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  • Open Access
12 Citations
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10 Pages

9 May 2020

The effect of La addition on primary α-Al and the eutectic Si phase of Al-7Si alloy is investigated systematically in this work. The results indicate that La addition causes a multi-refining efficiency on the microstructure of Al-7Si alloy, inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,440 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2022

In this paper, we focus on the problem of contextual aggregation in the semantic segmentation of aerial images. Current contextual aggregation methods only aggregate contextual information within specific regions to improve feature representation, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,028 Views
17 Pages

Protein structure refinement is a crucial step for more accurate protein structure predictions. Most existing approaches treat it as an energy minimization problem to intuitively improve the quality of initial models by searching for structures with...

  • Article
  • Open Access

9 February 2026

Multi-agent trajectory prediction is essential for autonomous driving systems, as its performance heavily depends on the quality of feature representations. This paper proposes PFR-HiVT, a lightweight and effective approach for multi-agent trajectory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,200 Views
15 Pages

7 March 2019

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation, there comes huge demands for high-precision road network maps. However, due to the complex road spectral performance, it is very challenging to extract road networks with complete topologies....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,949 Views
27 Pages

7 March 2019

Robust and accurate face alignment remains a challenging task, especially when local noises, illumination variations and partial occlusions exist in images. The existing local search and global match methods often misalign due to local optima without...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,593 Views
16 Pages

Solidified Structure Refinement of H13 Tool Steel under a Multi-Rotational Speed Super Gravity Field

  • Shao-Ying Li,
  • Shu-Yang Qin,
  • Xiao-Jun Xi,
  • Guan-Yong Sun,
  • Wen-Sheng Yang,
  • Jing Guo and
  • Han-Jie Guo

27 October 2020

In this paper, the effects of a super-gravity field with multi-rotational speeds on the grain refinement and tensile properties of as-cast H13 steel were investigated systematically. The experimental results showed that compared to the single-rotatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,060 Views
24 Pages

28 August 2024

Semantic segmentation is currently a hot topic in remote sensing image processing. There are extensive applications in land planning and surveying. Many current studies combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which extract local information, wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,924 Views
28 Pages

DAR-MDE: Depth-Attention Refinement for Multi-Scale Monocular Depth Estimation

  • Saddam Abdulwahab,
  • Hatem A. Rashwan,
  • Moumen T. El-Melegy and
  • Domenec Puig

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) remains a challenging problem due to texture ambiguity, occlusion, and scale variation in real-world scenes. While recent deep learning methods have made significant progress, maintaining structural consistency and ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,338 Views
19 Pages

28 July 2023

Deep learning algorithms offer an effective solution to the inefficiencies and poor results of traditional methods for building a footprint extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery. However, the heterogeneous shapes and sizes of buildin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
295 Views
21 Pages

MAK-BRNet: Multi-Scale Adaptive Kernel and Boundary Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection

  • Ge Niu,
  • Xiaolong Yang,
  • Xinhui Wang,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Lu Cao,
  • Erwei Yin and
  • Pengyu Guo

4 January 2026

Oriented object detection in remote sensing images rapidly evolves as a pivotal technique, driving transformative advancements across geospatial analytics, intelligent transportation systems, and urban infrastructure planning. However, the inherent c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,622 Views
17 Pages

Built-Up Area Change Detection Using Multi-Task Network with Object-Level Refinement

  • Song Gao,
  • Wangbin Li,
  • Kaimin Sun,
  • Jinjiang Wei,
  • Yepei Chen and
  • Xuan Wang

16 February 2022

The detection and monitoring of changes in urban buildings, as a major place for human activities, have been considered profoundly in the field of remote sensing. In recent years, comparing with other traditional methods, the deep learning-based meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,891 Views
19 Pages

6 May 2022

Algorithms such as RRT (Rapidly exploring random tree), A* and their variants have been widely used in the field of robot path planning. A lot of work has shown that these detectors are unable to carry out effective and stable results for moving obje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,585 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Task cGAN for Simultaneous Spaceborne DSM Refinement and Roof-Type Classification

  • Ksenia Bittner,
  • Marco Körner,
  • Friedrich Fraundorfer and
  • Peter Reinartz

28 May 2019

Various deep learning applications benefit from multi-task learning with multiple regression and classification objectives by taking advantage of the similarities between individual tasks. This can result in improved learning efficiency and predictio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
26,118 Views
12 Pages

Multi-Head Attention Refiner for Multi-View 3D Reconstruction

  • Kyunghee Lee,
  • Ihjoon Cho,
  • Boseung Yang and
  • Unsang Park

24 October 2024

Traditional 3D reconstruction models have consistently faced the challenge of balancing high recall of object edges with maintaining a high precision. In this paper, we introduce a post-processing method, the Multi-Head Attention Refiner (MA-R), desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,320 Views
23 Pages

5 July 2023

The fractal dimension (FD) is a classical nonlinear dynamic index that can effectively reflect the dynamic transformation of a signal. However, FD can only reflect signal information of a single scale in the whole frequency band. To solve this proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,242 Views
25 Pages

