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4 Citations
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29 April 2025

The use of remote sensing images to analyze the change characteristics of large-scale aquaculture areas and monitor aquaculture violations is of great significance for exploring the law of marine aquaculture and assisting the monitoring and standardi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,213 Views
27 Pages

Advancing Intelligent Logistics: YOLO-Based Object Detection with Modified Loss Functions for X-Ray Cargo Screening

  • Jun Hao Tee,
  • Mahmud Iwan Solihin,
  • Kim Soon Chong,
  • Sew Sun Tiang,
  • Weng Yan Tham,
  • Chun Kit Ang,
  • Y. J. Lee,
  • C. L. Goh and
  • Wei Hong Lim

Efficient threat detection in X-ray cargo inspection is critical for the security of the global supply chain. This study evaluates YOLO-based object-detection models from YOLOv5 to the latest, YOLOv11, which is enhanced with modified loss functions a...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,552 Views
17 Pages

Automatic Detection and Segmentation for Group-Housed Pigs Based on PigMS R-CNN

  • Shuqin Tu,
  • Weijun Yuan,
  • Yun Liang,
  • Fan Wang and
  • Hua Wan

7 May 2021

Instance segmentation is an accurate and reliable method to segment adhesive pigs’ images, and is critical for providing health and welfare information on individual pigs, such as body condition score, live weight, and activity behaviors in group-hou...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,149 Views
18 Pages

Research on the Strawberry Recognition Algorithm Based on Deep Learning

  • Yunlong Zhang,
  • Laigang Zhang,
  • Hanwen Yu,
  • Zhijun Guo,
  • Ran Zhang and
  • Xiangyu Zhou

14 October 2023

In view of the time-consuming and laborious manual picking and sorting of strawberries, the direct impact of image recognition accuracy on automatic picking and the rapid development of deep learning(DL), a Faster Regions with Convolutional Neural Ne...

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  • Open Access
93 Citations
8,579 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2024

In smart cities, effective traffic congestion management hinges on adept pedestrian and vehicle detection. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a solution with mobility, cost-effectiveness, and a wide field of view, and yet, optimizing recognition m...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,257 Views
14 Pages

HSP-YOLOv8: UAV Aerial Photography Small Target Detection Algorithm

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Changhao Sun,
  • Ruofei He and
  • Yumeng Zhang

2 September 2024

To address the larger numbers of small objects and the issues of occlusion and clustering in UAV aerial photography, which can lead to false positives and missed detections, we propose an improved small object detection algorithm for UAV aerial scena...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,094 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Vehicle Detection from UAV Aerial Images Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Shuaicai Li,
  • Xiaodong Yang,
  • Xiaoxia Lin,
  • Yanyi Zhang and
  • Jiahui Wu

16 June 2023

Aerial vehicle detection has significant applications in aerial surveillance and traffic control. The pictures captured by the UAV are characterized by many tiny objects and vehicles obscuring each other, significantly increasing the detection challe...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
4,813 Views
18 Pages

Weed Detection in Maize Fields by UAV Images Based on Crop Row Preprocessing and Improved YOLOv4

  • Haotian Pei,
  • Youqiang Sun,
  • He Huang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Jiajia Sheng and
  • Zhiying Zhang

Effective maize and weed detection plays an important role in farmland management, which helps to improve yield and save herbicide resources. Due to their convenience and high resolution, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in weed detect...

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  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,172 Views
16 Pages

3 June 2023

In foggy weather scenarios, the scattering and absorption of light by water droplets and particulate matter cause object features in images to become blurred or lost, presenting a significant challenge for target detection in autonomous driving vehic...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,880 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2024

Real-time target detection plays an important role in campus intelligent surveillance systems. This paper introduces Soft-NMS, GSConv, Triplet Attention, and other advanced technologies to propose a lightweight pedestrian and vehicle detection model...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,417 Views
19 Pages

Research on the Visual Perception of Ship Engine Rooms Based on Deep Learning

  • Yongkang Wang,
  • Jundong Zhang,
  • Jinting Zhu,
  • Yuequn Ge and
  • Guanyu Zhai

In the intelligent engine room, the visual perception of ship engine room equipment is the premise of defect identification and the replacement of manual operation. This paper improves YOLOv5 for the problems of mutual occlusion of cabin equipment, a...

