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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,637 Views
13 Pages

21 September 2020

Intent recognition in lower-limb assistive devices typically relies on neuromechanical sensing of an affected limb acquired through embedded device sensors. It remains unknown whether signals from more widespread sources such as the contralateral leg...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,064 Views
19 Pages

Gesture recognition, as a core technology of human–computer interaction, has broad application prospects and brings new technical possibilities for smart homes, medical care, sports training, and other fields. Compared with the traditional huma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
794 Views
25 Pages

20 September 2025

Aiming at common problems such as high classification error rate, environmental noise interference, regional discontinuity, and structural absence in the semantic segmentation of residential areas, this paper proposes a CrossAtt-UNet architecture bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,906 Views
17 Pages

24 May 2024

In order to solve the problem of flexible sliding tactile composite sensing in the actual grasp of intelligent robot fingers, this paper proposes a research on a convex fiber grating tactile sliding sensor based on mechanical fingers. Based on the se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,894 Views
17 Pages

Wi-Fi-Based Location-Independent Human Activity Recognition with Attention Mechanism Enhanced Method

  • Xue Ding,
  • Ting Jiang,
  • Yi Zhong,
  • Sheng Wu,
  • Jianfei Yang and
  • Jie Zeng

18 February 2022

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition is emerging as a crucial supporting technology for various applications. Although great success has been achieved for location-dependent recognition tasks, it depends on adequate data collection, which is partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,334 Views
22 Pages

Attention-Based Hybrid Deep Learning Network for Human Activity Recognition Using WiFi Channel State Information

  • Sakorn Mekruksavanich,
  • Wikanda Phaphan,
  • Narit Hnoohom and
  • Anuchit Jitpattanakul

1 August 2023

The recognition of human movements is a crucial aspect of AI-related research fields. Although methods using vision and sensors provide more valuable data, they come at the expense of inconvenience to users and social limitations including privacy is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,680 Views
23 Pages

22 February 2025

Arable land is fundamental to agricultural production and a crucial component of ecosystems. However, its complex texture and distribution in remote sensing images make it susceptible to interference from other land cover types, such as water bodies,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,103 Views
23 Pages

14 May 2025

In recent years, accelerated global climate change has precipitated an increased frequency of wildfire events, with their devastating impacts on ecological systems and human populations becoming increasingly significant. Satellite remote sensing tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,512 Views
26 Pages

GeoJapan Fusion Framework: A Large Multimodal Model for Regional Remote Sensing Recognition

  • Yaozong Gan,
  • Guang Li,
  • Ren Togo,
  • Keisuke Maeda,
  • Takahiro Ogawa and
  • Miki Haseyama

1 September 2025

Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have opened new opportunities for multitask recognition from remote sensing images. However, existing approaches still face challenges in effectively recognizing the complex geospatial characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
589 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2025

In order to solve problems such as recognition of blind areas which exist in traditional technology in underwater near-field target sensing, this paper constructs an underwater robot target sensing model based on the fish lateral line sensing mechani...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
11,332 Views
21 Pages

16 July 2020

RNA acts as an immunostimulatory molecule in the innate immune system to activate nucleic acid sensors. It functions as an intermediate, conveying genetic information to control inflammatory responses. A key mechanism for RNA sensing is discriminatin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,207 Views
18 Pages

Detecting DNA: An Overview of DNA Recognition by Inflammasomes and Protection against Bacterial Respiratory Infections

  • Juselyn D. Tupik,
  • Justin W. Markov Madanick,
  • Hannah M. Ivester and
  • Irving C. Allen

19 May 2022

The innate immune system plays a key role in modulating host immune defense during bacterial disease. Upon sensing pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), the multi-protein complex known as the inflammasome serves a protective role against ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,743 Views
22 Pages