A Refined Supervision Model of Rice Supply Chain Based on Multi-Blockchain

  • Xiangzhen Peng,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Jiping Xu,
  • Haisheng Li,
  • Zhiyao Zhao and
  • Zhibo Qi

9 September 2022

With the development of Agriculture 4.0, the requirements for sustainable agriculture and precision agriculture continue to grow. As one of the three major staple foods globally, the quality and safety of rice affect human health as well as social de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,288 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2021

Ship-radiated noise is one of the important signal types under the complex ocean background, which can well reflect physical properties of ships. As one of the valid measures to characterize the complexity of ship-radiated noise, permutation entropy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,251 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2019

Radar target detection probability will decrease as the target echo signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decreases, which has an adverse influence on the result of multi-target tracking. The performances of standard multi-target tracking algorithms degrade si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,006 Views
29 Pages

2 December 2022

Rolling bearing health status monitoring is essential for identifying early failures and avoiding un-planned downtime in industrial systems. To overcome the problems of existing entropy methods with multiple faults that are easily confounded at diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
564 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization for Refined Oil Resource Allocation: Towards Energy and Carbon Saving

  • Jingjun Chen,
  • Bozhuo Dong,
  • Zhen Bao,
  • Guangtao Fu,
  • Jingkai Lu,
  • Zhengfang Qi,
  • Haochong Li and
  • Rui Qiu

20 November 2025

In light of the ambitious “dual carbon” targets, the refined oil supply chain faces challenges in balancing economic viability with environmental sustainability. Traditional resource allocation methods predominantly prioritize cost minimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,763 Views
25 Pages

The Data-Driven Modeling of Pressure Loss in Multi-Batch Refined Oil Pipelines with Drag Reducer Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Network

  • Shengshi Wang,
  • Lianyong Zuo,
  • Miao Li,
  • Qiao Wang,
  • Xizhen Xue,
  • Qicong Liu,
  • Shuai Jiang,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Xitong Duan

16 September 2021

Due to the addition of the drag reducer in refined oil pipelines for increasing the pipeline throughput as well as reducing energy consumption, the classical method based on the Darcy-Weisbach Formula for precise pressure loss calculation presents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,690 Views
27 Pages

23 February 2021

A rolling bearing early fault diagnosis method is proposed in this paper, which is derived from a refined composite multi-scale approximate entropy (RCMAE) and improved coyote optimization algorithm based probabilistic neural network (ICOA-PNN) algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,824 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2018

Water shortage problems are increasing in many water-deficient areas. Most of the current research on multi-source combined water supplies depends on an overall generalization of regional water supply systems, which are seldom broken down into the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,249 Views
21 Pages

Improved Multi-View Graph Clustering with Global Graph Refinement

  • Lingbin Zeng,
  • Shixin Yao,
  • You Huang,
  • Yong Cheng and
  • Yue Qian

17 September 2025

The goal of multi-view graph clustering (MVGC) for remote sensing data is to obtain a consistent partitioning by capturing complementary and consensus information across multiple views. However, numerous ambiguous background samples in multi-view rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,563 Views
21 Pages

Neural Radiance Field-Inspired Depth Map Refinement for Accurate Multi-View Stereo

  • Shintaro Ito,
  • Kanta Miura,
  • Koichi Ito and
  • Takafumi Aoki

In this paper, we propose a method to refine the depth maps obtained by Multi-View Stereo (MVS) through iterative optimization of the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). MVS accurately estimates the depths on object surfaces, and NeRF accurately estimates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,632 Views
24 Pages

IUR-Net: A Multi-Stage Framework for Label Refinement Tasks in Noisy Remote Sensing Samples

  • Yibing Xiong,
  • Xiangyun Hu,
  • Xin Geng,
  • Lizhen Lei and
  • Aokun Liang

20 June 2025

Currently, samples are a critical driving force in the application of deep learning. However, the use of samples encounters problems, such as an inconsistent annotation quality, mismatches between images and labels, and a lack of fine-grained labels....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,543 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2024

Cross-view image-to-image translation refers to generating what the scenery looks like from different views at the same location, which involves simultaneous semantic and appearance translation. Previous works mainly focused on semantic translation t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,287 Views
28 Pages

5 December 2023

Deep learning-based methods for building extraction from remote sensing images have been widely applied in fields such as land management and urban planning. However, extracting buildings from remote sensing images commonly faces challenges due to sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,341 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2020

The calibration of a multi-camera system for volumetric measurements is a basic requirement of reliable 3D measurements and object tracking. In order to refine the precision of the mapping functions, a new, tomographic reconstruction-based approach i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,260 Views
23 Pages

10 March 2024

Deep learning-based ship-detection methods have recently achieved impressive results in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) community. However, numerous challenging issues affecting ship detection, such as multi-scale characteristics of the ship, clut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,805 Views
17 Pages

In this study, a multi-objective optimization procedure with embedded topology optimization was presented. The procedure simultaneously optimizes the spatial arrangement and topology of bodies in a multi-body system. The multi-objective algorithm det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Views
22 Pages

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
17 Citations
4,864 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2020

