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Artificial Intelligence-Based Plant Disease Classification in Low-Light Environments

  • Hafiz Ali Hamza Gondal,
  • Seong In Jeong,
  • Won Ho Jang,
  • Jun Seo Kim,
  • Rehan Akram,
  • Muhammad Irfan,
  • Muhammad Hamza Tariq and
  • Kang Ryoung Park

The accurate classification of plant diseases is vital for global food security, as diseases can cause major yield losses and threaten sustainable and precision agriculture. The classification of plant diseases in low-light noisy environments is cruc...

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  • Open Access
1,309 Views
21 Pages

11 December 2024

In order to achieve infrared aircraft detection under interference conditions, this paper proposes an infrared aircraft detection algorithm based on high-resolution feature-enhanced semantic segmentation network. Firstly, the designed location attent...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,683 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2022

The objects in remote sensing images have large-scale variations, arbitrary directions, and are usually densely arranged, and small objects are easily submerged by background noises. They all hinder accurate object detection. To address the above pro...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,368 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2023

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of images captured under low-light conditions. This paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network to enhance low-light image quality. Firstly, it designs a generator consistin...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,998 Views
28 Pages

16 October 2021

Traditional pixel-based semantic segmentation methods for road extraction take each pixel as the recognition unit. Therefore, they are constrained by the restricted receptive field, in which pixels do not receive global road information. These phenom...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,258 Views
24 Pages

Active Fire Detection from Landsat-8 Imagery Using Deep Multiple Kernel Learning

  • Amirhossein Rostami,
  • Reza Shah-Hosseini,
  • Shabnam Asgari,
  • Arastou Zarei,
  • Mohammad Aghdami-Nia and
  • Saeid Homayouni

17 February 2022

Active fires are devastating natural disasters that cause socio-economical damage across the globe. The detection and mapping of these disasters require efficient tools, scientific methods, and reliable observations. Satellite images have been widely...

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  • Open Access
1,147 Views
22 Pages

30 March 2025

Anomaly detection in oil and gas pipelines based on acoustic signals currently faces challenges, including limited anomalous samples, varying audio data distributions across different operating conditions, and interference from background noise. Thes...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
830 Views
24 Pages

MFPI-Net: A Multi-Scale Feature Perception and Interaction Network for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing Images

  • Xiaofei Song,
  • Mingju Chen,
  • Jie Rao,
  • Yangming Luo,
  • Zhihao Lin,
  • Xingyue Zhang,
  • Senyuan Li and
  • Xiao Hu

27 July 2025

To improve semantic segmentation performance for complex urban remote sensing images with multi-scale object distribution, class similarity, and small object omission, this paper proposes MFPI-Net, an encoder–decoder-based semantic segmentation...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,360 Views
20 Pages

EMR-YOLO: A Study of Efficient Maritime Rescue Identification Algorithms

  • Jun Zhang,
  • Yiming Hua,
  • Luya Chen,
  • Li Li,
  • Xudong Shen,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Shuai Wu,
  • Yunfan Fu,
  • Chunfeng Lv and
  • Jianping Zhu

Accurate target identification of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-captured images is a prerequisite for maritime rescue and maritime surveillance. However, UAV-captured images pose several challenges, such as complex maritime backgrounds, tiny targets,...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,695 Views
13 Pages

Method for Segmentation of Litchi Branches Based on the Improved DeepLabv3+

  • Jiaxing Xie,
  • Tingwei Jing,
  • Binhan Chen,
  • Jiajun Peng,
  • Xiaowei Zhang,
  • Peihua He,
  • Huili Yin,
  • Daozong Sun,
  • Weixing Wang and
  • Ao Xiao
  • + 2 authors

11 November 2022

It is necessary to develop automatic picking technology to improve the efficiency of litchi picking, and the accurate segmentation of litchi branches is the key that allows robots to complete the picking task. To solve the problem of inaccurate segme...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,216 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2023

In industrial applications, thermal infrared images, which are commonly used, often suffer from issues such as low contrast and blurred details. Traditional image enhancement algorithms are limited in their effectiveness in improving the visual quali...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,963 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2024

Recently, with the remarkable advancements of deep learning in the field of image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have garnered widespread attention from researchers in the domain of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Moreover...

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  • Open Access
1,760 Views
17 Pages

13 April 2024

In satellite remote sensing images, the existence of clouds has an occlusion effect on ground information. Different degrees of clouds make it difficult for existing models to accurately detect clouds in images due to complex scenes. The detection an...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,974 Views
18 Pages

Multi-View Stereo Network Based on Attention Mechanism and Neural Volume Rendering

  • Daixian Zhu,
  • Haoran Kong,
  • Qiang Qiu,
  • Xiaoman Ruan and
  • Shulin Liu

10 November 2023

Due to the presence of regions with weak textures or non-Lambertian surfaces, feature matching in learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) algorithms often leads to incorrect matches, resulting in the construction of the flawed cost volume and incomple...

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  • Open Access
591 Views
15 Pages

8 July 2025

Detecting small targets in infrared imagery remains highly challenging due to sub-pixel target sizes, low signal-to-noise ratios, and complex background clutter. This paper proposes PSHNet, a hybrid deep-learning framework that combines dense spatial...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,635 Views
19 Pages

Improved U-Net for Growth Stage Recognition of In-Field Maize

  • Tianyu Wan,
  • Yuan Rao,
  • Xiu Jin,
  • Fengyi Wang,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Yali Shu and
  • Shaowen Li

31 May 2023

Precise recognition of maize growth stages in the field is one of the critical steps in conducting precision irrigation and crop growth evaluation. However, due to the ever-changing environmental factors and maize growth characteristics, traditional...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,856 Views
31 Pages

25 July 2022

Infrared small-target detection has widespread influences on anti-missile warning, precise weapon guidance, infrared stealth and anti-stealth, military reconnaissance, and other national defense fields. However, small targets are easily submerged in...

