, complex steel-surface images often contain strong background textu...
Thin metal films are critical elements in nano- and micro-fabricated technologies. The texture orientation of thin films has a significant effect on applied devices. For Face-Centered Cubic (FCC) metal thin films, when the critical thickness is reach...
There is a pressing need across various applications for efficiently compressing point clouds. While the Moving Picture Experts Group introduced the geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) standard, its attribute compression scheme falls short...
Background: Hemorrhagic transformation is a major complication after thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke, and its risk assessment based on baseline non-contrast CT (NCCT) remains limited. This study aims to evaluate the role of CT-based texture ana...
The texture evolution of cold rolled pure titanium through different annealing parameters was investigated and different processes for various textures controls were proposed for further industrial application. Columnar grains with strong {11–2...
Texture, a significant visual attribute in images, plays an important role in many pattern recognition tasks. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been among the most effective methods for texture analysis, alternative architectures such a...
Additive manufacturing (AM) of titanium alloys enables the production of complex, high-performance components, but the steep thermal gradients and rapid solidification involved make it challenging to control crystallographic texture and phase evoluti...
Soil texture is recognised as one of the key physical properties of soil. Although traditional laboratory testing methods can determine soil texture information with high accuracy, they are often considered time-consuming and costly. To achieve rapid...
Co–Cr alloys have been used in biomedical purposes such as stents and artificial hip joints. However, the difficulty of plastic deformation limits the application of the alloys. During the deformation, Co–Cr alloys often exhibit strain-in...
High spatial-temporal resolution plays a vital role in the application of geoscience dynamic observance and prediction. However, thanks to the constraints of technology and budget, it is troublesome for one satellite detector to get high spatial-temp...
Defects in wood growth affect the product’s quality and grade. At present, the research on texture defects of wood mainly focuses on defect localization, ignoring the splicing problem of maintaining texture consistency. In this paper, we design...
Distinguishing authentic gold products from high-quality counterfeits is a challenging fine-grained computer vision problem; counterfeit items are engineered to replicate surface texture, hallmark engravings, color, and geometry with remarkable fidel...
This study investigates the deterioration of skid resistance and surface macrotexture following preventive maintenance using micro-milling techniques. Field data were collected from 31 asphalt pavement sections located across four climatic zones in T...
Semantic segmentation of 3D urban meshes is a fundamental task for intelligent urban scene understanding. However, conventional methods face severe computational efficiency bottlenecks in large-scale scenarios. Meanwhile, state space models (SSMs) wi...
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...
As an all-weather and all-day remote sensing image data source, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images have been widely applied, and their registration accuracy has a direct impact on the downstream task effectiveness. The existing registration algori...
Texture memory is a phenomenon in which retention of initial textures occurs after a complete cycle of forward and backward transformations, and it occurs in various phase-transforming materials including cubic and hexagonal metals such as steels and...
In this paper, two low-grade electrical steels are used to inspect the effect of initial columnar grains and final transformation treatment on the microstructure and textures. Results show that the Al and P elements, besides causing the surface oxida...
The present paper investigates the role of parent phase topology on a crystallographic variant selection rule. This rule assumes that product phase nuclei appear at certain grain boundaries in the parent structure, such that a specific crystallograph...
In this study, the deformation behavior of a Ti-40Al-10V (at.%) alloy within β single phase field was examined by means of isothermal compression at 1300 °C under strain rates of 2 s−1, 0.2 s−1, and 0.02 s−1, as well as its...
Texture recognition is a fundamental task in computer vision, with diverse applications in material sciences, medicine, and agriculture. The ability to analyze complex patterns in images has been greatly enhanced by advancements in Deep Neural Networ...
Machined surfaces are rough from a microscopic perspective no matter how finely they are finished. Surface roughness is an important factor to consider during production quality control. Using modern techniques, surface roughness measurements are ben...
The pavement macro-texture and micro-texture are crucial factors for evaluating pavement performance as they have a significant correlation with friction, water film formation, and driving safety. During pavement construction, the macro-texture and m...
Facial emotion recognition has become increasingly important in healthcare, where understanding delicate cues like pain, discomfort, or unconsciousness can support more timely and responsive care. Yet, recognizing facial expressions in real-world set...
