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26 Citations
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9 February 2023

The accurate segmentation of apple leaf disease spots is the key to identifying the classification of apple leaf diseases and disease severity. Therefore, a DeepLabV3+ semantic segmentation network model with an actors spatial pyramid pool module (AS...

(This article belongs to the Collection Application of AI in Plants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,820 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2023

The welding process is characterized by its high energy density, making it imperative to optimize the energy consumption of welding robots without compromising the quality and efficiency of the welding process for their sustainable development. The a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,868 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2019

Deep neural networks are successful learning tools for building nonlinear models. However, a robust deep learning-based classification model needs a large dataset. Indeed, these models are often unstable when they use small datasets. To solve this is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Algorithms in Health Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,459 Views
16 Pages

Construction of Prediction Models of Mass Ablation Rate for Silicone Rubber-Based Flexible Ablative Composites Based on a Small Dataset

  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Chuxiang Zhou,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Liwei Yan and ,
  • Shengtai Zhou,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Zhengguang Heng,
  • Huawei Zou and
  • Mei Liang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

7 September 2024

The prediction of the ablation rate of silicone rubber-based composites is of great significance to accelerate the development of flexible thermal protection materials. Herein, a method which combines uniform design experimentation, active learning,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,275 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2024

The fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is faced with the problem of a lack of fault data. Currently, fault diagnosis based on traditional convolutional neural networks decreases the diagnosis rate. In this paper, the developed adaptive residual shri...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,596 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2019

Health data are generally complex in type and small in sample size. Such domain-specific challenges make it difficult to capture information reliably and contribute further to the issue of generalization. To assist the analytics of healthcare dataset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,970 Views
14 Pages

A Generative Adversarial Network Structure for Learning with Small Numerical Data Sets

  • Der-Chiang Li,
  • Szu-Chou Chen,
  • Yao-San Lin and
  • Kuan-Cheng Huang

16 November 2021

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been proposed to generate simulated images, and some works of literature have applied GAN to the analysis of numerical data in many fields, such as the prediction of building energy consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,581 Views
16 Pages

To address the problems of inadequate training and low precision in prediction models with small-sample-size and incomplete data, a novel SALGAN-CatBoost-SSAGA framework is proposed in this paper. We utilize the standard K-nearest neighbor algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,904 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2022

Highlight removal is a critical and challenging problem. In view of the complex highlight phenomenon on the surface of smooth liquor bottles in natural scenes, the traditional highlight removal algorithms cannot semantically disambiguate between all-...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,407 Views
19 Pages

Adapting SAM2 Model from Natural Images for Tooth Segmentation in Dental Panoramic X-Ray Images

  • Zifeng Li,
  • Wenzhong Tang,
  • Shijun Gao,
  • Yanyang Wang and
  • Shuai Wang

6 December 2024

Dental panoramic X-ray imaging, due to its high cost-effectiveness and low radiation dose, has become a widely used diagnostic tool in dentistry. Accurate tooth segmentation is crucial for lesion analysis and treatment planning, helping dentists to q...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,646 Views
24 Pages

24 November 2020

Software defect prediction (SDP) is an effective technique to lower software module testing costs. However, the imbalanced distribution almost exists in all SDP datasets and restricts the accuracy of defect prediction. In order to balance the data di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,889 Views
13 Pages

Insulator Abnormal Condition Detection from Small Data Samples

  • Qian Wang,
  • Zhixuan Fan,
  • Zhirong Luan and
  • Rong Shi

19 September 2023

Insulators are an important part of transmission lines in active distribution networks, and their performance has an impact on the power system’s normal operation, security, and dependability. Traditional insulator detection methods, on the oth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and Sensorless Technology with Renewable Energy and Flexible Load Participation in Active Distribution Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,334 Views
21 Pages

Weakly Supervised Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification Algorithm Based on Small Sample Learning

  • Huiping Li,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Lingwei Zhu,
  • Wenchao Wang and ,
  • Kangning Yin,
  • Ye Li and
  • Guangqiang Yin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2023

This paper proposes a weakly supervised cross-domain person re-identification (Re-ID) method based on small sample data. In order to reduce the cost of data collection and annotation, the model design focuses on extracting and abstracting the informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Imaging and Its Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,623 Views
17 Pages

