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28 Citations
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Photovoltaic Module Fault Detection Based on a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Shiue-Der Lu,
  • Meng-Hui Wang,
  • Shao-En Wei,
  • Hwa-Dong Liu and
  • Chia-Chun Wu

10 September 2021

With the rapid development of solar energy, the photovoltaic (PV) module fault detection plays an important role in knowing how to enhance the reliability of the solar photovoltaic system and knowing the fault type when a system problem occurs. There...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Power Electronics Technologies in Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,838 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2023

Stereo 3D object detection remains a crucial challenge within the realm of 3D vision. In the pursuit of enhancing stereo 3D object detection, feature fusion has emerged as a potent strategy. However, the design of the feature fusion module and the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
18,072 Views
14 Pages

Deepfake Video Detection Based on MesoNet with Preprocessing Module

  • Zhiming Xia,
  • Tong Qiao,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Xiaoshuai Wu,
  • Li Han and
  • Yunzhi Chen

5 May 2022

With the development of computer hardware and deep learning, face manipulation videos represented by Deepfake have been widely spread on social media. From the perspective of symmetry, many forensics methods have been raised, while most detection per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Communication and Privacy in Internet of Things: Symmetry and Advances)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,250 Views
14 Pages

Stain Detection Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hyperspectral Photovoltaic Module

  • Da Li,
  • Lan Li,
  • Mingyang Cui,
  • Pengliang Shi,
  • Yintong Shi,
  • Jian Zhu,
  • Sui Dai and
  • Meiping Song

29 December 2023

Solar power generation has great development potential as an abundant and clean energy source. However, many factors affect the efficiency of the photovoltaic (PV) module; among these factors, outdoor PV modules are inevitably affected by stains, thu...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,188 Views
12 Pages

29 October 2022

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to recognize actions as well as their corresponding time spans from an input video. While techniques exist that accurately recognize actions from manually trimmed videos, current TAD solutions often struggle to id...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Embedded Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
24,425 Views
40 Pages

A Review of Photovoltaic Module Failure and Degradation Mechanisms: Causes and Detection Techniques

  • Hussain Al Mahdi,
  • Paul G. Leahy,
  • Mohammad Alghoul and
  • Alan P. Morrison

9 January 2024

With the global increase in the deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules in recent years, the need to explore and understand their reported failure mechanisms has become crucial. Despite PV modules being considered reliable devices, failures and extre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics Architectures and Associated Control for Efficient and Reliable Solar PV Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,932 Views
21 Pages

An Improved YOLOv5 Algorithm for Bamboo Strip Defect Detection Based on the Ghost Module

  • Ru-Xiao Yang,
  • Yan-Ru Lee,
  • Fu-Shin Lee,
  • Zhenying Liang and
  • Yang Liu

23 August 2024

Detecting surface defects in bamboo strips is essential for producing Asian bamboo products. Currently, the detection of surface defects in bamboo strips mainly relies on manual labor. The labor intensity is high, and the detection efficiency is low....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Development of Smart Forestry: Machine and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,593 Views
15 Pages

The payload module of a high-throughput satellite involves the complex assembly of various components, which plays a vital role in maintaining the satellite’s structural and functional integrity. To support this, inspections during the assembly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,685 Views
13 Pages

MDSN: A Module Detection Method for Identifying High-Order Epistatic Interactions

  • Yan Sun,
  • Yijun Gu,
  • Qianqian Ren,
  • Yiting Li,
  • Junliang Shang,
  • Jin-Xing Liu and
  • Boxin Guan

18 December 2022

Epistatic interactions are referred to as SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that affect disease development and trait expression nonlinearly, and hence identifying epistatic interactions plays a great role in explaining the pathogenesis and gene...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,794 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2022

For the problem of low resolution of camera module lens surface defect image, small target and blurred defect details leading to low detection accuracy, a camera module lens surface defect detection algorithm YOLOv5s-Defect based on improved YOLOv5s...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,481 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2023

Recent advances in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection have a trade-off between accuracy and computational cost in various industrial tasks and essential consideration. However, the fully convolutional one-stage detector (FCOS)...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,576 Views
15 Pages

Acoustic Detection Module Design of a Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensor

  • Tingting Wei,
  • Hongpeng Wu,
  • Lei Dong and
  • Frank K. Tittel

4 March 2019

This review aims to discuss the latest advancements of an acoustic detection module (ADM) based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS). Starting from guidelines for the design of an ADM, the ADM design philosophy is described. This is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensing and Imaging, from UV to THz Range)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,390 Views
17 Pages

