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  • Open Access
31 Citations
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4 July 2024

Despite the rapid advances in deep learning (DL) for object detection, existing techniques still face several challenges. In particular, object detection in adverse weather conditions (AWCs) requires complex and computationally costly models to achie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Object Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,092 Views
22 Pages

Object Detection Performance Evaluation for Autonomous Vehicles in Sandy Weather Environments

  • Nasser Aloufi,
  • Abdulaziz Alnori,
  • Vijey Thayananthan and
  • Abdullah Basuhail

13 September 2023

In order to reach the highest level of automation, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are required to be aware of surrounding objects and detect them even in adverse weather. Detecting objects is very challenging in sandy weather due to characteristics of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,489 Views
18 Pages

A Novel ST-ViBe Algorithm for Satellite Fog Detection at Dawn and Dusk

  • Huiyun Ma,
  • Zengwei Liu,
  • Kun Jiang,
  • Bingbo Jiang and ,
  • Huihui Feng and
  • Shuaifeng Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 April 2023

Satellite remote sensing provides a potential technology for detecting fog at dawn and dusk on a large scale. However, the spectral characteristics of fog at dawn and dusk are similar to those of the ground surface, which makes satellite-based fog de...

(This article belongs to the Topic Accessing and Analyzing Air Quality and Atmospheric Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
25 Pages

29 August 2026

Object detection under adverse weather conditions remains a challenging problem for autonomous driving systems due to image degradation caused by rain, snow, haze, and complex illumination. Although RT-DETR achieves a good balance between detection a...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,588 Views
15 Pages

The prediction of drug–target interactions (DTIs) via computational technology plays a crucial role in reducing the experimental cost. A variety of state-of-the-art methods have been proposed to improve the accuracy of DTI predictions. In this paper,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Protein Molecules Computational Identification)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,370 Views
16 Pages

Holistics 3.0 for Health

  • David John Lary,
  • Steven Woolf,
  • Fazlay Faruque and
  • James P. LePage

Human health is part of an interdependent multifaceted system. More than ever, we have increasingly large amounts of data on the body, both spatial and non-spatial, its systems, disease and our social and physical environment. These data have a geosp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies in Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,712 Views
12 Pages

7 October 2022

Clarifying the distribution pattern and overlapping relationship of sympatric relative species in the spatio-temporal niche is of great significance to the basic theory of community ecology and integrated management of multi-species habitats in the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Use of Camera Trap for a Better Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
23,031 Views
29 Pages

14 October 2023

For autonomous driving, perception is a primary and essential element that fundamentally deals with the insight into the ego vehicle’s environment through sensors. Perception is challenging, wherein it suffers from dynamic objects and continuou...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
17,097 Views
29 Pages

A Fast and Accurate Real-Time Vehicle Detection Method Using Deep Learning for Unconstrained Environments

  • Annam Farid,
  • Farhan Hussain,
  • Khurram Khan,
  • Mohsin Shahzad and ,
  • Uzair Khan and
  • Zahid Mahmood
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 February 2023

Deep learning-based classification and detection algorithms have emerged as a powerful tool for vehicle detection in intelligent transportation systems. The limitations of the number of high-quality labeled training samples makes the single vehicle d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Image Processing: Advanced Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,964 Views
23 Pages

Recognizing and categorizing items in weather-adverse environments poses significant challenges for autonomous vehicles. To improve the robustness of object-detection systems, this paper introduces an innovative approach for detecting objects at diff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous and Connected Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,082 Views
23 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

  • Lorenzo Di Sarno,
  • Anya Caroselli,
  • Giovanna Tonin,
  • Benedetta Graglia and ,
  • Valeria Pansini,
  • Francesco Andrea Causio,
  • Antonio Gatto and
  • Antonio Chiaretti
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The dawn of Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare stands as a milestone in medical innovation. Different medical fields are heavily involved, and pediatric emergency medicine is no exception. We conducted a narrative review structured in two par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in the Detection of Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,293 Views
20 Pages

Robust object detection and weather classification are essential for the safe operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in adverse weather conditions. While existing research often treats these tasks separately, this paper proposes a novel multi objecti...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,049 Views
12 Pages

16 December 2021

A web-based search system recommends and gives results such as customized image or video contents using information such as user interests, search time, and place. Time information extracted from images can be used as a important metadata in the web...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,614 Views
20 Pages

12 January 2026

Object detection for autonomous vehicles under adverse weather conditions—such as rain, fog, snow, and low light—remains a significant challenge due to severe visual distortions that degrade image quality and obscure critical features. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,202 Views
24 Pages

Two-Step Classification with SVD Preprocessing of Distributed Massive Datasets in Apache Spark

  • Athanasios Alexopoulos,
  • Georgios Drakopoulos,
  • Andreas Kanavos,
  • Phivos Mylonas and
  • Gerasimos Vonitsanos

24 March 2020

At the dawn of the 10V or big data data era, there are a considerable number of sources such as smart phones, IoT devices, social media, smart city sensors, as well as the health care system, all of which constitute but a small portion of the data la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mining Humanistic Data 2019)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,089 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2022

Mass wasting, as one of the most significant geomorphological processes, contributes immensely to planetary landscape evolution. The frequency and diversity of mass wasting features on any planetary body also put engineering constraints on its roboti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Exploration Using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
6,408 Views
29 Pages

