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  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,825 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2021

This paper introduces a new intelligent fault diagnosis method based on stack pruning sparse denoising autoencoder and convolutional neural network (sPSDAE-CNN). This method processes the original input data by using a stack denoising autoencoder. Di...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,075 Views
15 Pages

Towards Intelligent Pruning of Vineyards by Direct Detection of Cutting Areas

  • Elia Pacioni,
  • Eugenio Abengózar,
  • Miguel Macías Macías,
  • Carlos J. García-Orellana,
  • Ramón Gallardo and
  • Horacio M. González Velasco

The development of robots for automatic pruning of vineyards using deep learning techniques seems feasible in the medium term. In this context, it is essential to propose and study solutions that can be deployed on portable hardware, with artificial...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,339 Views
18 Pages

8 June 2022

Real-time coal mine intelligent monitoring for pedestrian identifying and positioning is an important means to ensure safety in production. Traditional object detection models based on neural networks require significant computational and storage res...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,518 Views
22 Pages

Intelligent pruning technology is significant in reducing management costs and improving operational efficiency. In this study, a branch recognition and pruning point localization method was proposed for dormant walnut (Juglans regia L.) trees. First...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,443 Views
18 Pages

Combine-Net: An Improved Filter Pruning Algorithm

  • Jinghan Wang,
  • Guangyue Li and
  • Wenzhao Zhang

29 June 2021

The powerful performance of deep learning is evident to all. With the deepening of research, neural networks have become more complex and not easily generalized to resource-constrained devices. The emergence of a series of model compression algorithm...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,710 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2024

Machine- and deep-learning methods are used for industrial applications in prognostics and health management (PHM) for semiconductor processing and equipment anomaly detection to achieve proactive equipment maintenance and prevent process interruptio...

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  • Open Access
201 Citations
26,889 Views
38 Pages

Economics of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Diagnosis vs. Treatment

  • Narendra N. Khanna,
  • Mahesh A. Maindarkar,
  • Vijay Viswanathan,
  • Jose Fernandes E Fernandes,
  • Sudip Paul,
  • Mrinalini Bhagawati,
  • Puneet Ahluwalia,
  • Zoltan Ruzsa,
  • Aditya Sharma and
  • Raghu Kolluri
  • + 25 authors

9 December 2022

Motivation: The price of medical treatment continues to rise due to (i) an increasing population; (ii) an aging human growth; (iii) disease prevalence; (iv) a rise in the frequency of patients that utilize health care services; and (v) increase in th...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
640 Views
16 Pages

In this study, we identify cortical molecular biomarkers potentially associated with learning in mice using artificial intelligence (AI), inclusive of established and novel feature selection combined with supervised learning technologies. We applied...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,861 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2024

Agriculture stands as the cornerstone of Africa’s economy, supporting over 60% of the continent’s labor force. Despite its significance, the quality assessment of agricultural products remains a challenging task, particularly at a large s...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,464 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2020

Emerging IoT (Internet of Things) technologies have enjoyed tremendous success in a variety of applications. Since sensors in IoT consume a lot of energy to transmit their data, data compression used to prolong system lifetime has become a hot resear...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,263 Views
33 Pages

AI-Enhanced Blockchain for Scalable IoT-Based Supply Chain

  • Mohamed Moetez Abdelhamid,
  • Layth Sliman and
  • Raoudha Ben Djemaa

4 November 2024

Purpose: The integration of AI with blockchain technology is investigated in this study to address challenges in IoT-based supply chains, specifically focusing on latency, scalability, and data consistency. Background: Despite the potential of blockc...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,146 Views
20 Pages

With the development of autonomous driving, lane-level maps have attracted significant attention. Since the lane-level road network is an important part of the lane-level map, the efficient, low-cost, and automatic generation of lane-level road netwo...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,178 Views
21 Pages

Towards Deploying DNN Models on Edge for Predictive Maintenance Applications

  • Rick Pandey,
  • Sebastian Uziel,
  • Tino Hutschenreuther and
  • Silvia Krug

Almost all rotating machinery in the industry has bearings as their key building block and most of these machines run 24 × 7. This makes bearing health prediction an active research area for predictive maintenance solutions. Many state of the a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,954 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2022

The increasingly large structure of neural networks makes it difficult to deploy on edge devices with limited computing resources. Network pruning has become one of the most successful model compression methods in recent years. Existing works typical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,971 Views
20 Pages

