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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,086 Views
19 Pages

14 December 2021

This paper introduces an automatic parking method using an around view monitoring system. In this method, parking lines are extracted from the camera images, and a route to a targeted parking slot is created. The vehicle then tracks this route to par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,960 Views
26 Pages

5 September 2018

This paper proposes a method that automatically calibrates four cameras of an around view monitor (AVM) system in a natural driving situation. The proposed method estimates orientation angles of four cameras composing the AVM system, and assumes that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,807 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2021

An around view monitoring (AVM) system acquires the front, rear, left, and right-side information of a vehicle using four cameras and transforms the four images into one image coordinate system to monitor around the vehicle with one image. Convention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,062 Views
19 Pages

Semantic Segmentation of Panoramic Images for Real-Time Parking Slot Detection

  • Cong Lai,
  • Qingyu Yang,
  • Yixin Guo,
  • Fujun Bai and
  • Hongbin Sun

10 August 2022

Autonomous parking is an active field of automatic driving in both industry and academia. Parking slot detection (PSD) based on a panoramic image can effectively improve the perception of a parking space and the surrounding environment, which enhance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,986 Views
21 Pages

16 April 2018

An automatic parking system is an essential part of autonomous driving, and it starts by recognizing vacant parking spaces. This paper proposes a method that can recognize various types of parking slot markings in a variety of lighting conditions inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
21,746 Views
20 Pages

Proximity Warning and Excavator Control System for Prevention of Collision Accidents

  • Byung-Wan Jo,
  • Yun-Sung Lee,
  • Jung-Hoon Kim,
  • Do-Keun Kim and
  • Pyung-Ho Choi

22 August 2017

Construction is a hazardous industry in which accidents occur frequently. Occupational accidents at construction sites are a serious public health issue in Korea. Construction site conditions often create dangerous situations by requiring workers and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,071 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2019

This study describes a three-dimensional visualization system with spatial information for the effective control of a tele-operated robot. The environmental visualization system for operating the robot is very important. The tele-operated robot perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,965 Views
19 Pages

Research on the Design and Alignment Method of the Optic-Mechanical System of an Ultra-Compact Fully Freeform Space Camera

  • Yunfeng Li,
  • Zongxuan Li,
  • Tiancong Wang,
  • Shuping Tao,
  • Defu Zhang,
  • Shuhui Ren,
  • Bin Ma and
  • Changhao Zhang

25 November 2023

As space resources become increasingly constrained, the major space-faring nations are establishing large space target monitoring systems. There is a demand for both the number and the detection capability of space-based optical monitoring equipment....

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
912 Views
9 Pages

Enhancing GNSS Situational Awareness by Monitoring the New Galileo Services

  • Toni Hammarberg,
  • Fabricio S. Prol and
  • Mohammad Zahidul H. Bhuiyan

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have become a critical service in modern society, and this has increased the need for GNSS situational awareness. On top of this, the GNSS field is rapidly changing. Increased signal interference has been o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
16,882 Views
33 Pages

A Semantic Sensor Web for Environmental Decision Support Applications

  • Alasdair J. G. Gray,
  • Jason Sadler,
  • Oles Kit,
  • Kostis Kyzirakos,
  • Manos Karpathiotakis,
  • Jean-Paul Calbimonte,
  • Kevin Page,
  • Raúl García-Castro,
  • Alex Frazer and
  • Asunción Gómez-Pérez
  • + 7 authors

14 September 2011

Sensing devices are increasingly being deployed to monitor the physical world around us. One class of application for which sensor data is pertinent is environmental decision support systems, e.g., flood emergency response. For these applications, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,843 Views
30 Pages

19 August 2019

Accelerated urbanization and the ensuing rapid increase in urban populations led to the need for a tremendous number of parking spaces. Automated parking systems coupled with new parking lot layouts can effectively address the need. However, most aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,758 Views
15 Pages

Stationary Target Identification in a Traffic Monitoring Radar System

  • Hae-Seung Lim,
  • Jae-Eun Lee,
  • Hyung-Min Park and
  • Seongwook Lee

23 August 2020

Recently, as one of the intelligent transportation systems, radar systems that monitor traffic on the road have received attention. To ensure the reliable detection performance of the traffic monitoring radar, it is necessary to distinguish stationar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
8,631 Views
19 Pages

