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6 July 2026

Automated damage inspection of railway viaducts requires pixel-level identification of structural components and surface damage such as cracking and rebar exposure. A common assumption in bridge inspection is that damage segmentation improves when co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Structural Health Monitoring Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
808 Views
23 Pages

Semantic Segmentation-Based and Task-Aware Elastic Compression of Sequential Data for Aluminum Heating Furnaces

  • Jie Hou,
  • Xiaoxuan Huang,
  • Jianping Tan,
  • Jianqiao Liu and ,
  • Xiaojie Jia and
  • Ruining Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the challenges of compressing large-scale, multi-channel temperature data from aluminum alloy heating furnaces—and the limitations of traditional methods in preserving fidelity for critical tasks like energy accounting and process pl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of IOT on Manufacturing, Communication and Engineering, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,944 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2023

3D non-rigid shape correspondence is significant but challenging in computer graphics, computer vision, and related fields. Although some deep neural networks have achieved encouraging results in shape correspondence, due to the complexity of the loc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
19 Pages

Low-Resource Adaptation and Structural Reconstruction for Satellite Component Segmentation

  • Rui Hong,
  • Chaoqiang Zhai,
  • Lingdang Chen,
  • Haoyu Hu and ,
  • Han Pan and
  • Qian Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 August 2026

Accurate satellite component segmentation plays a fundamental role in numerous on-orbit perception tasks, including spacecraft pose estimation, autonomous robotic servicing, and space situational awareness. However, existing segmentation methods stil...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Views
24 Pages

20 October 2026

Semantic segmentation of railway point clouds is complicated by anisotropic sampling, large data volumes, and small components. This study develops an acquisition-aware processing and segmentation framework that combines structure-aware filtering (SC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,967 Views
18 Pages

Attentional Keypoint Detection on Point Clouds for 3D Object Part Segmentation

  • Feng Zhou,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • He Zhu,
  • Shibo Liu and ,
  • Na Jiang,
  • Xingquan Cai,
  • Qianfang Qi and
  • Yong Hu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2023

In the field of computer vision, segmenting a 3D object into its component parts is crucial to understanding its structure and characteristics. Much work has focused on 3D object part segmentation directly from point clouds, and significant progress...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced 2D/3D Computer Vision Technology and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,263 Views
9 Pages

Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Segmentation with Compact UNET Models and Temporal Input Fusion

  • Matúš Čavojský,
  • Štefan Mikula,
  • Juraj Gazda and
  • Gabriel Bugár

14 November 2025

This work addresses the challenge of video semantic segmentation, a critical component in applications such as autonomous driving. The primary aim was to explore the role of temporal awareness in video sequences and its impact on split computing. To...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,345 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2022

Deep-learning models require large amounts of accurately labeled data. However, for medical image segmentation, high-quality labels rely on expert experience, and less-experienced operators provide noisy labels. How one might mitigate the negative ef...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,560 Views
21 Pages

19 July 2023

In this research, we present the Spatial-Aware Transformer (SAT), an enhanced implementation of the Swin Transformer module, purposed to augment the global modeling capabilities of existing transformer segmentation mechanisms within remote sensing. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,116 Views
19 Pages

An Automatic Brain Cortex Segmentation Technique Based on Dynamic Recalibration and Region Awareness

  • Jiaofen Nan,
  • Gaodeng Fan,
  • Kaifan Zhang,
  • Shuyao Zhai and ,
  • Xueqi Jin,
  • Duan Li and
  • Chunlai Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 September 2025

To address the limitations in the accuracy of current cerebral cortex structure segmentation methods, this study proposes an automatic segmentation network based on dynamic recalibration and region awareness. The network is an improved version of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,533 Views
23 Pages

3D Component Segmentation Network and Dataset for Non-Cooperative Spacecraft

  • Guangyuan Zhao,
  • Xue Wan,
  • Yaolin Tian,
  • Yadong Shao and
  • Shengyang Li

Spacecraft component segmentation is one of the key technologies which enables autonomous navigation and manipulation for non-cooperative spacecraft in OOS (On-Orbit Service). While most of the studies on spacecraft component segmentation are based o...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
928 Views
15 Pages

Background/Objectives: Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation is used to guide bronchoscopes toward peripheral pulmonary lesions, but broad clinical and research adoption remains limited by the cost of proprietary software and by segmentation failures in s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical Image Analysis in CT Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,925 Views
29 Pages