Cloud–Edge Collaborative Inference with Network Pruning

  • Mingran Li,
  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Jiasheng Guo and
  • Feng Li

25 August 2023

With the increase in model parameters, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in computer vision, but larger DNNs create a bottleneck for deploying DNNs on resource-constrained edge devices. The cloud–edge collaborativ...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,374 Views
13 Pages

Accelerated Inference of Face Detection under Edge-Cloud Collaboration

  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Hongbo Zhou,
  • Jian Mo,
  • Chenghui Zhen and
  • Ming Ji

24 August 2022

Model compression makes it possible to deploy face detection models on devices with limited computing resources. Edge–cloud collaborative inference, as a new paradigm of neural network inference, can significantly reduce neural network inferenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,237 Views
11 Pages

Reviewing and Discussing Graph Reduction in Edge Computing Context

  • Asier Garmendia-Orbegozo,
  • José David Núñez-Gonzalez and
  • Miguel Ángel Antón

16 September 2022

Much effort has been devoted to transferring efficiently different machine-learning algorithms, and especially deep neural networks, to edge devices in order to fulfill, among others, real-time, storage and energy-consumption issues. The limited reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,499 Views
23 Pages

Rep-ViG-Apple: A CNN-GCN Hybrid Model for Apple Detection in Complex Orchard Environments

  • Bo Han,
  • Ziao Lu,
  • Jingjing Zhang,
  • Rolla Almodfer,
  • Zhengting Wang,
  • Wei Sun and
  • Luan Dong

7 August 2024

Accurately recognizing apples in complex environments is essential for automating apple picking operations, particularly under challenging natural conditions such as cloudy, snowy, foggy, and rainy weather, as well as low-light situations. To overcom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,686 Views
18 Pages

19 April 2024

This Research proposes an intelligent pruning method based on the improved Mask R-CNN (Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network) model to address the shortcomings of intelligent pruning technology for Sichuan pepper trees. Utilizing ResNeXt-50...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,057 Views
21 Pages

Design and Performance Test of a Jujube Pruning Manipulator

  • Bin Zhang,
  • Xuegeng Chen,
  • Huiming Zhang,
  • Congju Shen and
  • Wei Fu

To solve the problems of poor working conditions and high labor intensity for artificially pruning jujube trees, a pruning scheme using a manipulator is put forward in the present paper. A pruning manipulator with five degrees of freedom for jujube t...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,502 Views
20 Pages

Grapevine Branch Recognition and Pruning Point Localization Technology Based on Image Processing

  • Zhangnan Chen,
  • Yaxiong Wang,
  • Siyuan Tong,
  • Chongchong Chen and
  • Feng Kang

15 April 2024

The identification of branches and bud points is the key to intelligent pruning of dormant grapevine branches and precise positioning of the pruning point on the branch is an important prerequisite for robotic arm pruning. This study takes Cabernet S...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,366 Views
19 Pages

15 August 2024

Efficient traffic sign recognition is crucial to facilitating the intelligent driving of new energy vehicles. However, current approaches like the Vision Transformer (ViT) model often impose high storage and computational demands, escalating hardware...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,512 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2024

Vending machines have evolved into a critical element of the intelligent healthcare service system. To enhance the precision of pill box detection counting and cater to the lightweight requirements of its internal embedded controller for deep learnin...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,052 Views
18 Pages

Smart Disease Detection System for Citrus Fruits Using Deep Learning with Edge Computing

  • Poonam Dhiman,
  • Amandeep Kaur,
  • Yasir Hamid,
  • Eatedal Alabdulkreem,
  • Hela Elmannai and
  • Nedal Ababneh

3 March 2023

In recent decades, deep-learning dependent fruit disease detection and classification techniques have evinced outstanding results in technologically advanced horticulture investigation. Due to the comparatively limited image processing capabilities o...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,415 Views
14 Pages

17 February 2025

Games provide an excellent testing ground for machine learning and artificial intelligence, offering diverse environments with strategic challenges and complex decision-making scenarios. This study seeks to design a self-learning artificial intellige...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,649 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2022

As the proportion of the working population decreases worldwide, robots with artificial intelligence have been a good choice to help humans. At the same time, field programmable gate array (FPGA) is generally used on edge devices including robots, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,180 Views
20 Pages

Hybrid Compression Optimization Based Rapid Detection Method for Non-Coal Conveying Foreign Objects

  • Mengchao Zhang,
  • Yanbo Yue,
  • Kai Jiang,
  • Meixuan Li,
  • Yuan Zhang and
  • Manshan Zhou

26 November 2022

The existence of conveyor foreign objects poses a serious threat to the service life of conveyor belts, which will cause abnormal damage or even tearing, so fast and effective detection of conveyor foreign objects is of great significance to ensure t...

