Visual Annotation Toolkit for Ultralytics YOLO

Overview The Ultralytcis ecosystem ships with a lightweight Annotator utility that can overlay detection masks, bounding boxes, oriented boxes, and keypoints on any image or video stream. The snippets below demonstrate typical use-cases. Interactive sweep counter on a video The following example tracks every object that crosses a user-draggable ...

Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:42:36 +0000 by neex1233

Zhang Zhengyou Camera Calibration Workflow

Data Storage in OpenCV OpenCV provides flexible data storage through the InputArrayOfArrays interface, which can be implemented by various types: Mat, Mat_<T>, Mat_<T, m, n>, vector<T>, vector<vector<T>>, and vector<Mat>. Consider vector<vector<T>> as an example: the outer vector holds elements (i ...

Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:02:21 +0000 by ericw

CycleGAN Implementation for Unpaired Image Translation

CycleGAN Architecture Overview CycleGAN enables unpaired image-to-image translation using cycle-consistent adversarial networks. This approach learns mappings between domains without requiring paired training examples, making it suitable for style transfer applications like converting apples to oranges. Dataset Preparation The dataset consists ...

Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:38:35 +0000 by mrjam

Computer Vision Bounding Box Operations

When resizing images in computer vision applications, bounding box coordinates must be scaled proportionally to maintain accurate object detection. import cv2 import numpy as np from ultralytics.utils.ops import scale_boxes # Load the original image original_image = cv2.imread("sample_images/vehicle.jpg") original_height, original_w ...

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:37:48 +0000 by chancho

Gradient Reparameterization-Based RepOptimizer: Core Principles and Implementation Details

Neural network architecture design encodes domain prior knowledge into model structures. For example, residual connections that model feature transformation as (y = f(x) + x) deliver better performance than plain (y=f(x)) mappings, which ResNet implements via shortcut paths. While architectural design has continuously evolved to integrate lates ...

Posted on Sat, 30 May 2026 21:45:51 +0000 by sonehs

Various Attention Mechanisms for YOLO Series: SE, A2-Nets, BAM, and BiFormer

Attention mechanisms have significantly improved the performance of deep learning models in computer vision tasks. This article provides an overview of several popular attention modules that can be easily integrated into object detection models like YOLOv5, YOLOv7, YOLOv8, YOLOv9, and YOLOv10. SE Paper: Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks Link: arX ...

Posted on Fri, 22 May 2026 19:06:16 +0000 by sheephat

Implementation of the Lucas-Kanade Pyramid Optical Flow Method in MATLAB

MATLAB Function for Pyramid-Based LK Optical Flow This article presents a complete MATLAB implementation of the Lucas-Kanade (LK) optical flow algorithm using a pyramidal (coarse-to-fine) approach. The function estimates the apparent motion vector field between two successive grayscale image frames. Main Algorithm Function function [flowX, flow ...

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026 12:24:19 +0000 by Brandito520

Building a Deepfake Image Detector with EfficientNet and PyTorch

Detecting manipulated media generated by deeppfake algorithms is a pressing challenge. This article presents an end-to-end pipeline for training a binary image classifier that distinguishes real faces from synthetically generaetd ones using EfficientNet, PyTorch, and the timm library. Task Overview and Data Format The objective is to assign a p ...

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026 11:38:16 +0000 by MattAdamson

Image Edge Detection Using Wavelet Transform

Edge detection is a fundamental technique in digital image processing, designed to isolate the boundaries of objects within a scene. These boundaries typically correspond to regions where significant fluctuations in pixel intensity or color occur, providing critical information for object recognition, structural analysis, and texture categoriza ...

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026 00:47:35 +0000 by waynewex

OpenCV Fundamentals: Environment Setup and Core Image Operations

Follow these steps to set up OpenCV in your VS2019 environment: Navigate to View → Other Windows → Property Manager → Add Microsoft.Cpp.x64.user under Release|x64 Configure include directories: Open properties of Microsoft.Cpp.x64.user → VC++ Directories → Include Directories Add these paths: D:\Libraries\opencv\build\include``D:\Libraries\op ...

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:33 +0000 by Grofit