IoT Enabled Intelligent Sensor Node for Smart City: Pedestrian Counting and Ambient Monitoring

  • Fowzia Akhter,
  • Sam Khadivizand,
  • Hasin Reza Siddiquei,
  • Md Eshrat E. Alahi and
  • Subhas Mukhopadhyay

1 August 2019

An Internet of Things (IoT) enabled intelligent sensor node has been designed and developed for smart city applications. The fabricated sensor nodes count the number of pedestrians, their direction of travel along with some ambient parameters. The Fi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
16,368 Views
33 Pages

On Driver Behavior Recognition for Increased Safety: A Roadmap

  • Luca Davoli,
  • Marco Martalò,
  • Antonio Cilfone,
  • Laura Belli,
  • Gianluigi Ferrari,
  • Roberta Presta,
  • Roberto Montanari,
  • Maura Mengoni,
  • Luca Giraldi and
  • Johan Plomp
  • + 5 authors

12 December 2020

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) are used for increasing safety in the automotive domain, yet current ADASs notably operate without taking into account drivers’ states, e.g., whether she/he is emotionally apt to drive. In this paper,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,875 Views
20 Pages

Semi-Automatic Calibration Method for a Bed-Monitoring System Using Infrared Image Depth Sensors

  • Hideki Komagata,
  • Erika Kakinuma,
  • Masahiro Ishikawa,
  • Kazuma Shinoda and
  • Naoki Kobayashi

21 October 2019

With the aging of society, the number of fall accidents has increased in hospitals and care facilities, and some accidents have happened around beds. To help prevent accidents, mats and clip sensors have been used in these facilities but they can be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,458 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2023

Research evaluating marine mammal welfare and opportunities for advancements in the care of species housed in a professional facility have rapidly increased in the past decade. While topics, such as comfortable housing, adequate social opportunities,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,879 Views
20 Pages

Real-Time Foot Tracking and Gait Evaluation with Geometric Modeling

  • Ming Jeat Foo,
  • Jen-Shuan Chang and
  • Wei Tech Ang

20 February 2022

Gait evaluation is important in gait rehabilitation and assistance to monitor patient’s balance status and assess recovery performance. Recent technologies leverage on vision-based systems with high portability and low operational complexity. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,439 Views
26 Pages

Enhancing Manufacturing Excellence with Digital-Twin-Enabled Operational Monitoring and Intelligent Scheduling

  • Jingzhe Yang,
  • Yili Zheng,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Yuejia Wang,
  • Jinyang He and
  • Lingxiao Tang

29 July 2024

This research examines the potential of digital twin (DT) technology for reformation within China’s traditional solid-wood-panel processing industry, which currently suffers from production inefficiencies and the slow adoption of digital techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,956 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2020

Traffic analysis using computer vision techniques is attracting more attention for the development of intelligent transportation systems. Consequently, counting traffic volume based on the CCTV system is one of the main applications. However, this is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,869 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2020

Phenology is a distinct marker of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. Accordingly, monitoring the spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation phenology is important to understand the changing Earth system. A wide range of sensors have been used to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,181 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2020

Resilience is not a new idea but there has been an upsurge in efforts to operationalize the concept within water management. This review begins with a synopsis of related themes around persistent and emerging pressures on freshwaters; environmental t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,332 Views
13 Pages

A QGIS Tool for Automatically Identifying Asbestos Roofing

  • Maurizio Tommasini,
  • Alessandro Bacciottini and
  • Monica Gherardelli

Exposure to asbestos fibers implies a long-term risk for human health; therefore, the development of information systems that are able to detect the extent and status of asbestos over a certain territory has become a priority. This work presents a to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,312 Views
23 Pages

Patient-Generated Health Data Integration and Advanced Analytics for Diabetes Management: The AID-GM Platform

  • Elisa Salvi,
  • Pietro Bosoni,
  • Valentina Tibollo,
  • Lisanne Kruijver,
  • Valeria Calcaterra,
  • Lucia Sacchi,
  • Riccardo Bellazzi and
  • Cristiana Larizza

24 December 2019

Diabetes is a high-prevalence disease that leads to an alteration in the patient’s blood glucose (BG) values. Several factors influence the subject’s BG profile over the day, including meals, physical activity, and sleep. Wearable devices...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,938 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2025

Low-voltage distribution area is the “last kilometer” connecting the distribution network and users, and the traditional distribution system is difficult to digitally manage in the low-voltage area, resulting in untimely and imprecise han...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,627 Views
18 Pages

