Signal detection theory provides a precise language and graphic notation for analyzing decision making in the presence of uncertainty. It has been widely used in visual inspection to evaluate system performance. Recent studies also found that trust in automation plays a very important role in visual inspection. Particularly, trust has a great influence on the use of automation in a hybrid inspe...

Repeats are a common feature of genomic sequences and much remains to be understood of their origin and structure. The identification of repeated strings in genomic sequences is therefore of importance for a variety of applications in biology. In this paper a new method for finding all repeats and visualizing them in a two-dimensional plot is presented. The method is first applied to a set of c...

Low contrast in mammographic image has always made detection of subtle signs such as the presence of micro calcification within dense tissue a challenge. Therefore, numerous researches have been conducted on contrast enhancement technique for mammographic image. However, most of these methods focus on enhancing specific range of intensity level producing an enhanced version of the original imag...

In this paper, a new approach for estimation of eigenvalues of images is presented. The proposed approach is based on the Gerschgorin’s circles theorem. This approach is more efficient as there is no need of calculation of all real eigenvalues. It is also helpful for all type of images where the calculation of eigenvalues may be impractical. More importantly, anyone can come to the conclusion b...

Close-range photogrammetric measurement systems are increasingly used for high-precision surface inspection of car body parts. These measurement systems are based on an active light source, the projector, and one or more cameras. Many systems use a sequence of fringe projection, mostly a combination of the gray code and phase shift technique. Basically the quality of the measurement result depe...

At present, one of the main inspection methods of electric wires is visual inspection. The development of a novel non-destructive inspection technology is required because of various problems, such as water invasion by the removal of insulators. Since terahertz (THz) waves have high transparency to nonpolar substances such as coatings of conductive wire, electric conductive wires are extremely ...

The goal of this research was to find out if the performance of color based wood inspection systems could be improved by combining color and texture information. T h ~ s paper describes a wood surface inspection method that combines color percentile features with texture features based on simple spatial operators. The proposed method is tested with images from an application environment develop...

The design and operation of supplementary irrigation schemes are dependent upon an accurate estimation of the "total available moisture" in the soil. This has been defined as the amount of water held between the limits of field capacity and wilting point in the effective rooting depth of the crop. Under irrigated conditions the effective rooting depth is that depth of soil from which the crop c...

The paper describes the use of data analysis techniques in the computer-vision inspection of industrial workpieces. Computer-vision inspection aims at accomplishing quality veriication of fabricated parts by means of automated visual procedures. Gathering the visual information into models proves a critical task, especially when subjective judgement is involved in quality veriication. In this w...