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An Explainable Classification Method Based on Complex Scaling in Histopathology Images for Lung and Colon Cancer

  • Sudhakar Tummala,
  • Seifedine Kadry,
  • Ahmed Nadeem,
  • Hafiz Tayyab Rauf and
  • Nadia Gul

Lung and colon cancers are among the leading causes of human mortality and morbidity. Early diagnostic work up of these diseases include radiography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography. Certain blood tumor markers for car...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,894 Views
46 Pages

Recent Developments in the Immersed Boundary Method for Complex Fluid–Structure Interactions: A Review

  • Omkar Powar,
  • Pedapudi Anantha Hari Arun,
  • Anwak Manoj Kumar,
  • Mithun Kanchan and ,
  • B. M. Karthik,
  • Poornesh Mangalore and
  • Mohith Santhya
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 May 2025

The “immersed boundary method (IBM)” is considered to be the most efficacious and versatile technique to solve flow problems associated with intricate geometries. The first part of this review examines recent advancements in IBM, essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,422 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2022

We extend a previously developed model for the Stark resonances of the water molecule. The method employs a partial-wave expansion of the single-particle orbitals using spherical harmonics. To find the resonance positions and decay rates, we use the...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Chemistry, Computational Chemistry and Molecular Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,050 Views
24 Pages

21 November 2025

Aiming at a critical gap in evaluating human-centered spatial quality during urban stock renewal, this study aimed to develop a quantitative methodology to evaluate emotional vitality in urban commercial complexes. Focusing on five representative Bei...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,567 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2024

A model potential previously developed for the ammonia molecule is treated in a single-center partial-wave approximation in analogy with a self-consistent field method developed by Moccia. The latter was used in a number of collision studies. The mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,272 Views
16 Pages

A Transient Productivity Model of Fractured Wells in Shale Reservoirs Based on the Succession Pseudo-Steady State Method

  • Fanhui Zeng,
  • Fan Peng,
  • Jianchun Guo,
  • Jianhua Xiang and ,
  • Qingrong Wang and
  • Jiangang Zhen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 September 2018

After volume fracturing, shale reservoirs can be divided into nonlinear seepage areas controlled by micro- or nanoporous media and Darcy seepage areas controlled by complex fracture networks. In this paper, firstly, on the basis of calculating comple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flow and Transport Properties of Unconventional Reservoirs 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,333 Views
12 Pages

Spatial Scale Selection for Urban Systems: A Complexity–Heterogeneity Balancing Method

  • Xiang-Yu Jia,
  • Yitao Yang,
  • Ying-Yue Lv,
  • Erjian Liu and
  • Xiao-Yong Yan

29 October 2025

Cities are complex systems with socioeconomic activities exhibiting diverse spatial distributions, where selecting an appropriate observation scale is vital for understanding urban complexity. However, the traditional methods for this task are often...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,515 Views
42 Pages

Study on Numerical Simulation Methods for Hypervelocity Impact on Large-Scale Complex Spacecraft Structures

  • Yanxi Zhang,
  • Fengjiang An,
  • Shasha Liao,
  • Cheng Wu and ,
  • Jian Liu and
  • Yipeng Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 December 2021

This paper aims to study the difference of results in breakup state judgment, debris cloud and fragment characteristic parameter during hypervelocity impact (HVI) on large-scale complex spacecraft structures by various numerical simulation methods. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,758 Views
17 Pages

A Cognitive Method for Automatically Retrieving Complex Information on a Large Scale

  • Yongyue Wang,
  • Beitong Yao,
  • Tianbo Wang,
  • Chunhe Xia and
  • Xianghui Zhao

28 May 2020

Modern retrieval systems tend to deteriorate because of their large output of useless and even misleading information, especially for complex search requests on a large scale. Complex information retrieval (IR) tasks requiring multi-hop reasoning nee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Computational Intelligence for Object Detection, Feature Extraction and Recognition in Smart Sensor Environments)
  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,562 Views
22 Pages

24 January 2021

The Conferences of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) were created as an attempt to establish and maintain an exchange between scientists in the fields of statistical and condensed matter physics from Western and Eastern co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 45th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,173 Views
13 Pages

Study on the Complexity Reduction of Observed Sequences Based on Different Sampling Methods: A Case of Wind Speed Data

  • Xiaowei Huai,
  • Pengcheng Yan,
  • Li Li,
  • Zelin Cai and ,
  • Xunjian Xu and
  • Xiaohui Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2022

Many studies have confirmed that the complexity of a time sequence is closely related to its predictability, but few studies have proposed methods to reduce the time sequence complexity, which is the key to improving its predictability. This study an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Scale Climate Change: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,559 Views
25 Pages

