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19 April 2026

Precise slag addition monitoring in steel continuous casting is critical, yet harsh industrial environments make this task extremely challenging. This research proposes a novel deep learning framework by integrating BiFormer and coordinate-aware sque...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
378 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2026

Diverse costume and decorative patterns in Dunhuang murals have significant historical and cultural value. However, natural erosion and material aging have caused cracks, flaking, and missing regions. Existing image restoration methods are still chal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Smart Mobile Sensing Technology)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,278 Views
20 Pages

Improved YOLO v7 for Sustainable Agriculture Significantly Improves Precision Rate for Chinese Cabbage (Brassica pekinensis Rupr.) Seedling Belt (CCSB) Detection

  • Xiaomei Gao,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Jiangtao Qi,
  • Qingxia (Jenny) Wang and ,
  • Meiqi Xiang,
  • Kexin Song and
  • Zihao Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2024

Precise navigation in agricultural applications necessitates accurate guidance from the seedling belt, which the Global Positioning System (GPS) alone cannot provide. The overlapping leaves of Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis Rupr.) present signi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,759 Views
29 Pages

15 July 2025

Deep learning approaches for pork freshness grading typically require large datasets, which limits their practical application due to the high costs associated with data collection. To address this challenge, we propose BBSNet, a lightweight few-shot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conventional and Emerging Meat Processing Techniques for Improved Shelf Life and Quality)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,327 Views
14 Pages

Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Ruiyun Chen,
  • Zhonghua Liu,
  • Weihua Ou and
  • Kaibing Zhang

23 October 2024

Small targets exist in large numbers in various fields. They are broadly used in aerospace, video monitoring, and industrial detection. However, because of its tiny dimensions and modest resolution, the precision of small-target detection is low, and...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,904 Views
28 Pages

25 August 2025

Non-cooperative spatial target detection plays a vital role in enabling autonomous on-orbit servicing and maintaining space situational awareness (SSA). However, due to the limited computational resources of onboard embedded systems and the complexit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks)
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  • Open Access
1,053 Citations
66,053 Views
27 Pages

UAV-YOLOv8: A Small-Object-Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8 for UAV Aerial Photography Scenarios

  • Gang Wang,
  • Yanfei Chen,
  • Pei An,
  • Hanyu Hong and ,
  • Jinghu Hu and
  • Tiange Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 August 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection plays a crucial role in civil, commercial, and military domains. However, the high proportion of small objects in UAV images and the limited platform resources lead to the low accuracy of most of the exi...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
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  • Open Access
132 Citations
14,082 Views
24 Pages

An Improved Wildfire Smoke Detection Based on YOLOv8 and UAV Images

  • Saydirasulov Norkobil Saydirasulovich,
  • Mukhriddin Mukhiddinov,
  • Oybek Djuraev,
  • Akmalbek Abdusalomov and
  • Young-Im Cho

10 October 2023

Forest fires rank among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters globally. Identifying the smoke generated by forest fires is pivotal in facilitating the prompt suppression of developing fires. Nevertheless, succeeding techniques for detecting f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Recognition with Vision Sensors Based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,311 Views
19 Pages

13 August 2023

Automated fruit-picking equipment has the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of picking. Accurate detection and localization of fruits are particularly crucial in this regard. However, current methods rely on expensive tools such as de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture: Cultivation, Management and Harvest)
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  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,289 Views
24 Pages

13 May 2024

Pest target identification in agricultural production environments is challenging due to the dense distribution, small size, and high density of pests. Additionally, changeable environmental lighting and complex backgrounds further complicate the det...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation of Intelligent Detection and Pesticide Application Technology for Horticultural Crops)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,984 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2024

Detecting wildfires presents significant challenges due to the presence of various potential targets in fire imagery, such as smoke, vehicles, and people. To address these challenges, we propose a novel multi-label classification model based on BiFor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Approaches to Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Surveillance)
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  • Open Access
2,895 Views
17 Pages

Detecting near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is crucial for research in solar system and planetary science. In recent year, deep-learning methods have almost dominated the task. Since NEAs represent only one-thousandth of the pixels in images, we proposed a...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,838 Views
14 Pages

A Biform Game Model with the Shapley Allocation Functions

  • Chenwei Liu,
  • Shuwen Xiang and
  • Yanlong Yang

6 August 2021

We define the mixed strategy form of the characteristic function of the biform games and build the Shapley allocation function (SAF) on each mixed strategy profile in the second stage of the biform games. SAF provides a more detailed and accurate pic...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,215 Views
28 Pages

