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Research on Parking Space Status Recognition Method Based on Computer Vision

  • Yongyi Li,
  • Hongye Mao,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Shuang Guo and
  • Xiaorui Zhang

21 December 2022

To improve the utilization rate of parking space resources and reduce the cost of installing and maintaining sensor recognition, this paper proposed an improved computer vision-based parking space status recognition method. The overall recognition ac...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,958 Views
9 Pages

Assessment of Ventral Tail Base Surface Temperature for the Early Detection of Japanese Black Calves with Fever

  • Yosuke Sasaki,
  • Yoshihiro Iki,
  • Tomoaki Anan,
  • Jun Hayashi and
  • Mizuho Uematsu

29 January 2023

The objective in the present study was to assess the ventral tail base surface temperature (ST) for the early detection of Japanese Black calves with fever. This study collected data from a backgrounding operation in Miyazaki, Japan, that included 15...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,252 Views
46 Pages

28 December 2023

Whether or not a hyperspectral anomaly detector is effective is determined by two crucial issues, anomaly detectability and background suppressibility (BS), both of which are very closely related to two factors, the datasets used for a selected hyper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,436 Views
5 Pages

Image vision has wide application prospects in the field of intelligent manufacturing, and studying an effective background base extraction algorithm has become an urgent need for factor space applications in the fields of big data and image vision....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,791 Views
22 Pages

Background Pressure Effects on the Performance of a 20 kW Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster Operating in Various Configurations

  • Antonio Piragino,
  • Farbod Faraji,
  • Maryam Reza,
  • Eugenio Ferrato,
  • Annalisa Piraino and
  • Tommaso Andreussi

The paper reports the characterization results of a 20 kW-class magnetically shielded Hall thruster in three different configurations and operating with a centrally mounted cathode. The characterization was carried out at two different pumping speeds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,437 Views
18 Pages

22 February 2022

Spaceborne passive microwave sounding instruments are important for monitoring tropical cyclones (TCs) over oceans. However, previous studies have found large retrieval errors at TCs’ inner region at the lower troposphere where heavy precipitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,001 Views
22 Pages

15 July 2022

Agricultural scale management has become the inexorable trend of modern agricultural development. Plot consolidation and centralized land management are traditionally viewed as the premise and foundation of agricultural scale operations in Europe, In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,935 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2019

For reliving the pressure of air pollution and corresponding the sustainability development policy in China, the companies are urging the creation of a highly productive low-carbon supply chain. This work uses price regulation, the cap-and-trade mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,452 Views
8 Pages

In the monitoring of pollutants in an aquatic environment, it is important to preserve water quality safety. Among the available analysis methods, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) sensor has recently been used as a sustainable and on-line electrochemica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,675 Views
16 Pages

11 March 2024

This paper discusses the issues of assessing the influence of external distortion sources on the functioning of a shunt passive harmonic filter. In this study, we evaluated the overload of a passive harmonic filter based on determining the contributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,677 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2023

Tunnel structures account for la large proportion of the structures in mountain highway transportation systems. Most tunnels are located in remote areas in which the geological conditions are complex and harsh and in which the layout of the managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,051 Views
25 Pages

22 September 2019

The evaluation of several climatological background-error covariance matrix (defined as the B matrix) estimation methods was performed using the ALADIN limited-area modeling data-assimilation system at a 4 km horizontal grid spacing. The B matrices c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,130 Views
19 Pages

6 June 2020

With the continuous increase in new energy installed capacity, the slowdown in the growth of social power consumption, the pressure created by high coal prices, and the reduction in on-grid electricity tariffs, the challenges facing the survival and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,710 Views
25 Pages

Vortex Initialization in the NCEP Operational Hurricane Models

  • Qingfu Liu,
  • Xuejin Zhang,
  • Mingjing Tong,
  • Zhan Zhang,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Weiguo Wang,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Banglin Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Xu and
  • Vijay Tallapragada
  • + 3 authors

