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587 Citations
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DC-YOLOv8: Small-Size Object Detection Algorithm Based on Camera Sensor

  • Haitong Lou,
  • Xuehu Duan,
  • Junmei Guo,
  • Haiying Liu,
  • Jason Gu,
  • Lingyun Bi and
  • Haonan Chen

Traditional camera sensors rely on human eyes for observation. However, human eyes are prone to fatigue when observing objects of different sizes for a long time in complex scenes, and human cognition is limited, which often leads to judgment errors...

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357 Citations
80,036 Views
21 Pages

Virtual Reality in Education: A Review of Learning Theories, Approaches and Methodologies for the Last Decade

  • Andreas Marougkas,
  • Christos Troussas,
  • Akrivi Krouska and
  • Cleo Sgouropoulou

In the field of education, virtual reality (VR) offers learners an immersive and interactive learning experience, allowing them to comprehend challenging concepts and ideas more efficiently and effectively. VR technology has enabled educators to deve...

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263 Citations
32,099 Views
29 Pages

Unlocking the Potential: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Education

  • Mohammed A. M. AlGerafi,
  • Yueliang Zhou,
  • Mohamed Oubibi and
  • Tommy Tanu Wijaya

20 September 2023

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are poised to revolutionize education by offering immersive and interactive learning experiences. This research comprehensively evaluates the educational applications of AR and VR, specifically emphasiz...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
221 Citations
61,790 Views
50 Pages

22 September 2024

This paper reviews the literature on integrating AI in e-learning, from the viewpoint of cognitive neuropsychology, for Personalized Learning (PL) and Adaptive Assessment (AA). This review follows the PRISMA systematic review methodology and synthesi...

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197 Citations
33,500 Views
23 Pages

Dropout is one of the most popular regularization methods in the scholarly domain for preventing a neural network model from overfitting in the training phase. Developing an effective dropout regularization technique that complies with the model arch...

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174 Citations
57,411 Views
15 Pages

FDA-Approved Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Medical Devices: An Updated Landscape

  • Geeta Joshi,
  • Aditi Jain,
  • Shalini Reddy Araveeti,
  • Sabina Adhikari,
  • Harshit Garg and
  • Mukund Bhandari

As artificial intelligence (AI) has been highly advancing in the last decade, machine learning (ML)-enabled medical devices are increasingly used in healthcare. In this study, we collected publicly available information on AI/ML-enabled medical devic...

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172 Citations
34,820 Views
21 Pages

YOLO-Drone: An Optimized YOLOv8 Network for Tiny UAV Object Detection

  • Xianxu Zhai,
  • Zhihua Huang,
  • Tao Li,
  • Hanzheng Liu and
  • Siyuan Wang

30 August 2023

With the widespread use of UAVs in commercial and industrial applications, UAV detection is receiving increasing attention in areas such as public safety. As a result, object detection techniques for UAVs are also developing rapidly. However, the sma...

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167 Citations
38,389 Views
19 Pages

Healthcare Internet of Things (H-IoT): Current Trends, Future Prospects, Applications, Challenges, and Security Issues

  • Mohit Kumar,
  • Ashwani Kumar,
  • Sahil Verma,
  • Pronaya Bhattacharya,
  • Deepak Ghimire,
  • Seong-heum Kim and
  • A. S. M. Sanwar Hosen

Advancements in Healthcare Internet of Things (H-IoT) systems have created new opportunities and solutions for healthcare services, including the remote treatment and monitoring of patients. In addition, the security and privacy of personal health da...

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155 Citations
61,985 Views
24 Pages

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an affordable and straightforward optical technique used to detect changes in blood volume within tissue microvascular beds. PPG technology has found widespread application in commercial medical devices, enabling measure...

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154 Citations
57,837 Views
38 Pages

4 September 2024

Synthetic data are increasingly being recognized for their potential to address serious real-world challenges in various domains. They provide innovative solutions to combat the data scarcity, privacy concerns, and algorithmic biases commonly used in...

