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Multidimensional Analysis of HBIM Segmentation: A Roadmap Towards Standardization

  • Demitrios Galanakis,
  • Emmanuel Maravelakis,
  • Nectarios Vidakis,
  • Markos Petousis,
  • Antonios Konstantaras and
  • Massimiliano Pepe

This paper presents a multidimensional analysis of Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) segmentation, offering a roadmap towards standardization, a key dimension towards broader adoption within the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector. HBIM faces m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Digital Technologies in the Heritage Preservation)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,897 Views
20 Pages

Segmentation and Shape Analysis of Macrophages Using Anglegram Analysis

  • José Alonso Solís-Lemus,
  • Brian Stramer,
  • Greg Slabaugh and
  • Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

21 December 2017

Cell migration is crucial in many processes of development and maintenance of multicellular organisms and it can also be related to disease, e.g., Cancer metastasis, when cells migrate to organs different to where they originate. A precise analysis o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from “MIUA 2017”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,121 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2020

Optical image analysis is commonly used to characterize different feedstock material for ironmaking, such as iron ore, iron ore sinter, coal and coke. Information is often needed for phases which have the same reflectivity and chemical composition, b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition Technology)
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  • Open Access
842 Views
35 Pages

2 February 2026

Background/Objectives: Accurate nuclear segmentation is a fundamental step in computational pathology, enabling reliable estimation of cellularity and nuclear morphology. However, segmentation models are typically evaluated under ideal imaging condit...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,052 Views
13 Pages

Interpretability has attracted increasing attention in earth observation problems. We apply interactive visualization and representation analysis to guide the interpretation of glacier segmentation models. We visualize the activations from a U-Net to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,496 Views
16 Pages

Statistical Analysis of nnU-Net Models for Lung Nodule Segmentation

  • Alejandro Jerónimo,
  • Olga Valenzuela and
  • Ignacio Rojas

24 September 2024

This paper aims to conduct a statistical analysis of different components of nnU-Net models to build an optimal pipeline for lung nodule segmentation in computed tomography images (CT scan). This study focuses on semantic segmentation of lung nodules...

(This article belongs to the Section Omics/Informatics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,501 Views
25 Pages

5 January 2026

In medical diagnostics and decision-making, particularly in dentistry where structural interpretation of radiographs plays a crucial role, accurate image segmentation is a fundamental step. One established approach to segmentation is the use of clust...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,619 Views
18 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of 3D Volumetric Image and Microstructural Analysis

  • Bahar Uddin Mahmud,
  • Guan Yue Hong,
  • Abdullah Al Mamun,
  • Em Poh Ping and
  • Qingliu Wu

27 February 2023

As a fundamental but difficult topic in computer vision, 3D object segmentation has various applications in medical image analysis, autonomous vehicles, robotics, virtual reality, lithium battery image analysis, etc. In the past, 3D segmentation was...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,559 Views
21 Pages

Personal privacy on online social networks (OSN) is becoming increasingly important. The collection and misuse of personal information can affect people’s behavior and can have a broader impact on civil society. The aim of this paper is to expl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness of Wireless Communications and Networks)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,801 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2021

Although great success has been achieved in instance segmentation, accurate segmentation of instances remains difficult, especially at object edges. This problem is more prominent for instance segmentation in remote sensing imagery due to the diverse...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,373 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2025

Danmaku analysis is important for understanding video content and user interactions. However, current methods often look at separate comments and do not see the complex links between Danmaku and the video’s context. This paper presents a new ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Natural Language Processing, Semantic Networks, and Sentiment Analysis)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,570 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents the mathematical framework of Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) for dynamic video processing, exploring its applications in two primary tasks: scene change detection and adaptive foreground/background segmentation. Original...

(This article belongs to the Section Image and Video Processing)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,124 Views
15 Pages

High-Accuracy Image Segmentation Based on Hybrid Attention Mechanism for Sandstone Analysis

  • Lanfang Dong,
  • Hao Gui,
  • Xiaolu Yu,
  • Xinming Zhang and
  • Mingyang Xu

25 May 2024

Mineral image segmentation based on computer vision is vital to realize automatic mineral analysis. However, current image segmentation methods still cannot effectively solve the problem of sandstone grains that are adjoined and concealed by leaching...

(This article belongs to the Topic Analysis and Separations of Trace Elements in the Environment)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,197 Views
18 Pages

CWSXLNet: A Sentiment Analysis Model Based on Chinese Word Segmentation Information Enhancement

  • Shiqian Guo,
  • Yansun Huang,
  • Baohua Huang,
  • Linda Yang and
  • Cong Zhou

22 March 2023

This paper proposed a method for improving the XLNet model to address the shortcomings of segmentation algorithm for processing Chinese language, such as long sub-word lengths, long word lists and incomplete word list coverage. To address these issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,013 Views
31 Pages

Semantic Segmentation for SAR Image Based on Texture Complexity Analysis and Key Superpixels

  • Ronghua Shang,
  • Pei Peng,
  • Fanhua Shang,
  • Licheng Jiao,
  • Yifei Shen and
  • Rustam Stolkin

3 July 2020

In recent years, regional algorithms have shown great potential in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image segmentation. However, SAR images have a variety of landforms and a landform with complex texture is difficult to be divided as a who...

