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4 Citations
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Research on Lightweight Method of Segment Beam Point Cloud Based on Edge Detection Optimization

  • Yan Dong,
  • Haotian Yang,
  • Mingjun Yin,
  • Menghui Li and ,
  • Yuanhai Qu and
  • Xingli Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 April 2024

In order to reduce the loss of laser point cloud appearance contours by point cloud lightweighting, this paper takes the laser point cloud data of the segment beam of the expressway viaduct as a sample. After comparing the downsampling algorithm from...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,936 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2023

In this paper, we propose a method that uses the idea of decoupling and unites edge information for semantic segmentation. We build a new dual-stream CNN architecture that fully considers the interaction between the body and the edge of the object, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
8,963 Views
20 Pages

Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation Based on Edge Information Guidance

  • Chu He,
  • Shenglin Li,
  • Dehui Xiong,
  • Peizhang Fang and
  • Mingsheng Liao

8 May 2020

Semantic segmentation is an important field for automatic processing of remote sensing image data. Existing algorithms based on Convolution Neural Network (CNN) have made rapid progress, especially the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, proble...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,878 Views
13 Pages

28 October 2021

As more and more fields utilize deep learning, there is an increasing demand to make suitable training data for each field. The existing interactive object segmentation models can easily make the mask label data because these can accurately segment t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal, Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,690 Views
24 Pages

Superpixel segmentation can benefit from the use of an appropriate method to measure edge strength. In this paper, we present such a method based on the first derivative of anisotropic Gaussian kernels. The kernels can capture the position, direction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,740 Views
19 Pages

An Edge-Enhanced Network for Polyp Segmentation

  • Yao Tong,
  • Ziqi Chen,
  • Zuojian Zhou,
  • Yun Hu and ,
  • Xin Li and
  • Xuebin Qiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Modeling in Biomedical Image and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
1,014 Views
25 Pages

Edge-Enhanced YOLOV8 for Spacecraft Instance Segmentation in Cloud-Edge IoT Environments

  • Ming Chen,
  • Wenjie Chen,
  • Yanfei Niu,
  • Ping Qi and
  • Fucheng Wang

20 January 2026

The proliferation of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to massive data generation, particularly in complex domains such as aerospace. Cloud computing provides essential scalability and advanced analytics for processing these vast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convergence of IoT, Edge and Cloud Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
815 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2026

Accurate plant leaf image segmentation plays a crucial role in species recognition, phenotypic analysis, and disease detection. However, most segmentation models perform poorly in complex field environments due to challenges such as overlapping leave...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,866 Views
12 Pages

11 July 2022

To develop a precise semantic segmentation method with an emphasis on the edges for automated segmentation of the arterial vessel wall and plaque based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) in order to facilitate the quantitative assessment of pl...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,695 Views
19 Pages

6 November 2022

Deep learning has been widely used in various fields because of its accuracy and efficiency. At present, the improvement of image semantic segmentation accuracy has become the area of most concern. In terms of increasing accuracy, improved semantic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,977 Views
20 Pages

5 October 2024

Segmentation of weak edge targets such as glass and plastic poses a challenge in the field of target segmentation. The detection process is susceptible to background interference and various external factors due to the transparent nature of these mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,124 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2025

The colonoscopy procedure heavily relies on the operator’s expertise, underscoring the importance of automated polyp segmentation techniques in enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of colorectal cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, achieving precis...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,235 Views
17 Pages

MCEENet: Multi-Scale Context Enhancement and Edge-Assisted Network for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

  • Hongjie Zhou,
  • Rufei Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu He,
  • Nannan Li and ,
  • Yong Wang and
  • Sheng Shen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 March 2023

Few-shot semantic segmentation has attracted much attention because it requires only a few labeled samples to achieve good segmentation performance. However, existing methods still suffer from insufficient contextual information and unsatisfactory ed...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,764 Views
12 Pages

Edge-Supervised Attention-Aware Fusion Network for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation

  • Ming Wang,
  • Zhongjie Zhu,
  • Yuer Wang,
  • Renwei Tu and ,
  • Jiuxing Weng and
  • Xianchao Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the limitations in the efficiency of modality feature fusion in existing RGB-T semantic segmentation methods, which restrict segmentation performance, this paper proposes an edge-supervised attention-aware algorithm to enhance segmentation...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,160 Views
26 Pages

