Hashes are vital in limiting the spread of child sexual abuse material online, yet their use introduces unresolved technical, legal, and ethical challenges. This paper bridges a critical gap by analyzing both cryptographic and perceptual hashing, not...
This paper reviews the fracture mechanics parameters associated with the variability in the crack growth curves associated with forty-two different tests that range from additively manufactured (AM) steels to cold spray additively manufactured (CSAM)...
Although the escalation in online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not a novel problem, recent digital proliferation has brought about new alarming challenges in addressing the issue. CSAM poses significant risks to children and society in gener...
In few-shot image classification (FSIC), the feature extraction module of the traditional convolutional neural networks is often constrained by the local nature of the convolutional kernel. As a result, it becomes challenging to handle global informa...
As the monitor probes are used more and more widely these days, the task of detecting abnormal behaviors in surveillance videos has gained widespread attention. The generalization ability and parameter overhead of the model affect how accurate the de...
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is a cutting-edge high-speed additive manufacturing process enabling the production of high-strength components without relying on traditional high-temperature methods. Unlike other techniques, CSAM produces o...
Quasicrystalline Al93Fe3Cr2Ti2 (at.%) gas-atomized powders, which exhibit a metastable composite microstructure, were used to produce coatings by cold spray additive manufacturing processing (CSAM) using different processing parameters. The metastabl...
Research is needed on the myths regarding child sexual abuse in order to address commonly held misconceptions in persons training for professional careers in relevant fields for child protection. We present our translated, validated, and expanded Chi...
Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) produces freeform parts by accelerating powder particles at supersonic speed which, impacting against a substrate material, trigger a process to consolidate the CSAM part by bonding mechanisms. The literature...
With technological advances, the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has become one of the fastest growing illicit online industries in the United States. Perpetrators are becoming increasingly sophisticated and exploit cu...
Background and Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the clinical significance of sarcopenia, defined by the cross-sectional area of the masseter muscle (CSA-M), as an early marker for sarcopenia diagnosis and its association with mortality in...
Heterogeneous images acquired from various platforms and sensors provide complementary information. However, to use that information in applications such as image fusion and change detection, accurate image matching is essential to further process an...
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is generally used to repair worn components and build complex on-demand parts by depositing metal powder layer-wise using compressed air. Previous studies on CSAM were focused on printing parameters, materials...
Due to its unique benefits over conventional subtractive manufacturing, additive manufacturing methods continue to attract interest in both academia and industry. One such method is called Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM), a solid-state coati...
Cold Spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is an emerging technique to fabricate freestanding objects by depositing solid-state layers of materials. Thanks to its remarkable deposition rate and maneuverability, it can be tailored to manufacturing intri...
Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) is an emergent technique to produce parts by the additive method, and, like other technologies, it has pros and cons. Some advantages are using oxygen-sensitive materials to make parts, such as Ti alloys, with...
CSAM is a solid-state process for depositing metal or metal-based composite materials in which the fine particles of metal or composite material are accelerated to supersonic velocity, making successful bonding feasible due to the high-impact velocit...
Cold-spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is an emerging solid-state deposition technology that effectively mitigates common defects associated with conventional thermal processes, such as oxidation, phase transformation, and residual stresses. In thi...
Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) is a solid-state process that is being increasingly used for structural repairs in aerospace and energy sectors. It enables the deposition of dense material at low temperatures by accelerating metal particles...
Softening and subsequent deformation are significant challenges in additive manufacturing of thermal-curable thermosets. This study proposes an approach to address these issues, involving the preparation of thermosetting composite powders with distin...
Adversarial attacks against deep learning models achieve high performance in white-box settings but often exhibit low transferability in black-box scenarios, especially against defended models. In this work, we propose Multi-Path Random Restart (MPRR...
Besides a proper agronomic management followed by Nepalese farmers, wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production has been severely affected by changing climate. There are many interventions, including climate-smart practices, to cope with this situation a...
Although compressed sensing theory has many advantages in image reconstruction, its reconstruction and sampling time is very long. Fast reconstruction of high-quality images at low measurement rates is the direction of the effort. Compressed sensing...
Hot corrosion is a critical problem in a wide range of high-temperature applications. Ni–20Cr alloy is frequently used in such applications owing to its good hot-corrosion resistance. In the current work, thick Ni–20Cr plates in a thickness range of...
Masked cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is investigated for fabricating nickel-based electrodes with pyramidal pin-fins that enlarge the active area for the hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER). To bypass the high cost of purely CFD-driven optim...
Urban water plays a significant role in the urban ecosystem, but urban water extraction is still a challenging task in automatic interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The influence of radar shadows and strong scatters in urban area...
