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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,879 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2024

Over the past few years, target detectors that utilize Convolutional Neural Networks have gained extensive application in the domain of remote sensing (RS) imagery. Recently, optimizing bounding boxes has consistently been a hot topic in the research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,548 Views
18 Pages

S3DR-Det: A Rotating Target Detection Model for High Aspect Ratio Shipwreck Targets in Side-Scan Sonar Images

  • Quanhong Ma,
  • Shaohua Jin,
  • Gang Bian,
  • Yang Cui,
  • Guoqing Liu and
  • Yihan Wang

17 January 2025

The characteristics of multi-directional rotation and high aspect ratio of targets such as shipwrecks lead to low detection accuracy and difficulty localizing existing detection models for this target type. Through our research, we design three main...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,272 Views
9 Pages

MEMS High Aspect Ratio Trench Three-Dimensional Measurement Using Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy and Deep Learning Method

  • Guannan Li,
  • Junkai Shi,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Xingjian Jiang,
  • Shuchun Huo,
  • Chengjun Cui,
  • Xiaomei Chen and
  • Weihu Zhou

23 August 2022

High-aspect-ratio structures have become increasingly important in MEMS devices. In situ, real-time critical dimension and depth measurement for high-aspect-ratio structures is critical for optimizing the deep etching process. Through-focus scanning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,747 Views
11 Pages

Direct Delivery of Cas9-sgRNA Ribonucleoproteins into Cells Using a Nanoneedle Array

  • Ayana Yamagishi,
  • Daisuke Matsumoto,
  • Yoshio Kato,
  • Yuki Honda,
  • Mone Morikawa,
  • Futoshi Iwata,
  • Takeshi Kobayashi and
  • Chikashi Nakamura

7 March 2019

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is a powerful and widely used tool for genome editing. Recently, it was reported that direct delivery of Cas9-sgRNA ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) reduced off-target effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,005 Views
21 Pages

Shape-Aware Dynamic Alignment Network for Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images

  • Linsen Zhu,
  • Donglin Jing,
  • Baiyu Lu,
  • Dong Zheng,
  • Shuaixing Ren and
  • Zhili Chen

17 May 2025

The field of remote sensing target detection has experienced rapid development in recent years, demonstrating significant value in various applications. However, general detection algorithms still face many key challenges when dealing with directiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,517 Views
41 Pages

17 January 2025

A novel concept of cold neutron source employing chessboard or staircase assemblies of high-aspect-ratio rectangular para-hydrogen moderators with well-developed and practically fully illuminated surfaces of the individual moderators is proposed. An...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,339 Views
18 Pages

A Rotating Object Detector with Convolutional Dynamic Adaptive Matching

  • Leibo Yu,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Xianglong Li,
  • Shiquan Hu and
  • Dongling Jing

11 January 2024

Standard convolution sliding along a fixed direction in common convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is inconsistent with the direction of aerial targets, making it difficult to effectively extract features with high-aspect-ratio and arbitrary directi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,107 Views
13 Pages

31 October 2020

In this paper, a nanobiosensor with surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) capability is introduced for highly sensitive miRNA detection in colorectal cancer. This sensor was designed and fabricated by employing a nanoshielding mechanism from nanop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,405 Views
18 Pages

Process-Structure-Properties-Performance Modeling for Selective Laser Melting

  • Tatu Pinomaa,
  • Ivan Yashchuk,
  • Matti Lindroos,
  • Tom Andersson,
  • Nikolas Provatas and
  • Anssi Laukkanen

24 October 2019

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a promising manufacturing technique where the part design, from performance and properties process control and alloying, can be accelerated with integrated computational materials engineering (ICME). This paper demons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,746 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2021

In order to provide a theoretical basis for the thermal design of the neutron production target, flow and heat transfer characteristics are studied by using numerical simulations and experiments. A rectangular mini-channel experimental model consiste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,060 Views
17 Pages

Design and Evaluation of Composite Magnetic Iron–Platinum Nanowires for Targeted Cancer Nanomedicine

  • Abu Bakr Nana,
  • Thashree Marimuthu,
  • Daniel Wamwangi,
  • Pierre P. D. Kondiah and
  • Yahya E. Choonara

The purpose of the study was to synthesize and investigate the influence of geometrical structure, magnetism, and cytotoxic activity on core–shell platinum and iron–platinum (Fe/Pt) composite nanowires (NWs) for potential application in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2025

In recent years, convolutional neural network-based object detectors have achieved extensive applications in remote sensing (RS) image interpretation. While multi-scale feature modeling optimization remains a persistent research focus, existing metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,260 Views
15 Pages

