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A Lightweight Malware Detection Model Based on Knowledge Distillation

  • Chunyu Miao,
  • Liang Kou,
  • Jilin Zhang and
  • Guozhong Dong

20 December 2024

The extremely destructive nature of malware has become a major threat to Internet security. The research on malware detection techniques has been evolving. Deep learning-based malware detection methods have achieved good results by using large-scale,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,803 Views
14 Pages

A Lightweight Model for 3D Point Cloud Object Detection

  • Ziyi Li,
  • Yang Li,
  • Yanping Wang,
  • Guangda Xie,
  • Hongquan Qu and
  • Zhuoyang Lyu

1 June 2023

With the rapid development of deep learning, more and more complex models are applied to 3D point cloud object detection to improve accuracy. In general, the more complex the model, the better the performance and the greater the computational resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,826 Views
17 Pages

A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Monitoring of Ships

  • Bowen Xing,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Jingyi Qian,
  • Chengwu Pan and
  • Qibo Le

8 September 2023

Real-time monitoring of ships is crucial for inland navigation management. Under complex conditions, it is difficult to balance accuracy, real-time performance, and practicality in ship detection and tracking. We propose a lightweight model, YOLOv8-F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,941 Views
13 Pages

10 February 2025

Automatic medical segmentation is crucial for assisting doctors in identifying disease regions effectively. As a state-of-the-art (SOTA) approach, generative AI models, particularly diffusion models, have surpassed GANs in generating high-quality ima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,727 Views
19 Pages

DualCascadeTSF-MobileNetV2: A Lightweight Violence Behavior Recognition Model

  • Yuang Chen,
  • Yong Li,
  • Shaohua Li,
  • Shuhan Lv and
  • Fang Lin

1 April 2025

This paper proposes a lightweight violent behavior recognition model, DualCascadeTSF-MobileNetV2, which is improved based on the temporal shift module and its subsequent research. By introducing the Dual Cascade Temporal Shift and Fusion module, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,820 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2025

Agricultural pest detection through image analysis is a key technology in automated pest-monitoring systems. However, some existing pest detection models face excessive model complexity. This study proposes YOLO-LCE, a lightweight model based on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,824 Views
22 Pages

BGLE-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Underwater Bio-Detection

  • Hua Zhao,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Jiaxing Chen,
  • Zhexian Zhang and
  • Xiang Wang

5 March 2025

Due to low contrast, chromatic aberration, and generally small objects in underwater environments, a new underwater fish detection model, BGLE-YOLO, is proposed to investigate automated methods dedicated to accurately detecting underwater objects in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,946 Views
14 Pages

Lightweight Hotspot Detection Model Fusing SE and ECA Mechanisms

  • Yanning Chen,
  • Yanjiang Li,
  • Bo Wu,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Yongfeng Deng,
  • Xiaolong Jiang,
  • Zebang Lin,
  • Kun Ren and
  • Dawei Gao

30 September 2024

In this paper, we propose a lightweight lithography machine learning-based hotspot detection model that integrates the Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) attention mechanism and the Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism. These mechanisms can adaptivel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,826 Views
22 Pages

3 May 2025

Global warming has driven a marked increase in forest fire occurrences, underscoring the critical need for timely and accurate detection to mitigate fire-related losses. Existing forest fire detection algorithms face limitations in capturing flame an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,564 Views
22 Pages

YOLOv8-GO: A Lightweight Model for Prompt Detection of Foliar Maize Diseases

  • Tianyue Jiang,
  • Xu Du,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Xiuhan Sun,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Siqing Tian and
  • Qiuyan Liang

1 November 2024

Disease is one of the primary threats to maize growth. Currently, maize disease detection is mainly conducted in laboratories, making it difficult to promptly respond to diseases. To enable detection in the field, a lightweight model is required. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,621 Views
19 Pages

ZZ-YOLOv11: A Lightweight Vehicle Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv11

  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Zhongyang Zhang,
  • Gang Li and
  • Chenxi Xia

28 May 2025

Aiming at the problems of insufficient vehicle detection accuracy, high misdetection and omission rate, and heavy model computational burden caused by complex lighting conditions, target occlusion, and other factors in urban traffic scenarios, this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,575 Views
14 Pages

29 November 2023

This paper discusses the application of deep learning technology in recognizing vehicle black smoke in road traffic monitoring videos. The use of massive surveillance video data imposes higher demands on the real-time performance of vehicle black smo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,821 Views
15 Pages