26 August 2025

The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in intelligent healthcare systems has elevated the demand for robust medical imaging and vision-based inventory solutions. For an intelligent healthcare inventory system, accurate recognition an...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
358 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2026

Accurate identification of maize ears during harvesting is a prerequisite for enabling automated operations and yield estimation in the seed maize industry. Utilizing computer vision algorithms to assist seed maize harvesters in adjusting operating c...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,646 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2025

The traditional non-cooperative and cooperative game methods have limitations in solving the traffic problems of autonomous or assisted driving vehicles using vehicle-to-everything communication. In this paper, the biform game method is introduced to...

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  • Open Access
1,508 Views
52 Pages

15 August 2025

Green product innovation in aluminum building material supply chains is critical for sustainability, particularly amid growing economic and environmental pressures. However, effective coordination is challenged by the presence of multiple agents with...

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  • Open Access
770 Views
20 Pages

A Biform Analysis of Coopetition in Green Co-Creation

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yixiang Tian,
  • Bo Liu and
  • Yi Jin

1 December 2025

Green co-creation plays a vital role in promoting sustainability by engaging both firms and consumers in value creation, yet most studies examine competition and cooperation separately without considering their interplay. This study investigates the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,677 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2024

Background and Purpose: In urological surgery, accurate localization of the ureteral orifice is crucial for procedures such as ureteral stent insertion, assessment of ureteral orifice lesions, and prostate tumor resection. Consequently, we have devel...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,511 Views
16 Pages

BI-TST_YOLOv5: Ground Defect Recognition Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv5 Model

  • Jiahao Qin,
  • Xiaofeng Yang,
  • Tianyi Zhang and
  • Shuilan Bi

Pavement defect detection technology stands as a pivotal component within intelligent driving systems, demanding heightened precision and rapid detection rates. Addressing the complexities arising from diverse defect types and intricate backgrounds i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Vehicle System Dynamics and Control)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,961 Views
21 Pages

D2D Mobile Relaying Meets NOMA—Part I: A Biform Game Analysis

  • Safaa Driouech,
  • Essaid Sabir,
  • Mounir Ghogho and
  • El-Mehdi Amhoud

20 January 2021

Structureless communications such as Device-to-Device (D2D) relaying are undeniably of paramount importance to improving the performance of today’s mobile networks. Such a communication paradigm requires implementing a certain level of intellig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Device to Device (D2D) Communication)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,032 Views
26 Pages

23 October 2025

From the interdisciplinary perspective of industrial economics and behavioral finance, this study establishes a noncooperative-cooperative biform game model between new energy enterprises and traditional energy enterprises. In this model, sales price...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,478 Views
23 Pages

18 October 2024

To address the challenges of complex backgrounds and small, easily confused fire and smoke targets in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based forest fire detection, we propose an improved forest smoke and fire detection algorithm based on YOLOv8. Conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wildfire Monitoring and Risk Management in Forests)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,933 Views
15 Pages

Cooperative Games Based on Coalition Functions in Biform Games

  • Chenwei Liu,
  • Shuwen Xiang,
  • Yanlong Yang and
  • Enquan Luo

13 March 2023

In this paper, we try to study a class of biform games with the coalition function from the cooperation of players. For this purpose, we interpret the biform games as cooperative games by defining a characteristic function of minimax representation b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Logic and Game Theory)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,638 Views
16 Pages

BPN-YOLO: A Novel Method for Wood Defect Detection Based on YOLOv7

  • Rijun Wang,
  • Yesheng Chen,
  • Fulong Liang,
  • Bo Wang and ,
  • Xiangwei Mou and
  • Guanghao Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 June 2024

The detection of wood defect is a crucial step in wood processing and manufacturing, determining the quality and reliability of wood products. To achieve accurate wood defect detection, a novel method named BPN-YOLO is proposed. The ordinary convolut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wood Quality and Wood Processing)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,313 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2024

In urban forest management, individual street tree segmentation is a fundamental method to obtain tree phenotypes, which is especially critical. Most existing tree image segmentation models have been evaluated on smaller datasets and lack experimenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,196 Views
18 Pages

BCP-YOLOv5: A High-Precision Object Detection Model for Peony Flower Recognition Based on YOLOv5