10 September 2020

This paper describes the vortex initialization (VI) currently used in NCEP operational hurricane models (HWRF and HMON, and possibly HAFS in the future). The VI corrects the background fields for hurricane models: it consists of vortex relocation, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2026

This paper proposes a novel salient object detection method for operational hole localization in metallurgical furnaces, addressing challenging industrial conditions including extreme illumination variations and strong electromagnetic interference to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,256 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2022

Space-based wide-field surveillance systems are of great significance in maintaining the security of space resources by avoiding collisions between space targets. However, their performance is hindered by stray light phenomena. The nonuniform backgro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,844 Views
9 Pages

SPHiNX is a proposed satellite-borne gamma-ray burst polarimeter operating in the energy range 50–500 keV. The mission aims to probe the fundamental mechanism responsible for gamma-ray burst prompt emission through polarisation measurements. Op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,702 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2013

A lidar detects atmospheric parameters by transmitting laser pulse to the atmosphere and receiving the backscattering signals from molecules and aerosol particles. Because of the small backscattering cross section, a lidar usually uses the high sensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,555 Views
20 Pages

Asynchronous Semantic Background Subtraction

  • Anthony Cioppa,
  • Marc Braham and
  • Marc Van Droogenbroeck

The method of Semantic Background Subtraction (SBS), which combines semantic segmentation and background subtraction, has recently emerged for the task of segmenting moving objects in video sequences. While SBS has been shown to improve background su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,869 Views
19 Pages

Analytics of Deep Neural Network-Based Background Subtraction

  • Tsubasa Minematsu,
  • Atsushi Shimada,
  • Hideaki Uchiyama and
  • Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

Deep neural network-based (DNN-based) background subtraction has demonstrated excellent performance for moving object detection. The DNN-based background subtraction automatically learns the background features from training images and outperforms co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,555 Views
42 Pages

4 December 2021

We describe holographic properties of near-AdS2 spacetimes that arise within spherically symmetric configurations of N=2 4D U(1)4 supergravity for both gauged and ungauged theories. These theories pose a rich space of AdS2×S2 backgrounds, and t...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
657 Views
24 Pages

The rapid growth of precision agriculture has accelerated the deployment of plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, reliable data resources for vision-based intelligent supervision of operational states, such as whether a UAV is cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,637 Views
12 Pages

Despite advances in surgical techniques and peri-operative care, pain is a significant symptom post-operatively. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, social norms, and behaviors of a cohort of nurses of various ethnic and cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,870 Views
11 Pages

On Smartphone Power Consumption in Acoustic Environment Monitoring Applications

  • Sergey Zhidkov,
  • Andrey Sychev,
  • Alexander Zhidkov and
  • Alexander Petrov

In this paper, we provide a systematic analysis of smartphone power consumption in background audio recording scenarios. We report comprehensive measurement results for several Android smartphone models with diverse hardware specifications, running d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2026

(1) Background: Energy-based transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) generates surgical smoke that may contain hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), yet surgeon breathing-zone exposure during transurethral surgery remains insufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
10,013 Views
36 Pages

Robust Pedestrian Detection by Combining Visible and Thermal Infrared Cameras

  • Ji Hoon Lee,
  • Jong-Suk Choi,
  • Eun Som Jeon,
  • Yeong Gon Kim,
  • Toan Thanh Le,
  • Kwang Yong Shin,
  • Hyeon Chang Lee and
  • Kang Ryoung Park

5 May 2015

With the development of intelligent surveillance systems, the need for accurate detection of pedestrians by cameras has increased. However, most of the previous studies use a single camera system, either a visible light or thermal camera, and their p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,710 Views
15 Pages

10 May 2024

The development of human society and the production and operation activities of enterprises have brought about global warming, resulting in frequent natural disasters. It has become the consensus of all countries in the world to develop a green and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,139 Views
21 Pages

Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection with Harmonic Analysis and Low-Rank Decomposition

