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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,762 Views
21 Pages

Convolutional neural network-based detection models have been extensively applied in industrial production for monitoring the use of safety protection equipment, ensuring worker safety. This paper addresses scenarios in electrical operations where th...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,437 Views
20 Pages

Elastic Downsampling: An Adaptive Downsampling Technique to Preserve Image Quality

  • Jose J. García Aranda,
  • Manuel Alarcón Granero,
  • Francisco Jose Juan Quintanilla,
  • Gabriel Caffarena and
  • Rodrigo García-Carmona

This paper presents a new adaptive downsampling technique called elastic downsampling, which enables high compression rates while preserving the image quality. Adaptive downsampling techniques are based on the idea that image tiles can use different...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,363 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2022

In this work, we present a compact “adaptive downsampling” method that mitigates the nonlinearity problems associated with FPGA-based TDCs that utilize delay lines. Additionally, this generic method allows for trade-offs between resolutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,138 Views
21 Pages

FDADNet: Detection of Surface Defects in Wood-Based Panels Based on Frequency Domain Transformation and Adaptive Dynamic Downsampling

  • Hongli Li,
  • Zhiqi Yi,
  • Zhibin Wang,
  • Ying Wang and ,
  • Liang Ge,
  • Wei Cao,
  • Liye Mei,
  • Wei Yang and
  • Qin Sun
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

30 September 2024

The detection of surface defects on wood-based panels plays a crucial role in product quality control. However, due to the complex background and low contrast of defects in wood-based panel images, features extracted by traditional deep learning meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Based on Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
596 Views
24 Pages

An Efficient Wi-Fi Sensing Method for Robotic Arm Motion Recognition

  • Junyan Zhuo,
  • Qingrui Wang,
  • Yuzhou Sheng,
  • Xi Wang and ,
  • Yuxuan Zhang and
  • Xiaojing Wan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 May 2026

In recent years, channel state information (CSI)-based sensing technology has gradually attracted widespread attention as a contactless and low-cost approach for robotic arm motion understanding. Despite continuous progress in CSI-based human sensing...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,746 Views
11 Pages

Adaptive Video Transmission Using Residue Octree Cubes

  • Adrian Enache and
  • Costin-Anton Boiangiu

15 July 2014

This paper proposes a method of transmitting video streaming data based on downsampling-upsampling pyramidal decomposition. By implementing an octal tree decomposition of the frame cubes, prior to transforming them into hypercubes, the algorithm mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
441 Views
23 Pages

Robust Ship Detection Algorithm Under Complex Occlusion Conditions

  • Jiahang Li,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yu Sun and
  • Churuo Zhang

To address the accuracy degradation of ship detection caused by occlusion from adjacent vessels, shore-based facilities and meteorological obscuration in complex maritime-surveillance scenes, this paper proposes an occlusion-robust detection model na...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,263 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2026

Aiming at the core issues of the traditional YOLO11n model in rail surface defect detection—fine-grained feature loss of small defects, insufficient micro-target recognition accuracy, and the mismatch of existing downsampling/fusion methods for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
2,969 Views
26 Pages

AGRI-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Corn Weed Detection with Enhanced YOLO v11n

  • Gaohui Peng,
  • Kenan Wang,
  • Jianqin Ma,
  • Bifeng Cui and
  • Dawei Wang

18 September 2025

Corn, as a globally significant food crop, faces significant yield reductions due to competitive growth from weeds. Precise detection and efficient control of weeds are critical technical components for ensuring high and stable corn yields. Tradition...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Views
18 Pages

Fire Detection Algorithm for Complex Warehouse Scenarios Based on YOLOv11n

  • Liwei Guan,
  • Bicai Li,
  • Junjie Lu,
  • Yunping Wu and ,
  • Wenzao Shi,
  • Zhigao Huang,
  • Yue Chen and
  • Qiuliang Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 October 2026

Fire detection in warehouse scenarios is challenged by complex background interference, weak features of small flame targets, and indistinct flame textures, which can reduce detection performance and constrain model deployment. To address these issue...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
213 Views
25 Pages

DARA-Net: Detail-Aware Representation and Aggregation for Lightweight UAV Detection

  • Luyao Jiang,
  • Xinli Lin,
  • Xiaoming Chen,
  • Tao Cheng and
  • Jianxun Lu

26 October 2026

Detecting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex low-altitude scenes remains challenging due to limited target details and background interference. To address these challenges, this paper proposes DARA-Net, a lightweight UAV detection framework t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,487 Views
15 Pages

