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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
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12 Pages

Data-Efficient Neural Network for Track Profile Modelling in Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing

  • Daiki Ikeuchi,
  • Alejandro Vargas-Uscategui,
  • Xiaofeng Wu and
  • Peter C. King

12 February 2021

Cold spray is emerging as an additive manufacturing technique, particularly advantageous when high production rate and large build sizes are in demand. To further accelerate technology’s industrial maturity, the problem of geometric control must be i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design for Additive Manufacturing: Methods and Tools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
921 Views
28 Pages

Edge-Aware, Data-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Progressive GANs for Multiband Antennas

  • Lung-Fai Tuen,
  • Ching-Lieh Li,
  • Yu-Jen Chi and
  • Po-Han Chen

22 November 2025

This study proposes a data-efficient fine-tuning strategy for multi-band antenna synthesis using a Wasserstein Auxiliary-Guided Progressive Growing GAN (WAG-PGGAN). Starting from a pretrained 512 × 512 dual-band PIFA-like generator trained on 4...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,981 Views
22 Pages

BSDR: A Data-Efficient Deep Learning-Based Hyperspectral Band Selection Algorithm Using Discrete Relaxation

  • Mohammad Rahman,
  • Shyh Wei Teng,
  • Manzur Murshed,
  • Manoranjan Paul and
  • David Brennan

4 December 2024

Hyperspectral band selection algorithms are crucial for processing high-dimensional data, which enables dimensionality reduction, improves data analysis, and enhances computational efficiency. Among these, attention-based algorithms have gained promi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectral Detection Technology, Sensors and Instruments, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,023 Views
19 Pages

7 November 2017

Target tracking is one of the broad applications of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). However, as a result of the temporal and spatial variability of acoustic channels, underwater acoustic communications suffer from an extremely limited ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in Underwater Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,536 Views
15 Pages

29 August 2021

Predicting evacuation demand, including its generation and dissipation process, for urban rail transit systems under disruptions, such as line and station closure, often requires comprehensive historical data recorded under homogeneous situations. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
583 Views
17 Pages

The static magnetic field from large seafloor exploration platforms severely interferes with weak geological signals. Accurately predicting and compensating for this interference is critical for deep-sea surveys. However, traditional inversion method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Wireless Power Transfer Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
637 Views
28 Pages

29 April 2026

This study addresses the challenge of accurate short-term bus travel time prediction in data-constrained urban environments. While many existing models rely on extensive external data, we propose a data-efficient spatiotemporal framework that integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation to Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
27 Pages

28 September 2026

Efficient multimodal instruction tuning requires reducing both training data volume and computational cost without substantially sacrificing downstream performance. Existing data selection methods can remove redundancy but cannot repair imperfect sup...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in Multimodal Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,550 Views
13 Pages

A Data-Efficient Training Method for Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Wenhui Feng,
  • Chongzhao Han,
  • Feng Lian and
  • Xia Liu

16 December 2022

Data inefficiency is one of the major challenges for deploying deep reinforcement learning algorithms widely in industry control fields, especially in regard to long-horizon sparse reward tasks. Even in a simulation-based environment, it is often pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
16 Pages

Early lithium-ion battery lifetime prediction is difficult because only a small fraction of a cell’s lifetime is observed when a prediction is needed. We evaluate a transparent, validation-tuned combination of a supervised early-cycle predictor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,686 Views
51 Pages

22 August 2025

This research evaluates the suitability of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) and Graph Attention Networks (GAT) for improving financial return predictions across 15 major worldwide stock indices. The proposed method uses graph modeling to represent...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,670 Views
34 Pages

Recent studies suggest that few-shot and zero-shot learning methods, drawing on meta-learning, self-supervised approaches and metric-learning ideas, can classify encrypted traffic (TLS 1.3 and QUIC) with competitive accuracy across different protocol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,959 Views
15 Pages

Generating synthetic data is a promising solution to the challenge of limited training data for industrial deep learning applications. However, training on synthetic data and testing on real-world data creates a sim-to-real domain gap. Research has s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
723 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Curriculum Learning for Data-Efficient Lung Nodule Detection with YOLOv11

  • Yi Luo,
  • Yike Guo,
  • Hamed Hooshangnejad,
  • Xue Feng,
  • Quan Chen,
  • Zongwei Zhou,
  • Yaxi Chen,
  • Yipeng Hu,
  • Rui Zhang and
  • Kai Ding

Background/Objectives: Accurate detection of pulmonary nodules on chest CT is critical for lung cancer screening, yet training robust detectors remains challenging due to the high cost of reliable annotations. In this work, we present a systematic st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Medical Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,426 Views
17 Pages

UAV Image Multi-Labeling with Data-Efficient Transformers

  • Laila Bashmal,
  • Yakoub Bazi,
  • Mohamad Mahmoud Al Rahhal,
  • Haikel Alhichri and
  • Naif Al Ajlan

27 April 2021

In this paper, we present an approach for the multi-label classification of remote sensing images based on data-efficient transformers. During the training phase, we generated a second view for each image from the training set using data augmentation...

