Automatic tracking of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. egans) in standard Petri dishes is challenging due to high-resolution image requirements when fully monitoring a Petri dish, but mainly due to potential losses of individual worm identity caused by agg...
Most existing Siamese trackers mainly use a pre-trained convolutional neural network to extract target features. However, due to the weak discrimination of the target and background information of pre-trained depth features, the performance of the Si...
Energy performance analysis in buildings is becoming more and more highlighted, due to the increasing trend of energy consumption in the building sector. Many studies have declared the great potential of soft computing for this analysis. A particular...
A multi-track string is a tuple of strings of the same length. Given the pattern and text of two multi-track strings, the permuted pattern matching problem is to find the occurrence positions of all permutations of the pattern in the text. In this pa...
There is a growing need to facilitate the production of recorded music as independent musicians are now key in preserving the broader cultural roles of music. A critical component of the production of music is multitrack mixing, a time-consuming task...
This paper presents a novel approach to automated music mixing, focusing on the optimization of loudness control in multi-track recordings. By taking into consideration the complexity and artistic nature of traditional mixing processes, we introduce...
A tabu search (TS) aided multi-track detection scheme for bit patterned magnetic recording is proposed. The proposed detection scheme adopts the simplified multi-track detector with a two-dimensional generalized partial response (GPR) target, uses a...
A high update rate is always one of the vital indices of star trackers. By recording star positions at N moments within a single star image, the multi-exposure imaging approach (MEIA) proposed in an earlier study can improve the attitude update rate...
Multi-track laser cladding is the primary technology used in industrial applications for surface reinforcement and remanufacturing of broken parts. In this study, the influence of processing parameters on multi-track laser cladding was investigated u...
UAV-based video multi-object tracking (MOT) is a significant task in the field of remote sensing. However, current research still faces critical issues: (1) the limitations of the single architecture of DNNs inherently hinder performance improvement...
This paper presents an approach to improving visual object tracking performance by dynamically fusing the results of two trackers, where the scheduling of trackers is determined by a support vector machine (SVM). By classifying the outputs of other t...
In high-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR), part of the radiation signal inevitably propagates upward and illuminates the target through the ionosphere due to the poor controllability of the antenna’s vertical pattern. As a result, a target m...
The main task in visual object tracking is to track a moving object in an image sequence. In this process, the object’s trajectory and behavior can be described by calculating the object’s position, velocity, acceleration, and other param...
The creation of multitrack mixes by audio engineers is a time-consuming activity and creating high-quality mixes requires a great deal of knowledge and experience. Previous studies on the perception of music mixes have been limited by the relatively...
Synthetic Aperture RADAR Interferometry (InSAR) provides a unique tool for the quantitative measurement of the Earth’s surface deformations induced by a variety of natural (such as volcanic eruptions, landslides and earthquakes) and anthropogenic (e....
We present an algorithm for fusing data from a constellation of RF sensors detecting cellular emanations with the output of a multi-spectral video tracker to localize and track a target with a specific cell phone. The RF sensors measure the Doppler s...
Visual target tracking is a fundamental task in computer vision. Combining multi-modal information with tracking leverages complementary information, which improves the precision and robustness of trackers. Traditional multi-modal tracking methods ty...
The upper Jinsha River, located in a high-mountain gorge with complex geological features, is highly prone to large-scale landslides, which could result in the formation of dammed lakes. Analyzing the movement characteristics of the typical Xiaomojiu...
In step with the development of Industry 4.0, research on automatic operation technology and components related to automobiles is continuously being conducted. In particular, the torque angle sensor (TAS) module of the steering wheel system is consid...
Laser cladding (LC) is a promising technique for repairing aluminum alloy components, yet challenges like cracks and uneven surfaces persist due to unstable melt flow and thermal stress. This study employs both fluid flow and stress field models to i...
In the context of the use of AM, particularly in the L-PBF technique, the printability characterization of material occurs through the identification of its printability map as a function of printing process parameters. The printability map identifie...
Laser powder–bed fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing has been widely utilized in various industries. However, large variability and inconsistent quality of the built parts still hinder the full potential of this manufacturing technology...
(1) Background: cystamine and its reduced form cysteamine have radioprotective/antioxidant effects in vivo. In this study, we use an in vitro model system to examine the behavior of cystamine towards the reactive primary species produced during the r...
Drone aerial videos offer a promising future in modern digital media and remote sensing applications, but effectively tracking several objects in these recordings is difficult. Drone aerial footage typically includes complicated sceneries with moving...
Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a key technology for enabling autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vehicle (USV) as it provides continuous perception of surrounding maritime targets and supports navigation decision-making. However, videos acquire...
