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12 January 2026

Land surface temperature (LST) is essential for studying land–atmosphere energy exchange, the impact of climate change, and its influence on crop yields and hydrology. Although satellite remote sensing provides large-scale LST data, existing sp...

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818 Views
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16 April 2025

This paper proposes a spatially adaptive feature fine fusion network consisting of a Fast Convolution Decomposition Sequence (FCDS) and a Spatial Selection Mechanism (SSM). Firstly, in FCDS, a large kernel convolution decomposition operation is used...

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1 Citations
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17 Pages

Research on Blueberry Maturity Detection Based on Receptive Field Attention Convolution and Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion

  • Bingqiang Huang,
  • Zongyi Xie,
  • Hanno Homann,
  • Zhengshun Fei,
  • Xinjian Xiang,
  • Yongping Zheng,
  • Guolong Zhang and
  • Siqi Sun

5 June 2025

Detecting small objects in complex outdoor conditions remains challenging. This paper proposes an improved version of YOLOv8n for the detection of blueberry in challenging outdoor scenarios. In this context, this article addresses feature extraction,...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,948 Views
23 Pages

18 February 2021

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Many algorithms focus on the deep extraction of a single kind of feature to improve classification. There have been few studies on the deep extrac...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,409 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2023

Forest fires occur frequently around the world, causing serious economic losses and human casualties. Deep learning techniques based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in the intelligent detection of forest fires. However, CNN-bas...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,702 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2023

The safety of autonomous driving is closely linked to accurate depth perception. With the continuous development of autonomous driving, depth completion has become one of the crucial methods in this field. However, current depth completion methods ha...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,343 Views
17 Pages

Scene Uyghur Text Detection Based on Fine-Grained Feature Representation

  • Yiwen Wang,
  • Hornisa Mamat,
  • Xuebin Xu,
  • Alimjan Aysa and
  • Kurban Ubul

9 June 2022

Scene text detection task aims to precisely localize text in natural environments. At present, the application scenarios of text detection topics have gradually shifted from plain document text to more complex natural scenarios. Objects with similar...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,561 Views
25 Pages

29 January 2025

Spectral reconstruction (SR) from multispectral images (MSIs) is a crucial task in remote sensing image processing, aiming to enhance the spectral resolution of MSIs to produce hyperspectral images (HSIs). However, most existing deep learning-based S...

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17 Citations
3,944 Views
23 Pages

1 July 2024

In response to the challenges of remote sensing imagery, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial imagery, including differences in target dimensions, the dominance of small targets, and dense clutter and occlusion in complex environments, this p...

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1 Citations
1,226 Views
16 Pages

27 May 2025

Stored wheat pests threaten food quality and economic returns, yet existing detection methods struggle with small-object detection, complex scenarios, and efficiency–accuracy trade-offs, largely due to the lack of high-quality datasets. To addr...

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21 Citations
4,739 Views
22 Pages

30 November 2022

Due to the unique imaging mechanism of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), targets in SAR images often shows complex scattering characteristics, including unclear contours, incomplete scattering spots, attitude sensitivity, etc. Automatic aircraft detect...

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9 Citations
2,833 Views
16 Pages

FAS-Res2net: An Improved Res2net-Based Script Identification Method for Natural Scenes

  • Zhiyun Zhang,
  • Hornisa Mamat,
  • Xuebin Xu,
  • Alimjan Aysa and
  • Kurban Ubul

31 March 2023

Problems such as complex image backgrounds, low image quality, diverse text forms, and similar or common character layouts in different script categories in natural scenes pose great challenges to scene script identification. This paper proposes a ne...

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  • Open Access
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19 Pages

A Classification Model for Fine-Grained Silkworm Cocoon Images Based on Bilinear Pooling and Adaptive Feature Fusion

  • Mochen Liu,
  • Xin Hou,
  • Mingrui Shang,
  • Eunice Oluwabunmi Owoola,
  • Guizheng Zhang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Zhanhua Song and
  • Yinfa Yan

22 December 2024

The quality of silkworm cocoons affects the quality and cost of silk processing. It is necessary to sort silkworm cocoons prior to silk production. Cocoon images consist of fine-grained images with large intra-class differences and small inter-class...