1 September 2022

Detecting and counting on road vehicles is a key task in intelligent transport management and surveillance systems. The applicability lies both in urban and highway traffic monitoring and control, particularly in difficult weather and traffic conditi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
529 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2026

Rain, snow, fog, and dust can degrade road-scene images, blur fine details, and consequently reduce the reliability of perception systems for autonomous driving. To address this problem, this paper proposes PF-ConvNeXt, an adverse weather recognition...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,650 Views
8 Pages

16 January 2019

The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) was founded to tie the world’s high-energy and multimessenger observatories into a single network, with the purpose to enable the discovering of multimessenger sources, to exploit these sour...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring the Non-Thermal Universe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,091 Views
18 Pages

2 December 2023

Robust and precise visual localization over extended periods of time poses a formidable challenge in the current domain of spatial vision. The primary difficulty lies in effectively addressing significant variations in appearance caused by seasonal c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation and Perception Sensors and Systems for Robots, Autonomous Vehicles, and Wearable Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
11,570 Views
12 Pages

25 August 2021

The COVID-19 global pandemic caused by the widespread transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has become one of modern history’s most challenging issues from a healthcare perspective. At its dawn, still without a vaccine, contagion contain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Developments for Medical Diagnosis and Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,798 Views
23 Pages

Naturalize Revolution: Unprecedented AI-Driven Precision in Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Learning

  • Mohamad Abou Ali,
  • Fadi Dornaika,
  • Ignacio Arganda-Carreras,
  • Hussein Ali and
  • Malak Karaouni

Background: In response to the escalating global concerns surrounding skin cancer, this study aims to address the imperative for precise and efficient diagnostic methodologies. Focusing on the intricate task of eight-class skin cancer classification,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
19,351 Views
15 Pages

18 April 2022

Weather detection systems (WDS) have an indispensable role in supporting the decisions of autonomous vehicles, especially in severe and adverse circumstances. With deep learning techniques, autonomous vehicles can effectively identify outdoor weather...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,710 Views
60 Pages

The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) paradigm promises unprecedented flexibility and cost efficiency for 6G networks but introduces critical security risks due to its disaggregated, AI-driven architecture. This paper proposes a secure optimization f...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
185 Views
15 Pages

Integrated Multi-Trait Analysis of Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation Strategies in Dendrobium Species

  • Zhe Yang,
  • Lingzhi Wei,
  • Lihui Peng,
  • Yujing Wei and ,
  • Zhenhai Deng,
  • Zhongchen Xiong,
  • Xiao Wei,
  • Tao Ding and
  • Shengfeng Chai
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Dendrobium species are valuable medicinal and ornamental orchids whose epiphytic or lithophytic growth exposes them to fluctuating water availability. Comparative evidence on their carbon-assimilation strategies can help identify physiological traits...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CAM Metabolism and Environmental Stress Responses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,054 Views
19 Pages

Analyzing Performance of YOLOx for Detecting Vehicles in Bad Weather Conditions

  • Imran Ashraf,
  • Soojung Hur,
  • Gunzung Kim and
  • Yongwan Park

14 January 2024

Recent advancements in computer vision technology, developments in sensors and sensor-collecting approaches, and the use of deep and transfer learning approaches have excelled in the development of autonomous vehicles. On-road vehicle detection has b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Communication, and Control of Autonomous Vehicle Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,926 Views
15 Pages

Synthetic Data-Driven Real-Time Detection Transformer Object Detection in Raining Weather Conditions

  • Chen-Yu Hao,
  • Yao-Chung Chen,
  • Tai-Tien Chen,
  • Ting-Hsuan Lai and ,
  • Tien-Yin Chou,
  • Fang-Shii Ning and
  • Mei-Hsin Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2024

Images captured in rainy weather conditions often suffer from contamination, resulting in blurred or obscured objects, which can significantly impact detection performance due to the loss of identifiable texture and color information. Moreover, the q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
23 Pages

Research on a Lightweight Object Detection Method for AGV Visual Perception Under Low-Visibility Conditions

  • Tao Wei,
  • Huanwu Zhan,
  • Shuwan Cui,
  • Guiyou Zhou and ,
  • Shibing Cai,
  • Yilong Li and
  • Shaodong Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2026

With the development of intelligent manufacturing and smart logistics, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are gradually expanding from traditional indoor environments to factory roads, logistics parks, industrial parks, and other outdoor road environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,168 Views
23 Pages

16 September 2019

Along with the advancement of light-weight sensing and processing technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently become popular platforms for intelligent traffic monitoring and control. UAV-mounted cameras can capture traffic-flow videos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in UAV Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
716 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2026

Reliable visual detection of small floating objects on the water surface is a prerequisite for environmental monitoring and clean-up tasks performed by unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) on inland waterways. Such scenes are routinely degraded by low il...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems: Perception, Localization, and Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,578 Views
23 Pages

Regional Quantitative Mineral Prospectivity Mapping of W, Sn, and Nb-Ta Based on Integrated Information in Rwanda, Central Africa

  • Zhuo Chen,
  • Jianping Chen,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Yunfeng Li and ,
  • Qichun Yin and
  • Haishuang Du
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 January 2023

As the need to discovers new mineral deposits and occurrences has intensified in recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that we need to map potentials via integrated information on the basis of metallogeny. Occurrences of mineralization su...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications)