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5 Citations
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A Novel Path Voting Algorithm for Surface Crack Detection

  • Jianwei Yu,
  • Zhipeng Chen and
  • Zhiming Xiong

Path voting is a widely used technique for line structure detection in images. Traditional path voting, based on minimal-path, is performed to track paths based on how seeds grow. The former requires to set a starting point and an end point. Thus, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Signal, Image and Video Analysis and Application)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,462 Views
20 Pages

Effective Context-Aware File Path Embeddings for Anomaly Detection

  • Ra-Kyung Lee,
  • Hyun-Min Song and
  • Taek-Young Youn

23 May 2025

In digital forensics, especially Windows forensics, identifying anomalous file paths is crucial when dealing with large-scale data. Traditional static embedding methods, which aggregate token-level representations, discard hierarchical and sequential...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity and Secure Information Systems: Challenges and Solutions in Digital Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,850 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2024

Aiming at the problems of low detection efficiency and complexity of aircraft gear tooth surfaces, a path optimization algorithm based on an improved genetic algorithm is proposed. The detection area of the tooth surface is planned, the sampling poin...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Operation, Control, and Planning of Intelligent Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,019 Views
14 Pages

At present, there are many technical methods in the field of target detection, but the detection methods are greatly affected by direct-path signals and need technical support such as extracting pure direct-path signals, so they cannot be used under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Array Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,967 Views
17 Pages

With the rapid development of rail transit, the workload of track maintenance has increased, making the intelligent identification of rail surface defects crucial for improving detection efficiency. To address issues such as low defect detection accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,174 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2024

The rapid growth of the elderly population has led to an increased demand for effective and personalized eldercare solutions. In this paper, the design and development of an eldercare robot is presented. This robot is specifically tailored to meet th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Development of Intelligent Robot)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
455 Views
18 Pages

Autonomous driving relying on visual navigation plays a vital role in promoting automation within the jujube industry. Conventional visual navigation strategies fail to satisfy the demands of straddle-type jujube harvesters owing to their unique row-...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Applications and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,472 Views
18 Pages

Coverage Path Planning and Point-of-Interest Detection Using Autonomous Drone Swarms

  • Konstantinos Bezas,
  • Georgios Tsoumanis,
  • Constantinos T. Angelis and
  • Konstantinos Oikonomou

5 October 2022

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones presently are enhanced with miniature sensors that can provide information relative to their environment. As such, they can detect changes in temperature, orientation, altitude, geographical location, electro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lifetime Extension Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,666 Views
27 Pages

26 June 2025

The accurate detection and precise spatial localization of rebar intersection points are essential for advancing automation in construction tasks, such as robotic rebar tying. This paper presents a vision-based methodology that integrates RGB-D sensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,562 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2022

Air pollution affects people’s life and health, and controlling air pollution requires the collection of polluting gas information. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used for environmental detection due to their characteristics. However...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
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  • Open Access
1,022 Views
14 Pages

17 September 2025

Detecting dynamic and amorphous objects like fire and smoke poses significant challenges in object detection. To address this, we propose Dual-Path Cascade Stochastic DETR (Dual-Path CSDETR). Unlike Cascade DETR, our model introduces cascade stochast...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,658 Views
21 Pages

Road Traffic Anomaly Detection via Collaborative Path Inference from GPS Snippets

  • Hongtao Wang,
  • Hui Wen,
  • Feng Yi,
  • Hongsong Zhu and
  • Limin Sun

9 March 2017

Road traffic anomaly denotes a road segment that is anomalous in terms of traffic flow of vehicles. Detecting road traffic anomalies from GPS (Global Position System) snippets data is becoming critical in urban computing since they often suggest underlyi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Identification, Information & Knowledge in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,890 Views
25 Pages

26 February 2025

In this study, an online path planning strategy capable of traversing narrow passages is proposed for an autonomous underwater vehicle equipped only with forward-looking sonar in unknown environments. First, to establish the environment model, the so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Control and Path Planning of Marine Vehicles—3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,282 Views
15 Pages

A Method for Aero-Engine Gas Path Anomaly Detection Based on Markov Transition Field and Multi-LSTM

  • Langfu Cui,
  • Chaoqi Zhang,
  • Qingzhen Zhang,
  • Junle Wang and ,
  • Yixuan Wang,
  • Yan Shi,
  • Cong Lin and
  • Yang Jin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2021

There are some problems such as uncertain thresholds, high dimension of monitoring parameters and unclear parameter relationships in the anomaly detection of aero-engine gas path. These problems make it difficult for the high accuracy of anomaly dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,507 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2021

Autonomous exploration and remote sensing using robots have gained increasing attention in recent years and aims to maximize information collection regarding the external world without human intervention. However, incomplete frontier detection, an in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Navigation: State-of-the-Art)
  • Article
  • Open Access
702 Views
22 Pages

9 March 2026

Cloud detection serves as a critical preprocessing step in remote sensing image processing and quantitative applications. However, prevailing deep learning-based models often depend on computationally intensive backbone networks to achieve high accur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Computer Vision Sensors & Systems—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,978 Views
21 Pages

Audio Deepfake Detection via a Fuzzy Dual-Path Time-Frequency Attention Network

  • Jinzi Li,
  • Hexu Wang,
  • Fei Xie,
  • Xiaozhou Feng and ,
  • Jiayao Chen,
  • Jindong Liu and
  • Juan Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 December 2025

With the rapid advancement of speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies, audio deepfake techniques have posed serious threats to information security. Existing detection methods often lack robustness when confronted with environmental noise,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
528 Views
34 Pages

21 September 2026

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) underpins bidirectional communication in smart grids, a foundational layer of smart city energy systems, facilitating the flow of data, real-time monitoring, and demand-responsive control. But its connectivity e...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Hybrid Simulation for Future Power and Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,612 Views
20 Pages

Enhanced Visual Detection and Path Planning for Robotic Arms Using Yolov10n-SSE and Hybrid Algorithms

  • Hongjun Wang,
  • Anbang Zhao,
  • Yongqi Zhong,
  • Gengming Zhang and ,
  • Fengyun Wu and
  • Xiangjun Zou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2025

Pineapple harvesting in natural orchard environments faces challenges such as high occlusion rates caused by foliage and the need for complex spatial planning to guide robotic arm movement in cluttered terrains. This study proposes an innovative visu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Facility Agriculture Robots and Autonomous Unmanned Management for Crops)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,541 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2023

Recent advances in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection have a trade-off between accuracy and computational cost in various industrial tasks and essential consideration. However, the fully convolutional one-stage detector (FCOS)...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,689 Views
24 Pages

River Detection in Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Gabor Filtering and Path Opening

  • Kang Yang,
  • Manchun Li,
  • Yongxue Liu,
  • Liang Cheng and ,
  • Qiuhao Huang and
  • Yangming Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 July 2015

Detecting rivers from remotely sensed imagery is an initial yet important step in space-based river studies. This paper proposes an automatic approach to enhance and detect complete river networks. The main contribution of this work is the characteri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,813 Views
42 Pages

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) operating in dynamic, constrained underwater environments demand sophisticated navigation and detection fusion capabilities that traditional methods often fail to provide. This paper introduces a novel hybrid fra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation and Detection Fusion for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
568 Views
28 Pages

31 July 2026

This paper presents an integrated framework for automated detection of surface defects in infrastructures using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising 3D model-based adaptive path planning, high-resolution image acquisition, and an attention-enh...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,226 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2025

Deep learning-based hyperspectral target detection (HTD) methods often face the challenge of insufficient prior information and difficulty in distinguishing local and global spectral differences. To address these problems, we propose a self-supervise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2026

In response to the challenges of low detection efficiency, high omission rate in small target detection and high model complexity in wood surface defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight detection model based on YOLO, which integrates a du...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,763 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2021

Numerous alteration detection methods are designed based on image transformation algorithms and divergence of bi-temporal images. In the process of feature transformation, pseudo variant information caused by complex external factors will be highligh...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,416 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2021

Fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) is a useful tool to detect linear frequency modulated (LFM) signal. However, the detection performance of the FrFT-based method will deteriorate drastically in underwater multi-path environment. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,509 Views
16 Pages

Path Planning of Multiple UAVs for the Early Detection of Wildfires in the National Park of Kotychi and Strofylia Wetlands

  • Georgia Kritikou,
  • Panteleimon Xofis,
  • Konstantinos Souflas and
  • Vassilis Moulianitis

29 November 2024

The surveillance of the National Park Kotychi and Strofylia Wetlands in southwest Greece with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is studied in this work. As comprehensive coverage of the region cannot be attained with just stationary ground cameras, mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drone Applications Supporting Fire Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,431 Views
20 Pages

Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) Path Planning for Area Segmentation in Intelligent Landmine Detection Systems

  • Ahmed Barnawi,
  • Krishan Kumar,
  • Neeraj Kumar,
  • Nisha Thakur and ,
  • Bander Alzahrani and
  • Amal Almansour
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 August 2023

Landmine contamination is a significant problem that has devastating consequences worldwide. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can play an important role in solving this problem. The technology has the potential to expedite, simplify, and improve the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trajectory Planning and Object Recognition for Robot Sensing and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,380 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2018

To ensure reliable and efficient operation of gas turbines, multiple model (MM) approaches have been extensively studied for online fault detection and isolation (FDI). However, current MM-FDI approaches are difficult to directly apply to gas path FD...

(This article belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
533 Views
25 Pages

A2S2C-Det: Dual-Path Adaptive Aggregation with Spatial-Semantic Compensation for Strip Steel Surface Defect Detection

  • Yange Sun,
  • Mengdi Wang,
  • Chenglong Xu,
  • Huaping Guo and ,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Hongzhou Yue and
  • Yan Feng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate identification of surface defects on steel strips is critical for manufacturing quality assurance and operational reliability. Although deep learning has greatly advanced defect detection, precise recognition remains challenging due to signi...

(This article belongs to the Section Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
760 Views
25 Pages

7 July 2026

Detecting small targets in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging due to low pixel coverage, complex backgrounds, and information loss during downsampling. Existing detectors lack explicit mechanisms for enhancing weak target signals. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
4,790 Views
20 Pages

Mixed Receptive Fields Augmented YOLO with Multi-Path Spatial Pyramid Pooling for Steel Surface Defect Detection

  • Kewen Xia,
  • Zhongliang Lv,
  • Chuande Zhou,
  • Guojun Gu and ,
  • Zhiqiang Zhao,
  • Kang Liu and
  • Zelun Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 May 2023

Aiming at the problems of low detection efficiency and poor detection accuracy caused by texture feature interference and dramatic changes in the scale of defect on steel surfaces, an improved YOLOv5s model is proposed. In this study, we propose a no...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Smart Industrial Diagnostics and Manufacturing, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,410 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2025

Mine ventilation systems are critical for ensuring operational safety, yet air leakage remains a pervasive challenge, leading to energy inefficiency and heightened safety risks. Traditional tracer gas methods, while effective in simple networks, exhi...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,532 Views
24 Pages

UHF RFID Sensing for Dynamic Tag Detection and Behavior Recognition: A Multi-Feature Analysis and Dual-Path Residual Network Approach

  • Honggang Wang,
  • Xinyi Liu,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Bo Qin and ,
  • Ruoyu Pan and
  • Shengli Pang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 September 2025

To address the challenges of dynamic coupling interference and time-frequency feature degradation in current approaches to Ultra-High-Frequency Radio-Frequency Identification (UHF RFID) behavior recognition, this study proposes a novel behavior recog...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,802 Views
33 Pages

24 May 2023

Cracks are fractures or breaks that occur in materials such as concrete, metals, rocks, and other solids. Various methods are used to detect and monitor cracks; among many of them, image-based methodologies allow fast identification of the distress a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Detection, Monitoring and Maintenance Using Remotely Sensed Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,139 Views
27 Pages

10 June 2021

Static analysis is one of the techniques used today to analyze source codes and minimize the issue of software vulnerability. Static analysis has the ability to observe all possible software paths in an application through the scrutiny of a web appli...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
849 Views
49 Pages

18 June 2026

Planning a low-detectability route for a fixed-wing UAV in mountainous environments with radar-based sensing constraints remains highly challenging. Conventional approaches struggle to simultaneously ensure both path quality and operational safety. T...

(This article belongs to the Collection Drones for Security and Defense Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,019 Views
15 Pages

Early Detection of Obstacle to Optimize the Robot Path Planning

  • Kaushlendra Sharma,
  • Chetan Swarup,
  • Saroj Kumar Pandey,
  • Ankit Kumar and ,
  • Rajesh Doriya,
  • Kamred Udham Singh and
  • Teekam Singh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 September 2022

Robot path planning is one of the core issues in robotics and its application. Optimizing the route discovery becomes more important while dealing with the robot-based application. This paper proposes the concept of early detection of the obstacle pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,391 Views
19 Pages

An Approach for Anomaly Detection in Network Communications Using k-Path Analysis

  • Mamadou Kasse,
  • Rodolphe Charrier,
  • Alexandre Berred,
  • Cyrille Bertelle and
  • Christophe Delpierre

In this paper, we present an innovative approach inspired by the Path-scan model to detect paths with k adjacent edges (k-path) exhibiting unusual behavior (synonymous with anomaly) within network communications. This work is motivated by the challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intrusion/Malware Detection and Prevention in Networks—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,079 Views
14 Pages