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48 Citations
3,987 Views
13 Pages

Multi-rotor drones have a wide range of applications in practical scenarios; however, the use of multi-rotor drones for illegal acts is also on the rise, in order to improve the recognition accuracy of multi-rotor drones. A new multi-rotor drone dete...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,791 Views
34 Pages

A Remote Sensing Image Object Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv11

  • Aili Wang,
  • Zhijia Fu,
  • Yanran Zhao and
  • Haisong Chen

Due to the challenges posed by high resolution, substantial background noise, significant object scale variation, and long-tailed data distribution in remote sensing images, traditional techniques often struggle to maintain both high accuracy and low...

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82 Citations
7,663 Views
20 Pages

21 July 2022

Road traffic elements are important components of roads and the main elements of structuring basic traffic geographic information databases. However, the following problems still exist in the detection and recognition of road traffic elements: dense...

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2 Citations
1,370 Views
19 Pages

YOLOv-MA: A High-Precision Foreign Object Detection Algorithm for Rice

  • Jiahui Wang,
  • Mengdie Jiang,
  • Tauseef Abbas,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Yuying Jiang

Rice plays a crucial role in global agricultural production, but various foreign objects often mix in during its processing. To efficiently and accurately detect small foreign objects in the rice processing pipeline, ensuring food quality and consume...

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13 Citations
4,044 Views
18 Pages

9 June 2024

In dense scenes, pedestrians often exhibit a variety of symmetrical features, such as symmetry in body contour, posture, clothing, and appearance. However, pedestrian detection poses challenges due to the mutual occlusion of pedestrians and the small...

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2 Citations
1,029 Views
35 Pages

19 July 2025

Hyperspectral sparse unmixing (SU) networks have recently received considerable attention due to their model hyperspectral images (HSIs) with a priori spectral libraries and to capture nonlinear features through deep networks. This method effectively...

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8 January 2026

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a key technology for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality. Current approaches are heavily reliant on local relative coordinates and simplistic attention mechanisms to aggregate ne...

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111 Citations
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LMSD-YOLO: A Lightweight YOLO Algorithm for Multi-Scale SAR Ship Detection

  • Yue Guo,
  • Shiqi Chen,
  • Ronghui Zhan,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Jun Zhang

26 September 2022

At present, deep learning has been widely used in SAR ship target detection, but the accurate and real-time detection of multi-scale targets still faces tough challenges. CNN-based SAR ship detectors are challenged to meet real-time requirements beca...

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1 Citations
1,788 Views
15 Pages

21 July 2024

The cultivation of the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is an important component of China’s aquaculture industry and also a field of concern worldwide. It focuses on the selection of high-quality, disease-free juvenile crabs. However,...

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18 Pages

31 December 2025

(1) Background: With the continuous development of intelligent education, classroom behavior recognition has become increasingly important in teaching evaluation and learning analytics. In response to challenges such as occlusion, scale differences,...

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24 Citations
3,550 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2022

The belt conveyor is the main equipment for underground coal transportation. Its coal flow is mixed with large coal, gangue, anchor rods, wooden strips, and other foreign objects, which easily causes failure of the conveyor belt, such as scratching,...

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15 Citations
4,311 Views
20 Pages

TPH-YOLOv5-Air: Airport Confusing Object Detection via Adaptively Spatial Feature Fusion

  • Qiang Wang,
  • Wenquan Feng,
  • Lifan Yao,
  • Chen Zhuang,
  • Binghao Liu and
  • Lijiang Chen

5 August 2023

Airport detection in remote sensing scenes is a crucial area of research, playing a key role in aircraft blind landing procedures. However, airport detection in remote sensing scenes still faces challenges such as class confusion, poor detection perf...

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26 January 2026

Existing 3D point cloud enhancement methods typically rely on artificially designed geometric transformations or local blending strategies, which are prone to introducing illogical deformations, struggle to preserve global structure, and exhibit insu...

