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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,755 Views
19 Pages

LCMorph: Exploiting Frequency Cues and Morphological Perception for Low-Contrast Road Extraction in Remote Sensing Images

  • Xin Li,
  • Shumin Yang,
  • Fan Meng,
  • Wenlong Li and ,
  • Zongchi Yang and
  • Ruoyu Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2025

Road extraction in remote sensing images is crucial for urban planning, traffic navigation, and mapping. However, certain lighting conditions and compositional materials often cause roads to exhibit colors and textures similar to the background, lead...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Image Processing for Remote Sensing (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,438 Views
21 Pages

16 October 2021

Streets have different forms that are not defined only by their partitions, furniture, and width, but also by their edges as vital features of their spatiality. The relationship between a street and a building impacts the street interface configurati...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,732 Views
21 Pages

A Vision-Based Information Processing Framework for Vineyard Grape Picking Using Two-Stage Segmentation and Morphological Perception

  • Yifei Peng,
  • Jun Sun,
  • Zhaoqi Wu,
  • Jinye Gao and ,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Zhiyan Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To achieve efficient vineyard grape picking, a vision-based information processing framework integrating two-stage segmentation with morphological perception is proposed. In the first stage, an improved YOLOv8s-seg model is employed for coarse segmen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Processing of Horticultural Crops)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,167 Views
22 Pages

Building Vector Contour Extraction from Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-Level Contour Refinement and Morphological Perception

  • Wenjie Zhao,
  • Ze Meng,
  • Longjie Luo,
  • Liufeng Tao and ,
  • Bin Hu and
  • Yongyang Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 February 2026

Accurate extraction of building vector contours from high-resolution remote sensing images is a fundamental task for urban mapping and geographic information systems. However, existing approaches often suffer from blurred boundaries and geometric dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,494 Views
20 Pages

Decoding the Role of Urban Green Space Morphology in Shaping Visual Perception: A Park-Based Study

  • Yi Peng,
  • Zongsheng Li,
  • Aamir Mehmood Shah,
  • Bingyang Lv and ,
  • Shiliang Liu,
  • Yuzhou Liu,
  • Xi Li,
  • Huixing Song and
  • Qibing Chen
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

27 February 2025

Urban green spaces, vital public infrastructure, have received limited research on how their morphology affects visual perception preferences. Using data from ten parks, we generated green space maps from high-resolution satellite imagery and calcula...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,441 Views
23 Pages

Visual–Morphological Drivers of Restorative Perception in Dog-Friendly Urban Green Spaces

  • Yi Peng,
  • Chenmingyang Jiang,
  • Xinyu Du,
  • Yuzhou Liu and ,
  • Qibing Chen and
  • Huixing Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study examines how visual features and green space morphology jointly shape restorative perception in dog-friendly urban green spaces using a data-driven analytical framework. A self-constructed dataset integrating street-view imagery, landscape...

(This article belongs to the Section Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Views
44 Pages

5 November 2026

To address the inherent issues in traditional reactive power compensation strategies—such as compensation lag, the lack of load morphological identification capability, and bus transient shocks induced by multi-modality switching—this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2026

To mitigate the risk of cable winding failures in cable-reeling vehicles (CRVs) used in mining environments, this paper presents a stereo vision sensor-driven perception–planning framework. Its core innovation is a cable-morphology-constrained...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,249 Views
22 Pages

UTHECA_USE: A Multi-Source Dataset on Human Thermal Perception and Urban Environmental Factors in Seville

  • Noelia Hernández-Barba,
  • José-Antonio Rodríguez-Gallego,
  • Carlos Rivera-Gómez and
  • Carmen Galán-Marín

16 September 2025

This paper introduces UTHECA_USE, a dataset of 989 observations collected in Seville, Spain (2023–2025), integrating microclimatic, personal, and urban morphological data. It comprises 55 variables, including in situ measurements of air and glo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Modern Geophysical and Climate Data Analysis: Tools and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,350 Views
26 Pages

14 July 2025

Urban outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) has become an increasingly critical issue under the pressures of urbanization and climate change. Comparative analyses of urban blocks with distinct spatial morphologies are essential for identifying OTC issues and...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,150 Views
48 Pages

3 June 2023

Architecture plays a crucial role in expressing identities. Cultural heritage as a sustainable process identifies the representation of architectural identity and its continuity. This study aims to create a model of the sustainable continuity of cult...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
29 Pages

Exploring the Nonlinear Effects of Multiple Factors on Passenger Thermal Perception at Bus Stops: Evidence from Chongqing, China

  • Hanya Fan,
  • Lian Jiang,
  • Yiping Chen,
  • Shijie Xiong and ,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Yanan Liu and
  • Peng Zeng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2026