Sorghum Spike Detection Method Based on Gold Feature Pyramid Module and Improved YOLOv8s

  • Shujin Qiu,
  • Jian Gao,
  • Mengyao Han,
  • Qingliang Cui,
  • Xiangyang Yuan and
  • Cuiqing Wu

27 December 2024

In order to solve the problems of high planting density, similar color, and serious occlusion between spikes in sorghum fields, such as difficult identification and detection of sorghum spikes, low accuracy and high false detection, and missed detect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and AI Technologies in Intelligent Agriculture: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,112 Views
13 Pages

Salient Object Detection Combining a Self-Attention Module and a Feature Pyramid Network

  • Guangyu Ren,
  • Tianhong Dai,
  • Panagiotis Barmpoutis and
  • Tania Stathaki

16 October 2020

Salient object detection has achieved great improvements by using the Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause dilution problems in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample operations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
399 Views
17 Pages

Photovoltaic Module Surface Defect Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8s

  • Chengjie Zhong,
  • Hao Zhu,
  • Jinyi Huang,
  • Yanchong Feng,
  • Longyang Liu and
  • Weijia Zheng

22 July 2026

Overcoming the limited accuracy and poor multi-scale feature capture of conventional vision methods, we present a lightweight, highly precise YOLOv8s detector tailored for PV surface defects. First, the C2f module in the backbone network is structura...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,160 Views
21 Pages

Deep-sea pipeline target detection is a critical component in enhancing the efficiency of ocean resource exploitation. Traditional methods for underwater pipeline detection encounter numerous challenges, such as low brightness, high blur, and interfe...

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

14 May 2026

Steel surface quality critically determines the service safety and structural reliability of industrial products. Defects such as cracks, inclusions, patches, pitting, rolled-in scale, and scratches severely compromise product safety, making accurate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mechanical Materials: Damage Identification and Fatigue Life Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,249 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2021

Apple flower detection is an important project in the apple planting stage. This paper proposes an optimized detection network model based on a generative module and pruning inference. Due to the problems of instability, non-convergence, and overfitt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,707 Views
16 Pages

A Study on the Improvement of Efficiency by Detection Solar Module Faults in Deteriorated Photovoltaic Power Plants

  • Myeong-Hwan Hwang,
  • Young-Gon Kim,
  • Hae-Sol Lee,
  • Young-Dae Kim and
  • Hyun-Rok Cha

13 January 2021

In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) power generation has attracted considerable attention as a new eco-friendly and renewable energy generation technology. With the recent development of semiconductor manufacturing technologies, PV power generation is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Operation and Maintenance in Solar Plants, Wind Farms and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,250 Views
25 Pages

13 September 2025

Aiming at the real-time object detection requirements of the intelligent control system for laboratory item transportation in mobile embedded unmanned vehicles, this paper proposes a lightweight hybrid detection system based on the OpenMV vision modu...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
985 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2026

Given the rising global demand for environmentally sustainable energy sources, solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation has emerged as a pivotal component of the energy transition. In PV systems, power conversion efficiency is degraded and operationa...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,777 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Mechanical Vehicle Battery Module Simulation Model Combined with Short Circuit Detection

  • Klemens Jantscher,
  • Heimo Kreimaier,
  • Alem Miralem and
  • Christoph Breitfuss

3 December 2024

In recent years, electric vehicles (EVs) have gained significant traction within the automotive industry, driven by the societal push towards climate neutrality. These vehicles predominantly utilize lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for storing electric t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,503 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2022

Small object detection is one of the challenging tasks in computer vision. Most of the existing small object detection models cannot fully extract the characteristics of small objects within an image, due to the small coverage area, low resolution an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Based Object Detection II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,394 Views
19 Pages

Cascaded U-Net with Training Wheel Attention Module for Change Detection in Satellite Images

  • Elyar Adil,
  • Xiangli Yang,
  • Pingping Huang,
  • Xiaolong Liu,
  • Weixian Tan and
  • Jianxi Yang

15 December 2022

Change detection is an important application of remote sensing image interpretation, which identifies changed areas of interest from a pair of bi-temporal remote sensing images. Various deep-learning-based approaches have demonstrated promising resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,408 Views
10 Pages

5 November 2022

Along with global efforts to reduce the carbon footprint, electrification of powertrains is occurring in various applications, certainly including transportation systems. One of the most important components is an electric energy storage system, i.e....

