This paper addresses the problem of automatically reconstructing three-dimensional coronary vessel trees from a series of X-ray angiography images, a task which remains difficult, particularly with respect to solutions requiring no additional user in...
Past studies have used eye-tracking glasses to analyze people’s perception of visual stimuli, usually regarding wayfinding, safety, or visual appeal. Some industries, such as the automotive industry, studied the effects of visual stimuli on tas...
This article proposes and presents a novel approach to the characterization of winter precipitation and modeling of radar observables through a synergistic use of advanced optical disdrometers for microphysical and geometrical measurements of ice and...
The Schlieren technique is widely adopted for visualizing supersonic jets owing to its non-invasiveness to the flow field. However, extending the classical Schlieren method for quantitative refractive index measurements is cumbersome, especially for...
The utilization of agro-industrial waste in the bioeconomy is crucial for reducing the environmental impact. This study investigated the valorization of a common oat processing waste—oat hulls—using enzyme preparations of different origin...
Underwater radiated noise is part of the anthropogenic emissions into the environment and as such a pressing problem for the preservation of the marine ecosystem. In order to direct attention to the most relevant noise sources associated with ships i...
Three-dimensional (3D) shape estimation of the human body has a growing number of applications in medicine, anthropometry, special effects, and many other fields. Therefore, the demand for the high-quality acquisition of a complete and accurate body...
This work presents a 3D scanner able to reconstruct a complete object without occlusions, including its surface appearance. The technique presents a number of differences in relation to current scanners: it does not require mechanical handling like r...
The classification of vessel types in SAR imagery is of crucial importance for maritime applications. However, the ability to use real SAR imagery for deep learning classification is limited, due to the general lack of such data and/or the labor-inte...
The foxtail millet exhibits a diverse range of hull colors, which are crucial indicators for assessing its nutritional and economic value. However, the molecular regulatory mechanisms that govern the hull color of foxtail millet are largely unknown a...
Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) seeds are nutritious and valued as a source of vegetable oil, protein, healthy fatty acids, and minerals. Pumpkin seeds that are naturally devoid of the seedcoat (hull-less) are preferred by the industry as they eliminate the...
In this paper, a tool able to support the sailing yacht designer during the early stage of the design process has been developed. Cubic Rational Bézier curves have been selected to describe the main curves defining the hull of a sailing yacht. The ad...
Maritime ship target tracking plays an important role in applications such as maritime patrol and maritime surveillance. However, complex sea conditions, similar target appearances, and long-distance imaging often lead to target identity confusion an...
The knowledge of the hull shape and geometry of a racing vessel is one of the most important factors for predicting boat performance. The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) rating system specifies the calculation parameters of the hydrodynamic forces of...
The linear heating and formation of steel plates is one of the most critical technologies in shipbuilding. Excellent technology not only provides good hydrodynamics for the hull but also affects the whole hull construction cycle and cost. In the heat...
Fouling on ship hulls increases hydrodynamic drag, fuel consumption, and emissions. This, in turn, necessitates the development of efficient methods for side cleaning and inspection. This work focuses on the application of image-based classification...
Due to the mechanical nature of container handling operations, as well as natural factors, container and handling infrastructure suffers various types of damage during use, especially within the tight and enclosed environments of a ship’s hull....
Although underwater gliders are highly energy-efficient platforms capable of long-duration and large-scale ocean observation, their lack of self-propulsion requires external assistance for recovery upon mission completion. In harsh and dynamic marine...
Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) competes for resources within containers, resulting in a reduction in the quality and market value of ornamentals. Therefore, the objective of this study was (1) to assess the impact of different mulch types, depths,...
Decision making in modern forest management planning is challenged by the need to recognize multiple ecosystem services and to address the preferences and goals of stakeholders. This research presents an innovative a posteriori preference modeling an...
Vessel maintenance requires periodic visual inspection of the hull in order to detect typical defective situations of steel structures such as, among others, coating breakdown and corrosion. These inspections are typically performed by well-trained s...
Visual perception is an important component of close-range maritime situational awareness, particularly when conventional sources such as AIS and radar are delayed, incomplete, or unavailable. Ship wakes provide motion-related visual cues, but their...
Supervised learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) visual-based navigation raises the need for reliable datasets with multi-task labels (e.g., classification and regression labels). However, current public datasets have limitations: (a) Outdoor d...
The extent of player formation usage and the characteristics of player arrangements are not well understood in Australian football, unlike other team-based invasion sports. Using player location data from all centre bounces in the 2021 Australian Foo...
This paper involves the automation of a visual characterisation technique for corrosion in marine vessels, as it appears in the hull preventive coatings of marine vessels and their surfaces. We propose a module that maximizes the utilisation of featu...