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

21 October 2026

Automated pneumonia screening from chest X-rays (CXRs) faces two coupled difficulties. Annotated radiographs are scarce. The disease also presents in two forms at once: focal lobar consolidation and diffuse interstitial infiltration. Purely spatial e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,158 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2026

This study aimed to develop and validate a physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework for data-efficient and physically consistent process optimization in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of Inconel 718 (IN718) superalloy. Laser powder bed fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials: Experiments and Modelling)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,728 Views
4 Pages

Accelerating Urban Drainage Simulations: A Data-Efficient GNN Metamodel for SWMM Flowrates

  • Alexander Garzón,
  • Zoran Kapelan,
  • Jeroen Langeveld and
  • Riccardo Taormina

13 September 2024

Computational models for water resources often experience slow execution times, limiting their application. Metamodels, especially those based on machine learning, offer a promising alternative. Our research extends a prior Graph Neural Network (GNN)...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024))
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,680 Views
39 Pages

21 April 2026

Deep learning has revolutionized medical image segmentation; however, the clinical deployment of state-of-the-art models is severely impeded by their quadratic computational complexity and substantial resource demands, particularly in multisensor and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multisensor Image and Video Processing: Methods and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,296 Views
15 Pages

Accurate photovoltaic (PV) power prediction under limited experimental data remains a significant challenge, particularly when purely data-driven models generate predictions that violate fundamental physical constraints. This study proposes a physics...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Designs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,782 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2025

Coal, as a vital global energy resource, directly impacts the efficiency of power generation and environmental protection. Thus, rapid and accurate coal quality analysis is essential to promote its clean and efficient utilization. However, combined n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Perception and Recognition: Method and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,490 Views
20 Pages

Sentinel-2 Satellite-Derived Bathymetry with Data-Efficient Domain Adaptation

  • Christos G. E. Anagnostopoulos,
  • Vassilios Papaioannou,
  • Konstantinos Vlachos,
  • Anastasia Moumtzidou,
  • Ilias Gialampoukidis,
  • Stefanos Vrochidis and
  • Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) enables the efficient mapping of shallow waters such as coastal zones but typically requires extensive local ground truth data to achieve high accuracy. This study evaluates the effectiveness of transfer learning in...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,879 Views
14 Pages

Fast Characterization of Input-Output Behavior of Non-Charge-Based Logic Devices by Machine Learning

  • Arun Kaintura,
  • Kyle Foss,
  • Odysseas Zografos,
  • Ivo Couckuyt,
  • Adrien Vaysset,
  • Tom Dhaene and
  • Bart Sorée

Non-charge-based logic devices are promising candidates for the replacement of conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) devices. These devices utilize magnetic properties to store or process information making them power efficient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New CMOS Devices and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,944 Views
25 Pages

18 December 2020

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising direction in automated parking systems (APSs), as integrating planning and tracking control using RL can potentially maximize the overall performance. However, commonly used model-free RL requires many inter...

(This article belongs to the Collection Signal Processing, Control, and Estimation for Intelligent Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
471 Views
29 Pages

Anchor-Guided Discriminative Semantic Expansion for Point-Supervised Video Moment Localization

  • Zhaoliang Zhou,
  • Longqiang Pang,
  • Zhen Li,
  • Zhongsheng He,
  • Jiqian Zhang,
  • Jiecai Zheng and
  • Xueqing Li

With the rapid growth of real-world untrimmed videos, video moment localization (VML) has become a fundamental task in query-guided video understanding, aiming to identify the temporal moment that semantically matches a natural language query. Althou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning for Open-World Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Views
27 Pages
J. Imaging2026, 12(10), 517;https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging12100517 
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16 October 2026

Aircraft-door detection is a key perception component for automated passenger boarding bridges, but its performance can degrade substantially under limited annotations, illumination changes, partial occlusion, and viewpoint variation. To address this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Image Analysis in Scientific and Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,678 Views
13 Pages

Data-Free and Data-Efficient Physics-Informed Neural Network Approaches to Solve the Buckley–Leverett Problem

  • Waleed Diab,
  • Omar Chaabi,
  • Wenjuan Zhang,
  • Muhammad Arif,
  • Shayma Alkobaisi and
  • Mohammed Al Kobaisi

23 October 2022

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are an emerging technology in the scientific computing domain. Contrary to data-driven methods, PINNs have been shown to be able to approximate and generalize well a wide range of partial differential equation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Reservoir Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,495 Views
21 Pages

