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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Edge_MVSFormer: Edge-Aware Multi-View Stereo Plant Reconstruction Based on Transformer Networks

  • Yang Cheng,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Gongpu Lan,
  • Jingjiang Xu,
  • Ren Chen and
  • Yanping Huang

29 March 2025

With the rapid advancements in computer vision and deep learning, multi-view stereo (MVS) based on conventional RGB cameras has emerged as a promising and cost-effective tool for botanical research. However, existing methods often struggle to capture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,619 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2024

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to identify the most visually striking objects in a scene, simulating the function of the biological visual attention system. The attention mechanism in deep learning is commonly used as an enhancement strategy whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,569 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Lightweight YOLOv8 Network for Early Small Flame Target Detection

  • Hubin Du,
  • Qiuyu Li,
  • Ziqian Guan,
  • Hengyuan Zhang and
  • Yongtao Liu

13 September 2024

The efficacy of early fire detection hinges on its swift response and precision, which allows for the issuance of timely alerts in the nascent stages of a fire, thereby minimizing losses and injuries. To enhance the precision and swiftness of identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,256 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2024

In optical remote sensing image object detection, discontinuous boundaries often limit detection accuracy, particularly at high Intersection over Union (IoU) thresholds. This paper addresses this issue by proposing the Spatial Adaptive Angle-Aware (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,112 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2022

Edge detection is one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Recent methods for edge detection based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) typically employ the weighted cross-entropy loss. Their predicted results being thick and needing post-pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,749 Views
23 Pages

DRBD-YOLOv8: A Lightweight and Efficient Anti-UAV Detection Model

  • Panpan Jiang,
  • Xiaohua Yang,
  • Yaping Wan,
  • Tiejun Zeng,
  • Mingxing Nie and
  • Zhenghai Liu

7 November 2024

Interest in anti-UAV detection systems has increased due to growing concerns about the security and privacy issues associated with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Achieving real-time detection with high accuracy, while accommodating the limited reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
749 Views
25 Pages

5 November 2025

Island building change detection is a critical technology for environmental monitoring, disaster early warning, and urban planning, playing a key role in dynamic resource management and sustainable development of islands. However, the imbalanced dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
11,120 Views
22 Pages

Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images

  • Hamza Ghandorh,
  • Wadii Boulila,
  • Sharjeel Masood,
  • Anis Koubaa,
  • Fawad Ahmed and
  • Jawad Ahmad

27 January 2022

Road detection technology plays an essential role in a variety of applications, such as urban planning, map updating, traffic monitoring and automatic vehicle navigation. Recently, there has been much development in detecting roads in high-resolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,218 Views
24 Pages

24 September 2021

The detection of building edges from very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery is essential to various geo-related applications, including surveying and mapping, urban management, etc. Recently, the rapid development of deep convolutional neu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,699 Views
13 Pages

Edge Detection of Motion-Blurred Images Aided by Inertial Sensors

  • Luo Tian,
  • Kepeng Qiu,
  • Yufeng Zhao and
  • Peng Wang

15 August 2023

Edge detection serves as the foundation for advanced image processing tasks. The accuracy of edge detection is significantly reduced when applied to motion-blurred images. In this paper, we propose an effective deblurring method adapted to the edge d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,783 Views
22 Pages

EGMT-CD: Edge-Guided Multimodal Transformers Change Detection from Satellite and Aerial Images

  • Yunfan Xiang,
  • Xiangyu Tian,
  • Yue Xu,
  • Xiaokun Guan and
  • Zhengchao Chen

25 December 2023

Change detection from heterogeneous satellite and aerial images plays a progressively important role in many fields, including disaster assessment, urban construction, and land use monitoring. Currently, researchers have mainly devoted their attentio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,996 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2022

Airport apron carries a lot of preparations for flight operation, and the advancement of its various tasks is of great significance to the flight operation. In order to build a more intelligent and easy-to-deploy airport apron operation analysis guar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,024 Views
19 Pages

An Edge-Enhanced Network for Polyp Segmentation

  • Yao Tong,
  • Ziqi Chen,
  • Zuojian Zhou,
  • Yun Hu,
  • Xin Li and
  • Xuebin Qiao

