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Dynamic scene reconstruction has achieved significant milestones with the advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, extending this technology from geometric reconstruction to semantic understanding in dynamic environments remains a challenge....

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This study examines the correspondence between the borrowability indices from the Loanwoard Typology (LWT) project and Castilianization indices from the Atlas Lingüístico Galego (ALGa) across seven semantic fields. To this end, we identif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Developments in Galician Linguistics)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,490 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2018

This paper proposed an improved image semantic segmentation method based on superpixels and conditional random fields (CRFs). The proposed method can take full advantage of the superpixel edge information and the constraint relationship among differe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Imaging Technology)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,785 Views
16 Pages

Weakly Supervised Conditional Random Fields Model for Semantic Segmentation with Image Patches

  • Xinying Xu,
  • Yujing Xue,
  • Xiaoxia Han,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Jun Xie and
  • Jinchang Ren

2 March 2020

Image semantic segmentation (ISS) is used to segment an image into regions with differently labeled semantic category. Most of the existing ISS methods are based on fully supervised learning, which requires pixel-level labeling for training the model...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,318 Views
28 Pages

Identification of Plastic Mulch in Cotton Fields Using UAV-Based Hyperspectral Data and Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation

  • Qingyao Zhao,
  • Shenglin Li,
  • Fukui Gao,
  • Huifeng Ning,
  • Dongke Dai,
  • Pengyuan Zhu,
  • Nanfang Li,
  • Yinping Song,
  • Caixia Li and
  • Hao Liu

15 February 2026

Plastic mulching is widely used in arid and semi-arid cotton systems to improve soil hydrothermal conditions and water–nutrient use efficiency. However, residual mulch and its potential contribution to microplastic inputs pose growing environme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water–Salt in Farmland: Dynamics, Regulation and Equilibrium)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,607 Views
16 Pages

Ontological Semantic Annotation of an English Corpus Through Condition Random Fields

  • Guidson Coelho de Andrade,
  • Alcione de Paiva Oliveira and
  • Alexandra Moreira

One way to increase the understanding of texts by machines is through adding semantic information to lexical items by including metadata tags, a process also called semantic annotation. There are several semantic aspects that can be added to the word...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,681 Views
18 Pages

A “sememe” is an indivisible minimal unit of meaning in linguistics. Manually annotating sememes in words requires a significant amount of time, so automated sememe prediction is often used to improve efficiency. Semantic fields serve as...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
346 Views
24 Pages

16 September 2026

Semantic segmentation for autonomous driving is challenged by limited field-of-view (FoV), where occlusions and restricted viewpoints reduce available visual information. Existing approaches often incur considerable computational overhead, which is u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Signal Processing on Image and Audio Data)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,332 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2023

We propose a Semantic Feature Pyramid Network (FPN)-based algorithm to derive agricultural field boundaries and internal non-planting regions from satellite imagery. It is aimed at providing guidance not only for land use management, but more importa...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,529 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2023

Relationship extraction is a crucial step in the construction of a knowledge graph. In this research, the grid field entity relationship extraction was performed via a labeling approach that used span representation. The subject entity and object ent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Applications of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,022 Views
23 Pages

12 December 2022

There are limited studies on the semantic segmentation of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in building areas due to speckle noise and geometric distortion. For this challenge, we propose the large receptive field feature fusion n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR Images Processing and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,056 Views
15 Pages

Dual-Task Semantic Change Detection for Remote Sensing Images Using the Generative Change Field Module

  • Shao Xiang,
  • Mi Wang,
  • Xiaofan Jiang,
  • Guangqi Xie,
  • Zhiqi Zhang and
  • Peng Tang

23 August 2021

With the advent of very-high-resolution remote sensing images, semantic change detection (SCD) based on deep learning has become a research hotspot in recent years. SCD aims to observe the change in the Earth’s land surface and plays a vital role in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D City Modelling and Change Detection Using Remote Sensing Data)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
902 Views
27 Pages

Trajectory planning for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) must simultaneously address safety, efficiency, and environmental impact to align with sustainable development goals. This paper proposes a novel hierarchical trajectory planning framework...

(This article belongs to the Section Propulsion Systems and Components)
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  • Open Access
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15 October 2026

This study proposes a highway trajectory-planning method integrating a risk-pulse driving risk field (RPDRF) with a spatiotemporal semantic corridor (SSC) to strengthen forward-looking risk quantification and its transfer between behavioral decisions...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,172 Views
20 Pages

20 March 2022

The traditional fully connected convolutional conditional random field has a proven robust performance in post-processing semantic segmentation of SAR images. However, the current challenge is how to improve the richness of image features, thereby im...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,370 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2021

As the acquisition of very high resolution (VHR) images becomes easier, the complex characteristics of VHR images pose new challenges to traditional machine learning semantic segmentation methods. As an excellent convolutional neural network (CNN) st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Image Recognition Systems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,040 Views
28 Pages