Image-Based Shrimp Aquaculture Monitoring

  • Beatriz Correia,
  • Osvaldo Pacheco,
  • Rui J. M. Rocha and
  • Paulo L. Correia

4 January 2025

Shrimp farming is a growing industry, and automating certain processes within aquaculture tanks is becoming increasingly important to improve efficiency. This paper proposes an image-based system designed to address four key tasks in an aquaculture t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,363 Views
26 Pages

4 January 2023

A planetary gearbox is more complex in structure and motion than a gearbox with a fixed shaft, making it difficult to monitor and make a fault diagnosis in practice. Components must be frequently inspected to avoid excessive wear, but there is no sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,736 Views
27 Pages

3D Imaging of Greenhouse Plants with an Inexpensive Binocular Stereo Vision System

  • Dawei Li,
  • Lihong Xu,
  • Xue-song Tang,
  • Shaoyuan Sun,
  • Xin Cai and
  • Peng Zhang

21 May 2017

Nowadays, 3D imaging of plants not only contributes to monitoring and managing plant growth, but is also becoming an essential part of high-throughput plant phenotyping. In this paper, an inexpensive (less than 70 USD) and portable platform with bino...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,448 Views
19 Pages

A Semi-Automated Two-Step Building Stock Monitoring Methodology for Supporting Immediate Solutions in Urban Issues

  • Mehmet Isiler,
  • Mustafa Yanalak,
  • Muhammed Enes Atik,
  • Saziye Ozge Atik and
  • Zaide Duran

2 June 2023

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have addressed environmental and social issues in cities, such as insecure land tenure, climate change, and vulnerability to natural disasters. SDGs have motivated authorities to adopt urban land policies that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
13,894 Views
15 Pages

In recent years, the rise of car accident fatalities has grown significantly around the world. Hence, road security has become a global concern and a challenging problem that needs to be solved. The deaths caused by road accidents are still increasin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,840 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2020

The parking assist system (PAS) provides information of parking slots around the vehicle. As the demand for an autonomous system is increasing, intelligent PAS has been developed to park the vehicle without the driver’s intervention. To locate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
13,596 Views
22 Pages

Vacant Parking Slot Detection in the Around View Image Based on Deep Learning

  • Wei Li,
  • Libo Cao,
  • Lingbo Yan,
  • Chaohui Li,
  • Xiexing Feng and
  • Peijie Zhao

10 April 2020

Due to the complex visual environment, such as lighting variations, shadows, and limitations of vision, the accuracy of vacant parking slot detection for the park assist system (PAS) with a standalone around view monitor (AVM) needs to be improved. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,705 Views
18 Pages

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) has been recognized as an efficient and cost-effective metal additive manufacturing technique due to its high deposition rate and scalability for large components. However, the quality and repeatability of WAAM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,837 Views
24 Pages

Development of a Low-Cost System for 3D Orchard Mapping Integrating UGV and LiDAR

  • Harold F. Murcia,
  • Sebastian Tilaguy and
  • Sofiane Ouazaa

17 December 2021

Growing evaluation in the early stages of crop development can be critical to eventual yield. Point clouds have been used for this purpose in tasks such as detection, characterization, phenotyping, and prediction on different crops with terrestrial m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
13,225 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2021

It is always difficult to even advance possible dimensions of consciousness, but Birch et al., 2020 have suggested four possible dimensions and this review discusses the first, perceptual richness, with relation to octopuses. They advance acuity, ban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,550 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2019

This work demonstrates an open-source hardware and software platform for monitoring the performance of buildings, called Elemental, that is designed to provide data on indoor environmental quality, energy usage, HVAC operation, and other factors to i...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,375 Views
18 Pages

Pointing Accuracy of an Operational Polarimetric Weather Radar

  • Michael Frech,
  • Theodor Mammen and
  • Bertram Lange

10 May 2019

Exact navigation of detected radar signals is crucial for usage of radar data in meteorological applications. The antenna pointing accuracy in azimuth and elevation of a polarimetric weather research radar depending on position of the sun is assessed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,784 Views
22 Pages

Diurnal and Seasonal Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis in a Boreal Scots Pine Canopy