Recent Progress in Diboronic-Acid-Based Glucose Sensors

  • Ke Nan,
  • Yu-Na Jiang,
  • Meng Li and
  • Bing Wang

4 June 2023

Non-enzymatic sensors with the capability of long-term stability and low cost are promising in glucose monitoring applications. Boronic acid (BA) derivatives offer a reversible and covalent binding mechanism for glucose recognition, which enables con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,397 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Scale Semantic Segmentation and Spatial Relationship Recognition of Remote Sensing Images Based on an Attention Model

  • Wei Cui,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Xin He,
  • Dongyou Zhang,
  • Xuxiang Xu,
  • Meng Yao,
  • Ziwei Wang and
  • Jiejun Huang

2 May 2019

A comprehensive interpretation of remote sensing images involves not only remote sensing object recognition but also the recognition of spatial relations between objects. Especially in the case of different objects with the same spectrum, the spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,421 Views
17 Pages

Training-Free Acoustic-Based Hand Gesture Tracking on Smart Speakers

  • Xiao Xu,
  • Xuehan Zhang,
  • Zhongxu Bao,
  • Xiaojie Yu,
  • Yuqing Yin,
  • Xu Yang and
  • Qiang Niu

1 November 2023

Hand gesture recognition is an essential Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) mechanism for users to control smart devices. While traditional device-based methods support acceptable recognition performance, the recent advance in wireless sensing co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,262 Views
19 Pages

Recent Advancements in Novel Sensing Systems through Nanoarchitectonics

  • Karthick Velu,
  • Rekha Goswami Shrestha,
  • Lok Kumar Shrestha and
  • Katsuhiko Ariga

16 February 2023

The fabrication of various sensing devices and the ability to harmonize materials for a higher degree of organization is essential for effective sensing systems. Materials with hierarchically micro- and mesopore structures can enhance the sensitivity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,065 Views
21 Pages

A Recognition Model Incorporating Geometric Relationships of Ship Components

  • Shengqin Ma,
  • Wenzhi Wang,
  • Zongxu Pan,
  • Yuxin Hu,
  • Guangyao Zhou and
  • Qiantong Wang

28 December 2023

Ship recognition with optical remote sensing images is currently widely used in fishery management, ship traffic surveillance, and maritime warfare. However, it currently faces two major challenges: recognizing rotated targets and achieving fine-grai...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,759 Views
10 Pages

Ion Chromatographic Fingerprinting of STC-1 Cellular Response for Taste Sensing

  • Marcin Zabadaj,
  • Aleksandra Szuplewska,
  • Maria Balcerzak,
  • Michał Chudy and
  • Patrycja Ciosek-Skibińska

2 March 2019

Taste sensing is of great importance in both the pharmaceutical and foodstuff industries, and is currently mainly based on human sensory evaluation. Many approaches based on chemical sensors have been proposed, leading to the development of various e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,140 Views
38 Pages

Nanostructure-Engineered Optical and Electrochemical Biosensing Toward Food Safety Assurance

  • Xinxin Wu,
  • Zhecong Yuan,
  • Shujie Gao,
  • Xinai Zhang,
  • Hany S. El-Mesery,
  • Wenjie Lu,
  • Xiaoli Dai and
  • Rongjin Xu

28 August 2025

Considering the necessity of food safety testing, various biosensors have been developed based on biological elements (e.g., antibodies, aptamers), chemical elements (e.g., molecularly imprinted polymers), physical elements (e.g., nanopores) as recog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
390 Views
24 Pages

Research Progress on Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Aptasensors for Food Safety Detection

  • Jiuyi Wang,
  • Xiaogang Lin,
  • Jinyu Wu,
  • Xiao Lv,
  • Binji Dai,
  • Ke Wang and
  • Jayne Wu

11 November 2025

The biological accumulation of microcontaminants and associated antibiotic resistance in food poses significant threats to both human and environmental health. Therefore, it is particularly crucial to design and develop methods of efficient identific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,414 Views
26 Pages