Data-Efficient Bone Segmentation Using Feature Pyramid- Based SegFormer

  • Naohiro Masuda,
  • Keiko Ono,
  • Daisuke Tawara,
  • Yusuke Matsuura and
  • Kentaro Sakabe

26 December 2024

The semantic segmentation of bone structures demands pixel-level classification accuracy to create reliable bone models for diagnosis. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are commonly used for segmentation, they often struggle with complex sha...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,143 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2024

A data-efficient training method, namely Q-AL-GPR, is proposed for visible light positioning (VLP) systems with Gaussian process regression (GPR). The proposed method employs the methodology of active learning (AL) to progressively update the effecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leveraging Machine Learning for Enhanced Indoor Positioning Accuracy and Reliability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,759 Views
26 Pages

We propose a data-efficient framework for automating sowing operations by agricultural robots in densely mixed polyculture environments. This study addresses the challenge of enabling robots to identify suitable sowing positions with minimal labeled...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Progress on Agricultural Equipments for Precision Planting and Harvesting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,813 Views
31 Pages

Alleviate Data Scarcity in Remanufacturing: Classifying the Reusability of Parts with Data-Efficient Generative Adversarial Networks (DE-GANs)

  • Maximilian Herold,
  • Engjëll Ahmeti,
  • Naga Sai Teja Kolakaleti,
  • Cagatay Odabasi,
  • Jan Koller and
  • Frank Döpper

8 September 2025

Remanufacturing, a key element of the circular economy, enables products and parts to have new life cycles through a systematic process. Initially, used products (cores) are visually inspected and categorized according to their manufacturer and varia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanical, Control, Geological, Sensing, and Intelligent Detection Engineering: Integration and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,770 Views
21 Pages

13 January 2025

This study explores the impact of transfer learning on enhancing deep learning models for detecting defects in aero-engine components. We focused on metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and loss to compare the performance of models VGG19 and...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
34 Pages

21 July 2026

The intricate nature of multi-class histopathological images, combined with pronounced class imbalances, complicates automated breast cancer diagnosis and demands AI models capable of generalizing well beyond often limited training data. To address t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Image Classification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
453 Views
10 Pages

Pretrained 3D Molecular Representations Enable Data-Efficient Discovery of High-Energy-Density Fuels

  • Wenxi Zhai,
  • Jinzhe Zeng,
  • Shuwen Zhang,
  • Zhaolin Fu,
  • Weiping Zheng,
  • Sining Wang,
  • Wenting Chen,
  • Shuanhu Gao and
  • Tong Zhu

7 September 2026

High-energy-density hydrocarbon (HEDH) fuels are essential for aerospace propulsion, yet the design of such fuels is limited by the scarcity of reliable property data. In this work, we fine-tuned Uni-Mol, a pretrained three-dimensional (3D) molecular...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Big Data in Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Classification of Data and Information in the AI Era: Towards Compliance and Efficient Data Management

  • John Lindström,
  • Peter Boström,
  • Andreas Sikström and
  • Karl Andersson

21 October 2026

In the era of increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools and services, AI agents, and agentic AI within organizations on data originating from multiple sources, it is becoming necessary for organizations to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Information Science and Distributed Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
559 Views
24 Pages

A Data-Efficient Surrogate Model via Simplified Feature Extraction and Pre-Training for Automatic History Matching

  • Yisen Qin,
  • Huayu Li,
  • Xiangling Meng,
  • Xiao He,
  • Jinding Zhang and
  • Haijun Zhang

19 May 2026

Automatic history matching traditionally depends on a large number of time-consuming numerical simulations, which makes the overall workflow computationally expensive. Deep learning-based surrogate models provide an efficient alternative, but their p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Oil and Gas Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
14 Pages

Data-Efficient Unsupervised Recalibration of Calorimeter Sensor Arrays Using Wasserstein Adversarial Learning

  • Saraa Ali,
  • Vladimir Bocharnikov,
  • Fedor Ratnikov,
  • Mikhail Hushchyn,
  • Artem Ryzhikov and
  • Denis Derkach

7 August 2026

Large distributed sensor arrays require repeated recalibration as radiation damage, material aging, gain variation, and readout drift alter channel responses. We studied a high-granularity calorimeter as a large sensor array and addressed unsupervise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensor Calibration: Techniques, Devices and Methodologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
947 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2026

Background/Objectives: Breast ultrasound is widely used for the diagnostic evaluation of breast lesions; however, reliable lesion characterization remains challenging due to substantial image heterogeneity and the limited size of most clinically avai...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,842 Views
11 Pages

