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Image Inpainting Based on Multi-Level Feature Aggregation Network for Future Internet

  • Dong Wang,
  • Liuqing Hu,
  • Qing Li,
  • Guanyi Wang and
  • Hongan Li

28 September 2023

(1) Background: In the future Internet era, clarity and structural rationality are important factors in image inpainting. Currently, image inpainting techniques based on generative adversarial networks have made great progress; however, in practical...

(This article belongs to the Topic Future Internet Architecture: Difficulties and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,028 Views
24 Pages

Early and accurate detection of dermatological conditions, particularly melanoma, is critical for effective treatment and improved patient outcomes. Misclassifications may lead to delayed diagnosis, disease progression, and severe complications in me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Applications, 4th Edition)
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  • Open Access
409 Views
19 Pages

Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Based on Hierarchical Feature Aggregation and Laplacian High-Frequency Compensation

  • Kangliang Xiao,
  • Shaozhang Xiao,
  • Bolun Chen,
  • Yuanyuan Wang and
  • Raees ul Haq Muhammad

16 July 2026

Existing image super-resolution methods still suffer from limitations in edge-structure restoration, high-frequency texture preservation, and artifact suppression, which may lead to blurred contours and unnatural textures. To address these issues, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Algorithms for Image Understanding and Analysis (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,270 Views
22 Pages

MSA-UNet: Multiscale Feature Aggregation with Attentive Skip Connections for Precise Building Extraction

  • Guobiao Yao,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Wenxiao Sun,
  • Zeyu Zhang and ,
  • Yifei Tang and
  • Jingxue Bi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

An accurate and reliable extraction of building structures from high-resolution (HR) remote sensing images is an important research topic in 3D cartography and smart city construction. However, despite the strong overall performance of recent deep le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
730 Views
19 Pages

LSSCC-Net: Integrating Spatial-Feature Aggregation and Adaptive Attention for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

  • Wenbo Wang,
  • Xianghong Hua,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Pengju Tian and ,
  • Yapeng Wang and
  • Lechao Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 January 2026

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a key technology for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality. Current approaches are heavily reliant on local relative coordinates and simplistic attention mechanisms to aggregate ne...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,676 Views
17 Pages

15 May 2023

Building footprint extraction from remotely sensed imagery is a critical task in the field of illegal building discovery, urban dynamic monitoring, and disaster emergency response. Recent research has made significant progress in this area by utilizi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Classification and Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery and Point Cloud Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,561 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2024

Higher standards have been proposed for detection systems since camouflaged objects are not distinct enough, making it possible to ignore the difference between their background and foreground. In this paper, we present a new framework for Camouflage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,775 Views
23 Pages

7 May 2022

Pedestrian detection is a challenging task, mainly owing to the numerous appearances of human bodies. Modern detectors extract representative features via the deep neural network; however, they usually require a large training set and high-performanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Computer Vision and Image Sensing: Theory and Applications)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,819 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2023

Hyperspectral remote sensing images, with their continuous, narrow, and rich spectra, hold distinct significance in the precise classification of land cover. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their variants are increasingly utilized for h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Processing of Hyperspectral Images)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,452 Views
21 Pages

Multiscale Feature Aggregation Capsule Neural Network for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Classification

  • Runmin Lei,
  • Chunju Zhang,
  • Xueying Zhang,
  • Jianwei Huang and ,
  • Zhenxuan Li,
  • Wencong Liu and
  • Hao Cui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 March 2022

Models based on capsule neural network (CapsNet), a novel deep learning method, have recently made great achievements in hyperspectral remote sensing image (HSI) classification due to their excellent ability to implicitly model the spatial relationsh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Processing Mixed Pixels for Hyperspectral Image)
  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
13,331 Views
21 Pages

10 May 2021

This paper deals with detecting small objects in remote sensing images from satellites or any aerial vehicle by utilizing the concept of image super-resolution for image resolution enhancement using a deep-learning-based detection method. This paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,566 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2023

At present, a prevalent approach to speaker diarization is clustering based on speaker embeddings. However, this method encounters two primary issues. Firstly, it cannot directly minimize the diarization error during the training process; secondly, t...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,360 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2022

Object detection in remote sensing images is a challenge because remote sensing targets have characteristics such as small geometries, an unfixed direction and multiple poses. Recent studies have shown that the accuracy of object detection can be imp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for the Analysis of Remote Sensing Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,631 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2021

