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15 July 2026

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification remains a challenging task due to its high-dimensional spectral characteristics and the complex spatial heterogeneity of remote sensing scenes. Although significant progress has been made with convolutional ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Hyperspectral Image Classification and Processing in Remote Sensing)
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15 Citations
4,300 Views
19 Pages

Scene Text Detection Based on Two-Branch Feature Extraction

  • Mayire Ibrayim,
  • Yuan Li and
  • Askar Hamdulla

20 August 2022

Scene text detection refers to locating text regions in a scene image and marking them out with text boxes. With the rapid development of the mobile Internet and the increasing popularity of mobile terminal devices such as smartphones, the research o...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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1 Citations
2,230 Views
20 Pages

Two-Branch Feature Interaction Fusion Method Based on Generative Adversarial Network

  • Rong Chang,
  • Junpeng Dang,
  • Nanchuan Zhang,
  • Shan Zhao and ,
  • Shijin Hu,
  • Lin Xing,
  • Haicheng Bai,
  • Chengjiang Zhou and
  • Yang Yang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 August 2023

This study proposes a fusion method of infrared and visible images based on feature interaction. Existing fusion methods can be classified into two categories based on a single-branch network and a two-branch network. Generative adversarial networks...

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5 Citations
965 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2026

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) remains a challenging problem due to spatially varying illumination degradation, compressed tonal distributions, and structural detail loss. This paper presents Adaptive Multi-Branch Feature Fusion (AMBFF), a unifie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing)
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25 Pages

Forest Fire Detection Method Based on Dual-Branch Multi-Scale Adaptive Feature Fusion Network

  • Qinggan Wu,
  • Chen Wei,
  • Ning Sun,
  • Xiong Xiong and ,
  • Qingfeng Xia,
  • Jianmeng Zhou and
  • Xingyu Feng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2025

There are significant scale and morphological differences between fire and smoke features in forest fire detection. This paper proposes a detection method based on dual-branch multi-scale adaptive feature fusion network (DMAFNet). In this method, con...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,725 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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4 Citations
2,020 Views
13 Pages

The purpose of person re-identification is to identify and retrieve the same individual across different scenes, angles, and times. As an instance-level recognition problem, human re-identification relies on discriminative features, but is not determ...

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1 Citations
2,475 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2024

The application of contrastive learning in image clustering in the field of unsupervised learning has attracted much attention due to its ability to effectively improve clustering performance. Extracting features for face-oriented clustering using de...

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9 Citations
2,935 Views
17 Pages

1 September 2024

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) seeks to elucidate the mapping relationships between low-resolution and high-resolution images. However, high-performance network models often entail a significant number of parameters and computations, presenting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement of Mathematical Methods in Feature Representation Learning for Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Robotics, 2nd Edition)
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35 Pages

1 July 2026

Accurate perception and 3D reconstruction of fruit tree branch structures are fundamental to smart orchard development, with broad applications in intelligent harvesting, crop phenotyping, and precision management. However, the slender and highly bra...

(This article belongs to the Collection AI, Sensors and Robotics for Smart Agriculture)
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8 Citations
3,468 Views
14 Pages

The branch-and-bound algorithm for combinatorial optimization typically relies on a plethora of handcraft expert heuristics, and a research direction, so-called learn-to-branch, proposes to replace the expert heuristics in branch-and-bound with machi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analog AI Circuits and Systems)
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1 Citations
3,709 Views
11 Pages

Dual-Branch Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection

  • Zhehan Song,
  • Zhihai Xu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Huajun Feng and
  • Qi Li

14 January 2022

Proper features matter for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present the dual-branch feature fusion network (DBFFNe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interplay between Photonics and Machine Learning)
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27 Pages

21 May 2025

The rapid development of deepfake facial technology has led to facial fraud, posing a significant threat to social security. With the advent of diffusion models, the realism of forged facial images has increased, making detection increasingly challen...

