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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,074 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2022

This paper presents a linear polarization metasurface converter with arbitrary polarization rotating angle and stable oblique incident response, which is based on the concept of linear-to-circular polarization decomposition and recombination. A metas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Materials and Metamaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,364 Views
24 Pages

17 August 2025

The spindle motion error significantly affects the surface quality and dynamic precision of machined workpieces. This study proposes a novel detection method for workpiece surface morphology with arbitrary rotation angles. A mathematical model was es...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,399 Views
11 Pages

11 October 2022

Adequate mathematical models and computational algorithms are developed in this study to investigate specific features of the deformation processes of elastic rotational shells at large displacements and arbitrary rotation angles of the normal line....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,986 Views
22 Pages

A New Way for Cartesian Coordinate Transformation and Its Precision Evaluation

  • Ronghua Yang,
  • Chang Deng,
  • Kegen Yu,
  • Zhao Li and
  • Leixilan Pan

11 February 2022

High-precision coordinate transformation is vital for high-quality data fusion involving different coordinate systems. The transformation precision is mainly evaluated by the transformation parameters’ estimation precision, the root mean square...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling Geodetic Time Series and Applications for Earth Science and Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,240 Views
9 Pages

We present a theoretical study of various designs for arbitrary polarization retarders, created using sequences of half-wave and quarter-wave plates arranged at specific rotation angles. When combined with arbitrary polarization rotators, these retar...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,436 Views
19 Pages

LAD-RCNN: A Powerful Tool for Livestock Face Detection and Normalization

  • Ling Sun,
  • Guiqiong Liu,
  • Huiguo Yang,
  • Xunping Jiang and ,
  • Junrui Liu,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Han Yang and
  • Shiping Yang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 April 2023

With the demand for standardized large-scale livestock farming and the development of artificial intelligence technology, a lot of research in the area of animal face detection and face identification was conducted. However, there are no specialized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Tools to Optimize Livestock Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,784 Views
9 Pages

Improved Matching Algorithm with Anchor Argument for Rotate Target Detection

  • Kangkang Wang,
  • Bowen Chen,
  • Xianyun Wu and
  • Yunsong Li

14 November 2022

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in the task of object detection in remote sensing. Remote sensing targets can have arbitrary angles, and many anchor-base methods use a lot of anchors with different angles which cause effici...

(This article belongs to the Collection Space Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,382 Views
20 Pages

3 August 2023

With the continuous progress of remote sensing image object detection tasks in recent years, researchers in this field have gradually shifted the focus of their research from horizontal object detection to the study of object detection in arbitrary d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photogrammetry—the Science of Precise Measurements from Images: A Themed Issue in Honour of Professor Emeritus Armin Grün in Anticipation of His 80th Birthday)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,755 Views
13 Pages

8 October 2020

Oriented object detection has received extensive attention in recent years, especially for the task of detecting targets in aerial imagery. Traditional detectors locate objects by horizontal bounding boxes (HBBs), which may cause inaccuracies when de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Detection from Aerial and Space Platforms Using Deep Learning Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
4,551 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2020

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, ships are often arbitrary-oriented and densely arranged in complex backgrounds, posing enormous challenges for ship detection. However, most existing methods detect ships with horizontal bounding boxes, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Vessel Detection and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,818 Views
18 Pages

15 May 2023

This paper proposes a new image hashing method, which uses histogram reconstruction to solve the problem of the histogram not being sensitive to the change of pixel position, while ensuring the robustness of the hashing algorithm against common conte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric and Symmetric Study on Image Processing and Statistical Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,486 Views
21 Pages

Cross-Level Adaptive Feature Aggregation Network for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection

  • Lu Qian,
  • Junyi Hu,
  • Haohao Ren,
  • Jie Lin and ,
  • Xu Luo,
  • Lin Zou and
  • Yun Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 May 2025

The rapid progress of deep learning has significantly enhanced the development of ship detection using synthetic aperture radar (SAR). However, the diversity of ship sizes, arbitrary orientations, densely arranged ships, etc., have been hindering the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR Image Object Detection and Information Extraction: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,560 Views
14 Pages

4 June 2021

Despite their versatility in treating irregular geometries, the raster methods have received limited attention in solving packing problems involving rotatable objects. In addition, raster approximation allows the use of unique performance metrics and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Heuristic Algorithms in Engineering and Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,764 Views
26 Pages

MTR-SAM: Visual Multimodal Text Recognition and Sentiment Analysis in Public Opinion Analysis on the Internet

  • Xing Liu,
  • Fupeng Wei,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Qiusheng Zheng and ,
  • Yaqiong Qiao,
  • Jizong Liu,
  • Liyue Niu,
  • Ziwei Chen and
  • Hangcheng Dong
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 June 2023

Existing methods for monitoring internet public opinion rely primarily on regular crawling of textual information on web pages but cannot quickly and accurately acquire and identify textual information in images and videos and discriminate sentiment....

