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1 September 2024

The prediction of bike-sharing demand plays a pivotal role in the optimization of intelligent transportation systems, particularly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which has significantly altered travel behaviors and demand dynamics. In this study, we e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Algorithms for Positive Change in Digital Futures)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,956 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2023

Shared bicycles provide a green, environmentally friendly, and healthy mode of transportation that effectively addresses the “final mile” problem in urban travel. However, the uneven distribution of bicycles and the imbalance of user dema...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Logistics, Project Planning, and Scheduling, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,606 Views
25 Pages

Secured Secret Sharing of QR Codes Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Regularized Super Resolution Convolutional Neural Network

  • Ramesh Velumani,
  • Hariharasitaraman Sudalaimuthu,
  • Gaurav Choudhary,
  • Srinivasan Bama,
  • Maranthiran Victor Jose and
  • Nicola Dragoni

12 April 2022

Advances in information technology have harnessed the application of Quick Response (QR) codes in day-to-day activities, simplifying information exchange. QR codes are witnessed almost everywhere, on consumables, newspapers, information bulletins, et...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging IT Security Technologies in the Computer Systems: Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,866 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2024

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging plays a vital role in maritime surveillance, yet the detection of small vessels poses a significant challenge when employing conventional Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) techniques, primarily due to the limitat...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,246 Views
26 Pages

30 July 2024

This paper addresses the challenge of detecting unknown or unforeseen obstacles in railway track transportation, proposing an innovative detection strategy that integrates an incremental clustering algorithm with lightweight segmentation techniques....

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,166 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2024

In response to the challenges of small-size defects and low recognition rates in Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), as well as the need for lightweight detection models that can be embedded in portable devices, this paper proposes an improved defect dete...

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

MGDR-YOLO: An Efficient Multi-Backbone YOLOv11 Framework for X-Ray Weld Defect Inspection

  • Jiuyang Yu,
  • Pan Liu,
  • Yaonan Dai,
  • Zelin Fu,
  • Hui Zhou,
  • Peiyan Yang and
  • Xiaotao Zheng

25 May 2026

To address the detection challenges in X-ray weld seam images caused by weak contrast, slender structures, and multi-scale coexistence, we propose MGDR-YOLO, an industrially deployable detector with four coordinated designs. First, a MultiBackbone pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,344 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2023

Economic regulations for sustainable development improve sharing and sustainability through diverse approaches. Market changes, stock values, and investor ideas are taken into consideration to achieve high sustainability. Multiple points across regul...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,345 Views
21 Pages

3 April 2025

Cigarette detection is a crucial component of public safety management. However, detecting such small objects poses significant challenges due to their size and limited feature points. To enhance the accuracy of small target detection, we propose a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,906 Views
25 Pages

A Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Transportation Flow Estimation

  • Ifigenia Drosouli,
  • Athanasios Voulodimos,
  • Paris Mastorocostas,
  • Georgios Miaoulis and
  • Djamchid Ghazanfarpour

30 August 2023

Accurate estimation of transportation flow is a challenging task in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Transporting data with dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies elevates transportation flow forecasting to a significant issue for operational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Sensors II)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,938 Views
26 Pages

A Bridge Defect Detection Algorithm Based on UGMB Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Fusion

  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Chao Tian,
  • Ao Zhang,
  • Yilin Liu,
  • Guxue Gao,
  • Zhiwen Zhuang,
  • Tongtong Yin and
  • Nuo Zhang

30 June 2025

Aiming at the problems of leakage and misdetection caused by insufficient multi-scale feature extraction and an excessive amount of model parameters in bridge defect detection, this paper proposes the AMSF-Pyramid-YOLOv11n model. First, a Cooperative...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,674 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2024

In the context of industrial robot maintenance and assembly, workers often suffer from work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs). This paper proposes a multi-scale, multi-stage pose recognition method (MMARM-CNN) based on convolutional neural n...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,822 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2022

As a convenient, economical, and eco-friendly travel mode, bike-sharing greatly improved urban mobility. However, it is often very difficult to achieve a balanced utilization of shared bikes due to the asymmetric spatio-temporal user demand distribut...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
481 Views
18 Pages

Vision Transformer with Spatial 2D Multi-Channel Tokens

  • Sirui Zheng,
  • Yu Li,
  • Zhongxiang Zhang and
  • Dequn Zhao

Vision Transformer (ViT) has been widely adopted in the computer vision community. However, the standard ViT often contains many parameters, usually performs poorly when trained from scratch on medium-scale datasets, and does not explicitly preserve...