24 December 2024

Ethnic minority architecture is a vital carrier of the cultural heritage of ethnic minorities in China, and its quick and accurate extraction from remote sensing images is highly important for promoting the application of remote sensing information i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
10,895 Views
27 Pages

Channel State Information from Pure Communication to Sense and Track Human Motion: A Survey

  • Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness,
  • Mohamed Abd Elaziz,
  • Sunghwan Kim,
  • Ahmed A. Ewees,
  • Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi,
  • Yousif A. Alhaj and
  • Ammar Hawbani

29 July 2019

Human motion detection and activity recognition are becoming vital for the applications in smart homes. Traditional Human Activity Recognition (HAR) mechanisms use special devices to track human motions, such as cameras (vision-based) and various typ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,756 Views
11 Pages

A Novel Fingerprint Sensing Technology Based on Electrostatic Imaging

  • Kai Tang,
  • Aijia Liu,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Pengfei Li and
  • Xi Chen

12 September 2018

In this paper, we propose a new fingerprint sensing technology based on electrostatic imaging, which can greatly improve fingerprint sensing distance. This can solve the problem of the existing capacitive fingerprint identification device being easy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,208 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2020

The human gait pattern is an emerging biometric trait for user identification of smart devices. However, one of the challenges in this biometric domain is the gait pattern change caused by footwear, especially if the users are wearing high heels (HH)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
6,934 Views
19 Pages

Semantic Segmentation and Analysis on Sensitive Parameters of Forest Fire Smoke Using Smoke-Unet and Landsat-8 Imagery

  • Zewei Wang,
  • Pengfei Yang,
  • Haotian Liang,
  • Change Zheng,
  • Jiyan Yin,
  • Ye Tian and
  • Wenbin Cui

23 December 2021

Forest fire is a ubiquitous disaster which has a long-term impact on the local climate as well as the ecological balance and fire products based on remote sensing satellite data have developed rapidly. However, the early forest fire smoke in remote s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,289 Views
37 Pages

A Review of Environmental Sensing Technologies for Targeted Spraying in Orchards

  • Yunfei Wang,
  • Zhengji Zhang,
  • Weidong Jia,
  • Mingxiong Ou,
  • Xiang Dong and
  • Shiqun Dai

Precision pesticide application is a key focus in orchard management, with targeted spraying serving as a core technology to optimize pesticide delivery and reduce environmental pollution. However, its accurate implementation relies on high-precision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,121 Views
18 Pages

6 January 2025

WiFi-based human sensing has emerged as a transformative technology for advancing sustainable living environments and promoting well-being by enabling non-intrusive and device-free monitoring of human behaviors. This offers significant potential in a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,882 Views
30 Pages

Recent Developments and Applications of Tactile Sensors with Biomimetic Microstructures

  • Fengchang Huang,
  • Xidi Sun,
  • Qiaosheng Xu,
  • Wen Cheng,
  • Yi Shi and
  • Lijia Pan

27 February 2025

Humans possess an innate ability to perceive a wide range of objects through touch, which allows them to interact effectively with their surroundings. Similarly, tactile perception in artificial sensory systems enables the acquisition of object prope...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,339 Views
22 Pages

Reticular Chemistry for Optical Sensing of Anions

  • Aasif Helal,
  • Mohd Yusuf Khan,
  • Abuzar Khan,
  • Muhammad Usman and
  • Md. Hasan Zahir

22 August 2023

In the last few decades, reticular chemistry has grown significantly as a field of porous crystalline molecular materials. Scientists have attempted to create the ideal platform for analyzing distinct anions based on optical sensing techniques (chrom...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,308 Views
18 Pages

Fast and Accurate Terrain Image Classification for ASTER Remote Sensing by Data Stream Mining and Evolutionary-EAC Instance-Learning-Based Algorithm

