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  • Open Access
967 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2025

With the continuous advancement of industrialization and intelligentization, stereo-vision-based measurement technology for large-scale components has become a prominent research focus. To address weak-textured regions in large-scale component images...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,987 Views
14 Pages

Semi-Global Stereo Matching Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Information Fusion

  • Changgen Deng,
  • Deyuan Liu,
  • Haodong Zhang,
  • Jinrong Li and
  • Baojun Shi

12 January 2023

Semi-global matching (SGM) has been widely used in binocular vision. In spite of its good efficiency, SGM still has difficulties in dealing with low-texture regions. In this paper, an SGM algorithm based on multi-scale information fusion (MSIF), name...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,640 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Scale Cost Attention and Adaptive Fusion Stereo Matching Network

  • Zhenguo Liu,
  • Zhao Li,
  • Wengang Ao,
  • Shaoshuang Zhang,
  • Wenlong Liu and
  • Yizhi He

At present, compared to 3D convolution, 2D convolution is less computationally expensive and faster in stereo matching methods based on convolution. However, compared to the initial cost volume generated by calculation using a 3D convolution method,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
578 Views
27 Pages

26 July 2025

This study proposes a Swin-ReshoUnet architecture with a three-level enhancement mechanism to address inefficiencies in multi-scale feature extraction and gradient degradation in deep networks for high-precision seismic exploration. The encoder uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,542 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2022

Stereomatching plays an essential role in 3D reconstruction using very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images. However, it still faces unignorable challenges due to the multi-scale objects in large scenes and the multi-modality probability distr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,945 Views
19 Pages

23 June 2024

Fire is a significant security threat that can lead to casualties, property damage, and environmental damage. Despite the availability of object-detection algorithms, challenges persist in detecting fires, smoke, and humans. These challenges include...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,185 Views
23 Pages

27 September 2025

Cardiac arrhythmia is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death. Its early detection and continuous monitoring hold significant clinical value. Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, owing to their non-invasive nature, low cost, and convenience, have beco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
345 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2025

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is hindered by low signal-to-noise ratios, minute object scales, and strong target–background similarity. Although long-range skip fusion is exploited in SCTransNet, the global context is insufficiently c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,307 Views
20 Pages

23 July 2022

While recent deep learning-based stereo-matching networks have shown outstanding advances, there are still some unsolved challenges. First, most state-of-the-art stereo models employ 3D convolutions for 4D cost volume aggregation, which limit the dep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
675 Views
19 Pages

IPE-YOLO: A Multi-Scale Defect Detection Method for Power Equipment Inspection

  • Mingxia Xu,
  • Zibo Cai,
  • Kewei Cai,
  • Dongpu Li,
  • Yongsheng Miao and
  • Chuanfang Xu

24 September 2025

The inspection of power equipment is vital for maintaining the safe and reliable operation of power systems. Among various inspection tasks, the detection of defects in insulators and wind turbine blades holds particular importance. However, existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Views
28 Pages

1 December 2025

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery poses significant challenges due to insufficient feature representation, complex background interference, and extremely small target sizes. These factors collectively degrade the perform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
185 Views
16 Pages

Research on a Lightweight Recognition Model for Daily Cattle Behavior Toward Real-Time Monitoring

  • Jianping Yao,
  • Yong’an Zhang,
  • Mei’an Li,
  • Jia Li,
  • Yanqiu Liu,
  • Feilong Kang and
  • Fan Liu

8 December 2025

Accurate monitoring of cattle behavioral time budgets is crucial for early disease detection and welfare assessment. Changes in durations of standing, lying, and eating are known to be early indicators of health issues such as lameness and metabolic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
512 Views
24 Pages

LiteFocus-YOLO: An Efficient Network for Identifying Dense Tassels in Field Environments

  • Heyang Wang,
  • Jinghuan Hu,
  • Yunlong Ji,
  • Chong Peng,
  • Yu Bao,
  • Hang Zhu,
  • Caocan Zhu,
  • Mengchao Chen,
  • Ye Mu and
  • Hongyu Guo