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RAPT-Net: Reliability-Aware Precision-Preserving Tolerance-Enhanced Network for Tiny Target Detection in Wide-Area Coverage Aerial Remote Sensing

  • Peida Zhou,
  • Xiaojun Guo,
  • Xiaoyong Sun,
  • Bei Sun,
  • Shaojing Su,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Runze Guo,
  • Zhaoyang Dang and
  • Siyang Huang
Remote Sens.2026, 18(3), 449;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18030449 
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1 February 2026

Multi-platform aerial remote sensing supports critical applications including wide-area surveillance, traffic monitoring, maritime security, and search and rescue. However, constrained by observation altitude and sensor resolution, targets inherently...

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3 Citations
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28 Pages

17 July 2025

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification faces challenges such as high dimensionality, spectral redundancy, and difficulty in modeling the coupling between spectral and spatial features. Existing methods fail to fully exploit first-order derivatives...

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5 Citations
1,201 Views
14 Pages

A Small-Sample Target Detection Method for Transmission Line Hill Fires Based on Meta-Learning YOLOv11

  • Yaoran Huo,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Xu Dai,
  • Luocheng Shen,
  • Conghong Liu and
  • Xia Fang

19 March 2025

China has a large number of transmission lines laid in the mountains and forests and other regions, and these transmission lines enable national strategic projects such as the west-east power transmission project. However, the occurrence of mountain...

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19 Pages

24 August 2025

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a research topic of great practical significance. However, existing FER methods still face numerous challenges, particularly in the interaction between spatial and global information, the distinction of subtle e...

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21 Pages

9 September 2025

Current mainstream remote sensing target detection algorithms mostly estimate the rotation angle of targets by designing different bounding box descriptions and loss functions. However, they fail to consider the symmetry–asymmetry duality aniso...

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3 Citations
4,232 Views
21 Pages

11 April 2018

Unmixing based fusion aims at generating a high spectral-spatial resolution image (HSS) with the same surface features of the high spatial resolution multispectral image (MS) and low spatial resolution hyperspectral image (HS). In this paper, a new f...

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5 Citations
2,343 Views
20 Pages

Quality-Driven Dual-Branch Feature Integration Network for Video Salient Object Detection

  • Xiaofei Zhou,
  • Hanxiao Gao,
  • Longxuan Yu,
  • Defu Yang and
  • Jiyong Zhang

Video salient object detection has attracted growing interest in recent years. However, some existing video saliency models often suffer from the inappropriate utilization of spatial and temporal cues and the insufficient aggregation of different lev...

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8 Citations
3,896 Views
20 Pages

Adaptive Adjacent Layer Feature Fusion for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Xuesong Zhang,
  • Zhihui Gong,
  • Haitao Guo,
  • Xiangyun Liu,
  • Lei Ding,
  • Kun Zhu and
  • Jiaqi Wang

28 August 2023

Object detection in remote sensing images faces the challenges of a complex background, large object size variations, and high inter-class similarity. To address these problems, we propose an adaptive adjacent layer feature fusion (AALFF) method, whi...

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4 Citations
2,138 Views
19 Pages

10 July 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition has important application values in security reconnaissance and disaster monitoring. However, due to speckle noise and target orientation sensitivity in SAR images, traditional spatial domain re...

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11 Citations
3,493 Views
21 Pages

6 January 2023

Remote sensing image fusion can effectively solve the inherent contradiction between spatial resolution and spectral resolution of imaging systems. At present, the fusion methods of remote sensing images based on multi-scale transform usually set fus...

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12 Citations
2,549 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2024

The joint classification of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) and LiDAR data is an important task in the field of remote sensing image interpretation. Traditional classification methods, such as support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF), have dif...

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5 Citations
4,425 Views
20 Pages

5 December 2023

Wrinkles, crucial for age estimation and skin quality assessment, present challenges due to their uneven distribution, varying scale, and sensitivity to factors like lighting. To overcome these challenges, this study presents facial wrinkle detection...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
814 Views
23 Pages

A Meta-Learning-Based Recognition Method for Multidimensional Feature Extraction and Fusion of Underwater Targets

  • Xiaochun Liu,
  • Yunchuan Yang,
  • Youfeng Hu,
  • Xiangfeng Yang,
  • Liwen Liu,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Jianguo Liu

21 May 2025

To tackle the challenges of relative attitude adaptability and limited sample availability in underwater moving target recognition for active sonar, this study focuses on key aspects such as feature extraction, network model design, and information f...