Colorectal cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with early detection and removal of polyps being critical in preventing disease progression. Automated polyp segmentation, particularly in colonoscopy images, is a challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,317 Views
13 Pages

Mask Guidance Pyramid Network for Overlapping Cervical Cell Edge Detection

  • Wei Zhang,
  • Huijie Fan,
  • Xuanhua Xie,
  • Qiang Wang and
  • Yandong Tang

26 June 2023

An important indicator of cervical cancer diagnosis is to calculate the proportion of diseased cells and cancer cells, so it is necessary to segment cells and judge the cell status. The existing methods are difficult to deal with the segmentation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,454 Views
18 Pages

BioEdge: Accelerating Object Detection in Bioimages with Edge-Based Distributed Inference

  • Hyunho Ahn,
  • Munkyu Lee,
  • Sihoon Seong,
  • Minhyeok Lee,
  • Gap-Joo Na,
  • In-Geol Chun,
  • Youngpil Kim and
  • Cheol-Ho Hong

5 November 2023

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have enabled effective object detection tasks in bioimages. Unfortunately, implementing such an object detection model can be computationally intensive, especially on resource-limited hardware in a laboratory or h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,835 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2024

Edge detection is an essential image processing act that is crucial for many computer vision applications such as object detection, image segmentation, face recognition, text recognition, medical imaging, and autonomous vehicles. Deep learning is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,674 Views
21 Pages

A Multiscale and Multitask Deep Learning Framework for Automatic Building Extraction

  • Jichong Yin,
  • Fang Wu,
  • Yue Qiu,
  • Anping Li,
  • Chengyi Liu and
  • Xianyong Gong

22 September 2022

Detecting buildings, segmenting building footprints, and extracting building edges from high-resolution remote sensing images are vital in applications such as urban planning, change detection, smart cities, and map-making and updating. The tasks of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,347 Views
21 Pages

Accurate detection of steel surface defects is crucial for ensuring safety and efficiency in steel production. In this study, we propose a multi-scale edge-enhanced structured composite detection Transformer (MESC-DETR) based on the RT-DETR framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,736 Views
23 Pages

9 February 2024

As one of the precious cultural heritages, Chinese landscape painting has developed unique styles and techniques. Researching the intelligent generation of Chinese landscape paintings from photos can benefit the inheritance of traditional Chinese cul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
809 Views
17 Pages

Ice Thickness Detection of Transmission Lines Based on Cross-Guide-UNet

  • Yu Zhang,
  • Yangyang Jiao,
  • Yinke Dou,
  • Liangliang Zhao,
  • Qiang Liu and
  • Yang Liu

12 April 2025

The presence of ice on transmission lines threatens their integrity. The thickness of ice is crucial with respect to the autonomous operation of de-icing robots. Therefore, we propose a Cross-Guide-UNet (CG-UNet) model for detecting the thickness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,292 Views
21 Pages

4 March 2023

The issues of the degradation of the visual sensor’s image quality in foggy weather and the loss of information after defogging have brought great challenges to obstacle detection during autonomous driving. Therefore, this paper proposes a meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,820 Views
17 Pages

1 July 2021

Phenotypic characteristics of fruit particles, such as projection area, can reflect the growth status and physiological changes of grapes. However, complex backgrounds and overlaps always constrain accurate grape border recognition and detection of f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,788 Views
13 Pages

The detection result of current light-field salient object detection methods suffers from loss of edge details, which significantly limits the performance of subsequent computer vision tasks. To solve this problem, we propose a novel convolutional ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,711 Views
15 Pages

30 March 2023

Existing target detection algorithms for infrared road scenes are often computationally intensive and require large models, which makes them unsuitable for deployment on edge devices. In this paper, we propose a lightweight infrared target detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,826 Views
17 Pages

A Multiscale Gradient Fusion Method for Color Image Edge Detection Using CBM3D Filtering

  • Zhunruo Feng,
  • Ruomeng Shi,
  • Yuhan Jiang,
  • Yiming Han,
  • Zeyang Ma and
  • Yuheng Ren