The forward and reverse phase transformation from face-centered cubic (fcc) to hexagonal close-packed (hcp) in the equiatomic high-entropy alloy (HEA) CrMnFeCoNi has been investigated with diffraction of high-energy synchrotron radiation. The forward...
Thermo-mechanical controlled processing (TMCP) is employed to obtain the required level of mechanical properties of contemporary high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel plates utilized for gas and oil pipeline production. The strength, deformation behav...
Among various off-equilibrium microstructures of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloy, electron beam powder bed fusion, in which three dimensional metallic objects are fabricated by melting the ingredient powder materials layer by layer on a pre-h...
Dissimilar friction stir welding (FSW) of titanium alloys offers a route to spatially optimized aerospace structures, but the asymmetric thermomechanical environment produces heterogeneous microstructures and textures whose interaction with mechanica...
Ultrasound inspection permits the characteristics of some foodstuffs to be determined easily and cheaply. This experimental study included the determination of various ultrasound parameters provided by the fast Fourier transform (FFT) which had not p...
The paper aimed to study the evolution of the microstructure and texture gradient of a 321-type metastable austenitic stainless steel during cold rotary swaging. Cold rotary swaging was carried out with a reduction of up to 90% at ambient temperature...
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Permanent crops, such as olive groves, vineyards and fruit trees, are important in European agriculture because of their spatial and economic relevance. Agricultural geographical databases (AGDBs) are commonly used by public bodies to gain knowledge...
Capacitive touch panels (CTPs) have the merits of being waterproof, antifouling, scratch resistant, and capable of rapid response, making them more popular in various touch electronic products. However, the CTP has a multilayer structure, and the bac...
Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of disability and death. To achieve timely assessments, a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system was proposed to perform early recognition of hyperacute ischemic stroke based on non-contrast computed tomogr...
Accurate discretization of the orientation distribution function (ODF) is essential for reliable microstructural modeling of polycrystalline aggregates. This work proposes a novel texture discretization method that achieves high-fidelity ODF approxim...
The equiatomic face-centered cubic high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi was severely deformed at room and liquid nitrogen temperature by high-pressure torsion up to shear strains of about 170. Its microstructure was analyzed by X-ray line profile analysis a...
Flexible tactile sensor with contact force sensing and surface texture recognition abilities is crucial for robotic dexterous grasping and manipulation in daily usage. Different from force sensing, surface texture discrimination is more challenging i...
The skid resistance of asphalt pavement is vital for traffic safety and reducing accidents. Existing research using only wavelet transforms or fractal theory to study the pavement surface texture-skid resistance relationship has limitations. This pap...
The Gleason grading system is generally used for histological grading of prostate cancer. In this paper, we first introduce using the Shearlet transform and its coefficients as texture features for automatic Gleason grading. The Shearlet transform is...
Large scale assessment of aboveground biomass (AGB) in tropical forests is often limited by the saturation of remote sensing signals at high AGB values. Fourier Transform Textural Ordination (FOTO) performs well in quantifying canopy texture from ver...
Many studies in the literature have presented multiple remote sensing techniques for defect inspection of paintings. At present, however, papers on defect inspection and restoration of oriental architectural arts—such as door god paintings&mdas...
Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) are known for their high water content and nutritional value, making them a valuable addition to a balanced diet. The objective of this study was to evaluate the physicochemical quality (color, moisture, water activity, an...
In this study, the effect of heat treatment on the fracture behavior of alloy B steel with boron (B) contents as high as 130 ppm was investigated. The Alloy B are derived from Gr.92 steel with outstanding creep characteristics. The amounts of minor a...
Generative Artificial Intelligence has shown immense potential in industrial design. However, applying Diffusion Transformers to precision manufacturing faces a critical bottleneck: the trade-off between flexible multi-task editing and high-fidelity...
The quantitative assessment of cardiovascular functions is particularly complicated, especially during any physiological challenge (e.g., exercise), with physiological signals showing intricate oscillatory properties. Signal complexity is one of such...
Large magnetostrain can be demonstrated in Ni-Mn-X (X = In, Sn, Sb) meta-magnetic shape memory alloys by resuming the predeformed martensite through magnetic-field-induced reverse martensitic transformation. However, owing to the constraint from the...
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