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6 Citations
3,774 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Modality Adaptive Feature Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

  • Haiping Zhang,
  • Xinhao Zhang,
  • Dongjin Yu,
  • Liming Guan,
  • Dongjing Wang,
  • Fuxing Zhou and
  • Wanjun Zhang

7 June 2023

Graph convolutional networks are widely used in skeleton-based action recognition because of their good fitting ability to non-Euclidean data. While conventional multi-scale temporal convolution uses several fixed-size convolution kernels or dilation...

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3 Citations
2,247 Views
35 Pages

17 July 2025

Recently, a network based on selective state space models (SSMs), Mamba, has emerged as a research focus in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification due to its linear computational complexity and strong long-range dependency modeling capability. Orig...

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11 Citations
2,518 Views
27 Pages

MSFF: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Gu Gong,
  • Xiaopeng Wang,
  • Jiahua Zhang,
  • Xiaodi Shang,
  • Zhicheng Pan,
  • Zhiyuan Li and
  • Junshi Zhang

18 February 2025

In contrast to conventional remote sensing images, hyperspectral remote sensing images are characterized by a greater number of spectral bands and exceptionally high resolution. The richness of both spectral and spatial information facilitates the pr...

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8 Citations
2,653 Views
24 Pages

26 May 2024

In hyperspectral image classification (HSIC), every pixel of the HSI is assigned to a land cover category. While convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for HSIC have significantly enhanced performance, they encounter challenges in learning...

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254 Views
28 Pages

PAFNet: A Parallel Attention Fusion Network for Water Body Extraction of Remote Sensing Images

  • Shaochuan Chen,
  • Chenlong Ding,
  • Mutian Li,
  • Xin Lyu,
  • Xin Li,
  • Zhennan Xu,
  • Yiwei Fang and
  • Heng Li

3 January 2026

Water body extraction plays a crucial role in remote sensing, supporting applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster prevention. Although Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have achieved remarkable progress, their hierarchical...

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2 Citations
2,417 Views
24 Pages

Target Recognition Based on Infrared and Visible Image Fusion and Improved YOLOv8 Algorithm

  • Wei Guo,
  • Yongtao Li,
  • Hanyan Li,
  • Ziyou Chen,
  • Enyong Xu,
  • Shanchao Wang and
  • Chengdong Gu

18 September 2024

In response to the issue that the fusion process of infrared and visible images is easily affected by lighting factors, in this paper, we propose an adaptive illumination perception fusion mechanism, which was integrated into an infrared and visible...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,831 Views
16 Pages

Human Action Recognition Based on 3D Convolution and Multi-Attention Transformer

  • Minghua Liu,
  • Wenjing Li,
  • Bo He,
  • Chuanxu Wang and
  • Lianen Qu

3 March 2025

To address the limitations of traditional two-stream networks, such as inadequate spatiotemporal information fusion, limited feature diversity, and insufficient accuracy, we propose an improved two-stream network for human action recognition based on...

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  • Open Access
953 Views
23 Pages

13 June 2025

Existing deep learning-based spatiotemporal fusion (STF) methods for remote sensing imagery often focus exclusively on capturing temporal changes or enhancing spatial details while failing to fully leverage spectral information from coarse images. To...

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126 Citations
8,496 Views
22 Pages

Small Object Detection Method Based on Adaptive Spatial Parallel Convolution and Fast Multi-Scale Fusion

  • Guanqiu Qi,
  • Yuanchuan Zhang,
  • Kunpeng Wang,
  • Neal Mazur,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Devanshi Malaviya

17 January 2022

As one type of object detection, small object detection has been widely used in daily-life-related applications with many real-time requirements, such as autopilot and navigation. Although deep-learning-based object detection methods have achieved gr...

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2 Citations
1,150 Views
24 Pages

9 July 2025

Recent advances in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification have demonstrated the effectiveness of hybrid architectures that integrate convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers, leveraging CNNs for local feature extraction and Transformer...

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1 Citations
1,131 Views
22 Pages

11 May 2025

In agricultural pest detection, the small size of pests poses a critical hurdle to detection accuracy. To mitigate this concern, we propose a Lightweight Cross-Level Feature Aggregation Network (LCFANet), which comprises three key components: a deep...

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