24 March 2025

In this paper, we present a novel color edge detection method that integrates collaborative filtering with multiscale gradient fusion. The Block-Matching and 3D (BM3D) filter is utilized to enhance sparse representations in the transform domain, effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,303 Views
18 Pages

Cascade and Fusion: A Deep Learning Approach for Camouflaged Object Sensing

  • Kaihong Huang,
  • Chunshu Li,
  • Jiaqi Zhang and
  • Beilun Wang

13 August 2021

The demand for the sensor-based detection of camouflage objects widely exists in biological research, remote sensing, and military applications. However, the performance of traditional object detection algorithms is limited, as they are incapable of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,800 Views
17 Pages

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has revolutionised a wide range of human activities, including the accelerated development of autonomous vehicles. Self-navigating delivery robots are recent trends in A.I. applications such as multitarget object detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,948 Views
20 Pages

Intelligent Monitoring of Tunnel Fire Smoke Based on Improved YOLOX and Edge Computing

  • Chaojing Li,
  • Bochao Zhu,
  • Guangyao Chen,
  • Qiming Li and
  • Zhao Xu

17 February 2025

To overcome the defects of traditional fire detection methods that have a high false alarm rate and long delay, a smart tunnel fire monitoring method based on a YOLOX deep convolutional neural network and edge computing is proposed. This method first...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,700 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2022

The detection and counting of lunar impact craters are crucial for the selection of detector landing sites and the estimation of the age of the Moon. However, traditional crater detection methods are based on machine learning and image processing tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,315 Views
16 Pages

Vectorization of Floor Plans Based on EdgeGAN

  • Shuai Dong,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Wensheng Li and
  • Kun Zou

A 2D floor plan (FP) often contains structural, decorative, and functional elements and annotations. Vectorization of floor plans (VFP) is an object detection task that involves the localization and recognition of different structural primitives in 2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,145 Views
12 Pages

This research explores edge computing for construction site monitoring using computer vision (CV)-based worker detection methods. The feasibility of using edge computing is validated by testing worker detection models (yolov5 and yolov8) on local com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,038 Views
19 Pages

1 November 2023

Community detection has been (and remains) a very important topic in several fields. From marketing and social networking to biological studies, community detection plays a key role in advancing research in many different fields. Research on this top...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,028 Views
17 Pages

Advanced Edge-Cloud Computing Framework for Automated PMU-Based Fault Localization in Distribution Networks

  • Denis Sodin,
  • Urban Rudež,
  • Marko Mihelin,
  • Miha Smolnikar and
  • Andrej Čampa

31 March 2021

The detection and localization of faults plays a huge role in every electric power system, be it a transmission network (TN) or a distribution network (DN), as it ensures quick power restoration and thus enhances the system’s reliability and availabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
11,994 Views
23 Pages

ERN: Edge Loss Reinforced Semantic Segmentation Network for Remote Sensing Images

  • Shuo Liu,
  • Wenrui Ding,
  • Chunhui Liu,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Yufeng Wang and
  • Hongguang Li

22 August 2018

The semantic segmentation of remote sensing images faces two major challenges: high inter-class similarity and interference from ubiquitous shadows. In order to address these issues, we develop a novel edge loss reinforced semantic segmentation netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,205 Views
19 Pages

29 September 2025

Automatic detection of clue cells is crucial for rapid diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV), but existing algorithms suffer from low sensitivity. This is because clue cells are highly similar to normal epithelial cells in terms of macroscopic size a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,079 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2022

Parcel detection is crucial to achieving automatic sorting in intelligent logistics systems. Most parcels in logistics centers are currently detected manually, imposing low efficiency and high error rate, severely limiting logistics transportation ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,597 Views
21 Pages

24 June 2022

Accurate and automatic identification of tree species information at the individual tree scale is of great significance for fine-scale investigation and management of forest resources and scientific assessment of forest ecosystems. Despite the fact t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,195 Views
26 Pages

Satellite Optical Target Edge Detection Based on Knowledge Distillation

  • Ying Meng,
  • Luping Zhang,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Moufa Hu,
  • Fei Zhao and
  • Xinglin Shen

29 August 2025

Edge detection of space targets is vital in aerospace applications, such as satellite monitoring and analysis, yet it faces challenges due to diverse target shapes and complex backgrounds. While deep learning-based edge detection methods dominate due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,181 Views
22 Pages