28 September 2025

High-efficiency and precise detection of crop ears in the field is a core component of intelligent agricultural yield estimation. However, challenges such as overlapping ears caused by dense planting, complex background interference, and blurred boun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,178 Views
18 Pages

The detection of small targets holds significant application value in the identification of small foreign objects within large-volume parenterals. However, existing methods often face challenges such as inadequate feature expression capabilities, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,187 Views
24 Pages

2 June 2025

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems, traffic sign detection plays a crucial role in ensuring driving safety and preventing accidents. However, detecting small traffic signs in complex road environments remains a significa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,819 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2025

The accurate detection of small objects remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving systems, where improving detection performance typically comes at the cost of increased model complexity, conflicting with the lightweight requirements of edge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
31 Pages

7 November 2025

Benefiting from the advantages of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms such as low cost, rapid deployment capability, and miniaturization, the application of UAV-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has developed rapidly. Utilizing a self-develope...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,168 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an extremely important role in real-time object detection for maritime emergency rescue missions. However, marine accidents often occur in low-visibility weather conditions, resulting in poor image quality and a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
980 Views
22 Pages

11 May 2025

In agricultural pest detection, the small size of pests poses a critical hurdle to detection accuracy. To mitigate this concern, we propose a Lightweight Cross-Level Feature Aggregation Network (LCFANet), which comprises three key components: a deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,691 Views
27 Pages

Detection of Surface Defects in Steel Based on Dual-Backbone Network: MBDNet-Attention-YOLO

  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Shuhui Ma,
  • Shiting Wu,
  • Zhaoye Li,
  • Jinrong Cao and
  • Peiquan Xu

5 August 2025

Automated surface defect detection in steel manufacturing is pivotal for ensuring product quality, yet it remains an open challenge owing to the extreme heterogeneity of defect morphologies—ranging from hairline cracks and microscopic pores to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,315 Views
16 Pages

A Lightweight Pine Wilt Disease Detection Method Based on Vision Transformer-Enhanced YOLO

  • Quanbo Yuan,
  • Suhua Zou,
  • Huijuan Wang,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Xiuling Zheng,
  • Lantao Liu and
  • Zhaopeng Meng

18 June 2024

Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a forest disease characterized by rapid spread and extremely high lethality, posing a serious threat to the ecological security of China’s forests and causing significant economic losses in forestry. Given the extensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
487 Views
17 Pages

TASNet-YOLO: An Identification and Classification Model for Surface Defects of Rough Planed Bamboo Strips

  • Yitong Zhang,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Min Ji,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Wenquan Yu and
  • Xiangfeng Wang

17 October 2025

After rough planing, defects such as wormholes and small patches of green bark residue and decay are often overlooked and misclassified. Strip-like defects, including splinters and chipped edges, are easily confused with the natural bamboo grain, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
194 Views
23 Pages

A Dual-Modal Adaptive Pyramid Transformer Algorithm for UAV Cross-Modal Object Detection

  • Qiqin Li,
  • Ming Yang,
  • Xiaoqiang Zhang,
  • Nannan Wang,
  • Xiaoguang Tu,
  • Xijun Liu and
  • Xinyu Zhu

11 December 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play vital roles in traffic surveillance, disaster management, and border security, highlighting the importance of reliable infrared–visible image detection under complex illumination conditions. However, UAV-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
740 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2025

This study presents LSE-CVCNet, a novel stereo matching network designed to resolve challenges in dynamic scenes, including dynamic feature misalignment caused by texture variability and contextual ambiguity from occlusions. By integrating three key...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,307 Views
22 Pages

UAV Geo-Localization Dataset and Method Based on Cross-View Matching

  • Yuwen Yao,
  • Cheng Sun,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Jianxing Yang and
  • Enhui Zheng

28 October 2024

The stable flight of drones relies on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). However, in complex environments, GNSS signals are prone to interference, leading to flight instability. Inspired by cross-view machine learning, this paper introduces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,283 Views
27 Pages

21 March 2025

With advancements in remote sensing technologies, high-resolution imagery has become increasingly accessible, supporting applications in urban planning, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture. However, semantic segmentation of such image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,276 Views
22 Pages

