[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of human operators and advanced technologies in the visual inspection of aero engine blades

J Aust, D Pons - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background—Aircraft inspection is crucial for safe flight operations and is predominantly
performed by human operators, who are unreliable, inconsistent, subjective, and prone to …

Evaluation of convolutional neural networks' hyperparameters with transfer learning to determine sorting of ripe medjool dates

BD Pérez-Pérez, JP Garcia Vazquez… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven their efficiency in various applications in
agriculture. In crops such as date, they have been mainly used in the identification and …

Atmospheric turbulence study with deep machine learning of intensity scintillation patterns

AM Vorontsov, MA Vorontsov, GA Filimonov… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Atmospheric remote sensing, directed energy, free-space laser
communication, adaptive optics, lidars, active imaging, optical surveillance. Abstract A new …

[PDF][PDF] Virtual reality in fluid power education: Impact on students' perceived learning experience and engagement

I Azzam, K El Breidi, F Breidi, C Mousas - Education Sciences, 2024 - ics.purdue.edu
The significance of practical experience and visualization in the fluid power discipline, highly
tied to students' success, requires integrating immersive pedagogical tools for enhanced …

Compression helps deep learning in image classification

EH Yang, H Amer, Y Jiang - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The impact of JPEG compression on deep learning (DL) in image classification is revisited.
Given an underlying deep neural network (DNN) pre-trained with pristine ImageNet images …

Assessing changes in mountain treeline ecotones over 30 years using CNNs and historical aerial images

Z Wang, C Ginzler, B Eben, N Rehush, LT Waser - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Historical black-and-white (B&W) aerial images have been recognized as an important
source of information for assessing vegetation dynamics. However, the use of these images …

Automatic, multiview, coplanar extraction for CityGML building model texture mapping

H He, J Yu, P Cheng, Y Wang, Y Zhu, T Lin, G Dai - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Most 3D CityGML building models in street-view maps (eg, Google, Baidu) lack texture
information, which is generally used to reconstruct real-scene 3D models by …

Decoders configurations based on Unet family and feature pyramid network for COVID-19 segmentation on CT images

HT Nguyen, TB Tran, HH Luong, TKN Huynh - PeerJ Computer Science, 2021 - peerj.com
Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been ferociously destroying
global health and economics. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), until May …

Virtual underwater datasets for autonomous inspections

I Polymenis, M Haroutunian, R Norman… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and
the scientific community's rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many …

Comparing interpretation of high-resolution aerial imagery by humans and artificial intelligence to detect an invasive tree species

R Rodriguez III, RL Perroy, J Leary, D Jenkins… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Timely, accurate maps of invasive plant species are critical for making appropriate
management decisions to eliminate emerging target populations or contain infestations …