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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,879 Views
21 Pages

A Proactive Recognition System for Detecting Commercial Vehicle Driver’s Distracted Behavior

  • Xintong Yan,
  • Jie He,
  • Guanhe Wu,
  • Changjian Zhang and
  • Chenwei Wang

19 March 2022

Road traffic accidents regarding commercial vehicles have been demonstrated as an important culprit restricting the steady development of the social economy, which are closely related to the distracted behavior of drivers. However, the existing drive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,226 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2023

As a safety-related application, visual systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) in modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) show adversarial vulnerability when performing real-time inference. Recently, deep ensembles with various defensive strateg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,752 Views
26 Pages

25 July 2024

For successful human–robot collaboration, it is crucial to establish and sustain quality interaction between humans and robots, making it essential to facilitate human–robot interaction (HRI) effectively. The evolution of robot intelligen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,072 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2023

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely utilized in automatic visual navigation and recognition on modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), achieving state-of-the-art performances. However, DNN-based visual recognition systems on UAVs show seriou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,791 Views
24 Pages

A Flexible Approach for Human Activity Recognition Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

  • Hiram Ponce,
  • Luis Miralles-Pechuán and
  • María De Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor

25 October 2016

Physical activity recognition based on sensors is a growing area of interest given the great advances in wearable sensors. Applications in various domains are taking advantage of the ease of obtaining data to monitor personal activities and behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,533 Views
28 Pages

A Novel Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Approach Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

  • Hiram Ponce,
  • María De Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor and
  • Luis Miralles-Pechuán

5 July 2016

Human activity recognition has gained more interest in several research communities given that understanding user activities and behavior helps to deliver proactive and personalized services. There are many examples of health systems improved by huma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,247 Views
29 Pages

15 October 2020

Queue systems are practically used in various institutions and commercial enterprises constituting a challenge for the intelligent environments in smart cities. The management of the flow of customers guarantees the elimination or reduction of the qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,146 Views
16 Pages

Integrating OpenPose for Proactive Human–Robot Interaction Through Upper-Body Pose Recognition

  • Shih-Huan Tseng,
  • Jhih-Ciang Chiang,
  • Cheng-En Shiue and
  • Hsiu-Ping Yueh

This paper introduces a novel system that utilizes OpenPose for skeleton estimation to enable a tabletop robot to interact with humans proactively. By accurately recognizing upper-body poses based on the skeleton information, the robot autonomously a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,672 Views
21 Pages

8 March 2023

Automated vision-based hazard detection algorithms are being rapidly developed to provide hazard alerts for construction workers. However, these alerting systems often apply a fixed low-beta alerting threshold, which can cause excessive false alarms,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,540 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2023

This study introduces a novel system, termed NAVIBox, designed to proactively identify vehicle–pedestrian risks using vision sensors deployed within edge computing devices in the field. NAVIBox consolidates all operational components into a sin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,075 Views
29 Pages

22 September 2025

Cyberattacks, especially Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), have become more complex. These evolving threats challenge traditional defense systems, which struggle to counter long-lasting and covert attacks. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs (CKGs), ena...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,957 Views
16 Pages

Acute Respiratory Failure in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: A Review

  • Sofia Poli,
  • Francesca Sciorio,
  • Giorgio Piacentini,
  • Angelo Pietrobelli,
  • Luca Pecoraro and
  • Sara Pieropan

20 May 2024

This review examines respiratory complications in autoimmune rheumatic diseases within intensive care units (ICUs). The respiratory system, primarily affected in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma, often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,822 Views
28 Pages

31 July 2025

Recently, deep learning algorithms have been increasingly applied in construction for activity recognition, particularly for excavators, to automate processes and enhance safety and productivity through continuous monitoring of earthmoving activities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,450 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2025

Driver distraction is a key factor contributing to traffic accidents. However, in existing computer vision-based methods for driver attention state recognition, monocular camera-based approaches often suffer from low accuracy, while multi-sensor data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,885 Views
26 Pages

Personalized Smart Home Automation Using Machine Learning: Predicting User Activities

