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7 Citations
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Epistemic Complexity of the Mathematical Object “Integral”

  • Enrique Mateus-Nieves and
  • Vicenç Font Moll

2 October 2021

The literature in mathematics education identifies a traditional formal mechanistic-type paradigm in Integral Calculus teaching which is focused on the content to be taught but not on how to teach it. Resorting to the history of the genesis of knowle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Mathematics Education and Basic Academic Skills: Language and Numeracy)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,440 Views
28 Pages

Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to suppor...

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  • Open Access
555 Views
23 Pages

17 August 2026

Oriented object detection in high-resolution remote sensing images remains vulnerable to object–background confusion in complex scenes, where visually similar background structures can produce high-confidence false positives. To address this pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Based Target Recognition and Remote Sensing Data Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,671 Views
14 Pages

Within the scope of this article, the problem of the formalization of physical processes in adaptive training complexes is considered on the example of virtual objects burning. Despite a fairly complete study of this process, the existing mathematica...

(This article belongs to the Section Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,485 Views
18 Pages

Anthropomorphic Grasping of Complex-Shaped Objects Using Imitation Learning

  • Jae-Bong Yi,
  • Joonyoung Kim,
  • Taewoong Kang,
  • Dongwoon Song and ,
  • Jinwoo Park and
  • Seung-Joon Yi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 December 2022

This paper presents an autonomous grasping approach for complex-shaped objects using an anthropomorphic robotic hand. Although human-like robotic hands have a number of distinctive advantages, most of the current autonomous robotic pickup systems sti...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,443 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2024

The current study aims to investigate the effects of 3D virtual object complexity on visual working memory capacity in mobile augmented reality (MAR) interfaces. With the popularity of augmented reality technology in mobile applications, 3D virtual e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality: Immersive Applications and Innovative Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
26 Pages

MFP-YOLOv11: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion YOLOv11 Variant for Object Detection in Complex Road Scenes

  • Junshuai Wang,
  • Mingjing Li,
  • Linlin Liu,
  • Kaijie Li and ,
  • Zengzhi Zhao and
  • Haijiao Yun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As autonomous-driving scenarios become increasingly complex, object detection in road environments remains challenging, especially for small-scale, visually ambiguous, and partially occluded targets. These difficulties are closely related to the loss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Autonomous Intelligent Systems)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,374 Views
14 Pages

7 May 2019

Nowadays, with the emergence of sophisticated electronic devices, human daily activities are becoming more and more complex. On the other hand, research has begun on the use of reliable, cost-effective sensors, patient monitoring systems, and other s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Imaging Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
991 Views
25 Pages

A Water Resources Scheduling Model for Complex Water Networks Considering Multi-Objective Coordination

  • Hui Bu,
  • Chun Pan,
  • Chunyang Liu,
  • Yu Zhu and ,
  • Zhuowei Yin,
  • Zhengya Liu and
  • Yu Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 January 2026

Complex water networks face prominent contradictions among flood control, water supply, and ecological protection, and traditional scheduling models struggle to address multi-dimensional water security challenges. To solve this problem, this study pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Regulation and Adaptive Management of Complex River Basin Systems)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,023 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2019

In order to address the problems of various interference factors and small sample acquisition in surface floating object detection, an object detection algorithm combining spatial and frequency domains is proposed. Firstly, a rough texture detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,959 Views
17 Pages

Parallel Three-Branch Correlation Filters for Complex Marine Environmental Object Tracking Based on a Confidence Mechanism

  • Yihong Zhang,
  • Shuai Li,
  • Demin Li,
  • Wuneng Zhou and ,
  • Yijin Yang,
  • Xiaodong Lin and
  • Shigao Jiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 September 2020

Marine object tracking is critical for search and rescue activities in the complex marine environment. However, the complex marine environment poses a huge challenge to the effect of tracking, such as the variability of light, the impact of sea waves...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,205 Views
19 Pages