CTTGAN: Traffic Data Synthesizing Scheme Based on Conditional GAN

  • Jiayu Wang,
  • Xuehu Yan,
  • Lintao Liu,
  • Longlong Li and
  • Yongqiang Yu

13 July 2022

Most machine learning algorithms only have a good recognition rate on balanced datasets. However, in the field of malicious traffic identification, benign traffic on the network is far greater than malicious traffic, and the network traffic dataset i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security and AI)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,339 Views
13 Pages

2 June 2020

We present a novel, parameterised radar data augmentation (RADIO) technique to generate realistic radar samples from small datasets for the development of radar-related deep learning models. RADIO leverages the physical properties of radar signals, s...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,502 Views
21 Pages

TranSDet: Toward Effective Transfer Learning for Small-Object Detection

  • Xinkai Xu,
  • Hailan Zhang,
  • Yan Ma,
  • Kang Liu and ,
  • Hong Bao and
  • Xu Qian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 July 2023

Small-object detection is a challenging task in computer vision due to the limited training samples and low-quality images. Transfer learning, which transfers the knowledge learned from a large dataset to a small dataset, is a popular method for impr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing-II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,131 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2023

With sentiment prediction technology, businesses can quickly look at user reviews to find ways to improve their products and services. We present the BertBilstm Multiple Emotion Judgment (BBMEJ) model for small-sample emotion prediction tasks to solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
23 Pages

Simulation-Calibrated Estimation of AUC and Brier Score Evaluation Error in Small Tabular Binary Classification

  • Héctor Alejandro Acuña-Cid,
  • Ana Gabriela Galicia-Rodríguez,
  • Anayancin Acuña-Ruiz,
  • Ana María Herrera-Medrano and ,
  • Julia Elena Hernández-Ríos and
  • Gael Nájera-De Lira
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Small tabular datasets can produce uncertain performance estimates because limited sample information affects both model fitting and evaluation. This study developed a procedure calibrated through simulation to estimate the mean absolute discrepancy...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems and Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,489 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2024

As the most commonly used attack strategy by Botnets, the Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) has strong invisibility and variability. Using deep learning models to detect different families of DGA domain names can improve the network defense ability a...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,190 Views
25 Pages

25 November 2021

Geohazards such as landslides, which are often accompanied by surface cracks, have caused great harm to public safety and property. If these surface cracks could be identified in time, this would be of great significance for the monitoring and early...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning on Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,666 Views
23 Pages

Tripartite: Tackling Realistic Noisy Labels with More Precise Partitions

  • Lida Yu,
  • Xuefeng Liang,
  • Chang Cao,
  • Longshan Yao and
  • Xingyu Liu

27 May 2025

Samples in large-scale datasets may be mislabeled for various reasons, and deep models are inclined to over-fit some noisy samples using conventional training procedures. The key solution is to alleviate the harm of these noisy labels. Many existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Computer Vision Sensors & Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,372 Views
20 Pages

26 May 2024

Determining the appropriate sample size is crucial in clinical studies due to the potential limitations of small sample sizes in detecting true effects. This work introduces the use of Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) to create vir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,178 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2022

Printed circuit board (PCB) defect detection plays a crucial role in PCB production, and the popular methods are based on deep learning and require large-scale datasets with high-level ground-truth labels, in which it is time-consuming and costly to...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Deep-Learning-Based Sensing, Imaging, and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,083 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2024

Increasing age is related to a decrease in independence of movement and with this decrease comes falls, millions of falls occur every year and the most affected people are the older adults. These falls usually have a big impact on health and independ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IMU and Innovative Sensors for Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,493 Views
17 Pages

23 October 2020

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a commonly used method of brain research. However, due to the complexity and particularity of the fMRI task, it is difficult to find enough subjects, resulting in a small and, often, imbalanced dataset....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Methods with Noisy, Incomplete or Small Datasets)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,504 Views
10 Pages

SAR Target Detection Based on Improved SSD with Saliency Map and Residual Network

  • Fang Zhou,
  • Fengjie He,
  • Changchun Gui,
  • Zhangyu Dong and
  • Mengdao Xing