GoalBERT: A Lightweight Named-Entity Recognition Model Based on Multiple Fusion

  • Yingjie Xu,
  • Xiaobo Tan,
  • Mengxuan Wang and
  • Wenbo Zhang

26 November 2024

Named-Entity Recognition (NER) as a core task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) aims to automatically identify and classify specific types of entities from unstructured text. In recent years, the introduction of Transformer architecture and its de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,235 Views
18 Pages

In exploring the flight delay problem, traditional deep learning algorithms suffer from low accuracy and extreme computational complexity; therefore, the deep flight delay prediction algorithm is difficult to directly deploy to the mobile terminal. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
749 Views
17 Pages

DGNCA-Net: A Lightweight and Efficient Insulator Defect Detection Model

  • Qiang Chen,
  • Yuanfeng Luo,
  • Wu Yuan,
  • Ruiliang Zhang and
  • Yunshou Mao

20 August 2025

This paper proposes a lightweight DGNCA-Net insulator defect detection algorithm based on improvements to the YOLOv11 framework, addressing the issues of high computational complexity and low detection accuracy for small targets in machine vision-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,215 Views
13 Pages

A Lightweight Residual Model for Corrosion Segmentation with Local Contextual Information

  • Jingxu Huang,
  • Qiong Liu,
  • Lang Xiang,
  • Guangrui Li,
  • Yiqing Zhang and
  • Wenbai Chen

9 September 2022

Metal corrosion in high-risk areas, such as high-altitude cables and chemical factories, is very complex and inaccessible to people, which can be a hazard and compromise people’s safety. Embedding deep learning models into edge computing device...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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A Lightweight Machine Learning Model for High Precision Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Identification

  • Xin Sun,
  • Xiwen Mo,
  • Jing Shi,
  • Xinran Zhou,
  • Yanqing Niu,
  • Xiao-Dong Zhang,
  • Man Li and
  • Yonghui Li

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), which usually develop with a significant malignant potential, are a serious challenge in stromal health. With Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), GISTs can appear similar to other tumors. This study introduces a ligh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,170 Views
21 Pages

A Lightweight Model for Weed Detection Based on the Improved YOLOv8s Network in Maize Fields

  • Jinyong Huang,
  • Xu Xia,
  • Zhihua Diao,
  • Xingyi Li,
  • Suna Zhao,
  • Jingcheng Zhang,
  • Baohua Zhang and
  • Guoqiang Li

22 December 2024

To address the issue of the computational intensity and deployment difficulties associated with weed detection models, a lightweight target detection model for weeds based on YOLOv8s in maize fields was proposed in this study. Firstly, a lightweight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,609 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2024

In order to study the mechanical properties and stress–strain relationship of geopolymer lightweight aggregate concrete (GLAC), 13 groups of different mix proportions were designed. The influence of the binder ratio, alkali–binder ratio,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,750 Views
15 Pages

Real-Time UAV Patrol Technology in Orchard Based on the Swin-T YOLOX Lightweight Model

  • Yubin Lan,
  • Shaoming Lin,
  • Hewen Du,
  • Yaqi Guo and
  • Xiaoling Deng

17 November 2022

Using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) real-time remote sensing to monitor diseased plants or abnormal areas of orchards from a low altitude perspective can greatly improve the efficiency and response speed of the patrol in smart orchards. The purpose o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,586 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2023

To meet the demands of the food industry for automatic sorting of block-shaped foods using DELTA robots, a machine vision detection method capable of quickly identifying such foods needs to be studied. This paper proposes a lightweight model that inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
963 Views
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RMP-UNet: An Efficient and Lightweight Model for Apple Leaf Disease Segmentation

  • Wenbo Zhao,
  • Lijun Hu,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Hongxin Wu,
  • Jiangbo Wang,
  • Xu Li and
  • Cuiyun Wu

21 March 2025

As an important and nutrient-rich economic crop, apple is significantly threatened by leaf diseases, which severely impact yield, making the timely and accurate diagnosis and segmentation of these diseases crucial. Traditional segmentation models fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,364 Views
16 Pages
Infrastructures2024, 9(12), 230;https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures9120230 
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12 December 2024

In the current paper, the dynamic mechanical properties of sustainable lightweight aggregate concrete (SLAC) were numerically studied with a newly developed mesoscopic model. In the model, a fissure-based filling method was utilized for placing spher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,028 Views
22 Pages

DFCANet: A Novel Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Corn Disease Identification

  • Yang Chen,
  • Xiaoyulong Chen,
  • Jianwu Lin,
  • Renyong Pan,
  • Tengbao Cao,
  • Jitong Cai,
  • Dianzhi Yu,
  • Tomislav Cernava and
  • Xin Zhang

