Building change detection based on remote sensing imagery is a significant task for urban construction, management, and planning. Feature differences caused by changes are fundamental in building change detection, but the spectral and spatial disturb...
Roll angle measurement is an essential technology in the trajectory correction projectiles. In this paper, an algorithm to detect the roll angle and rotational speed of a spinning vehicle is studied by using a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver...
In light of the problems of low recognition efficiency, high false rates and poor localization accuracy in traditional pipeline security detection technology, this paper proposes a type of hierarchical leak detection and localization method for use i...
In this paper, the possibility of improving target detection performance in passive bistatic radar by exploiting a frequency agile (FA) signal is investigated, namely frequency agile signal-based passive bistatic radar (FAPBR) coherent integration. S...
The ability to perform target detection through walls and barriers is important for law enforcement, homeland security, and search and rescue teams. Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar provides an improvement over traditional phased array rad...
In the last few decades, the main problem which has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of aerial robotics is the position estimation or Simultaneously Localization and Mapping (SLAM) of aerial vehicles where the GPS system does not w...
Water Distribution Network Partitioning (WDNP), which is the partitioning of the existing Water distribution Network (WDN) into smaller and more homogeneous portions called District Metered Areas (DMAs), is an effective strategy that allows water uti...
The computational complexity of existing multi-symbol detection (MSD) algorithms grows exponentially as the observation intervals increase, resulting in difficulties in algorithm implementation for detecting pulse code modulation/frequency modulation...
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology is one of the imaging radar technologies receiving the most attention worldwide. The main purpose is to detect targets in the area of interest in different settings, such as day/night, various weather conditi...
In this paper, a novel image denoising algorithm and novel input features are proposed. The algorithm is applied to phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) diagrams with a single dominant partial discharge (PD) source, preparing them for automatic ar...
The use of remote sensing images to detect forest changes is of great significance for forest resource management. With the development and implementation of deep learning algorithms in change detection, a large number of models have been designed to...
Traffic congestion has several causes, including insufficient road capacity, unrestricted demand and improper scheduling of traffic signal phases. A great variety of efforts have been made to properly program such phases. Some of them are based on tr...
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are highly complementary, and their registrations are a fundamental task for other remote sensing applications. Traditional feature-matching algorithms fail to solve the significant nonlinear radiatio...
As pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR), based on foot-mounted inertial sensors, suffers from accumulated error in velocity and heading, an improved heuristic drift elimination (iHDE) with a zero-velocity update (ZUPT) algorithm was proposed for simultane...
Image matching is a key research issue in the intelligent processing of remote sensing images. Due to the large phase differences or apparent differences in ground features between unmanned aerial vehicle imagery and satellite imagery, as well as the...
This paper proposes a new diagnostic method for sensor signals collected during semiconductor manufacturing. These signals provide important information for predicting the quality and yield of the finished product. Much of the data gathered during th...
Passive bistatic radar (PBR)-based moving target detection (MTD) has benefited greatly from multi-frequency (MF) integration, which can effectively improve the detection capability of weak targets. However, with the increase in the coherent processin...
The IEC 61850 communication standard is getting popular for application in electric power substation automation. This paper focuses on the potential application of the IEC 61850 generic object-oriented substation event (GOOSE) protocol in the AC micr...
In recent years, target detection has drawn increasing attention in the field of radar signal processing. In this paper, we address the problem of coherent integration for detecting high-speed maneuvering targets, involving range migration (RM), quad...
Nowadays, with the increasing usage of Android devices in daily life activities, malware has been increasing rapidly, putting peoples’ security and privacy at risk. To mitigate this threat, several researchers have proposed different methods to...
The detection and recognition of marine targets can be improved by utilizing the micro-motion induced by ocean waves. However, distinguishing and tracking overlapping targets is challenging when multiple extended targets overlap in the range dimensio...
This research combines the application of artificial intelligence in the production equipment fault monitoring of aerospace components. It detects three-phase current abnormalities in large hot-pressing furnaces through smart meters and provides earl...
The Eyjafjallajökull (Iceland) volcanic eruption of April–May 2010 caused unprecedented air-traffic disruption in Northern Europe, revealing some important weaknesses of current operational ash-monitoring and forecasting systems and encouraging the i...
Many strategies for treating dual-frequency cycle slip, which can seriously affect the performance of a carrier-phase-based positioning system, have been studied over the years. However, the legacy method using the Melbourne-Wübbena (MW) combina...
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The purpose of the S2IGI (Sistema Satellitare Integrato Gestione Incendi) project is to support the different phases of wildland fire prevention and management by a set of toolboxes, aiming to provide a short- and medium-term forecast of wildfire dan...