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  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,080 Views
15 Pages

Segmentation of Gait Sequences in Sensor-Based Movement Analysis: A Comparison of Methods in Parkinson’s Disease

  • Nooshin Haji Ghassemi,
  • Julius Hannink,
  • Christine F. Martindale,
  • Heiko Gaßner,
  • Meinard Müller,
  • Jochen Klucken and
  • Björn M. Eskofier

6 January 2018

Robust gait segmentation is the basis for mobile gait analysis. A range of methods have been applied and evaluated for gait segmentation of healthy and pathological gait bouts. However, a unified evaluation of gait segmentation methods in Parkinson’s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Health Monitoring and Disease Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,895 Views
18 Pages

3 July 2024

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is of great significance for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Due to the limited number of retinal vessel samples and the scarcity of labeled samples, and since grey theory excels in ha...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
776 Views
22 Pages

Real-Time Analysis of Concrete Placement Progress Using Semantic Segmentation

  • Zifan Ye,
  • Linpeng Zhang,
  • Yu Hu,
  • Fengxu Hou,
  • Rui Ma,
  • Danni Luo and
  • Wenqian Geng

20 January 2026

Concrete arch dams represent a predominant dam type in water conservancy and hydropower projects in China. The control of concrete placement progress during construction directly impacts project quality and construction efficiency. Traditional manual...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
24,896 Views
20 Pages

24 January 2019

Producers and retailers are the driving force behind the adoption of the idea of sustainability. It has been found that while preparing their product range offer, many still pay attention to the same set of criteria: size of the customers’ earn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marketing of Sustainable Food and Drink)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,127 Views
33 Pages

Digital twins are increasingly gaining popularity as a method for simulating intricate natural and urban environments, with the precise segmentation of 3D objects playing an important role. This study focuses on developing a methodology for extractin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unlocking the Power of Geospatial Data: Semantic Information Extraction, Ontology Engineering, and Deep Learning for Knowledge Discovery)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,871 Views
23 Pages

13 January 2023

Plastic-covered greenhouse (PCG) segmentation represents a significant challenge for object-based PCG mapping studies due to the spectral characteristics of these singular structures. Therefore, the assessment of PCG segmentation quality by employing...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,463 Views
15 Pages

Segmentation of Participants in a Sports Event Using Cluster Analysis

  • Daniel Martínez-Cevallos,
  • Alejandra Proaño-Grijalva,
  • Mario Alguacil,
  • Daniel Duclos-Bastías and
  • David Parra-Camacho

14 July 2020

The aim of this study is to analyze the segmentation of participants in a sports event according to their perceived quality, perceived value, satisfaction, and future intentions, in order to better understand how each user profile behaves. The sample...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Planning of Sports Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3 Views

15 September 2014

To construct a litchi harvesting robot, the first key part is the machine vision system which is used to recognize ripe litchi clusters and their main fruit bearing branch. It selects and locates picking points. Hence, in order to establish a thresho...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,339 Views
22 Pages

Semantic segmentation in biological images is increasingly common, particularly in smart agriculture, where deep learning model precision is tied to image labeling quality. However, research has largely focused on improving models rather than analyzi...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,324 Views
16 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of U-Net and Vision Transformer Architectures in Semi-Supervised Prostate Zonal Segmentation

  • Guantian Huang,
  • Bixuan Xia,
  • Haoming Zhuang,
  • Bohan Yan,
  • Cheng Wei,
  • Shouliang Qi,
  • Wei Qian and
  • Dianning He

The precise segmentation of different regions of the prostate is crucial in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate-related diseases. However, the scarcity of labeled prostate data poses a challenge for the accurate segmentation of its different regi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Modeling in Biomedical Image and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,164 Views
35 Pages

17 December 2025

Accurate behavioral segmentation of vessel trajectories from Automatic Identification System (AIS) is essential for maritime safety and traffic management. Existing methods often rely on predefined thresholds or emphasize geometric criteria and offer...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,516 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2024

Digitization in pathology and cytology labs is now widespread, a significant shift from a decade ago when few doctors used image processing tools. Despite unchanged scanning times due to excitation in fluorescent imaging, advancements in computing po...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
669 Views
23 Pages

U.S. Consumer Perceptions of Food and Pork Production Sustainability: A Cluster-Based Audience Segmentation Analysis