  • Mark M. Gad,
  • Walaa Gad,
  • Tamer Abdelkader and
  • Kshirasagar Naik

2 October 2025

A personalized framework for smart home automation is introduced, utilizing machine learning to predict user activities and allow for the context-aware control of living spaces. Predicting user activities, such as ‘Watch_TV’, ‘Sleep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,273 Views
19 Pages

Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

  • Laith H. Baniata,
  • Sangwoo Kang,
  • Mohammad A. Alsharaiah and
  • Mohammad H. Baniata

28 February 2024

Educational institutions are increasingly focused on supporting students who may be facing academic challenges, aiming to enhance their educational outcomes through targeted interventions. Within this framework, leveraging advanced deep learning tech...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,241 Views
19 Pages

Failure to Rescue and Lung Resections for Lung Cancer: Measuring Quality from the Operation Room to the Intensive Care Unit

  • Prokopis-Andreas Zotos,
  • Vasiliki Androutsopoulou,
  • Marco Scarci,
  • Fabrizio Minervini,
  • Ugo Cioffi,
  • Andrew Xanthopoulos,
  • Thanos Athanasiou and
  • Dimitrios E. Magouliotis

26 August 2025

Failure to rescue (FTR), defined as death following a potentially treatable postoperative complication, has emerged as a critical quality metric in thoracic surgery. In patients undergoing lung cancer resection, who are often at high risk due to como...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,578 Views
32 Pages

21 July 2025

This study presents the design and validation of an integrated fire safety system that leverages edge AI, hybrid sensing, and precision suppression to overcome the latency and collateral limitations of conventional smoke detection and sprinkler syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,042 Views
31 Pages

Immunotranscriptomic Profiling of Spodoptera frugiperda Challenged by Different Pathogenic Microorganisms

  • Yan Tang,
  • Qi Zou,
  • Guojie Yu,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Yu Wu,
  • Xueyan Zhao,
  • Wensheng Wang,
  • Xinchang Liu,
  • Fei Hu and
  • Zengxia Wang

31 March 2025

Spodoptera frugiperda is a globally significant migratory agricultural pest that requires proactive monitoring. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the interactions between pathogenic microorganisms and S. frugiperda is crucial for enha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,291 Views
15 Pages

Ship Trajectory Classification Prediction at Waterway Confluences: An Improved KNN Approach

  • Zhiyuan Wang,
  • Wei He,
  • Jiafen Lan,
  • Chuanguang Zhu,
  • Jinyu Lei and
  • Xinglong Liu

This study presents a method to support ship trajectory prediction at waterway confluences using historical Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. The method is meant to improve the recognition accuracy of ship behavior trajectory, assist in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,132 Views
21 Pages

14 November 2024

Plantations are not inherently normal, yet they have been normalized within traditional agricultural landscapes. This is the premise through which we explore why plantations thrive despite numerous social and ecological drawbacks. Accordingly, the ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
692 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2025

In this paper, the concept of symmetry is utilized to inform the structural design of our multi-sensor fusion framework—that is, the hierarchical feature extraction and spatial–temporal correlation modeling exhibit symmetrical properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,836 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing the Role of Community Pharmacists in Medication Safety: A Qualitative Study of Voices from the Frontline

  • Annesha White,
  • Erika L. Thompson,
  • Solyi Kim,
  • Janice A. Osei,
  • Kimberly G. Fulda and
  • Yan Xiao

Preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) remain a significant threat in community settings, a challenge that is critical in community pharmacy settings where continuity of care and healthcare access can be limited. This qualitative study explored the p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
13,412 Views
14 Pages

Oral Health and Older Adults: A Narrative Review

  • Martin S. Lipsky,
  • Tejasvi Singh,
  • Golnoush Zakeri and
  • Man Hung

1 February 2024

Oral health’s association with general health, morbidity, and mortality in older adults highlights its importance for healthy aging. Poor oral health is not an inevitable consequence of aging, and a proactive, multidisciplinary approach to earl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,360 Views
32 Pages

7 July 2025

In the shift toward sustainable and resource-efficient manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a transformative role in overcoming the limitations of traditional production scheduling methods. This study, based on a Systematic Literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,920 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2024

