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Deep Recyclable Trash Sorting Using Integrated Parallel Attention

  • Hualing Lin,
  • Xue Zhang,
  • Junchen Yu,
  • Ji Xiang and
  • Hui-Liang Shen

4 October 2024

Sorting recyclable trash is critical to reducing energy consumption and mitigating environmental pollution. Currently, trash sorting heavily relies on manpower. Computer vision technology enables automated trash sorting. However, existing trash image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
204 Views
28 Pages

PAFNet: A Parallel Attention Fusion Network for Water Body Extraction of Remote Sensing Images

  • Shaochuan Chen,
  • Chenlong Ding,
  • Mutian Li,
  • Xin Lyu,
  • Xin Li,
  • Zhennan Xu,
  • Yiwei Fang and
  • Heng Li

3 January 2026

Water body extraction plays a crucial role in remote sensing, supporting applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster prevention. Although Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have achieved remarkable progress, their hierarchical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,870 Views
20 Pages

Bidirectional Efficient Attention Parallel Network for Segmentation of 3D Medical Imaging

  • Dongsheng Wang,
  • Tiezhen Xv,
  • Jiehui Liu,
  • Jianshen Li,
  • Lijie Yang and
  • Jinxi Guo

Currently, although semi-supervised image segmentation has achieved significant success in many aspects, further improvement in segmentation accuracy is necessary for practical applications. Additionally, there are fewer networks specifically designe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
18 Pages

26 September 2025

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models are widely used for environmental sound classification (ESC). However, 2-D convolutions assume translation invariance along both time and frequency axes, while in practice the frequency dimension is not shift...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,094 Views
28 Pages

15 August 2025

Accurate and automated detection of diseases is crucial for sustainable strawberry production. However, the challenges posed by small size, mutual occlusion, and high intra-class variance of symptoms in complex agricultural environments make this dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,486 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2024

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained considerable attention for their expressive capabilities, but unfortunately they have serious robustness risks. Formal verification is an important technique to ensure network reliability. However, current veri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
921 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2025

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial step in image preprocessing as its effectiveness has a direct impact on the accuracy of subsequent tasks such as land cover classification, target recognition, and change detection. However, existing m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,883 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2022

Recently, there has been increasing attention on the use of renewable energy in buildings, particularly, the photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system that uses both solar power and thermal energy. However, there is a limit to adopting the PVT system in real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,030 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid-Input FCN-CNN-SE for Industrial Applications: Classification of Longitudinal Cracks during Continuous Casting

  • Davi Alberto Sala,
  • Andy Van Yperen-De Deyne,
  • Erik Mannens and
  • Azarakhsh Jalalvand

6 October 2023

In the presented research, machine learning methods were applied to the prediction of longitudinal cracks in steel slabs during continuous casting. We employ a deep learning approach to process 68 thermocouple signals as a multivariate time series (M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
443 Views
27 Pages

24 November 2025

Fault diagnosis is critical for ensuring the reliability of reciprocating pumps in industrial settings. However, challenges such as strong noise interference and unbalanced conditions of existing methods persist. To address these issues, this paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,157 Views
18 Pages

DPAFNet: A Multistage Dense-Parallel Attention Fusion Network for Pansharpening

  • Xiaofei Yang,
  • Rencan Nie,
  • Gucheng Zhang,
  • Luping Chen and
  • He Li

3 November 2022

Pansharpening is the technology to fuse a low spatial resolution MS image with its associated high spatial full resolution PAN image. However, primary methods have the insufficiency of the feature expression and do not explore both the intrinsic feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,070 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2023

X-ray contraband detection plays an important role in the field of public safety. To solve the multi-scale and obscuration problem in X-ray contraband detection, we propose a material-aware path aggregation network to detect and classify contraband i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,575 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2025

PCBs play a critical role in electronic manufacturing, and accurate defect detection is essential for ensuring product quality and reliability. However, PCB defects are often small, irregularly shaped, and embedded in complex textures, making them di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,161 Views
14 Pages

19 July 2021

The task of pitch estimation is an essential step in many audio signal processing applications. In this paper, we propose a data-driven pitch estimation network, the Dual Attention Network (DA-Net), which processes directly on the time-domain samples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,471 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2025

Against the backdrop of the deep integration of national fitness and sports science, this study addresses the lack of standardized movement assessment in yoga training by proposing an intelligent analysis system that integrates an improved YOLOv11-EC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,335 Views
21 Pages

7 March 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) serves as a pivotal remote sensing technology, offering critical support for ship monitoring, environmental observation, and national defense. Although optical detection methods have achieved good performance, SAR image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,129 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2024

Transformers have shown remarkable success in modeling sequential data and capturing intricate patterns over long distances. Their self-attention mechanism allows for efficient parallel processing and scalability, making them well-suited for the high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,045 Views
15 Pages

5 October 2025

This paper presents a dual-structured convolutional neural network (CNN) for image classification, which integrates two parallel branches: CNN-A with spatial attention and CNN-B with channel attention. The spatial attention module in CNN-A dynamicall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,312 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2023

Mobile traffic prediction enables the efficient utilization of network resources and enhances user experience. In this paper, we propose a state transition graph-based spatial–temporal attention network (STG-STAN) for cell-level mobile traffic...

