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11 Citations
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10 October 2024

Forest fires pose a significant threat to forest resources and wildlife. To balance accuracy and parameter efficiency in forest fire detection, this study proposes an improved model, Mcan-YOLO, based on YOLOv7. In the Neck section, the asymptotic fea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,305 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2023

Crowding and occlusion pose significant challenges for pedestrian detection, which can easily lead to missed and false detections for small-scale and occluded pedestrian objects in dense pedestrian scenarios. To enhance dense pedestrian detection acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,861 Views
13 Pages

As one of the main disasters that limit the formation of wheat yield and affect the quality of wheat, lodging poses a great threat to safety production. Therefore, an improved PSPNet (Pyramid Scene Parsing Network) integrating the Normalization-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Research on Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging and Their Applications in Precision Agriculture Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,681 Views
20 Pages

AAL-Net: A Lightweight Detection Method for Road Surface Defects Based on Attention and Data Augmentation

  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Gang Li,
  • Zekai Zhang,
  • Rui Shao and ,
  • Min Li,
  • Delong Han and
  • Mingle Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 January 2023

The pothole is a common road defect that seriously affects traffic efficiency and personal safety. Road evaluation and maintenance and automatic driving take pothole detection as their main research part. In the above scenarios, accuracy and real-tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,909 Views
17 Pages

CNTCB-YOLOv7: An Effective Forest Fire Detection Model Based on ConvNeXtV2 and CBAM

  • Yiqing Xu,
  • Jiaming Li,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Hongying Liu and
  • Fuquan Zhang

12 February 2024

In the context of large-scale fire areas and complex forest environments, the task of identifying the subtle features and aspects of fire can pose a significant challenge for the deep learning model. As a result, to enhance the model’s ability...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forest Fire Prediction and Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,867 Views
20 Pages

A High-Precision Vehicle Detection and Tracking Method Based on the Attention Mechanism

  • Jiandong Wang,
  • Yahui Dong,
  • Shuangrui Zhao and
  • Zhiwei Zhang

8 January 2023

Vehicle detection and tracking technology plays an important role in intelligent transportation management and control systems. This paper proposes a novel vehicle detection and tracking method for small target vehicles to achieve high detection and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Radio Networks: Technologies, Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,318 Views
13 Pages

Single-Shot Wavefront Sensing in Focal Plane Imaging Using Transformer Networks

  • Hangning Kou,
  • Jingliang Gu,
  • Jiang You,
  • Min Wan and ,
  • Zixun Ye,
  • Zhengjiao Xiang and
  • Xian Yue
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 March 2025

Wavefront sensing is an essential technique in optical imaging, adaptive optics, and atmospheric turbulence correction. Traditional wavefront reconstruction methods, including the Gerchberg–Saxton (GS) algorithm and phase diversity (PD) techniq...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,194 Views
17 Pages

As machine vision technology has advanced, pig face recognition has gained wide attention as an individual pig identification method. This study establishes an improved ResNAM network as a backbone network for pig face image feature extraction by com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advancements in Precision Livestock Farming)
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  • Open Access
1,086 Views
15 Pages

27 August 2025

Individual cow identification is a prerequisite for automatically monitoring behavior patterns, health status, and growth data of each cow, and can provide the assistance in selecting excellent cow individuals for breeding. Despite high recognition a...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal System and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,418 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2024

To address challenges related to the inadequate representation and inaccurate discrimination of pedestrian attributes, we propose a novel method for person re-identification, which leverages global feature learning and classification optimization. Sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,649 Views
22 Pages

NGD-YOLO: An Improved Real-Time Steel Surface Defect Detection Algorithm

  • Bingyi Li,
  • Andong Xiao,
  • Xing Hu,
  • Sisi Zhu and ,
  • Gang Wan,
  • Kunlun Qi and
  • Pengfei Shi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Steel surface defect detection is a crucial step in ensuring industrial production quality. However, due to significant variations in scale and irregular geometric morphology of steel surface defects, existing detection algorithms show notable defici...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection Technology Based on Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
26 Pages

CNS-YOLOv8: An Improved YOLOv8-Based Defect Detection Method

  • Runhua Geng,
  • Yuan Jiang,
  • Jin Li,
  • Kaiwen Wu and ,
  • Yingjian Yang,
  • Ziheng Li and
  • Yaohui Chang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Steel surface defect inspection plays an essential role in maintaining product quality and production safety in industrial manufacturing. However, existing detection methods still encounter difficulties in accurately identifying tiny defects, suppres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Applications for Computer Vision and Recognition Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
210 Citations
24,275 Views
17 Pages