The catalyst is the pivotal component in CO2 electroreduction systems for converting CO2 into valuable products. Carbon-based single-atom materials (CSAMs) have emerged as promising catalyst candidates due to their low cost and high atomic utilizatio...
Gearboxes are one of the most widely used speed and power transfer elements in rotating machinery. Highly accurate compound fault diagnosis of gearboxes is of great significance for the safe and reliable operation of rotating machinery systems. Howev...
Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) is a thermal spray technique that is typically used for the repair of metallic components. One of the challenges of CSAM is to improve the geometrical accuracy of the sprayed parts, along with overcoming the i...
The high-velocity impact of powder particles in cold-spray additively manufactured (CSAM) parts creates intersplat boundaries with regions of high dislocation densities and sub-grain structures. Upon microstructure and mechanical characterization, CS...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is involved in the discovery, evaluation, and application of low-cost air quality (AQ) sensors to support citizen scientists by directly engaging with them in the pursuit of community-based interests. Th...
This study aims to introduce a new compressed sensing averaging (CSA) technique for the reduction of blurring and/or ringing artifacts, depending on the k-space sampling ratio. A full k-space dataset and three randomly undersampled datasets were obta...
Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) remains a critical yet challenging task due to the inherent low signal-to-noise ratio, weak target features, and complex backgrounds prevalent in infrared images. Existing methods often struggle to effectively...
In this study, copper–titanium (Cu-Ti) composite coatings with 6 wt.% titanium content were fabricated via cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) using nitrogen as the propellant gas. The synergistic effects of propellant gas temperatures (60...
Brain tumors are serious conditions, which can cause great trauma to patients, endangering their health and even leading to disability or death. Therefore, accurate preoperative diagnosis is particularly important. Accurate brain tumor segmentation b...
Lately, there has been a substantial rise in the number of identified individuals with skin cancer, making it the most widespread form of cancer worldwide. Until now, several machine learning methods that utilize skin scans have been directly employe...
To mitigate the technical challenges associated with small-object detection, feature degradation, and spatial-contextual misalignment in UAV-acquired imagery, this paper proposes UAV-DETR, an enhanced Transformer-based object detection model designed...
Cloud image segmentation is a technique that divides images captured by meteorological satellites or ground-based observations into different regions or categories. By extracting the distribution, shape, and dynamic features of clouds, it provides pr...
Edge detection is a crucial step in many computer vision tasks, and in recent years, models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved human-level performance in edge detection. However, we have observed that CNN-based methods r...
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) shows great potential in titanium-alloy production as it is a solid-state process. However, data published so far have demonstrated the difficulty of producing dense and high-strength Ti alloy parts. Our previ...
The manual inspection of electric water heater enamel is inefficient and unreliable, a challenge stemming from the tank’s narrow (approx. 50 mm) aperture that creates extremely dim, non-uniform lighting. Existing enhancement algorithms struggle...
Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) vapor cells are key components for sensors such as chip-scale atomic clocks (CSACs) and magnetometers (CSAMs). Many approaches have been proposed to fabricate MEMS vapor cells. In this article, we propose a new...
In recent years, EEG-based emotion recognition technology has made progress, but there are still problems of low model efficiency and loss of emotional information, and there is still room for improvement in recognition accuracy. To fully utilize EEG...
The acoustic performance of automotive micro-motors directly impacts the comfort and driving experience of both drivers and passengers. However, various motor production and testing uncertainties can lead to noise fluctuations during operation. Thus,...
SiC direct bonding using O2 plasma activation is investigated in this work. SiC substrate and n− SiC epitaxy growth layer are activated with an optimized duration of 60s and power of the oxygen ion beam source at 20 W. After O2 plasma activatio...
The change-detection task is essentially a binary semantic segmentation task of changing and invariant regions. However, this is much more difficult than simple binary tasks, as the changing areas typically include multiple terrains such as factories...
Image super resolution (SR) is an important image processing technique in computer vision to improve the resolution of images and videos. In recent years, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has made significant progress in the field of image SR;...
Cloud detection technology is crucial in remote sensing image processing. While cloud detection is a mature research field, challenges persist in detecting clouds on reflective surfaces like ice, snow, and sand. Particularly, the detection of cloud s...
As energy storage technologies and electric vehicles evolve quickly, it becomes increasingly difficult to precisely gauge the condition (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) during rapid charging scenarios. This paper introduces a novel Time-Fused Me...
Water extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has an important application value in wetland monitoring, flood monitoring, etc. However, it still faces the problems of low generalization, weak extraction ability of detailed information,...
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