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vision, etc ; barns; composts; lighting; optical equipment; portable equipment; roughness; soil; surface roughness; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Knowledge of surface roughness with the consequent presence of crust in the soil is important information for the rational management of environmental resources. Soil surface roughness can be determined by contact and noncontact methods. Contact methods have lower values and precision than noncontact methods. Therefore, the objective of this study was to develop low-cost, portable and robust optic ...
computer vision, etc ; computer software; control methods; cookies; dough; extrusion; printers; processed cheeses; white chocolate; Show all 9 Subjects
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... 3D food printing is an emerging technology to customize food designs and produce personalized foods. Food printing materials are diverse in rheological properties, which makes reliable extrusion-based 3D printing with constant printing parameters a challenge. Food printing often suffers from improper extrusion because of the varying elasticity of the food materials. In this study, a computer visio ...
computer vision, etc ; algorithms; automation; clenbuterol; color; colorimetry; food safety; immunoassays; lean meat; lighting; mobile telephones; ractopamine; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Ractopamine (RAC) and clenbuterol (CLE) are feed additives with adverse effects of consuming too much to food safety. It is necessary to develop an efficient and accurate colorimetric analysis method for immune-based detection of RAC and CLE. Traditional human-vision-based colorimetric analysis for lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) is non-quantifiable and low-in-automation, while container-based and ...
computer vision, etc ; beverage industry; black tea; cameras; color; fermentation; flavanols; food chemistry; least squares; prediction; theaflavins; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Fermentation is a key black tea processing step and makes an important contribution to quality formation. Current approaches to fermentation monitoring are costly or laboratory-based. Here, we first evaluated the potential of at-line computer vision for detecting fermentation quality in a tea factory. A self-built industrial camera was used to collect tea samples at various fermentation durations. ...
computer vision, etc ; color; crop yield; disease diagnosis; grapes; leaf blight; leaves; measles; principal component analysis; product quality; support vector machines; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Plant diseases often reduce crop yield and product quality; therefore, plant disease diagnosis plays a vital role in farmers’ management decisions. Visual crop inspections by humans are time-consuming and challenging tasks and, practically, can only be performed in small areas at a given time, especially since many diseases have similar symptoms. An intelligent machine vision monitoring system for ...
computer vision, etc ; color; data collection; electronic circuits; infrastructure; irrigated farming; irrigation rates; irrigation systems; memory; people; raspberries; satellites; water flow; water shortages; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Agricultural irrigation wastage, especially from inefficient infrastructure in developing nations, is among the leading causes of the global water shortage epidemic, which affects an estimated 2.8 billion people worldwide. In this project, a three-component cloudless internet-of-things (IoT)-based irrigation network is designed and constructed to affordably integrate into existing irrigation infra ...
... Intraocular angiogenesis mediated by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and the related ocular disease, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is the leading cause of loss of vision worldwide. Though anti-VEGF antibodies are used to control AMD, administration of high doses or frequent dosing, and poor ocular retention of the drug adversely affect the patient outcomes. Herein, we report th ...
Milena V. Freitas; Celma G. Lemos; Raquel B. Ariede; John F.G. Agudelo; Rubens R.O. Neto; Carolina H.S. Borges; Vito A. Mastrochirico-Filho; Fábio Porto-Foresti; Rogério L. Iope; Fabrício M. Batista; José R.F. Brega; Diogo T. Hashimoto
... Deep learning (DL) is a cutting-edge technology that enables high-throughput phenotyping in aquaculture. The routine application of DL offers new opportunities for the genetic selection of appearance traits, especially those related to body shape. The criteria currently used for the trait selection of commercial interest, such as rapid growth and weight gain, can directly influence the animal's ap ...
computer vision; vision, etc ; agriculture; electronics; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Many tasks in smart agriculture have further requirements for the autonomous navigation of agricultural robots. Due to irreplaceable visual information and low-cost hardware costs, machine vision (MV) is widely used in agricultural robot navigation. This paper reviewed applications of MV in agricultural robot navigation. First, the advantages, disadvantages and roles of different vision sensors an ...