  • Kevan W. Lamm,
  • Melvin A. Newell,
  • Alexa J. Lamm,
  • Allison R. Byrd,
  • Fally Masambuka-Kanchewa,
  • Catherine E. Sanders,
  • Shuyang Qu,
  • Michael S. Retallick and
  • Nicholas Gabler

5 March 2026

Despite the importance of a sustainable food system, prior research has not empirically examined whether general food sustainability perceptions and production-specific sustainability perceptions co-occur consistently across audience segments, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer Perception and Behaviour Regarding Sustainable Agri-Foods Consumption)
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  • Open Access
534 Views
20 Pages

Leaf Image Segmentation in Urochloa Pastures: A Comparative Analysis of Preprocessing Strategies Using Smartphone Imagery

  • Isabel Felizardo Chambingo,
  • Matheus de Godoi Bertin,
  • Wilson Manuel Castro Silupu,
  • Murilo Mesquita Baesso,
  • Lilian Elgalise Techio Pereira and
  • Adriano Rogério Bruno Tech

Smartphone-based proximal sensing has emerged as a promising low-cost approach for pasture monitoring. A critical component of this methodology is accurate leaf segmentation, as it directly affects the reliability of subsequent image-based analyses....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing, Sensor Fusion, and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,998 Views
24 Pages

Plantitas/Plantitos Preference Analysis on Succulents Attributes and Its Market Segmentation: Integrating Conjoint Analysis and K-means Clustering for Gardening Marketing Strategy

  • Ardvin Kester S. Ong,
  • Yogi Tri Prasetyo,
  • Lance Albert S. De Leon,
  • Irene Dyah Ayuwati,
  • Reny Nadlifatin and
  • Satria Fadil Persada

13 December 2022

Many people have switched to gardening as their new hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Filipinos. With its increasing popularity, Filipinos called the new hobbyists “plantitas” and “plantitos” instead of the old-fas...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,672 Views
27 Pages

This article presents a comprehensive evaluation of image segmentation methods for monitoring morphological changes in refugee camps, comparing five distinct approaches: ESRI Landviewer clustering, K-means clustering, U-Net segmentation, Meta’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,018 Views
29 Pages

6 January 2018

The advent of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and the development of Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) have led to many new opportunities for fine-scale land cover mapping, especially in urban areas. Image segmentation is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,393 Views
17 Pages

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Liver Segmentation Protocol Enables More Consistent and Robust Annotations, Paving the Way for Advanced Computer-Assisted Analysis

  • Patrick Jeltsch,
  • Killian Monnin,
  • Mario Jreige,
  • Lucia Fernandes-Mendes,
  • Raphaël Girardet,
  • Clarisse Dromain,
  • Jonas Richiardi and
  • Naik Vietti-Violi

11 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred interest in developing computer-assisted analysis for imaging examinations. However, the lack of high-quality datasets remains a significant bottleneck. Labeling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Diagnostics: Transforming Healthcare from Data to Clinical Decisions)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,071 Views
26 Pages

1 January 2025

Roadside tree segmentation and parameter extraction play an essential role in completing the virtual simulation of road scenes. Point cloud data of roadside trees collected by LiDAR provide important data support for achieving assisted autonomous dri...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,421 Views
18 Pages

GEMA—An Automatic Segmentation Method for Real-Time Analysis of Mammalian Cell Growth in Microfluidic Devices

  • Ramiro Isa-Jara,
  • Camilo Pérez-Sosa,
  • Erick Macote-Yparraguirre,
  • Natalia Revollo,
  • Betiana Lerner,
  • Santiago Miriuka,
  • Claudio Delrieux,
  • Maximiliano Pérez and
  • Roland Mertelsmann

14 October 2022

Nowadays, image analysis has a relevant role in most scientific and research areas. This process is used to extract and understand information from images to obtain a model, knowledge, and rules in the decision process. In the case of biological area...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Segmentation Techniques: Current Status and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,677 Views
25 Pages

In today’s data-driven business landscape, effective customer segmentation is crucial for enhancing engagement, loyalty, and profitability. Traditional clustering methods often struggle with datasets containing both numerical and categorical va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-World Applications of Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,170 Views
12 Pages

3 January 2023

An automatic temporal video segmentation framework is introduced in this article. The proposed cut detection technique performs a high-level feature extraction on the video frames, by applying a multi-scale image analysis approach combining nonlinear...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Benchmark
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,329 Views
9 Pages

Fast PET Scan Tumor Segmentation Using Superpixels, Principal Component Analysis and K-Means Clustering

  • Yeman Brhane Hagos,
  • Vu Hoang Minh,
  • Saed Khawaldeh,
  • Usama Pervaiz and
  • Tajwar Abrar Aleef