Swin-Transformer-Enabled YOLOv5 with Attention Mechanism for Small Object Detection on Satellite Images

  • Hang Gong,
  • Tingkui Mu,
  • Qiuxia Li,
  • Haishan Dai and ,
  • Chunlai Li,
  • Zhiping He,
  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Feng Han,
  • Abudusalamu Tuniyazi and
  • Bin Wang
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

15 June 2022

Object detection has made tremendous progress in natural images over the last decade. However, the results are hardly satisfactory when the natural image object detection algorithm is directly applied to satellite images. This is due to the intrinsic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,684 Views
24 Pages

YOLO-Weld: A Modified YOLOv5-Based Weld Feature Detection Network for Extreme Weld Noise

  • Ang Gao,
  • Zhuoxuan Fan,
  • Anning Li,
  • Qiaoyue Le and ,
  • Dongting Wu and
  • Fuxin Du
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 June 2023

Weld feature point detection is a key technology for welding trajectory planning and tracking. Existing two-stage detection methods and conventional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches encounter performance bottlenecks under extreme w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image/Signal Processing and Machine Vision in Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,440 Views
15 Pages

Accurately detecting targets in remote-sensing images is crucial for the military, urban planning, and resource exploration. There are some challenges in extracting detailed features from remote-sensing images, such as complex backgrounds, large-scal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computer Vision, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
7,009 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Scale Traffic Object Detection Algorithm for Road Scenes Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Ang Li,
  • Shijie Sun,
  • Zhaoyang Zhang,
  • Mingtao Feng and ,
  • Chengzhong Wu and
  • Wang Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Object detection in road scenes is a task that has recently become popular and it is also an important part of intelligent transportation systems. Due to the different locations of cameras in the road scenes, the size of the traffic objects captured...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,552 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Human Fall Detection Network

  • Xi Kan,
  • Shenghao Zhu,
  • Yonghong Zhang and
  • Chengshan Qian

9 November 2023

The rising issue of an aging population has intensified the focus on the health concerns of the elderly. Among these concerns, falls have emerged as a predominant health threat for this demographic. The YOLOv5 family represents the forefront of techn...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
703 Views
23 Pages

8 June 2026

Student behavior recognition in classroom environments is important for teaching quality assessment and intelligent education, yet it remains challenging due to dense student distributions, frequent occlusion, substantial scale variation, and the sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Human Activity Recognition: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,779 Views
16 Pages

MCAW-YOLO: An Efficient Detection Model for Ceramic Tile Surface Defects

  • Xulong Yu,
  • Qiancheng Yu,
  • Qunyue Mu,
  • Zhiyong Hu and
  • Jincai Xie

5 November 2023

Traditional manual visual detection methods are inefficient, subjective, and costly, making them prone to false and missed detections. Deep-learning-based defect detection identifies the types of defects and pinpoints their locations. By employing th...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
189 Views
21 Pages

25 October 2026

Capsicums (chili peppers), serving as critical economic crops, hold a significant role within greenhouse cultivation, driving the development of the agricultural economy. Traditional methods for detecting chili pepper flowers are notably time-consumi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,844 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2025

Heat stress severely impacts pig welfare and farm productivity. However, existing methods lack the capability to detect subtle physiological cues (e.g., skin erythema) in complex farm environments while maintaining real-time efficiency. This paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,244 Views
22 Pages

Building Surface Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Xiaoxia Lin,
  • Yingzhou Meng,
  • Lin Sun,
  • Xiaodong Yang and ,
  • Chunwei Leng,
  • Yan Li,
  • Zhenyu Niu,
  • Weihao Gong and
  • Xinyue Xiao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In intelligent building, efficient surface defect detection is crucial for structural safety and maintenance quality. Traditional methods face three challenges in complex scenarios: locating defect features accurately due to multi-scale texture and b...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,470 Views
16 Pages

NAMRTNet: Automatic Classification of Sleep Stages Based on Improved ResNet-TCN Network and Attention Mechanism

  • Xuebin Xu,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Kan Meng,
  • Longbin Lu and ,
  • Xiaorui Cheng and
  • Haichao Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 June 2023

Sleep, as the basis for regular body functioning, can affect human health. Poor sleep conditions can lead to various physical ailments, such as poor immunity, memory loss, slow cognitive development, and cardiovascular diseases. Along the increasing...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,366 Views
24 Pages

A New Dual-Branch Embedded Multivariate Attention Network for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Classification

  • Yuyi Chen,
  • Xiaopeng Wang,
  • Jiahua Zhang,
  • Xiaodi Shang and ,
  • Yabin Hu,
  • Shichao Zhang and
  • Jiajie Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2024

With the continuous maturity of hyperspectral remote sensing imaging technology, it has been widely adopted by scholars to improve the performance of feature classification. However, due to the challenges in acquiring hyperspectral images and produci...