Scale-Free Features in Collective Robot Foraging

  • Ilja Rausch,
  • Yara Khaluf and
  • Pieter Simoens

30 June 2019

In many complex systems observed in nature, properties such as scalability, adaptivity, or rapid information exchange are often accompanied by the presence of features that are scale-free, i.e., that have no characteristic scale. Following this obser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
601 Views
29 Pages

ShipMS-BSNet: A Multi-Scale Semantic Segmentation Method for Remote Sensing Ships in Complex Marine Environments

  • Dezhi Liu,
  • Liangchun Hua,
  • Zhipan Wang,
  • Le Wang and ,
  • Bin Chu,
  • Haibo Zeng,
  • Zegang Chen,
  • Zhong Long,
  • Yunfei Zhang and
  • Hua Zhang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

1 June 2026

Accurate segmentation of ship targets in high-resolution remote sensing images is crucial for maritime monitoring, traffic management and naval security. However, existing methods struggle to simultaneously address extreme scale variations in ships a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Satellite Image Analysis and Applications for Earth Observation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,215 Views
16 Pages

A New Multi-Scale Method to Evaluate the Porosity and MICP Curve for Digital Rock of Complex Reservoir

  • Ting Xiong,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Yuan Jin,
  • Wei Zhang and ,
  • Haipeng Shao,
  • Guanqun Wang,
  • Ethan Long and
  • Wei Long
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 November 2023

The evaluation of rock porosity and the mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) curve is fundamental for oil and gas exploration and production. Digital rock (DR) technology, incorporating 3D micro-CT imaging and numerical methods, has been widel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Heat and Mass Transfer and Thermal Management in Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
57 Pages

9 October 2026

Data augmentation (DA) is a widely used technique to improve generalization in Deep Learning. However, many existing mixing-based approaches apply uniform strategies or rely on computationally expensive saliency guidance. In this work, we propose Ada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
607 Views
19 Pages

DCMFF-Net: A Low-Complexity Intra-Frame Encoding Method with Double Convolution and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

  • Xiao Shi,
  • Geng Wei,
  • Linqiang Li,
  • Guihua Luo and ,
  • Yu Zhou and
  • Shan Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 December 2025

H. 265/HEVC still dominates the video encoding application market with its mature industrial ecosystem and excellent hardware support. However, its high computational complexity remains a major barrier to its wider application. To tackle this problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,552 Views
25 Pages

A Lightweight Method for Road Defect Detection in UAV Remote Sensing Images with Complex Backgrounds and Cross-Scale Fusion

  • Wenya Zhang,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Lina Wang,
  • Danfei Zhang and ,
  • Pengfei Lu,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Chuanxiang Cheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2025

The accuracy of road damage detection models based on UAV remote sensing images is generally low, mainly due to the challenges posed by the complex background of road damage, diverse forms, and necessary computational requirements. To tackle the issu...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,332 Views
22 Pages

18 July 2022

Slope units (SUs) are sub-watersheds bounded by ridge and valley lines. A slope unit reflects the physical relationship between landslides and geomorphological features and is especially useful for landslide sensitivity modeling. There have been sign...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and GIS for Geomorphological Mapping)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
978 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2025

In order to improve the uniformity of microwave heating, moving components are often added to the cavity. For higher uniformity or greater industrial processing capacity, samples often perform large-scale movements such as rotating and lifting motion...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,428 Views
19 Pages

16 May 2018

For urban watersheds, the storm sewer network provides indispensable data for flood modeling but often needs to be simplified to balance the conflict between the large amount of data and current computing power. The sensitivity of a flood simulation...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
360 Views
21 Pages

Ship personnel detection is the core technology for building intelligent ship monitoring systems. It safeguards navigation safety and standardizes deck work management. Current human detection algorithms perform poorly in complex marine service envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies in Autonomous Ship Navigation)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,675 Views
29 Pages

An Effective Method for Minimizing Electric Generation Costs of Thermal Systems with Complex Constraints and Large Scale

  • Bach Hoang Dinh,
  • Thanh Van Pham,
  • Thang Trung Nguyen,
  • Gabriela Nicoleta Sava and
  • Minh Quan Duong

19 May 2020

In this paper, an improved antlion optimization algorithm (IALO) was proposed to search for promising solutions for optimal economic load dispatch (ELD) problems to minimize electrical generation fuel costs in power systems with thermal units and to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing in Applied Sciences and Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,016 Views
26 Pages

20 April 2024

Accurately perceiving changes in water level information is key to achieving the fine control of water and flooding; however, the existing technology cannot achieve water level recognition in complex and harsh environments, such as at night; in haze,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2026