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) change detection provides a powerful tool for continuous, reliable, and objective observation of the Earth, supporting a wide range of applications that require regular monitoring and assessment of changes in the natura...
We present a compact optical head design for wide-range and low noise displacement sensing using deep frequency modulation interferometry (DFMI). The on-axis beam topology is realised in a quasi-monolithic component and relies on cube beamsplitters a...
We investigate a distributed-satellite-clusters (DSC)-system-based spectrum sensing, to enhance the ability for sensing weak signals. However, the spectrum-sensing performance may be significantly decreased by the phase deviations among different sat...
Single-phase grounding is the dominant fault type in urban power distribution networks. Because the total magnetic flux would not change around the cable under a single-phase grounding fault, ferromagnetic zero-sequence current sensors cannot disting...
In this paper, we develop and validate a new algorithm to detect steps while walking at speeds between 30 and 40 steps per minute based on the data sensed from a single tri-axial accelerometer. The algorithm concatenates three consecutive phases. Fir...
Background: Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are cellular structures connecting cell membranes and mediating intercellular communication. TNTs are manually identified and counted by a trained investigator; however, this process is time-intensive. We theref...
In response to the diverse target types, variable morphological characteristics, and the prevalence of small sample targets that are prone to missed detections in the bridge surface disease identification, this paper proposes an improved algorithm fo...
This paper presents a rules-based integrated fault detection, classification and section identification (I-FDCSI) method for real distribution networks (DN) using micro-phasor measurement units (
In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry, one of the most widely used measures for the quality of the interferometric phase is coherence. However, in favorable conditions coherence can also be used to detect subtle changes on the ground, whic...
Channel estimation of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system based on compressed sensing can effectively reduce the pilot overhead and improve the utilization rate of spectrum resources. The traditional SAMP algorithm with a fixe...
A drawback of fringe projection profilometry (FPP) is that it is still a challenge to perform efficient and accurate high-resolution absolute phase recovery with only a single measurement. This paper proposes a single-model self-recovering fringe pro...
An accurate step length estimation can provide valuable information to different applications such as indoor positioning systems or it can be helpful when analyzing the gait of a user, which can then be used to detect various gait impairments that le...
Background: The modern era of human society has seen the rise of a different variety of diseases. The mortality rate, therefore, increases without adequate care which consequently causes wealth loss. It has become a priority of humans to take care of...
The increase in reliability and safety levels of electrical power devices is key to the transition toward aviation electrification. Safety-critical equipment, such as propulsion motors, must comply with stringent requirements to obtain airworthiness...
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Tripping hazards on the sidewalk cause many falls annually, and the inspection and repair of these hazards cost cities millions of dollars. Currently, there is not an efficient and cost-effective method to monitor the sidewalk to identify any possibl...
Botnets are some of the most recurrent cyber-threats, which take advantage of the wide heterogeneity of endpoint devices at the Edge of the emerging communication environments for enabling the malicious enforcement of fraud and other adversarial tact...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising approaches to health innovation. The use of AI in image recognition considerably extends findings beyond the constraints of human sight. The application of AI in medical imaging, which relies...
To detect underwater sound-generating targets, a water surface acoustic wave laser interference and signal demodulation technique is proposed in this paper. The underlying principle of this technique involves casting a laser beam onto the water surfa...
The reliability of electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure is becoming increasingly critical as deployment accelerates and the number of unavailable charging points grows. This work presents an unsupervised anomaly detection framework aimed at...
Body-worn sensors in general and accelerometers in particular have been widely used in order to detect human movements and activities. The execution of each type of movement by each particular individual generates sequences of time series of sensed d...
Microwave radar sensors have been developed for non-contact monitoring of the health condition and location of targets, which will cause minimal discomfort and eliminate sanitation issues, especially in a pandemic situation. To this end, several rada...
A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of tissues inside the skull that can interfere with the normal functioning of the neurological system and the body, and it is responsible for the deaths of many individuals every year. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (M...
In this paper, a method based on the inherent event-based sampling capability of laser optical feedback interferometry (OFI) is proposed to assess the optical feedback factor C when the laser operates in the moderate and strong feedback regimes. Most...
Buildings are responsible for a high percentage of global energy consumption, and thus, the improvement of their efficiency can positively impact not only the costs to the companies they house, but also at a global level. One way to reduce that impac...
Attitude and heading estimation methods using the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) are generally based on multi-antenna deployment, where the installation space and system cost increase with the increase in the number of antennas. Since the...
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