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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,700 Views
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9 July 2025

This paper introduces an efficient 3D point cloud downsampling algorithm (DFPS) based on adaptive multi-level grid partitioning. By leveraging an adaptive hierarchical grid partitioning mechanism, the algorithm dynamically adjusts computational inten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,825 Views
36 Pages

15 May 2025

A new text matching model based on dynamic gated sparse attention feature distillation with a faithful semantic preservation strategy is proposed to address the fact that text matching models are susceptible to interference from weakly relevant infor...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,813 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2025

Multistage text-to-image generation algorithms have shown remarkable success. However, the images produced often lack detail and suffer from feature loss. This is because these methods mainly focus on extracting features from images and text, using o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
958 Views
24 Pages

Identifying the source camera of a digital image is a critical task for ensuring image authenticity. In this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving distributed source camera identification scheme that jointly exploits both physical-layer finger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,796 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Structure-Preserving Network for Face Super-Resolution

  • Dingkang Yang,
  • Yehua Wei,
  • Chunwei Hu,
  • Xin Yu,
  • Cheng Sun,
  • Sheng Wu and
  • Jin Zhang

3 August 2023

Deep convolutional neural networks have demonstrated significant performance improvements in face super-resolution tasks. However, many deep learning-based approaches tend to overlook the inherent structural information and feature correlation across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,670 Views
17 Pages

29 March 2021

Autofocus is an essential technique for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging to correct phase errors mainly due to unexpected motion error. There are several well-known conventional autofocus methods such as phase gradient autofocus (PGA)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
870 Views
30 Pages

As quantum computing continues to advance, it threatens the long-term protection of traditional cryptographic methods, especially in biometric authentication systems where it is important to protect sensitive data. To overcome this challenge, we pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,464 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2021

High-precision and high-density three-dimensional point cloud models usually contain redundant data, which implies extra time and hardware costs in the subsequent data processing stage. To analyze and extract data more effectively, the point cloud mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,749 Views
16 Pages

Nucleus segmentation plays a crucial role in tissue pathology image analysis. Despite significant progress in cell nucleus image segmentation algorithms based on fully supervised learning, the large number and small size of cell nuclei pose a conside...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,465 Views
19 Pages

To tackle problems such as the destruction of topological structures and the loss of detailed features in the simplification of 3D building models, we propose a 3D building model simplification algorithm that considers detailed features and topologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,374 Views
15 Pages

PSAIP: Prior Structure-Assisted Identity-Preserving Network for Face Animation

  • Guangzhe Zhao,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Xueping Wang,
  • Feihu Yan and
  • Shuang Qiu

17 February 2025

Face animation aims to render the source image according to the motion of the driving images while preserving the identity information of the source image. Despite significant advancements with the introduction of additional information, the literatu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,870 Views
15 Pages

7 January 2022

Feature extraction plays a key role in fault detection methods. Most existing methods focus on comprehensive and accurate feature extraction of normal operation data to achieve better detection performance. However, discriminative features based on h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,551 Views
14 Pages

19 March 2024

As a traditional delicacy in China, preserved eggs inevitably experience instances of substandard quality during the production process. Chinese preserved egg production facilities can only rely on experienced workers to select the preserved eggs. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,826 Views
15 Pages

Face Aging with Feature-Guide Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

  • Chen Li,
  • Yuanbo Li,
  • Zhiqiang Weng,
  • Xuemei Lei and
  • Guangcan Yang

Face aging is of great importance for the information forensics and security fields, as well as entertainment-related applications. Although significant progress has been made in this field, the authenticity, age specificity, and identity preservatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,792 Views
16 Pages

Two-Dimensional Exponential Sparse Discriminant Local Preserving Projections

  • Minghua Wan,
  • Yuxi Zhang,
  • Guowei Yang and
  • Hongjian Guo

4 April 2023

The two-dimensional discriminant locally preserved projections (2DDLPP) algorithm adds a between-class weighted matrix and a within-class weighted matrix into the objective function of the two-dimensional locally preserved projections (2DLPP) algorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,999 Views
26 Pages

22 November 2023

Deep learning methods have gained significant popularity in the field of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification. These methods aim to extract high-level semantic features from the original PolSAR data to learn the polarim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,587 Views
17 Pages

Feature Adaptive and Cyclic Dynamic Learning Based on Infinite Term Memory Extreme Learning Machine

  • Ahmed Salih AL-Khaleefa,
  • Mohd Riduan Ahmad,
  • Azmi Awang Md Isa,
  • Mona Riza Mohd Esa,
  • Ahmed AL-Saffar and
  • Mustafa Hamid Hassan

2 March 2019

Online learning is the capability of a machine-learning model to update knowledge without retraining the system when new, labeled data becomes available. Good online learning performance can be achieved through the ability to handle changing features...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,775 Views
20 Pages

Harbor Extraction Based on Edge-Preserve and Edge Categories in High Spatial Resolution Remote-Sensing Images