Three-dimensional measurement is a high-throughput method that can record a large amount of information. Three-dimensional modelling of plants has the possibility to not only automate dimensional measurement, but to also enable visual assessment to b...
This research presents a large-scale thematic analysis of 66,002 Slovak university thesis abstracts, aimed at identifying, categorizing, and visualizing research trends across multiple academic disciplines. Using BERTopic for unsupervised topic model...
Attention to food waste is an increasingly growing phenomenon today, especially in the context of a circular economy. The InnovaEcoFood project investigates the use of by-products of the Piedmontese rice and wine production chains to valorize their u...
The present study investigated the community composition and dynamics of freshwater biofouling on fiberglass inland waterway vessel (IWV) models coated with two commercial antifouling paints deployed in the Danube River (Serbia) for a total of five m...
Interest in light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for the precise monitoring of vegetative growth of grain crops has increased. The study was conducted to estimate wheat size and plant distance using LiDAR and the convex hull method (CHM) compared to t...
Traditional biomechanical analysis is constrained by high capital costs and the physical limitations imposed by markers, posing significant barriers to clinical adoption. This review evaluates the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI)-based marke...
Ship detection in remote sensing images is crucial for maritime surveillance, port management, and national security. However, existing detectors struggle with complex harbor backgrounds, large-scale variations, and fine-grained inter-class similarit...
Collection of 3D data in archaeology is a long-standing practice. Traditionally, the focus of these data has been visualization as opposed to analysis. Three-dimensional data are often recorded during archaeological excavations, with the provenience...
The shipbuilding industry is very important for many countries. As an essential process in the shipbuilding industry, surface preparation (or coating removal) is gaining more and more attention. The traditional process used for ship hull coating remo...
To improve environmental sustainability and operational safety in maritime industries, the development of efficient methods for removing biofouling from submerged surfaces is critical. This study investigates the erosion mechanisms of cavitation jets...
We present a workflow for seamless real-time navigation and 3D thermal mapping in combined indoor and outdoor environments in a global reference frame. The automated workflow and partly real-time capabilities are of special interest for inspection ta...
Naval vessels face multiple risks that can damage their hulls during navigation, leading to on-site repairs through the shield metal arc welding (SMAW) process and underwater wet welding (UWW). This paper presents a weldability study to identify the...
The determination of optimal geometric characteristics of a catamaran that minimize vessel motion responses under prescribed design and operational conditions remains insufficiently addressed in existing engineering practice. This study presents a sy...
A workflow incorporating hyperspectral reflectance data, hull corrections, absorption feature extraction and clustering is presented. The workflow is applied to dense hyperspectral datasets, as collected by hyperspectral drill core logging systems. T...
Production of pollinator-dependent crops (PDCs) is increasing. However, pollinators are declining partly due to loss of floral resources. There is urgency to mitigate this decline and the potential risks to the production of PDCs and food security. O...
In the complex port environment, ship berthing manipulation is one of the most difficult operations. In this study, an algorithm of berthing and maneuvering was designed for a catamaran unmanned surface vehicle (USV), which is used for port patrol an...
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the regulator for the safety and pollution prevention of ships. They have set an ambitious target of driving International Shipping to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050 by the pro...
LiDAR and camera sensors are widely utilized in autonomous vehicles (AVs) and robotics due to their complementary sensing capabilities—LiDAR provides precise depth information, while cameras capture rich visual context. However, effective multi...
Conventional methods of plant distance and volume measurements are limited by low efficiency, limited spatial coverage, and high measurement error. LiDAR and RGB-D imaging offer cost-effective, precise, and non-destructive techniques for plant distan...
Determining the optimal harvest time is among the most critical economic decisions for peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) growers, directly influencing yield, quality, and market value. Unlike many other crops, peanuts are indeterminate, continuing to flow...
Teleoperation is widely used for unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) navigation in military and civilian fields. However, the human operator has to limit speed to ensure the handling stability because of the low resolution of video, limited field of view a...
Fouling control coatings (FCCs) are used to prevent the accumulation of marine biofouling on, e.g., ship hulls, which causes increased fuel consumption and the global spread of non-indigenous species. The standards for performance evaluations of FCCs...
Machine learning (ML) methods have been widely explored for predicting material properties. However, due to the rapid development of ML techniques and the diversity of available models, performance comparisons between traditional and graph-based mach...
High-throughput image analysis is a key tool for the efficient assessment of quantitative plant phenotypes. A typical approach to the computation of quantitative plant traits from image data consists of two major steps including (i) image segmentatio...
Severe foliage occlusion and dynamically changing lighting conditions in complex orchard environments pose significant challenges for visual perception systems in automated apple harvesting, including low detection accuracy, poor robustness, and insu...
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