computer vision; vision, etc ; algorithms; lighting; wind turbines; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The structural condition of blades is mainly evaluated using manual inspection methods. However, these methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly, and the detection results significantly depend on the experience of inspectors, often resulting in lower precision. Focusing on the dynamic characteristics (i.e., natural frequencies) of large wind turbine blades, this study proposes a moni ...
computer vision; night vision, etc ; cameras; rain; water; wildlife; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Monitoring ephemeral and intermittent streams is a major challenge in hydrology. On-site inspections may be impractical in difficult-to-access environments. Motivated by the latest advancements in digital cameras and computer vision techniques, in this work, we describe the development and application of a stage-camera system to monitor the water level in ungauged headwater streams. The system enc ...
computer vision; vision, etc ; automation; ecosystems; image analysis; landscapes; tourism; urban parks; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Urban parks are important public places that provide an opportunity for city dwellers to interact with nature. In recent years, social media data have become a promising data source for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CES) and landscape features in urban parks. However, it is a challenging task to identify and classify the CES and landscape features from social media photos by manua ...
binocular vision; vision, etc ; data collection; education; industry; lidar; models; system optimization; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Quadruped robots, an important class of unmanned aerial vehicles, have broad potential for applications in education, service, industry, military, and other fields. Their independent positioning plays a key role for completing assigned tasks in a complex environment. However, positioning based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) may result in GNSS jamming and quadruped robots not operati ...
Talia Speaker; Stephanie O'Donnell; George Wittemyer; Brett Bruyere; Colby Loucks; Anthony Dancer; Marianne Carter; Eric Fegraus; Jonathan Palmer; Ellie Warren; Jennifer Solomon
computer vision; vision, etc ; environmental DNA; females; genomics; odds ratio; surveys; wildlife management; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Conservation technology holds the potential to vastly increase conservationists’ ability to understand and address critical environmental challenges, but systemic constraints appear to hamper its development and adoption. Understanding of these constraints and opportunities for advancement remains limited. We conducted a global online survey of 248 conservation technology users and developers to i ...
... Many species of armadillo demonstrate impressive navigation abilities and may compensate for poor eyesight with a strong sense of smell. We examined which modality four three-banded armadillos and one hairy armadillo prioritized when two cues (olfactory or spatial) previously associated with reward were put in conflict. The armadillos learned to approach one of two locations - each paired with a d ...
... Visual-field (VF) anisotropy has been investigated in terms of spatial resolution of attention, spatial frequency, and semantic processing. Brightness perception has also been reported to vary between VFs. However, the influence of VF anisotropy on brightness perception using pupillometry has not been investigated. The present study measured participants' pupil size during glare illusion, in which ...
computer vision; vision, etc ; data collection; humans; image analysis; land use; models; spatial data; Show all 8 Subjects
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... We propose a geographically reproducible approach to urban scene sensing based on large-scale pre-trained models. With the rise of GeoAI research, many high-quality urban observation datasets and deep learning models have emerged. However, geospatial heterogeneity makes these resources challenging to share and migrate to new application scenarios. This paper introduces vision language and semantic ...
vision; vision disorders, etc ; atrophy; case studies; children; ganglia; genes; peripheral nervous system diseases; phenotype; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Dominant optic atrophy (DOA), MIM # 605290, is the most common hereditary optic neuropathy inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. Clinically, it presents a progressive decrease in vision, central visual field defects, and retinal ganglion cell loss. A biallelic mode of inheritance causes syndromic DOA or Behr phenotype, MIM # 605290. This case report details a family with Biallelic Optic Atro ...
... Skyrocketing housing costs in the U.S. have fueled research on gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood change, addressing how development processes impact low-income and working-class neighborhoods. Scholars have pointed to the importance of community-based knowledge in understanding the impact of gentrification at the neighborhood level (Chapple, Loukaitou-Sideris, Gonzalez, et al. 2017a; ...
... Due to the complex environment in the field, using machine vision technology to enable the robot to travel autonomously was a challenging task. This study investigates a method based on mathematical morphology and Hough transformation for drip tape following by a two-wheeled robot trailer. First, an image processing technique was utilized to extract the drip tape in the image, including the select ...