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Publications (9)

cs.CV2025

Predicting Surgical Safety Margins in Osteosarcoma Knee Resections: An Unsupervised Approach

Carolina Vargas-Ecos, Edwin Salcedo

According to the Pan American Health Organization, the number of cancer cases in Latin America was estimated at 4.2 million in 2022 and is projected to rise to 6.7 million by 2045.…

cs.CV2026

BLPR: Robust License Plate Recognition under Viewpoint and Illumination Variations via Confidence-Driven VLM Fallback

Guillermo Auza Banegas, Diego Calvimontes Vera, Natalia Condori Peredo +2

Robust license plate recognition in unconstrained environments remains a significant challenge, particularly in underrepresented regions with limited data availability and unique v…

cs.RO2026

A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring in Open-Traffic Conditions

Yamil Uchani, Grace Luna, Edwin Salcedo +1

UAV-based pavement inspection can reduce the cost and risk of road-surface monitoring, but real-world deployment remains difficult when traffic, pedestrians, and temporary occlusio…

cs.CV2024

Distributed Intelligent Video Surveillance for Early Armed Robbery Detection based on Deep Learning

Sergio Fernandez-Testa, Edwin Salcedo

Low employment rates in Latin America have contributed to a substantial rise in crime, prompting the emergence of new criminal tactics. For instance, "express robbery" has become a…

cs.CV2025

Low-Cost Machine Vision System for Sorting Green Lentils (Lens Culinaris) Based on Pneumatic Ejection and Deep Learning

Davy Rojas Yana, Edwin Salcedo

This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of a dynamic grain classification system for green lentils (Lens Culinaris), which leverages computer vision and pneumat…

cs.AI2025

ForestProtector: An IoT Architecture Integrating Machine Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Wildfire Monitoring

Kenneth Bonilla-Ormachea, Horacio Cuizaga, Edwin Salcedo +3

Early detection of forest fires is crucial to minimizing the environmental and socioeconomic damage they cause. Indeed, a fire's duration directly correlates with the difficulty an…