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  • Open Access
255 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Cascade R-CNN-Based Fastener Detection Method for Coating Workshop Inspection

  • Jiaqi Liu,
  • Shanhui Liu,
  • Yuhong Chen,
  • Jiawen Zhao and
  • Jiahao Fu

30 December 2025

To address the challenges of small fastener targets, complex backgrounds, and the low efficiency of traditional manual inspection in coating workshop scenarios, this paper proposes an improved Cascade R-CNN-based fastener detection method. A VOC-form...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,366 Views
19 Pages

13 August 2024

Currently, existing deep learning methods exhibit many limitations in multi-target detection, such as low accuracy and high rates of false detection and missed detections. This paper proposes an improved Faster R-CNN algorithm, aiming to enhance the...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,245 Views
23 Pages

The damage caused by pests to crops results in reduced crop yield and compromised quality. Accurate and timely pest detection plays a crucial role in helping farmers to defend against and control pests. In this paper, a novel crop pest detection mode...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,489 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2021

In the intelligent perception of the marine engine room, visual identification of auxiliary equipment is the prerequisite for defect recognition and anomaly detection. To improve the detection accuracy, this study presents an auxiliary equipment dete...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,387 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2023

In order to better utilize and protect marine organisms, reliable underwater object detection methods need to be developed. Due to various influencing factors from complex and changeable underwater environments, the underwater object detection is ful...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,437 Views
13 Pages

29 June 2022

For the task of garbage classification, to overcome the main disadvantages of the Yolov4 target detection algorithm, such as the large network model and lower detection accuracy for small objects, a lightweight Yolov4 target detection network based o...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,993 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2023

In order to solve the existing distracted driving behaviour detection algorithms’ problems such as low recognition accuracy, high leakage rate, high false recognition rate, poor real-time performance, etc., and to achieve high-precision real-ti...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,432 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2023

As the unique identifier of individual breeding pigs, the loss of ear tags can result in the loss of breeding pigs’ identity information, leading to data gaps and confusion in production and genetic breeding records, which can have catastrophic...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,537 Views
17 Pages

Aiming at the problems of multi-scale and serious overlap of dangerous goods in X-ray security-inspection-image samples, an X-ray dangerous-goods-detection algorithm with high detection accuracy is designed based on the improvement of YOLOv4. Using d...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,681 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2023

In the field of aerial remote sensing, detecting small objects in aerial images is challenging. Their subtle presence against broad backgrounds, combined with environmental complexities and low image resolution, complicates identification. While thei...

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  • Open Access
2,934 Views
22 Pages

Research and Optimization of White Blood Cell Classification Methods Based on Deep Learning and Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy

  • Mingjing Li,
  • Junshuai Wang,
  • Shu Fang,
  • Le Yang,
  • Xinyang Liu,
  • Haijiao Yun,
  • Xiaoli Wang,
  • Qingyu Du and
  • Ziqing Han

24 April 2025

White blood cell (WBC) classification plays a crucial role in hematopathology and clinical diagnostics. However, traditional methods are constrained by limited receptive fields and insufficient utilization of contextual information, which hinders cla...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,203 Views
27 Pages

21 September 2024

In the mining industry, lithological identification is crucial for ensuring the safety of equipment and personnel, as well as for improving production efficiency. Traditional ore identification methods, such as visual inspection, physical testing, an...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,310 Views
14 Pages

17 June 2024

The field of object detection has widespread applicability in many areas. Despite the multitude of object detection methods that are already established, complex scenes with occlusions still prove challenging due to the loss of information and dynami...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,167 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2024

Safety signs serve as an important information carrier for safety standards and rule constraints. Detecting safety signs in mines is essential for automatically early warning of unsafe behaviors and the wearing of protective equipment while using com...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,800 Views
13 Pages

26 April 2024

In order to achieve fast and accurate detection of Gannan navel orange fruits with different ripeness levels in a natural environment under all-weather scenarios and then to realise automated harvesting of Gannan navel oranges, this paper proposes a...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,912 Views
19 Pages

YOLOv5-OCDS: An Improved Garbage Detection Model Based on YOLOv5

  • Qiuhong Sun,
  • Xiaotian Zhang,
  • Yujia Li and
  • Jingyang Wang

10 August 2023

As the global population grows and urbanization accelerates, the garbage that is generated continues to increase. This waste causes serious pollution to the ecological environment, affecting the stability of the global environmental balance. Garbage...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,666 Views
18 Pages

A Lightweight Detection Algorithm for Surface Defects in Small-Sized Bearings

  • Yuanyuan Wang,
  • Zhaoyu Song,
  • Hauwa Suleiman Abdullahi,
  • Shangbing Gao,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Liguo Zhou and
  • Yazhou Li

