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Sensors, Volume 23, Issue 14

2023 July-2 - 405 articles

Cover Story: Ultra-high-speed (UHS) image sensors are used to study fast scientific phenomena and may also be useful in medicine. Several recently published studies have achieved frame rates of up to millions of frames per second (Mfps) using advanced processes and/or customized processes. This paper presents a burst-mode (108 frame) UHS low-noise CMOS image sensor (CIS) based on charge sweep transfer gates in an unmodified, standard 180 nm front-side-illuminated CIS process. By optimizing the photodiode geometry, the 52.8 μm pitch pixels with a 20 × 20 μm2 active area achieved a charge transfer time of less than 10 ns. A proof-of-concept CIS was designed and fabricated. Through characterization, it is shown that the designed CIS has the potential to achieve 20 Mfps with an input-referred noise of 5.1 e− rms. View this paper
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Articles (405)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,146 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

This paper proposes a physics-informed neural network (PINN) for predicting the early-age time-dependent behaviors of prestressed concrete beams. The PINN utilizes deep neural networks to learn the time-dependent coupling among the effective prestres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,282 Views
30 Pages

24 July 2023

Multispectral satellite imagery offers a new perspective for spatial modelling, change detection and land cover classification. The increased demand for accurate classification of geographically diverse regions led to advances in object-based methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
5,096 Views
18 Pages

24 July 2023

To make unmanned surface vehicles that are better applied to the field of environmental monitoring in inland rivers, reservoirs, or coasts, we propose a global path-planning algorithm based on the improved A-star algorithm. The path search is carried...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,506 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2023

This study targets the low accuracy and efficiency of the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm in rolling bearing fault diagnosis. An improved grey wolf optimizer (IGWO) algorithm was proposed based on deep learning and a swarm intelligence optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,008 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2023

It is important to improve the identification accuracy of the operating status of elevator traction machines. The distribution difference of the time-frequency signals utilized to identify operating circumstances is modest, making it difficult to ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,448 Views
26 Pages

Enabling Trust and Security in Digital Twin Management: A Blockchain-Based Approach with Ethereum and IPFS

  • Austine Onwubiko,
  • Raman Singh ,
  • Shahid Awan ,
  • Zeeshan Pervez and
  • Naeem Ramzan 

24 July 2023

The emergence of Industry 5.0 has highlighted the significance of information usage, processing, and data analysis when maintaining physical assets. This has enabled the creation of the Digital Twin (DT). Information about an asset is generated and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,569 Views
19 Pages

Automatic Recognition Reading Method of Pointer Meter Based on YOLOv5-MR Model

  • Le Zou,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Rui Li and
  • Zhize Wu

24 July 2023

Meter reading is an important part of intelligent inspection, and the current meter reading method based on target detection has problems of low accuracy and large error. In order to improve the accuracy of automatic meter reading, this paper propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,859 Views
26 Pages

Contextual Cluster-Based Glow-Worm Swarm Optimization (GSO) Coupled Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

  • P. S. Ramesh,
  • P. Srivani,
  • Miroslav Mahdal,
  • Lingala Sivaranjani,
  • Shafiqul Abidin,
  • Shivakumar Kagi and
  • Muniyandy Elangovan

24 July 2023

The cluster technique involves the creation of clusters and the selection of a cluster head (CH), which connects sensor nodes, known as cluster members (CM), to the CH. The CH receives data from the CM and collects data from sensor nodes, removing un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,350 Views
16 Pages

Automated Laser-Fiber Coupling Module for Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy

  • Seongyi Han,
  • Hyunjun Kye,
  • Chang-Seok Kim,
  • Tae-Kyoung Kim,
  • Jinwoo Yoo and
  • Jeesu Kim

24 July 2023

Photoacoustic imaging has emerged as a promising biomedical imaging technique that enables visualization of the optical absorption characteristics of biological tissues in vivo. Among the different photoacoustic imaging system configurations, optical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,007 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Temporal Hyperspectral Classification of Grassland Using Transformer Network

  • Xuanhe Zhao,
  • Shengwei Zhang,
  • Ruifeng Shi,
  • Weihong Yan and
  • Xin Pan

24 July 2023

In recent years, grassland monitoring has shifted from traditional field surveys to remote-sensing-based methods, but the desired level of accuracy has not yet been obtained. Multi-temporal hyperspectral data contain valuable information about specie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,099 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition Using Dual Feature Extraction Encoders

  • Ilkhomjon Pulatov,
  • Rashid Oteniyazov,
  • Fazliddin Makhmudov and
  • Young-Im Cho