MobileSAM-Track: Lightweight One-Shot Tracking and Segmentation of Small Objects on Edge Devices

  • Yehui Liu,
  • Yuliang Zhao,
  • Xinyue Zhang,
  • Xiaoai Wang and ,
  • Chao Lian,
  • Jian Li,
  • Peng Shan,
  • Changzeng Fu,
  • Xiaoyong Lyu and
  • Wen Jung Li
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

7 December 2023

Tracking and segmenting small targets in remote sensing videos on edge devices carries significant engineering implications. However, many semi-supervised video object segmentation (S-VOS) methods heavily rely on extensive video random-access memory...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
12,593 Views
23 Pages

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

  • Shuo Liu,
  • Wenrui Ding,
  • Chunhui Liu,
  • Yu Liu and ,
  • Yufeng Wang and
  • Hongguang Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Multispectral/Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,869 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2023

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation, particularly for unstructured environments, plays a crucial role in environment perception and driving decisions for unmanned ground vehicles. Unfortunately, chaotic unstructured environments, especially the high-pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,626 Views
27 Pages

12 November 2025

Accurate semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is crucial for geographical studies. However, mainstream segmentation methods, primarily based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), often fail to effectively c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,165 Views
19 Pages

Hierarchical Edge-Preserving Dense Matching by Exploiting Reliably Matched Line Segments

  • Yi Yue,
  • Tong Fang,
  • Wen Li,
  • Min Chen and ,
  • Bo Xu,
  • Xuming Ge,
  • Han Hu and
  • Zhanhao Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

1 September 2023

Image dense matching plays a crucial role in the reconstruction of three-dimensional models of buildings. However, large variations in target heights and serious occlusion lead to obvious mismatches in areas with discontinuous depths, such as buildin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Information Recovery and 2D Image Processing for Remotely Sensed Optical Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,927 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2024

Super-resolution semantic segmentation (SRSS) is a technique that aims to obtain high-resolution semantic segmentation results based on resolution-reduced input images. SRSS can significantly reduce computational cost and enable efficient, high-resol...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,520 Views
22 Pages

Interactive Blood Vessel Segmentation from Retinal Fundus Image Based on Canny Edge Detector

  • Alexander Ze Hwan Ooi,
  • Zunaina Embong,
  • Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid,
  • Rafidah Zainon and ,
  • Shir Li Wang,
  • Theam Foo Ng,
  • Rostam Affendi Hamzah,
  • Soo Siang Teoh and
  • Haidi Ibrahim
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2021

Optometrists, ophthalmologists, orthoptists, and other trained medical professionals use fundus photography to monitor the progression of certain eye conditions or diseases. Segmentation of the vessel tree is an essential process of retinal analysis....

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors, Image, and Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,997 Views
19 Pages

6 May 2025

Panoptic segmentation, a pivotal research direction in computer vision, unifies pixel-level object and background recognition within a scene, crucial for applications like autonomous driving. However, existing methods, including State-of-the-Art mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,829 Views
18 Pages

7 May 2022

In recent years, deep learning-based detection methods have been applied to pavement crack detection. In practical applications, surface cracks are divided into inner and edge regions for pavements with rough surfaces and complex environments. This c...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applied in Civil Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,256 Views
14 Pages

Identifying the Edges of the Optic Cup and the Optic Disc in Glaucoma Patients by Segmentation

  • Srikanth Tadisetty,
  • Ranjith Chodavarapu,
  • Ruoming Jin,
  • Robert J. Clements and
  • Minzhong Yu

11 May 2023

With recent advancements in artificial intelligence, fundus diseases can be classified automatically for early diagnosis, and this is an interest of many researchers. The study aims to detect the edges of the optic cup and the optic disc of fundus im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Technology and Image Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,696 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Tandem Differential Edge Sensor Layout for Segmented Mirror Telescopes

  • Yinlong Huo,
  • Fei Yang,
  • Fuguo Wang,
  • Peng Guo and ,
  • Jiakang Zhu and
  • Yuanguo Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 August 2023

