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90 Citations
3,635 Views
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27 March 2024

With the rapid development of smart manufacturing, data-driven deep learning (DL) methods are widely used for bearing fault diagnosis. Aiming at the problem of model training crashes when data are imbalanced and the difficulty of traditional signal a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Fault Diagnosis & Sensors 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,376 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2025

Time-series classification remains a critical task across various domains, demanding models that effectively capture both local recurrence structures and global temporal dependencies. We introduce a novel framework that transforms time series into im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,887 Views
19 Pages

Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Model Based on Multi-Scale Depthwise Separable Convolutional Neural Network Integrated with Spatial Attention Mechanism

  • Zhixin Jin,
  • Xudong Hu,
  • Hongli Wang,
  • Shengyu Guan,
  • Kaiman Liu,
  • Zhiwen Fang,
  • Hongwei Wang,
  • Xuesong Wang,
  • Lijie Wang and
  • Qun Zhang

30 June 2025

In response to the challenges posed by complex and variable operating conditions of rolling bearings and the limited availability of labeled data, both of which hinder the effective extraction of key fault features and reduce diagnostic accuracy, thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
825 Views
27 Pages

27 March 2026

This paper presents a Load-Dependent Multimodal Vibration Signal Enhancement and Fusion Framework (LD-MVSEFF) for load-specific condition monitoring, building on the Customised Load Adaptive Framework (CLAF). The proposed approach enhances the classi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Electric Motors and Drives: Condition Monitoring, Performance Prediction and Fault Diagnosis, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,018 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2021

Traditional time-series clustering methods usually perform poorly on high-dimensional data. However, image clustering using deep learning methods can complete image annotation and searches in large image databases well. Therefore, this study aimed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
32 Pages

15 April 2026

Bearings serve as vital components in rotating machinery. Fault diagnosis of bearings constitutes an essential area within mechanical health monitoring. However, most existing methods rely solely on single-modal data or employ a single signal-to-imag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Single Sensor Techniques and Sensor Fusion Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
475 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2026

To address the drawbacks of traditional convolutional neural network-based rolling bearing fault diagnosis techniques, including poor feature extraction, low diagnostic accuracy, and poor generalization capability, a dual-channel rolling bearing faul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,809 Views
22 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of PMSMs Based on Image Features of Multi-Sensor Fusion

  • Jianping Wang,
  • Jian Ma,
  • Dean Meng,
  • Xuan Zhao and
  • Kai Zhang

20 October 2023

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are extensively utilized in production and manufacturing fields due to their wide speed range, high output torque, fast speed response, small size and light weight. PMSMs are susceptible to inter-turn short...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,498 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2024

The success of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) analysis hinges on the precision and robustness of the calibration model. Shallow learning (SL) algorithms like partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) often fall short in capturing the in...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2026

The cutting head is the primary cutting load device of the roadheader. The harsh, complex excavation environment often leads to a scarcity of labelled fault samples, significantly hindering the development of accurate fault diagnosis models. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis in Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,294 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2026

Accurate estimation of the state of health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries is crucial for the safe operation of electric vehicles and energy storage systems. However, most existing methods rely on complete charging curves or manual feature engineering...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design for Distributed Energy Resources: Wind Energy, PV and EV Station)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
842 Views
17 Pages

A Wideband Oscillation Classification Method Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion

  • Yingmin Zhang,
  • Yixiong Liu,
  • Zongsheng Zheng and
  • Shilin Gao

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources and power-electronic devices, modern power systems exhibit pronounced wideband oscillation characteristics with large frequency spans, strong modal coupling, and significant time-varying beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
363 Views
39 Pages

Spectral-Structural Decoupled Hypergraph Neural Network for Fritillaria Species Identification Using Hyperspectral Imaging

  • Xincai Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Fu,
  • Kai Gao,
  • Wenjie Liu,
  • Wen Xiang,
  • Yingjian Zhu,
  • Yujie Lu and
  • Chu Zhang

29 July 2026

Fritillaria thunbergii Miq. (ZBM) and Fritillaria hupehensis Hsiao et K.C. Hsia (HBBM) are two common medicinal and edible species of the genus Fritillaria, both possessing high economic and pharmacological value. Given their differences in pharmacol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anti-Food Fraud: Technologies in Food Safety, Quality and Traceability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,411 Views
18 Pages

2 June 2025

To comprehensively leverage the temporal, static, and dynamic information features of multi-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signals for gesture recognition, considering the sensitive temporal characteristics of sEMG signals to action amplitud...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,898 Views
22 Pages

