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Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Self-Compensating Lightweight Convolution

  • Ruolin Li,
  • Hongmei Wang,
  • Qiaorong Wu,
  • Cheng Liang and ,
  • Haoyu Li and
  • Jingyu Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 June 2026

Deep learning has significantly improved the quality of infrared and visible image fusion. However, existing mainstream deep fusion networks often come with complex architectures and a large number of parameters. While general lightweight techniques...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,491 Views
15 Pages

Lightweight Super-Resolution with Self-Calibrated Convolution for Panoramic Videos

  • Fanjie Shang,
  • Hongying Liu,
  • Wanhao Ma,
  • Yuanyuan Liu and ,
  • Licheng Jiao,
  • Fanhua Shang,
  • Lijun Wang and
  • Zhenyu Zhou
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 December 2022

Panoramic videos are shot by an omnidirectional camera or a collection of cameras, and can display a view in every direction. They can provide viewers with an immersive feeling. The study of super-resolution of panoramic videos has attracted much att...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Deep-Learning-Based Sensing, Imaging, and Video Processing)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,239 Views
15 Pages

Efficient Attention Mechanism for Dynamic Convolution in Lightweight Neural Network

  • Enjie Ding,
  • Yuhao Cheng,
  • Chengcheng Xiao,
  • Zhongyu Liu and
  • Wanli Yu

31 March 2021

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer limited feature representation capabilities due to low computational budgets, resulting in degradation in performance. To make CNNs more efficient, dynamic neural networks (DyNet) have been pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
735 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Convolution-Aware RISC-V Soft Processor for Intelligent Wearable Systems

  • Fernando L. Pizarro Diaz,
  • Booker A. Robinson and
  • Juan F. Patarroyo Montenegro

Resource-constrained wearable systems often need to be able to execute signal processing and AI workloads. There are many trade-offs to consider for this type of application. This paper presents a lightweight convolution-aware soft processor for embe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Computing)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,078 Views
26 Pages

2 July 2022

The large intra-class difference and inter-class similarity of scene images bring great challenges to the research of remote-sensing scene image classification. In recent years, many remote-sensing scene classification methods based on convolutional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Scene Classification)
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  • Open Access
1,301 Views
14 Pages

GhostBlock-Augmented Lightweight Gaze Tracking via Depthwise Separable Convolution

  • Jing-Ming Guo,
  • Yu-Sung Cheng,
  • Yi-Chong Zeng and
  • Zong-Yan Yang

This paper proposes a lightweight gaze-tracking architecture named GhostBlock-Augmented Look to Coordinate Space (L2CS), which integrates GhostNet-based modules and depthwise separable convolution to achieve a better trade-off between model accuracy...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,907 Views
14 Pages

Ship Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv5 Network Improved with Lightweight Convolution and Attention Mechanism

  • Langyu Wang,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yahong Lin,
  • Shuai Yan and ,
  • Yuanyuan Xu and
  • Bo Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 November 2023

Aiming at the problem of insufficient feature extraction, low precision, and recall in sea surface ship detection, a YOLOv5 algorithm based on lightweight convolution and attention mechanism is proposed. We combine the receptive field enhancement mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,424 Views
34 Pages

ACLC-Detection: A Network for Remote Sensing Image Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Lightweight Convolution

  • Shaodong Liu,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Chenshan Yang,
  • Juying Dai and ,
  • Jinhong Xue,
  • Qing Liu and
  • Tao Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 July 2025

Detecting small objects using remote sensing technology has consistently posed challenges. To address this issue, a novel detection framework named ACLC-Detection has been introduced. Building upon the Yolov11 architecture, this detector integrates a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,345 Views
18 Pages

Enhanced Feature Refinement Network Based on Depthwise Separable Convolution for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution

  • Weizhe Sun,
  • Ran Ke,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Haoran Lu and ,
  • Dong Li,
  • Fei Yang and
  • Lei Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 October 2024