24 July 2023

Understanding and identifying emotional cues in human speech is a crucial aspect of human–computer communication. The application of computer technology in dissecting and deciphering emotions, along with the extraction of relevant emotional cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,391 Views
18 Pages

24 July 2023

Cueing and feedback training can be effective in maintaining or improving gait in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. We previously designed a rehabilitation assist device that can detect and classify a user’s gait at only the swing pha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,972 Views
24 Pages

Gaussian-Filtered High-Frequency-Feature Trained Optimized BiLSTM Network for Spoofed-Speech Classification

  • Hiren Mewada,
  • Jawad F. Al-Asad,
  • Faris A. Almalki,
  • Adil H. Khan,
  • Nouf Abdullah Almujally,
  • Samir El-Nakla and
  • Qamar Naith

24 July 2023

Voice-controlled devices are in demand due to their hands-free controls. However, using voice-controlled devices in sensitive scenarios like smartphone applications and financial transactions requires protection against fraudulent attacks referred to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,668 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2023

Improving the operational efficiency and optimizing the design of sound navigation and ranging (sonar) systems require accurate electrical equivalent models within the operating frequency range. The power conversion system within the sonar system inc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,589 Views
24 Pages

24 July 2023

The development of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) over time has resulted in considerable improvements to the efficiency, effectiveness, and sensitivity of self-powered sensing. Triboelectric nanogenerators have low restriction and high sensitiv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
104 Citations
24,258 Views
26 Pages

Advancements in Forest Fire Prevention: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Francesco Carta,
  • Chiara Zidda,
  • Martina Putzu,
  • Daniele Loru,
  • Matteo Anedda and
  • Daniele Giusto

24 July 2023

Nowadays, the challenges related to technological and environmental development are becoming increasingly complex. Among the environmentally significant issues, wildfires pose a serious threat to the global ecosystem. The damages inflicted upon fores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,147 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2023

Sensors and transducers play a vital role in the productivity of any industry. A sensor that is frequently used in industries to monitor flow is an orifice flowmeter. In certain instances, faults can occur in the flowmeter, hindering the operation of...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,839 Views
16 Pages

Integrated Fiber Ring Laser Temperature Sensor Based on Vernier Effect with Lyot–Sagnac Interferometer

  • Yuhui Liu,
  • Weihao Lin,
  • Jie Hu,
  • Fang Zhao,
  • Feihong Yu,
  • Shuaiqi Liu,
  • Jinna Chen,
  • Huanhuan Liu,
  • Perry Ping Shum and
  • Xuming Zhang

24 July 2023

The Vernier effect created using an incorporated Lyot–Sagnac loop is used to create an ultra-high sensitivity temperature sensor based on a ring laser cavity. Unlike standard double Sagnac loop systems, the proposed sensor is fused into a singl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,468 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2023

A good night’s sleep is of the utmost importance for the seamless execution of our cognitive capabilities. Unfortunately, the research shows that one-third of the US adult population is severely sleep deprived. With college students as our focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,824 Views
25 Pages

24 July 2023

We have developed a compact, asymmetric three-channel echelle spectrometer with remarkable high-spectral resolution capabilities. In order to achieve the desired spectral resolution, we initially establish a theoretical spectral model based on the tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,281 Views
17 Pages

Quantitative Visualization of Buried Defects in GFRP via Microwave Reflectometry

  • Ruonan Wang,
  • Yang Fang,
  • Qianxiang Gao,
  • Yong Li,
  • Xihan Yang and
  • Zhenmao Chen

24 July 2023

Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) is widely used in engineering fields involving aerospace, energy, transportation, etc. If internal buried defects occur due to hostile environments during fabrication and practical service, the structural integri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,449 Views
17 Pages

Novel Multi-Parametric Sensor System for Comprehensive Multi-Wavelength Photoplethysmography Characterization

  • Joan Lambert Cause,
  • Ángel Solé Morillo,
  • Bruno da Silva,
  • Juan C. García-Naranjo and
  • Johan Stiens

24 July 2023

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used to assess cardiovascular health. However, its usage and standardization are limited by the impact of variable contact force and temperature, which influence the accuracy and reliability of the measurements. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,463 Views
12 Pages

24 July 2023

The ability to accurately measure tibiofemoral angles during various dynamic activities is of clinical interest. The purpose of this study was to determine if inertial measurement units (IMUs) can provide accurate and reliable angle estimates during...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,344 Views
10 Pages

Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Tetracycline-Labeled Retinal Calcification