22 September 2017

The key to successful maneuvering complex extended object tracking (MCEOT) using range extent measurements provided by high resolution sensors lies in accurate and effective modeling of both the extension dynamics and the centroid kinematics. During...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Sensor Information Fusion: Theory and Applications 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,930 Views
17 Pages

27 July 2024

Semi-supervised object detection helps to monitor and manage maritime transportation effectively, saving labeling costs. Currently, many semi-supervised object detection methods use a combination of data augmentation and pseudo-label to improve model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics for Visual Computing: Acquisition, Processing, Analysis and Rendering of Visual Information)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
510 Views
24 Pages

11 September 2026

Objects in images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often small in scale, weak in texture, and frequently occluded. Meanwhile, complex backgrounds can produce local responses similar to those of real targets, increasing the risk of miss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) in UAV-Based Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,582 Views
23 Pages

Detection of tiny object in complex environments is a matter of urgency, not only because of the high real-world demand, but also the high deployment and real-time requirements. Although many current single-stage algorithms have good detection perfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Three-Dimensional Machine Vision for Robots: Human Activity and Scene Understanding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,488 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2024

Community structure is a very interesting attribute and feature in complex networks, which has attracted scholars’ attention and research on community detection. Many single-objective optimization algorithms have been migrated and modified to s...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,346 Views
17 Pages

GMS-YOLO: An Algorithm for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Complex Environments in Confined Compartments

  • Qixiang Ding,
  • Weichao Li,
  • Chengcheng Xu,
  • Mingyuan Zhang and ,
  • Changchong Sheng,
  • Min He and
  • Nanliang Shan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 September 2024

Many compartments are prone to pose safety hazards such as loose fasteners or object intrusion due to their confined space, making manual inspection challenging. To address the challenges of complex inspection environments, diverse target categories,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,684 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2023

Network robustness is of paramount importance. Although great progress has been achieved in robustness optimization using single measures, such networks may still be vulnerable to many attack scenarios. Consequently, multi-objective network robustnes...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
20 Pages

Improved CenterNet-Based Multimodal Object Detection for Low-Light and Complex Environments

  • Zhigang Yao,
  • Hengxin Xu,
  • Huazhong Zhang,
  • Xiaoguang Tu and
  • Juhang Yin

11 June 2026

To address insufficient detail representation, inadequate cross-modal fusion, and limited localization accuracy in object detection under low-light and complex background conditions, this study proposes an improved CenterNet-based multimodal object d...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,211 Views
23 Pages

Small object detection in traffic sign applications often faces challenges like complex backgrounds, blurry samples, and multi-scale variations. Existing solutions tend to complicate the algorithms. In this study, we designed an efficient and simple...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
727 Views
44 Pages

Scheduling Jamming Resources in Complex Terrain: A Multi-Objective Air—Ground Collaborative Optimization Approach

  • Haiyang You,
  • Zhenhua Wei,
  • Wenpeng Wu,
  • Chenxi Li and ,
  • Jianwei Zhan and
  • Zhaoguang Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 April 2026

Addressing the high-dimensional, strongly constrained multi-objective optimization problem of air–ground collaborative jamming scheduling in complex terrain, existing methods are often limited by incomplete modeling and low optimization efficie...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of IoT in Multidisciplinary Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,023 Views
29 Pages

Currently, small moving object detection remains a highly challenging problem, primarily attributable to four critical factors: limited pixel coverage, blurred texture features, indistinguishability from small-object-like background features (i.e., f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Vision Applications and Validation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,379 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2024

In the realm of autonomous driving, practical driving scenarios are fraught with numerous complexities, including inclement weather conditions, nighttime blurriness, and ambient light sources that significantly hinder drivers’ ability to discer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,129 Views
13 Pages

14 June 2023

Community detection is a crucial research direction in the analysis of complex networks and has been shown to be an NP-hard problem (a problem that is at least as hard as the hardest problems in nondeterministic polynomial time). Multi-objective evol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,129 Views
30 Pages

