A Novel Wood Log Measurement Combined Mask R-CNN and Stereo Vision Camera
Round 1
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Reviewer 2 Report
In the article, the authors presented their study called “A Novel Wood Log Measurement Combined Mask R-CNN and Stereo Vision Camera”. The authors propose an improved automatic wood measurement model combining Mask R-CNN and binocular stereo camera to achieve fast and accurate wood measurement tasks in complex environments in their paper. My reviews and suggestions about their publications are listed;
1) The abstract should include the context or background information for your research; the general topic under study; the specific topic of your research; why is it important to address these questions; the significance or implications of your findings or arguments. It must also contain more numeric values. Please highlight your contribution. Reorganize the abstract to conclude: (a) The overall purpose of the study and the research problems you investigated. (b) The basic design of the study. (c) Major findings or trends found as a result of the study. (d) A brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.
2)The introduction should be extended to the more detailed background that would be supported by some literature. The contributions of the article should be presented in more detail in this section. (Review your contributions again. Some of them are not contributions.) The introduction needs to clarify the (1) motivation, (2) challenges, (3) contribution, (4) objectives, and (5) significance/implication.
3) Add more recent reference to enhance literature survey section. Discuss the state-of-art techniques with their merits and issues. Read the article below about stereo vision and add it to the literature. (A new hybrid stereovision-based distance-estimation approach for mobile robot platforms. Computers & Electrical Engineering) This article includes stereo vision and triangulation method. Also, the article mentions the problem with the stereo camera triangulation method.
4) You really gave a lot of results in the article, but you should write more comments and discuss about your results (table or graph).
5) What solution you propose to make the system more robust. What is your difference from similar studies?
6) Why did you do such a study? What is your motivation? What is the contribution of such a study to the literature? In general, these are not given in detail in the paper. So, to attract the reader's attention, you should present the article from a different perspective.
7) the Conclusions section, the contribution of the study should be supported by numerical values. In other words, the author should discuss the future works related to proposed method and its drawbacks. rewrite the conclusion with following comment: (a) Highlight your analysis and reflect only the important points for the whole paper. (b) Mention the implication in the last of this section. Please, carefully review the manuscript to resolve these issues. (c) This section should be supported with numerical values.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
I have reviewed the revised manuscript title "A Novel Wood Log Measurement Combined Mask R-CNN and Stereo Vision Camera". After revising my initial comments and comparing the changes, done by the authors, with them. I found that the authors addressed and answered most of the comments efficiently. Overall, the revised manuscrip is well organized and carefully prepared. The response letter was elegant and satisfactory. I thank the authors for their kind responses. The authors have sufficiently address my all comments. So, I think it is appropriate to accept the revised article. The authors have addressed all the concerns and responded to the review comments. The manuscript can be published in this journal.
Author Response
Thank you for your careful reading and review comments. We are happy with your satisfaction.