Image super-resolution (SR) techniques aim to enhance the clarity and realism of images. Recently, a wide range of excellent SR algorithms with powerful characterization capabilities have emerged and are widely used. However, there are still challeng...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
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27 Pages

2 November 2026

Printed circuit board (PCB) defect detection remains challenging because micro-scale defects often exhibit weak contrast and are easily suppressed by conventional downsampling and balanced multi-scale detection heads. To address these limitations, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Machine Learning: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
691 Views
20 Pages

12 June 2026

Aiming at the problems of glare interference, local overexposure and detail loss caused by artificial light sources such as vehicle lamps and street lamps in nighttime road scenes, as well as the challenges of existing glare suppression models with l...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,761 Views
21 Pages

Convolutional neural network-based detection models have been extensively applied in industrial production for monitoring the use of safety protection equipment, ensuring worker safety. This paper addresses scenarios in electrical operations where th...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
618 Views
23 Pages

Background/Objectives: Epilepsy is a prevalent chronic neurological disorder, and electroencephalography (EEG) remains essential for its diagnosis and long-term monitoring. Although deep learning-based automatic seizure detection has advanced conside...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
902 Views
26 Pages

A Lightweight Frozen Multi-Convolution Dual-Branch Network for Efficient sEMG-Based Gesture Recognition

  • Shengbiao Wu,
  • Zhezhe Lv,
  • Yuehong Li,
  • Chengmin Fang and ,
  • Tao You and
  • Jiazheng Gui
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 January 2026

Gesture recognition is important for rehabilitation assistance and intelligent prosthetic control. However, surface electromyography (sEMG) signals exhibit strong non-stationarity, and conventional deep-learning models require long training time and...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
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  • Open Access
682 Views
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WAD-YOLO: A Lightweight Fall Detection Algorithm for Visual Sensor Systems Based on Wavelet Transform and Dynamic Convolution

  • Zhongyu He,
  • Fenghua Zhu,
  • Shengli Duan,
  • Xiaowei Li and ,
  • Zhenyu Shen and
  • Yuanlin Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 July 2026

Falls among the elderly and vulnerable populations represent a critical public health challenge, and camera-based visual sensor systems have emerged as a promising non-intrusive solution for continuous fall monitoring. However, deploying accurate fal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems: Sensing, Automation and Control)
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  • Open Access
541 Views
17 Pages

5 June 2026

Anti-UAV surveillance demands real-time pixel-level UAV localization on resource-constrained gimbal-mounted platforms, yet existing lightweight segmentation models suffer from low recall that propagates to downstream tracking failure. Building on our...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,817 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2022

With the continuous development of industrial aquaculture and artificial intelligence technology, the trend of the use of automation and intelligence in aquaculture is becoming more and more obvious, and the speed of the related technical development...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,504 Views
21 Pages

10 June 2023

During steel production, various defects often appear on the surface of the steel, such as cracks, pores, scars, and inclusions. These defects may seriously decrease steel quality or performance, so how to timely and accurately detect defects has gre...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,779 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2025

As a core transmission component of modern industrial equipment, the operation status of the gearbox has a significant impact on the reliability and service life of major machinery. In this paper, we propose an intelligent diagnosis framework based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,750 Views
16 Pages

As urbanization accelerates, the prevalence of fire incidents leads to significant hazards. Enhancing the accuracy of remote fire detection systems while reducing computation complexity and power consumption in edge hardware are crucial. Therefore, t...