With the emergence of various types of indoor positioning technologies (e.g., radio-frequency identification, Wi-Fi, and iBeacon), how to rapidly retrieve indoor cells and moving objects has become a key factor that limits those indoor applications....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Indoor Modelling and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,058 Views
20 Pages

14 October 2021

Ship motion planning constitutes the most critical part in the autonomous navigation systems of marine autonomous surface ships (MASS). Weather and ocean conditions can significantly affect their navigation, but there are relatively few studies on th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maritime Autonomous Vessels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
775 Views
26 Pages

8 May 2026

Foreign object detection during unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) grid inspection suffers from severe visual degradation under adverse weather conditions, such as haze and heavy rain. Existing approaches often struggle to distinguish target textures from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Innovations in Computational Imaging and Sensing)
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  • Open Access
267 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2026

To address the compatibility challenges in selecting gas fire suppression systems for three typical complex protected environments—data centers, museum artifact storage rooms, and aircraft cargo holds—this paper establishes a multi-level...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering)
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  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,153 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2023

In practical human–computer interaction, a hand gesture recognition method based on improved YOLOv5 is proposed to address the problem of low recognition accuracy and slow speed with complex backgrounds. By replacing the CSP1_x module in the YO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Applications of New Optimization Methods and Intelligent Control)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,595 Views
17 Pages

Perception-Driven and Object-Aware Fast MTT Partitioning for H.266/VVC: A Saliency-Guided Complexity Reduction Framework

  • Chih-Ying Lin,
  • Jia-Yi Yeh,
  • Yu-Cheng Chen,
  • Yi-Fan Li and ,
  • Chih-Ming Lien,
  • Mei-Juan Chen and
  • Chia-Hung Yeh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2025

The H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was developed to address the growing demand for compressing ultra-high-definition video content, supporting resolutions ranging from 4K to 8K and beyond. H.266/VVC improves coding efficiency by introduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal and Image Processing Applications in Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,465 Views
18 Pages

Salient Object Detection via Fusion of Multi-Visual Perception

  • Wenjun Zhou,
  • Tianfei Wang,
  • Xiaoqin Wu,
  • Chenglin Zuo and ,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Quan Zhang and
  • Bo Peng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 April 2024

Salient object detection aims to distinguish the most visually conspicuous regions, playing an important role in computer vision tasks. However, complex natural scenarios can challenge salient object detection, hindering accurate extraction of object...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,972 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2020

In the development of highly automated driving systems (L3 and 4), much research has been done on the subject of driver takeover. Strong focus has been placed on the takeover quality. Previous research has shown that one of the main influencing facto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Test and Evaluation Methods for Human-Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
14,027 Views
39 Pages

22 April 2017

Recently emerging data-driven citizen sciences need to harness an increasing amount of massive data with varying quality. This paper develops essential theoretical frameworks, example models, and a general definition of complexity measure, and examin...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
202 Views
52 Pages

10 October 2026

This study presents a numerical framework for offline three-objective hole-sequence planning for an AC dual-rotary-head five-axis system. A double-curvature surface containing 48 staggered holes is used as a numerical case. For each hole, one represe...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
2,572 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2022

In this paper, we propose an object-cooperated decision method for efficient ternary tree (TT) partitioning that reduces the encoding complexity of versatile video coding (VVC). In most previous studies, the VVC complexity was reduced using decision...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image and Video Encoding Algorithm and H/W Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
6,215 Views
23 Pages

18 September 2023

Object detection in images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds great potential in various domains, including civilian applications, urban planning, and disaster response. However, it faces several challenges, such as multi-scale variati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing: Methodology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,317 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to detect objects in video sequences and associate them across frames. Currently, the mainstream research direction regarding MOT is the tracking-by-detection (TBD) framework. Tracking results are highly sensitive to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,854 Views
16 Pages

I-DINO: High-Quality Object Detection for Indoor Scenes

  • Zhipeng Fan,
  • Wanglong Mei,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Ming Chen and
  • Zeguo Qiu