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

14 November 2024

Hydraulic systems are critical components of mechanical equipment, and effective fault diagnosis is essential for minimizing maintenance costs and enhancing system reliability. In practical applications, data from hydraulic systems are collected with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,014 Views
23 Pages

17 September 2025

This paper introduces the Wavelet-Enhanced Swin Transformer Network (WSC-Net), a novel dual-branch architecture that resolves the inherent tradeoff between global spatial contextual and fine-grained spectral details in hyperspectral image (HSI) class...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,594 Views
26 Pages

15 October 2021

The accurate detection and timely replacement of abnormal vibration dampers on transmission lines are critical for the safe and stable operation of power systems. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become widely used to inspect transmissi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
18 Pages

SANet: A Pure Vision Strip-Aware Network with PSSCA and Multistage Fusion for Weld Seam Detection

  • Zhijian Zhu,
  • Haoran Gu,
  • Zhao Yang,
  • Lijie Zhao,
  • Guoli Song and
  • Qinghui Wang

21 October 2025

Weld seam detection is a fundamental prerequisite for robotic welding automation, yet it remains challenging due to the elongated shape of welds, weak contrast against metallic backgrounds, and significant environmental interference in industrial sce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,529 Views
27 Pages

An Ultra-Lightweight and High-Precision Underwater Object Detection Algorithm for SAS Images

  • Deyin Xu,
  • Yisong He,
  • Jiahui Su,
  • Lu Qiu,
  • Lixiong Lin,
  • Jiachun Zheng and
  • Zhiping Xu

1 September 2025

Underwater Object Detection (UOD) based on Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) images is one of the core tasks of underwater intelligent perception systems. However, the existing UOD methods suffer from excessive model redundancy, high computational deman...

  • Article
  • Open Access
250 Views
11 Pages

A Parallel CNN-LSTM Automatic Modulation Recognition Network

  • Weixuan Long,
  • Shenyang Li,
  • Xuehui Yu,
  • Guangjun He,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Wenbo Zhao

20 December 2025

Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) is crucial for signal interception and analysis in non-cooperative communication scenarios. To address the challenges of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and model generalizability, this paper proposes a lightwei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,344 Views
24 Pages

HTMNet: Hybrid Transformer–Mamba Network for Hyperspectral Target Detection

  • Xiaosong Zheng,
  • Yin Kuang,
  • Yu Huo,
  • Wenbo Zhu,
  • Min Zhang and
  • Hai Wang

30 August 2025

Hyperspectral target detection (HTD) aims to identify pixel-level targets within complex backgrounds, but existing HTD methods often fail to fully exploit multi-scale features and integrate global–local information, leading to suboptimal detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,542 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2024

Liver cancer is one of the malignancies with high mortality rates worldwide, and its timely detection and accurate diagnosis are crucial for improving patient prognosis. To address the limitations of traditional image segmentation techniques and the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,319 Views
30 Pages

27 March 2025

Multimodal emotion recognition involves leveraging complementary relationships across modalities to enhance the assessment of human emotions. Networks that integrate diverse information sources outperform single-modal approaches while offering greate...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,405 Views
24 Pages

Multimodal medical image fusion plays a critical role in enhancing diagnostic accuracy by integrating complementary information from different imaging modalities. However, existing methods often suffer from issues such as unbalanced feature fusion, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,034 Views
46 Pages

Leveraging Prior Knowledge in Semi-Supervised Learning for Precise Target Recognition

  • Guohao Xie,
  • Zhe Chen,
  • Yaan Li,
  • Mingsong Chen,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Yuxin Zhang,
  • Hongyan Jiang and
  • Hongbing Qiu

8 July 2025

Underwater acoustic target recognition (UATR) is challenged by complex marine noise, scarce labeled data, and inadequate multi-scale feature extraction in conventional methods. This study proposes DART-MT, a semi-supervised framework that integrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,522 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2025

The purpose of multi-modal visual information fusion is to integrate the data of multi-sensors to generate an image with higher quality, more information, and greater clarity so that it contains more complementary information and fewer redundant feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,501 Views
16 Pages

PSG-Yolov5: A Paradigm for Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition Algorithm Based on Deep Learning

  • Jie Hu,
  • Zhanbin Wang,
  • Minjie Chang,
  • Lihao Xie,
  • Wencai Xu and
  • Nan Chen

28 October 2022

With the gradual popularization of autonomous driving technology, how to obtain traffic sign information efficiently and accurately is very important for subsequent decision-making and planning tasks. Traffic sign detection and recognition (TSDR) alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
930 Views
26 Pages

Detecting small ships in optical RSIS is challenging. Due to resolution limitations, the texture and edge information of many ship targets are blurred, making feature extraction difficult and thereby reducing detection accuracy. To address this issue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
749 Views
17 Pages

