Teddy Nyankieya Okatch

Mr. Teddy Nyankieya Okatch

Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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24 October 2026 in Neural Computing and Applications
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TOTeddy Nyankieya Okatch
Teddy Nyankieya Okatch
JNJoshua Nyaberi
Joshua Nyaberi
HJHyeonKyeong Jeong
HyeonKyeong Jeong
HNHyunBin Nam
HyunBin Nam
Soonja YeomSoonja Yeom
Soonja Yeom
KYKyungho Yu
Kyungho Yu
Digital Image Correlation (DIC) models are directed by texture-awareness means and the guidance signal loses crucial, fine-grained detail in the process when naively downsampled to modulate the abrasive, semantic feature maps in the encoder’s deeper layers. While current state-of-the-art models like RAFT achieve high precision through iterative refinement, they, in addition, undergo significant computational latency, limiting their efficacy in real-time industrial monitoring. The proposed model makes use of a five-level U-Net backbone joined with a hierarchical decoder that creates four-channel displacement and uncertainty priors across three resolution scales (1/4, 1/2, and full scale), ensuring that the expansive path obtains geometrically founded signals to do away with the need for recurrent loops. Experimental validation on a structured dataset of 36,000 reference-deformed images shows that the proposed method offers a highly optimized accuracy-latency tradeoff. DNet-MRSP achieves a mean End-Point Error (EPE) of \(0.00302 \pm 0.00050\text { px}\), exceeding baseline designs such as Deep DIC \(\text {(EPE} = 1.97721\text { px)}\) and unconstrained optical flow models like RAFT-DIC (\(\text {EPE} = 4.42217\text { px}\)). The framework has a rapid feed-forward execution latency of \(2.23 \pm 1.70\text { ms}\), which results in an operational processing throughput of 448.3 frames per second. This profile offers a slight latency trade-off with traditional Deep DIC (\(1.75\text { ms}\)) that is totally justified by a significant leap in sub-pixel tracking accuracy.
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