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152 Citations
60,667 Views
44 Pages

Intelligent Robotics—A Systematic Review of Emerging Technologies and Trends

  • Josip Tomo Licardo,
  • Mihael Domjan and
  • Tihomir Orehovački

Intelligent robotics has the potential to revolutionize various industries by amplifying output, streamlining operations, and enriching customer interactions. This systematic literature review aims to analyze emerging technologies and trends in intel...

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144 Citations
4,749 Views
15 Pages

Graphene Multi-Frequency Broadband and Ultra-Broadband Terahertz Absorber Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance

  • Zihao Chen,
  • Pinggen Cai,
  • Qiye Wen,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Yongjian Tang,
  • Zao Yi,
  • Kaihua Wei,
  • Gongfa Li,
  • Bin Tang and
  • Yougen Yi

When surface plasmon resonance (SPR) occurs, the incident light is absorbed by the surface of the SPR structure, thus minimizing the intensity of the reflected light. Therefore, the SPR method is adopted in this paper to achieve perfect absorption of...

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140 Citations
28,017 Views
30 Pages

The concept of learning has multiple interpretations, ranging from acquiring knowledge or skills to constructing meaning and social development. Machine Learning (ML) is considered a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and develops algorithms that...

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129 Citations
32,592 Views
18 Pages

Artificial Intelligence-Based Cyber Security in the Context of Industry 4.0—A Survey

  • Antonio João Gonçalves de Azambuja,
  • Christian Plesker,
  • Klaus Schützer,
  • Reiner Anderl,
  • Benjamin Schleich and
  • Vilson Rosa Almeida

The increase in cyber-attacks impacts the performance of organizations in the industrial sector, exploiting the vulnerabilities of networked machines. The increasing digitization and technologies present in the context of Industry 4.0 have led to a r...

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  • Open Access
123 Citations
20,736 Views
34 Pages

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrated systems that combine software and physical components. CPS has experienced rapid growth over the past decade in fields as disparate as telemedicine, smart manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, the Internet of...

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120 Citations
32,464 Views
34 Pages

Review of Industry 4.0 from the Perspective of Automation and Supervision Systems: Definitions, Architectures and Recent Trends

  • Francisco Javier Folgado,
  • David Calderón,
  • Isaías González and
  • Antonio José Calderón

16 February 2024

Industry 4.0 is a new paradigm that is transforming the industrial scenario. It has generated a large amount of scientific studies, commercial equipment and, above all, high expectations. Nevertheless, there is no single definition or general agreeme...

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112 Citations
27,122 Views
35 Pages

Reviewing Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithms; Strategies, Contributions, Limitations and Future Perspectives

  • Mohammad Moshawrab,
  • Mehdi Adda,
  • Abdenour Bouzouane,
  • Hussein Ibrahim and
  • Ali Raad

The success of machine learning (ML) techniques in the formerly difficult areas of data analysis and pattern extraction has led to their widespread incorporation into various aspects of human life. This success is due in part to the increasing comput...

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107 Citations
11,959 Views
24 Pages

The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review

  • Sofia Polymeni,
  • Stefanos Plastras,
  • Dimitrios N. Skoutas,
  • Georgios Kormentzas and
  • Charalabos Skianis

Throughout human history, agriculture has undergone a series of progressive transformations based on ever-evolving technologies in an effort to increase productivity and profitability. Over the years, farming methods have evolved significantly, progr...

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106 Citations
4,562 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2023

Scene classification is one of the areas of remote sensing image processing that is gaining much attention. Aiming to solve the problem of the limited precision of optical scene classification caused by complex spatial patterns, a high similarity bet...

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100 Citations
18,822 Views
44 Pages

Integrating Artificial Intelligence Agents with the Internet of Things for Enhanced Environmental Monitoring: Applications in Water Quality and Climate Data

  • Tymoteusz Miller,
  • Irmina Durlik,
  • Ewelina Kostecka,
  • Polina Kozlovska,
  • Adrianna Łobodzińska,
  • Sylwia Sokołowska and
  • Agnieszka Nowy

11 February 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents with the Internet of Things (IoT) has marked a transformative shift in environmental monitoring and management, enabling advanced data gathering, in-depth analysis, and more effective decision ma...