29 November 2022

The identification of corn leaf diseases in a real field environment faces several difficulties, such as complex background disturbances, variations and irregularities in the lesion areas, and large intra-class and small inter-class disparities. Trad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Load Identification Model Update Method Based on Channel Attention

  • Yong Gao,
  • Junwei Zhang,
  • Mian Wang,
  • Zhukui Tan and
  • Minhang Liang

30 May 2025

With the development of smart grids and home energy management systems, accurate load identification has become an important part of improving energy efficiency and ensuring electrical safety. However, traditional load identification methods struggle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,014 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2024

Massive wildfires have become more frequent, seriously threatening the Earth’s ecosystems and human societies. Recognizing smoke from forest fires is critical to extinguishing them at an early stage. However, edge devices have low computational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
850 Views
25 Pages

YOLOv8n-SSDW: A Lightweight and Accurate Model for Barnyard Grass Detection in Fields

  • Yan Sun,
  • Hanrui Guo,
  • Xiaoan Chen,
  • Mengqi Li,
  • Bing Fang and
  • Yingli Cao

Barnyard grass is a major noxious weed in paddy fields. Accurate and efficient identification of barnyard grass is crucial for precision field management. However, existing deep learning models generally suffer from high parameter counts and computat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,264 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...

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  • Open Access
672 Views
25 Pages

25 July 2025

Sheep face recognition technology is critical in key areas such as individual sheep identification and behavior monitoring. Existing sheep face recognition models typically require high computational resources. When these models are deployed on mobil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,672 Views
31 Pages

YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Shimin Weng,
  • Han Wang,
  • Jiashu Wang,
  • Changming Xu and
  • Ende Zhang

5 July 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) face a significant challenge in balancing high accuracy and high efficiency when performing real-time object detection tasks, especially amidst intricate backgrounds, diverse target scales, and stringent onboard comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,293 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Surrogate Model-Based Multi-Objective Lightweight Optimization of Spherical Fuel Element Canister

  • Yuchen Hao,
  • Jinhua Wang,
  • Musen Lin,
  • Menghang Gong,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Tao Ma,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Bing Liu and
  • Yue Li

21 April 2023

A number of canisters need to be lightweight designed to store the spherical fuel elements (SFE) used in high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR). The main challenge for engineering is pursuing high-accuracy and high-efficiency optimization simult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,853 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight YOLOv5s Model for Early Detection of Agricultural Fires

  • Saydirasulov Norkobil Saydirasulovich,
  • Sabina Umirzakova,
  • Abduazizov Nabijon Azamatovich,
  • Sanjar Mukhamadiev,
  • Zavqiddin Temirov,
  • Akmalbek Abdusalomov and
  • Young Im Cho

8 May 2025

Agricultural fires significantly threaten global food systems, ecosystems, and rural economies, necessitating timely detection to prevent widespread damage. This study presents a lightweight and enhanced version of the YOLOv5s model, optimized for ea...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,902 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2021

Wearable sensors-based gait recognition is an effective method to recognize people’s identity by recognizing the unique way they walk. Recently, the adoption of deep learning networks for gait recognition has achieved significant performance improvem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,595 Views
13 Pages

Constitutive Damage Model of Foamed Lightweight Concrete Using Statistical Damage Theory

  • Zhong Zhou,
  • Yidi Zheng,
  • Guiqiu Xie,
  • Fan Li,
  • Zigang Ji and
  • Chenjie Gong

30 August 2023

Foamed lightweight concrete has been applied in different fields of civil engineering because of its superior properties, but the related research considering internal pore damage is limited. Based on statistical damage theory and considering the une...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,447 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Model for Ship Detection and Recognition in Complex-Scene SAR Images

  • Boli Xiong,
  • Zhongzhen Sun,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Xiangguang Leng and
  • Kefeng Ji

29 November 2022

SAR ship detection and recognition are important components of the application of SAR data interpretation, allowing for the continuous, reliable, and efficient monitoring of maritime ship targets, in view of the present situation of SAR interpretatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,879 Views
21 Pages

17 February 2025

(1) With the development of artificial intelligence, people expect to use modern information technology to solve the critical problems encountered in agriculture. How to identify sunflower diseases as early and quickly as possible and take correspond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,074 Views
23 Pages