15 November 2022

Due to the irresistible factors of material properties and processing technology in the steel production, there may be different types of defects on the steel surface, such as rolling scale, patches and so on, which seriously affect the quality of st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,786 Views
20 Pages

3 August 2023

With the continuous progress of remote sensing image object detection tasks in recent years, researchers in this field have gradually shifted the focus of their research from horizontal object detection to the study of object detection in arbitrary d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,179 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2025

Target detection plays a crucial role in the intelligent interpretation of remote sensing images and has a wide range of potential applications. However, in the presence of targets with high aspect ratios and significant scale variations in remotely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,307 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2025

With the continuous growth of maritime activities and the shipping trade, the application of maritime target detection in remote sensing images has become increasingly important. However, existing detection methods face numerous challenges, such as s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
480 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2025

Long-range rotating wrap-around-fin rockets may exhibit non-convergent conical motion at high Mach numbers, causing increased drag, reduced range, and potential flight instability. This study employs the implicit dual time-stepping method to solve th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,559 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2024

Benefiting from the powerful feature extraction capability of deep learning, the Siamese tracker stands out due to its advanced tracking performance. However, constrained by the complex backgrounds of aerial tracking, such as low resolution, occlusio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,641 Views
12 Pages

Theoretical Design of a Janus-Nanoparticle-Based Sandwich Assay for Nucleic Acids

  • Takumi Sato,
  • Keiko Esashika,
  • Eiji Yamamoto,
  • Toshiharu Saiki and
  • Noriyoshi Arai

Nanoparticles exhibit diverse self-assembly attributes and are expected to be applicable under unique settings. For instance, biomolecules can be sandwiched between dimer nanoparticles and detected by surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Controlling th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,752 Views
30 Pages

In this paper, a high-performance antenna array system model is presented to analyze moving-object-skin-returns and track them in the presence of stationary objects using frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW). The main features of the paper are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,716 Views
14 Pages

11 January 2017

A broadband signal model is proposed for a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sonar system consisting of two transmitters and a receiving linear array. Transmitters are widely separated to illuminate the different aspects of an extende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,488 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2019

The interrupted sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) is considered an efficient deception method of jamming for coherent radar detection. However, current countermeasure methods against ISRJ interference may fail in detecting weak echoes, particularly wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,325 Views
15 Pages

Data-Decoupled Scattering Imaging Method Based on Autocorrelation Enhancement

  • Chen Wang,
  • Jiayan Zhuang,
  • Sichao Ye,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yaoyao Yuan,
  • Hongman Zhang and
  • Jiangjian Xiao

13 February 2023

Target recovery through scattering media is an important aspect of optical imaging. Although various algorithms combining deep-learning methods for target recovery through scattering media exist, they have limitations in terms of robustness and gener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,534 Views
15 Pages

A Historical Handwritten French Manuscripts Text Detection Method in Full Pages

  • Rui Sang,
  • Shili Zhao,
  • Yan Meng,
  • Mingxian Zhang,
  • Xuefei Li,
  • Huijie Xia and
  • Ran Zhao

14 August 2024

Historical handwritten manuscripts pose challenges to automated recognition techniques due to their unique handwriting styles and cultural backgrounds. In order to solve the problems of complex text word misdetection, omission, and insufficient detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,944 Views
11 Pages

Influence of Aspect Ratio on the Flexural and Buckling Behavior of an Aluminium Sandwich Composite: A Numerical and Experimental Approach

  • Ganesh Radhakrishnan,
  • Daniel Breaz,
  • Al Haitham Mohammed Sulaiman Al Hattali,
  • Al Muntaser Nasser Al Yahyai,
  • Al Muntaser Nasser Omar Al Riyami,
  • Al Muatasim Dawood Al Hadhrami and
  • Kadhavoor R. Karthikeyan

3 October 2023

In the field of engineering materials, lightweight and ultra-lightweight composites are used in real time to a greater extent, with high-performance targeting for tailor-made systems in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical applications. Sandwich com...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,013 Views
22 Pages

Radiolabeling Strategies of Nanobodies for Imaging Applications

  • Jim Küppers,
  • Stefan Kürpig,
  • Ralph A. Bundschuh,
  • Markus Essler and
  • Susanne Lütje

Nanobodies are small recombinant antigen-binding fragments derived from camelid heavy-chain only antibodies. Due to their compact structure, pharmacokinetics of nanobodies are favorable compared to full-size antibodies, allowing rapid accumulation to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,333 Views
22 Pages