Emotion is a form of high-level paralinguistic information that is intrinsically conveyed by human speech. Automatic speech emotion recognition is an essential challenge for various applications; including mental disease diagnosis; audio surveillance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotion Monitoring System Based on Sensors and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,218 Views
27 Pages

26 June 2025

With the rapid development of deep learning, object detection in remote sensing images has attracted extensive attention. However, remote sensing images typically exhibit the following characteristics: significant variations in object scales, dense s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,134 Views
29 Pages

A Multi-Task Detection Approach with Multi-Scale Attention Aggregation and Feature Enhancement

  • Xibao Wu,
  • Kexin Yang,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Yiqun Wang and ,
  • Wenbai Chen and
  • Chunjiang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2026

This research presents an advanced YOLOv8-MMD framework specifically designed for intelligent white radish harvesting systems, addressing the critical need for simultaneous species recognition and quality evaluation. The proposed architecture is buil...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,055 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Object Detection Algorithm Combined YOLOv11 with Dual-Encoder Feature Aggregation

  • Haisong Chen,
  • Pengfei Yuan,
  • Wenbai Liu,
  • Fuling Li and
  • Aili Wang

28 November 2025

To address the limitations of unimodal visual detection in complex scenarios involving low illumination, occlusion, and texture-sparse environments, this paper proposes an improved YOLOv11-based dual-branch RGB-D fusion framework. The symmetric archi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
1,168 Views
21 Pages

16 October 2025

Ultra-high dimensional longitudinal data feature screening procedures are widely studied, but most require model assumptions. The screening performance of these methods may not be excellent if we specify an incorrect model. To resolve the above probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,609 Views
14 Pages

LightVSR: A Lightweight Video Super-Resolution Model with Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation

  • Guanglun Huang,
  • Nachuan Li,
  • Jianming Liu,
  • Minghe Zhang and ,
  • Li Zhang and
  • Jun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 February 2025

Video super-resolution aims to generate high-resolution video sequences with realistic details from existing low-resolution video sequences. However, most existing video super-resolution models require substantial computational power and are not suit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,425 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2019

Mechanochromic polymers are defined as materials that are able to detect a mechanical stress through an optical output. This feature has evoked a growing interest in the last decades, thanks to the progress of chromogenic molecules whose optical char...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical and Fluorescent Sensors for Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,345 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2024

Mangrove forests are significant participants in coastal ecological environment systems. For the development of protection strategies, it is crucial to automatically and accurately detect the distribution and area of mangroves using satellite images....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precise Forestry: Forest Dynamic Change Mapping, Monitoring and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,553 Views
16 Pages

11 June 2025

The development of Facial Expression Recognition (FER) technology has significantly enhanced the naturalness and intuitiveness of human-robot interaction. In the field of service robots, particularly in applications such as production assistance, car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technologies Applied in Human Emotion and Facial Expression Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,590 Views
19 Pages

1 February 2023

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of aggregation methods used for the generation of texture features on their robustness of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) based on 18F-FDG PET/CT images. Methods: 128 NPC patients were enrolled and 95...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,529 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2019

In this paper a method for detecting and estimating the distance of a vehicle driving in front using a single black-box camera installed in a vehicle was proposed. In order to apply the proposed method to autonomous vehicles, it was required to reduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,211 Views
24 Pages

Eagle-YOLO: Enhancing Real-Time Small Object Detection in UAVs via Multi-Granularity Feature Aggregation

  • Yan Du,
  • Zifeng Dai,
  • Teng Wu,
  • Quan Zhu and ,
  • Changzhen Hu and
  • Shengjun Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 February 2026

Real-time object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery presents unique challenges, primarily characterized by extreme scale variations and intense background clutter. Existing detectors often suffer from spectral homogenization in which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Views
19 Pages

LUPIN: A LUT-Based DRAM-PIM Accelerator for Feature Aggregation in Graph Neural Networks

  • Sanaz Kazemi Abharian,
  • Sathwika Bavikadi and
  • Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have emerged as promising alternatives to conventional von Neumann architectures for accelerating memory-bound applications, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), by reducing data movement between memory and p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computing with Memories—Scaling in the Era of Big AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,039 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2023

Automated building footprint extraction requires the Deep Learning (DL)-based semantic segmentation of high-resolution Earth observation images. Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) such as U-Net and ResUNET are widely used for such segmentation. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,087 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2021

