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5 September 2025

The problem of the integral representation over a bounded surface of a regular field satisfying the Helmholtz equation in all space is investigated. This problem is equivalent to local splitting into an incoming field and an outgoing field. This spli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Methods in Wave Scattering and Diffraction, 3rd Edition)
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9 Citations
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28 Pages

28 February 2023

We implement the Direction-Splitting solver originally proposed by Keating and Minev in 2013 and allow complex geometries to be described by a triangulation defined in STL files. We develop an algorithm that computes intersections and distances betwe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Numerical Methods for Multiphase Flows, Volume II)
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2 Citations
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When performing fractional factorial experiments in a completely random order is impractical, fractional factorial split-plot designs are suitable options as an alternative. It is well recognized that the more there are lower order effects of interes...

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19 October 2020

The purpose of this paper is to propose an iterative algorithm for solving the split equality common null point problem (SECNP), which is to find an element of the set of common zero points for a finite family of maximal monotone operators in Hilbert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Problems and Applications of Fixed Point Theory)
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15 Citations
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Spatially Adaptive Regularization in Image Segmentation

  • Laura Antonelli,
  • Valentina De Simone and
  • Daniela di Serafino

8 September 2020

We present a total-variation-regularized image segmentation model that uses local regularization parameters to take into account spatial image information. We propose some techniques for defining those parameters, based on the cartoon-texture decompo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2020 Selected Papers from Algorithms Editorial Board Members)
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3 Citations
2,550 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2019

In this paper, we studied variational inequalities and fixed point problems in nonconvex cases. By the projection method over prox-regularity sets, the convergence of the suggested iterative scheme was established under some mild rules.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization)
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Half-Quadratic Splitting with Learned Regularization for Image-Domain Least-Squares Migration of Marine Seismic Data

  • Zidong Zhao,
  • Haoran Ren,
  • Yuxiang Wu,
  • Zhaolin Zhu and ,
  • Guoxin Chen and
  • Xiaoyu Zhang
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1 September 2026

Marine seismic imaging is affected by limited acquisition aperture, nonuniform illumination, and complex features such as seafloor structures and low-velocity gas clouds. These factors can produce blurred reflectors, amplitude imbalance, and migratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Geophysical Exploration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Data, Mechanisms, and Future Trends)
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8 Citations
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2 February 2024

We study the solvability of the Ionkin problem for some differential equations with one space variable. These equations include parabolic and quasiparabolic, hyperbolic and quasihyperbolic, pseudoparabolic and pseudohyperbolic, elliptic and quasielli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Direct and Inverse Spectral Problems for Ordinary Differential and Functional-Differential Operators)
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6 Citations
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Improved TV Image Denoising over Inverse Gradient

  • Minmin Li,
  • Guangcheng Cai,
  • Shaojiu Bi and
  • Xi Zhang

8 March 2023

Noise in an image can affect one’s extraction of image information, therefore, image denoising is an important image pre-processing process. Many of the existing models have a large number of estimated parameters, which increases the time compl...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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Unsupervised learning often relies on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) for extracting low-dimensional features. Standard deep NMF models, however, tend to miss complex hierarchical patterns and may warp the intrinsic geometry of high-dimension...

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2 Citations
3,150 Views
13 Pages

18 July 2019

In this paper, we propose the simultaneous sub-gradient projection algorithm with the dynamic step size (SSPA for short) for solving the multiple-sets split feasibility problem (MSSFP for short) and investigate its linear convergence. We involve a no...

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22 October 2026

This review surveys the mathematical theory and methods of state estimation for stochastic dynamical systems when the Gaussian-linear-least-squares paradigm fails, focusing on the role of sparsity-promoting and constraint-encoding regularization. The...

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2 Citations
862 Views
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6 April 2026

Residential air conditioning systems are a major contributor to household electricity consumption in tropical regions, where environmental factors such as climate variability and particulate pollution (PM10) can further increase cooling demand and ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Smart Cities and Urban Mobility)
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1 Citations
802 Views
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8 August 2026

This paper investigates a nonlinear inverse problem in a time fractional diffusion-wave equation, in which a spatially varying potential coefficient is recovered from noisy final-time measurements. A local uniqueness result for the inverse problem is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inverse Problems and Numerical Computation in Mathematical Physics)
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19 Citations
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Bayesian Regularization Neural Network-Based Machine Learning Approach on Optimization of CRDI-Split Injection with Waste Cooking Oil Biodiesel to Improve Diesel Engine Performance

  • Babu Dharmalingam,
  • Santhoshkumar Annamalai,
  • Sukunya Areeya,
  • Kittipong Rattanaporn and ,
  • Keerthi Katam,
  • Pau-Loke Show and
  • Malinee Sriariyanun
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17 March 2023

The present study utilized response surface methodology (RSM) and Bayesian neural network (BNN) to predict the characteristics of a diesel engine powered by a blend of biodiesel and diesel fuel. The biodiesel was produced from waste cooking oil using...