Traditionally, traffic characteristics such as speed, volume, and travel time are obtained from a range of sensors and systems such as inductive loop detectors (ILDs), automatic number plate recognition cameras (ANPR), and GPS-equipped floating cars....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,626 Views
31 Pages

23 February 2024

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) emerges as a transformative approach to address urban congestion and pollution, offering efficient and sustainable transportation for people and goods. Central to UAM is the Operational Digital Twin (ODT), which plays a cruci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,532 Views
30 Pages

15 July 2025

The integration of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques into collaborative robotic systems holds the potential to revolutionize human–robot interaction, productivity, and safety. Despite substantial research acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,555 Views
13 Pages

AiWatch: A Distributed Video Surveillance System Using Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins Technologies

  • Alessio Ferone,
  • Antonio Maratea,
  • Francesco Camastra,
  • Angelo Ciaramella,
  • Antonino Staiano,
  • Marco Lettiero,
  • Angelo Polizio,
  • Francesco Lombardi and
  • Antonio Junior Spoleto

The primary purpose of video surveillance is to monitor public indoor areas or the boundaries of secure facilities to safeguard them against theft, unauthorized access, fire, and various other potential threats. Security cameras, equipped with integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,120 Views
23 Pages

Using Sensor Fusion and Machine Learning to Distinguish Pedestrians in Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Crosswalks

  • José Manuel Lozano Domínguez,
  • Manuel Joaquín Redondo González,
  • Jose Miguel Davila Martin and
  • Tomás de J. Mateo Sanguino

21 November 2023

Pedestrian safety is a major concern in urban areas, and crosswalks are one of the most critical locations where accidents can occur. This research introduces an intelligent crosswalk, employing sensor fusion and machine learning techniques to distin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,081 Views
16 Pages

Digital Twins in Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Virtual Models for Personalized Management

  • Susanna Esposito,
  • Beatrice Rita Campana,
  • Hajrie Seferi,
  • Elena Cinti and
  • Alberto Argentiero

30 October 2025

Digital twins (DTs), virtual replicas that integrate mechanistic modeling with real-time clinical data, are emerging as powerful tools in healthcare with particular promise in pediatrics, where age-dependent physiology and ethical considerations comp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,764 Views
22 Pages

Within the vast landscape of the Built Environment, where challenges of uncertainty abound, this paper ventures into a detailed exploration of antifragile planning. Antifragility, a concept rooted in the capacity of systems to not only withstand but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,500 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents the design of an autonomous humanoid robot designed to optimize and enrich customer service in showrooms, e.g., electronic equipment, mobile network operators, and generally in stores with various articles. The proposed humanoid r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,606 Views
37 Pages

16 June 2025

Despite advanced aviation safety systems, recurring operational failures demonstrate that current safety management system (SMS) implementation practices remain predominantly reactive, with organizations adopting SMS frameworks theoretically embracin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,742 Views
27 Pages

Deep Learning with LPC and Wavelet Algorithms for Driving Fault Diagnosis

  • Cihun-Siyong Alex Gong,
  • Chih-Hui Simon Su,
  • Yuan-En Liu,
  • De-Yu Guu and
  • Yu-Hua Chen

19 September 2022

Vehicle fault detection and diagnosis (VFDD) along with predictive maintenance (PdM) are indispensable for early diagnosis in order to prevent severe accidents due to mechanical malfunction in urban environments. This paper proposes an early voicepri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
747 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2025

Construction accidents continue to threaten worker safety despite advances in management systems. Existing research catalogs accident attributes but rarely explains how triggers like human error, equipment failure, or procedural lapses interact with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,251 Views
37 Pages

Identifying Early-Stage Risks to High-Speed Rail: A Case Study of the Sydney–Newcastle Corridor, Australia

  • Anjuhan Saravana,
  • Tom Keane,
  • Thomas Thorpe,
  • Michel Chaaya,
  • Faham Tahmasebinia and
  • Samad M. E. Sepasgozar

28 May 2025

High-Speed Rail (HSR) has long been proposed as a transformative infrastructure project for Australia; yet, despite multiple feasibility studies and significant government expenditure, it remains unrealized. This study investigates the key barriers p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,925 Views
37 Pages

POC Sensor Systems and Artificial Intelligence—Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going?