With ongoing urban warming and the increasing frequency of extreme heat events, thermal comfort at highly exposed public spaces like bus stops has attracted significant attention. However, existing studies largely rely on linear assumptions and limit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Green Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,269 Views
15 Pages

11 August 2020

Global and local features are essential for visual-similarity texture perception. Therefore, understanding how people allocate their visual attention when viewing textures with global or local similarity is important. In this work, we investigate the...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
478 Views
25 Pages

7 August 2026

Human-centered design has taken on an increasingly central role in the 21st century. However, most research on spatial perception has focused on above-ground environments. In contrast, the enclosed nature of underground spaces often induces a sense o...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,972 Views
39 Pages

This study explores the impact of microclimatic variations on thermal perception and walking experience in Béjaïa, Algeria, focusing on two contrasting urban areas: the compact historic medina and the modern lower city. A mixed-method app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,578 Views
15 Pages

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediate the Acclimation of Rice to Submergence

  • Yanggui Xu,
  • Yuting Tu,
  • Jiayi Feng,
  • Zhiping Peng and ,
  • Yiping Peng and
  • Jichuan Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 July 2024

Flooding is a critical factor that limits the establishment of a symbiosis between rice and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in wetland ecosystems. The distribution of carbon resources in roots and the acclimation strategies of rice to flooding str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physiological and Molecular Responses for Stress Tolerance in Rice)
  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,938 Views
15 Pages

Morphologically complex flowers are characterized by bilateral symmetry, tube-like shapes, deep corolla tubes, fused petals, and/or poricidal anthers, all of which constrain the access of insect visitors to floral nectar and pollen rewards. Only a su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant-Insect Interactions 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,760 Views
21 Pages

25 April 2024

Distinguished from conventional lighting, the LED vertical surface light source (VSLS) is directly exposed to human view, and the effects of which form it takes on visual perception are non-negligible. In the current discomfort glare evaluation syste...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,206 Views
32 Pages

Scale-Dependent Relationships Between Urban Morphology and Noise Perception: A Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal Analysis in New York City

  • Siting Chen,
  • Bingjie Yu,
  • Guang Shi,
  • Yiping Cai and ,
  • Yanyu Wang and
  • Pingge He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 February 2025

Urban morphology significantly influences residents’ noise perceptions, yet the impact across different spatial and temporal scales remains unclear. This study investigates the scale-dependent relationship between urban morphology and noise per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Spatial Analysis and Regional Science to Guide Urban Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,146 Views
20 Pages

House prices have long been closely related to the built environment of cities, yet whether the subjective perception (SP) of these environments has a differing effect on prices at multiple urban scales is unclear. This study sheds light on the impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,761 Views
26 Pages

8 June 2022

Car front facing style (CFFS) recognition is crucial to enhancing a company’s market competitiveness and brand image. However, there is a problem impeding its development: with the sudden increase in style design information, the traditional me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Symmetry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,030 Views
27 Pages

12 July 2022

Light-based phenomena in insects have long attracted researchers’ attention. Surface color distribution patterns are commonly used for taxonomical purposes, while optically-active structures from Coleoptera cuticle or Lepidoptera wings have ins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autofluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,721 Views
12 Pages

29 November 2023

Plant structures exhibit complex behaviors through unique shape changes and movements closely related to moisture factors. When the plants absorb moisture, their inside has a higher tension than their outside, so the entire structure is folded to clo...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
921 Views
14 Pages

The Photoreceptors Phototropin 1 and Phytochrome B Mediate Moonlight Perception and Response in Arabidopsis thaliana

  • Sasank Sannidhi,
  • Jeevan R. Singiri,
  • Naveen Kumar Yarra,
  • Nurit Novoplansky and
  • Gideon Grafi

27 March 2026

Early and recent studies have demonstrated that exposure to moonlight influences the entire life cycle of plants from seed germination to vegetative growth and reproduction. Exposure to moonlight was found to induce genome reorganization in plants an...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Cell Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,623 Views
27 Pages

14 October 2025

Micro-housing has gained prominence as a sustainable urban residential solution, yet the impact of its spatial design on occupants’ perceptual and physiological responses remains underexplored. This study employs a multimodal approach to invest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Architectural Design: Neuroarchitecture as a New Tool to Shape Futureproof Inclusive Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
646 Views
24 Pages

Urban park assessment typically emphasizes vegetation quantity, yet spaces with similar greenness may still produce different visual experiences. This study aimed to identify the structural characteristics of horticultural configurations and examine...

