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This paper is focused on the field of computer vision in order to investigate the presentation properties of retinal blood vessels. Combining the structure of convolutional neural networks, activation functions, and common metrics in semantic segmentation, a dynamic network model for retinal vessel segmentation based on computer vision is constructed. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of retinal vascular segmentation based on computer vision. The image connection and alignment pattern selection process is also established to match retinal vessel images by computer vision. The performance of the dynamic network constructed here and the results of retinal vessel segmentation were then analyzed in three publicly available datasets, DRIVE (digital retinal images for vessel extraction), CHASE_DB1, and STARE (structured snalysis of the retinal. The ROC (retinopathy online challenge) curves on all three datasets exceeded 0.9, showing high performance, and the area under the PR curve exceeded 0.88. The accuracy of the results for retinal vessel segmentation was around 96%. Based on the semantic segmentation direction in the field of computer vision in this study, the dynamic network for retinal vessel segmentation can be well constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers an issue of delineating agricultural fields in satellite images. In this task we follow a multi-temporal data approach. We show that on such data, good quality can be achieved using a simple low-parameter method. The method consists of a combination of a field detector and an edge detector. The field detection is based on an Otsu thresholding technique and for the edge detection we use a Canny detector. Facing a lack of available datasets and aiming to estimate the proposed algorithm, we prepared and published our dataset consisting of 18,859 expertly annotated fields using Sentinel-2 data. We implement one of the state-of-the-art deep-learning approaches and compare it with the proposed method on our dataset. The experiment shows the proposed simple multi-temporal algorithm to outperform the state-of-the-art instant data approach. This result confirms the importance of using multi-temporal data and for the first time demonstrates that the delineation problem can be solved at a lower cost without loss of quality. Our approach requires a significantly less amount of training data when compared with the NN-based one. The dataset of agricultural fields used in the work and the proposed algorithm implementation in Python are published in open access.

Background: The planetary rover is an essential platform for planetary exploration. Visual semantic segmentation is significant in the localization, perception, and path planning of the rover autonomy. Recent advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence brought about new opportunities. A systematic literature review (SLR) can help analyze existing solutions, discover available data, and identify potential gaps. Methods: A rigorous SLR has been conducted, and papers are selected from three databases (IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, and Scopus) from the start of records to May 2022. The 320 candidate studies were found by searching with keywords and bool operators, and they address the semantic terrain segmentation in the navigation vision of planetary rovers. Finally, after four rounds of screening, 30 papers were included with robust inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as quality assessment. Results: 30 studies were included for the review, and sub-research areas include navigation (16 studies), geological analysis (7 studies), exploration efficiency (10 studies), and others (3 studies) (overlaps exist). Five distributions are extendedly depicted (time, study type, geographical location, publisher, and experimental setting), which analyzes the included study from the view of community interests, development status, and reimplementation ability. One key research question and six sub-research questions are discussed to evaluate the current achievements and future gaps. Conclusions: Many promising achievements in accuracy, available data, and real-time performance have been promoted by computer vision and artificial intelligence. However, a solution that satisfies pixel-level segmentation, real-time inference time, and onboard hardware does not exist, and an open, pixel-level annotated, and the real-world data-based dataset is not found. As planetary exploration projects progress worldwide, more promising studies will be proposed, and deep learning will bring more opportunities and contributions to future studies. Contributions: This SLR identifies future gaps and challenges by proposing a methodical, replicable, and transparent survey, which is the first review (also the first SLR) for semantic terrain segmentation in the navigation vision of planetary rovers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer-Aided Sperm Analysis (CASA) is a widely studied topic in the diagnosis and treatment of male reproductive health. Although CASA has been evolving, there is still a lack of publicly available large-scale image datasets for CASA. To fill this gap, we provide the Sperm Videos and Images Analysis (SVIA) dataset, including three different subsets, subset-A, subset-B and subset-C, to test and evaluate different computer vision techniques in CASA. For subset-A, in order to test and evaluate the effectiveness of SVIA dataset for object detection, we use five representative object detection models and four commonly used evaluation metrics. For subset-B, in order to test and evaluate the effectiveness of SVIA dataset for image segmentation, we used eight representative methods and three standard evaluation metrics. Moreover, to test and evaluate the effectiveness of SVIA dataset for object tracking, we have employed the traditional k NN with progressive sperm (PR) as an evaluation metric and two deep learning models with three standard evaluation metrics. For subset-C, to prove the effectiveness of SVIA dataset for image denoising, nine denoising filters are used to denoise thirteen kinds of noise, and the mean structural similarity is calculated for evaluation. At the same time, to test and evaluate the effectiveness of SVIA dataset for image classification, we evaluate the results of twelve convolutional neural network models and six visual transformer models using four commonly used evaluation metrics. Through a series of experimental analyses and comparisons in this paper, it can be concluded that this proposed dataset can evaluate not only the functions of object detection, image segmentation, object tracking, image denoising, and image classification but also the robustness of object detection and image classification models. Therefore, SVIA dataset can fill the gap of the lack of large-scale public datasets in CASA and promote the development of CASA. Dataset is available at: https://github.com/Demozsj/Detection-Sperm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]