  • Baofeng Ji,
  • Xiaoshuai Hong,
  • Ji Zhang,
  • Chunhong Dong and ,
  • Fazhan Tao,
  • Gaoyuan Zhang and
  • Huitao Fan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Peony flowers in Luoyang are renowned for their diverse varieties and substantial economic value. However, recognizing multiple peony varieties in natural field conditions remains challenging due to limited datasets and the shortcomings of existing d...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,968 Views
24 Pages

31 January 2024

Behavior recognition in beef cattle is a crucial component of beef cattle behavior warning and intelligent farming. Traditional beef cattle behavior recognition faces challenges in both difficulty in identification and low accuracy. In this study, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Cattle)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,863 Views
18 Pages

D2D Mobile Relaying Meets NOMA—Part II: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

  • Safaa Driouech,
  • Essaid Sabir,
  • Mounir Ghogho and
  • El-Mehdi Amhoud

4 March 2021

Structureless communications such as Device-to-Device (D2D) relaying are undeniably of paramount importance to improving the performance of today’s mobile networks. Such a communication paradigm requires a certain level of intelligence at the device...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
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  • Open Access
88 Citations
7,961 Views
22 Pages

Tea Tree Pest Detection Algorithm Based on Improved Yolov7-Tiny

  • Zijia Yang,
  • Hailin Feng,
  • Yaoping Ruan and
  • Xiang Weng

Timely and accurate identification of tea tree pests is critical for effective tea tree pest control. We collected image data sets of eight common tea tree pests to accurately represent the true appearance of various aspects of tea tree pests. The da...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,945 Views
19 Pages

RT-DETR-Tomato: Tomato Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved RT-DETR for Agricultural Safety Production

  • Zhimin Zhao,
  • Shuo Chen,
  • Yuheng Ge,
  • Penghao Yang and ,
  • Yunkun Wang and
  • Yunsheng Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2024

The detection of tomatoes is of vital importance for enhancing production efficiency, with image recognition-based tomato detection methods being the primary approach. However, these methods face challenges such as the difficulty in extracting small...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,261 Views
20 Pages

Strawberry Maturity Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Zhiqing Tao,
  • Ke Li,
  • Yuan Rao,
  • Wei Li and
  • Jun Zhu

26 February 2024

Strawberry maturity detection plays an essential role in modern strawberry yield estimation and robot-assisted picking and sorting. Due to the small size and complex growth environment of strawberries, there are still problems with existing recogniti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision for Intelligent Crop Identification and Crop Protection)
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  • Open Access
386 Views
18 Pages

Research on an Improved YOLOv8-Based Object Detection Algorithm for Flame and Smoke Detection in Factory Environments

  • Linlin Cao,
  • Xinxin Chen,
  • Sitong Guo,
  • Jiaqi Wang and ,
  • Duowen Chen,
  • Fengyan Lun,
  • Haoyu Zhang,
  • Kaibao Wang and
  • Jianyong Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2026

Overcoming complex background noise and poor small-target detection in industrial settings, this paper introduces YOLOv8-BBP2, an enhanced YOLOv8 model. To better extract dynamic features, the backbone integrates a BiFormer dual-level routing attenti...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,133 Views
38 Pages

Cross-Lingual Bimodal Emotion Recognition with LLM-Based Label Smoothing

  • Elena Ryumina,
  • Alexandr Axyonov,
  • Timur Abdulkadirov,
  • Darya Koryakovskaya and
  • Dmitry Ryumin

Bimodal emotion recognition based on audio and text is widely adopted in video-constrained real-world applications such as call centers and voice assistants. However, existing systems suffer from limited cross-domain generalization and monolingual bi...

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  • Open Access
1,069 Views
20 Pages

14 November 2025

Accurate segmentation of navigable waters and obstacles is critical for unmanned surface vessel navigation yet remains challenging in real aquatic environments characterized by complex water textures and blurred boundaries. Current models often strug...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,969 Views
19 Pages

This study aims to address the issue of various defects on the surface of aluminum profile materials, which can significantly impact industrial production as well as the reliability and safety of products. An algorithmic model, BBW YOLO (YOLOv8-BiFPN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solid Surfaces, Defects and Detection, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,565 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2024

