Three-dimensional topological relationships serve as a theoretical foundation for quality control, update processing, and spatial analysis of three-dimensional spatial data in real-world three-dimensional GIS. The existing 3D topological relationship...
Helping vehicles estimate vanishing points (VPs) in traffic environments has considerable value in the field of autonomous driving. It has multiple unaddressed issues such as refining extracted lines and removing spurious VP candidates, which suffers...
As the carrier of electric energy transmission, transmission lines undertake the important task of electric energy distribution and transfer. However, with the increasing frequency of construction using large machinery such as tower cranes and excava...
In the field of shield tunnels, the occurrence of uneven longitudinal settlement in segment linings has presented persistent challenges, including heightened risks of localized damage and water leakage. While the adoption of a secondary lining has be...
Input of sinusoidal excitation with specified frequency is an optimal way to capture the mechanism of soil-tunnel interaction. Focusing on the relationship between the frequency of input sinusoidal motions and the dynamic response of a system, this s...
The welded pipeline structure of aircraft fuel is a complex and diverse entity, significantly influenced by fluid–solid coupling. The refined aviation fuel-welded pipeline model plays a pivotal role in the investigation of its fluid–solid...
This work systematically investigated the effects of warm shot peening (WSP) on the microstructure evolution, residual stress, and microhardness of the Mg-8Gd-3Y-0.4Zr (GW83) alloy by X-ray diffraction line profile analysis, transmission electron mic...
Laser bending is a kind of cumulative forming technology and bending efficiency is one of its most important indexes. This study investigates the bending behavior and the microstructure of DP980 steel plates under different laser scanning strategies,...
Refined topological relations play an important role in spatial database quality control. Currently, there is no unified and reasonable method to represent refined line/region and line/line topological relations in two-dimensional (2D) space. In addi...
Choosing the optimal first-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements can be challenging in daily practice. Although clinical trials with next-generation ALK-tyros...
The exterior orientation parameters (EOPs) provided by the self-developed position and orientation system (POS) of the first Chinese airborne three-line scanner mapping system, AMS-3000, are impacted by jitter, resulting in waveform distortions in re...
Accurate calibration between LiDAR and camera sensors is crucial for autonomous driving systems to perceive and understand the environment effectively. Typically, LiDAR–camera extrinsic calibration requires feature alignment and overlapping fie...
The type of soil and its compactness significantly influence its permeability coefficient, which in turn affects the drainage difficulty of soil pore water and the distribution of the infiltration line. However, current tailings dam models typically...
The study proposes an outlier refinement methodology for automatic distortion rectification of wide-angle and fish-eye lens camera models in the context of streamlining vision-based tasks. The line-members sets are estimated in a scene through accumu...
Ambient and cryogenic surface mechanical attrition treatments (SMAT) are applied to bcc iron plate. Both processes result in significant surface grain refinement down to the ultrafine-grained regime; the cryogenic treatment results in a 45% greater g...
Power line detection (PLD) is a crucial task in the electric power industry where accurate PLD forms the foundation for achieving automated inspections. However, recent top-performing power line detection methods tend to generate thick and noisy edge...
Currently, in the grinding areas of Peruvian mining operations, there are linings made of various materials such as rubber and steel, all of which have a limited lifespan and eventually wear out. Understanding the wear behavior of these linings has a...
To assist in the implementation of a fine 3D terrain reconstruction of the scene in remote sensing applications, an automatic joint calibration method between light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and visible light camera based on edge points refinemen...
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by an active immune response. We evaluated intratumoral interrelation between FOXP3+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and other cytokines in TNBC. Network analysis refined cytokines significantly co...
This research is concerned with a methodology for automated generation of polyhedral building models for complex structures, whose rooftops are bounded by straight lines. The process starts by utilizing LiDAR data for building hypothesis generation a...
This paper proposes an improved seamless fabric production line and its mathematical models before and after optimization to enhance production efficiency and material utilization in textile manufacturing. By adjusting the production process of the s...
Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT) is one of the most important 3D spatial data acquisition technologies. The state-of-the-art mobile mapping systems, equipped with laser scanners and named Mobile LiDAR Scanning (MLS) systems, have been widely used in a...
Change detection (CD) remains an important issue in remote sensing applications, especially for high spatial resolution (HSR) images, but it has yet to be fully resolved. This work proposes a novel object-based change detection (OBCD) method for HSR...
Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) produces 3-D point clouds with unavoidable noise or false targets that seriously deteriorate the quality of 3-D images and the building reconstruction over urban areas. In this paper, a Hough transform w...
