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6 Citations
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Tone Mapping Method Based on the Least Squares Method

  • Lanfei Zhao,
  • Guoqing Li and
  • Jun Wang

Tone mapping is used to compress the dynamic range of image data without distortion. To compress the dynamic range of HDR images and prevent halo artifacts, a tone mapping method is proposed based on the least squares method. Our method first uses we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
30 Pages

Conformal Mapping and the Finite Element Method

  • Ali R. Hadjesfandiari and
  • Gary F. Dargush

2 June 2026

One of the interesting properties of the two-dimensional potential problem is that solutions of the Laplace equation remain solutions of the Laplace equation when subjected to a conformal transformation. While this result was established long ago, th...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,562 Views
13 Pages

6 April 2023

Conformal mapping has achieved many successes in engineering. It can help to solve some complex fluid flow problems. This study proposed a numerical method for conformal mapping of closed box girder bridges and applied it to flutter performance predi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Damage Diagnosis and Safety Assessment of Bridge Structures under Multiple Hazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,396 Views
15 Pages

Study on Optimization of Mapping Method for Multi-Layer Cage Chicken House Environment

  • Zhaobo Zhang,
  • Yanwei Yuan,
  • Xin Dong,
  • Yulong Yuan and ,
  • Sa An,
  • Yue Cao,
  • Yang Li and
  • Yuefeng Chen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 April 2025

This study delves into the mapping method for the navigation system of a chicken coop disinfection robot. It systematically analyzes the problems of insufficient effective particle count, high particle repetition rate in environmental map information...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,023 Views
15 Pages

20 March 2018

This paper presents an optimization-based design method of passive micromixers for immiscible fluids, which means that the Peclet number infinitely large. Based on topology optimization method, an optimization model is constructed to find the optimal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Passive Micromixers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
139 Views
23 Pages

A Runge–Kutta Enhancement Strategy Based on the Return Mapping Method

  • Xiangxian Dou,
  • Li Wan,
  • Jinlong Xie,
  • Qianhui Liu and
  • Yuzhen Yu

21 October 2026

Accurate stress integration at large strain increments requires control of both trajectory error and yield-surface drift. This study presents RK-RM, a hybrid strategy combining explicit Runge–Kutta integration with cutting-plane return mapping....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Simulation in Computational Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,374 Views
11 Pages

10 February 2023

An analytically separated neuro-space mapping (Neuro-SM) model of power transistors is proposed in this paper. Two separated mapping networks are introduced into the new model to improve the characteristics of the DC and AC, avoiding interference of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Reliability Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,898 Views
9 Pages

In the process of controlling an unmanned vehicle, it is practically important that under conditions of rapidly changing dynamic constraints, control laws be developed that would be optimal with respect to a given quality functional or a multicriteri...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 15th International Conference “Intelligent Systems” (INTELS’22))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,221 Views
35 Pages

19 October 2022

Salt mining and shrimp farming have been practiced in the Non Thai district and the surrounding areas for more than 30 years, creating saline soil problems. To solve the soil salinity problem, soil salinity prediction and mapping utilizing the electr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote and Proximal Sensing Applied to Agriculture and Forest Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,029 Views
11 Pages

Tin (Sn) Geochemical Mapping Based on a Fixed-Value Method: A Case Illustration in Gejiu Area, Southwest China

  • Shengchao Xu,
  • Jie Li,
  • Xiaobing Zhang,
  • Zhao Huang and ,
  • Yuanyou Huang,
  • Yujiang Long,
  • Yongqiang Xu,
  • Xufeng Song,
  • Zheng Chen and
  • Qingjie Gong
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

21 February 2024

Geochemical maps play an important role in mineral resource exploration. There are three traditional methods for creating geochemical maps: the cumulative frequency method, the logarithmic interval method, and the Avg±k∗Std (where Avg a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Earth Sciences and Geography in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,373 Views
26 Pages

18 October 2022

The space-mapping method provides a novel method for dimension formulae explanation and basis construction for the spline space over hierarchical T-meshes. By the space-mapping method, we provide a unique basis construction framework that incorporate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer-Aided Geometric Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
2,243 Views
9 Pages

The Analytical Solutions of the Stochastic mKdV Equation via the Mapping Method

  • Wael W. Mohammed,
  • Farah M. Al-Askar and
  • Clemente Cesarano

11 November 2022

Here, we analyze the (2+1)-dimensional stochastic modified Kordeweg–de Vries (SmKdV) equation perturbed by multiplicative white noise in the Stratonovich sense. We apply the mapping method to obtain new trigonometric, elliptic, and rational sto...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,621 Views
23 Pages