24 April 2025

As a core component of mechanical transmission systems, gear damage status significantly impacts the safety and efficiency of an overall mechanical system. However, existing fault diagnosis methods often struggle to extract features effectively in co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,721 Views
20 Pages

Safety and reliability are vital for robotic fish, which can be improved through fault diagnosis. In this study, a method for diagnosing sensor faults is proposed, which involves using Gramian angular field fusion with particle swarm optimization and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Robotic Fish)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,235 Views
19 Pages

Gramian Angular Field–Gramian Adversial Network–ResNet34: High-Accuracy Fault Diagnosis for Transformer Windings with Limited Samples

  • Hongwen Liu,
  • Kun Yang,
  • Guochao Qian,
  • Jin Hu,
  • Weiju Dai,
  • Liang Zhu,
  • Tao Guo,
  • Jun Shi and
  • Dongyang Wang

14 August 2025

Transformers are critical equipment in power transmission and distribution systems, and the condition of their windings significantly impacts their reliable operation. Therefore, the fault diagnosis of transformer windings is of great importance. Add...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Diagnostic Analysis, Strategic Management, and Proactive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,486 Views
13 Pages

Research on Fault Diagnosis of High-Voltage Circuit Breakers Using Gramian-Angular-Field-Based Dual-Channel Convolutional Neural Network

  • Mingkun Yang,
  • Liangliang Wei,
  • Pengfeng Qiu,
  • Guangfu Hu,
  • Xingfu Liu,
  • Xiaohui He,
  • Zhaoyu Peng,
  • Fangrong Zhou,
  • Yun Zhang and
  • Xuetong Zhao
  • + 1 author

18 July 2025

The challenge of accurately diagnosing mechanical failures in high-voltage circuit breakers is exacerbated by the non-stationary characteristics of vibration signals. This study proposes a Dual-Channel Convolutional Neural Network (DC-CNN) framework...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Diagnostic Analysis, Strategic Management, and Proactive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
30 Pages

15 July 2026

To address class imbalance in transmission line fault traveling-wave samples, the strong non-stationarity of transient traveling-wave features, and the limited identification capability of single-representation methods, this paper proposes a fault ty...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,544 Views
18 Pages

21 August 2025

To address the limitations of traditional fault diagnosis methods for rotating machinery, which heavily rely on single-dimensional vibration data and fail to fully exploit the deep features of time-series data, this study proposes an innovative diagn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
30 Pages

17 September 2026

Vibration-based diagnosis can identify transformer core looseness non-intrusively, but subtle vibration differences and noise-disturbed Gramian angular field (GAF) textures reduce diagnostic accuracy at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). This paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
747 Views
29 Pages

Composite Gramian Angular Field for Time-Series Classification

  • Pero Bogunović,
  • Saša Mladenović and
  • Andrina Granić

30 June 2026

Gramian Angular Field (GAF) encodings transform time series into two-dimensional images suitable for convolutional neural network (CNN) classification. Existing applications typically use either the Gramian Angular Summation Field (GASF) or the Grami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing and Machine Learning, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Citations
14,431 Views
15 Pages

27 December 2019

This paper proposes a framework to perform the sensor classification by using multivariate time series sensors data as inputs. The framework encodes multivariate time series data into two-dimensional colored images, and concatenate the images into on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Single/Multiple Sensing Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,526 Views
20 Pages

Accurate Classification of Multi-Cultivar Watermelons via GAF-Enhanced Feature Fusion Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Changqing An,
  • Maozhen Qu,
  • Yiran Zhao,
  • Zihao Wu,
  • Xiaopeng Lv,
  • Yida Yu,
  • Zichao Wei,
  • Xiuqin Rao and
  • Huirong Xu

18 August 2025

The online rapid classification of multi-cultivar watermelon, including seedless and seeded types, has far-reaching significance for enhancing quality control in the watermelon industry. However, interference in one-dimensional spectra affects the hi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Food Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,907 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2022

In order to exploit the advantages of CNN models in the detection of small floating targets on the sea surface, this paper proposes a new framework for encoding radar echo Doppler spectral sequences into images and explores two different ways of enco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Data and Classification Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,242 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2024

This paper addresses the critical issue of fault detection and prediction in electric motor machinery, a prevalent challenge in industrial applications. Faults in these machines, stemming from mechanical or electrical issues, often lead to performanc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Predictive Analytics and Fault Diagnosis of Machines with Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,573 Views
21 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Gearbox Bearings Based on Multi-Feature Fusion Dual-Channel CNN-Transformer-CAM