(This article belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
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4 Citations
3,716 Views
24 Pages

Sparse Regularization with a Non-Convex Penalty for SAR Imaging and Autofocusing

  • Zi-Yao Zhang,
  • Odysseas Pappas,
  • Igor G. Rizaev and
  • Alin Achim

4 May 2022

In this paper, SAR image reconstruction with joint phase error estimation (autofocusing) is formulated as an inverse problem. An optimization model utilising a sparsity-enforcing Cauchy regularizer is proposed, and an alternating minimization framewo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging of the Sea Surface: Simulation, Modelling, and Processing)
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25 August 2026

Persistence, coexistence, competitive exclusion, and global asymptotic stability (GAS) are closely related problems in mathematical epidemiology that are often treated by model-specific arguments. We develop a unified approach to GAS based on Perron&...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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2 Citations
1,138 Views
51 Pages

21 December 2025

Motivation: We aim to study the boundary stability and persistence of positive odes in mathematical epidemiology models by importing structural tools from chemical reaction networks. This is largely a review work, which attempts to congregate the fie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Differential Dynamical Systems with Applications to Economics and Biology, 3rd Edition)
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271 Views
51 Pages

9 September 2026

Persistence, coexistence, and boundary transcritical relays are usually studied through model-specific analyses in mathematical epidemiology, ecology, population dynamics, and chemical reaction network theory. Although these fields address closely re...

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1,957 Views
9 Pages

In super-low-frequency (SLF) submarine communication, the motion-induced noise of the towed antenna is the primary noise source, and below 500 Hz, it increases with increasing speed. We propose an improved quadratic Approximate Forward–Backward...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
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911 Views
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This paper presents a partially symmetric regularized two-step inertial alternating direction method of multipliers for solving non-convex split feasibility problems (SFP), which adds a two-step inertial effect to each subproblem and includes an inte...

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8 Citations
3,690 Views
15 Pages

Cochlear Implantation in Obliterated Cochlea: A Retrospective Analysis and Comparison between the IES Stiff Custom-Made Device and the Split-Array and Regular Electrodes

  • Julia Anna Christine Hoffmann,
  • Athanasia Warnecke,
  • Max Eike Timm,
  • Eugen Kludt and ,
  • Nils Kristian Prenzler,
  • Lutz Gärtner,
  • Thomas Lenarz and
  • Rolf Benedikt Salcher
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 October 2022

Anatomical malformations, obliterations of the cochlea, or re-implantations pose particular challenges in cochlear implantation. Treatment methods rely on radiological and intraoperative findings and include incomplete insertion, the implantation of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Opportunities in Application of Cochlear Implantation)
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3 February 2019

The proximal split feasibility problem is investigated in Hilbert spaces. An iterative procedure is introduced for finding the solution of the proximal split feasibility problem. Strong convergence analysis of the presented algorithm is proved.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point, Optimization, and Applications)
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1 Citations
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18 Pages

6 November 2023

We study three classes of variational inclusion problems in the framework of a real Hilbert space and propose a simple modification of Tseng’s forward-backward-forward splitting method for solving such problems. Our algorithm is obtained via a...

(This article belongs to the Section Hilbert’s Sixth Problem)
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2 Citations
1,690 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2024

The regularization method has a direct impact on the accuracy of the reconstructed sound field in the process of inverse calculation of near−field acoustic holography using the equivalent source method. To expand the frequency range of sound fi...

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12 Citations
5,216 Views
15 Pages

2 February 2019

In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional acoustic wave equation in an unbounded domain and introduce a modified model of the classical un-split perfectly matched layer (PML). We apply a regularization technique to a lower order regularity term em...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with their Applications)
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21 Citations
3,964 Views
18 Pages

Fast Split Bregman Based Deconvolution Algorithm for Airborne Radar Imaging

  • Yin Zhang,
  • Qiping Zhang,
  • Yongchao Zhang,
  • Jifang Pei and ,
  • Yulin Huang and
  • Jianyu Yang
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29 May 2020

Deconvolution methods can be used to improve the azimuth resolution in airborne radar imaging. Due to the sparsity of targets in airborne radar imaging, an L 1 regularization problem usually needs to be solved. Recently, the Split Bregman alg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Super-Resolution in Remote Sensing)
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31 August 2026

Reliable prediction of monopile self-weight penetration depth is essential for drivability assessment and installation planning but remains challenging because of nonlinear pile–soil interaction and limited field data. This study compiles recor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Evaluation of Marine Engineering Equipment and Structures—2nd Edition)
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3 Citations
2,438 Views
18 Pages

17 July 2022

In order to overcome the spectral interference of the conventional Fourier transform in the International Electrotechnical Commission framework, this paper introduces a Bregman-split-based compressive sensing (BSCS) method to estimate the Taylor&ndas...

