2022 August-2 - 387 articles
Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an essential and fundamental part of array signal processing, which has been widely used in radio monitoring, autonomous driving of vehicles, intelligent navigation, etc. However, it remains a challenge to acc...
Increasing the efficiency of the quality control phase in industrial production lines through automation is a rapidly growing trend. In non-destructive testing, active thermography techniques are known for their suitability to allow rapid non-contact...
With the rise of mobile edge computing (MEC), mobile services with the same or similar functions are gradually increasing. Usually, Quality of Service (QoS) has become an indicator to measure high-quality services. In the real MEC service invocation...
The advancement of smartphones with multiple built-in sensors facilitates the development of crowdsourcing-based indoor map construction and localization. This paper proposes a crowdsourcing-based indoor semantic map construction and localization met...
In this paper, a mathematical description of the voltage response of a pyroelectric detector to a single rectangular pulse of optical radiation is presented. Mathematical procedures leading to the derivation of the dependencies describing the detecto...
The Internet of Things (IoT) with cloud services are important functionalities in the latest IoT systems for providing various convenient services. These cloud-enabled IoT environments collect, analyze, and monitor surrounding data, resulting in the...
Recent years evidenced an increase in the total number of skin cancer cases, and it is projected to grow exponentially. This paper proposes a computer-aided diagnosis system for the classification of a malignant lesion, where the acquired image is pr...
Scene text detection refers to locating text regions in a scene image and marking them out with text boxes. With the rapid development of the mobile Internet and the increasing popularity of mobile terminal devices such as smartphones, the research o...
Economic and social development is hardly influenced by electric power production and consumption. In this context of the energy supply pressure, energy production and consumption must be monitored and controlled in an intelligent way. Due to the ava...
Big Tech companies operating in a data-driven economy offer services that rely on their users’ personal data and usually store this personal information in “data silos” that prevent transparency about their use and opportunities for...
Infrared target detection is often disrupted by a complex background, resulting in a high false alarm and low target recognition. This paper proposes a robust principal component decomposition model with joint spatial and temporal filtering and L1 no...
With the fast and unstoppable development of technology, the amount of available technological devices and the data they produce is overwhelming. In analyzing the context of a smart home, a diverse group of intelligent devices generating constant rep...
Energy management strategies are vitally important to give full play to energy-saving four-wheel-drive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (4WD PHEV). This paper proposes a novel dual-adaptive equivalent consumption minimization strategy (DA-ECMS) for t...
In radio-frequency (RF)-based device-free localization (DFL), the number of sensors acting as RF transmitters and receivers is crucial for accuracy and system costs. Two promising approaches for DFL have been identified in the past: radio tomographic...
Industry 4.0 lets the industry build compact, precise, and connected assets and also has made modern industrial assets a massive source of data that can be used in process optimization, defining product quality, and predictive maintenance (PM). Large...
The paper deals with cantilevers made from monocrystalline silicon by processes of microtechnology. The cantilevers are passive structures and have no transducers. The application as a material measure for the inspection of stylus forces is in the ce...
Floods are among the costliest natural hazards, in Australia and globally. In this study, we used an indicator-based method to assess flood hazard risk in Australia’s Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment (HNC). Australian flood risk assessments are typi...
This paper presents four new designs for a first-order voltage-mode (VM) all-pass filter (APF) circuit based on two single-output positive differential voltage current conveyors (DVCCs). The first two proposed VMAPFs with unity-gain, high-input (HI)...
Accurate channel state information (CSI) is important for MIMO systems, especially in a high-speed scenario, fast time-varying CSI tends to be out of date, and a change in CSI shows complex nonlinearities. The kernel recursive least-squares (KRLS) al...
Radar signal anomaly detection is an effective method to detect potential threat targets. Given the low Accuracy of the traditional AE model and the complex network of GAN, an anomaly detection method based on ResNet-AE is proposed. In this method, C...
Vinegar is a fermented product that is appreciated world-wide. It can be obtained from different kinds of matrices. Specifically, it is a solution of acetic acid produced by a two stage fermentation process. The first is an alcoholic fermentation, wh...
With the rapid concurrent advance of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology, manufacturing environments are being upgraded or equipped with a smart and connected infrastructure that empowers workers and supervisors to op...
Air relative humidity (RH) is an important control parameter in many industrial processes. The acoustic method is a novel technique to measure air humidity non-intrusively. Relevant research is limited. Existing methods use ultrasonic waves as a soun...
A greater variety of technologies are being applied in sports and health with the advancement of technology, but most optoelectronic systems have strict environmental restrictions and are usually costly. To visualize and perform quantitative analysis...
There is an unmet need for improved, clinically relevant methods to longitudinally quantify bone healing during fracture care. Here we develop a smart bone plate to wirelessly monitor healing utilizing electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) to provi...