  • Jian He,
  • Yongfei Guo,
  • Zeshu Zhang,
  • Hangfei Yuan,
  • Yonghui Ning and
  • Shuai Shao

26 January 2019

Efficient harbor extraction is essential due to the strategic importance of this target in economic and military construction. However, there are few studies on harbor extraction. In this article, a new harbor extraction algorithm based on edge prese...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,148 Views
23 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Sensor-Based Continuous Authentication and User Profiling: A Review

  • Luis Hernández-Álvarez,
  • José María de Fuentes,
  • Lorena González-Manzano and
  • Luis Hernández Encinas

25 December 2020

Ensuring the confidentiality of private data stored in our technological devices is a fundamental aspect for protecting our personal and professional information. Authentication procedures are among the main methods used to achieve this protection an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,855 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2025

Significant progress has been made in the semantic segmentation of mobile laser scanning (MLS) point clouds based on deep learning. However, the segmentation classes of deep learning models depend on the label classes of the source point clouds used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,034 Views
16 Pages

Mesh Denoising via Adaptive Consistent Neighborhood

  • Mingqiang Guo,
  • Zhenzhen Song,
  • Chengde Han,
  • Saishang Zhong,
  • Ruina Lv and
  • Zheng Liu

8 January 2021

In this paper, we propose a novel guided normal filtering followed by vertex updating for mesh denoising. We introduce a two-stage scheme to construct adaptive consistent neighborhoods for guided normal filtering. In the first stage, we newly design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,115 Views
23 Pages

15 September 2025

Addressing the inefficiency, subjective errors, and limited adaptability of existing methods for surveying complex ancient structures, this study presents an intelligent hierarchical algorithm for generating line drawings guided by structured archite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,387 Views
25 Pages

12 May 2022

Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor that is extremely dangerous to human health. Not only does it require a large amount of work, it is also a complicated task to outline the lesion area in an image manually, using traditional methods. With the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
500 Views
19 Pages

Hyperspectral Imaging Combined with Deep Learning for the Detection of Mold Diseases on Paper Cultural Relics

  • Ya Zhao,
  • Qiankun Song,
  • Tao Song,
  • Shaojiang Dong,
  • Qian Wu and
  • Zourong Long

23 November 2025

Mold contamination is one of the critical factors threatening the safety of paper-based cultural relics. Current detection methods rely predominantly on offline analysis, facing challenges such as low efficiency and limited real-time accuracy, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,010 Views
21 Pages

18 December 2020

The accurate mapping of tea plantations is significant for government decision-making and environmental protection of tea-producing regions. Hyperspectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have recently been widely used in land cover classifica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,820 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

In the design and operation scenarios driven by Digital Twins, large computer-aided design (CAD) models of production line equipment can limit the real-time performance and fidelity of the interaction between digital and physical entities. Digital CA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,327 Views
24 Pages

29 October 2025

The exponential growth of e-commerce and advancements in financial technology have escalated credit card fraud into a major threat, resulting in billions of dollars in global losses annually. This necessitates the development of sophisticated fraud d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,216 Views
25 Pages

Resampling Point Clouds Using Series of Local Triangulations

  • Vijai Kumar Suriyababu,
  • Cornelis Vuik and
  • Matthias Möller

8 February 2025

The increasing reliance on 3D scanning and meshless methods highlights the need for algorithms optimized for point-cloud geometry representations in CAE simulations. While voxel-based binning methods are simple, they often compromise geometry and top...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,933 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2023

To date, comprehensive reviews and discussions of the strengths and limitations of Remote Sensing (RS) standalone and combination approaches, and Deep Learning (DL)-based RS datasets in archaeology have been limited. The objective of this paper is, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
27 Pages

With the widespread application of multi-view data across various domains, multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has achieved remarkable progress in both feature selection (FS) and missing-view completion. However, existing MUFS methods ty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,237 Views
14 Pages

3 April 2023

Graph regularized non-negative matrix factorization (GNMF) is widely used in feature extraction. In the process of dimensionality reduction, GNMF can retain the internal manifold structure of data by adding a regularizer to non-negative matrix factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
4,825 Views
17 Pages

Optimal Machine Learning Based Privacy Preserving Blockchain Assisted Internet of Things with Smart Cities Environment

  • A. Al-Qarafi,
  • Fadwa Alrowais,
  • Saud S. Alotaibi,
  • Nadhem Nemri,
  • Fahd N. Al-Wesabi,
  • Mesfer Al Duhayyim,
  • Radwa Marzouk,
  • Mahmoud Othman and
  • M. Al-Shabi

9 June 2022

Currently, the amount of Internet of Things (IoT) applications is enhanced for processing, analyzing, and managing the created big data from the smart city. Certain other applications of smart cities were location-based services, transportation manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,519 Views
25 Pages

23 October 2025

Achieving high-precision anomaly detection with incomplete sensor data is a critical challenge in industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing. This incompleteness often results from sensor failures, environmental interference, occlusions, or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,818 Views
20 Pages

