Publications (9)
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…