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Robust and constrained tracking of PSV interface using convolutional neural networks and optimistic moving horizon estimation

2025· article· en· W4409869210 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Process Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicInfrared Target Detection Methodologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsConvolutional neural networkHorizonComputer scienceTracking (education)Interface (matter)EstimationArtificial neural networkArtificial intelligenceMoving horizon estimationReal-time computingMathematicsKalman filterEngineeringPsychologyExtended Kalman filterOperating system

Abstract

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This manuscript proposes a novel video-based robust and constrained estimation framework using the convolutional neural network and optimistic moving horizon estimation, with applications in interface estimation of oil sand primary separation vessels (PSV). Although convolutional neural networks have achieved notable success across various computer vision and image analysis tasks, image outliers (such as blocking, blurriness, and lighting variations) would inevitably affect recognition/tracking performance. To address this issue, this manuscript proposes a robust estimation approach by leveraging a convolutional neural network and moving horizon estimation. Along this line, the interface recognition results by the convolutional neural network can be modeled as the measurements corrupted by disturbances and outliers, and the internal states can be modeled through a discrete-time finite-dimensional state space model. More importantly, the ubiquitously present constraints in the estimation task can be explicitly and readily handled by the moving horizon estimation. The stability analysis of the proposed method is provided in the presence of disturbances and model-plant mismatch. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through a pilot-scale laboratory study and an industrial primary separation vessel case study. • A combined CNN and MHE approach for interface estimation is proposed. • The proposed method can explicitly handle physical constraints in the estimation. • The proposed method is robust to camera blocking, blurriness and lighting variations. • The stability is proven in the presence of disturbances and model-plant mismatch. • Laboratory and industrial videos are used to verify the proposed method.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.572
Threshold uncertainty score0.413

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it