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  • Open Access
98 Citations
16,633 Views
25 Pages

The histrionic growth of mobile subscribers, disruptive ecosystems such as IoT-based applications, and astounding channel capacity requirements to connect trillions of devices are massive challenges of the earlier mobile generations, 5G turned up the...

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98 Citations
30,235 Views
63 Pages

Networking Architectures and Protocols for IoT Applications in Smart Cities: Recent Developments and Perspectives

  • Dimitris Kanellopoulos,
  • Varun Kumar Sharma,
  • Theodor Panagiotakopoulos and
  • Achilles Kameas

Numerous municipalities employ the smart city model in large cities to improve the quality of life of their residents, utilize local resources efficiently, and save operating expenses. This model incorporates many heterogeneous technologies such as C...

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97 Citations
9,031 Views
28 Pages

Anomaly Detection in 6G Networks Using Machine Learning Methods

  • Mamoon M. Saeed,
  • Rashid A. Saeed,
  • Maha Abdelhaq,
  • Raed Alsaqour,
  • Mohammad Kamrul Hasan and
  • Rania A. Mokhtar

While the cloudification of networks with a micro-services-oriented design is a well-known feature of 5G, the 6G era of networks is closely related to intelligent network orchestration and management. Consequently, artificial intelligence (AI), machi...

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  • Open Access
95 Citations
11,023 Views
23 Pages

DenseNet-201 and Xception Pre-Trained Deep Learning Models for Fruit Recognition

  • Farsana Salim,
  • Faisal Saeed,
  • Shadi Basurra,
  • Sultan Noman Qasem and
  • Tawfik Al-Hadhrami

With the dramatic increase of the global population and with food insecurity increasing, it has become a major concern for both individuals and governments to fulfill the need for foods such as vegetables and fruits. Moreover, the desire for the cons...

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  • Open Access
92 Citations
26,471 Views
34 Pages

A Survey of Video Surveillance Systems in Smart City

  • Yanjinlkham Myagmar-Ochir and
  • Wooseong Kim

23 August 2023

Smart cities are being developed worldwide with the use of technology to improve the quality of life of citizens and enhance their safety. Video surveillance is a key component of smart city infrastructure, as it involves the installation of cameras...

  • Systematic Review
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92 Citations
32,558 Views
89 Pages

IoT Solutions with Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Precision Agriculture: Definitions, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • Elisha Elikem Kofi Senoo,
  • Lia Anggraini,
  • Jacqueline Asor Kumi,
  • Luna Bunga Karolina,
  • Ebenezer Akansah,
  • Hafeez Ayo Sulyman,
  • Israel Mendonça and
  • Masayoshi Aritsugi

The global agricultural sector confronts significant obstacles such as population growth, climate change, and natural disasters, which negatively impact food production and pose a threat to food security. In response to these challenges, the integrat...

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  • Open Access
90 Citations
13,640 Views
28 Pages

The most significant threat that networks established in IoT may encounter is cyber attacks. The most commonly encountered attacks among these threats are DDoS attacks. After attacks, the communication traffic of the network can be disrupted, and the...

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89 Citations
5,536 Views
13 Pages

Enhancing Electrical Load Prediction Using a Bidirectional LSTM Neural Network

  • Christos Pavlatos,
  • Evangelos Makris,
  • Georgios Fotis,
  • Vasiliki Vita and
  • Valeri Mladenov

15 November 2023

Precise anticipation of electrical demand holds crucial importance for the optimal operation of power systems and the effective management of energy markets within the domain of energy planning. This study builds on previous research focused on the a...