(This article belongs to the Section Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,447 Views
16 Pages

This paper presents research carried out in the city of Chillán, a medium size city located on the southern limit of the Chilean Mediterranean domain, at 36°36′s south latitude. Chillán provides a good representative example of warm summers in centra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Design and City Microclimates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,566 Views
22 Pages

Student Motivation Analysis Based on Raising-Hand Videos

  • Jiejun Chen,
  • Miao Wang,
  • Liang Wang and
  • Fuquan Huang

17 July 2024

In current smart classroom research, numerous studies focus on recognizing hand-raising, but few analyze the movements to interpret students’ intentions. This limitation hinders teachers from utilizing this information to enhance the effectiven...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,106 Views
14 Pages

14 June 2023

Dynamic visual experience is the most common way for people to perceive a cityscape. Previous research reviews on cityscapes have mainly focused on spatial planning, social culture, economic development, ecological protection, etc., with little consi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Cityscape—Structure, Aesthetics, Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,479 Views
36 Pages

12 September 2025

This study establishes an impact pathway hypothesis connecting street environments, safety perception, and women’s stay behaviors based on spatial cognition theory and the lens model theory. It examines the driving factors behind female environ...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,081 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Morphological Characteristics of Antennae and Antennal Sensilla Among Three Species of Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

  • Jinting Xie,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Junjue Li,
  • Leming Zhou and ,
  • Xiu Xu and
  • Zhende Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 September 2025

Various types of sensilla are densely distributed on the antennal surfaces of insects. The specialization of perception and ecological adaptability of antennae in detecting external environmental signals are reflected in the morphology, function, num...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Physiology, Reproduction and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
547 Views
28 Pages

Formation Mechanism of Tourist Satisfaction in Traditional Villages: The Roles of Landscape Gene Perception and Place Identity

  • Hao Feng,
  • Wenyu Ouyang,
  • Sitong Li,
  • Xiaobin Li and ,
  • Xuqi Wang,
  • Rong Zhu and
  • Jizhou Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2026

Existing studies on cultural landscape genes in traditional villages have largely focused on the identification of objective elements, while paying insufficient attention to the associations between tourists’ subjective perceptions, Place ident...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
30,639 Views
11 Pages

Scorpion Species with Smaller Body Sizes and Narrower Chelae Have the Highest Venom Potency

  • Alannah Forde,
  • Adam Jacobsen,
  • Michel M. Dugon and
  • Kevin Healy

17 March 2022

Scorpionism is a global health concern, with an estimation of over one million annual envenomation cases. Despite this, little is known regarding the drivers of scorpion venom potency. One widely held view is that smaller scorpions with less-develope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drivers of Venom Potency across the Animal Kingdom)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,943 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2016

There is a growing concern about human factors in green building, which is imperative in high-rise high-density urban environments. This paper describes our attempts to explore the influence of workplace green features (such as green certification, v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,132 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2025

The widespread application of organoids in disease modeling and drug development is significantly constrained by challenges in automated quantitative analysis. In bright-field microscopy images, organoids exhibit complex characteristics, including ir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms 2025)
  • Review
  • Open Access
431 Views
60 Pages

23 September 2026

Harvesting remains labor-intensive because delicate fruiting bodies, complex growing environments, selective harvesting demands, and interspecific morphological variation complicate mechanized and intelligent operation. A structured critical review o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Technologies for Full-Cycle Crop Production: From Phenotyping to Machinery Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,982 Views
14 Pages

29 January 2023

Women’s breasts are considered sexually attractive because they may infer a woman’s residual reproductive value. Given that men find women’s breasts attractive, women may compete with other women to enhance their physical attractive...

(This article belongs to the Section Sexual Behavior and Attitudes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,064 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation of Smile Aesthetics in Dental Students: Perceptions of Tooth Colour Changes Due to Incisor Inclination and Micro- and Mini-Aesthetic Characteristics Assessed by Professionals and Laypersons

  • Eugen Bud,
  • Alexandru Vlasa,
  • Anamaria Bud,
  • Mariana Pacurar and ,
  • Sorana Maria Bucur,
  • Daniela Esian,
  • Elena Stepco,
  • Olga Cheptanaru,
  • Bianca Gabriela Nenec and
  • Andrei Cosmin Nenec
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2025

Background: The present study investigated the relation between dental inclination, colorimetric variation, and aesthetic perception according to the modification of incisor inclination. Smile aesthetics, shaped by morphological factors and patient p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Esthetic Dentistry)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
183 Views
51 Pages

Public Perception of Historic Urban Environments: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework

  • Junjie Zuo,
  • Chenyang Dai,
  • Jing Lu,
  • Wenjie Wang and
  • Sreetheran Maruthaveeran

