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CSINet: A Cross-Scale Interaction Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution

  • Gang Ke,
  • Sio-Long Lo,
  • Hua Zou,
  • Yi-Feng Liu,
  • Zhen-Qiang Chen and
  • Jing-Kai Wang

9 February 2024

In recent years, advancements in deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have brought about a paradigm shift in the realm of image super-resolution (SR). While augmenting the depth and breadth of CNNs can indeed enhance network performance, it ofte...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,249 Views
21 Pages

A Lightweight Multi-Angle Feature Fusion CNN for Bearing Fault Diagnosis

  • Huanli Li,
  • Guoqiang Wang,
  • Nianfeng Shi,
  • Yingying Li,
  • Wenlu Hao and
  • Chongwen Pang

To address the issues of high model complexity and weak noise resistance in convolutional neural networks for bearing fault diagnosis, this paper proposes a novel lightweight multi-angle feature fusion convolutional neural network (LMAFCNN). First, t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,329 Views
15 Pages

The accurate segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) images is crucial for the early screening and diagnosis of lung cancer. However, the heterogeneity of lung nodules and their similarity to other lung tissue features make this task...

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  • Open Access
2,324 Views
22 Pages

LKAFFNet: A Novel Large-Kernel Attention Feature Fusion Network for Land Cover Segmentation

  • Bochao Chen,
  • An Tong,
  • Yapeng Wang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Xu Yang and
  • Sio-Kei Im

25 December 2024

The accurate segmentation of land cover in high-resolution remote sensing imagery is crucial for applications such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) struggl...

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  • Open Access
750 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2025

This paper proposes a spatially adaptive feature fine fusion network consisting of a Fast Convolution Decomposition Sequence (FCDS) and a Spatial Selection Mechanism (SSM). Firstly, in FCDS, a large kernel convolution decomposition operation is used...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,425 Views
16 Pages

27 June 2024

Wafer defect pattern recognition can help engineers improve the production process of semiconductor chips. In real industrial scenarios, the recognition of mixed-type wafer defects is difficult and the production scale of semiconductor wafers is larg...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,504 Views
24 Pages

27 June 2025

Deep learning methods have achieved remarkable success in remote sensing object detection. Existing object detection methods focus on integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer networks to explore local and global representation...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
649 Views
18 Pages

26 May 2025

The coating thickness of fuel particles is a critical parameter for ensuring the safe operation of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. However, existing detection technologies still face limitations in measurement accuracy, efficiency, and automati...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,278 Views
14 Pages

AMW-YOLOv8n: Road Scene Object Detection Based on an Improved YOLOv8

  • Donghao Wu,
  • Chao Fang,
  • Xiaogang Zheng,
  • Jue Liu,
  • Shengchun Wang and
  • Xinyu Huang

19 October 2024

This study introduces an improved YOLOv8 model tailored for detecting objects in road scenes. To overcome the limitations of standard convolution operations in adapting to varying targets, we introduce Adaptive Kernel Convolution (AKconv). AKconv dyn...

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  • Open Access

23 December 2025

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target detection faces significant challenges including speckle noise interference, weak small object features, and multi-category imbalance. To address these issues, this paper proposes LSDA-YOLO, an enhanced SAR targe...

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  • Open Access
638 Views
17 Pages

Learning to Utilize Multi-Scale Feature Information for Crisp Power Line Detection

  • Kai Li,
  • Min Liu,
  • Feiran Wang,
  • Xinyang Guo,
  • Geng Han,
  • Xiangnan Bai and
  • Changsong Liu

Power line detection (PLD) is a crucial task in the electric power industry where accurate PLD forms the foundation for achieving automated inspections. However, recent top-performing power line detection methods tend to generate thick and noisy edge...

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  • Open Access
723 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Model Improvement and Application for Rice Disease Classification

  • Tonglai Liu,
  • Mingguang Liu,
  • Chengcheng Yang,
  • Ancong Wu,
  • Xiaodong Li and
  • Wenzhao Wei

21 August 2025

The timely and correct identification of rice diseases is essential to ensuring rice productivity. However, many methods have drawbacks such as slow recognition speed, low recognition accuracy and overly complex models that are unfavorable for portab...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,476 Views
21 Pages

2 August 2024

In recent years, various deep-learning methodologies have been developed for processing medical images, with Unet and its derivatives proving particularly effective in medical image segmentation. Our primary objective is to enhance the accuracy of th...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,946 Views
22 Pages

3 May 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial images often present challenges such as small target sizes, high target density, varied shooting angles, and dynamic poses. Existing target detection algorithms exhibit a noticeable performance decline when confro...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,559 Views
28 Pages

Adaptive Dynamic Shuffle Convolutional Parallel Network for Image Super-Resolution

  • Yiting Long,
  • Haoyu Ruan,
  • Hui Zhao,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Lei Zhu,
  • Chengyuan Zhang and
  • Xinghui Zhu

22 November 2024

Image super-resolution has experienced significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning technology. However, deploying highly complex super-resolution networks on resource-constrained devices poses a challenge due to their substantial com...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,842 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2023

Tibetan medicine has received wide acclaim for its unique diagnosis and treatment methods. The identification of Tibetan medicinal materials, which are a vital component of Tibetan medicine, is a key research area in this field. However, traditional...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,884 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid Transformer and Convolution for Image Compressed Sensing

  • Ruili Nan,
  • Guiling Sun,
  • Bowen Zheng and
  • Pengchen Zhang

3 September 2024

In recent years, deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have received widespread attention in the field of compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction due to their good interpretability and strong mapping capabilities. However, existing DUNs often improve the rec...

