Sensors

Innovative Approaches in 3D Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12586 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D heritage documentation; digital twins; sensors and data fusion (visible/multispectral data); artificial intelligence (AI); digital photogrammetry; sensors development and application; lidar mapping; 3D mobile mapping (visual odometry and SLAM-based solution); digital technologies for NDT inspections and diagnostic; neural radiance field (NeRF); 360° photogrammetry and multi-camera 3D mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Recent Development of Flexible Tactile Sensors and Their Applications

edited by Min Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12483 | Submission Open

Keywords: flexible tactile sensors; novel sensing materials; smart structure design; new sensing principles; high performance; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Wearable Devices for Physical Activity Monitoring

edited by

Jung-Min Lee

and

Myong-Won Seo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 12402 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable devices; physical activity monitoring; physical activity assessment; public Health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advances in Optical Fiber Sensors and Fiber Lasers

edited by

Ping Lu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12398 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fibers; fiber sensors; harsh environment sensing; fiber lasers; fiber communication; laser machining

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Feature Papers in the Internet of Things Section 2025

edited by

Raffaele Bruno

and

Petros S. Bithas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12213 | Submission Open

Keywords: internet of multimedia things; industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); underwater IoT communication and networks; machine-type communications; low-power and energy harvesting technologies; real-time systems for the IoT; service middleware and device management for the IoT; privacy; security; and trust in IoT systems; cyber– physical system (CPS) platforms; edge/fog/cloud computing in the IoT; data management and mining platforms for the IoT; IoT architectures and standards; future internet design for the IoT; IoT pilots and testbeds; 5G and beyond 5G architectures and protocols for the IoT; AI/ML and distributed intelligence for the IoT; IoT applications and uses (smart factory; smart city; smart health; smart transportation; and smart agriculture)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Feature Papers in Smart Agriculture 2025

edited by

Wonsuk (Daniel) Lee

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12207 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor; artificial intelligence; IoT; UAV; robot; smart agriculture; smart farming; precision livestock management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Feature Papers in Fault Diagnosis & Sensors 2025

edited by

Francesc Pozo

,

Mohammad N Noori

,

Steven Chatterton

and

Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12141 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault detection and diagnosis; fault/failure prognosis; structural health monitoring; condition monitoring; non-destructive testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Selected Papers from International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications ISETC 2024

edited by

Marius Otesteanu

,

Cătălin Căleanu

and

Florin Alexa

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12048 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; antenna and propagation; biomedical applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Intelligent Fault Prediction and Health Management Techniques in Manufacturing Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Long Wen

, Zhuyun Chen, Chuanjiang Li, Junyu Qi, Gernot Schullerus and

Jianan Wei

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11621 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault prediction; defect detection; artificial intelligence; smart manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Feature Papers in Biosensors Section 2025

edited by

Alexander Star

,

Spyridon Kintzios

and

Patrick Wagner

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11543 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosensors; lab-on-a-chip technology; optical biosensors; plasmonic biosensors; biosensors for cell analysis; electrochemical biosensors; enzymatic biosensors; graphene-based biosensors; carbon nanotube biosensors; aptamer biosensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Integration of Edge/Fog Artificial Intelligence into Smart Distributed Systems

edited by

Tuan Nguyen Gia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11522 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge computing; fog computing; decentralization; internet-of-things; edge AI; smart distributed systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Sensors-Based Healthcare Diagnostics, Monitoring and Medical Devices

edited by

Shih-Lin Wu

and Jen-Jee Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11358 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor-based diagnostics; monitoring; medical devices; healthcare; real-time healthcare monitoring; early detections and diagnostics; non-wearable/wearable healthcare devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Feature Papers in Biomedical Sensors 2025

edited by

Thomas M. Deserno

and

Zhong Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10786 | Submission Open