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7 Citations
3,544 Views
15 Pages

A Person Re-Identification Method Based on Multi-Branch Feature Fusion

  • Xuefang Wang,
  • Xintong Hu,
  • Peishun Liu and
  • Ruichun Tang

26 October 2023

Due to the lack of a specific design for scenarios such as scale change, illumination difference, and occlusion, current person re-identification methods are difficult to put into practice. A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Network (MFFNet) is proposed,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced 2D/3D Computer Vision Technology and Applications)
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1 Citations
1,649 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2024

The Rare Earth Extraction Process (REEP) model is difficult to accurately establish via the extraction mechanism method due to its high complexity. This paper proposes a multi-branch deep feature fusion network with SAE (SAE-MBDFFN) for modeling REEP...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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2 Citations
1,405 Views
22 Pages

MBFI-Net: Multi-Branch Feature Interaction Network for Semantic Change Detection

  • Qing Ding,
  • Fengyan Wang,
  • Kaiyuan Sun,
  • Weilong Chen and ,
  • Mingchang Wang and
  • Gui Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 January 2026

Semantic change detection (SCD) effectively captures ground object transition information within change regions, delivering more comprehensive and detailed results than binary change detection (BCD) tasks. The existing multi-task SCD models enable pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning)
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21 July 2026

Accurate classification of oil palm fruit maturity is critical for optimizing harvest schedules and maximizing yield. To address the limited discrimination accuracy caused by subtle color variations, this paper proposes an LAB dual-branch feature fus...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,129 Views
25 Pages

Application of an Improved Dual-Branch Model Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion in Fracture Surface Image Recognition

  • Fei Gao,
  • Denghui Wang,
  • Fulai Yang,
  • Mingping Zhou and ,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Zhen Zheng,
  • Jianpeng Shi and
  • Zheng Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 November 2025

In order to improve the recognition accuracy and model interpretability of metal fracture scanning electron microscope (SEM) images, this research presents an improved dual-branch model (IDBM) based on multi-scale feature fusion. This model employs V...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Simulation and Design)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,894 Views
22 Pages

28 October 2024

The hyperspectral image (HSI) classification task is widely used in remote sensing image analysis. The HSI classification methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have greatly improved the classification performance. However, they cannot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing)
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1 Citations
1,816 Views
33 Pages

16 September 2025

This study conducted field experiments in 2024 in Meidaizhao Town, Tumed Right Banner, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, adopting a plant-level sampling design with 10 maize plots selected as sampling areas (20 plants per plot). At four...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
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1 Citations
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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)
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3 Citations
1,499 Views
21 Pages

18 July 2025

When faced with diverse types of image tampering and image quality degradation in real-world scenarios, traditional image tampering localization methods often struggle to balance boundary accuracy and robustness. To address these issues, this paper p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Image Processing and Computer Vision Using Embedded Systems)
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5 Citations
2,158 Views
22 Pages

A Prior-Guided Dual Branch Multi-Feature Fusion Network for Building Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images

  • Yingbin Wu,
  • Peng Zhao,
  • Fubo Wang,
  • Mingquan Zhou and ,
  • Shengling Geng and
  • Dan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The domain of remote sensing image processing has witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, with deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) establishing themselves as a prominent approach for building segmentation. Despite the progress, tradi...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
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5 Citations
3,441 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2021

Automatic computer security inspection of X-ray scanned images has an irresistible trend in modern life. Aiming to address the inconvenience of recognizing small-sized prohibited item objects, and the potential class imbalance within multi-label obje...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
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6 Citations
1,974 Views
28 Pages

24 February 2025

Currently, the demand for refined crop monitoring through remote sensing is increasing rapidly. Due to the similar spectral and morphological characteristics of different crops and vegetation, traditional methods often rely on deeper neural networks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Improving Remote Sensing Crop Mapping and Yield Estimation by New Techniques)
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4 Citations
3,230 Views
21 Pages

24 May 2024

In recent years, the use of deep neural network in effective network feature extraction and the design of efficient and high-precision hyperspectral image classification algorithms has gradually become a research hotspot for scholars. However, due to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Processing of Hyperspectral Images)
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DDSCNet: Dual-Domain Synergistic Downsampling and Dual-Branch Feature Calibration Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Yanbo Yu,
  • Qigui Jiang,
  • Tingjian Dai,
  • Mingxuan Sun and ,
  • Shenao Kong,
  • Hong Yan and
  • Pengcheng Fu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2026

Real-world low-light scenarios are complex, and annotated data is scarce. Meanwhile, existing supervised and mainstream unsupervised low-light image enhancement methods typically rely on large-scale paired labeled or unpaired normal-light data for tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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1 Citations
2,078 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2024

