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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,159 Views
14 Pages

Semi-Global Stereo Matching Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Information Fusion

  • Changgen Deng,
  • Deyuan Liu,
  • Haodong Zhang,
  • Jinrong Li and
  • Baojun Shi

12 January 2023

Semi-global matching (SGM) has been widely used in binocular vision. In spite of its good efficiency, SGM still has difficulties in dealing with low-texture regions. In this paper, an SGM algorithm based on multi-scale information fusion (MSIF), name...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,611 Views
16 Pages

A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector

  • Shuyi Qu,
  • Kaizhu Huang,
  • Amir Hussain and
  • Yannis Goulermas

15 February 2021

Object detection has wide applications in intelligent systems and sensor applications. Compared with two stage detectors, recent one stage counterparts are capable of running more efficiently with comparable accuracy, which satisfy the requirement of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
26 Pages

Optimal Scheduling and Comprehensive Evaluation of Distributed Resource Aggregator Low-Carbon Economy Considering CET-RPS Coupling Mechanism

  • Shiyao Hu,
  • Hangtian Li,
  • Pingzheng Tong,
  • Xue Cui,
  • Chong Hong,
  • Xiaobin Xu,
  • Peng Xi and
  • Guiying Liao

20 October 2025

As the scale of distributed resources continues to expand, decentralization and multi-agent characteristics bring significant challenges to low-carbon dispatching and market participation of power grids. To this end, this paper proposes a collaborati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,727 Views
14 Pages

Pathfinding for autonomous vehicles in large-scale complex terrain environments is difficult when aiming to balance efficiency and quality. To solve the problem, this paper proposes Hierarchical Path-Finding A* based on Multi-Scale Rectangle, called...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,014 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2025

This study proposes a hierarchical framework with task priority perception for mission planning, to enhance multi-UAV coordination in maritime emergency search and rescue. By establishing a hierarchical decoupling optimization mechanism, the complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,665 Views
22 Pages

11 September 2014

Mobile security is one of the most fundamental problems in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The data transmission path will be compromised for some disabled nodes. To construct a secure and reliable network, designing an adaptive route strategy which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,970 Views
17 Pages

Energy-Efficient Multi-User Routing in a Software-Defined Multi-Hop Wireless Network

  • Ziqi Liu,
  • Gaochao Xu,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Xiaodong Fu and
  • Yang Liu

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an innovative architecture that designs a logical controller to manage and program the network based on the global view, providing more efficient management, better performance, and higher flexibility for the netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,468 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2025

Accurate and efficient stereo matching is fundamental to real-time depth estimation from symmetric stereo cameras in autonomous driving systems. However, existing high-accuracy stereo matching networks typically rely on computationally expensive 3D c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,678 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2024

Considering the characteristics of the power system, where “the source moves with the load”, the load side is primarily responsible for the carbon emissions of the regional power grid. Consequently, users’ electricity consumption be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,970 Views
18 Pages

Multi-robot systems are significant in decision-making capabilities and applications, but avoiding collisions during movement remains a critical challenge. Existing decentralized obstacle avoidance strategies, while low in computational cost, often f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2025

To address the challenges posed by the instability of renewable energy output and load fluctuations on grid operations and to support the low-carbon sustainable development of the energy system, this paper integrates artificial intelligence technolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,095 Views
22 Pages

11 May 2025

In agricultural pest detection, the small size of pests poses a critical hurdle to detection accuracy. To mitigate this concern, we propose a Lightweight Cross-Level Feature Aggregation Network (LCFANet), which comprises three key components: a deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,056 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2024

In hyperspectral image (HSI) classification scenarios, deep learning-based methods have achieved excellent classification performance, but often rely on large-scale training datasets to ensure accuracy. However, in practical applications, the acquisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,183 Views
25 Pages

14 March 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) vehicle-tracking technology has extensive potential for application in various fields. In the actual tracking process, the relative movement of the UAV and vehicles will bring large target-scale variations (i.e., size an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
723 Views
16 Pages

15 June 2025

In response to the high cost and environmental impact of backfill materials in Xinjiang mines, an eco-friendly, large-volume composite was developed by bonding desert-sand mortar to waste concrete. A rock-filled concrete process produced a highly flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
772 Views
15 Pages

19 November 2025

In medical image segmentation, effective integration of global and local features is crucial. Current methods struggle to simultaneously model long-range dependencies and fine local details. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at extracting lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,648 Views
14 Pages

An Energy Efficient Load Balancing Tree-Based Data Aggregation Scheme for Grid-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Neng-Chung Wang,
  • Chao-Yang Lee,
  • Young-Long Chen,
  • Ching-Mu Chen and
  • Zi-Zhen Chen