1 January 2022

A target detection method based on an improved single shot multibox detector (SSD) is proposed to solve insufficient training samples for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target detection. We propose two strategies to improve the SSD: model structure o...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,264 Views
17 Pages

Progressive Training Technique with Weak-Label Boosting for Fine-Grained Classification on Unbalanced Training Data

  • Yuhui Jin,
  • Zuyun Wang,
  • Huimin Liao,
  • Sainan Zhu and ,
  • Bin Tong,
  • Yu Yin and
  • Jian Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In practical classification tasks, the sample distribution of the dataset is often unbalanced; for example, this is the case in a dataset that contains a massive quantity of samples with weak labels and for which concrete identification is unavailabl...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,626 Views
18 Pages

DA-Transfer: A Transfer Method for Malicious Network Traffic Classification with Small Sample Problem

  • Ruonan Wang,
  • Jinlong Fei,
  • Min Zhao,
  • Rongkai Zhang and ,
  • Maohua Guo,
  • Xue Li and
  • Zan Qi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 November 2022

Deep learning is successful in providing adequate classification results in the field of traffic classification due to its ability to characterize features. However, malicious traffic captures insufficient data and identity tags, which makes it diffi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security in Embedded Systems and IoT: Challenges and New Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
501 Views
21 Pages

5 July 2026

In aerial image small-object detection, complex imaging perspectives, arbitrary object orientations, and long-tailed category distributions jointly exacerbate sample imbalance, which significantly degrades detection stability and leads to frequent mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,189 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,068 Views
17 Pages

A Small-Sample Text Classification Model Based on Pseudo-Label Fusion Clustering Algorithm

  • Linda Yang,
  • Baohua Huang,
  • Shiqian Guo,
  • Yunjie Lin and
  • Tong Zhao

8 April 2023

The problem of text classification has been a mainstream research branch in natural language processing, and how to improve the effect of classification under the scarcity of labeled samples is one of the hot issues in this direction. The current mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,553 Views
20 Pages

Decomposition Methods for Machine Learning with Small, Incomplete or Noisy Datasets

  • Cesar Federico Caiafa,
  • Jordi Solé-Casals,
  • Pere Marti-Puig,
  • Sun Zhe and
  • Toshihisa Tanaka

27 November 2020

In many machine learning applications, measurements are sometimes incomplete or noisy resulting in missing features. In other cases, and for different reasons, the datasets are originally small, and therefore, more data samples are required to derive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Methods with Noisy, Incomplete or Small Datasets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,803 Views
23 Pages

13 September 2023

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology and unmanned surface vehicle (USV) technology, object detection and tracking have wide applications in marine monitoring and intelligent ships. However, object detection and tracking ta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nautical Engineering and Maritime Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,885 Views
17 Pages

DA-FER: Domain Adaptive Facial Expression Recognition

  • Mei Bie,
  • Huan Xu,
  • Quanle Liu,
  • Yan Gao and ,
  • Kai Song and
  • Xiangjiu Che
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 May 2023

Facial expression recognition (FER) is an important field in computer vision with many practical applications. However, one of the challenges in FER is dealing with small sample data, where the number of samples available for training machine learnin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied and Innovative Computational Intelligence Systems ‖)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,258 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Scale Dynamic Weighted Fusion for Small-Sample Oil Seal Ring Point Cloud Completion with Transformers

  • Wencong Yan,
  • Yetong Liu,
  • Liwen Meng,
  • Enyong Xu and ,
  • Changbo Lin and
  • Yanmei Meng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 May 2025

Oil seals are vital components in industrial production, necessitating high-precision 3D reconstruction for automated geometric measurement and quality inspection. High-quality point cloud completion is integral to this process. However, existing met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Energy, Manufacturing and Automatic Control Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,720 Views
14 Pages

Long-Tailed Metrics and Object Detection in Camera Trap Datasets

  • Wentong He,
  • Ze Luo,
  • Xinyu Tong,
  • Xiaoyi Hu and ,
  • Can Chen and
  • Zufei Shu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 May 2023

With their advantages in wildlife surveys and biodiversity monitoring, camera traps are widely used, and have been used to gather massive amounts of animal images and videos. The application of deep learning techniques has greatly promoted the analys...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,586 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2023

