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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...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,724 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,860 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
4,628 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2019

The mechanical properties of lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) depend on the mixing ratio of its binders, normal weight aggregate (NWA), and lightweight aggregate (LWA). To characterize the relation between various concrete components and the mec...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,421 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2026

In response to the challenges of low detection efficiency, high omission rate in small target detection and high model complexity in wood surface defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight detection model based on YOLO, which integrates a du...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,044 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
4 Citations
5,200 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,997 Views
12 Pages

9 September 2023

Super-resolution in image and video processing has been a challenge in computer vision, with its progression creating substantial societal ramifications. More specifically, video super-resolution methodologies aim to restore spatial details while uph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Video, Digital Image Processing and Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,280 Views
22 Pages

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

  • Yang Chen,
  • Xiaoyulong Chen,
  • Jianwu Lin,
  • Renyong Pan and ,
  • Tengbao Cao,
  • Jitong Cai,
  • Dianzhi Yu,
  • Tomislav Cernava and
  • Xin Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovations in Agriculture)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,470 Views
26 Pages

7 January 2022

Recent climate change has brought extremely heavy rains and widescale flooding to many areas around the globe. However, previous flood prediction methods usually require a lot of computation to obtain the prediction results and impose a heavy burden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mitigation Techniques for Water-Induced Natural Disasters: The State of the Art)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,816 Views
11 Pages

26 January 2021

Heart sounds play an important role in the initial screening of heart diseases. However, the accurate diagnosis with heart sound signals requires doctors to have many years of clinical experience and relevant professional knowledge. In this study, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,193 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 and ,
  • Suna Zhao,
  • Jingcheng Zhang,
  • Baohua Zhang and
  • Guoqiang Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Collection AI, Sensors and Robotics for Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,142 Views
15 Pages

26 February 2024

In the current field of disease risk prediction research, there are many methods of using servers for centralized computing to train and infer prediction models. However, this centralized computing method increases storage space, the load on network...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge-Cloud Computing and Federated-Split Learning in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,170 Views
21 Pages

To address the limitations of insufficient feature representation, large model size, and high deployment cost in network traffic classification, a lightweight classification framework based on multi-teacher knowledge distillation is proposed. The fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,163 Views
21 Pages

25 April 2025

This paper presents HERMEES—Holistic Evaluation and Ranking Model for Energy Efficient Systems. HERMEES is based on a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model designed to select the optimal combination of lightweight cryptography (LWC) and t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,707 Views
17 Pages

16 February 2023

Recently, deep learning has been widely used in ship-radiated noise classification. To improve classification efficiency, avoiding high computational costs is an important research direction in ship-radiated noise classification. We propose a lightwe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Sensing and Machine Learning to Underwater Acoustic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,275 Views
20 Pages

7 June 2024

This study introduces an advanced ensemble methodology employing lightweight neural network models for identifying severe convective clouds from FY-4B geostationary meteorological satellite imagery. We have constructed a FY-4B based severe convective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Satellite Image Segmentation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,428 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Excitation Model Based Lightweight Siamese Network for Underwater Vehicle Object Tracking Missions

  • Xiaofeng Wu,
  • Xinyue Han,
  • Zongyu Zhang,
  • Han Wu and ,
  • Xu Yang and
  • Hai Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Performing object tracking tasks and efficiently perceiving the underwater environment in real time for underwater vehicles is a challenging task due to the complex nature of the underwater environment. A hybrid excitation model based lightweight Sia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Underwater Robots for Intervention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,918 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2025

Currently, train component fault detection is predominantly carried out through manual inspection, a process that is inefficient, prone to high omission rates, and carries safety risks. This study proposes an innovative fault detection model for trai...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,044 Views
27 Pages

Lightweight Advanced Deep Neural Network (DNN) Model for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Detection

  • Isha Bhatia,
  • Aarti,
  • Syed Immamul Ansarullah,
  • Farhan Amin and
  • Amerah Alabrah

22 October 2024

Background: Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, has a high mortality rate; however, an early prediction helps to reduce the risk. In the current literature, various approaches have been developed for the prediction of lung carcinoma (at an ear...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,732 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2023

Surface defect detection in industrial environments is crucial for quality management and has significant research value. General detection networks, such as the YOLO series, have proven effective in various dataset detections. However, due to the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,592 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
792 Views
18 Pages

15 December 2025

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) was designed as a key Low-Power Wide-Area Network technology when 5G networks were established. The ideal quadrature demodulation in NB-IoT relies on the fundamental symmetry between the in-phase (I) and quadrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,816 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2022

