Recent Advances in Computer Vision: Technologies and Applications, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1169

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College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China
Interests: person re-recognition; power vision technology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, computer vision has achieved great success in many fields. This Special Issue aims to encompass a broad spectrum of topics within computer vision, including image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques applied to visual data analysis. It seeks to showcase innovative methodologies and algorithms for tasks such as image classification, object detection and tracking, semantic segmentation, scene understanding, and beyond. Furthermore, this Special Issue welcomes contributions that explore the integration of computer vision into emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and robotics, as well as its applications in diverse fields such as healthcare, transportation, surveillance, entertainment, and manufacturing. By providing a platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research and practical applications, this Special Issue will endeavor to facilitate knowledge exchange, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and propel the advancement of computer vision technologies in order to effectively address real-world challenges.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Image processing, analysis, and understanding;
  2. Object detection and visual tracking;
  3. Human behavior analysis;
  4. Computer vision and smart cities;
  5. Industrial machine vision;
  6. Supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning;
  7. Reinforcement learning;
  8. Deep learning theory and applications;
  9. Pattern recognition;
  10. Data mining;
  11. Feature engineering;
  12. Information fusion;
  13. Object classification;
  14. Network analytics for efficient and reliable network operation.

Technical Program Committee Member:

  1. Qilei (Kevin) Li  Queen Mary University of London
  2. Wenzhe Zhai Harbin Engineering University

Dr. Mingliang Gao
Dr. Guofeng Zou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • computer vision
  • machine learning
  • image processing
  • pattern recognition
  • deep learning

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Bud-YOLOv8s: A Potato Bud-Eye-Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8s
by Wenlong Liu, Zhao Li, Shaoshuang Zhang, Ting Qin and Jiaqi Zhao
Electronics 2024, 13(13), 2541; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13132541 - 28 Jun 2024
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The key to intelligent seed potato cutting technology lies in the accurate and rapid identification of potato bud eyes. Existing detection algorithms suffer from low recognition accuracy and high model complexity, resulting in an increased miss rate. To address these issues, this study [...] Read more.
The key to intelligent seed potato cutting technology lies in the accurate and rapid identification of potato bud eyes. Existing detection algorithms suffer from low recognition accuracy and high model complexity, resulting in an increased miss rate. To address these issues, this study proposes a potato bud-eye-detection algorithm based on an improved YOLOv8s. First, by integrating the Faster Neural Network (FasterNet) with the Efficient Multi-scale Attention (EMA) module, a novel Faster Block-EMA network structure is designed to replace the bottleneck components within the C2f module of YOLOv8s. This enhancement improves the model’s feature-extraction capability and computational efficiency for bud detection. Second, this study introduces a weighted bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) to optimize the neck network, achieving multi-scale fusion of potato bud eye features while significantly reducing the model’s parameters, computation, and size due to its flexible network topology. Finally, the Efficient Intersection over Union (EIoU) loss function is employed to optimize the bounding box regression process, further enhancing the model’s localization capability. The experimental results show that the improved model achieves a mean average precision ([email protected]) of 98.1% with a model size of only 11.1 MB. Compared to the baseline model, the [email protected] and [email protected]:0.95 were improved by 3.1% and 4.5%, respectively, while the model’s parameters, size, and computation were reduced by 49.1%, 48.1%, and 31.1%, respectively. Additionally, compared to the YOLOv3, YOLOv5s, YOLOv6s, YOLOv7-tiny, and YOLOv8m algorithms, the [email protected] was improved by 4.6%, 3.7%, 5.6%, 5.2%, and 3.3%, respectively. Therefore, the proposed algorithm not only significantly enhances the detection accuracy, but also greatly reduces the model complexity, providing essential technical support for the application and deployment of intelligent potato cutting technology. Full article
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Enhanced Multi-View Low-Rank Graph Optimization for Dimensionality Reduction
by Haohao Li and Huibing Wang
Electronics 2024, 13(12), 2421; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13122421 - 20 Jun 2024
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In the last decade, graph embedding-based dimensionality reduction for multi-view data has been extensively studied. However, constructing a high-quality graph for dimensionality reduction is still a significant challenge. Herein, we propose a new algorithm, named multi-view low-rank graph optimization for dimensionality reduction (MvLRGO), [...] Read more.
In the last decade, graph embedding-based dimensionality reduction for multi-view data has been extensively studied. However, constructing a high-quality graph for dimensionality reduction is still a significant challenge. Herein, we propose a new algorithm, named multi-view low-rank graph optimization for dimensionality reduction (MvLRGO), which integrates graph optimization with dimensionality reduction into one objective function in order to simultaneously determine the optimal subspace and graph. The subspace learning of each view is conducted independently by the general graph embedding framework. For graph construction, we exploit low-rank representation (LRR) to obtain reconstruction relationships as the affinity weight of the graph. Subsequently, the learned graph of each view is further optimized throughout the learning process to obtain the ideal assignment of relations. Moreover, to integrate information from multiple views, MvLRGO regularizes each of the view-specific optimal graphs such that they align with one another. Benefiting from this term, MvLRGO can achieve flexible multi-view communication without constraining the subspaces of all views to be the same. Various experimental results obtained with different datasets show that the proposed method outperforms many state-of-the-art multi-view and single-view dimensionality reduction algorithms. Full article
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