(This article belongs to the Section Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,386 Views
23 Pages

20 October 2025

Photovoltaic systems are a core component of eco-friendly energy technologies and are now widely utilized across the world for power generation. However, solar modules that are continuously exposed to the external environment experience gradual perfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Condition Monitoring of Electrical Equipment Within Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
899 Views
14 Pages

1 October 2025

In this paper, a target detection network algorithm based on a multi-branch convolution and attention improvement Cross-Stage Partial-Fusion Bottleneck with Two Convolutions (C2F) module is proposed for the difficult task of detecting small targets i...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,641 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2021

The automatic detection of aircrafts from SAR images is widely applied in both military and civil fields, but there are still considerable challenges. To address the high variety of aircraft sizes and complex background information in SAR images, a n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Remote Sensing Imagery Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
467 Views
23 Pages

4 March 2026

Reliable traffic sign detection is essential for the safety of autonomous driving systems. However, manually annotating large-scale datasets for this task is resource-intensive, making semi-supervised learning (SSL) a vital alternative. Despite their...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,199 Views
12 Pages

Single-Photon Detection Module Based on Large-Area Silicon Photomultipliers for Time-Domain Diffuse Optics

  • Fabio Acerbi,
  • Anurag Behera,
  • Alberto Dalla Mora,
  • Laura Di Sieno and
  • Alberto Gola

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are pixelated single-photon detectors combining high sensitivity, good time resolution and high dynamic range. They are emerging in many fields, such as time-domain diffuse optics (TD-DO). This is a promising technique...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Instruments 2021–2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
903 Views
22 Pages

23 April 2026

Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is widely used for photovoltaic (PV) module inspection, yet EL defect detection remains challenging due to the need for high-resolution inputs, low-contrast defects, and strong structured background patterns. To addre...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,356 Views
9 Pages

Advanced Driver Fatigue Detection by Integration of OpenCV DNN Module and Deep Learning

  • Muzammil Parvez M.,
  • Srinivas Allanki,
  • Govindaswamy Sudhagar,
  • Ernest Ravindran R. S.,
  • Chella Santosh,
  • Ali Baig Mohammed and
  • Mohd. Abdul Muqeet

13 March 2023

Road safety is significantly impacted by drowsiness or weariness, which primarily contributes to auto accidents. If drowsy drivers are informed in advance, many fatal incidents can be avoided. Over the past 20 to 30 years, the number of road accident...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on “Holography Meets Advanced Manufacturing”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,136 Views
15 Pages

A Vibration Signal Detection System Based on Double Intensity Modulation

  • Ju Wang,
  • Kerui He,
  • Jinlong Yu,
  • Hao Luo,
  • Qi Shao and
  • Chuang Ma

The measurement system proposed in this paper, based on double intensity modulation, can achieve the detection and recovery of vibration signals. The system uses a Mach–Zehnder modulator to modulate the intensity of the laser light before and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,052 Views
15 Pages

Machine Learning for 5G MIMO Modulation Detection

  • Haithem Ben Chikha,
  • Ahmad Almadhor and
  • Waqas Khalid

24 February 2021

Modulation detection techniques have received much attention in recent years due to their importance in the military and commercial applications, such as software-defined radio and cognitive radios. Most of the existing modulation detection algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Physical-Layer Technologies for beyond 5G Wireless Communication Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
18,722 Views
21 Pages

A Deep Learning Framework for Signal Detection and Modulation Classification

  • Xiong Zha,
  • Hua Peng,
  • Xin Qin,
  • Guang Li and
  • Sihan Yang

19 September 2019

Deep learning (DL) is a powerful technique which has achieved great success in many applications. However, its usage in communication systems has not been well explored. This paper investigates algorithms for multi-signals detection and modulation cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Signal and Information Processing III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,094 Views
14 Pages

Foreign Object Shading Detection in Photovoltaic Modules Based on Transfer Learning

  • Bin Liu,
  • Qingda Kong,
  • Hongyu Zhu,
  • Dongdong Zhang,
  • Hui Hwang Goh and
  • Thomas Wu

24 March 2023

As a representative new energy source, solar energy has the advantages of easy access to resources and low pollution. However, due to the uncertainty of the external environment, photovoltaic (PV) modules that collect solar energy are often covered b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
887 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2026