The efficient and accurate tracking of a target in complex scenes has always been one of the challenges to tackle. At present, the most effective tracking algorithms are basically neural network models based on deep learning. Although such algorithms...
Accurate measurement of robotic pose is indispensable for large-scale precision manufacturing and robotic calibration, particularly because traditional robotic kinematic models often fall short owing to environmental disturbances and structural uncer...
For the Siamese network-based trackers utilizing modern deep feature extraction networks without taking full advantage of the different levels of features, tracking drift is prone to occur in aerial scenarios, such as target occlusion, scale variatio...
In detection-free tracking, after users freely designate the location of the object to be tracked in the first frame of the video sequence, the location of the object is continuously found in the following video frame sequence. Recently, technologies...
Siamese-based trackers have been widely utilized in UAV visual tracking due to their outstanding performance. However, UAV visual tracking encounters numerous challenges, such as similar targets, scale variations, and background clutter. Existing Sia...
Multi-object tracking faces persistent challenges from occlusions and truncations in monocular vision systems. While stereo vision provides depth information, existing approaches require computationally expensive dense matching or 3D reconstruction....
The identification of geriatric depression and anxiety is important because such conditions are the most common comorbid mood problems that occur in older adults. The goal of this study was to build a machine learning framework that identifies geriat...
Recorded video data must be clear for accuracy and faster analysis during post-processing, which often requires video stabilization systems to remove undesired motion. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid method to estimate the motion and to stabilize...
Multi-sensor sonar tracking has many advantages, such as the potential to reduce the overall measurement uncertainty and the possibility to hide the receiver. However, the use of multi-target multi-sensor sonar tracking is challenging because of the...
In this paper, we address aerial tracking tasks by designing multi-phase aware networks to obtain rich long-range dependencies. For aerial tracking tasks, the existing methods are prone to tracking drift in scenarios with high demand for multi-layer...
The previous multi-track InSAR (MTI) method can be used to retrieve mining-induced three-dimensional (3D) surface displacements with high spatial–temporal resolution by incorporating multi-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) observ...
With the great progress of object detection, some detection-based multiple object tracking (MOT) paradigms begin to emerge, including tracking-by-detection, joint detection and tracking, and attention mechanism-based MOT. Due to the separately execut...
Multi-object tracking faces critical challenges, including occlusions, ID switches, and erroneous detection boxes, which significantly hinder tracking accuracy in complex environments. To address these issues, this study proposes a single-task joint...
This paper presents a multi-sensor system for implementing biofeedback as a human-computer interaction technique in a game involving driving cars in risky situations. The sensors used are: Eye Tracker, Kinect, pulsometer, respirometer, electromiogra...
Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) provides additional information compared to regular color imaging, making it valuable in areas such as biomedicine, materials inspection and food safety. However, HSI is challenging because of the large amount of data and...
Utilizing Monte Carlo multi-track chemistry simulations along with a cylindrical instantaneous pulse (Dirac) irradiation model, we assessed the initial acidic response in both subcritical and supercritical water under high radiation dose rates. This...
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is an efficient solution to collect large-scale data. The efficiency can be increased by combining TLS with additional sensors in a TLS-based multi-sensor-system (MSS). The uncertainty of scanned points is not homogen...
This paper concerns lightweight—up to 800 kg—UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles), where multi-tracked running gears are used to improve the obstacle negotiation performance. A comparison of four different multi-tracked systems and, for refere...
Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a critical and active research topic in computer vision, serving as a fundamental technique across various application domains such as human–robot interaction, autonomous driving, and surveillance. MOT typicall...
(1) Background: Water radiolysis leads to the formation of hydronium ions H3O+ in less than 50 fs, resulting in the formation of transient acidic pH spikes in the irradiated water. The purpose of this study is to examine the time evolution of these s...
Multitrack music transcription is the task of converting music recordings into symbolic music representations that are assigned to individual instruments. This task requires simultaneous transcription of note onset and offset events for individual in...
With the continuous expansion of the high-speed railway network in China, long-span railway bridges carrying multiple tracks demand reliable and fast testing procedures and techniques. Bridge dynamic behavior analysis is a critical process in ensurin...
Friction stir lap welding (FSLW) raises the possibility of fabricating high-performance aluminum components at low cost and high efficiency. In this study, we mainly applied FSLW to fabricate multi-track 2024 aluminum alloy without using tool tilt an...
Marine gear shafts strengthened by multi-track overlapping laser quenching–ultrasonic rolling composite treatment exhibit complex torsional fatigue damage evolution due to the multi-layer gradient structure of the meshing interface, making quan...
The surface of nodular cast iron is susceptible to wear failure under high-load conditions. In this study, Fe-Cr-Ni wear-resistant coatings were developed on the surface of nodular cast iron using laser cladding technology. The influence of laser pow...
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