Due to advantages such as the high efficiency of light utilization, small volume, and vibration resistance, digital micro-mirror device (DMD)-based spectrometers are widely used in ocean investigations, mountain surveys, and other field science resea...
The real-time, continuity, and accuracy of blast furnace stockline information are of great significance in reducing energy consumption and improving smelting efficiency. However, the traditional mechanical measurement method has the problem of measu...
Hundreds of image encryption schemes have been conducted (as the literature review indicates). The majority of these schemes use pixels as building blocks for confusion and diffusion operations. Pixel-level operations are time-consuming and, thus, no...
An astigmatic optical profilometer with a commercial optical pickup head provides benefits, such as high resolution, compact size, and low cost. To eliminate artifacts caused by complex materials with different reflectances, a z-axis modulation mode...
The general objective of Analytical Chemistry, nowadays, is to obtain best-quality information in the shortest time to contribute to the resolution of real problems. In this regard, electrochemical biosensors are interesting alternatives to conventio...
In this work, a simple side-polish plastic optical fiber (POF)-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is proposed and demonstrated for simultaneous measurement of refractive index (RI) and liquid level. The effects of side-polish depths on the...
The capture and prediction of rainfall-induced landslide warning signals is the premise for the implementation of landslide warning measures. An attention-fusion entropy weight method (En-Attn) for capturing warning features is proposed. An attention...
The management of water resources is a priority problem in agriculture, especially in areas with a limited water supply. The determination of crop water requirements and crop coefficient (Kc) of agricultural crops helps to create an appropriate irrig...
Control applications targeting fast industrial processes rely on real-time feasible implementations. One of such applications is the stabilization of an electron bunch arrival time in the context of a linear accelerator. In the past, only the electri...
An edge displacement sensor is one of the key technologies for building large segmented mirror astronomical optical telescopes. A digital interface is one novel approach for sensor technologies, digital transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Landslides have been frequently occurring in the high mountainous areas in China and poses serious threats to peoples’ lives and property, economic development, and national security. Detecting and monitoring quiescent or active landslides is i...
Air pollution has emerged as a global problem in recent years. Particularly, particulate matter (PM2.5) with a diameter of less than 2.5 μm can move through the air and transfer dangerous compounds to the lungs through human breathing, thereby cre...
This paper discusses a novel approach to an EEG (electroencephalogram)-based driver distraction classification by using brain connectivity estimators as features. Ten healthy volunteers with more than one year of driving experience and an average age...
Passive electric field sensing can be utilized in a wide variety of application areas, although it has certain limitations. In order to better understand what these limitations are and how countervailing measures to these limitations could be impleme...
In recent years, image segmentation based on deep learning has been widely used in medical imaging, automatic driving, monitoring and security. In the fields of monitoring and security, the specific location of a person is detected by image segmentat...
This paper proposes a novel end-to-end pipeline that uses the ordinal information and relative relation of images for visibility estimation (VISOR-NET). By encoding ordinal information into a set of relatively ordered image pairs, VISOR-NET can learn...
Marking the tree canopies is an unavoidable step in any study working with high-resolution aerial images taken by a UAV in any fruit tree crop, such as olive trees, as the extraction of pixel features from these canopies is the first step to build th...
On a global scale, the process of automatic defect detection represents a critical stage of quality control in textile industries. In this paper, a semantic segmentation network using a repeated pattern analysis algorithm is proposed for pixel-level...
The use of flexible wearable sensors to monitor the impact of sleeping position and turning frequency on sleep and to study sleep patterns can help bedridden patients heal and recover. The flexible wearable sleeping-position monitoring device was des...
Fault diagnostics present a crucial technical issue in the areas of both the condition monitoring of machines and the monitoring of structural health. The identification of faults at an early stage in their development has an immense effect on the sa...
Computer vision and image processing techniques have been extensively used in various fields and a wide range of applications, as well as recently in surface treatment to determine the quality of metal processing. Accordingly, digital image evaluatio...
The latest progress in information and communication technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have opened up new opportunities for real-time monitoring and controlling of cities’ structures, infrastructures, and services. In this conte...
This article introduces a novel virtual sensor for predictive maintenance called mini-term. A mini-term can be defined as the time it takes for a part of the machine to do its job. Being a technical sub-cycle time, its function has been linked to pro...
Hexagonal grids have many advantages over square grids and could be successfully used in mobile robotics as a map representation. However, there is a lack of an essential algorithm, namely, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), that would gen...
The neighborhood area network of a smart grid usually has hierarchical wireless communication. Due to forwarding and processing more data, the upper-layer nodes are more likely to suffer congestion and energy exhaustion. This phenomenon leads to the...
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