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  • Open Access
89 Citations
9,106 Views
24 Pages

YOLO-MBBi: PCB Surface Defect Detection Method Based on Enhanced YOLOv5

  • Bowei Du,
  • Fang Wan,
  • Guangbo Lei,
  • Li Xu,
  • Chengzhi Xu and
  • Ying Xiong

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are extensively used to assemble electronic equipment. Currently, PCBs are an integral part of almost all electronic products. However, various surface defects can still occur during mass production. An enhanced YOLOv5s...

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89 Citations
15,884 Views
34 Pages

The global energy landscape is witnessing a transformational shift brought about by the adoption of renewable energy technologies along with power system modernisation. Distributed generation (DG), smart grids (SGs), microgrids (MGs), and advanced en...

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  • Open Access
88 Citations
5,792 Views
18 Pages

Smart Load-Based Resource Optimization Model to Enhance the Performance of Device-to-Device Communication in 5G-WPAN

  • Jaganathan Logeshwaran,
  • Thangavel Kiruthiga,
  • Raju Kannadasan,
  • Loganathan Vijayaraja,
  • Ali Alqahtani,
  • Nayef Alqahtani and
  • Abdulaziz A. Alsulami

In wireless personal area networks (WPANs), devices can communicate with each other without relying on a central router or access point. They can improve performance and efficiency by allowing devices to share resources directly; however, managing re...

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87 Citations
7,275 Views
32 Pages

SafetyMed: A Novel IoMT Intrusion Detection System Using CNN-LSTM Hybridization

  • Nuruzzaman Faruqui,
  • Mohammad Abu Yousuf,
  • Md Whaiduzzaman,
  • AKM Azad,
  • Salem A. Alyami,
  • Pietro Liò,
  • Muhammad Ashad Kabir and
  • Mohammad Ali Moni

22 August 2023

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has become an attractive playground to cybercriminals because of its market worth and rapid growth. These devices have limited computational capabilities, which ensure minimum power absorption. Moreover, the manu...

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  • Open Access
86 Citations
10,042 Views
25 Pages

A New Blockchain-Based Authentication Framework for Secure IoT Networks

  • Ahmad K. Al Hwaitat,
  • Mohammed Amin Almaiah,
  • Aitizaz Ali,
  • Shaha Al-Otaibi,
  • Rima Shishakly,
  • Abdalwali Lutfi and
  • Mahmaod Alrawad

27 August 2023

Most current research on decentralized IoT applications focuses on a specific vulnerability. However, for IoT applications, only a limited number of techniques are dedicated to handling privacy and trust concerns. To address that, blockchain-based so...

  • Review
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84 Citations
89,688 Views
38 Pages

Blockchain-Based E-Voting Systems: A Technology Review

  • Mohammad Hajian Berenjestanaki,
  • Hamid R. Barzegar,
  • Nabil El Ioini and
  • Claus Pahl

The employment of blockchain technology in electronic voting (e-voting) systems is attracting significant attention due to its ability to enhance transparency, security, and integrity in digital voting. This study presents an extensive review of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
25,585 Views
29 Pages

25 October 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements, especially deep learning, have significantly improved medical image processing and analysis in various tasks such as disease detection, classification, and anatomical structure segmentation. This work overvi...

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82 Citations
11,946 Views
17 Pages

A Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network for Facial Expression Recognition

  • Saining Zhang,
  • Yuhang Zhang,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Yufei Wang and
  • Zhigang Song

25 August 2023

In recent years, facial expression recognition (FER) has garnered significant attention within the realm of computer vision research. This paper presents an innovative network called the Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network (DDAMFN) specifi...

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82 Citations
19,147 Views
49 Pages

Deep-Learning-Based Approaches for Semantic Segmentation of Natural Scene Images: A Review

  • Busra Emek Soylu,
  • Mehmet Serdar Guzel,
  • Gazi Erkan Bostanci,
  • Fatih Ekinci,
  • Tunc Asuroglu and
  • Koray Acici

The task of semantic segmentation holds a fundamental position in the field of computer vision. Assigning a semantic label to each pixel in an image is a challenging task. In recent times, significant advancements have been achieved in the field of s...

