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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,057 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2022

Third-party library (TPL) reuse may introduce vulnerable or malicious code and expose the software, which exposes them to potential risks. Thus, it is essential to identify third-party dependencies and take immediate corrective action to fix critical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,875 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2023

Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) plays a vital role in computer security and software engineering. Traditional BCSD methods heavily rely on specific features and necessitate rich expert knowledge, which are sensitive to code alterations. To im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
8,192 Views
26 Pages

28 March 2020

The urban functional zone, as a special fundamental unit of the city, helps to understand the complex interaction between human space activities and environmental changes. Based on the recognition of physical and social semantics of buildings, combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,066 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2025

SLAM is regarded as a fundamental task in mobile robots and AR, implementing localization and mapping in certain circumstances. However, with only RGB images as input, monocular SLAM systems suffer problems of scale ambiguity and tracking difficulty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,045 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2022

With the rapid development of remote sensing (RS) observation technology over recent years, the high-level semantic association-based cross-modal retrieval of RS images has drawn some attention. However, few existing studies on cross-modal retrieval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,760 Views
15 Pages

11 May 2019

The focus of fine-grained image classification tasks is to ignore interference information and grasp local features. This challenge is what the visual attention mechanism excels at. Firstly, we have constructed a two-level attention convolutional net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,369 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2022

This paper strives to improve the performance of video–text retrieval. To date, many algorithms have been proposed to facilitate the similarity measure of video–text retrieval from the single global semantic to multi-level semantics. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,829 Views
14 Pages

Containment Control-Guided Boundary Information for Semantic Segmentation

  • Wenbo Liu,
  • Junfeng Zhang,
  • Chunyu Zhao,
  • Yi Huang,
  • Tao Deng and
  • Fei Yan

19 August 2024

Real-time semantic segmentation is a challenging task in computer vision, especially in complex scenes. In this study, a novel three-branch semantic segmentation model is designed, aiming to effectively use boundary information to improve the accurac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
18 Pages

Integrating Multiple Semantics of Street View Imagery for Semi-Supervised Building Function Identification

  • Fang Fang,
  • Nan Min,
  • Shengwen Li,
  • Yuxiang Zhao,
  • Sishi Gong,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Shunping Zhou

Building function identification plays a crucial role in providing basic data for urban planning, management, and various intelligent applications. Today, building function identification methods using Street View Images (SVIs) have made significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,653 Views
27 Pages

Community Detection in Semantic Networks: A Multi-View Approach

  • Hailu Yang,
  • Qian Liu,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Ding,
  • Chen Chen and
  • Lili Wang

17 August 2022

The semantic social network is a complex system composed of nodes, links, and documents. Traditional semantic social network community detection algorithms only analyze network data from a single view, and there is no effective representation of sema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,462 Views
26 Pages

17 March 2022

Discriminative feature learning is the key to remote sensing scene classification. Previous research has found that most of the existing convolutional neural networks (CNN) focus on the global semantic features and ignore shallower features (low-leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,505 Views
27 Pages

14 July 2025

The multi-scale characteristics of remote sensing imagery have an inherent correspondence with the hierarchical structure of land cover classification systems, providing a theoretical foundation for multi-level land cover classification. However, mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,296 Views
26 Pages

30 July 2025

Semantic change detection technology based on remote sensing data holds significant importance for urban and rural planning decisions and the monitoring of ground objects. However, simple convolutional networks are limited by the receptive field, can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,531 Views
13 Pages

Multiple Query Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Relevance Feature Weight Learning

  • Abeer Al-Mohamade,
  • Ouiem Bchir and
  • Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail

We propose a novel multiple query retrieval approach, named weight-learner, which relies on visual feature discrimination to estimate the distances between the query images and images in the database. For each query image, this discrimination consist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,464 Views
24 Pages

26 September 2024

Semantic segmentation is crucial for a wide range of downstream applications in remote sensing, aiming to classify pixels in remote sensing images (RSIs) at the semantic level. The dramatic variations in grayscale and the stacking of categories withi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,915 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2019

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is an important technique for spatial analysis and geocomputation. It has important applications in the fields of military reconnaissance, urban planning, resource utilization and environmental monitorin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,537 Views
16 Pages

Semantic segmentation of three-dimensional (3D) plant point clouds at the stem-leaf level is foundational and indispensable for high-throughput tomato phenotyping systems. However, existing semantic segmentation methods often suffer from issues such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,147 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2023

Vehicle re-identification across multiple cameras is one of the main problems of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Since the differences in the appearance between different vehicles of the same model are small and the appearance of the same...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,950 Views
23 Pages

26 May 2017

Existing indoor semantic recognition schemes are mostly capable of discovering patterns through smartphone sensing, but it is hard to recognize rich enough high-level indoor semantics for map enhancement. In this work we present DeepMap+, an automati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,566 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,933 Views
20 Pages