  • Shimin Hu,
  • Simon Fong,
  • Lili Yang,
  • Shuang-Hua Yang,
  • Nilanjan Dey,
  • Richard C. Millham and
  • Jinan Fiaidhi

16 March 2021

Remote sensing streams continuous data feed from the satellite to ground station for data analysis. Often the data analytics involves analyzing data in real-time, such as emergency control, surveillance of military operations or scenarios that change...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,648 Views
19 Pages

Perspective on Nanofiber Electrochemical Sensors: Design of Relative Selectivity Experiments

  • Stanley G. Feeney,
  • Joelle M. J. LaFreniere and
  • Jeffrey Mark Halpern

27 October 2021

The use of nanofibers creates the ability for non-enzymatic sensing in various applications and greatly improves the sensitivity, speed, and accuracy of electrochemical sensors for a wide variety of analytes. The high surface area to volume ratio of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,177 Views
15 Pages

Wearable Glove with Enhanced Sensitivity Based on Push–Pull Optical Fiber Sensor

  • Qi Xia,
  • Xiaotong Zhang,
  • Hongye Wang,
  • Libo Yuan and
  • Tingting Yuan

27 June 2025

Hand motion monitoring plays a vital role in medical rehabilitation, sports training, and human–computer interaction. High-sensitivity wearable biosensors are essential for accurate gesture recognition and precise motion analysis. In this work,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,670 Views
14 Pages

Measurement, Evaluation, and Control of Active Intelligent Gait Training Systems—Analysis of the Current State of the Art

  • Yi Han,
  • Chenhao Liu,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Shuoyu Wang,
  • Meimei Han,
  • João P. Ferreira,
  • Tao Liu and
  • Xiufeng Zhang

Gait recognition and rehabilitation has been a research hotspot in recent years due to its importance to medical care and elderly care. Active intelligent rehabilitation and assistance systems for lower limbs integrates mechanical design, sensing tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,808 Views
13 Pages

28 September 2021

The ability of shoaling fish to recognise and differentiate between potential groupmates may affect their fitness and survival. Fish are capable of social recognition and multiple sensory cues mediate the recognition mechanisms. This has been compreh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,264 Views
11 Pages

24 December 2019

Microelectronic gas-sensor devices were developed for the detection of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxides (NO2), ammonia (NH3) and formaldehyde (HCHO), and their gas-sensing characteristics in six different binary gas systems were examined using...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,835 Views
13 Pages

Helicobacter pylori Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns: Friends or Foes?

  • Daniela Eletto,
  • Fatima Mentucci,
  • Antonia Voli,
  • Antonello Petrella,
  • Amalia Porta and
  • Alessandra Tosco

Microbial infections are sensed by the host immune system by recognizing signature molecules called Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns—PAMPs. The binding of these biomolecules to innate immune receptors, called Pattern Recognition Receptors...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
12,827 Views
18 Pages

Sensor Sensibility—HIV-1 and the Innate Immune Response

  • Xin Yin,
  • Simon Langer,
  • Zeli Zhang,
  • Kristina M. Herbert,
  • Sunnie Yoh,
  • Renate König and
  • Sumit K. Chanda

20 January 2020

Innate immunity represents the human immune system’s first line of defense against a pathogenic intruder and is initiated by the recognition of conserved molecular structures known as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by specialize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,958 Views
13 Pages

25 October 2021

A novel acylhydrazone-based fluorescent sensor NATB was designed and synthesized for consecutive sensing of Al3+ and H2PO4−. NATB displayed fluorometric sensing to Al3+ and could sequentially detect H2PO4− by fluorescence quenching. The limits of det...