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82 Citations
20,940 Views
21 Pages

Quantum Machine Learning—An Overview

  • Kyriaki A. Tychola,
  • Theofanis Kalampokas and
  • George A. Papakostas

Quantum computing has been proven to excel in factorization issues and unordered search problems due to its capability of quantum parallelism. This unique feature allows exponential speed-up in solving certain problems. However, this advantage does n...

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  • Open Access
80 Citations
6,428 Views
15 Pages

A Scenario-Generic Neural Machine Translation Data Augmentation Method

  • Xiner Liu,
  • Jianshu He,
  • Mingzhe Liu,
  • Zhengtong Yin,
  • Lirong Yin and
  • Wenfeng Zheng

Amid the rapid advancement of neural machine translation, the challenge of data sparsity has been a major obstacle. To address this issue, this study proposes a general data augmentation technique for various scenarios. It examines the predicament of...

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79 Citations
8,130 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2023

The growing demand for innovative and user-centric product design has led to a growing need for effective idea generation methods. In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) tools such as ChatGPT have emerged as a promising solution for suppo...

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79 Citations
13,571 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2023

While solar energy holds great significance as a clean and sustainable energy source, photovoltaic panels serve as the linchpin of this energy conversion process. However, defects in these panels can adversely impact energy production, necessitating...

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78 Citations
14,133 Views
24 Pages

20 September 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been increasingly applied in assisting various cultural heritage (CH)-related tasks. The aim of this study is to examine the research trends and current applications of AI in this vast domain. After obtain...

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73 Citations
12,206 Views
46 Pages

10 December 2024

Rapid urbanisation has intensified the need for sustainable solutions to address challenges in urban infrastructure, climate change, and resource constraints. This study reveals that Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled metaverse offers transformativ...

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72 Citations
26,082 Views
32 Pages

Augmented Reality: Current and New Trends in Education

  • Dorota Kamińska,
  • Grzegorz Zwoliński,
  • Anna Laska-Leśniewicz,
  • Rui Raposo,
  • Mário Vairinhos,
  • Elisabeth Pereira,
  • Frane Urem,
  • Martina Ljubić Hinić,
  • Rain Eric Haamer and
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari

21 August 2023

The educational landscape is an environment prone to change due to the volatile and ever-changing nature of the digital society in which we all live. Although the world moves at different speeds and any generalization is bound to have some exceptions...

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71 Citations
18,882 Views
19 Pages

The evolution of digital technologies has resulted in the emergence of diverse interaction technologies. In this paper, we conducted a review of seven domains under a human-centric approach user interface design, human-centered web-based information...

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  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,251 Views
14 Pages

Detecting small objects in aerial images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is challenging due to their complex backgrounds and the presence of densely arranged yet sparsely distributed small targets. In this paper, we propose a real-time sm...

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71 Citations
11,521 Views
21 Pages

Parkinson’s Disease Detection Using Hybrid LSTM-GRU Deep Learning Model

  • Amjad Rehman,
  • Tanzila Saba,
  • Muhammad Mujahid,
  • Faten S. Alamri and
  • Narmine ElHakim

Parkinson’s disease is the second-most common cause of death and disability as well as the most prevalent neurological disorder. In the last 15 years, the number of cases of PD has doubled. The accurate detection of PD in the early stages is on...

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70 Citations
16,602 Views
60 Pages

The ongoing evolution of cloud computing requires sustained attention to security, privacy, and compliance issues. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the current literature regarding the application of federated learning (FL) and a...

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  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,850 Views
20 Pages

Autonomous UAV Navigation with Adaptive Control Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Yongfeng Yin,
  • Zhetao Wang,
  • Lili Zheng,
  • Qingran Su and
  • Yang Guo

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation plays a crucial role in its ability to perform autonomous missions in complex environments. Most of the existing reinforcement learning methods to solve the UAV navigation problem fix the flight altitude and v...

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  • Open Access
67 Citations
3,404 Views
22 Pages

29 September 2023

The rise of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) underscores the imperative for advanced and efficient early detection mechanisms. With the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G technologies, there is transformative potential f...

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