LMD-DARTS: Low-Memory, Densely Connected, Differentiable Architecture Search

  • Zhongnian Li,
  • Yixin Xu,
  • Peng Ying,
  • Hu Chen and ,
  • Renke Sun and
  • Xinzheng Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Neural network architecture search (NAS) technology is pivotal for designing lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs), facilitating the automatic search for network structures without requiring extensive prior knowledge. However, NAS is resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
529 Views
20 Pages

LCA-Net: A Lightweight Network for Small Object Detection in Road Traffic Scenes

  • Shan Lin,
  • Bensheng Yun,
  • Zhenyu Lin,
  • Jie Shen and
  • Qinghua Xu

27 July 2026

Detecting small and distant objects in road traffic scenarios remains challenging owing to limited pixel resolution, cluttered backgrounds, and resource constraints on edge computing platforms. This work presents LCA-Net, a computationally efficient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Image Processing: Technologies and Applications for Multimedia Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,268 Views
23 Pages

11 November 2025

UAV object detection is still difficult to achieve due to large-scale variation, dense small objects, a complicated background, and resource constraints from onboard computing. To solve these problems, we develop a diffusion-enhanced detection networ...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
36 Pages

Infrared (IR) video target detection is important for long-range target perception in anti-UAV systems under complex lighting and background conditions. However, long-range tiny unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) usually occupy only a few pixels, exhibi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
14,302 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Downsampling Algorithm for 3D Point Cloud Map Based on Voxel Filtering

  • Wenqi Lyu,
  • Wei Ke,
  • Hao Sheng,
  • Xiao Ma and
  • Huayun Zhang

9 April 2024

In response to the challenge of handling large-scale 3D point cloud data, downsampling is a common approach, yet it often leads to the problem of feature loss. We present a dynamic downsampling algorithm for 3D point cloud maps based on an improved v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Recognition and Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,322 Views
23 Pages

3 December 2021

Plant species, structural combination, and spatial distribution in different regions should be adapted to local conditions, and the reasonable arrangement can bring the best ecological effect. Therefore, it is essential to understand the classificati...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,028 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2020

The integration of three-dimensional (3D) data defined in different coordinate systems requires the use of well-known registration procedures, which aim to align multiple models relative to a common reference frame. Depending on the achieved accuracy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Point Cloud Processing and Analysis in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,267 Views
19 Pages

Improved of YOLOv8-n Algorithm for Steel Surface Defect Detection

  • Qingqing Xiang,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Zhiqiang Liu and
  • Xudong Zeng

28 July 2025

To address the limitations in multi-scale feature processing and illumination sensitivity of existing steel surface defect detection algorithms, we proposed ADP-YOLOv8-n, enhancing accuracy and computational efficiency through advanced feature fusion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nondestructive Testing Methods for Metallic Material)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,984 Views
29 Pages

A JND-Based Pixel-Domain Algorithm and Hardware Architecture for Perceptual Image Coding

  • Zhe Wang,
  • Trung-Hieu Tran,
  • Ponnanna Kelettira Muthappa and
  • Sven Simon

This paper presents a hardware efficient pixel-domain just-noticeable difference (JND) model and its hardware architecture implemented on an FPGA. This JND model architecture is further proposed to be part of a low complexity pixel-domain perceptual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing Using FPGAs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
393 Views
27 Pages

28 September 2026

Small object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (RSI) is essential for aerial perception yet remains challenged by the severe degradation of fine-grained spatial features during downsampling and the high sensitivity of Intersection over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
534 Views
12 Pages

Recent advancements in intelligent transportation systems have enabled smart vehicles to autonomously detect, predict, and respond to potential hazards in real time. However, achieving sub-second reaction performance remains challenging due to comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,241 Views
26 Pages

DFAS-YOLO: Dual Feature-Aware Sampling for Small-Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Xiangyu Liu,
  • Shenbo Zhou,
  • Jianbo Ma,
  • Yumei Sun and ,
  • Jianlin Zhang and
  • Haorui Zuo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 October 2025

In remote sensing imagery, detecting small objects is challenging due to the limited representational ability of feature maps when resolution changes. This issue is mainly reflected in two aspects: (1) upsampling causes feature shifts, making feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,204 Views
22 Pages