Automatic sleep stage classification of multi-channel sleep signals can help clinicians efficiently evaluate an individual’s sleep quality and assist in diagnosing a possible sleep disorder. To obtain accurate sleep classification results, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2025

Accurate and efficient detection of small and complex surface defects on hot-rolled steel plates remains a significant challenge in industrial quality assurance. Current deep learning detectors often exhibit limitations in detection accuracy and trai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,206 Views
34 Pages

Parallel Scheme for Multi-Layer Refinement Non-Uniform Grid Lattice Boltzmann Method Based on Load Balancing

  • Zhixiang Liu,
  • Jun Ruan,
  • Wei Song,
  • Liping Zhou,
  • Weiqi Guo and
  • Jingxiang Xu

24 October 2022

The large-scale numerical simulation of complex flows has been an important research area in scientific and engineering computing. The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) as a mesoscopic method for solving flow field problems has become a relatively new r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,373 Views
24 Pages

Change detection based on bi-temporal remote sensing images has made significant progress in recent years, aiming to identify the changed and unchanged pixels between a registered pair of images. However, most learning-based change detection methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,103 Views
17 Pages

Goal-Guided Graph Attention Network with Interactive State Refinement for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction

  • Jianghang Wu,
  • Senyao Qiao,
  • Haocheng Li,
  • Boyu Sun,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Hongyu Hu and
  • Rui Zhao

23 March 2024

The accurate prediction of the future trajectories of traffic participants is crucial for enhancing the safety and decision-making capabilities of autonomous vehicles. Modeling social interactions among agents and revealing the inherent relationships...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,403 Views
28 Pages

26 August 2025

The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in intelligent healthcare systems has elevated the demand for robust medical imaging and vision-based inventory solutions. For an intelligent healthcare inventory system, accurate recognition an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,548 Views
27 Pages

MBNet: Multi-Branch Network for Extraction of Rural Homesteads Based on Aerial Images

  • Ren Wei,
  • Beilei Fan,
  • Yuting Wang,
  • Ailian Zhou and
  • Zijuan Zhao

19 May 2022

Deep convolution neural network (DCNN) technology has achieved great success in extracting buildings from aerial images. However, the current mainstream algorithms are not satisfactory in feature extraction and classification of homesteads, especiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,311 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2025

SAR target detection and signal detection are critical tasks in electromagnetic signal processing, with wide-ranging applications in remote sensing and communication monitoring. However, these tasks are challenged by complex backgrounds, multi-scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,262 Views
14 Pages

25 June 2023

Detecting dense text in scene images is a challenging task due to the high variability, complexity, and overlapping of text areas. To adequately distinguish text instances with high density in scenes, we propose an efficient approach called DenseText...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,601 Views
14 Pages

Ti/Al Multi-Layered Sheets: Accumulative Roll Bonding (Part A)

  • Jan Romberg,
  • Jens Freudenberger,
  • Hansjörg Bauder,
  • Georg Plattner,
  • Hans Krug,
  • Frank Holländer,
  • Juliane Scharnweber,
  • Andy Eschke,
  • Uta Kühn and
  • Ludwig Schultz
  • + 4 authors

2 February 2016

Co-deformation of Al and Ti by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) with intermediate heat treatments is utilized to prepare multi-layered Ti/Al sheets. These sheets show a high specific strength due to the activation of various hardening mechanisms impos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
23 Pages

3 February 2026

Semi-supervised joint classification of Hyperspectral Images (HSIs) and LiDAR-derived Digital Surface Models (DSMs) remains challenging due to scarcity of labeled pixels, strong intra-class variability, and the heterogeneous nature of spectral and el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,728 Views
25 Pages

8 March 2024

Extracting buildings in urban scenes from remote sensing images is crucial for the construction of digital cities, urban monitoring, urban planning, and autonomous driving. Traditional methods generally rely on shadow detection or stereo matching fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,671 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2022

We present a multi-sensor data fusion model based on a reconfigurable module (RM) with three fusion layers. In the data layer, raw data are refined with respect to the sensor characteristics and then converted into logical values. In the feature laye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,998 Views
29 Pages

23 December 2020

Complex single/multi-body structures are generally found in ship and ocean engineering. They have the smooth, sharp, concave, and convex surface features in common. Precise modeling of the structures is the basis of numerical simulation. However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,856 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2020

Shape-from-shading and stereo vision are two complementary methods to reconstruct 3D surface from images. Stereo vision can reconstruct the overall shape well but is vulnerable in texture-less and non-Lambertian areas where shape-from-shading can rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,683 Views
14 Pages

Semantic 3D Reconstruction with Learning MVS and 2D Segmentation of Aerial Images

  • Zizhuang Wei,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Hongwei Yi,
  • Yisong Chen and
  • Guoping Wang

14 February 2020

Semantic modeling is a challenging task that has received widespread attention in recent years. With the help of mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), multi-view high-resolution aerial images of large-scale scenes can be conveniently collected. In th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
5,590 Views
19 Pages

31 May 2021

Although remarkable progress has been made in salient object detection (SOD) in natural scene images (NSI), the SOD of optical remote sensing images (RSI) still faces significant challenges due to various spatial resolutions, cluttered backgrounds, a...

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