Mao-Yuan Pai

Dr. Mao-Yuan Pai

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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 October 2019 in Applied Sciences
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YCYung-Chien Chou
Yung-Chien Chou
CKCheng-Ju Kuo
Cheng-Ju Kuo
TCTzu-Ting Chen
Tzu-Ting Chen
Gwo-Jiun HorngGwo-Jiun Horng
Gwo-Jiun Horng
MPMao-Yuan Pai
Mao-Yuan Pai
CCChao-Chun Chen
Chao-Chun Chen
In the production process from green beans to coffee bean packages, the defective bean removal (or in short, defect removal) is one of most labor-consuming stages, and many companies investigate the automation of this stage for minimizing human efforts. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based defective bean inspection scheme (DL-DBIS), together with a GAN (generative-adversarial network)-structured automated labeled data augmentation method (GALDAM) for enhancing the proposed scheme, so that the automation degree of bean removal with robotic arms can be further improved for coffee industries. The proposed scheme is aimed at providing an effective model to a deep-learning-based object detection module for accurately identifying defects among dense beans. The proposed GALDAM can be used to greatly reduce labor costs, since the data labeling is the most labor-intensive work in this sort of solutions. Our proposed scheme brings two main impacts to intelligent agriculture. First, our proposed scheme is can be easily adopted by industries as human effort in labeling coffee beans are minimized. The users can easily customize their own defective bean model without spending a great amount of time on labeling small and dense objects. Second, our scheme can inspect all classes of defective beans categorized by the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) at the same time and can be easily extended if more classes of defective beans are added. These two advantages increase the degree of automation in the coffee industry. The prototype of the proposed scheme was developed for studying integrated tests. Testing results of a case study reveal that the proposed scheme can efficiently and effectively generate models for identifying defective beans with accuracy and precision values up to 80 % .

25 November 2019 in Applied Sciences
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MPMao-Yuan Pai
Mao-Yuan Pai
DWDing-Chau Wang
Ding-Chau Wang
THTZU HSU
TZU HSU
GLGuan-Yu Lin
Guan-Yu Lin
CCChao-Chun Chen
Chao-Chun Chen
In the rapid development of the information technology age, many travelers search for travel articles through the Internet. These travel articles include the experience and knowledge of traveler, which can be used as a reference for tourism planning and attraction selection. At present, the most travel experience and knowledge is available in online travel reviews (OTR). OTR and eWOM (electronic word-of-mouth) contain a lot of knowledge of consumers and travelers. Many travelers often look for OTR content through virtual communities, blogs, and search engine, but the search results often cause information overload problems. In addition, through virtual communities, blogs, and search engines, an OTR search still requires using keywords. However, most travelers cannot know the name of the attraction; therefore, travelers cannot use the correct keywords to search. That causes travelers to be unable to get enough information from OTR and unable to make the best travel plan. Therefore, this study focuses on the ontology-based tourist knowledge representation and recommendation method. And the study is to search for popular attractions from the OTR content and construct a tourist knowledge structure for these travelers. When the tourists do not need to know the keywords of the popular attraction name, they just need to get their current location; and then ORT content will recommend the next attraction to the traveler, which helps the traveler make the correct travel decision. The evaluation result showed that the method proposed in this study can help the travelers to quickly make the travel decision and is better than the traditional searching methods.


2 July 2026
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MCMin-Chih Chen
Min-Chih Chen
CLChun-Nan Lin
Chun-Nan Lin
STShang-Han Tsai
Shang-Han Tsai
MPMao-Yuan Pai
Mao-Yuan Pai
TSTzu-Ting Su
Tzu-Ting Su