(This article belongs to the Topic Transformer and Deep Learning Applications in Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,154 Views
28 Pages

PS-YOLO: A Lighter and Faster Network for UAV Object Detection

  • Han Zhong,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Zhiguang Shi,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Liang Zhao

6 May 2025

The operational environment of UAVs poses unique challenges for object detection compared to conventional methods. When UAVs capture remote sensing images from elevated altitudes, objects often appear minuscule and can be easily obscured by complex b...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,528 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Network for Rotation-Invariant Recognition

  • Tzung-Pei Hong,
  • Ming-Jhe Hu,
  • Tang-Kai Yin and
  • Shyue-Liang Wang

21 February 2022

The Internet of things (IoT) enables mobile devices to connect and exchange information with others over the Internet with a lot of applications in consumer, commercial, and industrial products. With the rapid development of machine learning, IoT wit...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,526 Views
26 Pages

ZoomHead: A Flexible and Lightweight Detection Head Structure Design for Slender Cracks

  • Hua Li,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Junzhou Huo,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Shusen Deng and
  • Chang Guo

26 June 2025

Detecting metal surface crack defects is of great significance for the safe operation of industrial equipment. However, most existing mainstream deep-object detection models suffer from complex structures, large parameter sizes, and high training cos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Network Technology for 3D Imaging and Sensing)
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  • Open Access
641 Views
16 Pages

This paper aims to address the signal coupling problem of a shared-aperture dual-band dual-circularly polarized microstrip antenna. A decoupling optimization method that combined a convolutional neural network (CNN) with binary particle swarm optimiz...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,345 Views
22 Pages

22 November 2022

Social media has now become a part of people’s lives. That is, today people interact on social media in a way that never happened before, and its important feature is to share photos and events with friends and family. However, there are risks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,159 Views
15 Pages

Classification of Trash and Valuables with Machine Vision in Shared Cars

  • Nilusha Jayawickrama,
  • Risto Ojala,
  • Jesse Pirhonen,
  • Klaus Kivekäs and
  • Kari Tammi

3 June 2022

This study focused on the possibility of implementing a vision-based architecture to monitor and detect the presence of trash or valuables in shared cars. The system was introduced to take pictures of the rear seating area of a four-door passenger ca...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,174 Views
23 Pages

Forecasting financial time series is challenging due to their intrinsic nonlinearity, high volatility, and complex dependencies across temporal scales. This study introduces MSGformer, a novel hybrid architecture that integrates multi-scale graph neu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,342 Views
15 Pages

Scale-Aware Network with Scale Equivariance

  • Mingqiang Ning,
  • Jinsong Tang,
  • Heping Zhong,
  • Haoran Wu,
  • Peng Zhang and
  • Zhisheng Zhang

28 February 2022

The convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved good performance in object classification due to its inherent translation equivariance, but its scale equivariance is poor. A Scale-Aware Network (SA Net) with scale equivariance is proposed to esti...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,409 Views
17 Pages

FL-YOLOv8: Lightweight Object Detector Based on Feature Fusion

  • Ying Xue,
  • Qijin Wang,
  • Yating Hu,
  • Yu Qian,
  • Long Cheng and
  • Hongqiang Wang

25 November 2024

In recent years, anchor-free object detectors have become predominant in deep learning, the YOLOv8 model as a real-time object detector based on anchor-free frames is universal and influential, it efficiently detects objects across multiple scales. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,298 Views
16 Pages

GCS-YOLOv8: A Lightweight Face Extractor to Assist Deepfake Detection

  • Ruifang Zhang,
  • Bohan Deng,
  • Xiaohui Cheng and
  • Hong Zhao

22 October 2024

To address the issues of target feature blurring and increased false detections caused by high compression rates in deepfake videos, as well as the high computational resource requirements of existing face extractors, we propose a lightweight face ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,982 Views
20 Pages

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors from magnetic resonance 3D images (MRI) is critical for clinical decisions and surgical planning. Radiologists usually separate and analyze brain tumors by combining images of axial, coronal, and sagittal views....