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
661 Views
16 Pages

8 April 2026

The evolution of the flow of a viscous, electrically conductive, incompressible fluid on a rotating wall in the presence of a magnetic field is studied. The wall forms an arbitrary angle with the axis of rotation. The unsteady flow is induced by long...

(This article belongs to the Section Classical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,583 Views
24 Pages

Modeling and Control Design of a Contact-Based, Electrostatically Actuated Rotating Sphere

  • Michael Olbrich,
  • Mario Farny,
  • Martin Hoffmann and
  • Christoph Ament

15 March 2022

The performance of micromirrors in terms of their maximum deflection is often limited due to mechanical constraints in the design. To increase the range of achievable deflection angles, we present a novel concept in which a free-lying sphere with a f...

(This article belongs to the Section Miniaturized and Micro Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
250 Views
36 Pages

A Lightweight Oriented Insulator Detection Method Based on Dual-Frequency Phase-Shift Angle Encoding and Gaussian Geometric Supervision

  • Tianhao Gao,
  • Ke Zhang,
  • Xu Bai,
  • Xiaotong Li and ,
  • Xinguo Yan,
  • Nan Wang and
  • Shijie Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

In unmanned aerial vehicle inspection of transmission lines, insulators often exhibit arbitrary orientations and elongated shapes and are frequently embedded in complex backgrounds. Horizontal bounding boxes tend to include substantial redundant regi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling in Structural Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,677 Views
18 Pages

4 July 2021

The detection of arbitrary-oriented and multi-scale objects in satellite optical imagery is an important task in remote sensing and computer vision. Despite significant research efforts, such detection remains largely unsolved due to the diversity of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Object and Activity Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,594 Views
55 Pages

A Unified General Theory of Conic Sections via the Conic Radical

  • Mauricio Chávez-Pichardo,
  • José Daniel López-Barrientos and
  • Saúl Perea-Flores

29 December 2025

In this paper, we bring forth several new general formulae in the classic study of conics in the Analytic Geometry: the coordinates of all vertices and focal points of arbitrary parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas; lengths for all latera recta from a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Geometry and Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,054 Views
21 Pages

This paper proposes a novel image alignment algorithm based on rotation-discriminating ring-shifted projection for automatic optical inspection. This new algorithm not only identifies the location of the template image within an inspection image but...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence Computational and Control Approaches for Multi-Physic Coupling Engineering Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,732 Views
23 Pages

4 December 2020

This study examined the hull girder strength of intact and damaged ships by adopting the incremental-iterative method for progressive collapse analysis, which was extended to the general case of the unsymmetrical bending of beams with an arbitrary cr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accidental Limit States of Marine Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,119 Views
18 Pages

Co-ECL: Covariant Network with Equivariant Contrastive Learning for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Yunsheng Zhang,
  • Zijing Ren,
  • Zichen Ding,
  • Hong Qian and ,
  • Haiqiang Li and
  • Chao Tao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 January 2024

Contrastive learning allows us to learn general features for downstream tasks without the need for labeled data by leveraging intrinsic signals within remote sensing images. Existing contrastive learning methods encourage invariant feature learning b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Foundation Model in Urban Environments: Challenges and New Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,203 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2013

In this paper, we combine the acoustic vector-sensor array parameter estimation problem with the parallel profiles with linear dependencies (PARALIND) model, which was originally applied to biology and chemistry. Exploiting the PARALIND decomposition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Last Trends in Acoustic Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,321 Views
23 Pages

29 May 2022

Rotated object detection in aerial images is still challenging due to arbitrary orientations, large scale and aspect ratio variations, and extreme density of objects. Existing state-of-the-art rotated object detection methods mainly rely on angle-bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,455 Views
15 Pages

Optical Torque Exerted on a Charged Sphere by a Polarized Bessel Beam

  • Ping Li,
  • Lingyu Wan,
  • Huilu Yao,
  • Devki N. Talwar and ,
  • Liuyan Li and
  • Jiang Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 January 2023