To ensure the safety and rational use of bridge traffic lines, the existing bridge structural damage detection models are not perfect for feature extraction and have difficulty meeting the practicability of detection equipment. Based on the YOLO (You...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
8,988 Views
17 Pages

GrapeNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Identification of Grape Leaf Diseases

  • Jianwu Lin,
  • Xiaoyulong Chen,
  • Renyong Pan,
  • Tengbao Cao and ,
  • Jitong Cai,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Xishun Peng,
  • Tomislav Cernava and
  • Xin Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Most convolutional neural network (CNN) models have various difficulties in identifying crop diseases owing to morphological and physiological changes in crop tissues, and cells. Furthermore, a single crop disease can show different symptoms. Usually...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet and Computers for Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,253 Views
14 Pages

YOLO-Chili: An Efficient Lightweight Network Model for Localization of Pepper Picking in Complex Environments

  • Hailin Chen,
  • Ruofan Zhang,
  • Jialiang Peng,
  • Hao Peng and ,
  • Wenwu Hu,
  • Yi Wang and
  • Ping Jiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 June 2024

Currently, few deep models are applied to pepper-picking detection, and existing generalized neural networks face issues such as large model parameters, prolonged training times, and low accuracy. To address these challenges, this paper proposes the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,717 Views
20 Pages

Generative Adversarial Network-Based Lightweight High-Dynamic-Range Image Reconstruction Model

  • Gustavo de Souza Ferreti,
  • Thuanne Paixão and
  • Ana Beatriz Alvarez

25 April 2025

The generation of High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) images is essential for capturing details at various brightness levels, but current reconstruction methods, using deep learning techniques, often require significant computational resources, limiting their a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Recognition and Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,941 Views
22 Pages

Lightweight PVIDNet: A Priority Vehicles Detection Network Model Based on Deep Learning for Intelligent Traffic Lights

  • Rodrigo Carvalho Barbosa,
  • Muhammad Shoaib Ayub,
  • Renata Lopes Rosa,
  • Demóstenes Zegarra Rodríguez and
  • Lunchakorn Wuttisittikulkij

31 October 2020

Minimizing human intervention in engines, such as traffic lights, through automatic applications and sensors has been the focus of many studies. Thus, Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have been studied for traffic signs and vehicle identification in an...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,128 Views
30 Pages

21 August 2025

Efficient spectrum utilization is critical for meeting the growing data demands of modern wireless communication networks. Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) plays a key role in enhancing spectrum efficiency by accurately identifying modulatio...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,028 Views
19 Pages

23 May 2025

Remote sensing image (RSI) super-resolution plays a critical role in improving image details and reducing costs associated with physical imaging devices. However, existing super-resolution methods are not applicable to resource-constrained edge devic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Machine Learning in the Era of Big Knowledge and Large Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,664 Views
19 Pages

Smart cities have been envisioned to provide smartness in managing internet of things (IoT) application domains, such as transport and mobility, health care, natural resources, electricity and energy, homes and buildings, commerce and retail, society...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
8,856 Views
18 Pages

6 May 2022

To ensure the safe operation of highway traffic lines, given the imperfect feature extraction of existing road pit defect detection models and the practicability of detection equipment, this paper proposes a lightweight target detection algorithm wit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Structural Health Monitoring and Non-destructive Testing for Large-Scale Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,762 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Haze Removal from a Single Image Using a DCP-Based Lightweight U-Net Neural Network Model

  • Yunho Han,
  • Jiyoung Kim,
  • Jinyoung Lee,
  • Jae-Ho Nah and ,
  • Yo-Sung Ho and
  • Woo-Chan Park
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 June 2024

In this paper, we propose a lightweight U-net architecture neural network model based on Dark Channel Prior (DCP) for efficient haze (fog) removal with a single input. The existing DCP requires high computational complexity in its operation. These co...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
770 Views
24 Pages

MRLA: A Multi-Scale Time-Frequency Representation Learning Model with Lightweight Attention for Network Traffic Anomaly Detection

  • Haoran Liu,
  • Ke Guo,
  • Yan Li,
  • Shaohua Wang and ,
  • Jun Yao and
  • Zi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 March 2026

As cyberattacks grow increasingly diverse and sophisticated, achieving accurate yet efficient network traffic anomaly detection has become a fundamental challenge in modern cybersecurity. While existing machine learning methods enable effective featu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,043 Views
16 Pages

