In computer vision, edge and object contour detection is essential for higher-level vision
tasks, such as shape matching, visual salience, image segmentation, and object recognition …

Contact angle measurement is an effective way to investigate solid surface properties. The
introduction of low-cost digital cameras, as well as software and libraries for image analysis …

This book covers the fundamentals in designing and deploying techniques using deep
architectures. It is intended to serve as a beginner's guide to engineers or students who want …

Edge detection is one of the most fundamental operations in the field of image analysis and
computer vision as a critical preprocessing step for high-level tasks. It is difficult to give a …

Double threshold method of traditional Canny operator detects the edge rely on the
information of gradient magnitude, which has a lower edge connectivity and incomplete …

The traditional Canny algorithm has been applied to image edge detection. However, this
traditional algorithm can't adaptively determine the filtering threshold value and it can't …

Offsite construction shifts construction work to the factory environment, enabling automation
of traditionally manual operations. While this approach has proven to be advantageous for …

Visual surface defect inspection for metal part has become a rapidly developing research
field within the last decade. But due to the variances of defect shapes and scales, the …

In recent years, oil spill accidents have become increasingly frequent due to the
development of marine transportation and massive oil exploitation. At present, satellite …

Rapid and accurate extraction of shoreline is of great significance for the use and
management of sea area. Remote sensing has a strong ability to obtain data and has …