This paper presents an iterative hybrid finite element boundary integral and physical optics (FEBI-PO) method for efficient electromagnetic scattering analysis of electrically large targets that contain locally complex structures. The key idea is to...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,725 Views
21 Pages

24 January 2025

An innovative and efficient hybrid technique, which combines the Method of Moments (MoM) with Volume Meshed Shooting and Bouncing Ray (VSBR), is presented to analyze the scattering of metallic–dielectric mixed multi-scale structures in urban sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing Video Data Processing: Theories, Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,571 Views
29 Pages

7 October 2025

Accurate object detection is fundamental to computer vision, yet detecting small targets in complex backgrounds remains challenging due to feature loss and limited model efficiency. To address this, we propose LCW-YOLO, a lightweight detection framew...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,658 Views
16 Pages

25 May 2023

Patterns of spatial heterogeneity in forests and other fire-prone ecosystems are increasingly recognized as critical for predicting fire behavior and subsequent fire effects. Given the difficulty in sampling continuous spatial patterns across scales,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Forest Fire Behaviour Modelling Using Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,990 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2021

Whey protein pectin complexes can be applied to replace fat in food products, e.g., pudding and yogurt, contributing to creaminess while adding a source of protein and fiber. Production of these complexes is usually conducted on the laboratory scale...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Colloids from Proteins and Polysaccharides for Food Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,733 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2022

The extension of sample entropy methodologies to multivariate signals has received considerable attention, with traditional univariate entropy methods, such as sample entropy (SampEn) and fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn), introduced to measure the complexity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Its Applications across Disciplines III)
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  • Open Access
100 Citations
16,954 Views
21 Pages

Quantifying Multiscale Habitat Structural Complexity: A Cost-Effective Framework for Underwater 3D Modelling

  • Renata Ferrari,
  • David McKinnon,
  • Hu He,
  • Ryan N. Smith and ,
  • Peter Corke,
  • Manuel González-Rivero,
  • Peter J. Mumby and
  • Ben Upcroft
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 February 2016

Coral reef habitat structural complexity influences key ecological processes, ecosystem biodiversity, and resilience. Measuring structural complexity underwater is not trivial and researchers have been searching for accurate and cost-effective method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Coral Reef Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,871 Views
25 Pages

SDA-YOLO: An Object Detection Method for Peach Fruits in Complex Orchard Environments

  • Xudong Lin,
  • Dehao Liao,
  • Zhiguo Du,
  • Bin Wen and ,
  • Zhihui Wu and
  • Xianzhi Tu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 July 2025

To address the challenges of leaf–branch occlusion, fruit mutual occlusion, complex background interference, and scale variations in peach detection within complex orchard environments, this study proposes an improved YOLOv11n-based peach detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technology and Computer Vision for Precision Agriculture and Smart Farming)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,813 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2020

The health condition monitoring of rotating machinery can avoid the disastrous failure and guarantee the safe operation. The vibration-based fault diagnosis shows the most attractive character for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery (FDRM). Recentl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,428 Views
11 Pages

28 May 2023

In this paper, we primarily investigate the methodology for the hybrid complex projective synchronization (HCPS) scheme in non-identical complex fractional order chaotic systems via an active complex synchronization technique (ACST). Appropriate cont...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,818 Views
24 Pages

1 August 2025

Compared to traditional real-valued neural networks, which process only amplitude information, complex-valued neural networks handle both amplitude and phase information, leading to superior performance in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSA...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,042 Views
15 Pages

24 May 2024

To overcome the limitations of traditional methods in reverberant and noisy environments, a robust multi-scale fusion neural network with attention mask is designed to improve direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation accuracy for acoustic sources. It co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Signal Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,112 Views
26 Pages

Hierarchical Structural Analysis Method for Complex Equation-Oriented Models

  • Chao Wang,
  • Li Wan,
  • Tifan Xiong,
  • Yuanlong Xie and ,
  • Shuting Wang,
  • Jianwan Ding and
  • Liping Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 October 2021

Structural analysis is a method for verifying equation-oriented models in the design of industrial systems. Existing structural analysis methods need flattening of the hierarchical models into an equation system for analysis. However, the large-scale...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,650 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2021

Ship-radiated noise is one of the important signal types under the complex ocean background, which can well reflect physical properties of ships. As one of the valid measures to characterize the complexity of ship-radiated noise, permutation entropy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications II)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,955 Views
13 Pages

Infrared small target detection, especially under low SCR conditions and complex backgrounds, is still a challenging research task. Considering the scale change caused by small targets rapidly moving, in this paper, a nonparametric regression-based m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,485 Views
14 Pages