3 February 2023

The aim of optimization methods is to identify the best results in the search area. In this research, we focused on a mixture of the interior point method, opposite gradient method, and mean-variance mapping optimization, named IPOG-MVMO, where the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinventing Processes for Sustainability via Process Intensification and Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,548 Views
17 Pages

Two-Stepwise Hierarchical Adaptive Threshold Method for Automatic Rapeseed Mapping over Jiangsu Using Harmonized Landsat/Sentinel-2

  • Shaomei Chen,
  • Zhaofu Li,
  • Tingli Ji,
  • Haiyan Zhao and ,
  • Xiaosan Jiang,
  • Xiang Gao,
  • Jianjun Pan and
  • Wenmin Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 June 2022

Rapeseed distribution mapping is a crucial issue for food and oil security, entertainment, and tourism development. Previous studies have used various remote sensing approaches to map rapeseed. However, the time-consuming and labor-intensive sample d...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics in Agriculture and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,245 Views
27 Pages

Multilayer Soil Moisture Mapping at a Regional Scale from Multisource Data via a Machine Learning Method

  • Linglin Zeng,
  • Shun Hu,
  • Daxiang Xiang,
  • Xiang Zhang and ,
  • Deren Li,
  • Lin Li and
  • Tingqiang Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 February 2019

Soil moisture mapping at a regional scale is commonplace since these data are required in many applications, such as hydrological and agricultural analyses. The use of remotely sensed data for the estimation of deep soil moisture at a regional scale...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,515 Views
19 Pages

A Rice Mapping Method Based on Time-Series Landsat Data for the Extraction of Growth Period Characteristics

  • Jing Liao,
  • Yueming Hu,
  • Hongliang Zhang,
  • Luo Liu and ,
  • Zhenhua Liu,
  • Zhengxi Tan and
  • Guangxing Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 July 2018

The rapid and accurate acquisition of rice cultivation information is very important for the management and assessment of rice agriculture and for research on food security, the use of agricultural water resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. Rice...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2023

An automatic hole-cutting method is proposed to search donor cells between a structured Cartesian mesh and an overlapping body-fitted mesh. The main flow is simulated on the structured Cartesian mesh and the viscous flow near the solid boundary is si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Modern Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,280 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2019

The accurate mapping of crops can provide effective information for regional agricultural management, which is helpful to improve crop production efficiency. Recently, remote sensing data offers a comprehensive approach to achieve crop identification...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EO Based Environmental Mapping Services: Matching Agriculture, Urban Areas and Protected Areas Information Needs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,289 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2021

A novel technique based on conformal mapping and the circle theorem has been developed to tackle the boundary penetration issue, in which vortex blobs leak into structures in two-dimensional discrete vortex simulations, as an alternative to the tradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Particle/Grid-Based Methods and Applications in Marine and Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,538 Views
15 Pages

The split feasibility problem (SFP) has many practical applications, which has attracted the attention of many authors. In this paper, we propose a different method to solve the SFP and the fixed-point problem involving quasi-nonexpansive mappings. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point, Optimization, and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,918 Views
22 Pages

A Method for Improving Controlling Factors Based on Information Fusion for Debris Flow Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study in Jilin Province, China

  • Qiang Dou,
  • Shengwu Qin,
  • Yichen Zhang,
  • Zhongjun Ma and ,
  • Junjun Chen,
  • Shuangshuang Qiao,
  • Xiuyu Hu and
  • Fei Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 July 2019

Debris flow is one of the most frequently occurring geological disasters in Jilin province, China, and such disasters often result in the loss of human life and property. The objective of this study is to propose and verify an information fusion (IF)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,353 Views
15 Pages

18 October 2019

A grating projection method is often used as a highly accurate 3D shape measurement method. A real-time 3D shape measurement system can also be applied to measure a wide and smooth curved surface, such as in sheet metal processing. In this case, oper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-speed Optical 3D Shape and Deformation Measurement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,465 Views
21 Pages

9 November 2020

Landslides are one of the most extensive geological disasters in the world. The objective of this study was to assess the performances of different landslide susceptibility models information content method (ICM), analytical hierarchy process (AHP),...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,005 Views
15 Pages

26 November 2021

Traditional multi-parameter single distribution quantile mapping (QM) methods excel in some respects in correcting climate model precipitation, but are limited in others. Multi-parameter mixed distribution quantile mapping can potentially exploit the...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,459 Views
14 Pages

Optimization of Memristor Crossbar’s Mapping Using Lagrange Multiplier Method and Genetic Algorithm for Reducing Crossbar’s Area and Delay Time