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
15,683 Views
19 Pages

Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Based Sensors for Protein Detection

  • Semra Akgönüllü,
  • Seçkin Kılıç,
  • Cem Esen and
  • Adil Denizli

26 January 2023

The accurate detection of biological substances such as proteins has always been a hot topic in scientific research. Biomimetic sensors seek to imitate sensitive and selective mechanisms of biological systems and integrate these traits into applicabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,535 Views
25 Pages

12 March 2025

The integration of deep learning and remote sensing for the rapid detection of landslides from high-resolution remote sensing imagery plays a crucial role in post-disaster emergency response. However, the availability of publicly accessible deep lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,265 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2019

Short-range radar has become one of the latest sensor technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT), and it plays an increasingly vital role in IoT applications. As the essential task for various smart-sensing applications, radar-based human activity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,885 Views
25 Pages

Tracking Missing Person in Large Crowd Gathering Using Intelligent Video Surveillance

  • Adnan Nadeem,
  • Muhammad Ashraf,
  • Nauman Qadeer,
  • Kashif Rizwan,
  • Amir Mehmood,
  • Ali AlZahrani,
  • Fazal Noor and
  • Qammer H. Abbasi

14 July 2022

Locating a missing child or elderly person in a large gathering through face recognition in videos is still challenging because of various dynamic factors. In this paper, we present an intelligent mechanism for tracking missing persons in an unconstr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,733 Views
13 Pages

Wearable Biosensor with Molecularly Imprinted Conductive Polymer Structure to Detect Lentivirus in Aerosol

  • Jaskirat Singh Batra,
  • Ting-Yen Chi,
  • Mo-Fan Huang,
  • Dandan Zhu,
  • Zheyuan Chen,
  • Dung-Fang Lee and
  • Jun Kameoka

31 August 2023

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has increased pressure to develop low-cost, compact, user-friendly, and ubiquitous virus sensors for monitoring infection outbreaks in communities and preventing economic damage resulting from city lockdown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,797 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2025

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) is a non-intrusive and privacy-preserving method that leverages Channel State Information (CSI) for identifying human activities. However, existing approaches often struggle with robust feature extraction,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,356 Views
22 Pages

As the basic spatial unit of urban planning and management, it is necessary to know the distribution status of urban functional areas in time. Due to the complexity of urban land use, it is difficult to identify the urban functional areas using only...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
9,211 Views
15 Pages

5 February 2020

DEAD-box helicases are a large family of conserved RNA-binding proteins that belong to the broader group of cellular DExD/H helicases. Members of the DEAD-box helicase family have roles throughout cellular RNA metabolism from biogenesis to decay. Mor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,286 Views
31 Pages

Knowledge and Spatial Pyramid Distance-Based Gated Graph Attention Network for Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

  • Wei Cui,
  • Xin He,
  • Meng Yao,
  • Ziwei Wang,
  • Yuanjie Hao,
  • Jie Li,
  • Weijie Wu,
  • Huilin Zhao,
  • Cong Xia and
  • Jin Li
  • + 1 author

30 March 2021

The pixel-based semantic segmentation methods take pixels as recognitions units, and are restricted by the limited range of receptive fields, so they cannot carry richer and higher-level semantics. These reduce the accuracy of remote sensing (RS) sem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,604 Views
16 Pages

Human-Touch-Inspired Material Recognition for Robotic Tactile Sensing

  • Yu Xie,
  • Chuhao Chen,
  • Dezhi Wu,
  • Wenming Xi and
  • Houde Liu

21 June 2019

This paper proposes a novel material recognition method for robotic tactile sensing. The method is composed of two steps. Firstly, a human-touch-inspired short-duration (1 s) slide action is conducted by the robot to obtain the tactile data. Then, th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,720 Views
30 Pages

26 October 2022

Taking advantage of high porosity, large surface area, tunable nanostructures and ease of functionalization, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been popularly applied in different fields, including adsorption and separation, heterogeneous catalysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,770 Views
20 Pages

26 May 2022

Human Activity Recognition(HAR) plays an important role in the field of ubiquitous computing, which can benefit various human-centric applications such as smart homes, health monitoring, and aging systems. Human Activity Recognition mainly leverages...

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