Visual Detection on Aircraft Wing Icing Process Using a Lightweight Deep Learning Model

  • Yang Yan,
  • Chao Tang,
  • Jirong Huang,
  • Zhixiong Cen and
  • Zonghong Xie

Aircraft wing icing significantly threatens aviation safety, causing substantial losses to the aviation industry each year. High transparency and blurred edges of icing areas in wing images pose challenges to wing icing detection by machine vision. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,866 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2021

Currently, analyzing the microscopic image of cotton fiber cross-section is the most accurate and effective way to measure its grade of maturity and then evaluate the quality of cotton samples. However, existing methods cannot extract the edge of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,877 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2023

Feature loss in IoT scenarios is a common problem. This situation poses a greater challenge in terms of real-time and accuracy for the security of intelligent edge computing systems, which also includes network security intrusion detection systems (N...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,864 Views
9 Pages

16 February 2023

In recent years, the losses caused by scams on Ethereum have reached a level that cannot be ignored. As one of the most rampant crimes, phishing scams have caused a huge economic loss to blockchain platforms and users. Under these circumstances, to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,164 Views
20 Pages

This paper presents TCReC, an innovative model designed for reconstructing network traffic characteristics in the presence of packet loss. With the rapid expansion of wireless networks driven by edge computing, IoT, and 5G technologies, challenges su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,970 Views
18 Pages

The aerothermal interaction of the combustor exit flow on the first vane row has been examined at the Large Scale Turbine Rig (LSTR) at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany). A baseline configuration of axial inflow and a variation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,767 Views
17 Pages

TCNet: Transformer Convolution Network for Cutting-Edge Detection of Unharvested Rice Regions

  • Yukun Yang,
  • Jie He,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Xiwen Luo,
  • Runmao Zhao,
  • Peikui Huang,
  • Ruitao Gao,
  • Zhaodi Liu,
  • Yaling Luo and
  • Lian Hu

Cutting-edge detection is a critical step in mechanized rice harvesting. Through visual cutting-edge detection, an algorithm can sense in real-time whether the rice harvesting process is along the cutting-edge, reducing loss and improving the efficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,796 Views
22 Pages

12 September 2024

Deploying target detection models on edge devices such as UAVs is challenging due to their limited size and computational capacity, while target detection models typically require significant computational resources. To address this issue, this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access

DMR-YOLO: An Improved Wind Turbine Blade Surface Damage Detection Method Based on YOLOv8

  • Lijuan Shi,
  • Sifan Wang,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Zhejun Kuang,
  • Liu Wang,
  • Lintao Ma,
  • Han Yang and
  • Haiyan Wang

28 January 2026

Wind turbine blades (WTBs) are inevitably exposed to harsh environmental conditions, leading to surface damages such as cracks and corrosion that compromise power generation efficiency. While UAV-based inspection offers significant potential, it freq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,679 Views
21 Pages

ELD-YOLO: A Lightweight Framework for Detecting Occluded Mandarin Fruits in Plant Research

  • Xianyao Wang,
  • Yutong Huang,
  • Siyu Wei,
  • Weize Xu,
  • Xiangsen Zhu,
  • Jiong Mu and
  • Xiaoyan Chen

5 June 2025

Mandarin fruit detection provides crucial technical support for yield prediction and the precise identification and harvesting of mandarin fruits. However, challenges such as occlusion from leaves or branches, the presence of small or partially visib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
531 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2025

Surface defects are inevitable in the production of steel. However, traditional methods in industrial production face great challenges in detecting complex defects. Therefore, we propose LCED-YOLO based on YOLOv11 for steel defect detection. Firstly,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
785 Views
20 Pages

EAS-Det: Edge-Aware Semantic Feature Fusion for Robust 3D Object Detection in LiDAR Point Clouds

  • Huishan Wang,
  • Jie Ma,
  • Yuehua Zhao,
  • Jianlei Zhang and
  • Fangwei Chen

18 November 2025

Accurate 3D object detection and localization in LiDAR point clouds are crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and UAV-based monitoring. However, existing detectors often suffer from the loss of critical geometric information during netw...

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