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  • Open Access
1,248 Views
21 Pages

Attention-Guided Differentiable Channel Pruning for Efficient Deep Networks

  • Anouar Chahbouni,
  • Khaoula El Manaa,
  • Yassine Abouch,
  • Imane El Manaa,
  • Badre Bossoufi,
  • Mohammed El Ghzaoui and
  • Rachid El Alami

Deploying deep learning (DL) models in real-world environments remains a major challenge, particularly under resource-constrained conditions where achieving both high accuracy and compact architectures is essential. While effective, Conventional prun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,081 Views
11 Pages

Sparsity Increases Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Ensemble

  • Uyanga Dorjsembe,
  • Ju Hong Lee,
  • Bumghi Choi and
  • Jae Won Song

Deep neural networks have achieved almost human-level results in various tasks and have become popular in the broad artificial intelligence domains. Uncertainty estimation is an on-demand task caused by the black-box point estimation behavior of deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
927 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Adaptive Cuboid Regional Growth Algorithm for Trunk–Branch Segmentation of Point Clouds from Two Fruit Tree Species

  • Yuheng Cao,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yaxiong Wang,
  • Shuting Xu,
  • Man Zhang,
  • Yanlong Miao and
  • Feng Kang

Accurate acquisition of the phenotypic information of trunk-shaped fruit trees plays a crucial role in intelligent orchard management, pruning during dormancy, and improving fruit yield and quality. However, the precise segmentation of trunks and bra...

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  • Open Access
76 Citations
7,066 Views
16 Pages

YOLO-Banana: A Lightweight Neural Network for Rapid Detection of Banana Bunches and Stalks in the Natural Environment

  • Lanhui Fu,
  • Zhou Yang,
  • Fengyun Wu,
  • Xiangjun Zou,
  • Jiaquan Lin,
  • Yongjun Cao and
  • Jieli Duan

4 February 2022

The real-time detection of banana bunches and stalks in banana orchards is a key technology in the application of agricultural robots. The complex conditions of the orchard make accurate detection a difficult task, and the light weight of the deep le...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,979 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2023

Time, cost, and quality are critical factors that impact the production of intelligent manufacturing enterprises. Achieving optimal values of production parameters is a complex problem known as an NP-hard problem, involving balancing various constrai...

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  • Open Access
1,676 Views
30 Pages

27 November 2024

With the development of mobile communication technology and the proliferation of the number of Internet of Things (IoT) terminal devices, a large amount of data and intelligent applications are emerging at the edge of the Internet, giving rise to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,779 Views
18 Pages

SiamPRA: An Effective Network for UAV Visual Tracking

  • Jiafeng Li,
  • Kang Zhang,
  • Zheng Gao,
  • Liheng Yang and
  • Li Zhuo

The visual navigation system is an important module in intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems as it helps to guide them autonomously by tracking visual targets. In recent years, tracking algorithms based on Siamese networks have demonstrat...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,939 Views
22 Pages

31 July 2024

High-complexity network models are challenging to execute on agricultural robots with limited computing capabilities in a large-scale pineapple planting environment in real time. Traditional module replacement often struggles to reduce model complexi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
786 Views
20 Pages

Morphological Estimation of Primary Branch Inclination Angles in Jujube Trees Based on Improved PointNet++

  • Linyuan Shang,
  • Fenfen Yan,
  • Tianxin Teng,
  • Junzhang Pan,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Chao Xia,
  • Chenlin Li,
  • Mingdeng Shi,
  • Chunjing Si and
  • Rong Niu

The segmentation of jujube tree branches and the estimation of primary branch inclination angles (IAs) are crucial for achieving intelligent pruning. This study presents a primary branch IA estimation algorithm for jujube trees based on an improved P...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,164 Views
23 Pages

6 June 2025

Artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) has become a pivotal enabler of precision agriculture by supporting real-time, data-driven decision-making at the edge. Deep learning (DL) models are central to this paradigm, offering powerful capabilities fo...

