UTOMATIC ESTIMATION of serum globulins in human serum is normally measured as the difference between the total protein and the albumin as estimated by the dye binding capacity of the albumin, usually using 2-(4’hydroxyazobenzene) (HABA). However, it has been shown that a variety of drugs will upset dye uptake by the albumin (1). In addition, the absorbance of the native serum is so high, and th...

Crop yield estimation is an important task in apple orchard management. The current manual sampling-based yield estimation is time-consuming, labor-intensive and inaccurate. To deal with this challenge, we developed a computer vision-based system for automated, rapid and accurate yield estimation. The system uses a two-camera stereo rig for image acquisition. It works at nighttime with controll...

The dose from ionizing radiation exposure can be interpolated from a calibration curve fit to the frequency of dicentric chromosomes (DCs) at multiple doses. As DC counts are manually determined, there is an acute need for accurate, fully automated biodosimetry calibration curve generation and analysis of exposed samples. Software, the Automated Dicentric Chromosome Identifier (ADCI), is presen...

We present a vision system that automatically predicts yield in vineyards accurately and with high resolution. Yield estimation traditionally requires tedious hand measurement, which is destructive, sparse in sampling, and inaccurate. Our method is efficient, high-resolution, and it is the first such system evaluated in realistic experimentation over several years and hundreds of vines spread o...

In this paper we propose a method for evaluating the dynamic blind spot of an operator of a construction vehicle by integrating static blind spot map of a construction vehicle with the head orientation of the operator. By computing the position and orientation of the equipment operator’s head, the field-of-view (FOV) of the operator is known which is projected on the blind spot map of the vehic...

Forecasting the grape yield of vineyards is of critical importance in the wine industry, as it allows grape growers to more accurately and confidently invests in capital equipment, negotiate pricing, schedule labour and develop marketing strategies. Currently, industry standard forecasts are generated by manual sampling of bunch weights, grape size, grape numbers and seasonal predictions which ...

Engineers seek to reduce the cost of solar-thermal central tower systems by reducing the cost of the heliostat field. Lower-cost heliostats can be achieved by accepting lower precision in manufacture and installation. Automated alignment methods can then be used to correct pointing errors due to misalignments after the heliostat is installed, to obtain and maintain the required pointing accurac...

An adaptive procedure, based on Automatic DiHerentiation, for estimating "good" values for the relaxation paramaters for general multi-dimensional problems is pro-posed.

In this article, we present a new implementation of an amplitude-independent method for continuous-scale sleep depth estimation. Having been implemented as an add-on analysis module under commercially available biosignal recording and analysis software, it can be easily applied in clinical routine. The software gives the user full freedom to change all the analysis parameters inside theoretical...

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