  • Lihai Chen,
  • Yonghui He,
  • Ao Tan,
  • Xiaolong Bai,
  • Zhenshui Li and
  • Xiaoqiang Wang

13 January 2026

As a core component of the gearbox, bearings are crucial to the stability and reliability of the transmission system. However, dynamic variations in operating conditions and complex noise interference present limitations for existing fault diagnosis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven RUL Prediction: Innovations in Generalization, Uncertainty, and Efficiency for Industrial PHM)
  • Article
  • Open Access
453 Views
21 Pages

To address the challenges of extracting mechanical fault features in Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) under complex operating conditions and the insufficient diagnostic accuracy associated with traditional one-dimensional time-series signals, this pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2026

Bearings are crucial components in motor bearing transmission systems because they reduce friction and support loads. Therefore, bearing fault diagnosis is particularly important. This paper proposes a fault diagnosis method for motor bearing transmi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Sensor Data Fusion and AI for Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,810 Views
18 Pages

23 March 2024

In order to improve the accuracy of bearing fault diagnosis under a small sample, variable load, and noise conditions, a new fault diagnosis method based on an image information fusion and Vision Transformer (ViT) transfer learning model is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Collection Bearing Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
24 Pages

Forecasting Artificial Intelligence News Sentiment Index: Traditional vs. Image-Based Deep-Learning Models

  • Gianina-Maria Petrașcu,
  • Ioana Bîrlan,
  • Cristina-Rodica Boboc and
  • Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu

4 August 2026

Rapid AI adoption has intensified public and media attention toward AI-related developments, making news sentiment an increasingly important indicator of expectations and perceptions. This study constructs a global daily AI News Sentiment Index using...

(This article belongs to the Topic Transformer and Deep Learning Applications in Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
620 Views
28 Pages

17 July 2026

Quality deterioration of chilled lamb during storage poses a challenge to meat quality and safety control, making rapid and accurate freshness-grade classification essential. Existing methods based on either spectral information or RGB image informat...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Quality and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
435 Views
25 Pages

Enhancing Plunger Lift Anomaly Detection: A Vision Transformer-Based Approach Leveraging Pretrained Models and Graphic Data Augmentation

  • Jianjun Zhu,
  • Yujun Liu,
  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Mai Chen,
  • Nan Li,
  • Guangqiang Cao,
  • Ruizhi Zhong and
  • Haiwen Zhu

24 June 2026

Plunger lift systems are vital for optimizing production in gas wells, but their performance can be compromised by various operational anomalies. Traditional diagnostic methods and conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches often stru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Artificial Intelligence for Smart Process Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,791 Views
20 Pages

14 October 2024

Recursive neural networks and transformers have recently become dominant in hyperspectral (HS) image classification due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies in spectral sequences. Despite the success of these sequential architectures,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,564 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2023

Focusing on the low accuracy and timeliness of traditional fault diagnosis methods for rolling bearings which combine massive amounts of data, a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings based on Gramian angular field (GAF) coding technology and an...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,528 Views
20 Pages

Apple Watercore Grade Classification Method Based on ConvNeXt and Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

  • Chunlin Zhao,
  • Zhipeng Yin,
  • Yushuo Tan,
  • Wenbin Zhang,
  • Panpan Guo,
  • Yaxing Ma,
  • Haijian Wu,
  • Ding Hu and
  • Quan Lu

To address the issues of insufficient rigor in existing methods for quantifying apple watercore severity and the complexity and low accuracy of traditional classification models, this study proposes a method for watercore quantification and a classif...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,019 Views
19 Pages

A Dual-Path Neural Network for High-Impedance Fault Detection

  • Keqing Ning,
  • Lin Ye,
  • Wei Song,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Guanyuan Li,
  • Xiang Yin and
  • Mingze Zhang

10 January 2025

High-impedance fault detection poses significant challenges for distribution network maintenance and operation. We propose a dual-path neural network for high-impedance fault detection. To enhance feature extraction, we use a Gramian Angular Field al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Process Modeling and Control Based on AI Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,073 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2022

The data processing of airborne full-waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems has become a research hotspot in the LiDAR field in recent years. However, the accuracy and reliability of full-waveform classification remain a challenge. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
479 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2026

