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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,393 Views
18 Pages

A Study on Partial Discharge Fault Identification in GIS Based on Swin Transformer-AFPN-LSTM Architecture

  • Jiawei Li,
  • Shangang Ma,
  • Fubao Jin,
  • Ruiting Zhao and ,
  • Qiang Zhang and
  • Jiawen Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 February 2025

Aiming at the problem of manual feature extraction and insufficient mining of feature information for partial discharge pattern recognition under different insulation faults in GIS, a deep learning model based on phase and timing features with Swin T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Research on Neural Networks and Anomaly Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
29 Pages

AFPN-ResUNet: A Residual Attention Mechanism-Guided Asymptotic Feature Pyramid Network for Complex Outcrop Lithology Segmentation

  • Mingming Tang,
  • Kang Fu,
  • Lei Tian,
  • Wanxin Chen and ,
  • Yuhan Li,
  • Zongxu Zhang and
  • Zhiyuan Ma
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 May 2026

Although the accurate lithological segmentation of outcrops plays a key role in hydrocarbon exploration, complex field environments and substantial scale variations within outcrops, particularly in extremely thin sand–mudstone interbeds, presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,365 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Model for Instance Segmentation and Quantification of Bridge Surface Cracks—The YOLOv8-AFPN-MPD-IoU

  • Chenqin Xiong,
  • Tarek Zayed,
  • Xingyu Jiang,
  • Ghasan Alfalah and
  • Eslam Mohammed Abelkader

1 July 2024

Surface cracks are alluded to as one of the early signs of potential damage to infrastructures. In the same vein, their detection is an imperative task to preserve the structural health and safety of bridges. Human-based visual inspection is acknowle...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Data-Driven Advancements in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,357 Views
19 Pages

DRF-YOLO Model for Small UAV Detection Through Multi-Scale Residual Enhancement and Progressive Feature Fusion

  • Songwei Wang,
  • Jianping Shuai,
  • Yuzhu Yang,
  • Xiaoxiao Hu and ,
  • Chenxi Yang and
  • Ya Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 November 2025

Detecting small-scale objects remains a critical challenge with limited pixel information, complex backgrounds, and varying imaging conditions. To tackle these challenges, we propose an innovative high-precision detection framework (DRF-YOLO) that in...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,255 Views
26 Pages

25 July 2024

With the continuous growth of electricity demand, the safety and stability of transmission lines have become increasingly important. To ensure the reliability of power supply, it is essential to promptly detect and address foreign object intrusions o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of Machine Learning in Large-Scale Optimization and High-Dimensional Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,200 Views
18 Pages

PDC-YOLO: A Network for Pig Detection under Complex Conditions for Counting Purposes

  • Peitong He,
  • Sijian Zhao,
  • Pan Pan,
  • Guomin Zhou and
  • Jianhua Zhang

14 October 2024

Pigs play vital roles in the food supply, economic development, agricultural recycling, bioenergy, and social culture. Pork serves as a primary meat source and holds extensive applications in various dietary cultures, making pigs indispensable to hum...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,383 Views
23 Pages

Small-Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv11n

  • Ke Zeng,
  • Wangsheng Yu,
  • Xianxiang Qin and
  • Siyu Long

22 December 2025

Target detection in UAV aerial photography scenarios faces challenges of small targets and complex backgrounds. Thus, we proposed an improved YOLOv11n small-target detection algorithm. First, a detection head is added to the 160 × 160 resolutio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,127 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2024

Forest fires pose a significant threat to forest resources and wildlife. To balance accuracy and parameter efficiency in forest fire detection, this study proposes an improved model, Mcan-YOLO, based on YOLOv7. In the Neck section, the asymptotic fea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,533 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight UAV Detection Method Based on IASL-YOLO

  • Huaiyu Yang,
  • Bo Liang,
  • Song Feng,
  • Ji Jiang and ,
  • Ao Fang and
  • Chunyun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 April 2025

The widespread application of drone technology has raised security concerns, as unauthorized drones can lead to illegal intrusions and privacy breaches. Traditional detection methods often fall short in balancing performance and lightweight design, m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Detection, Classification, and Tracking)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
549 Views
24 Pages

3 September 2026

Small objects in UAV imagery are easily obscured by sensor noise, adverse illumination, and weather-like appearance degradation. To address this problem, this paper proposes YOLO-ROSS, a lightweight detector built on YOLOv11. Its two architectural co...

(This article belongs to the Topic Unmanned Vehicles Technology and Embodied Intelligence Systems for Intelligent Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,088 Views
17 Pages

With the development of smart aquaculture, the demand for accuracy for underwater target detection has increased. However, traditional target detection methods have proven to be inefficient and imprecise due to the complexity of underwater environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,632 Views
16 Pages

Robust Image Inpainting Forensics by Using an Attention-Based Feature Pyramid Network

  • Zhuoran Chen,
  • Yujin Zhang,
  • Yongqi Wang,
  • Jin Tian and
  • Fei Wu

12 August 2023

Deep learning has injected a new sense of vitality into the field of image inpainting, allowing for the creation of more realistic inpainted images that are difficult to distinguish from the original ones. However, this also means that the malicious...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,543 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2022

Edge detection is one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Recent methods for edge detection based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) typically employ the weighted cross-entropy loss. Their predicted results being thick and needing post-pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing Based on Convolutional Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,229 Views
17 Pages

A Glove-Wearing Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Shichu Li,
  • Huiping Huang,
  • Xiangyin Meng,
  • Mushuai Wang and ,
  • Yang Li and
  • Lei Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2023

Wearing gloves during machinery operation in workshops is essential for preventing accidental injuries, such as mechanical damage and burns. Ensuring that workers are wearing gloves is a key strategy for accident prevention. Consequently, this study...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,090 Views
17 Pages

The automatic detection of traffic accidents plays an increasingly vital role in advancing intelligent traffic monitoring systems and improving road safety. Leveraging computer vision techniques offers a promising solution, enabling rapid, reliable,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Deep Learning in Intelligent Vehicle Perception Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,664 Views
24 Pages

Wampee-YOLO: A High-Precision Detection Model for Dense Clustered Wampee in Natural Orchard Scenario

  • Zhiwei Li,
  • Yusha Xie,
  • Jingjie Wang,
  • Guogang Huang and ,
  • Longzhen Yu,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Junlong Li and
  • Changyu Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Wampee (Clausena lansium) harvesting currently relies heavily on manual labor, but automation is significantly hindered by clustered fruit growth patterns, small fruit sizes, and complex orchard backgrounds, which make accurate detection highly chall...

(This article belongs to the Section Fruit Production Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,286 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2023

General target detection with deep learning has made tremendous strides in the past few years. However, small target detection sometimes is associated with insufficient sample size and difficulty in extracting complete feature information. For safety...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,647 Views
28 Pages

12 December 2025

Object detection in complex environments, such as challenging lighting conditions, adverse weather, and target occlusions, poses significant difficulties for existing algorithms. To address these challenges, this study introduces a collaborative solu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning for Computer Vision Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,638 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2024

Addressing the low accuracy and slow detection speed experienced by algorithms based on deep learning for a leather defect detection task, a lightweight and improved leather defect detection algorithm, dubbed YOLOv8-AGE, has been proposed based on YO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Computer Vision in Industry and Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
998 Views
14 Pages

GSSA-YOLOM-Based Foreign Object and Conveyor Belt Deviation Detection

  • Zuguo Chen,
  • Jiayu Liu,
  • Yimin Zhou,
  • Yi Huang and
  • Chenghao Liang

22 February 2026

The safety of belt conveyor operation is of great importance during coal conveyance. This paper proposes a multi-task-based GSSA-YOLOM algorithm for monitoring the state of belt conveyors, which utilizes segmentation head to detect foreign objects an...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,052 Views
18 Pages

A Coarse-to-Fine Contour Optimization Network for Extracting Building Instances from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Fang Fang,
  • Kaishun Wu,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Shengwen Li and ,
  • Bo Wan,
  • Yanling Chen and
  • Daoyuan Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2021

Building instances extraction is an essential task for surveying and mapping. Challenges still exist in extracting building instances from high-resolution remote sensing imagery mainly because of complex structures, variety of scales, and interconnec...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,214 Views
24 Pages

16 May 2025

This study proposes an intelligent agricultural pest monitoring system that integrates mechanical control with deep learning to address issues in traditional systems, such as pest accumulation interference, image contrast degradation under complex li...