  • Prashanthi Kovur,
  • Krishna M. Kovur,
  • Dorsa Yahya Rayat and
  • David S. Wishart

8 September 2025

Integration of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) into point-of-care (POC) sensor systems represents a transformative advancement in healthcare. This integration enables sophisticated data analysis and real-time decision-making in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
769 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2025

This qualitative study examines how school administrators enact “heartfelt leadership”—a socially and emotionally attuned form of leadership—within Türkiye’s bureaucratic school cultures. Using semi-structured inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,931 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2023

Malware detection using hybrid features, combining binary and hexadecimal analysis with DLL calls, is crucial for leveraging the strengths of both static and dynamic analysis methods. Artificial intelligence (AI) enhances this process by enabling aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,344 Views
18 Pages

Hanoi Air Quantitative Report: A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Awareness, and Sustainable Practices Related to Air Pollution Among Residents of Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Laura Vanderbloemen,
  • Pranee Liamputtong,
  • Oanh Thi Kieu Nguyen,
  • Khanh Vo Ngoc Hoang,
  • Huy Xuan Huynh,
  • Mai Phuong Hoang,
  • Man Gia Tran,
  • Phat Hoang Nguyen,
  • Tran Ngoc Huyen Pham and
  • Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson
  • + 1 author

18 July 2025

This study contributes to the broader sustainability discourse by evaluating public knowledge, awareness, and practices regarding air pollution among residents of Hanoi, Vietnam, focusing on its causes, health impacts, and mitigation strategies. A cr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,082 Views
14 Pages

“Someone Like Anyone Else”: A Qualitative Exploration of New Zealand Health Professional Students’ Understanding of Disability

  • Sadhana Ravichandran,
  • Allyson Calder,
  • Tristram Ingham,
  • Bernadette Jones and
  • Meredith Perry

Background: One in four New Zealanders identify as disabled. Disabled people, including Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand (NZ)), experience health disparities. Systemic and individual health professional (HP) biases are factors that ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,096 Views
21 Pages

Harnessing Semantic and Trajectory Analysis for Real-Time Pedestrian Panic Detection in Crowded Micro-Road Networks

  • Rongyong Zhao,
  • Lingchen Han,
  • Yuxin Cai,
  • Bingyu Wei,
  • Arifur Rahman,
  • Cuiling Li and
  • Yunlong Ma

12 May 2025

Pedestrian panic behavior is a primary cause of overcrowding and stampede accidents in public micro-road network areas with high pedestrian density. However, reliably detecting such behaviors remains challenging due to their inherent complexity, vari...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,491 Views
32 Pages

15 November 2025

With the acceleration of urbanization and the continuous expansion of building stock, building maintenance plays a critical role in ensuring structural safety, extending service life, and promoting sustainable development. In recent years, the applic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,439 Views
20 Pages

An Effective YOLO-Based Proactive Blind Spot Warning System for Motorcycles

  • Ing-Chau Chang,
  • Chin-En Yen,
  • Ya-Jing Song,
  • Wei-Rong Chen,
  • Xun-Mei Kuo,
  • Ping-Hao Liao,
  • Chunghui Kuo and
  • Yung-Fa Huang

Interest in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is booming in recent years. One of the most effervescent ADAS features is blind spot detection (BSD), which uses radar sensors or cameras to detect vehicles in the blind spot area and alerts the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,730 Views
30 Pages

2 January 2024

The main purpose of a detection system is to ascertain the state of an individual’s eyes, whether they are open and alert or closed, and then alert them to their level of fatigue. As a result of this, they will refrain from approaching an accid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,150 Views
22 Pages

CyberDualNER: A Dual-Stage Approach for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition in Cybersecurity

  • Conghui Zheng,
  • Cheng Lu,
  • Changqing Li,
  • Zeyang Zheng and
  • Li Pan

As the frequency of cyberattacks rises, extracting actionable cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from diverse online sources has become critical for proactive threat detection and defense. Named entity recognition (NER) serves as a foundational task in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,620 Views
49 Pages

25 September 2025

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent and severe complication in trauma patients, affecting up to 28% of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and contributing significantly to morbidity, mortality, and long-term renal impairment. Trauma-related AKI...