  • Caroline J. Nichol,
  • Guillaume Drolet,
  • Albert Porcar-Castell,
  • Tom Wade,
  • Neus Sabater,
  • Elizabeth M. Middleton,
  • Chris MacLellan,
  • Janne Levula,
  • Ivan Mammarella and
  • Jon Atherton
  • + 1 author

30 January 2019

Solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence has been shown to be increasingly an useful proxy for the estimation of gross primary productivity (GPP), at a range of spatial scales. Here, we explore the seasonality in a continuous time series of canopy sola...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,595 Views
13 Pages

8 April 2022

Machinability testing of ordinary wood-based panels can be useful, but testing prototypical (not produced industrially) panels is even more useful. So, the innovative (made only on a laboratory scale) flat-pressed WPCs were the subject of this study....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,059 Views
22 Pages

Decoding Electroencephalography Signal Response by Stacking Ensemble Learning and Adaptive Differential Evolution

  • Matheus Henrique Dal Molin Ribeiro,
  • Ramon Gomes da Silva,
  • José Henrique Kleinubing Larcher,
  • Andre Mendes,
  • Viviana Cocco Mariani and
  • Leandro dos Santos Coelho

9 August 2023

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an exam widely adopted to monitor cerebral activities regarding external stimuli, and its signals compose a nonlinear dynamical system. There are many difficulties associated with EEG analysis. For example, noise can o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,160 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of BeiDou-3 and Multi-GNSS Precise Point Positioning Performance

  • Guoqiang Jiao,
  • Shuli Song,
  • Yulong Ge,
  • Ke Su and
  • Yangyang Liu

31 May 2019

With the launch of BDS-3 and Galileo new satellites, the BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) has developed from the regional to global system, and the Galileo constellation will consist of 26 satellites in space. Thus, BDS, GPS, GLONASS, and Gal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,089 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2024

On a global scale, wetlands are suffering from a steady decline in surface area and environmental quality. Protecting them is essential and requires a careful spatialisation of their natural habitats. Traditionally, in our study area, species discrim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,305 Views
20 Pages

Development of a New Hyaluronic Acid Based Redox-Responsive Nanohydrogel for the Encapsulation of Oncolytic Viruses for Cancer Immunotherapy

  • Siyuan Deng,
  • Alessandra Iscaro,
  • Giorgia Zambito,
  • Yimin Mijiti,
  • Marco Minicucci,
  • Magnus Essand,
  • Clemens Lowik,
  • Munitta Muthana,
  • Roberta Censi and
  • Piera Di Martino
  • + 1 author

8 January 2021

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as promising and potential anti-cancer therapeutic agents, not only able to kill cancer cells directly by selective intracellular viral replication, but also to promote an immune response against tumor. Unfortunat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,202 Views
21 Pages

Two-Step CFAR-Based 3D Point Cloud Extraction Method for Circular Scanning Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar

  • Wenjie Shen,
  • Jie Zhi,
  • Yanping Wang,
  • Jinping Sun,
  • Yun Lin,
  • Yang Li and
  • Wen Jiang

15 June 2023

Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GBSAR) has non-contact, all-weather, high resolution imaging and microdeformation sensing capabilities, which offers advantages in applications such as building structure monitoring and mine slope deformation re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,945 Views
24 Pages

Annual Field-Scale Maps of Tall and Short Crops at the Global Scale Using GEDI and Sentinel-2

  • Stefania Di Tommaso,
  • Sherrie Wang,
  • Vivek Vajipey,
  • Noel Gorelick,
  • Rob Strey and
  • David B. Lobell

22 August 2023

Crop type maps are critical for tracking agricultural land use and estimating crop production. Remote sensing has proven an efficient and reliable tool for creating these maps in regions with abundant ground labels for model training, yet these label...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,272 Views
27 Pages

Detection of DoS Attacks Using ARFIMA Modeling of GOOSE Communication in IEC 61850 Substations

  • Ghada Elbez,
  • Hubert B. Keller,
  • Atul Bohara,
  • Klara Nahrstedt and
  • Veit Hagenmeyer

5 October 2020

Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in modern smart grids (SGs) offers many advantages including the use of renewables and an effective way to protect, control and monitor the energy transmission and distribution. To reach a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
146 Views
35 Pages

28 January 2026

We envision a minimalist way to explain a number of astronomical facts associated with the unsolved missing mass problem by considering a new phenomenological paradigm. In this model, no new exotic particles need to be added, and the gravity is not m...