  • Pei Xiang,
  • Jiangluqi Song,
  • Huan Li,
  • Lin Gu and
  • Huixin Zhou

16 December 2019

Hyperspectral anomaly detection methods are often limited by the effects of redundant information and isolated noise. Here, a novel hyperspectral anomaly detection method based on harmonic analysis (HA) and low rank decomposition is proposed. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,347 Views
24 Pages

Pantograph Detection Algorithm with Complex Background and External Disturbances

  • Ping Tan,
  • Zhisheng Cui,
  • Wenjian Lv,
  • Xufeng Li,
  • Jin Ding,
  • Chuyuan Huang,
  • Jien Ma and
  • Youtong Fang

2 November 2022

As an important equipment for high-speed railway (HSR) to obtain electric power from outside, the state of the pantograph will directly affect the operation safety of HSR. In order to solve the problems that the current pantograph detection method is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,838 Views
13 Pages

19 January 2023

Detecting small targets from infrared remote sensing images is still a challenging task. In this research, we propose a multidirectional local difference measure weighted by entropy (MDLDE) to detect small targets from infrared images with messy back...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,907 Views
12 Pages

The process of changing the neuronal activity of the brain to acquire rewards in a broad sense is essential for utilizing brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), which is essentially operant conditioning of neuronal activity. Currently, this is also known a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,235 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Aesthetic QR Code Algorithm Based on Hybrid Basis Vector Matrices

  • Jianfeng Lu,
  • Weiling Cheng,
  • Shanqing Zhang,
  • Li Li,
  • Zaorang Yang and
  • Chin-Chen Chang

25 October 2018

Recently, more and more research has focused on the beautification technology of QR (Quick Response) codes. In this paper, a novel algorithm based on the XOR (exclusive OR) mechanism of hybrid basis vector matrices and a background image synthetic st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,191 Views
14 Pages

8 July 2016

It has been common practice in data assimilation to treat observation errors as uncorrelated; however, meteorological centres are beginning to use correlated inter-channel observation errors in their operational assimilation systems. In this work, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,710 Views
10 Pages

Optimal Post-Operative Nalbuphine Dose Regimen: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients with Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

  • Guan-Yu Chen,
  • Kung-Kai Kuo,
  • Shih-Chang Chuang,
  • Kuang-Yi Tseng,
  • Shen-Nien Wang,
  • Wen-Tsan Chang and
  • Kuang-I Cheng

23 January 2024

Background and Objectives: Optimal opioid analgesia is an excellent analgesia that does not present unexpected adverse effects. Nalbuphine, acting on the opioid receptor as a partial mu antagonist and kappa agonist, is considered a suitable option fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,061 Views
25 Pages

24 October 2023

Against the background of the “30 × 60” target, low-carbon policies and technologies have become the new starting point and destination of energy conservation and emission reduction in energy systems. Power-to-Gas (P2G), as a new en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,547 Views
17 Pages

A Microwave Polarimeter Demonstrator for Astronomy with Near-Infra-Red Up-Conversion for Optical Correlation and Detection

  • Francisco J. Casas,
  • David Ortiz,
  • Beatriz Aja,
  • Luisa de la Fuente,
  • Eduardo Artal,
  • Rubén Ruiz and
  • Jesús M. Mirapeix

19 April 2019

This paper presents a 10 to 20 GHz bandwidth microwave polarimeter demonstrator, based on the implementation of a near-infra-red frequency up-conversion stage that allows both the optical correlation, when operating as a synthesized-image interferome...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,840 Views
11 Pages

6 October 2022

The search for anomalous couplings is one of the possible ways to find any deviations from the Standard Model. Effective field theory is used to parameterize the anomalous couplings in the Lagrangian with operators of higher dimensions constructed fr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,019 Views
12 Pages

Automatic Inhomogeneous Background Correction for Spatial Target Detection Image Based on Partition Processing