29 November 2022

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a very large number of sensors which are deployed in the specific area of interest. A sensor is an electronic device equipped with a small processor and has a small-capacity memory. The WSN has the function...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,001 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Instance Segmentation Method for Complex Elements of Farm UAV Aerial Survey Images

  • Feixiang Lv,
  • Taihong Zhang,
  • Yunjie Zhao,
  • Zhixin Yao and
  • Xinyu Cao

15 September 2024

Farm aerial survey layers can assist in unmanned farm operations, such as planning paths and early warnings. To address the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional layer construction, this study proposes a high-precision instance se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
425 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2025

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is hindered by low signal-to-noise ratios, minute object scales, and strong target–background similarity. Although long-range skip fusion is exploited in SCTransNet, the global context is insufficiently c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
21 Pages

24 November 2025

To address the issues of insufficient feature utilization in high-entropy regions (such as complex textures and edges), difficulty in detail recovery, and excessive model parameters with high computational complexity in existing remote sensing image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,155 Views
26 Pages

YOLOX-Ray: An Efficient Attention-Based Single-Staged Object Detector Tailored for Industrial Inspections

  • António Raimundo,
  • João Pedro Pavia,
  • Pedro Sebastião and
  • Octavian Postolache

11 May 2023

Industrial inspection is crucial for maintaining quality and safety in industrial processes. Deep learning models have recently demonstrated promising results in such tasks. This paper proposes YOLOX-Ray, an efficient new deep learning architecture t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,565 Views
25 Pages

The accurate identification of tomato maturity and picking positions is essential for efficient picking. Current deep-learning models face challenges such as large parameter sizes, single-task limitations, and insufficient precision. This study propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
336 Views
28 Pages

Ecological Corridors for Tadaria brasiliensis in Agricultural Landscapes of Northern Mexico Integrating AHP, InVEST, and Least-Cost Path

  • Karen Meraz-Molina,
  • Sergio D. Luevano-Gurrola,
  • Alfredo Pinedo-Alvarez,
  • Federico Villarreal-Guerrero,
  • Nathalie S. Hernández-Quiroz,
  • Jesús S. Ibarra-Bonilla,
  • Ismael Fontes-Palma,
  • José H. Vega-Mares and
  • Jesús A. Prieto-Amparán

24 December 2025

Habitat fragmentation due to anthropogenic pressures threats functional connectivity across landscapes for flying mammals. Tadarida brasiliensis depends on nocturnal movement corridors linking refuge and foraging areas, yet these pathways are increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,202 Views
21 Pages

YOLOv5s-FP: A Novel Method for In-Field Pear Detection Using a Transformer Encoder and Multi-Scale Collaboration Perception

  • Yipu Li,
  • Yuan Rao,
  • Xiu Jin,
  • Zhaohui Jiang,
  • Yuwei Wang,
  • Tan Wang,
  • Fengyi Wang,
  • Qing Luo and
  • Lu Liu

20 December 2022

Precise pear detection and recognition is an essential step toward modernizing orchard management. However, due to the ubiquitous occlusion in orchards and various locations of image acquisition, the pears in the acquired images may be quite small an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,124 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2025

The accurate detection of small objects remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving systems, where improving detection performance typically comes at the cost of increased model complexity, conflicting with the lightweight requirements of edge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,342 Views
29 Pages

Accurate weld seam recognition is essential in automated welding systems, as it directly affects path planning and welding quality. With the rapid advancement of industrial vision, weld seam instance segmentation has emerged as a prominent research f...

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  • Open Access
211 Views
24 Pages

4 January 2026

When new purchasers or products are added in the supply chain management system, the recommendation system will face severe challenges of data sparsity and cold start. A knowledge graph that can enrich the representations of both procurement managers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,462 Views
36 Pages

A Novel Transfer Learning-Based OFDM Receiver Design for Enhanced Underwater Acoustic Communication

  • Muhammad Adil,
  • Songzuo Liu,
  • Suleman Mazhar,
  • Ayman Alharbi,
  • Honglu Yan and
  • Muhammad Muzzammil

The underwater acoustic (UWA) communication system faces challenges due to environmental factors, extensive multipath spread, and rapidly changing propagation conditions. Deep learning based solutions, especially for orthogonal frequency division mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,550 Views
30 Pages

9 February 2023

Highways are a critical consumer of energy. The integration of the highway and the energy system (ES) is a proven method towards carbon neutrality. The increasing energy demands of highway transportation infrastructure and the development of distribu...