Background: To address issues in current deep learning models for detecting defects on industrial bearing surfaces, such as large parameter sizes and low precision in identifying small defects, we propose a lightweight detection algorithm for small-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,174 Views
12 Pages

An Improved Soft-YOLOX for Garbage Quantity Identification

  • Junran Lin,
  • Cuimei Yang,
  • Yi Lu,
  • Yuxing Cai,
  • Hanjie Zhan and
  • Zhen Zhang

28 July 2022

Urban waterlogging is mainly caused by garbage clogging the sewer manhole covers. If the amount of garbage at a sewer manhole cover can be detected, together with an early warning signal when the amount is large enough, it will be of great significan...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,620 Views
11 Pages

A Soft-YoloV4 for High-Performance Head Detection and Counting

  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Shihao Xia,
  • Yuxing Cai,
  • Cuimei Yang and
  • Shaoning Zeng

30 November 2021

Blockage of pedestrians will cause inaccurate people counting, and people’s heads are easily blocked by each other in crowded occasions. To reduce missed detections as much as possible and improve the capability of the detection model, this pap...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,197 Views
16 Pages

Fast Automatic Vehicle Detection in UAV Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Xin Luo,
  • Xiaoyue Tian,
  • Huijie Zhang,
  • Weimin Hou,
  • Geng Leng,
  • Wenbo Xu,
  • Haitao Jia,
  • Xixu He,
  • Meng Wang and
  • Jian Zhang

21 June 2020

Vehicle targets in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images are generally small, so a significant amount of detailed information on targets may be lost after neural computing, which leads to the poor performances of the existing recognition algorithms. B...

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  • Open Access
85 Citations
8,227 Views
15 Pages

Detection of Key Organs in Tomato Based on Deep Migration Learning in a Complex Background

  • Jun Sun,
  • Xiaofei He,
  • Xiao Ge,
  • Xiaohong Wu,
  • Jifeng Shen and
  • Yingying Song

11 December 2018

In the current natural environment, due to the complexity of the background and the high similarity of the color between immature green tomatoes and the plant, the occlusion of the key organs (flower and fruit) by the leaves and stems will lead to lo...

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  • Open Access
69 Citations
7,369 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,761 Views
17 Pages

Weed Detection Method Based on Lightweight and Contextual Information Fusion

  • Chi Zhang,
  • Jincan Liu,
  • Hongjun Li,
  • Haodong Chen,
  • Zhangxun Xu and
  • Zhen Ou

7 December 2023

Weed detection technology is of paramount significance in achieving automation and intelligence in weed control. Nevertheless, it grapples with several formidable challenges, including imprecise small target detection, high computational demands, ina...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,805 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2023

In the complex environment of orchards, in view of low fruit recognition accuracy, poor real-time and robustness of traditional recognition algorithms, this paper propose an improved fruit recognition algorithm based on deep learning. Firstly, the re...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,991 Views
18 Pages

Soft-NMS-Enabled YOLOv5 with SIOU for Small Water Surface Floater Detection in UAV-Captured Images

  • Fuxun Chen,
  • Lanxin Zhang,
  • Siyu Kang,
  • Lutong Chen,
  • Honghong Dong,
  • Dan Li and
  • Xiaozhu Wu

8 July 2023

In recent years, the protection and management of water environments have garnered heightened attention due to their critical importance. Detection of small objects in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a persistent challenge due to the lim...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,162 Views
8 Pages

W/Si Multilayer Mirrors for Soft X-Ray Wavelengths < 2.4 nm

  • Denys Sevriukov,
  • Sergiy Yulin,
  • Sven Schröder and
  • Andreas Tünnermann

2 September 2025

W/Si multilayer mirrors are a promising candidate for soft X-ray applications at wavelengths below 2.4 nm. However, their optical performance is strongly affected by interface roughness and interlayer mixing, which limits reflectivity. One approach t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,954 Views
13 Pages

Soft Error Sensitivity Analysis Based on 40 nm SRAM-Based FPGA

  • Xu Xiong,
  • Xuecheng Du,
  • Bo Zheng,
  • Zhi Chen,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Sanjun He and
  • Yixin Zhu

22 November 2022

Soft errors induced by radiation are the major reliability threat for SRAM-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). A more detailed analysis of the soft error sensitivity of the 40 nm SRAM-based FPGA was performed. Experimental methods for the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,831 Views
12 Pages