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  • Open Access
430 Views
18 Pages

10 August 2026

Motion image deblurring remains challenging because many existing models rely on complex architectures, leading to high computational cost and parameter redundancy, particularly under non-uniform blur in real-world scenes. To mitigate these limitatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
181 Citations
13,098 Views
18 Pages

A Lightweight Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Tomato Leaf Disease Classification

  • Anil Bhujel,
  • Na-Eun Kim,
  • Elanchezhian Arulmozhi,
  • Jayanta Kumar Basak and
  • Hyeon-Tae Kim

Plant diseases pose a significant challenge for food production and safety. Therefore, it is indispensable to correctly identify plant diseases for timely intervention to protect crops from massive losses. The application of computer vision technolog...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,034 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2024

The majority of applications use automatic image recognition technologies to carry out a range of tasks. Therefore, it is crucial to identify and classify image distortions to improve image quality. Despite efforts in this area, there are still many...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications in Pattern Recognition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,985 Views
19 Pages

PDNet by Partial Deep Convolution: A Better Lightweight Detector

  • Wei Wang,
  • Yuanze Meng,
  • Han Li,
  • Shun Li and ,
  • Chenghong Zhang,
  • Guanghui Zhang and
  • Weimin Lei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Model lightweighting is significant in edge computing and mobile devices. Current studies on fast network design mainly focuses on model computation compression and speedup. Many models aim to compress models by dealing with redundant feature maps. H...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,318 Views
19 Pages

Path-Routing Convolution and Scalable Lightweight Networks for Robust Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition

  • Yue Zhao,
  • Menghan Chen,
  • Yuchen Lu,
  • Liangliang Cheng and ,
  • Cheng Chen,
  • Yifei Li and
  • Nizar Faisal Alkayem
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 November 2025

Maritime traffic surveillance and ocean environmental protection urgently require the accurate identification of surface vessel types. Although deep learning methods have significantly improved the underwater acoustic target recognition performance,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition, Audio and Underwater Acoustic Signal Analysis)
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  • Open Access
649 Views
18 Pages

29 July 2026

Accurate classification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is important for environmental monitoring and industrial safety via electronic nose (E-nose) systems. However, extracting discriminative features from dynamic one-dimensional sensor respons...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,944 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2021

Face recognition algorithms based on deep learning methods have become increasingly popular. Most of these are based on highly precise but complex convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which require significant computing resources and storage, and ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,609 Views
20 Pages

A DC Series Arc Fault Detection Method Based on a Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Used in Photovoltaic System

  • Yao Wang,
  • Cuiyan Bai,
  • Xiaopeng Qian,
  • Wanting Liu and ,
  • Chen Zhu and
  • Leijiao Ge
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 April 2022

Although photovoltaic (PV) systems play an essential role in distributed generation systems, they also suffer from serious safety concerns due to DC series arc faults. This paper proposes a lightweight convolutional neural network-based method for de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Situation Awareness for Smart Distribution Systems)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,244 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2022

In recent years, the demand for coffee has increased tremendously. During the production process, green coffee beans are traditionally screened manually for defective beans before they are packed into coffee bean packages; however, this method is not...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,483 Views
17 Pages

Since the lightweight convolutional neural network EfficientNet was proposed by Google in 2019, the series of models have quickly become very popular due to their superior performance with a small number of parameters. However, the existing convoluti...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,949 Views
12 Pages

7 October 2019

Pedestrian attributes (such as gender, age, hairstyle, and clothing) can effectively represent the appearance of pedestrians. These are high-level semantic features that are robust to illumination, deformation, etc. Therefore, they can be widely used...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,243 Views
29 Pages

In scenarios such as nearshore and inland waterways, the ship spots in a marine radar are easily confused with reefs and shorelines, leading to difficulties in ship identification. In such settings, the conventional ARPA method based on fractal detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Ships and Waterways: Design, Operation and Advanced Technology)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,667 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2021

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can serve as an ideal mobile platform in various situations. Real-time object detection with on-board apparatus provides drones with increased flexibility as well as a higher intelligence level. In order to achieve goo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Multi-UAV) for Autonomous Transportation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,541 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2023

Recent advances in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection have a trade-off between accuracy and computational cost in various industrial tasks and essential consideration. However, the fully convolutional one-stage detector (FCOS)...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
1,775 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Transformer with Adaptive Rotational Convolutions for Aerial Object Detection