14 October 2021

The extraction of wheat lodging is of great significance to post-disaster agricultural production management, disaster assessment and insurance subsidies. At present, the recognition of lodging wheat in the actual complex field environment still has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methodologies Used in Remote Sensing Data Analysis and Remote Sensors for Precision Agriculture)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
547 Views
20 Pages

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
10 Citations
2,138 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2024

The model network based on YOLOv8 for detecting race cones and buckets in the Formula Unmanned Competition for Chinese university students needs help with problems with complex structure, redundant number of parameters, and computation, significantly...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
966 Views
19 Pages

Frequent and complex boarding operations require an effective management process for specialized tools. Traditional manual statistical analysis exhibits low efficiency, poor accuracy, and a lack of electronic records, making it difficult to meet the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Image Processing in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,936 Views
22 Pages

7 November 2022

Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic coronavirus has put a lot of pressure on health systems around the world. One of the most common ways to detect COVID-19 is to use chest X-ray images, which have the advantage of being cheap and fast. However, in the e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Image Processing Techniques for Healthcare Applications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,190 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision Sensing and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,357 Views
29 Pages

Table Tennis Track Detection Based on Temporal Feature Multiplexing Network

  • Wenjie Li,
  • Xiangpeng Liu,
  • Kang An,
  • Chengjin Qin and
  • Yuhua Cheng

3 February 2023

Recording the trajectory of table tennis balls in real-time enables the analysis of the opponent’s attacking characteristics and weaknesses. The current analysis of the ball paths mainly relied on human viewing, which lacked certain theoretical...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,496 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,749 Views
10 Pages

1 October 2024

The fish detection algorithm is of great significance for obtaining aquaculture information, optimizing prey allocation in aquaculture, and improving the growth efficiency and survival rate of fish. To address the challenges of high complexity, large...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,496 Views
15 Pages

Numerous extant image dehazing methods based on learning improve performance by increasing the depth or width, the size of the convolution kernel, or using the Transformer structure. However, this will inevitably introduce many parameters and increas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing and Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
452 Views
28 Pages

25 July 2026

To address the demands of intelligent safflower harvesting scenarios, which require a safflower recognition model with both low computational cost and high detection performance, this paper proposes a lightweight improved model based on YOLOv11n, ter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Perception and Recognition Based on Sensor Data: Methods and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,381 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2022

The traditional High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) target recognition method has difficulty automatically extracting target deep features, and has low recognition accuracy under low training samples. To solve these problems, a ship recognition meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing and Communication Networks for Applied Science II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,502 Views
22 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Sustainable Lightweight Aggregate Concrete

  • Fazal Hussain,
  • Shayan Ali Khan,
  • Rao Arsalan Khushnood,
  • Ameer Hamza and
  • Fazal Rehman

30 December 2022

Nowadays, lightweight aggregate concrete is becoming more popular due to its versatile properties. It mainly helps to reduce the dead loads of the structure, which ultimately reduces design load requirements. The main challenge associated with lightw...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,920 Views
24 Pages

DSANet: A Deep Supervision-Based Simple Attention Network for Efficient Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Wenxu Shi,
  • Qingyan Meng,
  • Linlin Zhang,
  • Maofan Zhao and ,
  • Chen Su and
  • Tamás Jancsó
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2022

Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images (RSIs) plays an important role in many applications, such as urban planning, environmental protection, agricultural valuation, and military reconnaissance. With the boom in remote sensing technology, nu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing-II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,442 Views
24 Pages

DTL-GNN: Digital Twin Lightweight Method Based on Graph Neural Network

  • Chengjun Li,
  • Liguo Yao,
  • Yao Lu,
  • Songsong Zhang and
  • Taihua Zhang

5 February 2025

In the digital twin system of mechatronics engineering, the scale and accuracy of models are continually improving. Nevertheless, this growth can hinder real-time interaction and decision-making accuracy within digital twins. The resulting delay impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
32 Pages

A Lightweight CNN Framework for UAV-Based Missing-Bolt Patch Classification in Structural Health Monitoring

  • Omoniyi Tope Moses,
  • Abba-Gana Mohammed,
  • Umar Sa’eed Yusuf,
  • Nguyen Thi Thu Nga and ,
  • Omoebamije Oluwaseun,
  • Aliyu Abubakar,
  • Jose C. Matos,
  • Duna Samson and
  • Son N. Dang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

17 August 2026

Missing bolts compromise the structural integrity of bolted connections in steel bridges and industrial infrastructure. Manual visual inspection remains labour-intensive, subjective, and hazardous in hard-to-reach locations. This study presents a com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Building Information Modeling (BIM): Advancements in Collaborative Design and Construction)

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