18 November 2023

Although the Mask region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) model possessed a dominant position for complex and variable road scene segmentation, some problems still existed, including insufficient feature expressive ability and low segmentat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,489 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Forest Fire Detection Algorithm Using Improved YOLOv5

  • Pei Shi,
  • Jun Lu,
  • Quan Wang,
  • Yonghong Zhang,
  • Liang Kuang and
  • Xi Kan

14 December 2023

Forest fires result in severe disaster, causing significant ecological damage and substantial economic losses. Flames and smoke represent the predominant characteristics of forest fires. However, these flames and smoke often exhibit irregular shapes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,866 Views
11 Pages

Histological Effects of an Innovative 445 Nm Blue Laser During Oral Soft Tissue Biopsy

  • Gaspare Palaia,
  • Daniele Pergolini,
  • Leonardo D’Alessandro,
  • Raffaella Carletti,
  • Alessandro Del Vecchio,
  • Gianluca Tenore,
  • Cira Rosaria Tiziana Di Gioia and
  • Umberto Romeo

Continuously evolving laser devices can be used in various fields; they are an alternative to the traditional cold blade surgery to perform biopsies of oral soft tissues. The aspect focused on in this paper is the possibility to use the 445 nm diode...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,161 Views
25 Pages

22 June 2025

Maritime object detection is essential for resource monitoring, maritime defense, and public safety, yet detecting diverse targets beyond ships remains challenging. This paper presents YOLO-SEA, an efficient detection framework based on the enhanced...

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  • Open Access
152 Citations
8,209 Views
29 Pages

Precise and Robust Ship Detection for High-Resolution SAR Imagery Based on HR-SDNet

  • Shunjun Wei,
  • Hao Su,
  • Jing Ming,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Min Yan,
  • Durga Kumar,
  • Jun Shi and
  • Xiaoling Zhang

2 January 2020

Ship detection in high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a challenging problem in the case of complex environments, especially inshore and offshore scenes. Nowadays, the existing methods of SAR ship detection mainly use low-resolut...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,898 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Intelligent Ship Detection Method Based on Attention Mechanism Feature Enhancement

  • Yingdong Ye,
  • Rong Zhen,
  • Zheping Shao,
  • Jiacai Pan and
  • Yubing Lin

The intelligent perception ability of the close-range navigation environment is the basis of autonomous decision-making and control of unmanned ships. In order to realize real-time perception of the close-range environment of unmanned ships, an enhan...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,560 Views
14 Pages

Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Scenarios Based on an Improved Faster-RCNN

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Sijie Wen,
  • Dongli Wang,
  • Jinzhen Mu and
  • Irampaye Richard

8 December 2021

Object detection is one of the key algorithms in automatic driving systems. Aiming at addressing the problem of false detection and the missed detection of both small and occluded objects in automatic driving scenarios, an improved Faster-RCNN object...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,062 Views
18 Pages

A Pineapple Target Detection Method in a Field Environment Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Yuhao Lai,
  • Ruijun Ma,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Tao Wan,
  • Rui Jiao and
  • Huandong He

19 February 2023

The accurate detection of pineapples of different maturity levels in a complex field environment is the key step to achieving the early yield estimation and mechanized picking of pineapple. This study proposes a target detection model based on the im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,062 Views
26 Pages

Construction material management is crucial for project progression. Counting massive amounts of scaffold components is a key step for efficient material management. However, traditional counting methods are time-consuming and laborious. Utilizing a...

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  • Open Access
817 Views
12 Pages

18 June 2025

Detecting oriented electrical equipment plays a fundamental role in enabling intelligent defect diagnosis in power systems. However, existing oriented object detection methods each have their own limitations, making it challenging to achieve robust a...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,987 Views
14 Pages

Mask Detection Method Based on YOLO-GBC Network

  • Changqing Wang,
  • Bei Zhang,
  • Yuan Cao,
  • Maoxuan Sun,
  • Kunyu He,
  • Zhonghao Cao and
  • Meng Wang

For the problems of inaccurate recognition and the high missed detection rate of existing mask detection algorithms in actual scenes, a novel mask detection algorithm based on the YOLO-GBC network is proposed. Specifically, in the backbone network pa...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,276 Views
17 Pages

Insulator Breakage Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Gujing Han,
  • Min He,
  • Mengze Gao,
  • Jinyun Yu,
  • Kaipei Liu and
  • Liang Qin

17 May 2022

Aerial images have complex backgrounds, small targets, and overlapping targets, resulting in low accuracy of intelligent detection of overhead line insulators. This paper proposes an improved algorithm for insulator breakage detection based on YOLOv5...

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