  • Sabina Umirzakova,
  • Shakhnoza Muksimova,
  • Abrayeva Mahliyo Olimjon Qizi and
  • Young Im Cho

7 May 2025

Oriented object detection in aerial imagery presents unique challenges due to the arbitrary orientations, diverse scales, and limited availability of labeled data. In response to these issues, we propose RASST—a lightweight Rotationally Aware S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,482 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2022

The existing rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on the deep convolutional neural network has the issues of insufficient feature extraction ability, poor anti-noise ability, and a large number of model parameters. A lightweight bearing fault...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,661 Views
12 Pages

24 April 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have resulted in remarkable achievements and conferred massive benefits to computer-aided systems in medical imaging. However, the worldwide usage of AI-based automation-assisted cervical cancer screening sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,198 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2021

A convolutional neural network (CNN) that was trained using datasets for multiple scenarios was proposed to facilitate real-time road semantic segmentation for various scenarios encountered in autonomous driving. However, the CNN inhibited the mutual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision & Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
51 Citations
4,456 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2020

COVID-19 is a disease that can be spread easily with minimal physical contact. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction swab test as a diagnostic tool to confirm COVID-19 cases. T...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,841 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2023

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have transformed the landscape of image analysis and are widely applied across various fields. With their widespread adoption in fields like medical diagnosis and autonomous driving, CNNs have demonstrated powerfu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Data Science and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,692 Views
19 Pages

29 February 2024

As the world increasingly becomes more interconnected, the demand for safety and security is ever-increasing, particularly for industrial networks. This has prompted numerous researchers to investigate different methodologies and techniques suitable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Intrusion Detection Using Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,491 Views
21 Pages

2 September 2021

Deep neural networks have achieved significant development and wide applications for their amazing performance. However, their complex structure, high computation and storage resource limit their applications in mobile or embedding devices such as se...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,718 Views
27 Pages

21 December 2021

With the development of remote sensing scene image classification, convolutional neural networks have become the most commonly used method in this field with their powerful feature extraction ability. In order to improve the classification performanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Reinforcement Learning in Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,418 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2025

The graph convolutional network (GCN) has become a mainstream technology in skeleton-based action recognition since it was first applied to this field. However, previous studies often overlooked the pivotal role of heuristic model initialization in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision Sensing and Pattern Recognition)
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8 Citations
3,141 Views
12 Pages

7 May 2024

Data information security on wearable devices has emerged as a significant concern among users, so it becomes urgent to explore authentication methods based on wearable devices. Using PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) signals for identity authentication has...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
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  • Open Access
1,227 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2025

The growing demand for high-precision machining and inspection in modern manufacturing has positioned machine vision as a key technology for surface defect detection. However, identifying subtle surface scratches on automotive components remains a ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,579 Views
17 Pages

2 January 2023

Many heavy and lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require large datasets and parameter tuning. Moreover, they consume time and computer resources. A new lightweight model called FlexibleNet was created to overcome these obstacles. The n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,362 Views
19 Pages

With the rapid development of deep learning, weather recognition has become a research hotspot in the field of computer vision, and the research on field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration based on deep learning algorithms has received more...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,610 Views
13 Pages

Lightweight Separable Convolution Network for Breast Cancer Histopathological Identification

  • Grace Ugochi Nneji,
  • Happy Nkanta Monday,
  • Goodness Temofe Mgbejime,
  • Venkat Subramanyam R. Pathapati and ,
  • Saifun Nahar and
  • Chiagoziem Chima Ukwuoma
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women worldwide. Histopathological images have proven to be a reliable way to find out if someone has breast cancer over time, however, it could be time consuming and require much resources wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breast Cancer Imaging: Successes and Challenges)
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  • Open Access
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23 Pages

12 February 2026

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a cornerstone task in 2D/3D scene reconstruction and recognition with widespread applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, existing state-of-the-art methods face a fundamental tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

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