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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,716 Views
12 Pages

9 December 2024

Ghost imaging is a technique for indirectly reconstructing images by utilizing the second-order or higher-order correlation properties of the light field, which exhibits a robust ability to resist interference. On the premise of ensuring the quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
9,942 Views
24 Pages

GCL-YOLO: A GhostConv-Based Lightweight YOLO Network for UAV Small Object Detection

  • Jinshan Cao,
  • Wenshu Bao,
  • Haixing Shang,
  • Ming Yuan and
  • Qian Cheng

12 October 2023

Precise object detection for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images is a prerequisite for many UAV image applications. Compared with natural scene images, UAV images often have many small objects with few image pixels. These small objects are often obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,672 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2021

Current research on the reconstruction of hyperspectral images from RGB images using deep learning mainly focuses on learning complex mappings through deeper and wider convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the reconstruction accuracy of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,970 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2022

Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normalization. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,689 Views
10 Pages

A W-Shaped Self-Supervised Computational Ghost Imaging Restoration Method for Occluded Targets

  • Yu Wang,
  • Xiaoqian Wang,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Zhuo Yu,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Huan Zhao and
  • Zhihai Yao

28 June 2024

We developed a novel method based on self-supervised learning to improve the ghost imaging of occluded objects. In particular, we introduced a W-shaped neural network to preprocess the input image and enhance the overall quality and efficiency of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,410 Views
13 Pages

27 February 2023

Lip reading technology refers to the analysis of the visual information of the speaker’s mouth movements to recognize the content of the speaker’s speech. As one of the important aspects of human–computer interaction, the technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,555 Views
18 Pages

2 February 2024

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting the structure of an indoor environment using radar. When using the radar in an indoor environment, ghost targets are observed through the multipath propagation of radio waves. The presence of these gh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,387 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2019

The ghost phenomenon in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is primarily caused by azimuth or range ambiguities, which cause difficulties in SAR target detection application. To mitigate this influence, we propose a ship target detection method in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,604 Views
14 Pages

Hyperspectral imaging has emerged as a novel imaging modality in the medical field, offering the ability to acquire images of biological tissues while simultaneously providing biochemical insights for in-depth tissue analysis. This approach facilitat...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,648 Views
10 Pages

In this study, we demonstrated a framework for improving the image quality of computational ghost imaging (CGI) that used a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN). With a set of low-quality images from a CGI system and their corresponding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,713 Views
14 Pages

Application of Minnan Folk Light and Shadow Animation in Built Environment in Object Detection Algorithm

  • Sichao Wu,
  • Xiaoyu Huang,
  • Yiqi Xiong,
  • Shengzhen Wu,
  • Enlong Li and
  • Chen Pan

To resolve the problems of deep convolutional neural network models with many parameters and high memory resource consumption, a lightweight network-based algorithm for building detection of Minnan folk light synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,784 Views
20 Pages

Detecting Ocean Eddies with a Lightweight and Efficient Convolutional Network

  • Haochen Sun,
  • Hongping Li,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Tianyu Xia and
  • Hao Yu

23 December 2024

As a ubiquitous mesoscale phenomenon, ocean eddies significantly impact ocean energy and mass exchange. Detecting these eddies accurately and efficiently has become a research focus in ocean remote sensing. Many traditional detection methods, rooted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,338 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Network for Corn Leaf Disease Identification Based on Improved YOLO v8s

  • Rujia Li,
  • Yadong Li,
  • Weibo Qin,
  • Arzlan Abbas,
  • Shuang Li,
  • Rongbiao Ji,
  • Yehui Wu,
  • Yiting He and
  • Jianping Yang

This research tackles the intricate challenges of detecting densely distributed maize leaf diseases and the constraints inherent in YOLO-based detection algorithms. It introduces the GhostNet_Triplet_YOLOv8s algorithm, enhancing YOLO v8s by integrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,422 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2022

In practical applications, the intelligence of wheeled mobile robots is the trend of future development. Object detection for wheeled mobile robots requires not only the recognition of complex surroundings, but also the deployment of algorithms on re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,090 Views
21 Pages