Recursive Plots (RPs) can fully utilize the information of signals on a time scale, but their application involves the issue of manual threshold selection, and different thresholds have a significant impact on the analysis results of recursive plots,...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,209 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Channel Fusion Classification Method Based on Time-Series Data

  • Xue-Bo Jin,
  • Aiqiang Yang,
  • Tingli Su,
  • Jian-Lei Kong and
  • Yuting Bai

26 June 2021

Time-series data generally exists in many application fields, and the classification of time-series data is one of the important research directions in time-series data mining. In this paper, univariate time-series data are taken as the research obje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Sensor for Activity Analysis and Context Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,987 Views
17 Pages

Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model Combined with TransNet for Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Under Imbalanced Data

  • Chaobing Wang,
  • Cong Huang,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Zhibin Xiang,
  • Yiwen Xiao,
  • Tongshuai Qian and
  • Jiayang Liu

15 December 2024

Data imbalances present a serious problem for intelligent fault diagnosis. They can lead to reduced diagnostic precision, which can jeopardize equipment reliability and safety. Based on that, this paper proposes a novel fault diagnosis method combini...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,095 Views
19 Pages

18 July 2024

Forecasting energy demand is critical to ensure the steady operation of the power system. However, present approaches to estimating power load are still unsatisfactory in terms of accuracy, precision, and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,903 Views
17 Pages

Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Based on Gramian Angular Field and CSKD-ResNeXt

  • Yanlin Liu,
  • Shuihai Dou,
  • Yanping Du and
  • Zhaohua Wang

For most rotating mechanical transmission systems, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of the gearbox are of great significance to avoid accidents and maintain stability in operation. To strengthen the comprehensiveness of feature extraction and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection Technology Based on Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
45 Pages

A fractional-order image enhancement and fractal complexity-guided fusion method was developed to improve weak fault representation and introduce complexity-aware priors into dissolved gas analysis (DGA)-based diagnosis of oil-immersed power transfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Complex Systems: Advanced Control, Intelligent Estimation and Reinforcement Learning Image Processing​ Algorithms, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,478 Views
13 Pages

Development of Robust Machine Learning Models for Tool-Wear Monitoring in Blanking Processes Under Data Scarcity

  • Johannes Hofmann,
  • Ciarán-Victor Veitenheimer,
  • Chenkai Fei,
  • Chengting Chen,
  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Lianhao Zhao and
  • Peter Groche

23 September 2025

Tool wear is a major challenge in sheet-metal forming, as it directly affects product quality and process stability. Reliable monitoring of tool-wear conditions is therefore essential, yet it remains challenging due to limited data availability and u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
518 Views
34 Pages

Multi-Domain Spectral and Time-Series Imaging Representations for Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Classification

  • Sittinon Thanonklang,
  • Talit Jumphoo,
  • Wongsathon Pathonsuwan,
  • Kasidit Kokkhunthod,
  • Atcharawan Rattanasak,
  • Rattikan Nualsri,
  • Porntip Nimkuntod,
  • Pattama Tongdee,
  • Monthippa Uthansakul and
  • Peerapong Uthansakul

19 September 2026

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality, and timely diagnosis remains difficult where advanced imaging is not consistently available. Automated phonocardiogram (PCG) screening can support early triage, but pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical & Healthcare AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,544 Views
19 Pages

Prediction of Machining Condition Using Time Series Imaging and Deep Learning in Slot Milling of Titanium Alloy

  • Faramarz Hojati,
  • Bahman Azarhoushang,
  • Amir Daneshi and
  • Rostam Hajyaghaee Khiabani

Low surface quality, undesired geometrical and dimensional tolerances, and product damage due to tool wear and tool breakage lead to a dramatic increase in production cost. In this regard, monitoring tool conditions and the machining process are cruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
895 Views
28 Pages

To address the challenge of detecting weak targets with small radar cross-sections (RCS), this work explores an integrated framework that leverages cross-level multimodal fusion of radar echoes. This method considers the target’s motion propert...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,226 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2023

Browning is the most common physiological disease of Yali pears during storage. At the initial stage, browning only occurs in the tissues near the fruit core and cannot be detected from the appearance. The disease, if not identified and removed in ti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rapid Nondestructive Testing Technology-Based Biosensors for Food Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,129 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2025

Due to the broad frequency domain and nonlinear characteristics of ferroresonance signals, traditional time–frequency analysis methods often face challenges such as misjudgment, difficulty in threshold setting, and noise interference when extra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers: Symmetry 2025—The Fifth Edition of the International Conference on Symmetry)

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