29 December 2021

The Markov random field (MRF) method is widely used in remote sensing image semantic segmentation because of its excellent spatial (relationship description) ability. However, there are some targets that are relatively small and sparsely distributed...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,367 Views
25 Pages

3 December 2019

The Markov random field model (MRF) has attracted a lot of attention in the field of remote sensing semantic segmentation. But, most MRF-based methods fail to capture the various interactions between different land classes by using the isotropic pote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Spatial Neighbourhoods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,239 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2024

The monumental scale agricultural infrastructure systems built by Andean peoples during pre-Hispanic times have enabled intensive agriculture in the high-relief, arid/semi-arid landscape of the Southern Peruvian Andes. Large tracts of these labor-int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Methods and Techniques for Satellite Image Processing and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,549 Views
33 Pages

Automated Image-to-BIM Using Neural Radiance Fields and Vision-Language Semantic Modeling

  • Mohammad H. Mehraban,
  • Shayan Mirzabeigi,
  • Mudan Wang,
  • Rui Liu and
  • Samad M. E. Sepasgozar

16 December 2025

This study introduces a novel, automated image-to-BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow designed to generate semantically rich and geometrically useful BIM models directly from RGB images. Conventional scan-to-BIM often relies on specialized,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Architecture and Interior Design)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,294 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2024

One of the contemporary challenges facing urban areas is the necessity to identify novel approaches to resident involvement in solution creation, with a particular focus on ensuring the best possible nutrition. By investigating the process of co-part...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition and Food Security for All: A Step towards the Future)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,313 Views
24 Pages

The application of drones has contributed to automated herbicide spraying in the context of precision agriculture. Although drone technology is mature, the widespread application of agricultural drones and their numerous advantages still demand impro...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,386 Views
22 Pages

Higher-Order Conditional Random Fields-Based 3D Semantic Labeling of Airborne Laser-Scanning Point Clouds

  • Yong Li,
  • Dong Chen,
  • Xiance Du,
  • Shaobo Xia,
  • Yuliang Wang,
  • Sheng Xu and
  • Qiang Yang

27 May 2019

This paper presents a novel framework to achieve 3D semantic labeling of objects (e.g., trees, buildings, and vehicles) from airborne laser-scanning point clouds. To this end, we propose a framework which consists of hierarchical clustering and highe...

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  • Open Access
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14 September 2026

This article studies a time-dependent latent sentiment representation governed by a semilinear stochastic evolution equation on a separable Hilbert space. The objective is to derive uncertainty, interpretability, and robustness from one stochastic la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sentiment-Driven Modelling in Business, Economics, and Social Sciences)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,287 Views
14 Pages

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in the field of computer vision, with important applications in areas such as autonomous driving, medical image analysis, and remote sensing image analysis. Dual-branch and multi-branch semantic segmentation ne...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,176 Views
28 Pages

18 March 2020

We designed a location-context-semantics-based conditional random field (LCS-CRF) framework for the semantic classification of airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds. For ALS datasets of high spatial resolution but with severe noise pollutions, m...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,217 Views
25 Pages

Detecting multi-scale objects in complex backgrounds is a crucial challenge in remote sensing. The main challenge is that the localization and identification of objects in complex backgrounds can be inaccurate. To address this issue, a decoupled sema...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing)
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21 Pages

The rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years has been driven primarily by engineering advances, while the philosophical foundations of the concept of “intelligence” itself have been reconsidered much more slowly. This...

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1 Citations
2,067 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2025

LiDAR-captured 3D point clouds are widely used in self-driving cars and smart cities. Point-based semantic segmentation methods allow for more efficient use of the rich geometric information contained in 3D point clouds, so it has gradually replaced...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,141 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2020

Since the result images obtained by deep semantic segmentation neural networks are usually not perfect, especially at object borders, the conditional random field (CRF) method is frequently utilized in the result post-processing stage to obtain the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Deep Learning Strategies for the Analysis of Remote Sensing Images)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,822 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2024

Advancements in imaging, computer vision, and automation have revolutionized various fields, including field-based high-throughput plant phenotyping (FHTPP). This integration allows for the rapid and accurate measurement of plant traits. Deep Convolu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,274 Views
18 Pages

24 July 2023

In the rapidly emerging era of untact (“contact-free”) technologies, the requirement for three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments utilized in virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) and the metaverse has seen significant growth, ow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision, Image Processing Technologies and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,059 Views
22 Pages

8 August 2023

The implementation of precise agricultural fields can drive the intelligent development of agricultural production, and high-resolution remote sensing images provide convenience for obtaining precise fields. With the advancement of spatial resolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Associated Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Applications)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,832 Views
20 Pages

ESAMask: Real-Time Instance Segmentation Fused with Efficient Sparse Attention

  • Qian Zhang,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Mingwen Shao,
  • Hong Liang and
  • Jie Ren