Stealth UAV Path Planning Based on DDQN Against Multi-Radar Detection

  • Lei Bao,
  • Zhengtao Guo,
  • Xianzhong Gao and
  • Chaolong Li

28 August 2025

Considering the dynamic RCS characteristics of stealthy UAVs, we proposed a stealthy UAV path planning algorithm based on the Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN). By introducing the reinforcement learning model that can interact with the environment, the st...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,376 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2019

Downsampling input images is a simple trick to speed up visual object-detection algorithms, especially on robotic vision and applied mobile vision systems. However, this trick comes with a significant decline in accuracy. In this paper, dual-resoluti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantic Representations for Behavior Analysis in Robotic System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,205 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Detection and Adaptive Path Planning for Selective Hotan Rose Harvesting

  • Jijing Lin,
  • Yuhang Yang,
  • Baojian Ma,
  • Zhenghao Wu and
  • Bangbang Chen

2 May 2026

Selective harvesting of Hotan roses requires distinguishing between buds and blooms for different industrial uses. However, balancing detection accuracy and computational efficiency for edge deployment remains a challenge. This study proposes an inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
845 Views
29 Pages

A Dual-Path CNN and Transformer Network for Continuous Pavement Crack Detection

  • Jinhe Zhang,
  • Shangyu Sun,
  • Weidong Song,
  • Yuxuan Li and
  • Qiaoshuang Teng

22 May 2026

Cracks are among the most common pavement distresses, and their timely detection is crucial for road maintenance. Existing methods struggle to completely capture elongated and irregular cracks, often resulting in fragmented detection outputs, which l...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,870 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Path Dilated Residual Network for Nuclei Segmentation and Detection

  • Eric Ke Wang,
  • Xun Zhang,
  • Leyun Pan,
  • Caixia Cheng and ,
  • Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss,
  • Yueping Li and
  • Nie Zhe
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 May 2019

As a typical biomedical detection task, nuclei detection has been widely used in human health management, disease diagnosis and other fields. However, the task of cell detection in microscopic images is still challenging because the nuclei are common...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,924 Views
14 Pages

Enhancing Wildlife Detection Using Thermal Imaging Drones: Designing the Flight Path

  • Byungwoo Chang,
  • Byungmook Hwang,
  • Wontaek Lim,
  • Hankyu Kim and ,
  • Wanmo Kang,
  • Yong-Su Park and
  • Dongwook W. Ko
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 January 2025

Thermal imaging drones have transformed wildlife monitoring by facilitating the efficient and noninvasive monitoring of animal populations across large areas. In this study, an optimized flight path design was developed for monitoring wildlife on Gul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drone-Based Wildlife Protection, Monitoring, and Conservation Management:2nd Edition)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,956 Views
13 Pages

On the Detection and Long-Term Path Visualisation of A-68 Iceberg

  • Ludwin Lopez-Lopez,
  • Flavio Parmiggiani,
  • Miguel Moctezuma-Flores and
  • Lorenzo Guerrieri

28 January 2021

The article presents a methodology for examining a temporal sequence of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, as applied to the detection of the A-68 iceberg and its drifting trajectory. Using an improved image processing scheme, the analysis covers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of the Polar Oceans)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,316 Views
19 Pages

A Dual-Path Neural Network for High-Impedance Fault Detection

  • Keqing Ning,
  • Lin Ye,
  • Wei Song,
  • Wei Guo and ,
  • Guanyuan Li,
  • Xiang Yin and
  • Mingze Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 January 2025

High-impedance fault detection poses significant challenges for distribution network maintenance and operation. We propose a dual-path neural network for high-impedance fault detection. To enhance feature extraction, we use a Gramian Angular Field al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Process Modeling and Control Based on AI Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,245 Views
18 Pages

Path Planning for Conformal Antenna Surface Detection Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm

  • Yifan Ding,
  • Xiaodong Du,
  • Changrui Wang,
  • Wei Tian and ,
  • Chao Deng,
  • Ke Li and
  • Zihang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 September 2023

The conformal antenna is a precision device installed on the wing of an aircraft, and its components are distributed on a curved surface. Quality detection is required after assembly. In solving the path planning problem for conformal antenna surface...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Research and Application on Swarm Optimization and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,193 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of IndiMix JOE with Intype IC-RNA as an Alternative to AgPath-ID for Influenza A Virus Detection in Avian and Bovine Samples

  • Andie Hach,
  • Anne Vandenburg-Carroll,
  • Douglas G. Marthaler,
  • Stephen Vadia and ,
  • Qirui Zhang,
  • Melanie Prarat and
  • Ailam Lim
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This method comparison demonstrated equivalent analytical and diagnostic performance of IndiMix JOE with intype IC-RNA as an alternative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) chemistry compared to the National Animal Health Laboratory Network...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)

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