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,623 Views
19 Pages

Public transportation scheduling aims to optimize the allocation of resources, enhance efficiency, and increase passenger satisfaction, all of which are crucial for building a sustainable urban transportation system. As a complement to public transpo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimetic Techniques for Optimization Problems in Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1,277 Views
17 Pages

Modern deep convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable performance but require substantial computational resources due to their large parameter counts, limiting their suitability for resource-constrained environments. We propose Tiny Recursive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,937 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2025

Transformers have performed favorably in recent hyperspectral unmixing studies in which the self-attention mechanism possesses the ability to retain spectral information and spatial details. However, the lack of reliable prior information for correct...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,570 Views
16 Pages

12 August 2025

Existing non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) methods predominantly rely on centralized models, which introduce privacy vulnerabilities and lack scalability in large industrial park scenarios equipped with distributed energy resources. To address thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Condition Monitoring of Distributed Energy Equipment and Systems)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,029 Views
16 Pages

Fully Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning as a Service

  • George Onoufriou,
  • Paul Mayfield and
  • Georgios Leontidis

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a relatively recent advancement in the field of privacy-preserving technologies. FHE allows for the arbitrary depth computation of both addition and multiplication, and thus the application of abelian/polynomial...

(This article belongs to the Section Safety, Security, Privacy, and Cyber Resilience)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,875 Views
13 Pages

Assessment and Integral Indexing of the Main Indicators of Oil and Gas Companies by Circular Convolution

  • Irina Vygodchikova,
  • Mikhail Gordienko,
  • Natalia Natocheeva,
  • Natalia Rud and
  • Anzhela Namitulina

25 January 2022

In the oil and gas industry, which is the basis of the Russian energy market, a significant and urgent question arises: How to distribute companies according to their investment attractiveness? Accordingly, quantitative indicators are needed. Lacking...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Economic Technologies and Policies in the Energy Sector)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,269 Views
31 Pages

Advanced Forecasting of Drought Zones in Canada Using Deep Learning and CMIP6 Projections

  • Keyvan Soltani,
  • Afshin Amiri,
  • Isa Ebtehaj,
  • Hanieh Cheshmehghasabani,
  • Sina Fazeli,
  • Silvio José Gumiere and
  • Hossein Bonakdari

10 August 2024

This study addresses the critical issue of drought zoning in Canada using advanced deep learning techniques. Drought, exacerbated by climate change, significantly affects ecosystems, agriculture, and water resources. Canadian Drought Monitor (CDM) da...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,169 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2022

Single-sample face recognition is a very challenging problem, where each person has only one labeled training sample. It is difficult to describe unknown facial variations. In this paper, we propose a shared generative adversarial network (SharedGAN)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods in Image Processing and Computer Vision)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,593 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2025

Surface defect detection plays an important role in particleboard quality control. But it still faces challenges in detecting coexisting multi-scale defects and weak texture defects. To address these issues, this study proposed PBD-YOLO (Particleboar...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Smart Industrial Diagnostics and Manufacturing—Third Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,838 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Modal Convolutional Parameterisation Network for Guided Image Inverse Problems

  • Mikolaj Czerkawski,
  • Priti Upadhyay,
  • Christopher Davison,
  • Robert Atkinson,
  • Craig Michie,
  • Ivan Andonovic,
  • Malcolm Macdonald,
  • Javier Cardona and
  • Christos Tachtatzis

There are several image inverse tasks, such as inpainting or super-resolution, which can be solved using deep internal learning, a paradigm that involves employing deep neural networks to find a solution by learning from the sample itself rather than...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
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  • Open Access
2,628 Views
9 Pages

Exploiting Features with Split-and-Share Module

  • Jae-Min Lee,
  • Min-Seok Seo,
  • Dae-Han Kim,
  • Sang-Woo Lee,
  • Jong-Chan Park and
  • Dong-Geol Choi

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performances in various computer vision tasks. Advances on CNN architectures have focused mainly on designing convolutional blocks of the feature extractors, but less on the classi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Techniques)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
904 Views
26 Pages

In object detection, boundary blurring caused by occlusion and background interference often hinders effective feature extraction. To address this challenge, we propose Edge Aware-YOLO, a novel framework designed to enhance edge awareness and efficie...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Image Processing Technology)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,349 Views
24 Pages

Towards Feature Decoupling for Lightweight Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Chenwei Deng,
  • Donglin Jing,
  • Yuqi Han,
  • Zhiyuan Deng and
  • Hong Zhang