  • Seung-Myeong Cho,
  • Rina Yoon,
  • Ilpyeong Yoon,
  • Jihwan Moon and ,
  • Seokjin Oh and
  • Kyeong-Sik Min
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 July 2024

Memristor crossbars offer promising low-power and parallel processing capabilities, making them efficient for implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in terms of delay time, area, etc. However, mapping large CNN models like ResNet-18, ResNe...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
2,623 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2023

Stochastic partial differential equations have wide applications in various fields of science and engineering. This paper addresses the optical stochastic solitons and other exact stochastic solutions through birefringent fibers for the Biswas–...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications in Nonlinear Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,290 Views
16 Pages

2 January 2020

In this paper, first, we introduce a path for a convex combination of a pseudocontractive type of mappings with a perturbed mapping and prove strong convergence of the proposed path in a real reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Functional Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,536 Views
19 Pages

This study focuses on optical twin-core couplers, which facilitate light transmission between two closely aligned optical fibers. These couplers operate based on the principle of coupling, allowing signals in one core to interact with those in the ot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Physics with Fractional Application, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
728 Views
28 Pages

6 July 2026

Landslide susceptibility assessment acts as a core technical tool for geological disaster governance, ecological protection and long-term risk mitigation strategies. This modeling approach quantifies the possibility of slope-collapse events and deliv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Assessment and Risk Analysis on Landslide Hazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,109 Views
12 Pages

An Impact Mapping Method to Generate Robust Qualitative Evaluation of Community-Based Research Programs for Youth and Adults

  • Melissa D. Olfert,
  • Rebecca L. Hagedorn,
  • Jade A. White,
  • Barbara A. Baker and ,
  • Sarah E. Colby,
  • Lisa Franzen-Castle,
  • Kendra K. Kattelmann and
  • Adrienne A. White
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Ripple Effect Mapping (REM) is an evaluation approach that has traditionally been used in community settings to visually map the impact of programming and community interventions. This manuscript utilizes the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) to inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,323 Views
15 Pages

17 March 2020

In this paper, using a new shrinking projection method, we deal with the strong convergence for finding a common point of the sets of zero points of a maximal monotone mapping, common fixed points of a finite family of demimetric mappings and common...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Variational Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,343 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2018

Land cover and its dynamic information is the basis for characterizing surface conditions, supporting land resource management and optimization, and assessing the impacts of climate change and human activities. In land cover information extraction, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,285 Views
20 Pages

Propagation Attenuation Maps Based on Parabolic Equation Method

  • Michał Kryk,
  • Krzysztof Malon and
  • Jan M. Kelner

27 May 2022

Modern wireless communication systems use various technological solutions to increase the efficiency of created radio networks. This efficiency also applies to radio resources. Currently, the utilization of a radio environment map (REM) is one of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Measurements of Propagation Environments for 5G and beyond Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,470 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2021

Spatial design is at the core of landscape architecture. Mapping spatial–visual characteristics is of significance for landscape architects to interpret and talk about space. Advanced mapping methods and tools for spatial–visual analysis (i.e., mappi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,049 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Method for Establishing an Efficiency Map of IPMSMs for EV Propulsion Based on the Finite-Element Method and a Neural Network

  • Sung-Bae Jun,
  • Chan-Ho Kim,
  • JuKyung Cha,
  • Jin Hwan Lee and ,
  • Yong-Jae Kim and
  • Sang-Yong Jung
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for establishing an efficiency map of interior permanent-magnet synchronous motors that are used for electric vehicle propulsion, by employing the finite-element method (FEM) and a neural network (NN) to red...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Optimal Design Methods for Electric Machines and Devices – Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,917 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2024

The mapped Fourier grid method (mapped-FGM) is a simple and efficient discrete variable representation (DVR) numerical technique for solving atomic radial Schrödinger differential equations. It is set up on equidistant grid points, and the mappi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,959 Views
21 Pages

Three-dimensional (3D) road maps have garnered significant attention recently because of applications such as autonomous driving. For 3D road maps to remain accurate and up-to-date, an appropriate updating method is crucial. However, there are curren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,848 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2022

In this article, we introduce a new inertial multi-step regularized generalized Popov’s extra-gradient method to solve the hierarchical variational inequality problem (HVIP). We extend the previous Lipschitzian and strongly monotone mapping to...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,089 Views
9 Pages

