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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)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,402 Views
27 Pages

1 October 2022

The lack of labeled samples severely restricts the classification performance of deep learning on hyperspectral image classification. To solve this problem, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are usually used for data augmentation. However, GAN ha...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,761 Views
26 Pages

Feature Ranking on Small Samples: A Bayes-Based Approach

  • Aleksandra Vatian,
  • Natalia Gusarova and
  • Ivan Tomilov

22 July 2025

In the modern world, there is a need to provide a better understanding of the importance or relevance of the available descriptive features for predicting target attributes to solve the feature ranking problem. Among the published works, the vast maj...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,523 Views
16 Pages

Intra-Domain Transfer Learning for Fault Diagnosis with Small Samples

  • Liangwei Zhang,
  • Junyan Zhang,
  • Yeping Peng and
  • Jing Lin

12 July 2022

The concept of deep transfer learning has spawned broad research into fault diagnosis with small samples. A considerable covariate shift between the source and target domains, however, could result in negative transfer and lower fault diagnosis task...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial AI: Applications in Fault Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis)
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  • Open Access
1,475 Views
17 Pages

Cross-Domain Feature Enhancement-Based Password Guessing Method for Small Samples

  • Cheng Liu,
  • Junrong Li,
  • Xiheng Liu,
  • Bo Li and ,
  • Mengshu Hou,
  • Wei Yu,
  • Yujun Li and
  • Wenjun Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 July 2025

As a crucial component of account protection system evaluation and intrusion detection, the advancement of password guessing technology encounters challenges due to its reliance on password data. In password guessing research, there is a conflict bet...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,117 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2024

In response to the challenges of bearing fault diagnosis under small sample sizes and variable operating conditions, this paper proposes a novel method based on the two-dimensional analysis of vibration acceleration signals and a Multi-Task Condition...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,884 Views
17 Pages

Underwater noise classification is of great significance for identifying ships as well as other vehicles. Moreover, it is helpful in ensuring a marine habitat-friendly, noise-free ocean environment. But a challenge we are facing is the small-sized un...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization in Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,726 Views
16 Pages

Research on Entity and Relationship Extraction with Small Training Samples for Cotton Pests and Diseases

  • Weiwei Yuan,
  • Wanxia Yang,
  • Liang He,
  • Tingwei Zhang and ,
  • Yan Hao,
  • Jing Lu and
  • Wenbo Yan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The extraction of entities and relationships is a crucial task in the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, existing models for this task often rely heavily on a substantial amount of labeled data, which not only consumes time and labo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Data Analysis in Agriculture—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,516 Views
12 Pages

Testing Luminescence Dating Methods for Small Samples from Very Young Fluvial Deposits

  • Joel Q. G. Spencer,
  • Sébastien Huot,
  • Allen W. Archer and
  • Marcellus M. Caldas

6 December 2019

The impetus behind this study is to understand the sedimentological dynamics of very young fluvial systems in the Amazon River catchment and relate these to land use change and modern analogue studies of tidal rhythmites in the geologic record. Initi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods in Dating and Other Applications using Luminescence)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,089 Views
18 Pages

Underwater target classification methods based on deep learning suffer from obvious model overfitting and low recognition accuracy in the case of small samples and complex underwater environments. This paper proposes a novel classification network (E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Sensing and Machine Learning to Underwater Acoustic)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,533 Views
22 Pages

Learning General-Purpose Representations for Cross-Domain Hyperspectral Images Classification with Small Samples

  • Kuiliang Gao,
  • Anzhu Yu,
  • Xiong You,
  • Chunping Qiu and ,
  • Bing Liu and
  • Wenyue Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 February 2023

Cross-domain classification with small samples is a more challenging and realistic experimental setup. Until now, few studies have focused on the problem of small-sample cross-domain classification between completely different hyperspectral images (H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hyperspectral Data Exploitation II)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,790 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Residual Life Prediction for Small Samples of Mechanical Products Based on Feature Matching Preprocessor-LSTM

  • Yongming Liu,
  • Junyu Song,
  • Zhuanzhe Zhao,
  • Guowen Ye and ,
  • Zhibo Liu and
  • Yang Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 August 2022