11 April 2025

The accurate identification of combustion status can effectively improve the efficiency of municipal solid waste incineration and reduce the risk of secondary pollution, which plays a key role in promoting the sustainable development of the waste tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,421 Views
16 Pages

Human motion prediction is critical for applications such as autonomous driving and healthcare. However, existing methods struggle to balance diversity (varied motion patterns), fidelity (realistic and accurate motion), and computational efficiency....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,023 Views
29 Pages

29 October 2025

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent malignant tumors among women worldwide, underscoring the urgent need for early and accurate diagnosis to reduce mortality. To address this, A Multi-Feature Fusion Classification Network (MFF-ClassificationNe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,137 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
263 Views
29 Pages

MSCANet: Multi-Scale Spatial-Channel Attention Network for Urbanization Intelligent Monitoring

  • Zhande Dong,
  • Daoye Zhu,
  • Min Huang,
  • Qifeng Lin,
  • Lasse Møller-Jensen and
  • Elisabete A. Silva

3 January 2026

Rapid urbanization drives economic growth but also brings complex environmental and social issues, highlighting the urgent need for efficient urbanization monitoring techniques. However, datasets for urbanization monitoring are often lacking in rapid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,791 Views
14 Pages

In digital image inpainting tasks, existing deep-learning-based image inpainting methods have achieved remarkable staged results by introducing structural prior information into the network. However, the corresponding relationship between texture and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
945 Views
18 Pages

21 August 2025

To address the limitations of traditional fault diagnosis methods for rotating machinery, which heavily rely on single-dimensional vibration data and fail to fully exploit the deep features of time-series data, this study proposes an innovative diagn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,770 Views
26 Pages

Attention Guide Axial Sharing Mixed Attention (AGASMA) Network for Cloud Segmentation and Cloud Shadow Segmentation

  • Guowei Gu,
  • Zhongchen Wang,
  • Liguo Weng,
  • Haifeng Lin,
  • Zikai Zhao and
  • Liling Zhao

2 July 2024

Segmenting clouds and their shadows is a critical challenge in remote sensing image processing. The shape, texture, lighting conditions, and background of clouds and their shadows impact the effectiveness of cloud detection. Currently, architectures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,862 Views
13 Pages

Shuffle Attention-Based Pavement-Sealed Crack Distress Detection

  • Bo Yuan,
  • Zhaoyun Sun,
  • Lili Pei,
  • Wei Li and
  • Kaiyue Zhao

4 September 2024

To enhance the detection of pavement-sealed cracks and ensure the long-term stability of pavement performance, a novel approach called the shuffle attention-based pavement-sealed crack detection is proposed. This method consists of three essential co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,269 Views
24 Pages

29 March 2025

Few-shot learning has demonstrated remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, existing few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) models often struggle to fully utilize query image information, leading to prototype bias and limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,068 Views
18 Pages

Accurate water body detection is essential for autonomous navigation and operational planning of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). To address model adaptability to ambiguous boundaries caused by diverse scenarios and climatic conditions, this study p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Views
15 Pages

A Multi-Scale Soft-Thresholding Attention Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Recognition

  • Xin Ma,
  • Linfeng Sui,
  • Ruixuan Chen,
  • Taiyo Maeda and
  • Jianting Cao

8 January 2026

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of preventable vision loss, and its early detection is essential for timely clinical intervention. However, existing deep learning-based DR recognition methods still face two fundamental challenges: substant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,785 Views
21 Pages

YOLO-HDEW: An Efficient PCB Defect Detection Model

  • Chuanwang Song,
  • Yuanteng Zhou,
  • Yinghao Ma,
  • Qingshuo Qi,
  • Zhaoyu Wang and
  • Keyong Hu

26 August 2025

To address the challenge of detecting small defects in Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), a YOLO-HDEW model based on the enhanced YOLOv8 architecture is proposed. A high-resolution detection layer is introduced at the P2 feature level to improve sensitiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,980 Views
18 Pages

PHAM-YOLO: A Parallel Hybrid Attention Mechanism Network for Defect Detection of Meter in Substation

  • Hao Dong,
  • Mu Yuan,
  • Shu Wang,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Wenxia Bao,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Qingyuan Hu

30 June 2023

Accurate detection and timely treatment of component defects in substations is an important measure to ensure the safe operation of power systems. In this study, taking substation meters as an example, a dataset of common meter defects, such as a fuz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
959 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2025

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) represent an innovative online learning paradigm that has garnered considerable popularity in recent years, attracting a multitude of learners to MOOC platforms due to their accessible and adaptable instructional s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
330 Views
26 Pages

3 December 2025

Forward-looking sonar (FLS) image segmentation is essential for underwater exploration with remaining challenges including low contrast, ambient noise, and complex backgrounds, which both existing traditional and deep learning-based methods fail to a...

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

24 July 2024

Siamese-based trackers have been widely utilized in UAV visual tracking due to their outstanding performance. However, UAV visual tracking encounters numerous challenges, such as similar targets, scale variations, and background clutter. Existing Sia...

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