  • Kavita R. Hegde,
  • Krishanu Ray,
  • Henryk Szmacinski,
  • Sharon Sorto,
  • Adam C. Puche,
  • Imre Lengyel and
  • Richard B. Thompson

24 July 2023

Deposition of calcium-containing minerals such as hydroxyapatite and whitlockite in the subretinal pigment epithelial (sub-RPE) space of the retina is linked to the development of and progression to the end-stage of age-related macular degeneration (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,926 Views
16 Pages

23 July 2023

The degree of freedom (DOF) is an important performance metric for evaluating the design of a sparse array structure. Designing novel sparse arrays with higher degrees of freedom, while ensuring that the array structure can be mathematically represen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,760 Views
24 Pages

Research Progress of Vertical Channel Thin Film Transistor Device

  • Benxiao Sun,
  • Huixue Huang,
  • Pan Wen,
  • Meng Xu,
  • Cong Peng,
  • Longlong Chen,
  • Xifeng Li and
  • Jianhua Zhang

23 July 2023

Thin film transistors (TFTs) as the core devices for displays, are widely used in various fields including ultra-high-resolution displays, flexible displays, wearable electronic skins and memory devices, especially in terms of sensors. TFTs have now...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,886 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2023

Depressive mood states in healthy populations are prevalent but often under-reported. Biases exist in self-reporting of depression in otherwise healthy individuals. Gait and balance control can serve as objective markers for identifying those individ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,033 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2023

Seismic oceanography can provide a two- or three-dimensional view of the water column thermocline structure at a vertical and horizontal resolution from the multi-channel seismic dataset. Several seismic imaging methods and techniques for seismic oce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,911 Views
12 Pages

23 July 2023

(1) Background: Basic vital signs change during normal pregnancy as they reflect the adaptation of maternal physiology. Electronic wearables like fitness bracelets have the potential to provide vital signs continuously in the home environment of preg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,354 Views
16 Pages

A Size, Weight, Power, and Cost-Efficient 32-Channel Time to Digital Converter Using a Novel Wave Union Method

  • Saleh M. Alshahry,
  • Awwad H. Alshehry,
  • Abdullah K. Alhazmi and
  • Vamsy P. Chodavarapu

23 July 2023

We present a Tapped Delay Line (TDL)-based Time to Digital Converter (TDC) using Wave Union type A (WU-A) architecture for applications that require high-precision time interval measurements with low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) requirement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,191 Views
12 Pages

A New Form of Train Detection as a Solution to Improve Level Crossing Closing Time

  • Michał Zawodny,
  • Maciej Kruszyna,
  • Wojciech Kazimierz Szczepanek and
  • Mariusz Korzeń

23 July 2023

The critical points on the rail and road network are their intersections, i.e., level crossings. During a train crossing, car traffic is stopped. This reduces the fluidity of traffic on the road and, consequently, can cause congestion. The problem in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,630 Views
22 Pages

23 July 2023

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the development of models and soft sensors required for the implementation of the automated bioreactor feeding of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells using Raman spectroscopy and chemometric methods. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,415 Views
14 Pages

23 July 2023

In order to detect the refractive index (RI) of high refractive index materials such as trichlorobenzene and aniline in the near-infrared and mid-infrared spectra and expand the detection range of the refractive index, a surface plasmon resonance (SP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,670 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2023

In this paper, a unified optimization model for medical image fusion based on tensor decomposition and the non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST) is proposed. The model is based on the NSST method and the tensor decomposition method to fuse the hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,580 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2023

The three-dimensional (3D) displacement resolution of conventional visual measurement systems can only reach tens of microns in cases involving long measuring distances (2.5 m) and large fields of view (1.5 m × 1.5 m). Therefore, a stereo visio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,937 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2023

Coal is an important resource that is closely related to people’s lives and plays an irreplaceable role. However, coal mine safety accidents occur from time to time in the process of working underground. Therefore, this paper proposes a coal mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,281 Views
23 Pages

A Dual Architecture Fusion and AutoEncoder for Automatic Morphological Classification of Human Sperm

  • Muhammad Izzuddin Mahali,
  • Jenq-Shiou Leu,
  • Jeremie Theddy Darmawan,
  • Cries Avian,
  • Nabil Bachroin,
  • Setya Widyawan Prakosa,
  • Muhamad Faisal and
  • Nur Achmad Sulistyo Putro

22 July 2023

Infertility has become a common problem in global health, and unsurprisingly, many couples need medical assistance to achieve reproduction. Many human behaviors can lead to infertility, which is none other than unhealthy sperm. The important thing is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,562 Views
18 Pages

Self-Enhanced Mixed Attention Network for Three-Modal Images Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