(This article belongs to the Topic Environmental Monitoring and Environmental Restoration for the Arid Lands and Wetlands)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,763 Views
19 Pages

A Lightweight YOLO Model for Rice Panicle Detection in Fields Based on UAV Aerial Images

  • Zixuan Song,
  • Songtao Ban,
  • Dong Hu,
  • Mengyuan Xu and ,
  • Tao Yuan,
  • Xiuguo Zheng,
  • Huifeng Sun,
  • Sheng Zhou,
  • Minglu Tian and
  • Linyi Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

24 December 2024

Accurate counting of the number of rice panicles per unit area is essential for rice yield estimation. However, intensive planting, complex growth environments, and the overlapping of rice panicles and leaves in paddy fields pose significant challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,777 Views
17 Pages

Early Bruise Detection in Apple Based on an Improved Faster RCNN Model

  • Jingli Hou,
  • Yuhang Che,
  • Yanru Fang,
  • Hongyi Bai and
  • Laijun Sun

Bruising is a common occurrence in apples that can lead to gradual fruit decay and substantial economic losses. Due to the lack of visible external features, the detection of early-stage bruising (occurring within 0.5 h) is difficult. Moreover, the i...

(This article belongs to the Section Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,881 Views
18 Pages

Crop Land Change Detection with MC&N-PSPNet

  • Yuxin Chen,
  • Yulin Duan,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Chang Wang and ,
  • Qiangyi Yu and
  • Xu Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 June 2024

To enhance the accuracy of agricultural area classification and enable remote sensing monitoring of agricultural regions, this paper investigates classification models and their application in change detection within rural areas, proposing the MC&...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
541 Views
32 Pages

Mechanical component detection in industrial scenes is challenged by cluttered backgrounds, large-scale variation, specular reflection, high inter-class similarity, and class imbalance. To address the above problems, this paper proposes a lightweight...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agentic AI-Driven Optimization in Advanced Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,685 Views
19 Pages

RSNC-YOLO: A Deep-Learning-Based Method for Automatic Fine-Grained Tuna Recognition in Complex Environments

  • Wenjie Xu,
  • Hui Fang,
  • Shengchi Yu,
  • Shenglong Yang and ,
  • Haodong Yang,
  • Yujia Xie and
  • Yang Dai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 November 2024

Tuna accounts for 20% of the output value of global marine capture fisheries, and it plays a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem stability, ensuring global food security, and supporting economic stability. However, improper management has led to si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
21 Pages

An Improved DeepLabv3+-Based Framework for Field-Road Extraction and Structural Indicator Quantification in Well-Facilitated Farmland

  • Yongsheng Liu,
  • Chunling Chen,
  • Sheng Xu,
  • Shuai Feng and ,
  • Zhonghui Guo and
  • Tongyu Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 September 2026

Well-facilitated farmland plays an important role in stabilizing and increasing crop yields, advancing agricultural mechanization, and improving production efficiency. Field-road quality directly affects machinery access and the transport of agricult...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,544 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Temperature Synchronous Prediction of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Based on a Non-Stationary Crossformer

  • Liqun Chang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Luyang Zhang,
  • Jing Lv and ,
  • Yunlai Fu and
  • Xianhui Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 February 2025

In this study, we designed a multi-temperature synchronous prediction method for municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) based on a non-stationary Crossformer model. It is mainly divided into the following steps: First, use a normalization module t...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,601 Views
15 Pages

9 September 2020

Medical image segmentation based on deep learning is a central research issue in the field of computer vision. Many existing segmentation networks can achieve accurate segmentation using fewer data sets. However, they have disadvantages such as poor...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,015 Views
14 Pages

24 May 2024

Traffic flow prediction is crucial in intelligent transportation systems. Considering the severe disruptions caused by traffic accidents or congestion, a time series model is developed for traffic flow prediction based on multiple random walks on gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,409 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2021

Image inpainting aims to fill in corrupted regions with visually realistic and semantically plausible contents. In this paper, we propose a progressive image inpainting method, which is based on a forked-then-fused decoder network. A unit called PC-R...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,108 Views
19 Pages

Background/Objectives: Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, making accurate and efficient detection methods essential. One primary concern with glaucoma is that it often presents no early symptoms. Vision loss typically be...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,775 Views
15 Pages