6 May 2025

Segmentation of the Optic Disc (OD) and Optic Cup (OC) boundaries in fundus images is a critical step for early glaucoma diagnosis, but accurate segmentation is challenging due to low boundary contrast and significant anatomical variability. To addre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Biomedical Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
31 Pages

Accurate analysis of lesions in colonoscopic images is essential for computer-aided diagnosis. However, most existing methods are designed for single-lesion segmentation and assume a predefined lesion category, limiting their applicability in real-wo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technique for Endoscopic Diagnosis in Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,128 Views
31 Pages

The accurate forecasting of key performance indicators (KPIs) is essential for enhancing the reliability and operational efficiency of engineering systems under increasingly complex security challenges. However, existing approaches often neglect the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,130 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2025

The colonoscopy procedure heavily relies on the operator’s expertise, underscoring the importance of automated polyp segmentation techniques in enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of colorectal cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, achieving precis...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
523 Views
31 Pages

Background: Cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) images often exhibit low contrast, anatomical variability, and indistinct boundaries, particularly in the myocardium (MYO) and right ventricle (RV). These challenges can reduce the reliability of both manu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular and Stroke Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,254 Views
15 Pages

Component Energy Modelling for Machine Tools

  • Berend Denkena,
  • Henning Buhl and
  • Bengt Torben Gösta Rademacher

Rising energy costs and strict CO2 traceability regulations create demand for monitoring energy and CO2 emissions in manufacturing. This paper presents a framework for modelling component-wise energy models with deployable accuracy. In many factories...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced and Sustainable Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,894 Views
29 Pages

Meta-Knowledge Guided Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation for Optical and SAR Image Interpretation

  • Man Chen,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Enping Chen,
  • Yahao Hu and ,
  • Yifei Xie and
  • Zhisong Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 April 2023

The interpretation of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in remote sensing is general for many tasks, such as environmental monitoring, marine management, and resource planning. Instance segmentation of optical and SAR images, which ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weakly Supervised Deep Learning in Exploiting Remote Sensing Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,298 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2025

Accurate image segmentation is a fundamental requirement for fine-grained image analysis, providing critical support for applications such as medical diagnostics, remote sensing, and industrial fault detection. However, in complex industrial environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
785 Views
26 Pages

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Preprocessing for Robust Spinal Cord Segmentation in Cervical Myelopathy

  • Hediyeh Toufani,
  • Richard M. Dansereau,
  • Philippe Phan,
  • Jefferson R. Wilson and
  • Eve C. Tsai

Accurate spinal cord segmentation is important for quantitative analysis of spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging, including measurement of cross-sectional area and diffusion-based microstructural characterization. In pathological conditions like ce...

(This article belongs to the Section Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
15,774 Views
14 Pages

Phonological Awareness as the Foundation of Reading Acquisition in Students Reading in Transparent Orthography

  • Vesela Milankov,
  • Slavica Golubović,
  • Tatjana Krstić and
  • Špela Golubović

Phonological skills have been found to be strongly related to early reading and writing development. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the extent to which the development of phonological awareness facilitates reading acquisition in st...

(This article belongs to the Section Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
725 Views
29 Pages

CMYD-SurfaceNet: Scale-Aware Cascaded Multimodal MRI Segmentation via Representation-Level Structural Decoupling and Boundary-Constrained Learning

  • Chaymae El Mechal,
  • Mostefa Mesbah,
  • Loubna Mazgouti,
  • Fatima Zahra Ammor and
  • Najiba El Amrani El Idrissi

16 June 2026

Reliable delineation of brain tumor boundaries in multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains challenging despite substantial advances in deep learning–based segmentation. Although modern encoder–decoder architectures achieve stro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Views
22 Pages

UAV Inspection and Collision-Aware Visual Perception Using Topology-Preserving RGB–Infrared Power-Line Graph Reconstruction

  • Junchi He,
  • Chenlei Li,
  • Shouhua Pan,
  • Liang Han and ,
  • Shoujiang He,
  • Miaowang Qian,
  • Wenqiang Su,
  • Kaiyang Wang and
  • Yue Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 October 2026

Accurate perception of overhead conductors is fundamental to autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection, trajectory planning, and collision avoidance in transmission corridors. Existing vision-based approaches predominantly formulate power-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,862 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2023

This study aims to detect those segments among the Hungarian food consumers who are aware of the climate risks of their food consumption. In order to achieve this goal, a survey was conducted with the participation of Hungarian university students. D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer Analysis and Sustainable Food Consumption)
  • Article
  • Open Access
259 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2026