ATMformer: An Adaptive Token Merging Vision Transformer for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Yi Niu,
  • Zhuochen Song,
  • Qingyu Luo,
  • Guochao Chen and ,
  • Mingming Ma and
  • Fu Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 February 2025

In remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) tasks, downsampling is crucial for reducing computational complexity and cache demands, enhancing the model’s generalization capability of deep neural networks. Traditional methods, such as r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
753 Views
32 Pages

21 July 2026

Accurate and efficient detection of surface damage on wind turbine blades is important for ensuring the safe operation and maintenance of wind farms. Existing models have problems of irreversible loss of micro-damage features, insufficient modeling o...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,564 Views
25 Pages

4 October 2025

Point cloud processing of raw scan data is a critical step to enhance the accuracy and efficiency in computer-aided inspection and remanufacturing of damaged aero-engine blades. This paper presents a new methodology to obtain a noise-reduced and simp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Short-Range Optical 3D Scanning and 3D Data Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
727 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2025

The sustainable cultivation of agarwood, a high-value tree species, is significantly threatened by foliar pests, requiring efficient and accurate monitoring solutions. While deep learning is widely used, mainstream models face inherent limitations: C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Adaptive Control, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
22 Pages

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have made strong progress on single-image super-resolution (SISR). Most of them work in a fully supervised way: they learn a non-linear mapping from a low-resolution (LR) image to its high-r...

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

To address the sampling misalignment and detail loss caused by fixed-grid downsampling for small-scale defects, as well as the insufficient differentiated modeling and interaction of defect details and structural context in UAV-acquired power-line im...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,012 Views
20 Pages

Feature-Enhanced Diffusion Model for Text-Guided Sound Effect Generation

  • Wei Wan,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Xiangyang Miao,
  • Yun Fang and
  • Dongfeng Ye

This study proposes a feature-enhanced diffusion model based on wavelet transform and Mamba to address the issues of low audio realism, inadequate text relevance, and slow inference speed in text-guided sound effect generation. A wavelet transform-ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Intelligence Technology and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,484 Views
21 Pages

Cross-Dimension Attention Guided Self-Supervised Remote Sensing Single-Image Super-Resolution

  • Wenzong Jiang,
  • Lifei Zhao,
  • Yanjiang Wang,
  • Weifeng Liu and
  • Baodi Liu

25 September 2021

In recent years, the application of deep learning has achieved a huge leap in the performance of remote sensing image super-resolution (SR). However, most of the existing SR methods employ bicubic downsampling of high-resolution (HR) images to obtain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Super-resolution Methods in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
839 Views
20 Pages

23 January 2026

Surface defect evaluation in steel production demands both high inference speed and accuracy for efficient production. However, existing methods face two critical challenges: (1) the diverse dimensions and irregular morphologies of surface defects re...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,404 Views
22 Pages

A Lightweight Drone Detection Method Integrated into a Linear Attention Mechanism Based on Improved YOLOv11

  • Sicheng Zhou,
  • Lei Yang,
  • Huiting Liu,
  • Chongqing Zhou and ,
  • Jiacheng Liu,
  • Shuai Zhao and
  • Keyi Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2025

The timely and accurate detection of unidentified drones is vital for public safety. However, the unique characteristics of drones in complex environments and the varied postures they may adopt during approach present significant challenges. Addition...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
925 Views
26 Pages

16 April 2026

Small-object detection in remote sensing imagery faces two specific challenges that existing lightweight detectors fail to address jointly: the irreversible loss of high-frequency boundary cues during repeated downsampling, and feature smearing betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,922 Views
32 Pages

25 March 2026

Red–Green–Blue–Thermal (RGBT) object detection is critical for robust all-weather perception. However, deploying dual-stream networks on resource-constrained edge devices is severely hindered by insufficiently adaptive multimodal fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensor Technologies for Multimodal Decision-Making)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
968 Views
27 Pages

31 March 2026

This paper proposes a novel fault diagnosis method that integrates a Relative Position Matrix (RPM), a Downsampling Attention Module (DAM), an Improved Residual Network (IResNet), and transfer learning to address the challenges of scarce fault data a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
497 Views
25 Pages

14 June 2026

Dehazing of images is important for proper interpretation of optical images in remote sensing. However, current dehazing networks tend to have limited receptive field and texture information loss caused by conventional downsampling and complementary...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,651 Views
13 Pages

6 July 2019

A method called iTEKA, which stands for iterative time elastic kernel averaging, was successfully used for averaging time series. In this paper, we adapt it to GPS trajectories. The key contribution is a denoising procedure that includes an over-samp...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,163 Views
5 Pages