Krasnoselskii–Mann Viscosity Approximation Method for Nonexpansive Mappings

  • Najla Altwaijry,
  • Tahani Aldhaban,
  • Souhail Chebbi and
  • Hong-Kun Xu

14 July 2020

We show that the viscosity approximation method coupled with the Krasnoselskii–Mann iteration generates a sequence that strongly converges to a fixed point of a given nonexpansive mapping in the setting of uniformly smooth Banach spaces. Our re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,036 Views
8 Pages

Mapping Breeding Birds in a Karstic Sinkhole with a Comparison between Different Sampling Methods

  • Corrado Battisti,
  • Pierangelo Crucitti,
  • Giuseppe Dodaro,
  • Marco Giardini and
  • Francesca Marini

30 May 2024

Karstic sinkholes are peculiar structures hosting specific biological communities. Birds are still little studied in this regard. This note reports, for the first time, original data relating to the density of breeding species occurring within a sink...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2024 Feature Papers by Diversity’s Editorial Board Members)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,155 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2019

Let VIP indicate the variational inequality problem with Lipschitzian and pseudomonotone operator and let CFPP denote the common fixed-point problem of an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping and a strictly pseudocontractive mapping in a real Hilbert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Functional Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,306 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2022

The spatiotemporal phase transformation during hot stamping would considerably effect the microstructure and mechanical properties of steels. In order to manufacture hot-stamping components of ultra-high-strength steel with tailored mechanical proper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Light Materials for Automobile and Aerospace Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,653 Views
15 Pages

Convergence Theorems for Generalized Viscosity Explicit Methods for Nonexpansive Mappings in Banach Spaces and Some Applications

  • Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth,
  • Nuttapol Pakkaranang,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Phatiphat Thounthong and
  • Prasit Cholamjiak

11 February 2019

In this paper, we introduce a generalized viscosity explicit method (GVEM) for nonexpansive mappings in the setting of Banach spaces and, under some new techniques and mild assumptions on the control conditions, prove some strong convergence theorems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Related Nonlinear Problems with Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,432 Views
13 Pages

24 December 2019

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has now become a widely used technique for structure determination of macromolecular complexes. For modeling molecular structures from density maps of different resolutions, many algorithms have been developed. Thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Domains: Structures and Molecular Functions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,000 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2022

Fixed point theory provides an important structure for the study of symmetry in mathematics. In this article, a new iterative method (general Picard–Mann) to approximate fixed points of nonexpansive mappings is introduced and studied. We study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Analysis and Fixed Point Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,051 Views
20 Pages

WB1, a Regulator of Endosperm Development in Rice, Is Identified by a Modified MutMap Method

  • Hong Wang,
  • Yingxin Zhang,
  • Lianping Sun,
  • Peng Xu and ,
  • Ranran Tu,
  • Shuai Meng,
  • Weixun Wu,
  • Galal Bakr Anis,
  • Kashif Hussain and
  • Xihong Shen
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

Abnormally developed endosperm strongly affects rice (Oryza sativa) appearance quality and grain weight. Endosperm formation is a complex process, and although many enzymes and related regulators have been identified, many other related factors remai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,166 Views
17 Pages

Three-Dimensional Look-Locker Method for Free-Breathing T1 Mapping of Oxygen-Enhanced Pulmonary Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Pengfei Xu,
  • Jichang Zhang,
  • Jie Zeng,
  • Yulin Wang and ,
  • Xinyu Dou,
  • Yiling Fan,
  • Thomas Meersmann and
  • Chengbo Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (OE-MRI) enables non-invasive assessment of lung function by measuring longitudinal relaxation time (T1) changes induced by alternating inhalation of room air and pure oxygen. In this study, the pulmonary T1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,020 Views
10 Pages

12 September 2019

We, first, propose a new method for solving split common fixed point problems for demicontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces, and then establish the strong convergence of such an algorithm, which extends the Halpern type algorithm studied by Wang and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Related Nonlinear Problems with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,417 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2022

To determine which interpolation technique is the most suitable for each case study is an essential task for a correct soil mapping, particularly in studies performed at a regional scale. So, our main goal was to identify the most accurate method for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Soil Environment Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,262 Views
24 Pages

Application of the Horizontal Soil Stratification and Lateral Profiling Methods for 3D Mapping of the Soil Electrical Resistivity

  • Wesley P. Calixto,
  • Carlos L. B. Silva,
  • Viviane M. Gomes,
  • Marcio R. C. Reis and ,
  • Antonio M. Silva Filho,
  • Antonio P. Coimbra and
  • Gabriel A. Wainer
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 March 2022

This work presents a methodology for horizontal soil stratification and a device for 3D soil mapping using the discretization of the Wenner’s method. The methodology starts from the application of the lateral profiling method in conjunction wit...

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