  • Chun Jiang,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Changzheng Lu,
  • Zhiyong Wu,
  • Changhua Liu,
  • Meng Shao and
  • Jingtai Cao

High-resolution imaging with wide field of view (FoV) ground-based telescopes is often affected by skylight background and noise due to the detector, resulting in an inhomogeneous background. In this paper, we propose an improved method for spatial i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,422 Views
11 Pages

21 September 2018

Remote Raman spectroscopy is widely used to detect minerals, explosives and air pollution, for example. One of its main problems, however, is background radiation that is caused by ambient light and sample fluorescence. We present here, to the best o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,260 Views
28 Pages

A Review of Theory and Application Development of Intelligent Operation Methods for Large Public Buildings

  • Zedong Jiao,
  • Xiuli Du,
  • Zhansheng Liu,
  • Liang Liu,
  • Zhe Sun,
  • Guoliang Shi and
  • Ruirui Liu

16 June 2023

This article aims to systematically summarize the methods for intelligent operation of large public buildings, the integration and application of related technologies, as well as their development trends and challenges. (1) Background: In response to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,846 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2021

(1) Background: There is an increasing amount of information in complex domains, which necessitates the development of various kinds of operators, such as differential, integral, and linear convolution operators. Few investigations of the fractional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,208 Views
26 Pages

Thermal Performance Analysis and Structural Optimization of Main Functional Components of Computers

  • Tengyue Pan,
  • Chengming Jiang,
  • Xinmin Shen,
  • Qin Yin,
  • Xiaocui Yang,
  • Wenqiang Peng,
  • Chunhua Zhou,
  • Xiangpo Zhang,
  • Jinhong Xue and
  • Enshuai Wang

28 August 2025

In today’s data-driven age, the thermal properties of computer transistors play an important role. In this research, finite element simulation is employed to construct the structural model of the primary components within a computer chassis, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,906 Views
10 Pages

4 February 2023

Background: The wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) technique is commonly used in elective hand surgery, whereas its application in plastic surgery is still limited. The aim of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,204 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Object Placement via FTOPNet

  • Guosheng Ye,
  • Jianming Wang and
  • Zizhong Yang

30 September 2023

Image composition involves the placement of foreground objects at an appropriate scale within a background image to create a visually realistic composite image. However, manual operations for this task are time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,515 Views
13 Pages

17 June 2022

Background: Specialist literature indicates a large share of the human factor among the causes of failure of technical systems at the level of 70 to 90%, which depends on the sector studied. The collective water supply system is an anthropotechnical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,830 Views
23 Pages

An Enhanced Image Patch Tensor Decomposition for Infrared Small Target Detection

  • Ziling Lu,
  • Zhenghua Huang,
  • Qiong Song,
  • Kun Bai and
  • Zhengtao Li

29 November 2022

Infrared small-target detection is a key technology for the infrared search and track system (IRST), but some problems still exist, such as false detections in complex backgrounds and clutter. To solve these problems, a novel image patch tensor (IPT)...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
153 Views
2 Pages

Background: Midwives in South African public hospitals, particularly in Gauteng Province, operate in high-pressure environments where adverse events (AEs) such as maternal deaths can occur despite best practices [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,870 Views
17 Pages

Processing speed and accuracy of measurements are important factors reflecting the performance quality of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems. This study proposed a fast cross-correlation (fCC) algorithm to improve the computation loading in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,435 Views
25 Pages

Fractal Operators Abstracted from Arterial Blood Flow

  • Tianyi Zhou,
  • Yajun Yin,
  • Gang Peng,
  • Chaoqian Luo and
  • Zhimo Jian

In this paper, we present a re-established functional fractal circuit model of arterial blood flow that incorporates the shunt effect of the branch vessels. Under the background of hemodynamics, we abstracted a family of fractal operators and investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,689 Views
21 Pages

1 July 2020

Our study explores the factors influencing investors’ behavior in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market in China, and the relationships among them from the perspective of investors. The primary component analysis method was used to divide the P...

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