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5 Citations
2,186 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2023

One of the significant features of extreme learning machines (ELMs) is their fast convergence. However, in the big data environment, the ELM based on the Moore–Penrose matrix inverse still suffers from excessive calculation loads. Leveraging th...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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4 Citations
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14 Pages

27 October 2021

This paper proposes a new group-sparsity-inducing regularizer to approximate ℓ2,0 pseudo-norm. The regularizer is nonconvex, which can be seen as a linearly involved generalized Moreau enhancement of ℓ2,1-norm. Moreover, the overall convexity of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Nonsmooth Optimization and Analysis)
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1 Citations
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A Fast Nonlinear Sparse Model for Blind Image Deblurring

  • Zirui Zhang,
  • Zheng Guo,
  • Zhenhua Xu,
  • Huasong Chen and ,
  • Chunyong Wang,
  • Yang Song,
  • Jiancheng Lai,
  • Yunjing Ji and
  • Zhenhua Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2025

Blind image deblurring, which requires simultaneous estimation of the latent image and blur kernel, constitutes a classic ill-posed problem. To address this, priors based on L2, L1, and Lp regularizations have been widely adopted. Based on this found...

(This article belongs to the Topic Image Processing, Signal Processing and Their Applications)
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10 Citations
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Regarding the sharp growth rate of ICT (information and communication technology)—based mobility services like ridesourcing, it is essential to investigate the impact of these new mobility services on the transport mode choices, particularly on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active Commuting and Active Transportation)
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2 Citations
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20 Pages

A Shearlets-Based Method for Rain Removal from Single Images

  • Guomin Sun,
  • Jinsong Leng and
  • Carlo Cattani

27 November 2019

This work focuses on the problem of rain removal from a single image. The directional multilevel system, Shearlets, is used to describe the intrinsic directional and structure sparse priors of rain streaks and the background layer. In this paper, a S...

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8 Citations
2,618 Views
18 Pages

Dual-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Polarization Beam Splitter Based on a Nematic Liquid Crystal with an Ultra-Short Length and Ultra-Wide Bandwidth

  • Yuxiang Ji,
  • Yuhang Du,
  • Jixuan Dai,
  • Hui Zou and ,
  • Ruizhe Zhang and
  • Dinghao Zhou
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This paper presents a novel pentagonal structure dual-core photonic crystal fiber polarizing beam splitter (PS-DC-PCF PBS) filled with a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in the central hole. Unlike previous designs with symmetric arrangements, the upper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Fibers for Fiber Sensors)
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Water Splitting and Transport of Ions in Electromembrane System with Bilayer Ion-Exchange Membrane

  • Stanislav Melnikov,
  • Denis Bondarev,
  • Elena Nosova,
  • Ekaterina Melnikova and
  • Victor Zabolotskiy

16 November 2020

Bilayer ion-exchange membranes are mainly used for separating single and multiply charged ions. It is well known that in membranes in which the layers have different charges of the ionogenic groups of the matrix, the limiting current decreases, and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Experiment of Anion-Exchange Membranes)
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15 Citations
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22 Pages

18 October 2019

The Split Bregman method (SBM), a popular and universal CS reconstruction algorithm for inverse problems with both l1-norm and TV-norm regularization, has been extensively applied in complex domains through the complex-to-real transforming technique,...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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13 Citations
4,284 Views
17 Pages

Study on the Law of Pseudo-Cavitation on Superhydrophobic Surface in Turbulent Flow Field of Backward-Facing Step

  • Xuecheng Lv,
  • Wei-Tao Wu,
  • Jizu Lv,
  • Ke Mao and ,
  • Linsong Gao and
  • Yubai Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 May 2021

Superhydrophobic surface is regarded as important topic in the field of thermal fluids today due to its unique features on flow drag reduction and heat transfer enhancement. In this study, the pseudo-cavitation phenomenon on the superhydrophobic surf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiphase Flow in Pipes with and without Porous Media)
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5 Citations
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11 Pages