16 July 2023

Instance segmentation is a challenging task in computer vision, as it requires distinguishing objects and predicting dense areas. Currently, segmentation models based on complex designs and large parameters have achieved remarkable accuracy. However,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Neural Networks for Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,379 Views
14 Pages

28 January 2020

In remote-sensing images, a detected oil-spill area is usually affected by spot noise and uneven intensity, which leads to poor segmentation of the oil-spill area. This paper introduced a deep semantic segmentation method that combined a deep-convolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,489 Views
15 Pages

A Rule-Based Heuristic Methodology for Su-Field Analysis in Industrial Engineering Design

  • Wei Yan,
  • Cecilia Zanni-Merk,
  • Denis Cavallucci,
  • Qiushi Cao,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Zengyan Ji

8 March 2022

Industrial engineering design is a crucial issue in manufacturing. To meet the competitive global market, manufacturers are continuously seeking solutions to design industrial products and systems inventively. Su-Field analysis, which is one of the T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering in Industry 4.0)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,128 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2019

Semantic segmentation is an important process of scene recognition with deep learning frameworks achieving state of the art results, thus gaining much attention from the remote sensing community. In this paper, an end-to-end conditional random fields...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,171 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2020

Object detection and recognition in aerial and remote sensing images has become a hot topic in the field of computer vision in recent years. As these images are usually taken from a bird’s-eye view, the targets often have different shapes and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,114 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
1,676 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2025

In multi-resolution remote sensing imagery, roads typically exhibit sparse, elongated, and structurally complex morphological characteristics, posing formidable connectivity modeling challenges for semantic segmentation models. Existing approaches pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Remote Sensing Techniques and Applications for Object Detection)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,872 Views
16 Pages

4 February 2025

Healthcare 4.0 addresses modernization and digital transformation challenges, such as home-based care and precision treatments, by leveraging advanced technologies to enhance accessibility and efficiency. Semantic technologies, particularly knowledge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Decision Support Systems in Biomedical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,978 Views
15 Pages

Organ Segmentation in Poultry Viscera Using RGB-D

  • Mark Philip Philipsen,
  • Jacob Velling Dueholm,
  • Anders Jørgensen,
  • Sergio Escalera and
  • Thomas Baltzer Moeslund

3 January 2018

We present a pattern recognition framework for semantic segmentation of visual structures, that is, multi-class labelling at pixel level, and apply it to the task of segmenting organs in the eviscerated viscera from slaughtered poultry in RGB-D image...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Signal and Information Processing)
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  • Open Access
392 Views
41 Pages

12 June 2026

This paper addresses the problem that high pixel-level segmentation accuracy does not necessarily lead to geometrically compact building boundaries in vectorized outputs. A multi-task directional field learning framework is proposed based on U-Net wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications)
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  • Open Access
678 Views
44 Pages

30 June 2026

Background: Image-based dietary assessment provides a more intuitive approach for nutritional monitoring and health management. However, in multi-category bowl-based meals, food boundary adhesion, spatial stacking, and staple-food occlusion by upper-...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition Methodology & Assessment)
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  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,791 Views
26 Pages

As an intermediate step between raw remote sensing data and digital maps, remote sensing data classification has been a challenging and long-standing problem in the remote sensing research community. In this work, an automated and effective supervise...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,805 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2019

In aerial images, corner points can be detected to describe the structural information of buildings for city modeling, geo-localization, and so on. For this specific vision task, the existing generic corner detectors perform poorly, as they are incap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Remote Sensing Data)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,000 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2022

Agricultural environment mapping is the premise of the autonomous navigation of agricultural robots. Due to the undulating terrain and chaotic environment, it is challenging to accurately map the environmental maize field using existing LOAM (LiDAR o...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,749 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2022

Cloud and snow identification in remote sensing images is critical for snow mapping and snow hydrology research. Aimed at the problem that the semantic segmentation model is prone to producing blurred boundaries, slicing traces and isolated small pat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Mountain Vegetation and Snow Cover)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,804 Views
20 Pages

UE-SLAM: Monocular Neural Radiance Field SLAM with Semantic Mapping Capabilities

  • Yuquan Zhang,
  • Guangan Jiang,
  • Mingrui Li and
  • Guosheng Feng

27 March 2025

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have transformed 3D reconstruction by enabling high-fidelity scene generation from sparse views. However, existing neural SLAM systems face challenges such as limited scene understanding and heavy reliance on depth senso...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,940 Views
15 Pages

Affiliated Fusion Conditional Random Field for Urban UAV Image Semantic Segmentation

  • Yingying Kong,
  • Bowen Zhang,
  • Biyuan Yan,
  • Yanjuan Liu,
  • Henry Leung and
  • Xiangyang Peng

12 February 2020

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have had significant progress in the last decade, which is applied to many relevant fields because of the progress of aerial image processing and the convenience to explore areas that men cannot reach. Still, as the bas...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

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