Text-Enhanced Graph Attention Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval

  • Qiang Zou,
  • Shuli Cheng,
  • Anyu Du and
  • Jiayi Chen

27 October 2024

Deep hashing technology, known for its low-cost storage and rapid retrieval, has become a focal point in cross-modal retrieval research as multimodal data continue to grow. However, existing supervised methods often overlook noisy labels and multisca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,123 Views
23 Pages

Efficient mobile detection equipment plays a vital role in ensuring maritime safety, and accurate ship identification is crucial for maritime traffic. Recently, the most advanced learning-based methods have markedly improved the accuracy of ship dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,183 Views
20 Pages

In maritime search and rescue small object detection, existing high-accuracy detection models face deployment challenges on UAV platforms due to limited computational capabilities, while existing lightweight models often fail to meet performance requ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,602 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2025

To address the issue of high complexity in current pedestrian anomaly detection network models, which hinders real-world deployment, this paper proposes a lightweight anomaly detection network called LPCF-YOLO (Lightweight Parallel Cross-Fusion YOLO)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,987 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-View Thermal–Visible Image Dataset for Cross-Spectral Matching

  • Yuxiang Liu,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Shen Yan,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Jikun Zhong,
  • Yang Peng and
  • Maojun Zhang

28 December 2022

Cross-spectral local feature matching between visual and thermal images benefits many vision tasks in low-light environments, including image-to-image fusion and camera re-localization. An essential prerequisite for unleashing the potential of superv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,356 Views
14 Pages

25 April 2023

Object tracking requires heterogeneous images that are well registered in advance, with cross-modal image registration used to transform images of the same scene generated by different sensors into the same coordinate system. Infrared and visible lig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,081 Views
18 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Fusion Framework of UAV and Satellite Imagery for Winter Wheat Growth Monitoring

  • Yan Li,
  • Wen Yan,
  • Sai An,
  • Wanlin Gao,
  • Jingdun Jia,
  • Sha Tao and
  • Wei Wang

29 December 2022

Accurate and continuous monitoring of crop growth is vital for the development of precision agriculture. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite platforms have considerable complementarity in high spatial resolution (centimeter-scale) and fixed r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,295 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Method Based on U-Net for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

  • Dan Yang,
  • Guoru Liu,
  • Mengcheng Ren,
  • Bin Xu and
  • Jiao Wang

24 July 2020

Computer-aided automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays an important role in the diagnosis of diseases such as diabetes, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale feature fusion retinal vessel segmentati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2025

With the rapid improvement of deep learning, significant progress has been made in cloud removal for remote sensing images (RSIs). However, the practical deployment of existing methods on multi-platform devices faces several limitations, including hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Views
19 Pages

Fully-Cascaded Spatial-Aware Convolutional Network for Motion Deblurring

  • Yinghan Hong,
  • Bishenghui Tao,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Guizhen Mai and
  • Cai Guo

2 December 2025

Motion deblurring is an ill-posed, challenging problem in image restoration due to non-uniform motion blurs. Although recent deep convolutional neural networks have made significant progress, many existing methods adopt multi-scale or multi-patch sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
638 Views
20 Pages

Loop-MapNet: A Multi-Modal HDMap Perception Framework with SDMap Dynamic Evolution and Priors

  • Yuxuan Tang,
  • Jie Hu,
  • Daode Zhang,
  • Wencai Xu,
  • Feiyu Zhao and
  • Xinghao Cheng

17 October 2025

High-definition maps (HDMaps) are critical for safe autonomy on structured roads. Yet traditional production—relying on dedicated mapping fleets and manual quality control—is costly and slow, impeding large-scale, frequent updates. Recent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,025 Views
17 Pages

MPVT: An Efficient Multi-Modal Prompt Vision Tracker for Visual Target Tracking

  • Jianyu Xie,
  • Yan Fu,
  • Junlin Zhou,
  • Tianxiang He,
  • Xiaopeng Wang,
  • Yuke Fang and
  • Duanbing Chen