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  • Open Access
576 Views
26 Pages

Bayesian Input Compression for Edge Intelligence in Industry 4.0

  • Handuo Zhang,
  • Jun Guo,
  • Xiaoxiao Wang and
  • Bin Zhang

27 August 2025

In Industry 4.0 environments, edge intelligence plays a critical role in enabling real-time analytics and autonomous decision-making by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with edge computing. However, deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on re...

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  • Open Access
1,998 Views
17 Pages

Two Improved Constraint-Solving Algorithms Based on lmaxRPC3rm

  • Xirui Pan,
  • Zhuyuan Cheng and
  • Yonggang Zhang

3 December 2023

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a significant research area in artificial intelligence, and includes a large number of symmetric or asymmetric structures. A backtracking search combined with constraint propagation is considered to be the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,623 Views
23 Pages

22 August 2025

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) has driven an urgent demand for intelligent video anomaly detection (VAD) to ensure industrial safety. However, traditional approaches struggle to detect unknown anomalies in complex a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,745 Views
21 Pages

An SSD-MobileNet Acceleration Strategy for FPGAs Based on Network Compression and Subgraph Fusion

  • Shoutao Tan,
  • Zhanfeng Fang,
  • Yanyi Liu,
  • Zhe Wu,
  • Hang Du,
  • Renjie Xu and
  • Yunfei Liu

27 December 2022

Over the last decade, various deep neural network models have achieved great success in image recognition and classification tasks. The vast majority of high-performing deep neural network models have a huge number of parameters and often require sac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,056 Views
18 Pages

Weed Recognition at Soybean Seedling Stage Based on YOLOV8nGP + NExG Algorithm

  • Tao Sun,
  • Longfei Cui,
  • Lixuan Zong,
  • Songchao Zhang,
  • Yuxuan Jiao,
  • Xinyu Xue and
  • Yongkui Jin

24 March 2024

The high cost of manual weed control and the overuse of herbicides restrict the yield and quality of soybean. Intelligent mechanical weeding and precise application of pesticides can be used as effective alternatives for weed control in the field, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,561 Views
18 Pages

16 April 2024

Precise and rapid detection of seatbelts is an essential research field for intelligent traffic management. In order to improve the detection precision of seatbelts and speed up algorithm inference velocity, a lightweight seatbelt detection algorithm...

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  • Open Access
177 Views
19 Pages

Application of Innovative Artificial Intelligence Methods to Detect Flat Feet in Children

  • Justina Šeštokė,
  • Eglė Butkevičiūtė and
  • Birutė Sinkutė

28 November 2025

This study examined the potential of artificial intelligence tools for detecting pediatric flatfoot pathology. We would like to emphasize that there is very little research in this area and we would like to point out that this is a relevant and very...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,460 Views
9 Pages

30 January 2022

Model understanding is critical in many domains, particularly those involved in high-stakes decisions, e.g., medicine, criminal justice, and autonomous driving. Explainable AI (XAI) methods are essential for working with black-box models such as conv...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,184 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2023

Recognizing wildlife based on camera trap images is challenging due to the complexity of the wild environment. Deep learning is an optional approach to solve this problem. However, the backgrounds of images captured from the same infrared camera trap...

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  • Open Access
2,713 Views
20 Pages

Decoding Mental States in Social Cognition: Insights from Explainable Artificial Intelligence on HCP fMRI Data

  • José Diogo Marques dos Santos,
  • Luís Paulo Reis and
  • José Paulo Marques dos Santos

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used for classification tasks involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), though typically focusing only on fractions of the brain in the analysis. Recent work combined shallow neural networks (...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,704 Views
13 Pages

The rapid advancement of intelligent assisted driving technology has significantly enhanced transportation convenience in society and contributed to the mitigation of traffic safety hazards. Addressing the potential for drivers to experience abnormal...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,846 Views
23 Pages

Large amounts of high-quality data are required to train artificial intelligence (AI) models; however, curating such data through human intervention remains cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. In particular, erroneous annotations and statist...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,291 Views
40 Pages

Intelligent Edge Computing and Machine Learning: A Survey of Optimization and Applications

  • Sebastián A. Cajas Ordóñez,
  • Jaydeep Samanta,
  • Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo and
  • Ricardo Simón Carbajo

11 September 2025

Intelligent edge machine learning has emerged as a paradigm for deploying smart applications across resource-constrained devices in next-generation network infrastructures. This survey addresses the critical challenges of implementing machine learnin...

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