The automatic localization of software faults plays a critical role in assisting software professionals in fixing problems quickly. Despite various existing models for fault tolerance based on static features, localization is still challenging. By co...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
704 Views
24 Pages

9 January 2026

Accurate identification of the combustion state in municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) processes is crucial for achieving efficient, low-emission, and safe operation. However, existing methods often struggle with stable and reliable recognition...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
618 Views
28 Pages

A Neighbor Feature Aggregation-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Method for Fast Solution of Distributed Real-Time Power Dispatch Problem

  • Baisen Chen,
  • Chenghuang Li,
  • Qingfen Liao,
  • Wenyi Wang and ,
  • Lingteng Ma and
  • Xiaowei Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the challenges posed by the strong uncertainty of high-proportion renewable energy sources (RES) to the secure and stable operation of distributed real-time power dispatch (D-RTPD) in new-type power systems, this paper proposes an integrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Strategies for Power Grid Operation and Resilience: Integration of Emerging Resources and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
27 Pages

25 September 2026

Small-object representations in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery are easily degraded by repeated downsampling, crowded occlusion, and background clutter. We present MF-YOLO, an accuracy-oriented detector based on YOLO11n. It introduces a stride-...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,335 Views
23 Pages

7 April 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in various applications, such as transportation and intelligent environmental sensing. However, due to camera motion and complex environments, it can be difficult to recognize the UAV from its su...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,001 Views
23 Pages

8 March 2021

Finger vein (FV) biometrics is one of the most promising individual recognition traits, which has the capabilities of uniqueness, anti-forgery, and bio-assay, etc. However, due to the restricts of imaging environments, the acquired FV images are easi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,752 Views
15 Pages

Structural and Aggregation Features of a Human κ-Casein Fragment with Antitumor and Cell-Penetrating Properties

  • Olga A. Chinak,
  • Andrey V. Shernyukov,
  • Sergey S. Ovcherenko,
  • Evgeniy A. Sviridov and ,
  • Victor M. Golyshev,
  • Alexander S. Fomin,
  • Inna A. Pyshnaya,
  • Elena V. Kuligina,
  • Vladimir A. Richter and
  • Elena G. Bagryanskaya
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2019

Intrinsically disordered proteins play a central role in dynamic regulatory and assembly processes in the cell. Recently, a human κ-casein proteolytic fragment called lactaptin (8.6 kDa) was found to induce apoptosis of human breast adenocarcin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Domains: Structures and Molecular Functions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,224 Views
19 Pages

Brush-like Polymer Prodrug with Aggregation-Induced Emission Features for Precise Intracellular Drug Tracking

  • Sanaz Naghibi,
  • Soheila Sabouri,
  • Yuning Hong,
  • Zhongfan Jia and
  • Youhong Tang

29 May 2022

In this study, a brush-like polymer with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) features was synthesized for drug delivery and intracellular drug tracking. The polymer consisting of tetraphenylethene (TPE) chain-end as well as oligo-poly (ethylene glycol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development of Aggregation-Induced Emission Materials and Their Applications in Biosensing, Bioimaging and Theranostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,865 Views
24 Pages

DAMP-YOLO: A Lightweight Network Based on Deformable Features and Aggregation for Meter Reading Recognition

  • Sichao Zhuo,
  • Xiaoming Zhang,
  • Ziyi Chen,
  • Wei Wei and ,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Quanlong Li and
  • Yufan Guan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2023

With the development of Industry 4.0, although some smart meters have appeared on the market, traditional mechanical meters are still widely used due to their long-standing presence and the difficulty of modifying or replacing them in large quantitie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation and Digitization in Industry: Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,740 Views
20 Pages

9 August 2024

Network traffic classification models, an essential part of intrusion detection systems, need to be as simple as possible due to the high speed of network transmission. One of the fastest approaches is based on decision trees, where the classificatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Views
27 Pages

1 November 2026

Underwater marine debris detection remains challenging because light attenuation, scattering, low contrast, blurred object boundaries, and complex seabed backgrounds degrade feature representation and hinder the reliable detection of small, sparsely...