17 July 2025

Visual target tracking is a fundamental task in computer vision. Combining multi-modal information with tracking leverages complementary information, which improves the precision and robustness of trackers. Traditional multi-modal tracking methods ty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,202 Views
23 Pages

26 September 2024

Illegal waste dumping not only encroaches on land resources but also threatens the health of the surrounding residents. The traditional artificial waste monitoring solution requires professional workers to conduct field investigations. This solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,461 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2025

Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD), a prominent retrieval-augmented generation model, has demonstrated outstanding performance in open-domain question answering by effectively leveraging multiple passages. However, processing multiple passages significantly inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,274 Views
42 Pages

28 August 2025

To address the issues of inaccurate positioning, weak feature extraction capability, and poor cross-domain adaptability in the detection of surface defects of steel materials, this paper proposes an improved YOLOv11-EMD algorithm and integrates a mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
733 Views
26 Pages

24 May 2025

Multi-hop inter-domain wireless networks play a vital role in future heterogeneous communication systems by improving data transmission efficiency and security assurance. Despite the advances in secure routing techniques in areas such as node authent...

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

YOLOv5s-FP: A Novel Method for In-Field Pear Detection Using a Transformer Encoder and Multi-Scale Collaboration Perception

  • Yipu Li,
  • Yuan Rao,
  • Xiu Jin,
  • Zhaohui Jiang,
  • Yuwei Wang,
  • Tan Wang,
  • Fengyi Wang,
  • Qing Luo and
  • Lu Liu

20 December 2022

Precise pear detection and recognition is an essential step toward modernizing orchard management. However, due to the ubiquitous occlusion in orchards and various locations of image acquisition, the pears in the acquired images may be quite small an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,295 Views
14 Pages

A Real-Time Safety Helmet Wearing Detection Approach Based on CSYOLOv3

  • Haikuan Wang,
  • Zhaoyan Hu,
  • Yuanjun Guo,
  • Zhile Yang,
  • Feixiang Zhou and
  • Peng Xu

25 September 2020

In the practical scenario of construction sites with extremely complicated working environment and numerous personnel, it is challenging to detect safety helmet wearing (SHW) in real time on the premise of ensuring high precision performance. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,413 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2025

Abandoned objects on highways seriously threaten traffic safety, and their prompt identification and removal are crucial. Existing methods struggle to balance computational cost and detection accuracy due to the significant scale differences of aband...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,484 Views
33 Pages

30 May 2025

Women exhibit marked physiological transformations in pregnancy, mandating regular and holistic assessment. Maternal and fetal vitality is governed by a spectrum of clinical, demographic, and lifestyle factors throughout this critical period. The exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
741 Views
23 Pages

SS-OPDet: A Semi-Supervised Open-Set Detection Framework for Dead Pine Wood Detection

  • Xiaojian Lu,
  • Shiguo Huang,
  • Songqing Wu,
  • Feiping Zhang,
  • Mingqing Weng,
  • Jianlong Luo and
  • Xiaolin Li

28 May 2025

Pine wilt disease poses a significant threat to pine forests worldwide, necessitating efficient and accurate detection of dead pine wood for effective disease control and forest management. Traditional deep learning methods based on supervised closed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
869 Views
25 Pages

5 July 2025

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals are commonly employed for dynamic-gesture recognition. However, their robustness is often compromised by individual variability and sensor placement inconsistencies, limiting their reliability in complex and un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,988 Views
19 Pages

Lightweight UAV Small Target Detection and Perception Based on Improved YOLOv8-E

  • Yongjuan Zhao,
  • Lijin Wang,
  • Guannan Lei,
  • Chaozhe Guo and
  • Qiang Ma

19 November 2024

Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection methods struggle with multi-scale variations during flight, complex backgrounds, and low accuracy, whereas existing deep learning detection methods have high accuracy but high dependence on equipmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,286 Views
24 Pages

17 October 2024

In the field of hyperspectral image classification, deep learning technology, especially convolutional neural networks, has achieved remarkable progress. However, convolutional neural network models encounter challenges in hyperspectral image classif...

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