24 October 2026

Historic urban environments embody rich historical information and cultural memory, and public perception is closely associated with the physical characteristics, historical value, and cultural meanings of historic buildings and architectural heritag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Study on Urban Environment by Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,003 Views
23 Pages

30 January 2026

Between 1940 and 1980, large scale social housing construction in Milan reshaped the city’s modern urban identity, yet how these postwar estates are perceived today remains insufficiently documented. This study analyzes user-generated Google Ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Built Heritage Conservation in the Twenty-First Century: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,419 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2024

Despite emerging empirical findings and computational tools that extend city image research to include social dimensions beyond visual perception, methodologies for effectively identifying and analyzing the relationships between the five city image e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,348 Views
25 Pages

7 September 2025

Historic districts are key urban spaces that convey cultural heritage and support tourism and social interaction. As the spatial interface shapes form and perception, this study explores youth-oriented visual behaviour and cognitive preferences regar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Built Heritage Conservation in the Twenty-First Century: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,643 Views
26 Pages

A First Glimpse of the Mexican Fruit Fly Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae) Antenna Morphology and Proteome in Response to a Proteinaceous Attractant

  • Eliel Ruiz-May,
  • Alma Altúzar-Molina,
  • José M. Elizalde-Contreras,
  • Jiovanny Arellano-de los Santos and ,
  • Juan Monribot-Villanueva,
  • Larissa Guillén,
  • Mirna Vázquez-Rosas-Landa,
  • Enrique Ibarra-Laclette,
  • Mónica Ramírez-Vázquez and
  • Martín Aluja
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

29 October 2020

Anastrepha ludens is a key pest of mangoes and citrus from Texas to Costa Rica but the mechanisms of odorant perception in this species are poorly understood. Detection of volatiles in insects occurs mainly in the antenna, where molecules penetrate s...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,680 Views
14 Pages

30 October 2020

With the development of intelligent technology, it is of great significance to develop intelligent equipment with topography self-sensing function. The micro morphology perception technology applied to intelligent equipment is the key technology for...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,037 Views
17 Pages

Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

  • Octavio Rojas,
  • María Zamorano,
  • Katia Saez,
  • Carolina Rojas and ,
  • Claudio Vega,
  • Loretto Arriagada and
  • Corina Basnou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2017

Natural disasters can cause abrupt disturbances in coastal wetlands, affecting the social perception of ecosystem services (ES). The Tubul-Raqui coastal wetland is one of the most important wetlands in south-central Chile. Rich in biodiversity, these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social-Ecological Restoration for Coastal Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,344 Views
14 Pages

Evaluating the Relationship Between Electrical Dynamic Range and Speech Perception Outcomes in Experienced Post-Lingually Deaf Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Bicentric Study

  • Pietro Salvago,
  • Davide Vaccaro,
  • Fulvio Plescia,
  • Francesca Di Marco and ,
  • Sabrina Loteta,
  • Daniele Portelli,
  • Giuseppe Alberti,
  • Francesco Dispenza,
  • Francesco Freni and
  • Francesco Martines
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Objectives: To analyze speech perception outcomes of a cohort of experienced adult cochlear implant (CI) users to explore whether there is a correlation with electrical dynamic range (EDR) parameters, and to describe speech intelligibility curve morp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,363 Views
31 Pages

26 February 2026

Indoor climbing gyms are high-occupancy settings, yet integrated indoor air quality (IAQ) studies that analyze objective exposure and occupant perception remain scarce. The novelty consists of combining user perception with multi-zone, high-resolutio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Quality in Indoor Environments, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,740 Views
25 Pages

A Study on Identifying the Spatial Characteristic Factors of Traditional Streets Based on Visitor Perception: Yuanjia Village, Shaanxi Province

  • Yixin Liu,
  • Zhimin Li,
  • Yixin Tian,
  • Bo Gao and ,
  • Simin Wang,
  • Yingtao Qi,
  • Zejing Zou,
  • Xuanlin Li and
  • Ruqin Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The street spaces in tourist-oriented traditional villages served both the daily lives of villagers and the leisure activities of tourists. However, due to insufficient understanding of the spatial characteristics and under-exploration of spatial gen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Space Design: Occupant Comfort, Wellbeing, and Post-occupancy Evaluation of Multi-Scale Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
426 Views
26 Pages

19 May 2026

Medical image segmentation is challenging due to subtle pathological patterns and the inherent ambiguity of clinical descriptions. Although vision–language models have shown promise, they frequently lack fine-grained perception of structural va...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
344 Views
25 Pages

24 August 2026

Conventional furniture design predominantly hinges on empirical expertise and subjective appraisal, absent systematic quantitative validation of users’ visual cognition. This research establishes a multimodal quantitative evaluation framework f...

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