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  • Open Access
659 Views
19 Pages

Low-Damage Grasp Method for Plug Seedlings Based on Machine Vision and Deep Learning

  • Fengwei Yuan,
  • Gengzhen Ren,
  • Zhang Xiao,
  • Erjie Sun,
  • Guoning Ma,
  • Shuaiyin Chen,
  • Zhenlong Li,
  • Zhenhong Zou and
  • Xiangjiang Wang

4 June 2025

In the process of plug seedling transplantation, the cracking and dropping of seedling substrate or the damage of seedling stems and leaves will affect the survival rate of seedlings after transplantation. Currently, most research focuses on the redu...

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  • Open Access
684 Views
20 Pages

25 June 2025

Small-target detection in remote sensing presents three fundamental challenges: limited pixel representation of targets, multi-angle imaging-induced appearance variance, and complex background interference. This paper introduces a dual-component neur...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,469 Views
17 Pages

Change Detection Needs Neighborhood Interaction in Transformer

  • Hangling Ma,
  • Lingran Zhao,
  • Bingquan Li,
  • Ruiqing Niu and
  • Yueyue Wang

22 November 2023

Remote sensing image change detection (CD) is an essential technique for analyzing surface changes from co-registered images of different time periods. The main challenge in CD is to identify the alterations that the user intends to emphasize, while...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,508 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2024

To address the high complexity and low accuracy issues of traditional methods in mixed coal vitrinite identification, this paper proposes a method based on an improved DeepLabv3+ network. First, MobileNetV2 is used as the backbone network to reduce t...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,246 Views
13 Pages

MHAU-Net: Skin Lesion Segmentation Based on Multi-Scale Hybrid Residual Attention Network

  • Yingjie Li,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Jubao Han,
  • Ziheng An,
  • Deyu Wang,
  • Haichao Ma and
  • Chuanxu Liu

11 November 2022

Melanoma is a main factor that leads to skin cancer, and early diagnosis and treatment can significantly reduce the mortality of patients. Skin lesion boundary segmentation is a key to accurately localizing a lesion in dermoscopic images. However, th...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,864 Views
12 Pages

7 March 2023

Computed tomography (CT) images play a vital role in diagnosing rib fractures and determining the severity of chest trauma. However, quickly and accurately identifying rib fractures in a large number of CT images is an arduous task for radiologists....

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,683 Views
16 Pages

16 July 2022

To achieve full autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), obstacle detection and avoidance are indispensable parts of visual recognition systems. In particular, detecting transmission lines is an important topic due to the potential risk of accide...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,338 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2022

Obtaining high-spatial–high-temporal (HTHS) resolution remote sensing images from a single sensor remains a great challenge due to the cost and technical limitations. Spatiotemporal fusion (STF) technology breaks through the technical limitatio...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,163 Views
17 Pages

25 October 2024

This study presents a new image inpainting model based on U-Net and incorporating the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN). The model uses skip connections to connect every encoder block to the corresponding decoder block, resulting in a...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,385 Views
17 Pages

The majority of object detection algorithms based on convolutional neural network are focused on larger objects. In order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of small object detection, a novel lightweight object detection algorithm with attention...

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  • Open Access
71 Citations
8,809 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2021

Colon carcinoma is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in both men and women. Automatic colorectal polyp segmentation and detection in colonoscopy videos help endoscopists to identify colorectal disease more easily, making it a promisin...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,600 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2024

Ground objects in satellite images pose unique challenges due to their low resolution, small pixel size, lack of texture features, and dense distribution. Detecting small objects in satellite remote-sensing images is a difficult task. We propose a ne...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,534 Views
12 Pages

Classification of Cardiomyopathies from MR Cine Images Using Convolutional Neural Network with Transfer Learning

  • Philippe Germain,
  • Armine Vardazaryan,
  • Nicolas Padoy,
  • Aissam Labani,
  • Catherine Roy,
  • Thomas Hellmut Schindler and
  • Soraya El Ghannudi

The automatic classification of various types of cardiomyopathies is desirable but has never been performed using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The purpose of this study was to evaluate currently available CNN models to classify cine magnetic...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,563 Views
26 Pages

19 April 2025

Deep learning-based hyperspectral image (HSI) classification methods, such as Transformers and Mambas, have attracted considerable attention. However, several challenges persist, e.g., (1) Transformers suffer from quadratic computational complexity d...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,175 Views
23 Pages

8 October 2023

Research on image-inpainting tasks has mainly focused on enhancing performance by augmenting various stages and modules. However, this trend does not consider the increase in the number of model parameters and operational memory, which increases the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,751 Views
22 Pages

22 April 2025

Crack segmentation is essential for structural health monitoring and infrastructure maintenance, playing a crucial role in early damage detection and safety risk reduction. Traditional methods, including digital image processing techniques have limit...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,264 Views
17 Pages

23 December 2021

In the coal mining process, various types of tramp materials will be mixed into the raw coal, which will affect the quality of the coal and endanger the normal operation of the equipment. Automatic detection of tramp materials objects is an important...