Keywords: health monitoring; remote monitoring; continuous monitoring; preventive medicine; biological sensors; vital signs; artificial intelligence; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Sensor Technology for Digital Twins in Smart Grids

edited by

Javier M. Aguiar Pérez

and

María Á. Pérez Juárez

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 10720 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart grids; digital twins; predictive maintenance; energy management; fault detection; load forecasting; grid resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Sensor Technology in Robotic Surgery

edited by Tim Horeman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10610 | Submission Open

Keywords: robotics; sustainable; SMART; AI; frugal; automated; interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Machine Learning in Image/Video Processing and Sensing

edited by Yibo Fan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9728 | Submission Open

Keywords: image/video processing; video compression; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Laser Scanning and Applications

edited by

Virgil-Florin Duma

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9517 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser scanning; optomechatronics; optical devices; laser systems; galvanometer scanners; risley prisms; polygon mirrors; MEMS and MOEMS; Finite Element Analysis (FEA); control and automation; imaging techniques; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); lasers in medicine; optical metrology; Non-Destructive Testing (NDT); laser manufacturing; remote sensing; security and defense

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Reliability Verification and Diagnosis Methods for Mechanical Equipment

edited by

Haiyang Pan

, Xin Li and

Xinhua Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9422 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; signal processing; fault diagnosis; verification technique; feature extraction; sensor technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Optical-Based Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Biomedical Applications

edited by

Giuseppe Trusso Sfrazzetto

and Roberta Puglisi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9255 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluorescence; sensing; smart materials; medical devices; supramolecular sensing; covalent sensing; reusability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Wearable Robotics and Assistive Devices

edited by

Jesús Ortiz

and

Maria Lazzaroni

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9043 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable robotics; assistive devices; exoskeletons; physical workload; industry; rehabilitation; human– robot interaction; human performance augmentation; ergonomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Cyber Security and AI—2nd Edition

edited by

Yushu Zhang

and

Zhongyun Hua

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8963 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI and machine learning for cybersecurity; adversarial attack for cybersecurity; generative adversarial networks for cybersecurity; automated and intelligent and data-driven cybersecurity model; AI security and neural networks; cloud computing security and AI; AI for multimedia networks security; security and privacy of AIGC

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Sensor and Sensing Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring and Non-Destructive Testing—2nd Edition

edited by

Victor Giurgiutiu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8904 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; damage detection; guided wave; nondestructive evaluation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Intelligent Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Image Processing

edited by

Hui-liang Shen

, Eryun Liu and Siyuan Cao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8828 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; image registration; image segmentation; image recovery and enhancement; image classification; pattern recognition; remote sensing image processing; object detection; tracking and recognition; action recognition; neural networks and deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Networks 2024–2025

edited by

Qiong Wu

and Qiang Fan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8634 | Submission Open

Keywords: V2X communications; communication technologies; networking technologies; machine learning; positioning; sensing; cloud computing and edge computing; collaborative communication; resource allocation; 5G NR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Optical Sensors for Industry Applications

edited by

Chen-Kuei Chung

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8514 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical sensors; non-destructive testing (NDT); interference detection; fluorescence measurement; surface plasmonic resonance sensing; surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy; optical materials synthesis; optical micro-nano structure design; optical sensors platform fabrication; optical sensors applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)

Recent Advances in Fluorescence Sensing and Imaging

edited by

Agata Szłapa-Kula

and

Sławomir Kula

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8361 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluorescent probes; fluorescent dyes; optical biosensor; fluorescence imaging; bioimaging; biosensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Emerging Advances in Wireless Positioning and Location-Based Services

edited by

Xi Chen

and Xingxing Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8174 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite positioning; LEO positioning; navigation; and timing; integrated positioning; navigation; and timing in satellite communication constellations; precise point positioning; GNSS; assured PNT with satellite positioning; location-based service; satellite signal-of-opportunity positioning; multi-sensor fusion with GNSS; Lidar; vision; and IMU; satellite positioning for robots; UAVs; and autonomous cars; GNSS augmentation; GNSS interference detection and localization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)