A Lightweight YOLOv8 Model for Apple Leaf Disease Detection

  • Lijun Gao,
  • Xing Zhao,
  • Xishen Yue,
  • Yawei Yue,
  • Xiaoqiang Wang,
  • Huanhuan Wu and
  • Xuedong Zhang

1 August 2024

China holds the top position globally in apple production and consumption. Detecting diseases during the planting process is crucial for increasing yields and promoting the rapid development of the apple industry. This study proposes a lightweight al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,490 Views
17 Pages

A Efficient and Accurate UAV Detection Method Based on YOLOv5s

  • Yunsong Feng,
  • Tong Wang,
  • Qiangfu Jiang,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Shaohang Sun and
  • Wangjiahe Qian

23 July 2024

Due to the limited computational resources of portable devices, target detection models for drone detection face challenges in real-time deployment. To enhance the detection efficiency of low, slow, and small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,969 Views
14 Pages

A More Effective Zero-DCE Variant: Zero-DCE Tiny

  • Weiwen Mu,
  • Huixiang Liu,
  • Wenbai Chen and
  • Yiqun Wang

1 September 2022

The purpose of Low Illumination Image Enhancement (LLIE) is to improve the perception or interpretability of images taken in low illumination environments. This work inherits the work of Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE) and proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,591 Views
23 Pages

Typical Fault Detection on Drone Images of Transmission Lines Based on Lightweight Structure and Feature-Balanced Network

  • Gujing Han,
  • Ruijie Wang,
  • Qiwei Yuan,
  • Liu Zhao,
  • Saidian Li,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Min He and
  • Liang Qin

17 October 2023

In the context of difficulty in detection problems and the limited computing resources of various fault scales in aerial images of transmission line UAV inspections, this paper proposes a TD-YOLO algorithm (YOLO for transmission detection). Firstly,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,427 Views
18 Pages

BiGA-YOLO: A Lightweight Object Detection Network Based on YOLOv5 for Autonomous Driving

  • Jun Liu,
  • Qiqin Cai,
  • Fumin Zou,
  • Yintian Zhu,
  • Lyuchao Liao and
  • Feng Guo

Object detection in autonomous driving scenarios has become a popular task in recent years. Due to the high-speed movement of vehicles and the complex changes in the surrounding environment, objects of different scales need to be detected, which plac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,184 Views
20 Pages

A Depression Recognition Method Based on the Alteration of Video Temporal Angle Features

  • Zhiqiang Ding,
  • Yahong Hu,
  • Runhui Jing,
  • Weiguo Sheng and
  • Jiafa Mao

14 August 2023

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the auxiliary diagnosis system for depression. However, most of the research has focused on combining features from multiple modes to enhance classification accuracy. This approach results in inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,361 Views
12 Pages

Face Keypoint Detection Method Based on Blaze_ghost Network

  • Ning Yu,
  • Yongping Tian,
  • Xiaochuan Zhang and
  • Xiaofeng Yin

17 September 2023

The accuracy and speed of facial keypoint detection are crucial factors for effectively extracting fatigue features, such as eye blinking and yawning. This paper focuses on the improvement and optimization of facial keypoint detection algorithms, pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,349 Views
17 Pages

G-YOLO: A Lightweight Infrared Aerial Remote Sensing Target Detection Model for UAVs Based on YOLOv8

  • Xiaofeng Zhao,
  • Wenwen Zhang,
  • Yuting Xia,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Chao Zheng,
  • Junyi Ma and
  • Zhili Zhang

18 September 2024

A lightweight infrared target detection model, G-YOLO, based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is proposed to address the issues of low accuracy in target detection of UAV aerial images in complex ground scenarios and large network models that are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,031 Views
21 Pages

EGCY-Net: An ELAN and GhostConv-Based YOLO Network for Stacked Packages in Logistic Systems

  • Indah Monisa Firdiantika,
  • Seongryeong Lee,
  • Chaitali Bhattacharyya,
  • Yewon Jang and
  • Sungho Kim

26 March 2024

Dispatching, receiving, and transporting goods involve a large amount of manual effort. Within a logistics supply chain, a wide variety of transported goods need to be handled, recognized, and checked at many different points. Effective planning of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
626 Views
24 Pages