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) refers to a non-contact technique that measures heart rate through analyzing the subtle signal changes of facial blood flow captured by video sensors. It is widely used in contactless medical monitoring, remote heal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Data Fusion)
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Branch-Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Measuring Less than 10 mm Exhibit a Significantly Lower Risk of Developing “Worrisome Features”

  • Frederik J. Hansen,
  • Peter Ewald,
  • Luis Sorncharoen,
  • Daniel R. Quast and ,
  • Maximilian Stögbauer,
  • Renate Schlottmann,
  • Christoph Zeidler,
  • Mousa Ayoub,
  • Bernadette Kaup and
  • Alanna Ebigbo
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Background: Pancreatic carcinomas are among the malignant tumours with the highest mortality and remain associated with an extremely poor prognosis. Early identification and surveillance of premalignant lesions, such as intraductal papillary mucinous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Updates on Pancreatic Diseases)
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2 November 2026

Transparent object segmentation is a critical computer vision task for industrial and mobile robotic perception, which is widely deployed in intelligent cleaning robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with visual image sensors. However,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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807 Views
24 Pages

6 March 2026

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to extract weak small targets from complex backgrounds, and has significant practical application value in safety-critical fields such as traffic monitoring and maritime search and rescue. However, due to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Change Detection and Feature Enhancement Based on Deep Learning)
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7 Citations
3,111 Views
13 Pages

Branching Morphology of Negative Leaders with Different Propagation Directions in Natural Lightning

  • Yang Liu,
  • Xiankang Wang,
  • Xiaopeng Liu,
  • Lei Liu and ,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Mingchuan Liao,
  • Lu Qu,
  • Bing Luo,
  • Hansheng Cai and
  • Lixue Chen
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

1 August 2022

Comparing the branching features of negative leaders with different propagation directions could provide insight into the common tendency of development pathways and the formation pattern of branches in natural lightning. This paper reports an upward...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
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20 Citations
4,604 Views
20 Pages

7 May 2021

Accurate brain tissue segmentation of MRI is vital to diagnosis aiding, treatment planning, and neurologic condition monitoring. As an excellent convolutional neural network (CNN), U-Net is widely used in MR image segmentation as it usually generates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Image Processing Techniques for Healthcare Applications)
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18 Pages

EHAFF-NET: Enhanced Hybrid Attention and Feature Fusion for Pedestrian ReID

  • Jun Yang,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Haizhen Xie,
  • Jiayue Chen and ,
  • Shulong Sun and
  • Xiaolan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 February 2025

This study addresses the cross-scenario challenges in pedestrian re-identification for public safety, including perspective differences, lighting variations, occlusions, and vague feature expressions. We propose a pedestrian re-identification method...

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2 Citations
877 Views
23 Pages

18 May 2026

LiDAR point clouds provide accurate and direct representations of spatial locations and geometric structures of objects in 3D space, making them essential for applications such as target recognition in autonomous driving and 3D reconstruction in smar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Urban Reconstruction from Point Clouds and Optical Imagery: Modeling and Applications)
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2 Citations
2,503 Views
18 Pages

A Visible and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion Algorithm Based on a Transformer and a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Liushun Hu,
  • Shaojing Su,
  • Zhen Zuo,
  • Junyu Wei and ,
  • Siyang Huang,
  • Zongqing Zhao,
  • Xiaozhong Tong and
  • Shudong Yuan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

For visible and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image fusion, this paper proposes a visible and SAR image fusion algorithm based on a Transformer and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Firstly, in this paper, the Restormer Block is used to extract...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
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1 Citations
2,667 Views
18 Pages

Dual-Branch Multi-Scale Relation Networks with Tutorial Learning for Few-Shot Learning

  • Chuanyun Xu,
  • Hang Wang,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Zheng Zhou and
  • Gang Li

17 February 2024

Few-shot learning refers to training a model with a few labeled data to effectively recognize unseen categories. Recently, numerous approaches have been suggested to improve the extraction of abundant feature information at hierarchical layers or mul...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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4 Citations
2,391 Views
20 Pages

RST-Net: A Semantic Segmentation Network for Remote Sensing Images Based on a Dual-Branch Encoder Structure

  • Na Yang,
  • Chuanzhao Tian,
  • Xingfa Gu,
  • Yanting Zhang and ,
  • Xuewen Li and
  • Feng Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 September 2025

High-resolution remote sensing images often suffer from inadequate fusion between global and local features, leading to the loss of long-range dependencies and blurred spatial details, while also exhibiting limited adaptability to multi-scale object...