Hyperspectral Data: Efficient and Secure Transmission

  • Raffaele Pizzolante and
  • Bruno Carpentieri

30 November 2017

Airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral sensors collect information which is derived from the electromagnetic spectrum of an observed area. Hyperspectral data are used in several studies and they are an important aid in different real-life applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Citations
13,617 Views
18 Pages

27 March 2020

European buildings are producing a massive amount of data from a wide spectrum of energy-related sources, such as smart meters’ data, sensors and other Internet of things devices, creating new research challenges. In this context, the aim of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Buildings for Citizens, Cities and Communities)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,197 Views
5 Pages

Energy efficient retrofitting projects of urban areas require to analyze data from multiple sources and domains—BIM, GIS, statistics, energy data, and climate. An interoperability solution is needed to overcome the semantic and structural heterogenei...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of the Sustainable Places 2017 (SP2017) Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
624 Views
25 Pages

Background/Objectives: Survival prediction in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains challenging, particularly in limited-sample settings where end-to-end deep learning models may suffer from limited generalization. This study aimed to develop a...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
830 Views
23 Pages

Resilient Assembly Supervision: A Synthetic-to-Real Semantic Twin Pipeline for Data-Efficient Operator Guidance

  • Luis Vilas Boas,
  • João M. Faria,
  • Joaquin Dillen,
  • José Figueiredo,
  • Luís Cardoso,
  • João Borges and
  • Antonio H. J. Moreira

Manual assembly remains critical in Industry 5.0 high-mix/low-volume manufacturing, but it introduces resilience challenges due to cognitive load, training demands and frequent product changes. While AI-based supervision can mitigate errors, deployin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
26 Pages

17 September 2026

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an emerging biometric trait because it is difficult to steal or forge and requires acquisition from living subjects. However, many EEG-based person identification methods rely on large enrollment datasets, increasing a...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,040 Views
11 Pages

MEOD: Memory-Efficient Outlier Detection on Streaming Data

  • Ankita Karale,
  • Milena Lazarova,
  • Pavlina Koleva and
  • Vladimir Poulkov

12 March 2021

In this paper, a memory-efficient outlier detection (MEOD) approach for streaming data is proposed. The approach uses a local correlation integral (LOCI) algorithm for outlier detection, finding the outlier based on the density of neighboring points...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,172 Views
11 Pages

Efficient Estimation and Validation of Shrinkage Estimators in Big Data Analytics

  • Salomi du Plessis,
  • Mohammad Arashi,
  • Gaonyalelwe Maribe and
  • Salomon M. Millard

13 November 2023

Shrinkage estimators are often used to mitigate the consequences of multicollinearity in linear regression models. Despite the ease with which these techniques can be applied to small- or moderate-size datasets, they encounter significant challenges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning, Statistics and Big Data)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,573 Views
9 Pages

Secure and Efficient Biometric Data Streaming with IoT for Wearable Healthcare

  • Nikolaos Tournatzis,
  • Stylianos Katsoulis,
  • Ioannis Chrysovalantis Panagou,
  • Evangelos Nannos,
  • Ioannis Christakis and
  • Grigorios Koulouras

15 February 2026

The growing adoption of wearable devices creates a critical need for robust and secure Internet of Things solutions to manage biometric data streams. Current architectures often lack emphasis on seamless data capture, secure cloud storage and integra...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 6th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,385 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Data-Hiding Scheme Based on Multidimensional Mini-SuDoKu

  • Ji-Hwei Horng,
  • Shuying Xu,
  • Ching-Chun Chang and
  • Chin-Chen Chang

11 May 2020

The massive Internet of Things (IoT) connecting various types of intelligent sensors for goods tracking in logistics, environmental monitoring and smart grid management is a crucial future ICT. High-end security and low power consumption are major re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the First International Symposium on Future ICT (Future-ICT 2019) in Conjunction with 4th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec 2019))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,094 Views
26 Pages

An Efficient and Fair Map-Data-Sharing Mechanism for Vehicular Networks

  • Kuan Fan,
  • Qingdong Liu,
  • Chuchu Liu,
  • Ning Lu and
  • Wenbo Shi

With the rapid advancement in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving has emerged as a prominent research frontier. Autonomous vehicles rely on high-precision high-definition map data, necessitating timely map updates by map companies to accurate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptography and Computer Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,565 Views
13 Pages

Efficient Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for AMBTC-Compressed Images

  • Chia-Chen Lin,
  • Thai-Son Nguyen,
  • Chin-Chen Chang and
  • Wen-Chi Chang

22 July 2021

Reversible data hiding has attracted significant attention from researchers because it can extract an embedded secret message correctly and recover a cover image without distortion. In this paper, a novel, efficient reversible data hiding scheme is p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing)

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