LGNet: A Lightweight Ghost-Enhanced Network for Efficient SAR Ship Detection

  • Jiawei Chen,
  • Junyu Huang,
  • Yuna Tan,
  • Zhifeng Wu and
  • Renbo Luo

23 November 2025

Current SAR ship detection methods face a critical trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency, severely limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices that are essential for distributed maritime surveillance systems. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,600 Views
25 Pages

6 June 2024

Recent advancements in applications of deep neural network for bearing fault diagnosis under variable operating conditions have shown promising outcomes. However, these approaches are limited in practical applications due to the complexity of neural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,836 Views
22 Pages

1 December 2024

To address the computational complexity and deployment challenges of traditional convolutional neural networks in rice disease identification, this paper proposes an efficient and lightweight model: Ghost Channel Spatial Attention ShuffleNet with Mis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,298 Views
22 Pages

In agricultural research, effective and efficient disease detection in crops is crucial for enhancing yield and sustainability. This study presents a novel approach to improving YOLOv8, a state-of-the-art object detection model, by integrating the Gh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,225 Views
16 Pages

6 November 2024

In the realm of construction site monitoring, ensuring the proper use of safety helmets is crucial. Addressing the issues of high parameter values and sluggish detection speed in current safety helmet detection algorithms, a feature-enhanced lightwei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,440 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2025

For reducing the parameters and computational complexity of networks while improving the classification accuracy of hyperspectral remote sensing images (HRSIs), a dynamic split pointwise convolution (DSPC) strategy is presented, and a lightweight con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,875 Views
11 Pages

4 March 2023

Despite the continuous development of convolutional neural networks, it remains a challenge to achieve performance improvement with fewer parameters and floating point operations (FLOPs) as a light-weight model. In particular, excessive expressive po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,148 Views
14 Pages

Multipath Ghost Suppression Based on Generative Adversarial Nets in Through-Wall Radar Imaging

  • Yong Jia,
  • Ruiyuan Song,
  • Shengyi Chen,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Yong Guo,
  • Xiaoling Zhong and
  • Guolong Cui

In this paper, we propose an approach that uses generative adversarial nets (GAN) to eliminate multipath ghosts with respect to through-wall radar imaging (TWRI). The applied GAN is composed of two adversarial networks, namely generator G and discrim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,301 Views
19 Pages

An Image Detection Model for Aggressive Behavior of Group Sheep

  • Yalei Xu,
  • Jing Nie,
  • Honglei Cen,
  • Baoqin Wen,
  • Shuangyin Liu,
  • Jingbin Li,
  • Jianbing Ge,
  • Longhui Yu and
  • Linze Lv

28 November 2023

Sheep aggression detection is crucial for maintaining the welfare of a large-scale sheep breeding environment. Currently, animal aggression is predominantly detected using image and video detection methods. However, there is a lack of lightweight net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,554 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2023

Effective environmental perception is critical for autonomous driving; thus, the perception system requires collecting 3D information of the surrounding objects, such as their dimensions, locations, and orientation in space. Recently, deep learning h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,931 Views
15 Pages

4 January 2018

This paper deals with a method for removing a ghost target that is not a real object from the output of a multiple object-tracking algorithm. This method uses an artificial neural network (multilayer perceptron) and introduces a structure, learning,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,690 Views
28 Pages

Tracing Your Smart-Home Devices Conversations: A Real World IoT Traffic Data-Set

  • Marios Anagnostopoulos,
  • Georgios Spathoulas,
  • Brais Viaño and
  • Javier Augusto-Gonzalez

18 November 2020

Smart-home installations exponential growth has raised major security concerns. To this direction, the GHOST project, a European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation funded project, aims to develop a reference architecture for securing smart-ho...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,409 Views
13 Pages

Sundry Bacteria Contamination Identification of Lentinula Edodes Logs Based on Deep Learning Model

  • Dawei Zu,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Qiulan Wu,
  • Cuihong Lu,
  • Weiqiang Wang and
  • Xuefei Chen

7 September 2022

Lentinula edodes logs are susceptible to sundry bacteria contamination during the culture process, and the manual identification of contaminated logs is difficult, untimely, and inaccurate. Aiming to solve this problem, this paper proposes a method f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,090 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Insulator Defect Detection Model Based on Drone Images