(This article belongs to the Topic Transformer and Deep Learning Applications in Image Processing)
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3 Citations
3,964 Views
17 Pages

An Efficient Multi-Branch Attention Network for Person Re-Identification

  • Ke Han,
  • Mingming Zhu,
  • Pengzhen Li,
  • Jie Dong and ,
  • Haoyang Xie and
  • Xiyan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 August 2024

Due to the absence of tailored designs that address challenges such as variations in scale, disparities in illumination, and instances of occlusion, the implementation of current person re-identification techniques remains challenging in practical ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision and Deep Learning and Its Applications)
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9 Citations
2,644 Views
19 Pages

In recent years, the use of deep learning models has developed rapidly in the field of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, most network models cannot make full use of the rich spatial-spectral features in hyperspectral images, being di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Applications of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
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1 Citations
1,087 Views
16 Pages

In complex traffic environments such as low light, strong glare, occlusion and at night, systems that rely solely on visible light single sensors for pedestrian detection have drawbacks such as low detection accuracy and poor robustness. Based on the...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle and Transportation Systems)
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448 Views
23 Pages

10 July 2026

Accurate semantic segmentation of slender curvilinear structures, such as tree branches, in complex natural scenes remains challenging. The main difficulties arise from frequent occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and limited edge computing resources....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest Ecology and Resource Monitoring Based on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
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10 Citations
2,871 Views
27 Pages

MBNet: Multi-Branch Network for Extraction of Rural Homesteads Based on Aerial Images

  • Ren Wei,
  • Beilei Fan,
  • Yuting Wang,
  • Ailian Zhou and
  • Zijuan Zhao

19 May 2022

Deep convolution neural network (DCNN) technology has achieved great success in extracting buildings from aerial images. However, the current mainstream algorithms are not satisfactory in feature extraction and classification of homesteads, especiall...

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22 Citations
1,203 Views
13 Pages

Breast Ultrasound Image Detection Based on Dual-Branch Faster R-CNN

  • Chenxu Liu,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Lijuan Zhang,
  • Chao Liu and
  • Wenfeng Zheng

30 October 2025

This paper proposes a novel dual-branch Faster R-CNN model, termed D-faster R-CNN, for breast ultrasound image detection. It adds a new parallel backbone, Pyramid Vision Transformer (PVT), to the original ResNet50 backbone, forming a dual-branch feat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Graphics and Images)
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1 Citations
635 Views
32 Pages

22 May 2026

Hyperspectral image classification remains challenging because robust recognition requires preserving spatial–spectral coupling, extracting complementary spectral and spatial cues, and fusing heterogeneous features without excessive redundancy....

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1 Citations
461 Views
16 Pages

1 July 2026

Pavement crack segmentation is crucial for enhancing traffic safety, improving maintenance efficiency, extending road lifespan, and supporting smart city development. Utilising computer vision technology to automate crack detection can significantly...

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5 Citations
1,866 Views
43 Pages

28 August 2025

This paper proposes a rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on HFMD and a dual-branch parallel network, aiming to address the issue of diagnostic accuracy being compromised by the disparity in data quality across different source domains due t...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,310 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2024

In low-voltage AC distribution systems, when a series arc fault occurs in a branch with multiple loads operating in parallel, it will be significantly more difficult to identify. Existing arc fault detection methods make it difficult to effectively d...

(This article belongs to the Topic Predictive Analytics and Fault Diagnosis of Machines with Machine Learning Techniques)
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8 Citations
3,032 Views
23 Pages

12 December 2022

There are limited studies on the semantic segmentation of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in building areas due to speckle noise and geometric distortion. For this challenge, we propose the large receptive field feature fusion n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR Images Processing and Analysis)
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596 Views
23 Pages

Sensor Topology-Aware Three-Branch Fusion for sEMG Gesture Recognition

  • Luoqi Cui,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Hadi Fathollahi Abdar,
  • Xinqin Gao and ,
  • Mingshun Yang and
  • Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 July 2026

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is increasingly used for gesture recognition in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and human–computer interaction. Existing architectures typically force heterogeneous sEMG features into a shared latent representation,...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

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