(This article belongs to the Section Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
965 Views
23 Pages

Hybrid Cascade and Dual-Path Adaptive Aggregation Network for Medical Image Segmentation

  • Junhong Ren,
  • Sen Chen,
  • Yange Sun,
  • Huaping Guo and ,
  • Yongqiang Tang and
  • Wensheng Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 December 2025

Deep learning methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Mamba have advanced medical image segmentation, yet two challenges remain: (1) trade-off in feature extraction, where CNNs capture local details but miss global context, and Mamb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Based on Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,967 Views
24 Pages

2 June 2022

Tissue phenotyping of the tumor microenvironment has a decisive role in digital profiling of intra-tumor heterogeneity, epigenetics, and progression of cancer. Most of the existing methods for tissue phenotyping often rely on time-consuming and error...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,994 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2024

For financial institutions, credit card fraud detection is a critical activity where the accuracy and efficiency of detection models are important. Traditional methods often use standard feature selection techniques that may ignore refined patterns i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Information Security and Privacy and Cyber Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,969 Views
14 Pages

22 December 2022

Recently, point-based networks have begun to prevail because they retain more original geometric information from point clouds than other deep learning-based methods. However, we observe that: (1) the set abstraction design for local aggregation in p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer/Machine Vision Applications in Automation, Robotic, Mechatronic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,236 Views
26 Pages

A Stability-Oriented Biomarker Selection Framework Synergistically Driven by Robust Rank Aggregation and L1-Sparse Modeling

  • Jigen Luo,
  • Jianqiang Du,
  • Jia He,
  • Qiang Huang and ,
  • Zixuan Liu and
  • Gaoxiang Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2025

Background: In high-dimensional, small-sample omics studies such as metabolomics, feature selection not only determines the discriminative performance of classification models but also directly affects the reproducibility and translational value of c...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioinformatics and Data Analysis)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,865 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2022

With the rapid development of cities, semantic segmentation of urban scenes, as an important and effective imaging method, can accurately obtain the distribution information of typical urban ground features, reflecting the development scale and the l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mapping and Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures Using LiDAR/Laser Scanning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,033 Views
17 Pages

Deep Temporal–Spatial Aggregation for Video-Based Facial Expression Recognition

  • Xianzhang Pan,
  • Wenping Guo,
  • Xiaoying Guo,
  • Wenshu Li and ,
  • Junjie Xu and
  • Jinzhao Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 January 2019

The proposed method has 30 streams, i.e., 15 spatial streams and 15 temporal streams. Each spatial stream corresponds to each temporal stream. Therefore, this work correlates with the symmetry concept. It is a difficult task to classify video-based f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,583 Views
22 Pages

Factory Extraction from Satellite Images: Benchmark and Baseline

  • Yifei Deng,
  • Chenglong Li,
  • Andong Lu,
  • Wenjie Li and
  • Bin Luo

9 November 2022

Factory extraction from satellite images is a key step in urban factory planning, and plays a crucial role in ecological protection and land-use optimization. However, factory extraction is greatly underexplored in the existing literature due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,354 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2021

Most existing video action recognition methods mainly rely on high-level semantic information from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) but ignore the discrepancies of different information streams. However, it does not normally consider both long-di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,921 Views
13 Pages

Synthesizing Explainability Across Multiple ML Models for Structured Data

  • Emir Veledar,
  • Lili Zhou,
  • Omar Veledar,
  • Hannah Gardener and ,
  • Carolina M. Gutierrez,
  • Jose G. Romano and
  • Tatjana Rundek
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2025

Explainable Machine Learning (XML) in high-stakes domains demands reproducible methods to aggregate feature importance across multiple models applied to the same structured dataset. We propose the Weighted Importance Score and Frequency Count (WISFC)...

(This article belongs to the Section Databases and Data Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,416 Views
14 Pages

Cascaded Aggregation Convolution Network for Salient Grain Pests Detection

  • Junwei Yu,
  • Shihao Chen,
  • Nan Liu,
  • Fupin Zhai and
  • Quan Pan

22 July 2024

Pest infestation poses significant threats to grain storage due to pests’ behaviors of feeding, respiration, excretion, and reproduction. Efficient pest detection and control are essential to mitigate these risks. However, accurate detection of...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,140 Views
24 Pages

A Multi-Scale Object Detector Based on Coordinate and Global Information Aggregation for UAV Aerial Images

  • Liming Zhou,
  • Zhehao Liu,
  • Hang Zhao,
  • Yan-E Hou and ,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Xianyu Zuo and
  • Lanxue Dang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 July 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image object detection has great application value in the military and civilian fields. However, the objects in the captured images from UAVs have problems of large-scale variation, complex backgrounds, and a large propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Computational Remote Sensing)

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