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  • Open Access
956 Views
18 Pages

Microscopic cell classification is a fundamental challenge in both clinical diagnosis and biological research. However, existing methods still struggle with the complexity and morphological diversity of cellular images, leading to limited accuracy or...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,456 Views
18 Pages

24 June 2024

Castings’ surface-defect detection is a crucial machine vision-based automation technology. This paper proposes a fusion-enhanced attention mechanism and efficient self-architecture lightweight YOLO (SLGA-YOLO) to overcome the existing target d...

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  • Open Access
1,546 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2024

In recent years, the rapid advancement of drone technology has led to an increasing use of drones equipped with hyperspectral sensors for ground imaging. Hyperspectral data captured via drones offer significantly higher spatial resolution, but this a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,625 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2025

Currently, infrared object detection is utilized in a broad spectrum of fields, including military applications, security, and aerospace. Nonetheless, the limited computational power of edge devices presents a considerable challenge in achieving an o...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,213 Views
20 Pages

With the rapid development of science and technology, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has shown a wide range of application prospects in various fields. The accuracy and real-time performance of UAV target detection play a vital role in ensu...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,420 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2024

Concrete surface crack detection is a critical research area for ensuring the safety of infrastructure, such as bridges, tunnels and nuclear power plants, and facilitating timely structural damage repair. Addressing issues in existing methods, such a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,414 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2024

Since the reliability of the avionics module is crucial for aircraft safety, the fault diagnosis and health management of this module are particularly significant. While deep learning-based prognostics and health management (PHM) methods exhibit high...

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  • Open Access
435 Views
32 Pages

PCB-FS: Frequency–Spatial Feature Learning for PCB Defect Detection

  • Shuai Wang,
  • Baotian Li,
  • Fa Zheng and
  • Yongjun Zhang

23 November 2025

Printed circuit board (PCB) defect detection is essential for ensuring manufacturing quality and product reliability in electronics production. PCB designs often exhibit inherent symmetry in circuit layouts and periodic patterns, which defects disrup...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,499 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2024

Ship detection and identification play pivotal roles in ensuring navigation safety and facilitating efficient maritime traffic management. Aiming at ship detection in complex environments, which often faces problems such as the dense occlusion of shi...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,679 Views
16 Pages

14 October 2024

Building energy consumption prediction has always played a significant role in assessing building energy efficiency, building commissioning, and detecting and diagnosing building system faults. With the progress of society and economic development, b...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,123 Views
20 Pages

23 August 2023

Hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution is a practical and challenging task as it requires the reconstruction of a large number of spectral bands. Achieving excellent reconstruction results can greatly benefit subsequent downstream tasks. The curr...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,101 Views
23 Pages

14 February 2025

Object detection is a fundamental capability that enables drones to perform various tasks. However, achieving a suitable equilibrium between performance, efficiency, and lightweight design continues to be a significant challenge for current algorithm...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,621 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
4 Citations
1,566 Views
21 Pages

13 June 2024

Wild desert grasslands are characterized by diverse habitats, uneven plant distribution, similarities among plant class, and the presence of plant shadows. However, the existing models for detecting plant species in desert grasslands exhibit low prec...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,089 Views
21 Pages

7 October 2024

In the scenario of power system monitoring, detecting the operating status of circuit breakers is often inaccurate due to variable object scales and background interference. This paper introduces DLCH-YOLO, an object detection algorithm aimed at iden...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,190 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2025

Background: In the field of autonomous driving, existing object detection algorithms still face challenges such as excessive parameter counts and insufficient detection accuracy, particularly when handling dense targets, occlusions, distant small tar...

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  • Open Access
981 Views
30 Pages

EDTST: Efficient Dynamic Token Selection Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Xiang Hu,
  • Zhiwen Zhang,
  • Jianghe Zhai,
  • Longlong Zhang,
  • Yuxiang Tang,
  • Yuanxi Peng and
  • Tong Zhou

14 September 2025

Hyperspectral images, characterized by rich spectral information, enable precise pixel-level classification and are thus widely employed in remote sensing applications. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,493 Views
20 Pages

18 May 2022

Building extraction of remote sensing images is very important for urban planning. In the field of deep learning, in order to extract more detailed building features, more complex convolution operations and larger network models are usually used to s...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,802 Views
14 Pages

29 September 2023

Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers in the world, and its early clinical manifestation is malignant nodules in the lungs, so nodule detection in the lungs can provide the basis for the prevention and treatment of lung cancer. In recent y...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,335 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2024

Substation equipment defect detection has always played an important role in equipment operation and maintenance. However, the task scenarios of substation equipment defect detection are complex and different. Recent studies have revealed issues such...

