Biometric systems are quite common in our everyday life. Despite the higher difficulty to circumvent them, nowadays criminals are developing techniques to accurately simulate physical, physiological, and behavioral traits ...

A number of industries use human inspection to visually classify the quality of their products and the raw materials used in the production process, this process could be done automatically through digital image processing. ...

Nowadays, many classification problems are approached with deep learning architectures, and the results are outstanding compared to the ones obtained with traditional computer vision approaches. However, when it comes ...

The task of extracting features from images is a very important activity for many computer vision and image processing applications. Especially the characterization and identification of textures is a fundamental issue in ...

Morphological characteristics are still the most used tools for the identification of plant species. In this context, leaves are the most available plant organ used, given their perenniality and diversity. Computer-based ...

Brazilian roundwood industry is one of the most important and productive in the world, with Eucalyptus plantations alone representing 73% of the total planted forests. Deep rooting in these plantations represents a more ...

Na sociedade atual, a identificação precisa e rápida dos indivíduos é uma necessidade. Devido às crescentes preocupações sobre segurança, a Biometria tem sido proposta para este fim. A região ocular da face, que inclui o ...