  • Kechen Song,
  • Yiming Zhang,
  • Yanqi Bao,
  • Ying Zhao and
  • Yunhui Yan

22 July 2023

As an important computer vision technique, image segmentation has been widely used in various tasks. However, in some extreme cases, the insufficient illumination would result in a great impact on the performance of the model. So more and more fully...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,337 Views
17 Pages

An MMIC LNA for Millimeter-Wave Radar and 5G Applications with GaN-on-SiC Technology

  • Chaoyu Huang,
  • Zhihao Zhang,
  • Xinjie Wang,
  • Hailiang Liu and
  • Gary Zhang

22 July 2023

This paper presents a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low noise amplifier (LNA) that is compatible with n257 (26.5–29.5 GHz) and n258 (24.25–27.5 GHz) frequency bands for fifth-generation mobile communications system (5G) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,833 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2023

To study the influence of the geometric structure of the probe coil on the electromagnetic characteristics of the eddy current probe in the process of eddy current testing, based on the principle of eddy current testing, different probe coil models w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,313 Views
21 Pages

22 July 2023

Glacial debris flow is a common natural disaster, and its frequency has been increasing in recent years due to the continuous retreat of glaciers caused by global warming. To reduce the damage caused by glacial debris flows to human and physical prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,957 Views
19 Pages

22 July 2023

RGB-T tracking involves the use of images from both visible and thermal modalities. The primary objective is to adaptively leverage the relatively dominant modality in varying conditions to achieve more robust tracking compared to single-modality tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,427 Views
24 Pages

Use of Virtual Reality-Based Games to Improve Balance and Gait of Children and Adolescents with Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Renato S. Melo,
  • Andrea Lemos,
  • Alexandre Delgado,
  • Maria Cristina Falcão Raposo,
  • Karla Mônica Ferraz and
  • Rosalie Barreto Belian

22 July 2023

Background: Children and adolescents with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) often experience motor skill disturbances, particularly in balance and gait, due to potential vestibular dysfunctions resulting from inner ear damage. Consequently, several s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,406 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Ankle Muscle Dynamics during the STS Process Based on Wearable Sensors

  • Kun Liu,
  • Shuo Ji,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Chi Gao,
  • Shizhong Zhang,
  • Jun Fu and
  • Lei Dai

22 July 2023

Ankle joint moment is an important indicator for evaluating the stability of the human body during the sit-to-stand (STS) movement, so a method to analyze ankle joint moment is needed. In this study, a wearable sensor system that could derive surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,758 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2023

Recently, remarkable successes have been achieved in the quality assurance of automotive software systems (ASSs) through the utilization of real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Based on the HIL platform, safe, flexible and reliable realis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,848 Views
27 Pages

22 July 2023

The atmospheric water vapor is commonly monitored from ground Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements, by retrieving the tropospheric delay under the Zenith Wet Delay (ZWD) component, linked to the water vapor content in the atmosphere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,635 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2023

Accurate knowledge of the rotor position is essential for the control of brushless DC motors (BLDCM). Any deviation in this identification can cause fluctuations in motor current and torque, increase noise, and lead to reduced motor efficiency. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,845 Views
15 Pages

An Intelligent Cost-Reference Particle Filter with Resampling of Multi-Population Cooperation

  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Mengjiao Ren,
  • Jiemin Duan,
  • Yingmin Yi,
  • Biyu Lei and
  • Shuyue Wu

22 July 2023

Although the cost-reference particle filter (CRPF) has a good advantage in solving the state estimation problem with unknown noise statistical characteristics, its estimation accuracy is still affected by the lack of particle diversity and sensitivit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,609 Views
29 Pages

Attitude Control of Ornithopter Wing by Using a MIMO Active Disturbance Rejection Strategy

  • Josiel Alves Gouvêa,
  • Luciano Santos Constantin Raptopoulos,
  • Milena Faria Pinto,
  • Elkin Yesid Veslin Díaz,
  • Max Suell Dutra,
  • Lucas Costa de Sousa,
  • Victor Manuel Oliveira Batista and
  • Alessandro Rosa Lopes Zachi

22 July 2023

This work proposes a mathematical solution for the attitude control problem of an ornithopter wing. An ornithopter is an artificial bird or insect-like aerial vehicle whose flight and lift movements are produced and maintained by flapping wings. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,354 Views
13 Pages

22 July 2023

In this study, a method of mid-level data fusion with the fingerprint region was proposed, which was combined with the characteristic wavelengths that contain fingerprint information in NIR and FT-MIR spectra to detect the DON level in FHB wheat duri...

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