Sensor and Data Integration, Analysis and Exchange for Healthcare and Healthy Living

edited by

Carlos Agostinho

and

Luigi Gallo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8020 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sensor systems and wearables; internet of (medical) things; biosensors and systems; data management and security; data-driven health and care; digital health twins; health data standards; (explainable) artificial intelligence; healthcare systems; healthy living applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Advances in Sensing Technology: From Photon, Electron to Signal Processing

edited by

Yuxi Ruan

,

Bin Liu

and

Yuanlong Fan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7729 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor technology; smart sensors; sensing applications; wireless sensing; optical sensing; signal processing; microwave photonics; AI in sensing; quantum sensing; terahertz sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Electroencephalogram/Electromyogram-Based Sensing Technologies for Biomedical Applications: Challenges and Possible Applications

edited by Yang Zheng,

Hui Liu

, Jun Xie, Lili Li,

Min Li

and João Rodrigues

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7520 | Submission Open

Keywords: electroencephalogram; electromyogram; biomedical engineering; sensors; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Feature Review Papers in Biosensors Section 2025

edited by

Toshiyo Tamura

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7039 | Submission Open

Keywords: noninvasive; unconstrained; optical; biochemical; physical MEMS/NEMS; wearable energy harvest; healthcare; clinical practice; AI; 5G; Internet of Things

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Smart Sensing for Dietary Monitoring

edited by

Wenyan Jia

and Yuhao Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6729 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable device; smart sensor; IoT system; sensing technology; dietary pattern; meal frequency and timing; dietary assessment; dietary data processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Sensing Technology and Computer Vision for Precision Agriculture and Smart Farming

edited by

Simone Pasinetti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6324 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; AI in agriculture; sensor technologies; computer vision; IoT-based monitoring; remote sensing; smart farming; data analytics; environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Artificial Intelligence and Wireless Sensors for Smart Manufacturing, Intelligent Quality Control, and Smart Retailing

edited by

Chih-Hsuan Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6165 | Submission Open

Keywords: pattern recognition; quality control; smart manufacturing; smart retailing; artificial intelligence.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)

Sensor Fusion for Telemedicine: Advancing Remote Healthcare Through Multi-Modal Data Integration

edited by

Pierre Boulanger

and Giovanni Ferrara

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5991 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; telemedicine; multi-modal data; remote patient monitoring; healthcare informatics; wearable sensors; clinical decision support; edge computing; medical IoT; bio-signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sleep, Neuroscience, EEG and Sensors

edited by

Gary Garcia-Molina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5881 | Submission Open

Keywords: sleep EEG; unobtrusive sensing; closed-loop; falling and staying asleep; slow wave enhancement; AI applied to sleep EEG

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Cutting-Edge Developments in Optical Communications, Perception and Computing

edited by Yiwen Zhang, Hao Song, Lei Sun and

Yang Yue

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5650 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical communications; optical computing; optical sensing; optical perception; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Biosensors for Biomedical, Environmental and Food Applications

edited by

Sebania Libertino

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5641 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosensors; point-of-care diagnostics; environmental monitoring; food safety; electrochemical sensing; optical biosensors; wearable sensors; nanomaterials; lab-on-a-chip; real-time detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Advanced Sensors Technologies for Soft Robotic System

edited by Yuanyuan Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5505 | Submission Open

Keywords: soft sensors; soft robotics; sensing feedback; tactile sensing; haptic sensing; environmental sensing; sensor integration; robotic application; bio-inspired sensor