MYOLO: A Lightweight Fresh Shiitake Mushroom Detection Model Based on YOLOv3

  • Peichao Cong,
  • Hao Feng,
  • Kunfeng Lv,
  • Jiachao Zhou and
  • Shanda Li

Fruit and vegetable inspection aids robotic harvesting in modern agricultural production. For rapid and accurate detection of fresh shiitake mushrooms, picking robots must overcome the complex conditions of the growing environment, diverse morphology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,085 Views
19 Pages

SEDG-Yolov5: A Lightweight Traffic Sign Detection Model Based on Knowledge Distillation

  • Liang Zhao,
  • Zhengjie Wei,
  • Yanting Li,
  • Junwei Jin and
  • Xuan Li

Most existing traffic sign detection models suffer from high computational complexity and superior performance but cannot be deployed on edge devices with limited computational capacity, which cannot meet the direct needs of autonomous vehicles for d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,456 Views
17 Pages

29 May 2024

The classification of Stropharia rugoso-annulata is currently reliant on manual sorting, which may be subject to bias. To improve the sorting efficiency, automated sorting equipment could be used instead. However, sorting naked mushrooms in real time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,630 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Detection Model for SAR Aircraft in a Complex Environment

  • Mingwu Li,
  • Gongjian Wen,
  • Xiaohong Huang,
  • Kunhong Li and
  • Sizhe Lin

10 December 2021

Recently, deep learning has been widely used in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) aircraft detection. However, the complex environment of the airport—consider the boarding bridges, for instance—greatly interferes with aircraft detection. Bes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,829 Views
12 Pages

Dynamic Compression and Constitutive Model in Fe-27Mn-10Al-1C Duplex Lightweight Steel

  • Pengfei Cao,
  • Dazhao Li,
  • Shaobin Bai,
  • Yongan Chen and
  • Haitao Lu

10 February 2024

Fe-Mn-Al-C lightweight steels have been of significant interest due to their excellent mechanical properties and unique microstructures. However, there has been limited focus on the dynamic deformation. Here, we systematically investigate the mechani...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,830 Views
14 Pages

30 September 2020

One of the most widely used methods for representing the shapes of ships and offshore plants is triangular mesh, which has a simple structure and is easy to visualize. In particular, lightweight models composed of triangular meshes are often used as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,364 Views
10 Pages

In recent years, the transformer model has been widely used in computer-vision tasks and has achieved impressive results. Unfortunately, these transformer-based models have the common drawback of having many parameters and a large memory footprint, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2025

Conventional signal-to-image conversion methods often overlook the physical correspondence of vibration signals, limiting diagnostic interpretability. To address this, we propose a physics-guided image construction strategy that incorporates dimensio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
938 Views
20 Pages

OMB-YOLO-tiny: A Lightweight Detection Model for Damaged Pleurotus ostreatus Based on Enhanced YOLOv8n

  • Lei Shi,
  • Zhuo Bai,
  • Xiangmeng Yin,
  • Zhanchen Wei,
  • Haohai You,
  • Shilin Liu,
  • Fude Wang,
  • Xuexi Qi,
  • Helong Yu and
  • Chunguang Bi
  • + 1 author

Pleurotus ostreatus, classified under the phylum Basidiomycota, order Agaricales, and family Pleurotaceae, is a prevalent gray edible fungus. Its physical damage not only compromises quality and appearance but also significantly diminishes market val...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,501 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,259 Views
18 Pages

This paper proposes a facial expression recognition network called the Lightweight Facial Network with Spatial Bias (LFNSB). The LFNSB model effectively balances model complexity and recognition accuracy. It has two key components: a lightweight feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Views
18 Pages

A Lightweight Feature Enhancement Model for UAV Detection in Real-World Scenarios

  • Yanan Han,
  • Xufei Yan,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Danyang Li,
  • Xiaochao Liu,
  • Haishan Huang and
  • Dawei Bie

18 December 2025

Real-time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detection is a growing research field centered on advanced computer vision and deep learning algorithms. However, the rise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has sparked numerous concerns due to their potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,624 Views
31 Pages

29 June 2025

The accurate detection of occluded tomatoes in complex greenhouse environments remains challenging due to the limited feature representation ability and high computational costs of existing models. This study proposes SWMD-YOLO, a lightweight multi-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,168 Views
25 Pages

A Lightweight Multi-Source Fast Android Malware Detection Model

  • Tao Peng,
  • Bochao Hu,
  • Junping Liu,
  • Junjie Huang,
  • Zili Zhang,
  • Ruhan He and
  • Xinrong Hu

26 May 2022

Most of the current malware detection methods running on Android are based on signature and cloud technologies leading to poor protection against new types of malware. Deep learning techniques take Android malware detection to a new level. Still, mos...

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