(This article belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
762 Views
23 Pages

10 December 2025

Object detection in complex scenarios such as construction sites, electric power operations, and resource exploration often suffers from low accuracy and frequent missed or false detections. To address these challenges, this study proposes a modified...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,262 Views
18 Pages

3 October 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), renowned for their rapid deployment, extensive data collection, and high spatial resolution, are crucial in locating distressed individuals during search and rescue (SAR) operations. Challenges in maritime search and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,136 Views
19 Pages

Robotic peach harvesting represents a pivotal strategy for reducing labor costs and improving production efficiency. The fundamental prerequisite for a harvesting robot to successfully complete picking tasks is the accurate recognition of fruit growt...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Agriculture: Perception Technologies and Agricultural Equipment for Crop Production Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,649 Views
25 Pages

24 April 2025

This study focused on addressing the issue of delayed root system development in mulberry trees during aerosol cultivation, which is attributed to the asynchronous growth of branches and buds. To tackle this challenge, we propose an intelligent folia...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
989 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2026

To solve key challenges in machine vision-driven online defect recognition of soft packaging, such as inadequate ability to capture defect deformation, difficulty in extracting defect features, and limited generalization performance of models, an onl...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,695 Views
17 Pages

Precise City-Scale Urban Water Body Semantic Segmentation and Open-Source Sampleset Construction Based on Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing: A Case Study in Chengdu

  • Xi Cheng,
  • Qian Zhu,
  • Yujian Song,
  • Jieyu Yang and ,
  • Tingting Wang,
  • Bin Zhao and
  • Zhanfeng Shen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 October 2024

Addressing the challenges related to urban water bodies is essential for advancing urban planning and development. Therefore, obtaining precise and timely information regarding urban water bodies is of paramount importance. To address issues such as...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,030 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Tobacco Pest Detection in Complex Environments Using an Enhanced YOLOv8 Model

  • Daozong Sun,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Hongsheng Zhong,
  • Jiaxing Xie and ,
  • Xiuyun Xue,
  • Mali Yan,
  • Weibin Wu and
  • Jiehao Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 February 2024

Due to the challenges of pest detection in complex environments, this research introduces a lightweight network for tobacco pest identification leveraging enhancements in YOLOv8 technology. Using YOLOv8 large (YOLOv8l) as the base, the neck layer of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,547 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2024

It is important to achieve the 3D reconstruction of UAV remote sensing images in deep learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) vision. The lack of obvious texture features and detailed edges in UAV remote sensing images leads to inaccurate feature poin...

(This article belongs to the Topic 3D Computer Vision and Smart Building and City, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,505 Views
21 Pages

WCANet: An Efficient and Lightweight Weight Coordinated Adaptive Detection Network for UAV Inspection of Transmission Line Accessories

  • Jiawei Chen,
  • Pengfei Shi,
  • Mengyao Xu,
  • Yuanxue Xin and ,
  • Xinnan Fan and
  • Jinbo Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 April 2025

Accurate detection and timely management of high-voltage transmission accessories are crucial for ensuring the safe operation of power transmission. Existing network models suffer from issues like low precision in accessory detection, elevated model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,130 Views
17 Pages

A YOLO-Based Model for Detecting Stored-Grain Insects on Surface of Grain Bulks

  • Xueyan Zhu,
  • Dandan Li,
  • Yancheng Zheng,
  • Yiming Ma and ,
  • Xiaoping Yan,
  • Qing Zhou,
  • Qin Wang and
  • Yili Zheng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 February 2025

Accurate, rapid, and intelligent stored-grain insect detection and counting are important for integrated pest management (IPM). Existing stored-grain insect pest detection models are often not suitable for detecting tiny insects on the surface of gra...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,925 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2024

