27 August 2021
The main objective of this study was to examine the consequences of perceived discrimination in people with hearing and visual impairments. Using path analysis, we attempted to validate a multigroup model in which perceived personal discrimination is...
Accurate visual tracking is a challenging research topic in the field of computer vision. The challenge emanates from various issues, such as target deformation, background clutter, scale variations, and occlusion. In this setting, discriminative cor...
The visual tracking algorithm based on discriminative correlation filter (DCF) has shown excellent performance in recent years, especially as the higher tracking speed meets the real-time requirement of object tracking. However, when the target is pa...
Within most of the 17 plane symmetry groups, individual symmetry operations act in multiple, nonequivalent ways. This, and the fact that many groups can be realized on the basis of different unit cells and generating regions, poses difficulties for v...
Stitching gaps and misalignments in mosaic images can severely degrade the human visual perception of mosaic effects. Image stitching plays a key role in eliminating these unpleasant defects. In this paper, an image-stitching method for mosaic images...
Hyperspectral images in the spectral range of 874–1734 nm were collected for 14,015, 14,300 and 15,042 grape seeds of three varieties, respectively. Pixel-wise spectra were preprocessed by wavelet transform, and then, spectra of each single grape see...
With the increasing demand for natural interactions, people have realized that an intuitive Computer-Aided Design (CAD) interaction mode can reduce the complexity of CAD operation and improve the design experience. Although interaction modes like gaz...
How perceptual limits can be reduced has long been examined by psychologists. This study investigated whether visual cues, blindfolding, visual-auditory synesthetic experience, and musical training could facilitate a smaller frequency difference lime...
In the present study, a lanthanide fluorescence sensor array was developed for the discrimination of honey’s botanical origin. Dipicolinic acid (DPA) was used as the antenna ligand for sensitizing the fluorescence of Tb3+ and Eu3+ to prepare th...
Touchscreen setups are increasingly used in rodents for a wide range of cognitive tasks, including visual discrimination. The greater automation and high throughput of this platform could greatly facilitate future vision research. However, little inf...
Discriminative correlation filters (DCFs) have been shown to perform superiorly in visual object tracking. However, visual tracking is still challenging when the target objects undergo complex scenarios such as occlusion, deformation, scale changes a...
Over the last decade, studies examining the cognitive abilities of fish have increased, using a broad range of approaches. One of the foci has been to test the ability of fish to discriminate quantities of items and to determine whether fish can solv...
Cognitive impairment is common after stroke, and disturbances in hippocampal function are often involved, even in remote non-hippocampal injuries. In terms of hippocampal function, growth hormone (GH) is known to affects plasticity and cognition. We...
Background: Orientation discrimination tasks provide a core measure of visual sensitivity and are widely used to study how perceptual performance varies with stimulus uncertainty and visual field location. Here, we examined how external noise, retina...
Deep learning (DL) methods are increasingly being applied for developing reliable computer-aided detection (CADe), diagnosis (CADx), and information retrieval algorithms. However, challenges in interpreting and explaining the learned behavior of the...
The development of an easy-to-attach electroencephalograph (EEG) would enable its frequent use for the assessment of neurodevelopment and clinical monitoring. In this study, we designed a two-channel EEG headband measurement device that could be used...
Decision trees are a widely used machine learning technique due to their ease of interpretation and construction. This method allows domain experts to learn from raw data, but they cannot include their prior knowledge in the analysis due to its autom...
A qualitative theory of two-dimensional quadratic-polynomial integrable dynamical systems (DSs) is constructed on the basis of a discriminant criterion elaborated in the paper. This criterion enables one to pick up a single parameter that makes it po...
For nine popular geometrical visual-illusion figures, a mathematical analysis is provided along with a characterization of the figures’ psychological effectiveness. Supported by graphical illustrations, for the L and the T, it is shown how math...
Infants show an advantage in processing female and familiar race faces, but the effect sizes are often small, suggesting individual differences in their discrimination abilities. This research assessed whether differences in 6–10-month-olds&rsq...
With its outstanding performance and tracking speed, discriminative correlation filters (DCF) have gained much attention in visual object tracking, where time-consuming correlation operations can be efficiently computed utilizing the discrete Fourier...
Matching-to-sample tasks have been a useful method in visual cognitive studies on non-human animals. The use of touch panels in matching-to-sample tasks has contributed to cognitive studies on terrestrial animals; however, there has been a difficulty...
Understandings of how visual hallucinations appear have been highly influenced by generative approaches, in particular Friston’s Active Inference conceptualization. Their core proposition is that these phenomena occur when hallucinatory expecta...
Robust and accurate visual tracking is one of the most challenging computer vision problems. Due to the inherent lack of training data, a robust approach for constructing a target appearance model is crucial. The existing spatially regularized discri...
