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    A comparative study for 6D pose estimation of textureless and symmetric objects used in automotive manufacturing industry
    (IEEE, 2023) Doruk, Abdullah Enes; Ozkaya, T. E.; Gülez, F.; Uslu, F.; Doruk, Abdullah Enes
    6D pose estimation of industrial objects on RGB images has a high potential to accelerate the automation of robotic manipulations in the automotive manufacturing industry. Despite its high potential, this problem has not been adequately addressed in the computer vision community. Main factors leading to under investigation of this problem are industrial objects to be textureless, thin, and symmetrical, which hinder the automatic estimation of their poses from color images. Deep learning models have shown promising results for pose estimation of household objects thanks to availability of large datasets with labels. In contrast to many household objects, there are few datasets for industrial objects with limited representation capacity, which restricts the use of deep models in pose estimation of industrial objects. In this study, we examine the eligibility of deep models on 6D pose estimation of industrial objects used in the automotive manufacturing industry. For this aim, we compare the performance of three deep models, DeepIM, CosyPose, and EPOS. To meet the need for large training dataset of these models, we produce a large synthetic dataset from the CAD data of the industrial objects. We also collect a small real dataset for training and performance evaluation purposes. We find that CosyPose outperforms other methods with a large margin, by showing its potential to solve such a hard problem. We also observe that training models with both synthetic and real images yield the best results.
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    Data fusion analysis and synthesis framework for improving disaster situation awareness
    (MDPI, 2023-09) Aksit, M.; Say, Hanne; Eren, Mehmet Arda; de Camargo, V. V.; Say, Hanne; Eren, Mehmet Arda
    To carry out required aid operations efficiently and effectively after an occurrence of a disaster such as an earthquake, emergency control centers must determine the effect of disasters precisely and and in a timely manner. Different kinds of data-gathering techniques can be used to collect data from disaster areas, such as sensors, cameras, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Furthermore, data-fusion techniques can be adopted to combine the data gathered from different sources to enhance the situation awareness. Recent research and development activities on advanced air mobility (AAM) and related unmanned aerial systems (UASs) provide new opportunities. Unfortunately, designing these systems for disaster situation analysis is a challenging task due to the topological complexity of urban areas, and multiplicity and variability of the available data sources. Although there are a considerable number of research publications on data fusion, almost none of them deal with estimating the optimal set of heterogeneous data sources that provide the best effectiveness and efficiency value in determining the effect of disasters. Moreover, existing publications are generally problem- and system-specific. This article proposes a model-based novel analysis and synthesis framework to determine the optimal data fusion set among possibly many alternatives, before expensive implementation and installation activities are carried out.
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    Deep transformer-based asset price and direction prediction
    (IEEE, 2024) Gezici, Abdul Haluk Batur; Sefer, Emre; Computer Science; SEFER, Emre
    The field of algorithmic trading, driven by deep learning methodologies, has garnered substantial attention in recent times. Within this domain, transformers, convolutional neural networks, and patch embedding-based techniques have emerged as popular choices within the computer vision community. Here, inspired by the latest cutting-edge computer vision methodologies and the existing work showing the capability of image-like conversion for time-series datasets, we apply more advanced transformer-based and patch-based approaches for predicting asset prices and directional price movements. The employed transformer models include Vision Transformer (ViT), Data Efficient Image Transformers (DeiT), and Swin. We use ConvMixer for a patch embedding-based convolutional neural network architecture without a transformer. Our tested transformer-based and patch-based methodologies aim to predict asset prices and directional movements using historical price data by leveraging the inherent image-like properties within the historical time-series dataset. Before the implementation of attention-based architectures, the historical time series price dataset is transformed into two-dimensional images. This transformation is facilitated through the incorporation of various common technical financial indicators, each contributing to the data for a fixed number of consecutive days. Consequently, a diverse set of two-dimensional images is constructed, reflecting various dimensions of the dataset. Subsequently, the original images depicting market valleys and peaks are annotated with labels such as Hold, Buy, or Sell. According to the experiments, trained attention-based models consistently outperform the baseline convolutional architectures, particularly when applied to a subset of frequently traded Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). This better performance of attention-based architectures, especially ViT, is evident in terms of both accuracy and other financial evaluation metrics, particularly during extended testing and holding periods. These findings underscore the potential of transformer-based approaches to enhance predictive capabilities in asset price and directional forecasting. Our code and processed datasets are available at https://github.com/seferlab/price_transformer.
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    Deterministic neural illumination mapping for efficient auto-white balance correction
    (IEEE, 2023) Kınlı, Osman Furkan; Yılmaz, Doğa; Özcan, Barış; Kıraç, Mustafa Furkan; Computer Science; KINLI, Osman Furkan; KIRAÇ, Mustafa Furkan; Yılmaz, Doğa; Özcan, Barış
    Auto-white balance (AWB) correction is a critical operation in image signal processors for accurate and consistent color correction across various illumination scenarios. This paper presents a novel and efficient AWB correction method that achieves at least 35 times faster processing with equivalent or superior performance on high-resolution images for the current state-of-the-art methods. Inspired by deterministic color style transfer, our approach introduces deterministic illumination color mapping, leveraging learnable projection matrices for both canonical illumination form and AWB-corrected output. It involves feeding high-resolution images and corresponding latent representations into a mapping module to derive a canonical form, followed by another mapping module that maps the pixel values to those for the corrected version. This strategy is designed as resolution-agnostic and also enables seamless integration of any pre-trained AWB network as the backbone. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of our approach, revealing significant performance improvements and reduced time complexity compared to state-of-the-art methods. Our method provides an efficient deep learning-based AWB correction solution, promising real-time, high-quality color correction for digital imaging applications.