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection via Normal Feature-Enhanced Reverse Teacher–Student Distillation

  • Xiaodong Wang,
  • Jiangtao Fan,
  • Fei Yan,
  • Hongmin Hu and ,
  • Zhiqiang Zeng,
  • Pengtao Wu,
  • Haiyan Huang and
  • Hangqi Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2024

In modern industrial production, unsupervised anomaly detection methods have gained significant attention due to their ability to address the challenge posed by the scarcity of labeled anomaly samples. Among them, unsupervised anomaly detection metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,452 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2023

To address the challenges of detecting a large number of objects and a high proportion of small objects in aerial drone imagery, we proposed an aerial dense small object detection algorithm called Global Normalization Attention Mechanism You Only Loo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,692 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2023

Images captured under complex conditions frequently have low quality, and image performance obtained under low-light conditions is poor and does not satisfy subsequent engineering processing. The goal of low-light image enhancement is to restore low-...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,194 Views
16 Pages

Improved Image Synthesis with Attention Mechanism for Virtual Scenes via UAV Imagery

  • Lufeng Mo,
  • Yanbin Zhu,
  • Guoying Wang,
  • Xiaomei Yi and ,
  • Xiaoping Wu and
  • Peng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 February 2023

Benefiting from the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the types and number of datasets available for image synthesis have greatly increased. Based on such abundant datasets, many types of virtual scenes can be created and visualized usi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,551 Views
14 Pages

Multiscale Tea Disease Detection with Channel–Spatial Attention

  • Yange Sun,
  • Mingyi Jiang,
  • Huaping Guo,
  • Li Zhang and ,
  • Jianfeng Yao,
  • Fei Wu and
  • Gaowei Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 August 2024

Tea disease detection is crucial for improving the agricultural circular economy. Deep learning-based methods have been widely applied to this task, and the main idea of these methods is to extract multiscale coarse features of diseases using the bac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technological Applications in Agriculture for the Development of the Circular Bioeconomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,358 Views
25 Pages

Background: Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common cause of low back pain, especially in the elderly, and accurate diagnosis is critical for effective treatment. However, manual diagnosis using MRI images is time consuming and subjective, leading t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,352 Views
9 Pages

7 November 2025

Autonomous vehicles need to explain their actions to improve reliability and build user trust. This study focuses on enhancing the transparency and explainability of the decision-making process in such systems. A module named XAI-Interpreter is devel...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 12th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access

10 November 2026

Traffic flow prediction faces challenges such as prediction difficulties caused by data non-stationarity and the high computational complexity of existing attention mechanisms. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes a traffic flow predicti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Innovations in Smart Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,764 Views
17 Pages

Gasoline Engine Misfire Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Zhichen Li,
  • Zhao Qin,
  • Weiping Luo and
  • Xiujun Ling

In order to realize the online diagnosis and prediction of gasoline engine fire faults, this paper proposes an improved misfire fault detection algorithm model based on YOLOv8 for sound signals of gasoline engines. The improvement involves substituti...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Views
46 Pages

15 October 2026

Normalization narrows visual domain gaps but moves discriminative cues into its residual. Many normalization-residual decomposition methods for domain generalization (DG) and unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) rely primarily on channel-wise modelin...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
401 Views
13 Pages

9 July 2026

To address the coexistence of multiple defect types and class imbalance in complex urban sewer scenarios, this study proposes a two-stage multi-label recognition method for sewer defect images. In the first stage, a lightweight binary convolutional n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,696 Views
15 Pages

A Training-Free Latent Diffusion Style Transfer Method

  • Zhengtao Xiang,
  • Xing Wan,
  • Libo Xu,
  • Xin Yu and
  • Yuhan Mao

26 September 2024

Diffusion models have attracted considerable scholarly interest for their outstanding performance in generative tasks. However, current style transfer techniques based on diffusion models still rely on fine-tuning during the inference phase to optimi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,385 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2025

Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) signals play a crucial role in diagnosing epilepsy by reflecting distinct patterns associated with normal brain activity, ictal (seizure) states, and interictal (between-seizure) periods. However, the manual c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Disease Prediction, Diagnosis and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,479 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2024

The traditional Siamese object tracking algorithm uses a convolutional neural network as the backbone and has achieved good results in improving tracking precision. However, due to the lack of global information and the use of spatial and scale infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
652 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2026

This paper presents an automatic classification system for pulmonary diseases in chest X-rays based on geometric normalization. The proposed method consists of three main modules. Module 1: A landmark detector: A ResNet-18 convolutional neural networ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications for Developing the Diagnosis of COVID-19, 3rd Edition)

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