  • Yang Lu,
  • Dahua Li,
  • Dong Li,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Qiang Gao and
  • Xiao Yu

26 August 2024

With the continuous development and construction of new power systems, using drones to inspect the condition of transmission line insulators has become an inevitable trend. To facilitate the deployment of drone hardware equipment, this paper proposes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,305 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2024

Surface defect detection based on machine vision and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is an important and necessary process that enables rubber ring manufacturers to improve production quality and efficiency. However, such automatic detection alw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,344 Views
17 Pages

23 July 2023

High Dynamic Range (HDR) images are widely used in automotive, aerospace, AI, and other fields but are limited by the maximum dynamic range of a single data acquisition using CMOS image sensors. High dynamic range images are usually synthesized throu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,901 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2024

In response to the challenges posed by complex background textures and limited hardware resources in fabric defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight fabric defect detection algorithm based on an improved GSL-YOLOv8n model. Firstly, to redu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,803 Views
15 Pages

G-RRDB: An Effective THz Image-Denoising Model for Moldy Wheat

  • Yuying Jiang,
  • Xinyu Chen,
  • Hongyi Ge,
  • Mengdie Jiang and
  • Xixi Wen

25 July 2023

In order to solve the problem of large image noise and unremarkable features caused by factors such as fluctuations in the power of a light source during the terahertz image acquisition of wheat, this paper proposes a THz image-denoising model called...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,113 Views
14 Pages

14 May 2018

Many existing scene-adaptive nonuniformity correction (NUC) methods suffer from slow convergence rate together with ghosting effects. In this paper, an improved NUC algorithm based on total variation penalized neural network regression is presented....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,160 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2023

Intelligent wheelchair blind spot obstacle detection is an important issue for semi-enclosed special environments in elderly communities. However, the LiDAR- and 3D-point-cloud-based solutions are expensive, complex to deploy, and require significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,606 Views
16 Pages

Semantic segmentation of Signet Ring Cells (SRC) plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis of SRC carcinoma based on pathological images. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated significant promise in computer-aided diagnosis over the past decade....

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,513 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2018

The problems of the neural network-based nonuniformity correction algorithm for infrared focal plane arrays mainly concern slow convergence speed and ghosting artifacts. In general, the more stringent the inhibition of ghosting, the slower the conver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,904 Views
20 Pages

Application of Improved YOLOv5 in Aerial Photographing Infrared Vehicle Detection

  • Youchen Fan,
  • Qianlong Qiu,
  • Shunhu Hou,
  • Yuhai Li,
  • Jiaxuan Xie,
  • Mingyu Qin and
  • Feihuang Chu

Aiming to solve the problems of false detection, missed detection, and insufficient detection ability of infrared vehicle images, an infrared vehicle target detection algorithm based on the improved YOLOv5 is proposed. The article analyzes the image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,941 Views
16 Pages

Pyramid Inter-Attention for High Dynamic Range Imaging

  • Sungil Choi,
  • Jaehoon Cho,
  • Wonil Song,
  • Jihwan Choe,
  • Jisung Yoo and
  • Kwanghoon Sohn

7 September 2020

This paper proposes a novel approach to high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging of dynamic scenes to eliminate ghosting artifacts in HDR images when in the presence of severe misalignment (large object or camera motion) in input low-dynamic-range (LDR) imag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,231 Views
16 Pages

A Lightweight Method for Detecting Sewer Defects Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Xing Zhang,
  • Jiawei Zhang,
  • Lei Tian,
  • Xiang Liu and
  • Shuohong Wang

5 August 2023

In response to the issues of the existing sewer defect detection models, which are not applicable to small computing platforms due to their complex structure and large computational volume, as well as the low detection accuracy, a lightweight detecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
14,239 Views
15 Pages

Photovoltaic (PV) panel surface-defect detection technology is crucial for the PV industry to perform smart maintenance. Using computer vision technology to detect PV panel surface defects can ensure better accuracy while reducing the workload of tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,095 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2024

Prompt detection of landslides is crucial for reducing the disaster risk and preventing landslides. However, landslide detection in practical applications still faces many challenges, such as the complexity of environmental backgrounds, the diversity...

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