Detecting structural defects is one of the primary challenges engineers face. Consequently, the development of techniques and methods capable of detecting structural defects has always been critical. It should be emphasized that crack detection is on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,948 Views
17 Pages

Using Energy Particle Detection Technology on the Tiangong’s Space Station’s Wentian Laboratory Cabin Module

  • Guohong Shen,
  • Shenyi Zhang,
  • Xianguo Zhang,
  • Huanxin Zhang,
  • Bin Yuan,
  • Donghui Hou,
  • Chunqin Wang,
  • Zida Quan,
  • Zhe Yang and
  • Yueqiang Sun

To conduct real-time monitoring of the particle radiation environment in the orbit of the Tiangong space station, the installation of an energy particle detector operating on the outside of Wentian laboratory cabin module is proposed. Monitoring the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,980 Views
30 Pages

14 November 2020

Object detection is one of the core technologies in aerial image processing and analysis. Although existing aerial image object detection methods based on deep learning have made some progress, there are still some problems remained: (1) Most existin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Views
28 Pages

Process-Aware Feature Modulation for Fine-Grained Connector Detection

  • Ziang Wang,
  • Xitian Tian,
  • Yolanda Bolea,
  • Antoni Grau,
  • Edmundo Guerra,
  • Yuntong Chen,
  • Fan Yang and
  • Liping Ma

21 August 2026

While deep learning has significantly improved the accuracy of visual detection systems, the integration of process semantics with visual perception for industrial assembly tasks remains largely unexplored. This study aims to develop a high-accuracy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Smart Mobility and Industrial Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,002 Views
8 Pages

In this paper, we propose new complex and real pair-wise detection for conventional differential space–time modulations based on quasi-orthogonal design with four transmit antennas for general QAM. Since the new complex and real pair-wise detections...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Waveform Design for 5G and beyond Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,062 Views
11 Pages

Parameter Optimization for Modulation-Enhanced External Cavity Resonant Frequency in Fiber Fault Detection

  • Xiuzhu Li,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Haoran Guo,
  • Zixiong Shi,
  • Yuanyuan Guo,
  • Tong Zhao and
  • Anbang Wang

Fiber fault detection is crucial for maintaining the quality of optical communication, especially in well-established optical access networks with extended distances and a growing number of subscribers. However, the increasing insertion loss in fiber...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fiber Optics and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,810 Views
21 Pages

8 October 2024

The significance of detecting faint and diminutive space targets cannot be overstated, as it underpins the preservation of Earth’s orbital environment’s safety and long-term sustainability. Founded by the different response characteristic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Infrared Target Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
27 Pages

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is a core capability for spectrum monitoring, adaptive receivers, and electronic support. Most radio-frequency machine learning (RFML) studies train multi-class classifiers on benchmark datasets that contain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,515 Views
10 Pages

12 February 2021

Three-dimensional (3D) object detection is essential in autonomous driving. Three-dimensional (3D) Lidar sensor can capture three-dimensional objects, such as vehicles, cycles, pedestrians, and other objects on the road. Although Lidar can generate p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,205 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2023

Wind turbines (WT) are a popular method used in energy production, but blade failure and maintenance costs pose significant challenges for the industry. Early detection of blade defects is vital to prevent collapse. This paper examines the modulation...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
916 Views
15 Pages

22 November 2025

The increasing deployment of photovoltaic (PV) installations presents critical challenges related to module safety and efficiency. Early detection of hotspots on PV modules is crucial to prevent degradation and mitigate fire risk. This study investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
305 Views
24 Pages

Code Index Modulation (CIM) schemes usually rely on large orthogonal spreading codebooks to improve their index-carrying capability, resulting in high codebook resource consumption and a rapidly increasing receiver-side detection complexity. To addre...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,146 Views
19 Pages

Multispectral object detection is a crucial technology in remote sensing image processing, particularly in low-light environments. Most current methods extract features at a single scale, resulting in the fusion of invalid features and the failure to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,816 Views
14 Pages

Non-Destructive Failure Detection and Visualization of Artificially and Naturally Aged PV Modules

  • Gabriele C. Eder,
  • Yuliya Voronko,
  • Christina Hirschl,
  • Rita Ebner,
  • Gusztáv Újvári and
  • Wolfgang Mühleisen

25 April 2018

Several series of six-cell photovoltaic test-modules—intact and with deliberately generated failures (micro-cracks, cell cracks, glass breakage and connection defects)—were artificially and naturally aged. They were exposed to various str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PV System Design and Performance)

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