In order to address the issue of time-consuming, labor-intensive traditional industrial tomato sorting, this paper proposes a high-precision tomato recognition strategy and fast automatic grasping system. Firstly, the Swin Transformer module is integ...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,628 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2025

An increasing number of juveniles are accessing adult-oriented venues, such as bars and nightclubs, where supervision is frequently inadequate, thereby elevating their risk of both offline harm and unmonitored exposure to harmful online content. Exis...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
599 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2026

Carbon emission regulations and customers’ green preferences require ports and shipping companies to develop green services, but green investments entail significant costs. Vertical alliance cooperation between ports and shipping companies thro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Practices in Emerging Markets: Innovation, Governance, and Environmental Impact)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,632 Views
13 Pages

Helmet-wearing detection for electric vehicle riders is essential for traffic safety, yet existing detection models often suffer from high target occlusion and low detection accuracy in complex road environments. To address these issues, this paper p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision and Deep Learning and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,772 Views
17 Pages

Gasoline Engine Misfire Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Zhichen Li,
  • Zhao Qin,
  • Weiping Luo and
  • Xiujun Ling

In order to realize the online diagnosis and prediction of gasoline engine fire faults, this paper proposes an improved misfire fault detection algorithm model based on YOLOv8 for sound signals of gasoline engines. The improvement involves substituti...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,204 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2025

Addressing the prevalent challenges of inadequate detection accuracy and sluggish detection speed encountered by police patrol robots during security patrols, we propose an innovative algorithm based on the YOLOv8 model. Our method consists of substi...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,699 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2025

This study addresses the challenges of detecting inferior fruits in table grapes in natural environments, focusing on subtle appearance differences, occlusions, and fruit overlaps. We propose an enhanced green grape fruit disease detection model name...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,915 Views
22 Pages

Unordered Stacked Pillbox Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Jiahang Pan,
  • Rui Zhou,
  • Jie Feng,
  • Mincheng Wu and ,
  • Xiang Wu and
  • Hui Dong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To enable fully automated medicine warehousing in intelligent pharmacy systems, accurately detecting disordered, stacked pillboxes is essential. This paper proposes a high-precision detection algorithm for such scenarios based on an improved YOLOv8 f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Computer Vision and Human–Robot Interaction)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,683 Views
16 Pages

Optimizing the YOLOv7-Tiny Model with Multiple Strategies for Citrus Fruit Yield Estimation in Complex Scenarios

  • Juanli Jing,
  • Menglin Zhai,
  • Shiqing Dou,
  • Lin Wang and ,
  • Binghai Lou,
  • Jichi Yan and
  • Shixin Yuan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 February 2024

The accurate identification of citrus fruits is important for fruit yield estimation in complex citrus orchards. In this study, the YOLOv7-tiny-BVP network is constructed based on the YOLOv7-tiny network, with citrus fruits as the research object. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Vision Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Smart Farming—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,270 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)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,183 Views
22 Pages

An Improved YOLOv8n Used for Fish Detection in Natural Water Environments

  • Zehao Zhang,
  • Yi Qu,
  • Tan Wang,
  • Yuan Rao and ,
  • Dan Jiang,
  • Shaowen Li and
  • Yating Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 July 2024

To improve detection efficiency and reduce cost consumption in fishery surveys, target detection methods based on computer vision have become a new method for fishery resource surveys. However, the specialty and complexity of underwater photography r...

(This article belongs to the Section Aquatic Animals)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,657 Views
14 Pages

Vehicle–Pedestrian Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Bo Wang,
  • Yuan-Yuan Li,
  • Weijie Xu,
  • Huawei Wang and
  • Li Hu

The YOLO series of target detection networks are widely used in transportation targets due to the advantages of high detection accuracy and good real-time performance. However, it also has some limitations, such as poor detection in scenes with large...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,287 Views
32 Pages

An Enhanced YOLOv8n-Based Method for Fire Detection in Complex Scenarios

  • Xuanyi Zhao,
  • Minrui Yu,
  • Jiaxing Xu,
  • Peng Wu and
  • Haotian Yuan

5 September 2025

With the escalating frequency of urban and forest fires driven by climate change, the development of intelligent and robust fire detection systems has become imperative for ensuring public safety and ecological protection. This paper presents a compr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,348 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2025

Classroom behavior can effectively reflect learning states, and thus classroom behavior detection is crucial for improving teaching methods and enhancing teaching quality. To address issues such as severe occlusions and large scale variations in stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

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