Due to the unique distance and angles involved in satellite remote sensing, ships appear with a small pixel area in images, leading to insufficient feature representation. This results in suboptimal performance in ship detection, including potential...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,915 Views
21 Pages

In the process of fabric production, various types of defects affect the quality of a fabric. However, due to the wide variety of fabric defects, the complexity of fabric textures, and the concealment of small target defects, current fabric defect de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,786 Views
22 Pages

Research on Automated Fiber Placement Surface Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Liwei Wen,
  • Shihao Li,
  • Zhentao Dong,
  • Haiqing Shen and
  • Entao Xu

28 June 2024

Due to the black and glossy appearance of the carbon fiber prepreg bundle surface, the accurate identification of surface defects in automated fiber placement (AFP) presents a high level of difficulty. Currently, the enhanced YOLOv7 algorithm demonst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
962 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2026

Aircraft cargo compartment fires constitute a significant type of aviation fire, posing a grave threat to aviation safety. To guard against and respond to such fires, existing aircraft cargo compartments are equipped with smoke detection fire detecto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Relevance and Applicability of AI for Fire Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,721 Views
21 Pages

29 June 2025

Citrus diseases can lead to surface defects on citrus fruits, adversely affecting their quality. This study aims to accurately identify citrus defects against varying backgrounds by focusing on four types of diseases: citrus black spot, citrus canker...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Agriculture in Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,390 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2024

In response to the need for precision and intelligence in the assessment of transplanting machine operation quality, this study addresses challenges such as low accuracy and efficiency associated with manual observation and random field sampling for...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,943 Views
28 Pages

Attentive Multi-Scale Features with Adaptive Context PoseResNet for Resource-Efficient Human Pose Estimation

  • Ali Zakir,
  • Sartaj Ahmed Salman,
  • Gibran Benitez-Garcia and
  • Hiroki Takahashi

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to scale variation, occlusion, and high computational costs. Standard methods often struggle to capture detailed spatial information when keypoints are obscured, and they typically rely on computati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing Based on Convolution Neural Network: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,764 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Cotton Field Weed Detection Model Enhanced with EfficientNet and Attention Mechanisms

  • Lu Zheng,
  • Lyujia Long,
  • Chengao Zhu,
  • Mengmeng Jia and ,
  • Pingting Chen and
  • Jun Tie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 November 2024

Cotton is a crucial crop in the global textile industry, with major production regions including China, India, and the United States. While smart agricultural mechanization technologies, such as automated irrigation and precision pesticide systems, h...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
28 Pages

17 September 2026

Underwater fish detection and multi-object tracking support marine ecological monitoring, underwater robot inspection, and fish behavior analysis. In a tracking-by-detection framework, this study targets three specific problems: unstable detection in...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,047 Views
26 Pages

SODet-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for UAV Aerial Photography Perspective

  • Ke Zeng,
  • Wangsheng Yu,
  • Siyu Long,
  • Xianxiang Qin and ,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Zhiqiang Hou,
  • Sugang Ma and
  • Tianxin Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 May 2026

To tackle the frequent missed and false detection issues arising from the tiny scale of objects and strong background clutter in UAV aerial photography scenarios, this paper proposes a novel algorithm named SODet-YOLO for UAV aerial imagery. First, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Remote Sensing Imagery Processing (5th Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,874 Views
21 Pages

Research on Target Hybrid Recognition and Localization Methods Based on an Industrial Camera and a Depth Camera in Complex Scenes

  • Mingxin Yuan,
  • Jie Li,
  • Borui Cao,
  • Shihao Bao and ,
  • Li Sun and
  • Xiangbin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 November 2024

In order to improve the target visual recognition and localization accuracy of robotic arms in complex scenes with similar targets, hybrid recognition and localization methods based on an industrial camera and depth camera are proposed. First, accord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications and Challenges of Image Processing in Smart Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,380 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2024

In the realm of autonomous driving, practical driving scenarios are fraught with numerous complexities, including inclement weather conditions, nighttime blurriness, and ambient light sources that significantly hinder drivers’ ability to discer...