An Anisotropic Scattering Analysis Method Based on the Statistical Properties of Multi-Angular SAR Images

  • Fei Teng,
  • Yun Lin,
  • Yanping Wang,
  • Wenjie Shen,
  • Shanshan Feng and
  • Wen Hong

5 July 2020

The scatterings of many targets are aspect dependent, which is called anisotropy. Multi-angular synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a suitable means of detecting this kind of anisotropic scattering behavior by viewing targets from different aspect angl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,374 Views
9 Pages

Improved Matching Algorithm with Anchor Argument for Rotate Target Detection

  • Kangkang Wang,
  • Bowen Chen,
  • Xianyun Wu and
  • Yunsong Li

14 November 2022

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in the task of object detection in remote sensing. Remote sensing targets can have arbitrary angles, and many anchor-base methods use a lot of anchors with different angles which cause effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,737 Views
53 Pages

The electro-discharge (ED) drilling of precision boreholes in difficult-to-machine materials, particularly with respect to the cost-effectiveness of the overall process, is still a challenge. Flushing is one key factor for the precise machining of bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,492 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2025

Accurate separation in microfluidic devices is crucial for biomedical applications; however, enhancing their performance remains challenging due to computational and experimental constraints. This study aims to optimize microfluidic devices by system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,555 Views
22 Pages

21 April 2023

Upon the need for sustainability and natural lighting performance simulation for high-speed railway station waiting halls in cold regions, a new prediction method was proposed for the quantitative analysis of their natural lighting performance in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,346 Views
17 Pages

Magnetic Moment Estimation Algorithm Based on Convolutional Neural Network

  • Xiuzhi You,
  • Junqian Zhang,
  • Bingyang Chen,
  • Ke Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Liu,
  • Bin Yan and
  • Wanhua Zhu

1 March 2025

Estimating the magnetic moment of a magnetic target is a key aspect of magnetic anomaly detection when accurately locating the target. Current methods primarily rely on vector magnetic field signals or gradient signals, which face challenges such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
10,426 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2017

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their ability object detection of very high resolution remote sensing images. However, CNNs have obvious limitations for modeling geometric variations in remote sensing targets. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,207 Views
13 Pages

Effects of N2 Partial Pressure on Growth, Structure, and Optical Properties of GaN Nanorods Deposited by Liquid-Target Reactive Magnetron Sputter Epitaxy

  • Muhammad Junaid,
  • Ching-Lien Hsiao,
  • Yen-Ting Chen,
  • Jun Lu,
  • Justinas Palisaitis,
  • Per Ola Åke Persson,
  • Lars Hultman and
  • Jens Birch

GaN nanorods, essentially free from crystal defects and exhibiting very sharp band-edge luminescence, have been grown by reactive direct-current magnetron sputter epitaxy onto Si (111) substrates at a low working pressure of 5 mTorr. Upon diluting th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,258 Views
12 Pages

A High Aspect Ratio Bifurcated 128-Microchannel Microfluidic Device for Environmental Monitoring of Explosives

  • Paul T. Charles,
  • Varun Wadhwa,
  • Amara Kouyate,
  • Kelly J. Mesa-Donado,
  • Andre A. Adams,
  • Jeffrey R. Deschamps and
  • Anne W. Kusterbeck

15 May 2018

Design and evolution of explosives monitoring and detection platforms to address the challenges of trace level chemical identification have led investigations into the use of intricately designed microfluidic devices. Microfluidic devices are unique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,154 Views
26 Pages

Robust UAV Target Tracking Algorithm Based on Saliency Detection

  • Hanqing Wu,
  • Weihua Wang,
  • Gao Chen and
  • Xin Li

8 April 2025

Due to their high efficiency and real-time performance, discriminant correlation filtering (DCF) trackers have been widely applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking. However, the robustness of existing trackers is still poor when facing compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,743 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2024

As crucial predecessor tasks for fault detection and transmission line inspection, insulators, anti-vibration hammers, and arc sag detection are critical jobs. Due to the complexity of the high-voltage transmission line environment and other factors,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,376 Views
12 Pages

4 November 2016

Heat sources, such as power electronics for offshore power, could be cooled passively—mainly by conduction and natural convection. The obvious advantage of this strategy is its high reliability. However, it must be implemented in an efficient manner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,504 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2019

The ability to detect small targets and the speed of the target detector are very important for the application of remote sensing image detection, and in this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method (named CISPNet) with high detection acc...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,248 Views
5 Pages

Wall Shear Stress Calorimetric Micro-Sensor Designed for Flow Separation Detection and Active Flow Control