Positron Emission Tomography scan images are extensively used in radiotherapy planning, clinical diagnosis, assessment of growth and treatment of a tumor. These all rely on fidelity and speed of detection and delineation algorithm. Despite intensive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,638 Views
15 Pages

Robustness Analysis of DCE-MRI-Derived Radiomic Features in Breast Masses: Assessing Quantization Levels and Segmentation Agreement

  • Carmelo Militello,
  • Leonardo Rundo,
  • Mariangela Dimarco,
  • Alessia Orlando,
  • Ildebrando D’Angelo,
  • Vincenzo Conti and
  • Tommaso Vincenzo Bartolotta

29 May 2022

Machine learning models based on radiomic features allow us to obtain biomarkers that are capable of modeling the disease and that are able to support the clinical routine. Recent studies have shown that it is fundamental that the computed features a...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,569 Views
9 Pages

1 June 2020

Image segmentation and geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) were proposed around the turn of the century as a means to analyze high-spatial-resolution remote sensing images. Since then, object-based approaches have been used to analyze a w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Segmentation for Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,851 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2024

The general population’s assessment and perception of a city can be influenced by its skyline, which is one of its representatives. This paper uses semantic segmentation and exploratory factor analysis to conduct a study from two different pers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Wellbeing: The Impact of Spatial Parameters)
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  • Open Access
1,614 Views
26 Pages

30 July 2026

Accurate extraction of vegetation information from high-resolution remote sensing (RS) imagery is crucial for efficient urban ecological environment monitoring and land use management. However, due to the high cost of manual annotation in remote sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing: Advancements in Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation)
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  • Open Access
182 Views
39 Pages

27 September 2026

Understanding tourist behavior requires analytical frameworks capable of capturing both symmetric relationships among motivational constructs and asymmetric causal effects on behavioral intentions. Conventional segmentation approaches, particularly t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Uncertainty and Intelligent Decision-Making)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,481 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing Clinical Assessment of Skin Ulcers with Automated and Objective Convolutional Neural Network-Based Segmentation and 3D Analysis

  • Rosanna Cavazzana,
  • Angelo Faccia,
  • Aurora Cavallaro,
  • Marco Giuranno,
  • Sara Becchi,
  • Chiara Innocente,
  • Giorgia Marullo,
  • Elia Ricci,
  • Jacopo Secco and
  • Luca Ulrich
  • + 1 author

16 January 2025

Skin ulcers are open wounds on the skin characterized by the loss of epidermal tissue. Skin ulcers can be acute or chronic, with chronic ulcers persisting for over six weeks and often being difficult to heal. Treating chronic wounds involves periodic...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,853 Views
21 Pages

Background/Objectives: Precise stepping control is fundamental to human mobility, and impairments increase fall risk in older adults and individuals with neurological conditions. This study investigated the cortical networks underlying stepping accur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of EEG in Neurorehabilitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
21 Pages

Semantic Segmentation-Based Identification and Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Sectional Quality Features in Luzhou-Flavor Liquor Daqu

  • Zheli Song,
  • Yi Dong,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Xiu Zhang,
  • Aibao Sun,
  • Cuiping You,
  • Jian Mao and
  • Shuangping Liu

The objective evaluation of Daqu cross-sectional quality is challenging due to its heterogeneous structure, small features, and low contrast. This study proposes a semantic-segmentation-based framework for the automated identification and quantitativ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning: Techniques, Industry Applications, Code Sharing, and Future Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,218 Views
34 Pages

Quantitative microstructure evaluation of sedimentary rock thin sections is essential for revealing reservoir flow mechanisms and assessing reservoir quality. However, traditional manual identification is inefficient and prone to subjectivity. Althou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
422 Views
21 Pages

6 August 2026

Image-based analysis offers a scalable way to examine indoor environmental design, but semantic segmentation studies often stop at pixel-level recognition and provide limited design-oriented quantification. This study proposes the Interior Design Ele...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,819 Views
21 Pages

23 January 2019

Compared to multispectral or panchromatic bands, fusion imagery contains both the spectral content of the former and the spatial resolution of the latter. Even though the Estimation of Scale Parameter (ESP), the ESP 2 tool, and some segmentation eval...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Very High Resolution (VHR) Satellite Imagery: Processing and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,478 Views
17 Pages

Plant Detection in RGB Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Segmentation by Deep Learning and an Impact of Model Accuracy on Downstream Analysis

  • Mikhail V. Kozhekin,
  • Mikhail A. Genaev,
  • Evgenii G. Komyshev,
  • Zakhar A. Zavyalov and
  • Dmitry A. Afonnikov

20 January 2025

Crop field monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most important technologies for plant growth control in modern precision agriculture. One of the important and widely used tasks in field monitoring is plant stand counting. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imaging Applications in Agriculture)

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