Industrial visual inspection requires not only accurate segmentation but also reliable and traceable decision making, since incorrect automatic refinements may lead to downstream manufacturing failures. Although segmentation foundation models achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Image Analysis and Intelligent Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,189 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2026

Semantic segmentation of laparoscopic images requires costly pixel-level annotations, which are often unavailable for real surgical data. This gives rise to an unsupervised domain adaptation scenario, where labeled synthetic images serve as the sourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
552 Views
35 Pages

Semi-Supervised Structural Prior-Guided Network for Space Target Component Segmentation in ISAR Images

  • Yonghua He,
  • Aoxiang Pan,
  • Yonggang Li,
  • Jiahao Wang and ,
  • Wei Qu,
  • Weigang Zhu and
  • Wenhang Ji
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2026

Segmenting key components of space targets using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) images is an important interpretation task in space situational awareness. However, the scarcity of pixel-level annotated data, inter-class confusion caused by m...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,138 Views
18 Pages

Exploring Consumer Behavior and Preferences towards Edible Mushrooms in Slovakia

  • Kristína Predanócyová,
  • Július Árvay and
  • Marek Šnirc

3 February 2023

Edible mushrooms represent a food with high nutritional properties, and their consumption has a positive effect on the health of consumers. The aim of the paper is to identify the behavior and preferences of consumers in the consumption of edible mus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer Behavior and Food Choice—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
792 Views
29 Pages

21 May 2026

Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) serve as key indicators of global climate change and also pose significant risks to critical infrastructure along the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC). Accurate automatic segmentation of RTSs using Sent...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,246 Views
24 Pages

12 April 2026

Medical images commonly exhibit low contrast, weak boundaries, and complex textures. In addition, significant semantic differences exist between deep-level semantic features and shallow-level detail features, posing challenges for multi-scale feature...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
602 Views
37 Pages

AB-SAM: A SAM-Based Asymmetric Boundary-Aware Model for the Semantic Segmentation of Small and Medium-Sized Landslides

  • Jiting Tang,
  • Zhiwei Liang,
  • Suli Guo,
  • Bin Tong and ,
  • Jun’an Chen,
  • Guoliang Sun,
  • Jiaxing Liu,
  • Can Wang,
  • Dong Li and
  • Xin Zhou
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Small- and medium-sized landslides frequently occur in clusters and exhibit fragmented morphologies, irregular boundaries, and spectral characteristics similar to surrounding roads, bare soil, and sparsely vegetated surfaces, making their automated e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,018 Views
17 Pages

8 August 2025

Accurate teeth segmentation and orientation are fundamental in modern oral healthcare, enabling precise diagnosis, treatment planning, and dental implant design. In this study, we present a comprehensive approach to teeth segmentation and orientation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
820 Views
17 Pages

FreqAct: Frequency-Guided Hierarchical Feature Integration for Action Detection

  • Zhiheng Li,
  • Wenjie Zhang,
  • Ruifeng Wang and
  • Xiaolei Li

15 February 2026

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to localize and recognize action instances in untrimmed videos, and serves as a key component in practical intelligent electronic systems such as smart video surveillance and real-time human–machine interact...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
863 Views
27 Pages

SGMR-LPR: A Semantic-Guided Network Robust to Movable Objects for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition

  • Weizhong Jiang,
  • Zhipeng Xiao,
  • Lilin Qian,
  • Erke Shang and ,
  • Dawei Zhao,
  • Qi Zhu and
  • Liang Xiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 May 2026

Robust LiDAR point cloud processing in dynamic outdoor environments, where movable objects such as vehicles and pedestrians introduce significant structural uncertainty, remains a key challenge for remote sensing and autonomous systems. This work add...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
26 Pages

6 August 2026

Accurate vegetation-soil segmentation is a key component of intelligent agricultural vision systems operating under limited computational resources. Existing CNN-based approaches generally improve segmentation accuracy by increasing network complexit...

(This article belongs to the Collection Algorithms for Computer Vision Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,901 Views
12 Pages

iBALR3D: imBalanced-Aware Long-Range 3D Semantic Segmentation

  • Keying Zhang,
  • Ruirui Cai,
  • Xinqiao Wu,
  • Jiguang Zhao and
  • Ping Qin

Three-dimensional semantic segmentation is crucial for comprehending transmission line structure and environment. This understanding forms the basis for a variety of applications, such as automatic risk assessment of line tripping caused by wildfires...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,671 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2025

With the continuous advancement of on-orbit services and space intelligence sensing technologies, the efficient and accurate identification of spacecraft components has become increasingly critical. However, complex lighting conditions, background in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
522 Views
40 Pages