This research aims to develop a comprehensive mathematical model to analyze the energy usage of essential equipment in the hot stamping production line (HSPL) and identify opportunities for improving energy efficiency. This involves refining existing...
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Ds-type inclusions during production are an important factor affecting the performance and quality of manufactured 10B21 steel. To minimize Ds-type inclusions in steel and improve the production qualification rate of steelmaking plants, a refining sl...
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has proven to be a strong basis for 3D building reconstruction. While ALS data allows for a highly automated processing workflow, a major drawback is often in the point spacing. As a consequence, the precision of roof pl...
This paper describes a flexible camera calibration method using refined vanishing points without prior information. Vanishing points are estimated from human-made features like parallel lines and repeated patterns. With the vanishing points extracted...
The concept of functional and novel foods undoubtedly bears great potential as an asset to human health. However, this very same quest for ever new bioactive ingredients calls for reliable and distinct risk assessment as they may be potentially hazar...
Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an active Earth observing system, which can directly acquire high-accuracy and dense building roof data. Thus, airborne LiDAR has become one of the mainstream source data for building detection and reco...
The adaptive mesh techniques applied to the Finite Element Method have continuously been an active research line. However, these techniques are usually applied to tetrahedra. Here, we use the triangular prismatic element as the discretization shape f...
This paper proposes a novel method to achieve the automatic registration of optical images and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) points in urban areas. The whole procedure, which adopts a coarse-to-precise registration strategy, can be summarized a...
The development of lightweight de-icing equipment for partial transmission lines in a microtopography area has become a hot research topic. However, the existing local line de-icing methods pay less attention to the mechanical damage caused by unequa...
Research on graph comprehension suggests that point differences are easier to read in bar graphs, while trends are easier to read in line graphs. But are graph readers able to detect and use the most suited graph type for a given task? In this study,...
The safety of transmission lines is essential for ensuring the secure and dependable operation of the power grid. However, the harm caused by birds to transmission lines poses a direct threat to their safe operation. The main challenges in detecting...
Transmission lines may experience significant ice loads during service, which can cause damage or even destruction to transmission tower components and transmission lines. Under the traditional design concept, when the load exceeds the safety thresho...
Lung ultrasound is an increasingly utilized non-invasive imaging modality for assessing lung condition but interpreting it can be challenging and depends on the operator’s experience. To address these challenges, this work proposes an approach...
Spotting is an important fire spread mechanism and cause of fireline breaches, yet current models provide only coarse metrics of spotting behavior that are underutilized in fire operations. We developed a spatial framework to quantify and map potenti...
Insulators are key components to ensure the normal operation of power facilities in transmission corridors. Existing insulator identification methods mainly use image data and lack the acquisition of three-dimensional information. This paper proposes...
The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method is widely used for multiphase flow simulations, where the VOF function implicitly represents the interface through the volume fraction field. The height function (HF) method on a Cartesian grid integrates the volume f...
The B[e] phenomenon is observed in a wide range of stars at various evolutionary stages. Its nature remains uncertain. The B[e] phenomenon is defined as the simultaneous presence of low-excitation forbidden line emission and strong infrared excess in...
Unlike genomic alterations, gene expression profiles have not been widely used to refine cancer therapies. We analyzed transcriptional changes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines in response to standard first-line AML drugs cytarabine and daun...
New wavelength measurements in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), ultraviolet and visible spectral regions have been combined with available literature data to refine and extend the description of the spectrum of singly ionized copper (Cu II). In the VUV...
With the acceleration of urbanization, the development of urban rail transit networks has become an essential component of modern urban transportation. The construction of new urban rail transit lines often involves crossing existing operational line...
The extraction of architectural structural line features can simplify the 3D spatial representation of built environments, reduce the storage and processing burden of large-scale point clouds, and provide essential geometric primitives for downstream...
New sources of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are needed to meet the future demand. A potential new source of SCM is spent pot lining, a residue from aluminum production. The present work showed that the refined aluminosilicate part of s...
With the growing concerns of water quality related to tile drainage in agricultural lands, developing an efficient and cost-effective method of mapping tile drainage is essential. This research aimed to establish mapping of tile drainage systems in a...
To achieve full autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), obstacle detection and avoidance are indispensable parts of visual recognition systems. In particular, detecting transmission lines is an important topic due to the potential risk of accide...
In order to understand the strengthening and the failure mechanism of accumulative roll bonding (ARB)-processed AZ63 Mg alloy, the interfacial bonding and fracture behavior of an ARB-processed AZ63 sheet were studied through electron microscopic anal...
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