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Building segmentation is essential in infrastructure development, population management, and geological observations. This article targets shallow models due to their interpretable nature to assess the presence of LiDAR data for supervised…
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Autonomous vehicle perception systems require robust pedestrian detection, particularly on geometrically complex roadways like Type-S curved surfaces, where standard RGB camera-based methods face limitations. This paper introduces YOLO-APD,…
Recently, a plethora of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms have been proposed to achieve the efficiency, safety, and reliability of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The AVs use a perception system to detect, localize, and…
When applying deep learning to remote sensing data in archaeological research, a notable obstacle is the limited availability of suitable datasets for training models. The application of transfer learning is frequently employed to mitigate…
Maintaining roadway infrastructure is essential for ensuring a safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation system. However, manual data collection for detecting road damage is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and poses safety risks.…
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Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…
The You Only Look Once (YOLO) architecture is crucial for real-time object detection. However, deploying it in resource-constrained environments such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires efficient transfer learning. Although layer…
Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…
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Condition monitoring subsea pipelines in low-visibility underwater environments poses significant challenges due to turbidity, light distortion, and image degradation. Traditional visual-based inspection systems often fail to provide…
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Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object…