  • Cécile Ghouila-Houri,
  • Quentin Gallas,
  • Eric Garnier,
  • Alain Merlen,
  • Romain Viard,
  • Abdelkrim Talbi and
  • Philippe Pernod

This paper presents an efficient and high-sensitive micro-sensor designed for wall shear stress measurement. The main technical application targeted is flow separation detection for closed-loop active flow control. The sensor is a temperature-resista...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,008 Views
20 Pages

DBnet: A Lightweight Dual-Backbone Target Detection Model Based on Side-Scan Sonar Images

  • Quanhong Ma,
  • Shaohua Jin,
  • Gang Bian,
  • Yang Cui and
  • Guoqing Liu

Due to the large number of parameters and high computational complexity of current target detection models, it is challenging to perform fast and accurate target detection in side-scan sonar images under the existing technical conditions, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,535 Views
33 Pages

Scale in Scale for SAR Ship Instance Segmentation

  • Zikang Shao,
  • Xiaoling Zhang,
  • Shunjun Wei,
  • Jun Shi,
  • Xiao Ke,
  • Xiaowo Xu,
  • Xu Zhan,
  • Tianwen Zhang and
  • Tianjiao Zeng

20 January 2023

Ship instance segmentation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images can provide more detailed location information and shape information, which is of great significance for port ship scheduling and traffic management. However, there is little researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,101 Views
26 Pages

10 September 2021

Oriented object detection in remote sensing images (RSIs) is a significant yet challenging Earth Vision task, as the objects in RSIs usually emerge with complicated backgrounds, arbitrary orientations, multi-scale distributions, and dramatic aspect r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,723 Views
19 Pages

Task-Oriented Adversarial Attacks for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Models

  • Monserrat Vázquez-Hernández,
  • Ignacio Algredo-Badillo,
  • Luis Villaseñor-Pineda,
  • Mariana Lobato-Báez,
  • Juan Carlos Lopez-Pimentel and
  • Luis Alberto Morales-Rosales

16 January 2025

Adversarial attacks deliberately modify deep learning inputs, mislead models, and cause incorrect results. Previous adversarial attacks on sentiment analysis models have demonstrated success in misleading these models. However, most existing attacks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,731 Views
13 Pages

Rotating Object Detection for Cranes in Transmission Line Scenarios

  • Lingzhi Xia,
  • Songyuan Cao,
  • Yang Cheng,
  • Lei Niu,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Hua Bao

18 December 2023

Cranes are pivotal heavy equipment used in the construction of transmission line scenarios. Accurately identifying these cranes and monitoring their status is pressing. The rapid development of computer vision brings new ideas to solve these challeng...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
903 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2025

Future lunar exploration will depend on a clearer understanding of regolith behavior, as underscored by adhesion issues observed during Apollo. The Lunaris Payload, a compact instrument developed in Poland, targets in situ assessment of lunar regolit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,245 Views
24 Pages

A Scale-Aware Pyramid Network for Multi-Scale Object Detection in SAR Images

  • Linbo Tang,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Xin Qu,
  • Yuqi Han,
  • Wenzheng Wang and
  • Baojun Zhao

16 February 2022

Multi-scale object detection within Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has become a research hotspot in SAR image interpretation. Over the past few years, CNN-based detectors have advanced sharply in SAR object detection. However, the state-of-the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,237 Views
12 Pages

Novel Hybrid Polymer Composites with Graphene and MXene Nano-Reinforcements: Computational Analysis

  • Sigitas Kilikevičius,
  • Saulė Kvietkaitė,
  • Leon Mishnaevsky,
  • Mária Omastová,
  • Andrey Aniskevich and
  • Daiva Zeleniakienė

25 March 2021

This paper presents a computational analysis on the mechanical and damage behavior of novel hybrid polymer composites with graphene and MXene nano-reinforcements targeted for flexible electronics and advanced high-strength structural applications wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
705 Views
24 Pages

Keypoint Detection-Based Aircraft Fine-Grained Recognition for High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images

  • Qiantong Wang,
  • Xiurui Geng,
  • Peifeng Li,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Ben Niu,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Guangyao Zhou and
  • Yuxin Hu

29 October 2025

Humans are capable of identifying aircraft based on quantitative features such as aspect ratio, engine count, wingspan, and structural configuration. Inspired by this, a keypoint-based aircraft identification approach is proposed to address the chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
808 Views
19 Pages

6 November 2025

Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) plays a vital role in the high-resolution imaging of marine targets, particularly under non-cooperative scenarios. However, resolution degradation due to limited observation angles and marine clutter such as wa...

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