The performance of an active control system, crucial for the co-phase maintenance of segmented mirrors, is closely related to the spatial layout of sensors and actuators. This article compares two types of edge sensor layouts, vertical and horizontal...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,666 Views
15 Pages

4 January 2026

Segmenting low-light images, such as images showing cracks on tunnel walls, is challenging due to limited visibility. Hence, we need to combine image brightness enhancement and a segmentation algorithm. We introduce essential preliminaries, specifica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Analysis for Object Detection: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
203 Views
18 Pages

Bidirectional Global-Edge Refinement Network for Aerial Infrared Segmentation in Automated Industrial Inspection

  • Bo Wang,
  • Xina Cheng,
  • Zhiqi Hu,
  • Yuan Li and ,
  • Xu Tang and
  • Xiangrong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 October 2026

Accurate aircraft-region segmentation in aerial infrared imagery can provide a useful scene-understanding component for image-assisted aviation inspection. However, target scale variation and ambiguous boundaries remain challenging in simulated aeria...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Paradigms in Earth Vision: Towards General and Scalable Remote Sensing Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,635 Views
16 Pages

1 February 2025

In recent years, panoptic segmentation has garnered increasing attention from researchers aiming to better understand scenes in images. Although many excellent studies have been proposed, they share some common unresolved issues. Firstly, panoptic se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Algorithms for Image Understanding and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,850 Views
24 Pages

18 November 2019

The effects of different tool edge geometries (hone and chamfer (T-land)) on quantitative measurement of end (exit) burr and chip segmentation (frequency and degree) in machining of AA2024-T351 are presented in this work. The finite element (FE) appr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Machining—Recent Advances, Applications and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
12,921 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 and ,
  • Fawad Ahmed and
  • Jawad Ahmad
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics for Secure and Smart Environmental Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,546 Views
17 Pages

DEPANet: A Differentiable Edge-Guided Pyramid Aggregation Network for Strip Steel Surface Defect Segmentation

  • Yange Sun,
  • Siyu Geng,
  • Chengyi Zheng,
  • Chenglong Xu and ,
  • Huaping Guo and
  • Yan Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 May 2025

The steel strip is an important and ideal material for the automotive and aerospace industries due to its superior machinability, cost efficiency, and flexibility. However, surface defects such as inclusions, spots, and scratches can significantly im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Algorithms for Image Understanding and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,448 Views
14 Pages

Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds of Heritage Buildings Using Edge Detection and Supervoxel-Based Topology

  • Santiago Salamanca,
  • Pilar Merchán,
  • Alejandro Espacio,
  • Emiliano Pérez and
  • María José Merchán

6 July 2024

This paper presents a novel segmentation algorithm specially developed for applications in 3D point clouds with high variability and noise, particularly suitable for heritage building 3D data. The method can be categorized within the segmentation pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multispectral Sensing, Imaging Techniques and Computational Applications in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,735 Views
21 Pages

Semantic Segmentation for Digital Archives of Borobudur Reliefs Based on Soft-Edge Enhanced Deep Learning

  • Shenyu Ji,
  • Jiao Pan,
  • Liang Li,
  • Kyoko Hasegawa and ,
  • Hiroshi Yamaguchi,
  • Fadjar I. Thufail,
  • Brahmantara,
  • Upik Sarjiati and
  • Satoshi Tanaka
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

9 February 2023

Segmentation and visualization of three-dimensional digital cultural heritage are important analytical tools for the intuitive understanding of content. In this paper, we propose a semantic segmentation and visualization framework that automatically...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitization and Visualization in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,791 Views
16 Pages

An Edge-Guided Deep Learning Solar Panel Hotspot Thermal Image Segmentation Algorithm

  • Fangbin Wang,
  • Zini Wang,
  • Zhong Chen,
  • Darong Zhu and ,
  • Xue Gong and
  • Wanlin Cong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 October 2023

To overcome the deficiencies in segmenting hot spots from thermal infrared images, such as difficulty extracting the edge features, low accuracy, and a high missed detection rate, an improved Mask R-CNN photovoltaic hot spot thermal image segmentatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Computer Vision in Industry and Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,515 Views
20 Pages

