Harness racing horses are exposed to high workload and consequently, they are at risk of joint injuries and lameness. In recent years, the interest in applications to improve animal welfare has increased and there is a demand for objective assessment methods that can enable early and robust diagnosis of injuries. In this thesis, experiments were co...
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One of VDL most complex products is the Wafer Handler a machine with the function of thermal conditioning, centering and aligning wafers for the subsequent photolithography processes. The function of centering a wafer is performed by a submodule of the WH, the Centring Unit (cu) Currently the CU has two main limitations which make it unfi...
Neural image synthesis has seen enormous advances in recent years, led by innovations in GANs which generate high-resolution, photo-realistic images. However, a major limitation of these methods is that they tend to capture texture statistics of an image with no explicit understanding of geometry. Additionally, GAN-only pipelines are notoriously ha...
In recent years, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems have shown significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) methods refer to the SLAM approaches that employ cameras for pose estimation and map reconstruction and are preferred over Light Detection And R...
Strawberries have a short shelf-life time and thus need to be harvested at the right time to reduce waste. To this end, information about quality attributes is useful. Recently, many computer vision methods have been proposed. Most literature analyzes postharvest, which means that strawberries can only be analyzed after harvesting. As a result, the...
The development of iris biometric identification recognition is presented. Iris recognition differs from other methods because data acquisition is non-physical and is more accessible. It has been proven that the iris does not change as an individual ages and is well protected from external damages due to the eyelid and cornea, acting as a shield to...
In the open world, machine learning (ML) models can encounter a multitude of unknown or novel classes. In a surveillance, safety, or security use case, unknown samples can pose potential threats that are hard to detect since those samples have never been trained on. At the same time, most of the unknowns that will be encountered by a surveillance M...
Camera-based patient monitoring is undergoing rapid adoption in the healthcare sector with the recent COVID-19 pandemic acting as a catalyst. It offers round-the-clock monitoring of patients in clinical units (e.g. ICUs, ORs), or at their homes through installed cameras, enabling timely, pre-emptive care. These are powered by Computer Vision based ...
Machines that interact with humans can do so better if they can also visually understand us, but they have limited resources to do so. The main topic of this dissertation is contrasting the use of resources by machine vision systems against the accuracy obtained by them. This thesis focuses on reducing the need for data, memory, and computation in ...
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The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the institute of Technology of Valenciennes has been participating to Festival of Science for many years. Workshops about scientific subjects are organised in sessions of one and a half hour for groups of twelve participants. Participants come from different types of schools: from primar...