30 July 2023

Recently, the improvement of detection performance always relies on deeper convolutional layers and complex convolutional structures in remote sensing images, which significantly increases the storage space and computational complexity of the detecto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in High Resolution Remote Sensing Image Processing and Analysis: Methodology and Application)
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  • Open Access

15 October 2026

Proactive beam management is essential for high-mobility millimeter-wave communication systems, where transmission latency may cause beams selected from current observations to become mismatched with the optimal beams at future transmission times. Th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Resilient PNT for Urban and Cislunar Environments: GNSS, Cooperative Constellations and AI Fusion)
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  • Open Access
708 Views
31 Pages

Orchestration of Asymmetric Multiprocessing Platforms (AMPs), such as ARM big.LITTLE, frequently relies on the heuristic assumption of cluster independence, wherein high-performance (“Big”) and high-efficiency (“Little”) cores...

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  • Open Access
383 Views
17 Pages

12 May 2026

In ceramic cup manufacturing, manual inspection is prone to missed detections and false positives, particularly for small surface defects. To address these challenges, this study presents an effective and efficient YOLOv11m-based detection framework,...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,252 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2024

Two-dimensional human pose estimation aims to equip computers with the ability to accurately recognize human keypoints and comprehend their spatial contexts within media content. However, the accuracy of real-time human pose estimation diminishes whe...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,388 Views
33 Pages

29 November 2023

In a hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) task, manually labeling samples requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, it is of great significance to use small samples to achieve the HSIC task. Recently, convolutional neural net...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,508 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Progressive Fusion Calibration Network for Rotated Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Jing Liu,
  • Donglin Jing,
  • Yanyan Cao,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Chaoping Guo,
  • Peijun Shi and
  • Haijing Zhang

11 August 2024

Rotated object detection is a crucial task in aerial image analysis. To address challenges such as multi-directional object rotation, complex backgrounds with occlusions, and the trade-off between speed and accuracy in remote sensing images, this pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Deep Learning Technologies: Methodologies and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,695 Views
9 Pages

Queueing systems with random resource requirements, in which an arriving customer, in addition to a server, demands a random amount of resources from a shared resource pool, have proved useful to analyze wireless communication networks. The stationar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Queueing Methods in Reliability Theory and Information Technology Systems)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,881 Views
19 Pages

Cotton Weed-YOLO: A Lightweight and Highly Accurate Cotton Weed Identification Model for Precision Agriculture

  • Jinghuan Hu,
  • He Gong,
  • Shijun Li,
  • Ye Mu,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Tianli Hu and
  • Yu Bao

5 December 2024

Precise weed recognition is an important step towards achieving intelligent agriculture. In this paper, a novel weed recognition model, Cotton Weed-YOLO, is proposed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of weed detection. CW-YOLO is based on YOLOv8...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation of Intelligent Detection and Pesticide Application Technology for Horticultural Crops)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,253 Views
30 Pages

LDSNet: A Lightweight Detail-Sensitive Network for Small Object Detection in Low-Altitude UAV Scenarios

  • Tong Tan,
  • Xianrong Peng,
  • Jianlin Zhang,
  • Haorui Zuo,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Yunhao Wu and
  • Hui Li

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery faces significant challenges due to the unique aerial perspective. A major bottleneck is the weak feature representation of small objects, which limits both detection accuracy and computationa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Remote Sensing Image Processing and Pattern Recognition)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,779 Views
22 Pages

LCSC-UAVNet: A High-Precision and Lightweight Model for Small-Object Identification and Detection in Maritime UAV Perspective

  • Yanjuan Wang,
  • Jiayue Liu,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Zhibin Li,
  • Yuxian Yan,
  • Xiaohong Yan,
  • Fengqiang Xu and
  • Fengqi Li

29 January 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) object detection is crucial in various fields, such as maritime rescue and disaster investigation. However, due to small objects and the limitations of UAVs’ hardware and computing power, detection accuracy and com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,360 Views
26 Pages

27 August 2025

Underwater debris detection plays a crucial role in marine environmental protection. However, existing object detection algorithms generally suffer from excessive model complexity and insufficient detection accuracy, making it difficult to meet the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,858 Views
17 Pages

Dockless electric scooters (e-scooter) have emerged as a green alternative to automobiles and a solution to the first- and last-mile problems. Demand anticipation, or being able to accurately predict spatiotemporal demand of e-scooter usage, is one s...

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