In the framework of generalized Lorenz–Mie theory, we report here the results of our comprehensive study for analyzing and computing the optical torque (OT) caused by AGVBB on a charged sphere of arbitrary size. The effects of polarization, ord...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,304 Views
17 Pages

CPS-Det: An Anchor-Free Based Rotation Detector for Ship Detection

  • Yi Yang,
  • Zongxu Pan,
  • Yuxin Hu and
  • Chibiao Ding

4 June 2021

Ship detection is a significant and challenging task in remote sensing. At present, due to the faster speed and higher accuracy, the deep learning method has been widely applied in the field of ship detection. In ship detection, targets usually have...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,155 Views
13 Pages

Logarithm-Based Methods for Interpolating Quaternion Time Series

  • Joshua Parker,
  • Dionne Ibarra and
  • David Ober

24 February 2023

In this paper, we discuss a modified quaternion interpolation method based on interpolations performed on the logarithmic form. This builds on prior work that demonstrated this approach maintains C2 continuity for prescriptive rotation. However, we d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances of Mathematics in Industrial Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,201 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2022

With the increasing application of dual-PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras in intelligent unmanned systems, research regarding their calibration methods is becoming more and more important. The intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of dual-PTZ cameras continuo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Camera Communications and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,280 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2022

Advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems technology have led to the emergence of compact attitude measurement sensor products that integrate acceleration, magnetometer, and gyroscope sensors on a single chip, making them important devices in the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Citations
14,210 Views
28 Pages

BiFA-YOLO: A Novel YOLO-Based Method for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in High-Resolution SAR Images

  • Zhongzhen Sun,
  • Xiangguang Leng,
  • Yu Lei,
  • Boli Xiong and ,
  • Kefeng Ji and
  • Gangyao Kuang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 October 2021

Due to its great application value in the military and civilian fields, ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has always attracted much attention. However, ship targets in High-Resolution (HR) SAR images show the significant charact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object-Level Remote Sensing Image Information Extraction and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,965 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2016

This paper proposes two kinds of approaches of angular rate sensing for micro-spacecraft with a gyrowheel (GW), which can combine attitude sensing with attitude control into one single device to achieve a compact micro-spacecraft design. In this impl...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,952 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2024

When handling complex remote sensing scenarios, rotational angle information can improve detection accuracy and enhance algorithm robustness, providing support for fine-grained detection. Point set representation is one of the most commonly used meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
681 Views
19 Pages

Kinematic Analysis and Simulation of Workspace of a 6-DOF Positioning Platform

  • Artur Piščalov,
  • Vytautas Rafanavičius,
  • Artūras Kilikevičius and
  • Andrius Čeponis

16 April 2026

This manuscript presents the development of an HEX platform inverse kinematics model, its numerical implementation, and experimental validation. A complete inverse-kinematics formulation is established from the geometric definition of the base and mo...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,413 Views
24 Pages

7 January 2026

Oriented object detection in remote sensing images remains a challenging task due to arbitrary target rotations, extreme scale variations, and complex backgrounds. However, current rotated detectors still face several limitations: insufficient orient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Based Target Recognition and Remote Sensing Data Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
303 Views
12 Pages

2 September 2026

Orientation rotation in grain-boundary regions plays a critical role in controlling the crystallographic texture of metallic materials. In this study, the ideal λ texture ({001}<uv0>) in non-oriented silicon steel is chosen as the target...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Steel Materials: Recrystallization, Phase Transformation and Microstructure Analysis (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,456 Views
10 Pages

21 December 2022

Scattering matrices that can be diagonalized by a rotation through an angle θ in 2×2 blocks of independent scattering matrices of rank N, are considered. Assuming that the independent scattering matrices are chosen from one of the circula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,946 Views
20 Pages

A Low Energy Consumption DOA Estimation Approach for Conformal Array in Ultra-Wideband

  • Liangtian Wan,
  • Lutao Liu,
  • Guangjie Han and
  • Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

16 December 2013

Most direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation approaches for conformal array suffer from high computational complexity, which cause high energy loss for the direction finding system. Thus, a low energy consumption DOA estimation algorithm for conformal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,205 Views
22 Pages