From Pose to Pitch: Classifying Baseball Pitch Types with Projection-Gated ST-GCN

  • Sergio Huesca-Flores,
  • Gibran Benitez-Garcia,
  • Oswaldo Juarez-Sandoval,
  • Hiroki Takahashi and ,
  • Hector Perez-Meana and
  • Mariko Nakano-Miyatake
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 January 2026

We present a skeleton-based approach to baseball pitch type classification from broadcast video. We leverage Human Pose Estimation and an ST-GCN architecture, improved with a projection-gated temporal downsampler, to learn kinematic signatures of the...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of First Summer School on Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,951 Views
20 Pages

19 November 2024

Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are essential components in electronic devices, making defect detection crucial. PCB surface defects are diverse, complex, low in feature resolution, and often resemble the background, leading to detection challenges. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing and Imaging for Defect Detection: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,847 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2024

Accurate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction of lithium batteries is crucial for enhancing their performance and extending their lifespan. Existing studies focus on continuous or relatively sparse datasets; however, continuous and complete dataset...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,276 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2025

To improve the performance of vehicle target detection in complex traffic environments and solve the problem that it is difficult to make a lightweight detection model, this paper proposes a lightweight vehicle detection model based on enhanced You O...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Object Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,712 Views
24 Pages

Existing drone image processing algorithms for small target detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial images struggle with challenges like missed detection of small objects, information loss from downsampling, loss of low-dimensional features...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
870 Views
18 Pages

YOLOv11n-GrapeLite: A Lightweight Multi-Variety Grape Recognition Model

  • Yahui Luo,
  • Guangsheng Gao,
  • Wenwu Hu,
  • Pin Jiang and ,
  • Tie Zhang,
  • Delin Shang,
  • Xiangjun Zou,
  • Guoshun Yang and
  • Yuxuan Tan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

To address the challenges of rapid and accurate grape variety identification in natural orchard environments, along with the demand for efficient deployment on mobile devices, we propose in this paper YOLOv11n-GrapeLite, a lightweight model built upo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Robotic Systems for Precision Orchard Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,074 Views
20 Pages

27 May 2026

To meet the requirements of accurate multi-class animal detection and model lightweighting in UAV-based grazing monitoring, this study presents DMN-YOLO, an efficient detector built upon YOLO11n. In particular, a lightweight downsampling module, DSDo...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal System and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,002 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2026

Current management strategies for sorghum aphids heavily rely on indiscriminate chemical application, leading to severe environmental consequences and impacting food safety. While precision spraying offers a viable remediation for pesticide overuse,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, IoT and Smart Sensors for Precision Agriculture: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,194 Views
18 Pages

YOLO-MARS for Infrared Target Detection: Towards near Space

  • Bohan Liu,
  • Yeteng Han,
  • Pengxi Liu,
  • Sha Luo and ,
  • Jie Li,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Wennan Cui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 September 2025

In response to problems such as large target scale variations, strong background noise, and blurred features leading by low contrast in infrared target detection in near space environments, this paper proposes an efficient detection model, YOLO-MARS,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,443 Views
15 Pages

Robust Adaptive Beamforming Based on a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Zhipeng Liao,
  • Keqing Duan,
  • Jinjun He,
  • Zizhou Qiu and
  • Binbin Li

To address the advancements in jamming technology, it is imperative to consider robust adaptive beamforming (RBF) methods with finite snapshots and gain/phase (G/P) errors. This paper introduces an end-to-end RBF approach that utilizes a two-stage co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Radar Signal Processing and Radar Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,582 Views
20 Pages

CSAN-UNet: Channel Spatial Attention Nested UNet for Infrared Small Target Detection

  • Yuhan Zhong,
  • Zhiguang Shi,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yong Zhang and
  • Hanyu Li

24 May 2024

Segmenting small infrared targets presents a significant challenge for traditional image processing architectures due to the inherent lack of texture, minimal shape information, and their sparse pixel representation within images. The conventional UN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Remote Sensing Imagery Processing (4th Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Views
41 Pages

27 September 2026

While recent advancements in large-scale pretraining have significantly improved dense geometric models, these architectures often struggle to adapt to 4K-resolution inputs because of their rigidity. Existing benchmarks mostly provide low-resolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI4Data and Data4AI: Data Intelligence for Foundation Models, Knowledge Systems, and Intelligent Agents)

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