The use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for crowd counting has made significant progress in recent years; however, effectively addressing the scale variation and complex backgrounds remain challenging tasks. To address these challenges, we pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,618 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2023

Soil organic matter (SOM) scale effects are critical for crop growth and food security, especially in coal–grain complexes. However, few studies describe the spatial variation in SOM and its influencing factors at different sampling scales. Her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,955 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2022

In this paper, we consider one of the key problems in modular arithmetic. It is known that scaling in the residue number system (RNS) is a rather complicated non-modular procedure, which requires expensive and complex operations at each iteration. He...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information and Coding Theory)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,218 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Identification Method for Complex Power Industry Tasks Based on Knowledge Distillation and Network Pruning

  • Wendi Wang,
  • Xiangling Zhou,
  • Chengling Jiang,
  • Hong Zhu and ,
  • Hao Yu and
  • Shufan Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 September 2023

Lightweight service identification models are very important for resource-constrained distribution grid systems. To address the increasingly larger deep learning models, we provide a method for the lightweight identification of complex power services...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,501 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2025

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial step in image preprocessing as its effectiveness has a direct impact on the accuracy of subsequent tasks such as land cover classification, target recognition, and change detection. However, existing m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Processing and Application, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,379 Views
15 Pages

Engineering data, including product data-conversion networks and software dependency networks, are very important for the long-term preservation of product information. With the explosive growth of data in recent years, product information has become...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,805 Views
16 Pages

Validation Study of the PALCOM Scale of Complexity of Palliative Care Needs: A Cohort Study in Advanced Cancer Patients

  • Margarita Viladot,
  • Jose-Luís Gallardo-Martínez,
  • Fany Hernandez-Rodríguez,
  • Jessica Izcara-Cobo and ,
  • Josep Majó-LLopart,
  • Marta Peguera-Carré,
  • Giselle Russinyol-Fonte,
  • Katia Saavedra-Cruz,
  • Carmen Barrera and
  • Albert Tuca
  • + 19 authors+ 14 authors

20 August 2023

Background: In a patient-centred model of care, referral to early palliative care (EPC) depends on both the prognosis and the complexity of care needs. The PALCOM scale is a 5-domain multidimensional assessment tool developed to identify the level of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Palliative Care in Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,328 Views
16 Pages

A Fast Multi-Scale Generative Adversarial Network for Image Compressed Sensing

  • Wenzong Li,
  • Aichun Zhu,
  • Yonggang Xu,
  • Hongsheng Yin and
  • Gang Hua

31 May 2022

Recently, deep neural network-based image compressed sensing methods have achieved impressive success in reconstruction quality. However, these methods (1) have limitations in sampling pattern and (2) usually have the disadvantage of high computation...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,766 Views
20 Pages

Multivariate and Multiscale Complexity of Long-Range Correlated Cardiovascular and Respiratory Variability Series

  • Aurora Martins,
  • Riccardo Pernice,
  • Celestino Amado,
  • Ana Paula Rocha and ,
  • Maria Eduarda Silva,
  • Michal Javorka and
  • Luca Faes
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 March 2020

Assessing the dynamical complexity of biological time series represents an important topic with potential applications ranging from the characterization of physiological states and pathological conditions to the calculation of diagnostic parameters....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,428 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2019

Farming systems are complex and include a variety of interacting biophysical and technical components. This complexity must be taken into account when designing farming systems to improve sustainability, but more methods are needed to be able to do s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cropping Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,794 Views
21 Pages

Collaborative Measurement System of Dual Mobile Robots That Integrates Visual Tracking and 3D Measurement

  • Lizhe Qi,
  • Zhongxue Gan,
  • Jiankun Ren,
  • Fuwang Wu and ,
  • Hao Su,
  • Zhen Mei and
  • Yunquan Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The manufacturing accuracy of large-scale complex components determines the performance and quality of aircraft, ships, high-speed rail, and other equipment. High-precision 3D measurement plays a crucial role in ensuring manufacturing accuracy. At pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
15,111 Views
22 Pages

Localization Algorithm Based on a Spring Model (LASM) for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Wanming Chen,
  • Tao Mei,
  • Max Q.-H. Meng,
  • Huawei Liang and ,
  • Yumei Liu,
  • Yangming Li and
  • Shuai Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 March 2008

A navigation method for a lunar rover based on large scale wireless sensornetworks is proposed. To obtain high navigation accuracy and large exploration area, highnode localization accuracy and large network scale are required. However, thecomputatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency and Intelligent Signal Processing for Wireless Sensing)

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