The need to enrich the semantic completeness of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is crucial for its effective use in geographic information systems and urban studies. Addressing this challenge, our research introduces a novel hierarchical feature augmentatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,806 Views
19 Pages

To address the shortcomings of existing deep learning models and the characteristics of microblog speech, we propose the DCCMM model to improve the effectiveness of microblog sentiment analysis. The model employs WOBERT Plus and ALBERT to dynamically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,563 Views
12 Pages

Contextual Graph Attention Network for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification

  • Yuqing Miao,
  • Ronghai Luo,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Tonglai Liu,
  • Wanzhen Zhang,
  • Guoyong Cai and
  • Ming Zhou

15 July 2022

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to predict the sentiment polarities towards the target aspects given in sentences. To address the issues of insufficient semantic information extraction and high computational complexity of attention mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,044 Views
26 Pages

26 July 2023

Most educators agree that essays are the best way to evaluate students’ understanding, guide their studies, and track their growth as learners. Manually grading student essays is a tedious but necessary part of the learning process. Automated E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,296 Views
15 Pages

Searchable Encrypted Image Retrieval Based on Multi-Feature Adaptive Late-Fusion

  • Wentao Ma,
  • Jiaohua Qin,
  • Xuyu Xiang,
  • Yun Tan and
  • Zhibin He

22 June 2020

Recently, searchable encrypted image retrieval in a cloud environment has been widely studied. However, the inappropriate encryption mechanism and single feature description make it hard to achieve the expected effects. Therefore, a major challenge o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,447 Views
13 Pages

Bi-DCNet: Bilateral Network with Dilated Convolutions for Left Ventricle Segmentation

  • Zi Ye,
  • Yogan Jaya Kumar,
  • Fengyan Song,
  • Guanxi Li and
  • Suyu Zhang

18 April 2023

Left ventricular segmentation is a vital and necessary procedure for assessing cardiac systolic and diastolic function, while echocardiography is an indispensable diagnostic technique that enables cardiac functionality assessment. However, manually l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,631 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2023

The mainstream methods for change detection in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images use difference images to define the initial change regions. However, methods can suffer from semantic collapse, which makes it difficult to determine semantic inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,432 Views
24 Pages

26 January 2023

Recent research has shown the advantages of incorporating multisource geospatial data into the classification of urban functional zones (UFZs), particularly remote sensing and social sensing data. However, the effects of combining datasets of varying...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,318 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2022

With the rapid development of cities, semantic segmentation of urban scenes, as an important and effective imaging method, can accurately obtain the distribution information of typical urban ground features, reflecting the development scale and the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,576 Views
23 Pages

MalHAPGNN: An Enhanced Call Graph-Based Malware Detection Framework Using Hierarchical Attention Pooling Graph Neural Network

  • Wenjie Guo,
  • Wenbiao Du,
  • Xiuqi Yang,
  • Jingfeng Xue,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Weijie Han and
  • Jingjing Hu

10 January 2025

While deep learning techniques have been extensively employed in malware detection, there is a notable challenge in effectively embedding malware features. Current neural network methods primarily capture superficial characteristics, lacking in-depth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,002 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2022

With the rapid development of industry, people’s requirements for the functionality, stability, and safety of electronic products are becoming higher and higher. As an important medium for power supply and information transmission functions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,632 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2024

For the actual collected point cloud data, there are widespread challenges such as semantic inconsistency, density variations, and sparse spatial distribution. A network called PointMM is developed in this study to enhance the accuracy of point cloud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,151 Views
27 Pages

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental technique in mobile robotics, enabling autonomous navigation and environmental reconstruction. However, dynamic elements in real-world scenes—such as walking pedestrians, moving vehi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,107 Views
22 Pages

LSTGINet: Local Attention Spatio-Temporal Graph Inference Network for Age Prediction

  • Yi Lei,
  • Xin Wen,
  • Yanrong Hao,
  • Ruochen Cao,
  • Chengxin Gao,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Guo and
  • Rui Cao

3 March 2025

There is a close correlation between brain aging and age. However, traditional neural networks cannot fully capture the potential correlation between age and brain aging due to the limited receptive field. Furthermore, they are more concerned with de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2025

Emotion matching prediction between music and video segments is essential for intelligent mobile sensing systems, where multimodal affective cues collected from smart devices must be jointly analyzed for context-aware media understanding. However, tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
23 Pages

Prototype-Enhanced Few-Shot Relation Extraction Method Based on Cluster Loss Optimization

  • Shenyi Qian,
  • Bowen Fu,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Songhe Jin,
  • Tong Sun,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Daiyi Li,
  • Yifan Sun,
  • Yibing Chen and
  • Yuheng Li

7 October 2025

The purpose of few-shot relation extraction (RE) is to recognize the relationship between specific entity pairs in text when there are a limited number of labeled samples. A few-shot RE method based on a prototype network, which constructs relation p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,481 Views
15 Pages