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Advanced UAV-Based Sensor Technologies: 2nd Edition

edited by

Pasquale Daponte

,

Eulalia Balestrieri

and

Francesco Picariello

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5268 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; UAVs; measurement uncertainty; calibration; navigation; sense and avoid; image processing; signal processing; sensor fusion; UAV testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Sustainable Smart Cities: Leveraging AI-Driven IoT Systems and Sensors

edited by

Pablo Chamoso

and

Guillermo Hernández

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4995 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable smart cities; AI-driven IoT; sensor networks; urban infrastructure; environmental monitoring; smart grids; intelligent transportation; public health systems; demographic challenges; urban innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Image Processing and Computer Vision Sensing Technologies in Engineering Applications and Digital Twins

edited by

Stefanos Vrochidis

, Konstantinos Ioannidis and Nikolaos I. Dourvas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4856 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-time 3D reconstruction using visual data; AI-based digital counterparts of physical objects; SLAM techniques; real-time multi-object detection and localization; aerial imagery and photogrammetry; simulations for predictions on visual data; smart optronics systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Feature Papers in Sensing and Imaging 2025

edited by

Sylvain Girard

,

Christoph M. Friedrich

and

Bogdan Smolka

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4835 | Submission Open

Keywords: imaging systems; sensors; camera; radar and sonar; probes; diagnostics (bio)medical imaging; subsurface and surface sensing; environmental sensing and imaging; nondestructive sensing and imaging; aerial/UAV imaging; gesture/pattern/target recognition; computer vision; imaging in harsh environments; extended reality (mixed/augmented/virtual reality); material appearance metrology; acoustic/ultrasound/photoacoustic imaging; optical/infrared/spectral/hyperspectral/fluorescence imaging; (micro)wave/terahertz imaging; thermal imaging; magnetic imaging/atomic scale magnetic sensing and imaging; (high dynamic) range imaging ; 2D/3D imaging; computational imaging; unconventional imaging; artificial intelligence (AI); machine/deep learning; (convolutional) neutral network

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Advanced Sensor-Based Methods for Condition Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Fault-Tolerant Control of Power Converters

edited by Dong Xie,

Shuiqing Xu

, Bo Yao and Hongjian Lin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4770 | Submission Open

Keywords: power converter; power devices; AC/DC capacitors; condition monitoring; reliability evaluation; fault diagnosis; fault-tolerant control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensor-Based Geoinformatics Solutions for Sustainable Agricultural and Water/Forest Resources Management

edited by

Pulakesh Das

,

Satiprasad Sahoo

, Madhumita Sahoo and

Shafique Matin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4651 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; crop monitoring; hydrological modeling; forest change monitoring; machine learning (ML); deep learning (DL)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Sensor-Based Computational Intelligence and Security Technologies, and Their Applications

edited by

Yiu-ming Cheung

,

Yuping Wang

, Xin Liu and Hai-Lin Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4231 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor technologies; computational intelligence; security technologies; machine learning; privacy-preserving techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

New Trends in the Sensing and Control Techniques Used for Intelligent Industrial Perception and Service Robotics

edited by

Silu Chen

, Hao Zheng and Yina Wei

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3968 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart manufacturing; human– robot collaboration; real-time perception; multi-modal sensor fusion; context-aware cognition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Application of SAR and Remote Sensing Technology in Earth Observation

edited by Xing Peng, Qinghua Xie,

Yanan Du

and

Bing Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3716 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; land cover; earth observation; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Innovative Detection Techniques for Ionizing Radiation in Medicine, Environment and Space

edited by

Giuseppe La Verde

,

Mariagabriella Pugliese

, Marina Poje Sovilj and Roberto Senesi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3573 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionizing radiation; radiation protection; radioactivity measurements; mapping; radiometric characterization; environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Ubiquitous Sensors in Environmental Monitor, Precision Agriculture, and Food Safety

edited by

Jian Lu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3465 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors for precision agriculture; sensors for environmental monitoring; sensors for water quality; sensors for living stock animals; sensor networks for wild animals; design and fabrication of sensors stand-alone sensor node; sensors for climate change; sensor manufacture and system integration; sensors for food safety; sensor networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

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