The discriminative correlation filter (DCF)-based tracking method has shown good accuracy and efficiency in visual tracking. However, the periodic assumption of sample space causes unwanted boundary effects, restricting the tracker’s ability to...
Recently, Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) have shown excellent performance in visual object tracking. The correlation for a computing response map can be conducted efficiently in Fourier domain by Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of inputs,...
Cognitive abilities in fish have been widely demonstrated using experimental protocols commonly adopted with mammals and birds. Only a few studies have tested fish in the simultaneous match-to-sample task (sMTS), and mixed evidence regarding their ca...
Visual object tracking is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires estimating the position and scale of a target object in a video sequence. However, scale variation is a difficult challenge that affects the performance and robustness of m...
Sixth-generation (6G) wireless technology has facilitated the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling various end devices to be deployed in applications such as wireless multimedia sensor networks. However, most end devices encoun...
This paper presents a novel brain-computer interface (BCI)-based healthcare control system, which is based on steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) and P300 of electroencephalography (EEG) signals. The proposed system is composed of two mode...
We report a unique phenomenon, the opposite color response of a giant polyoxometalate, (NH4)42[Mo132O372(CHCOO)30] (H2O)72 ([Mo132]), to the existing states of human papillomavirus (HPV) major capsid protein, L1-pentamer (L1-p), and virus-like partic...
Along with social, cognitive, and behavior deficiencies, peculiarities in sensory processing, including an atypical global motion processing, have been reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The question about the enhanced motion pooling in ASD...
Understanding surface textures through visual cues is crucial for applications in haptic rendering and virtual reality. However, accurately translating visual information into tactile feedback remains a challenging problem. To address this challenge,...
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a severe complication of diabetes. PDR-related retinal hemorrhages often lead to severe vision loss. The main goals of management are to prevent visual impairment progression and improve residual vision. We...
A universal signature of developmental dyslexia is literacy acquisition impairments. Besides, dyslexia may be related to deficits in selective spatial attention, in the sensitivity to global visual motion, speed processing, oculomotor coordination, a...
24 June 2021
The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes in visual functions under the effects of moderate–high breath alcohol concentrations (BrACs), and the influence of biological sex on visual deterioration, considering different factors. A total of...
This study examined goldfishes’ ability to recognize photographs of rotated 3D objects. Six goldfish were presented with color photographs of a plastic model turtle and frog at 0° in a two-alternative forced-choice task. Fish were tested wi...
Underwater object tracking holds considerable significance in the field of ocean engineering. Additionally, it serves as a crucial component in the operations of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), particularly during tasks associated with capturi...
Target tracking in low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) videos faces many technical challenges due to the relatively small sizes, various orientation changes of the objects and diverse scenes. As a result, the tracking performance is still not...
In recent years, discriminative correlation filter (DCF)-based trackers have made considerable progress and drawn widespread attention in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking community. Most existing trackers collect historical information, e.g...
Three worldwide historical plague pandemics resulted in millions of deaths. Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is also a potential bioterrorist weapon. Simple, rapid, and specific detection of Y. pestis is important to prevent and contro...
Color histogram-based trackers have obtained excellent performance against many challenging situations. However, since the appearance of color is sensitive to illumination, they tend to achieve lower accuracy when illumination is severely variant thr...
Social determining factors such as the adverse influence of globalization, supermarket growth, fast unplanned urbanization, sedentary lifestyle, economy, and social position slowly develop behavioral risk factors in humans. Behavioral risk factors su...
The differentiation of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) poses a relevant diagnostic challenge and can lead to misdiagnosis and consequently poor patient outcome. Recent studies have shown that radiomics-based...
Without any prior knowledge, it has always been a serious challenge to accurately detect infrared targets under a maritime harsh environment (MHE). To solve this problem, the main contribution of this paper is to use the improved visual attention mod...
Several studies have found in the sense of touch a good sensory modality by which to study body representation. Here, we address the “metric component of body representation”, a specific function developed to process the discrimination of tactile dis...
Remote Sensing Visual Grounding (RSVG) requires fine-grained understanding of language descriptions to localize the specific image regions. Conventional methods typically employ a pipeline of separate visual and textual encoders and a fusion module....
Existing image inpainting methods based on deep learning have made great progress. These methods either generate contextually semantically consistent images or visually excellent images, ignoring that both semantic and visual effects should be apprec...
Currently, neighborhood linear discriminant analysis (nLDA) exploits reverse nearest neighbors (RNN) to avoid the assumption of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) that all samples from the same class should be independently and identically distribute...
With rapidly developing technology, visual cues became a powerful tool for deliberate guiding of attention and affecting human performance. Using cues to manipulate attention introduces a trade-off between increased performance in cued, and decreased...
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