FTU-Seek: Foundation Model-Guided Hard-Negative Learning for Sparse Functional Tissue Unit Segmentation

  • Zonghao Liu,
  • Lei Su,
  • Jiguang Yu,
  • Xuqing Geng and ,
  • Louis Shuo Wang,
  • Jianmin Wang and
  • Jingfeng Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Functional tissue units (FTUs), including tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs), blood vessels, and glands, encode localized immune, vascular, and epithelial organization in histopathology. Accurate quantification of these struct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Stem Cells in Disease Modelling and Treatment (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,887 Views
26 Pages

9 February 2026

Building polygon extraction is a critical task in remote sensing analysis and a fundamental component of modern urban management. Conventional segmentation-based methods often suffer from geometric distortions during the conversion from masks to poly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Target Recognition and Detection: Theory and Applications (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
746 Views
24 Pages

Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Early detection of ischemic changes using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is vital for timely intervention and enhanced clinical outcomes. However, the diagnosis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
724 Views
22 Pages

Crime forecasting in heterogeneous urban contexts remains challenging due to the combined effects of territorial heterogeneity and complex temporal dynamics. However, a large portion of the existing literature tends to address territorial segmentatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
559 Views
25 Pages

Ultrasonic Point Cloud-Based Segmentation and Quantification of Internal Defects in Concrete Structures

  • Yi Zhou,
  • Junlei Song,
  • Chenggang Zhou,
  • Jun Ying and ,
  • Shikun Yin,
  • Bei Zhou,
  • Kaifeng Dong,
  • Fang Jin and
  • Wenqin Mo
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2026

Accurate detection of internal defects in concrete structures is critical to structural safety. This study proposes a three-stage method for segmentation and geometric quantification of defects from 3D ultrasonic point clouds to support non-destructi...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Frequency Separated Fusion Network for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation

  • Shaochuan Zhao,
  • Xiaotian Wang,
  • Jiawei Jiang,
  • Hefeng Yin and ,
  • Bing Liu and
  • Yong Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 November 2026

RGB-T semantic segmentation fuses visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) images to enhance model robustness under complex lighting conditions. However, most existing methods employ unified fusion strategies in the spatial domain, limiting their abi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Learning for Multimedia Content Analysis and Understanding, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,032 Views
25 Pages

24 May 2025

Domain shifts pose significant challenges for cross-domain semantic segmentation in high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Inspired by the cognitive mechanisms of the human brain, we propose a Brain-Inspired Style Transfer and Semantic Segmentation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
790 Views
20 Pages

A Data-Centric Algorithmic Pipeline for Enhancing Cardiac MRI Segmentation Using ViTUNeT and Quality-Aware Filtering

  • Salvador de Haro,
  • Jesús Cámara,
  • Pilar González-Férez,
  • José Manuel García and
  • Gregorio Bernabé

6 March 2026

The performance of deep-learning-based segmentation models is strongly dependent on the quality of the input data, which is frequently heterogeneous or degraded in real-world medical imaging scenarios. This work presents a data-centric algorithmic pi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Powered Biomedical Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,748 Views
25 Pages

13 November 2024

Accurate semantic segmentation of high-resolution images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is crucial for applications in environmental monitoring, urban planning, and precision agriculture. However, challenges such as class imbalance, smal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
20 Pages

MGA-UNet: A Frequency-Aware Multi-Scale Mamba U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation

  • Shuaikang Qiu,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Kaile Su,
  • Yongchao Song and ,
  • Qiang Zheng and
  • Zhenbo Cao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 August 2026

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer-assisted diagnosis, but accurate delineation remains challenging in sensor-captured dermoscopic and endoscopic images because of low contrast, blurred boundaries, acquisition artifacts, and la...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,417 Views
26 Pages

Content-Aware SLIC Super-Pixels for Semi-Dark Images (SLIC++)

  • Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani,
  • Mehak Maqbool Memon,
  • Kamran Raza,
  • Syed Hasan Adil and ,
  • Syed Sajjad Rizvi and
  • Muhammad Umair
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 January 2022

Super-pixels represent perceptually similar visual feature vectors of the image. Super-pixels are the meaningful group of pixels of the image, bunched together based on the color and proximity of singular pixel. Computation of super-pixels is highly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Intelligent Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,537 Views
20 Pages

Automated font generation for complex, compositional scripts like Korean Hangul presents a significant challenge due to the 11,172 characters and their complicated component-based structure. While existing component-based methods for font image gener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computer Vision, 3rd Edition)

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