Total variation (TV) regularization has received much attention in image restoration applications because of its advantages in denoising and preserving details. A common approach to address TV-based image restoration is to design a specific algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Robot Interaction and Intelligent System Design)
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2 Citations
1,535 Views
27 Pages

Angular Super-Resolution of Forward-Looking Scanning Radar via Grid-Updating Split SPICE-TV

  • Ruitao Li,
  • Jiawei Luo,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Yongchao Zhang and ,
  • Lu Jiao,
  • Deqing Mao,
  • Yulin Huang and
  • Jianyu Yang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2025

The sparse iterative covariance-based estimation (SPICE) method has recently gained significant attraction in the field of scanning radar super-resolution imaging because of its angular resolution enhancement capability. However, it is unable to pres...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications, 2nd Edition)
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26 October 2020

The main purpose of this paper is to study the Cauchy problem of sixth order viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation with Willmore regularization. Because of the existence of the nonlinear Willmore regularization and complex structures, it is difficult...

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21 Citations
3,159 Views
13 Pages

Zeroing Neural Network Approaches Based on Direct and Indirect Methods for Solving the Yang–Baxter-like Matrix Equation

  • Wendong Jiang,
  • Chia-Liang Lin,
  • Vasilios N. Katsikis,
  • Spyridon D. Mourtas and ,
  • Predrag S. Stanimirović and
  • Theodore E. Simos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 June 2022

This research introduces three novel zeroing neural network (ZNN) models for addressing the time-varying Yang–Baxter-like matrix equation (TV-YBLME) with arbitrary (regular or singular) real time-varying (TV) input matrices in continuous time....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM))
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Consumer Acceptability and Metabolic Health Benefits of Meals Containing Pulses (Chickpeas, Lentils, Peas) for Sedentary Office Workers

  • Leandy Bertrand,
  • Keely A. Shaw,
  • Shannon Hood-Niefer,
  • Jongbum Ko and ,
  • Julianne Gordon,
  • Gordon A. Zello and
  • Philip D. Chilibeck
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2026

We determined whether improvements in metabolic health occur when sedentary office workers replace their regular workplace lunches with pulse-based meals (containing chickpeas, lentils, or split peas). We first tested 10 meals for favourability in 18...

(This article belongs to the Topic Exploring Nutritional, Antioxidant and Functional Potential of Plant-Based Food and Plant Bioactive Compounds in Human Health)
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3 Citations
2,081 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2025

Federated learning (FL) struggles under non-IID client data when local models drift toward conflicting optima, impairing global convergence and performance. We introduce entropy-regularized federated optimization (ERFO), a lightweight client-side mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Parallel and Distributed Algorithms)
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3 Citations
3,904 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2018

Aimed at the issue of estimating the fault component from a noisy observation, a novel detection approach based on augmented Huber non-convex penalty regularization (AHNPR) is proposed. The core objectives of the proposed method are that (1) it estim...

(This article belongs to the Section Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
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8 Citations
4,144 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2018

It is a primary challenge in the fault diagnosis community of the gearbox to extract the weak fault features under heavy background noise and nonstationary conditions. For this purpose, a novel weak fault detection approach based on majorization&ndas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Computing Theory and Application)
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25 Citations
3,710 Views
17 Pages

Sparse SAR Imaging and Quantitative Evaluation Based on Nonconvex and TV Regularization

  • Zhongqiu Xu,
  • Bingchen Zhang,
  • Guoru Zhou,
  • Lihua Zhong and
  • Yirong Wu

22 April 2021

Sparse signal processing has been used in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging due to the maturity of compressed sensing theory. As a typical sparse reconstruction method, L1 regularization generally causes bias effects as well as ignoring region-b...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Perspective)
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3 September 2026

Identifying the small group of customers who hold a given policy in severely imbalanced tabular data is a recurring screening problem in insurance analytics. This study considers binary caravan-insurance policy-ownership classification on the COIL 20...

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1 Citations
1,958 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2023

In this article, based on the regularization techniques, we construct two new algorithms combining the forward-backward splitting algorithm and the proximal contraction algorithm, respectively. Iterative sequences of the new algorithms can converge s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, Analytic Number Theory, and Mathematical Inequalities)
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9 Citations
2,102 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2025

Digital soil mapping has become increasingly important for large-scale soil organic carbon (SOC) assessments, yet the choice of accuracy assessment method significantly influences model performance interpretation. This study investigates the impact o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Health and Properties in a Changing Environment—2nd Edition)

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