Multidirectional Attention Fusion Network for SAR Change Detection

  • Lingling Li,
  • Qiong Liu,
  • Guojin Cao,
  • Licheng Jiao,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Xu Liu and
  • Puhua Chen

26 September 2024

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is essential for monitoring geomorphic changes, urban transformations, and natural disasters. However, the inherent complexities of SAR, particularly pronounced speckle noise, often lead to numerous false detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,438 Views
18 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Feature Selection with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

  • Shinji Ono,
  • Jun Takata,
  • Masaharu Kataoka,
  • Tomohiro I,
  • Kilho Shin and
  • Hiroshi Sakamoto

30 June 2022

For the feature selection problem, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving algorithm. Let D, F, and C be data, feature, and class sets, respectively, where the feature value x(Fi) and the class label x(C) are given for each x∈D and Fi∈F....

  • Article
  • Open Access
622 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2025

Symmetry plays a critical role in preserving the structural balance and statistical integrity of datasets, particularly in privacy-preserving machine learning. Differential privacy introduces random noise to individual data points to ensure privacy w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,149 Views
20 Pages

LiDAR DEM Smoothing and the Preservation of Drainage Features

  • John B. Lindsay,
  • Anthony Francioni and
  • Jaclyn M. H. Cockburn

17 August 2019

Fine-resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data often exhibit excessive surface roughness that can hinder the characterization of topographic shape and the modeling of near-surface flow processes. Digital elevation model (DEM) smoothing meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,921 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2024

Noise removal is a critical stage in the preprocessing of point clouds, exerting a significant impact on subsequent processes such as point cloud classification, segmentation, feature extraction, and 3D reconstruction. The exploration of methods capa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,363 Views
14 Pages

There is a strong positive correlation between the development of deep learning and the amount of public data available. Not all data can be released in their raw form because of the risk to the privacy of the related individuals. The main objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,979 Views
13 Pages

12 May 2022

In the field of biometric recognition, finger vein recognition has received widespread attention by virtue of its advantages, such as biopsy, which is not easy to be stolen. However, due to the limitation of acquisition conditions such as noise and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,320 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2023

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advances in remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) in recent years. Nevertheless, the limitations of the receptive field cause CNNs to suffer from a disadvantage in capturing contextual i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,336 Views
27 Pages

Feature-Preserved Point Cloud Simplification Based on Natural Quadric Shape Models

  • Kun Zhang,
  • Shiquan Qiao,
  • Xiaohong Wang,
  • Yongtao Yang and
  • Yongqiang Zhang

24 May 2019

With the development of 3D scanning technology, a huge volume of point cloud data has been collected at a lower cost. The huge data set is the main burden during the data processing of point clouds, so point cloud simplification is critical. The main...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,969 Views
16 Pages

Topological distortion seriously affects spatial cognition. To solve this problem caused by the integration of vector features in discrete global grid systems (DGGs), a topology-preserving gridding method for vector features is proposed. The method p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
29 Pages

19 December 2025

In the context of privacy-preserving face recognition systems, entropy plays a crucial role in determining the efficiency and security of computational processes. However, existing schemes often encounter challenges such as inefficiency and high entr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,852 Views
18 Pages

Robust Non-Rigid Feature Matching for Image Registration Using Geometry Preserving

  • Hao Zhu,
  • Ke Zou,
  • Yongfu Li,
  • Ming Cen and
  • Lyudmila Mihaylova

18 June 2019

In this paper, a robust non-rigid feature matching approach for image registration with geometry constraints is proposed. The non-rigid feature matching approach is formulated as a maximum likelihood (ML) estimation problem. The feature points of one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,689 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2024

General deep learning methods achieve high-level semantic feature representation by aggregating hierarchical features, which performs well in object detection tasks. However, issues arise with general deep learning methods in UAV-based remote sensing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,094 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2024

Personal privacy protection has been extensively investigated. The privacy protection of face recognition applications combines face privacy protection with face recognition. Traditional face privacy-protection methods encrypt or perturb facial image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,646 Views
16 Pages

The hash method can convert high-dimensional data into simple binary code, which has the advantages of fast speed and small storage capacity in large-scale image retrieval and is gradually being favored by an increasing number of people. However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,395 Views
26 Pages

A Hierarchical Multi-Feature Point Cloud Lithology Identification Method Based on Feature-Preserved Compressive Sampling (FPCS)

  • Xiaolei Duan,
  • Ran Jing,
  • Yanlin Shao,
  • Yuangang Liu,
  • Binqing Gan,
  • Peijin Li and
  • Longfan Li

5 September 2025

Lithology identification is a critical technology for geological resource exploration and engineering safety assessment. However, traditional methods suffer from insufficient feature representation and low classification accuracy due to challenges su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,713 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2023

High-fidelity mesh reconstruction from point clouds has long been a fundamental research topic in computer vision and computer graphics. Traditional methods require dense triangle meshes to achieve high fidelity, but excessively dense triangles may l...

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