2 May 2022

Oil spills can cause damage to the marine environment. When an oil spill occurs in the sea, it is critical to rapidly detect and respond to it. Because of their convenience and low cost, navigational radar images are commonly employed in oil spill de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,658 Views
18 Pages

Generalized Category Discovery in Aerial Image Classification via Slot Attention

  • Yifan Zhou,
  • Haoran Zhu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Shuo Liang,
  • Yujing Wang and
  • Wen Yang

19 April 2024

Aerial images record the dynamic Earth terrain, reflecting changes in land cover patterns caused by natural processes and human activities. Nonetheless, prevailing aerial image classification methodologies predominantly function within a closed-set f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,538 Views
24 Pages

Underwater Target Detection Based on Parallel High-Resolution Networks

  • Zhengwei Bao,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Jiyu Wang,
  • Linlin Zhu,
  • Jun Huang and
  • Shu Yan

23 August 2023

A parallel high-resolution underwater target detection network is proposed to address the problems of complex underwater scenes and limited target feature extraction capability. First, a high-resolution network (HRNet), a lighter high-resolution huma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,216 Views
23 Pages

15 September 2020

Language-based person search retrieves images of a target person using natural language description and is a challenging fine-grained cross-modal retrieval task. A novel hybrid attention network is proposed for the task. The network includes the foll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,027 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
10 Citations
2,345 Views
22 Pages

UCDnet: Double U-Shaped Segmentation Network Cascade Centroid Map Prediction for Infrared Weak Small Target Detection

  • Xiangdong Xu,
  • Jiarong Wang,
  • Ming Zhu,
  • Haijiang Sun,
  • Zhenyuan Wu,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Shenyi Cao and
  • Sanzai Liu

27 July 2023

In recent years, the development of deep learning has brought great convenience to the work of target detection, semantic segmentation, and object recognition. In the field of infrared weak small target detection (e.g., surveillance and reconnaissanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,764 Views
21 Pages

Unbiased 3D Semantic Scene Graph Prediction in Point Cloud Using Deep Learning

  • Chaolin Han,
  • Hongwei Li,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Bing Dong,
  • Yalin Wang,
  • Xiaowen Zhou and
  • Shan Zhao

4 May 2023

As a core task of computer vision perception, 3D scene understanding has received widespread attention. However, the current research mainly focuses on the semantic understanding task at the level of entity objects and often neglects the semantic rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2026

In disaster emergency response, spatial location information embedded within social media texts holds substantial value for the rapid localization of affected areas and the implementation of precise rescue operations. Existing research predominantly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,064 Views
14 Pages

Deep Ensembles Based on Stochastic Activations for Semantic Segmentation

  • Alessandra Lumini,
  • Loris Nanni and
  • Gianluca Maguolo

11 November 2021

Semantic segmentation is a very popular topic in modern computer vision, and it has applications in many fields. Researchers have proposed a variety of architectures for semantic image segmentation. The most common ones exploit an encoder–decoder str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,897 Views
21 Pages

An Algorithm Based on DAF-Net++ Model for Wood Annual Rings Segmentation

  • Zhedong Ge,
  • Ziheng Zhang,
  • Liming Shi,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Yisheng Gao,
  • Yucheng Zhou and
  • Qiang Sun

The semantic segmentation of annual rings is a research topic of interest in wood chronology. To solve the problem of wood annual rings being difficult to segment in dense areas and being greatly affected by defects such as cracks and wormholes, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
8,409 Views
20 Pages

Concrete Cracks Detection Based on FCN with Dilated Convolution

  • Jianming Zhang,
  • Chaoquan Lu,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Xiao-Guang Yue

1 July 2019

In civil engineering, the stability of concrete is of great significance to safety of people’s life and property, so it is necessary to detect concrete damage effectively. In this paper, we treat crack detection on concrete surface as a semanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
7,310 Views
17 Pages

Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction via Recurrent Hybrid Convolutional Neural Networks with an Improved Focal Loss

  • Xia Sun,
  • Ke Dong,
  • Long Ma,
  • Richard Sutcliffe,
  • Feijuan He,
  • Sushing Chen and
  • Jun Feng

8 January 2019

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) may bring huge health risks and dangerous effects to a patient’s body when taking two or more drugs at the same time or within a certain period of time. Therefore, the automatic extraction of unknown DDIs has great...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,118 Views
10 Pages

21 October 2022

In contrast to previous descriptions of on the contrary (OTC) as a corrective or replacive marker requiring explicit negation, this study revealed that more than 50% of the occasions the expression was used in British tertiary level student essays, r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,736 Views
23 Pages

Towards Interactive Analytics over RDF Graphs

  • Maria-Evangelia Papadaki,
  • Nicolas Spyratos and
  • Yannis Tzitzikas

25 January 2021

The continuous accumulation of multi-dimensional data and the development of Semantic Web and Linked Data published in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) bring new requirements for data analytics tools. Such tools should take into account the s...

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