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  • Open Access
775 Views
21 Pages

Aero-Engine Ablation Defect Detection with Improved CLR-YOLOv11 Algorithm

  • Yi Liu,
  • Jiatian Liu,
  • Yaxi Xu,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Jide Qian and
  • Xin Wang

25 October 2025

Aero-engine ablation detection is a critical task in aircraft health management, yet existing rotation-based object detection methods often face challenges of high computational complexity and insufficient local feature extraction. This paper propose...

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  • Open Access
1,048 Views
19 Pages

26 August 2025

Power equipment detection is a critical component in power transmission line inspection. However, existing power equipment detection algorithms often face problems such as large model sizes and high computational complexity. This paper proposes a lig...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,836 Views
21 Pages

OMC-YOLO: A Lightweight Grading Detection Method for Oyster Mushrooms

  • Lei Shi,
  • Zhanchen Wei,
  • Haohai You,
  • Jiali Wang,
  • Zhuo Bai,
  • Helong Yu,
  • Ruiqing Ji and
  • Chunguang Bi

In this paper, a lightweight model—OMC-YOLO, improved based on YOLOv8n—is proposed for the automated detection and grading of oyster mushrooms. Aiming at the problems of low efficiency, high costs, and the difficult quality assurance of m...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,223 Views
20 Pages

ESAMask: Real-Time Instance Segmentation Fused with Efficient Sparse Attention

  • Qian Zhang,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Mingwen Shao,
  • Hong Liang and
  • Jie Ren

16 July 2023

Instance segmentation is a challenging task in computer vision, as it requires distinguishing objects and predicting dense areas. Currently, segmentation models based on complex designs and large parameters have achieved remarkable accuracy. However,...

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  • Open Access
1,379 Views
28 Pages

A Robust System for Super-Resolution Imaging in Remote Sensing via Attention-Based Residual Learning

  • Rogelio Reyes-Reyes,
  • Yeredith G. Mora-Martinez,
  • Beatriz P. Garcia-Salgado,
  • Volodymyr Ponomaryov,
  • Jose A. Almaraz-Damian,
  • Clara Cruz-Ramos and
  • Sergiy Sadovnychiy

25 July 2025

Deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) frameworks are widely used in remote sensing applications. However, existing SR models still face limitations, particularly in recovering contours, fine features, and textures, as well as in effectively integ...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,667 Views
23 Pages

14 December 2024

The existing detection algorithms are unable to achieve a suitable balance between detection accuracy and inference speed. As the accuracy of the algorithm increases, its complexity also rises, resulting in a decrease in detection speed, which underm...

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  • Open Access
986 Views
24 Pages

26 June 2025

The high dimensionality of hyperspectral data, coupled with limited labeled samples and complex scene structures, makes spatial–spectral feature learning particularly challenging. To address these limitations, we propose a dual-branch deep lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,428 Views
17 Pages

Underwater Object Detection Algorithm Based on an Improved YOLOv8

  • Fubin Zhang,
  • Weiye Cao,
  • Jian Gao,
  • Shubing Liu,
  • Chenyang Li,
  • Kun Song and
  • Hongwei Wang

5 November 2024

Due to the complexity and diversity of underwater environments, traditional object detection algorithms face challenges in maintaining robustness and detection accuracy when applied underwater. This paper proposes an underwater object detection algor...

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  • Open Access
1,760 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2024

This study focuses on the problem of dense object counting. In dense scenes, variations in object scales and uneven distributions greatly hinder counting accuracy. The current methods, whether CNNs with fixed convolutional kernel sizes or Transformer...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,474 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2022

The existing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship datasets have an imbalanced number of inshore and offshore ship targets, and the number of small, medium and large ship targets differs greatly. At the same time, the existing SAR ship detection models...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,981 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2023

The recognition of terrain and outdoor complex environments based on vision sensors is a key technology in practical robotics applications, and forms the basis of autonomous navigation and motion planning. While traditional machine learning methods c...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,926 Views
22 Pages

AWANet: Attentive-Aware Wide-Kernels Asymmetrical Network with Blended Contour Information for Salient Object Detection

  • Inam Ullah,
  • Muwei Jian,
  • Kashif Shaheed,
  • Sumaira Hussain,
  • Yuling Ma,
  • Lixian Xu and
  • Khan Muhammad

9 December 2022

Although deep learning-based techniques for salient object detection have considerably improved over recent years, estimated saliency maps still exhibit imprecise predictions owing to the internal complexity and indefinite boundaries of salient objec...

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  • Open Access
302 Views
26 Pages

4 December 2025

Accurate segmentation and classification of kidney pathologies from medical images remain a major challenge in computer-aided diagnosis due to complex morphological variations, small lesion sizes, and severe class imbalance. This study introduces Dia...

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