11 November 2024

Object Detection in Complex Indoor Scenes is designed to identify and categorize objects in indoor settings, with applications in areas such as smart homes, security surveillance, and home service robots. It forms the basis for advanced visual tasks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,134 Views
18 Pages

The present study compared two sentence–picture-matching tests in Greek, namely the Syntactic Proficiency Test and the sentence comprehension subtest of the Diagnostic Verbal Intelligence Quotient (DVIQ) battery, to assess complex sentence comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,695 Views
19 Pages

6 November 2022

Deep learning has been widely used in various fields because of its accuracy and efficiency. At present, the improvement of image semantic segmentation accuracy has become the area of most concern. In terms of increasing accuracy, improved semantic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,796 Views
20 Pages

Siamese Multi-Scale Adaptive Search Network for Remote Sensing Single-Object Tracking

  • Biao Hou,
  • Yanyu Cui,
  • Zhongle Ren,
  • Zhihao Li and ,
  • Shuang Wang and
  • Licheng Jiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 September 2023

With the development of remote sensing earth observation technology, object tracking has gained attention for its broad application prospects in computer vision. However, object tracking is challenging owing to the background clutter, occlusion, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,978 Views
21 Pages

Research on the Classification of Complex Wheat Fields Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

  • Fei Mu,
  • Hongli Chu,
  • Shuaiqi Shi,
  • Minxin Yuan and ,
  • Qi Liu and
  • Fuzeng Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2022

This study uses UAV multi-spectral remote sensing images to carry out ground object classification research in complex wheat field scenes with diverse varieties. Compared with satellite remote sensing, the high spatial resolution remote sensing image...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Environment and Intelligent Plant Protection Equipment)
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  • Open Access
1,194 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Power Generation Systems in Developing Advanced Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants

  • Andrey Rogalev,
  • Ilya Lapin,
  • Olga Zlyvko,
  • Aleksey Malenkov and
  • Valeriia Zhikhareva

2 December 2025

The paper proposes a multi-objective approach for optimizing the structure of electric power generation amid tightening requirements for the energy efficiency and environmental safety of power systems. The study identifies relevant directions for imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
1,184 Views
16 Pages

5 May 2026

Infrared small target detection is widely used in aerospace surveillance, maritime search and rescue, and military reconnaissance. However, the performance of detection algorithms is highly dependent on scene characteristics, and methods that perform...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Views
23 Pages

This paper formulates beamforming synthesis as a multi-objective, multi-variable optimization problem to minimize the number of array elements while meeting constraints on half-power beamwidth, sidelobe level, and radiation attenuation in undesired d...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,954 Views
13 Pages

5 November 2023

The efficient recognition and classification of personal protective equipment are essential for ensuring the safety of personnel in complex industrial settings. Using the existing methods, manually performing macro-level classification and identifica...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
952 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspection of transmission lines faces two primary challenges when detecting and analyzing components or defects in videos or images: poor performance in detecting small objects, and interference from complex backgrounds...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Electric Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,597 Views
22 Pages

Helmet Detection in Underground Coal Mines via Dynamic Background Perception with Limited Valid Samples

  • Guangfu Wang,
  • Dazhi Sun,
  • Hao Li,
  • Jian Cheng and ,
  • Pengpeng Yan and
  • Heping Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The underground coal mine environment is complex and dynamic, making the application of visual algorithms for object detection a crucial component of underground safety management as well as a key factor in ensuring the safe operation of workers. We...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
462 Views
25 Pages

21 August 2026

Timely and accurate termite detection is essential for effective termite control. To address the challenges posed by the small size of termite individuals and the susceptibility of target features to background texture interference under complex back...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Cloud Computing for Insect Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,789 Views
18 Pages

9 March 2021

With the aim to solve issues of robot object recognition in complex scenes, this paper proposes an object recognition method based on scene text reading. The proposed method simulates human-like behavior and accurately identifies objects with texts t...

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