14 November 2022

Distinguishing sea ice and water is crucial for safe navigation and carrying out offshore activities in ice zones. However, due to the complexity and dynamics of the ice–water boundary, it is difficult for many deep learning-based segmentation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper Special Issue on Ocean Remote Sensing - Part 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,678 Views
24 Pages

24 March 2025

Infrared imaging is based on thermal radiation and does not rely on visible light, allowing for it to operate normally at night and in low-light conditions. This characteristic is beneficial for regulatory authorities to monitor ships. Existing infra...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,285 Views
21 Pages

5 August 2021

Building extraction is a basic task in the field of remote sensing, and it has also been a popular research topic in the past decade. However, the shape of the semantic polygon generated by semantic segmentation is irregular and does not match the ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Based Building Extraction II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,417 Views
13 Pages

3 April 2024

Over the past several decades, deep neural networks have been extensively applied to medical image segmentation tasks, achieving significant success. However, the effectiveness of traditional deep segmentation networks is substantially limited by the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,222 Views
21 Pages

Pruning-Friendly RGB-T Semantic Segmentation for Real-Time Processing on Edge Devices

  • Jun Young Hwang,
  • Youn Joo Lee,
  • Ho Gi Jung and
  • Jae Kyu Suhr

27 August 2025

RGB-T semantic segmentation using thermal and RGB images simultaneously is actively being researched to robustly recognize the surrounding environment of vehicles regardless of challenging lighting and weather conditions. It is important for them to...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,524 Views
20 Pages

11 October 2025

As a major contributor to environmental pollution in recent years, solid waste has become an increasingly significant concern in the realm of sustainable development. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery, known for its high spatial resolution, has b...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,514 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2026

Current image segmentation methods often suffer from issues such as low accuracy, slow processing speed, and inadequate robustness when dealing with images with inhomogeneous noise and intensity. To resolve these issues, we propose a fast image segme...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,243 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2024

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a crucial step in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of fundus diseases. Although many efforts have been presented to address the task, the segmentation performance in challenging regions (e.g., collateral ve...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Data-Driven Advancements in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,381 Views
25 Pages

13 May 2015

Segmentation, which is usually the first step in object-based image analysis (OBIA), greatly influences the quality of final OBIA results. In many existing multi-scale segmentation algorithms, a common problem is that under-segmentation and over-segm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,045 Views
24 Pages

Boosting Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images by Introducing Edge Extraction Network and Spectral Indices

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Ruiqi Yang,
  • Qinling Dai,
  • Yili Zhao and ,
  • Weiheng Xu,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Leiguang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 October 2023

Deep convolutional neural networks have greatly enhanced the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images. However, most networks are primarily designed to process imagery with red, green, and blue bands. Although it is feasible to directly utilize...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning Approaches in Remote Sensing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,652 Views
24 Pages

23 May 2026

Ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of global mortality and long-term neurological disability, where the “Time is Brain” paradigm dictates that rapid and accurate lesion assessment is fundamental for effective clinical intervention. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Diagnostics in Medical Imaging and Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,366 Views
24 Pages

14 August 2025

Accurate segmentation of pear leaf diseases is paramount for enhancing diagnostic precision and optimizing agricultural disease management. However, variations in disease color, texture, and morphology, coupled with changes in lighting conditions and...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,990 Views
21 Pages

14 March 2025

Building segmentation from high-resolution remote sensing images plays a crucial role in cadastral measurement, ecological monitoring, urban planning, and other applications. To address the current challenges in building segmentation from high-resolu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,418 Views
24 Pages

19 March 2021

In this work, we propose a new deep convolution neural network (DCNN) architecture for semantic segmentation of aerial imagery. Taking advantage of recent research, we use split-attention networks (ResNeSt) as the backbone for high-quality feature ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,365 Views
21 Pages

19 April 2022

Fundus is the only structure that can be observed without trauma to the human body. By analyzing color fundus images, the diagnosis basis for various diseases can be obtained. Recently, fundus image segmentation has witnessed vast progress with the d...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,545 Views
14 Pages

24 August 2016

In this paper, machining aeronautical aluminum alloy AA2024-T351 in dry conditions was investigated. Cutting forces, chip segmentation, and built-up edge formation were analyzed. Machining tests revealed that the chip formation process depends on cut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aluminum Alloys)

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