21 April 2023

Dual-rotating retarder polarimeters constitute a family of well-known instruments that are used today in a great variety of scientific and industrial contexts. In this work, the periodic intensity signal containing the information of all sixteen Muel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,806 Views
17 Pages

A Low-Latency CORDIC Algorithm Based on Pre-Rotation and Its Application on Computation of Arctangent Function

  • Kun Li,
  • Hongji Fang,
  • Zhenguo Ma,
  • Feng Yu and ,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Qianjian Xing
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper presents a low-latency coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) algorithm to accelerate the computation of arctangent functions, and it describes the corresponding iterative and pipelined architecture of this novel algorithm. As compa...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,049 Views
21 Pages

SREDet: Semantic-Driven Rotational Feature Enhancement for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Zehao Zhang,
  • Chenhan Wang,
  • Huayu Zhang,
  • Dacheng Qi and ,
  • Qingyi Liu,
  • Yufeng Wang and
  • Wenrui Ding
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 June 2024

Significant progress has been achieved in the field of oriented object detection (OOD) in recent years. Compared to natural images, objects in remote sensing images exhibit characteristics of dense arrangement and arbitrary orientation while also con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing Theory and Methods in Remote Sensing (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,310 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2023

Wind tunnel experiments were performed to investigate the response of a wind turbine model immersed in a replicated atmospheric boundary layer to dynamic changes in the yaw angle. Both the flow field in the wake and the operating properties of the tu...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,769 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2024

Background and Objectives: In lumbar spine radiography, the oblique view is frequently utilized to assess the presence of spondylolysis and the morphology of facet joints. It is crucial to instantly determine whether the oblique angle is appropriate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamma and X-ray Technologies for Medical Research: Image Analysis and Disease Discovered)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,975 Views
18 Pages

A Rotating Object Detector with Convolutional Dynamic Adaptive Matching

  • Leibo Yu,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Xianglong Li,
  • Shiquan Hu and
  • Dongling Jing

11 January 2024

Standard convolution sliding along a fixed direction in common convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is inconsistent with the direction of aerial targets, making it difficult to effectively extract features with high-aspect-ratio and arbitrary directi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Satellite Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
926 Views
26 Pages

24 April 2026

Rotated object detection is widely adopted in remote sensing to handle arbitrary object orientations and improve localization accuracy. However, existing methods still suffer from limited global context modeling, degraded feature representation under...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,131 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2023

This study investigates the natural vibration of trapezoidal bi-stable laminates (TBL) with elastic supports at the midpoints of the median lines. Configuration of the midplane of the TBL is expressed by a polynomial with 17 parameters. Then, the fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,529 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2021

To detect rotated objects in remote sensing images, researchers have proposed a series of arbitrary-oriented object detection methods, which place multiple anchors with different angles, scales, and aspect ratios on the images. However, a major diffe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,369 Views
19 Pages

An Azimuth-Continuously Controllable SAR Image Generation Algorithm Based on GAN

  • Yongjie Cui,
  • Zhiqu Liu,
  • Linian Ruan,
  • Bowen Sheng and ,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Xiulai Xiao and
  • Xiaolin Bian
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 November 2025

The performance of deep learning models largely depends on the scale and quality of training data. However, acquiring sufficient, high-quality samples for specific observation scenarios is often challenging due to high acquisition costs. Unlike optic...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,030 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of System Error for Highly Curved Freeform Surface Measurement by Noncontact Dual-Axis Rotary Scanning

  • Li Miao,
  • Linlin Zhu,
  • Changshuai Fang,
  • Ning Yan and ,
  • Xudong Yang and
  • Xiaodong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2021

Profile measurement is a key technical enabler in the manufacturing of highly curved freeform surfaces due to their complex geometrical shape. A current optical probe was used to measure nearly rotary freeform surfaces with the help of one rotation a...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,339 Views
26 Pages

In this paper, a new sensorless approach is proposed to address the speed and position estimation of the Synchronous Reluctance Machine (SynRM). The design of the sensorless control algorithm is developed on the basis of the modified SynRM mathematic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators for Use in Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,516 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Rotor Geometry on Bending Stiffness Variation

  • Risto Viitala,
  • Tuomas Tiainen and
  • Raine Viitala

26 January 2021

Bending stiffness variation (BSV) is a common problem causing vibration in large rotating machinery. BSV describes lateral bending stiffness and its variation as a function of the rotational angle. It has been observed that BSV causes excitation exac...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)

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