Building polygons plays an important role in urban management. Although leveraging deep learning techniques for building polygon extraction offers advantages, the models heavily rely on a large number of training samples to achieve good generalizatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crowd-Sourced Data and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
588 Views
30 Pages

4 June 2026

To address fault diagnosis under limited sample conditions, this paper proposes a small-sample diagnosis framework integrating multibody dynamic modeling and a GAN–CNN fusion strategy. First, a rigid–flexible coupled multibody dynamic mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Mathematics and Applications)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
319 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Small Mammal Communities in Forested Areas of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park (Portugal)

  • Joaquim T. Tapisso,
  • Rita I. Monarca,
  • Ana M. Cerveira,
  • Sophie von Merten and ,
  • Maílis Carrilho,
  • Guilherme Aparício,
  • Maria da Graça Ramalhinho and
  • Maria da Luz Mathias
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 August 2026

For this project, we surveyed small mammal communities in protected forest habitats of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Portugal, to establish a robust baseline for conservation planning. Our study provides a dataset and accompanying information to s...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,422 Views
22 Pages

23 July 2018

The convolutional neural network (CNN) has made great strides in the area of voiceprint recognition; but it needs a huge number of data samples to train a deep neural network. In practice, it is too difficult to get a large number of training samples...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Sensors Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,813 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2025

To address the demand for lightweight, high-precision, real-time, and low-computation detection of targets with limited samples—such as laboratory instruments in portable AR devices—this paper proposes a small dataset object detection alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
4,716 Views
16 Pages

Research on Airplane and Ship Detection of Aerial Remote Sensing Images Based on Convolutional Neural Network

  • Changqing Cao,
  • Jin Wu,
  • Xiaodong Zeng,
  • Zhejun Feng and ,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Xu Yan,
  • Zengyan Wu,
  • Qifan Wu and
  • Ziqiang Huang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2020

The wide range, complex background, and small target size of aerial remote sensing images results in the low detection accuracy of remote sensing target detection algorithms. Traditional detection algorithms have low accuracy and slow speed, making i...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,055 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2020

Vehicles in aerial images are generally with small sizes and unbalanced number of samples, which leads to the poor performances of the existing vehicle detection algorithms. Therefore, an oriented vehicle detection framework based on improved Faster...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,451 Views
14 Pages

Data integration has been proven to provide valuable information. The information extracted using data integration in the form of multiblock analysis can pinpoint both common and unique trends in the different blocks. When working with small multiblo...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioinformatics and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,771 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2022

The problem of deep learning network image classification when a large number of image samples are obtained in life and with only a small amount of knowledge annotation, is preliminarily solved in this paper. First, a support vector machine expert la...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
516 Views
18 Pages

To address the problem in predicting target prices for ship equipment orders where small sample sizes, high feature dimensions, and strong business constraints lead traditional models to overfit and have insufficient generalization ability, a method...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,055 Views
15 Pages

On the Sampling Size for Inverse Sampling

  • Daniele Cuntrera,
  • Vincenzo Falco and
  • Ornella Giambalvo

15 November 2022

In the Big Data era, sampling remains a central theme. This paper investigates the characteristics of inverse sampling on two different datasets (real and simulated) to determine when big data become too small for inverse sampling to be used and to e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multivariate Statistics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,675 Views
25 Pages

20 December 2024

Rolling bearings play a crucial role in industrial equipment, and their failure is highly likely to cause a series of serious consequences. Traditional deep learning-based bearing fault diagnosis algorithms rely on large amounts of training data; tra...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,708 Views
9 Pages

On Combining Feature Selection and Over-Sampling Techniques for Breast Cancer Prediction

  • Min-Wei Huang,
  • Chien-Hung Chiu,
  • Chih-Fong Tsai and
  • Wei-Chao Lin

17 July 2021

Breast cancer prediction datasets are usually class imbalanced, where the number of data samples in the malignant and benign patient classes are significantly different. Over-sampling techniques can be used to re-balance the datasets to construct mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data for eHealth Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,767 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2023

Owing to the significant application potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and infrared imaging technologies, researchers from different fields have conducted numerous experiments on aerial infrared image processing. To continuously detect sma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing: 15th Anniversary)

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