In order to solve the problem of predicting the residual life of mechanical products accurately based on small-sample data, this paper proposes a small-sample adaptive residual life prediction model of mechanical products based on feature matching pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Machine Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,363 Views
28 Pages

Advances in Hyperspectral Image Classification Methods with Small Samples: A Review

  • Xiaozhen Wang,
  • Jiahang Liu,
  • Weijian Chi,
  • Weigang Wang and
  • Yue Ni

30 July 2023

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is one of the hotspots in remote sensing, and many methods have been continuously proposed in recent years. However, it is still challenging to achieve high accuracy classification in applications. One of the...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
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  • 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)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,083 Views
27 Pages

17 November 2025

In psychology, small sample sizes are a frequent challenge—particularly when studying specific expert populations or using complex and cost-intensive methods like human scoring of creative answers—as they reduce statistical power, bias re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of a Divergent Thinking Dataset)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,191 Views
18 Pages

12 February 2023

To solve the fault diagnosis difficulty of bearings with small data samples, a novel multi-information fusion vision transformer (ViT) model based on time–frequency representation (TFR) maps is proposed in this paper. The original vibration signal is...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,989 Views
21 Pages

TAI-SARNET: Deep Transferred Atrous-Inception CNN for Small Samples SAR ATR

  • Zilu Ying,
  • Chen Xuan,
  • Yikui Zhai,
  • Bing Sun and ,
  • Jingwen Li,
  • Wenbo Deng,
  • Chaoyun Mai,
  • Faguan Wang,
  • Ruggero Donida Labati and
  • Fabio Scotti
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

19 March 2020

Since Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) targets are full of coherent speckle noise, the traditional deep learning models are difficult to effectively extract key features of the targets and share high computational complexity. To solve the problem, an e...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,262 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2021

At present, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) has been deeply researched and widely used in military and civilian fields. SAR images are very sensitive to the azimuth aspect of the imaging geomety; the same target at d...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,715 Views
12 Pages

An Aircraft Object Detection Algorithm Based on Small Samples in Optical Remote Sensing Image

  • Ting Wang,
  • Changqing Cao,
  • Xiaodong Zeng,
  • Zhejun Feng and ,
  • Jingshi Shen,
  • Weiming Li,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Yuedong Zhou and
  • Xu Yan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2020

In recent years, remote sensing technology has developed rapidly, and the ground resolution of spaceborne optical remote sensing images has reached the sub-meter range, providing a new technical means for aircraft object detection. Research on aircra...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,092 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Parameter Estimation Methods Based on Two Additive Biomass Models with Small Samples

  • Nina Xiong,
  • Yue Qiao,
  • Huiru Ren,
  • Li Zhang and ,
  • Rihui Chen and
  • Jia Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 August 2023

Accurately estimating tree biomass is crucial for monitoring and managing forest resources, and understanding regional climate change and material cycles. The additive model system has proven reliable for biomass estimation in Chinese forestry since...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,176 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2022

Aiming at the problems of low fault diagnosis accuracy caused by insufficient samples and unbalanced data sample distribution in bearing fault diagnosis, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings referencing conditional deep c...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,431 Views
24 Pages

Attention-Guided Residual Spatiotemporal Network with Label Regularization for Fault Diagnosis with Small Samples

  • Yanlong Xu,
  • Liming Zhang,
  • Ling Chen,
  • Tian Tan and ,
  • Xiaolong Wang and
  • Hongguang Xiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 August 2025

Fault diagnosis is of great significance for the maintenance of rotating machinery. Deep learning is an intelligent diagnostic technique that is receiving increasing attention. To address the issues of industrial data with small samples and varying w...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,077 Views
12 Pages

An Easy-to-Use Histological Technique for Small Biological Samples of Senegalese Sole Larvae

  • Lígia M. B. M. Santana,
  • Évila Pinheiro Damasceno,
  • Susana Loureiro,
  • Amadeu M. V. M. Soares and ,
  • Pedro Pousão-Ferreira,
  • Denis M. S. Abessa,
  • Roberto Martins and
  • Maria D. Pavlaki
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2023

Histological techniques are a traditional and essential tool for adequately comprehending cellular morphology and physiology in several scientific fields, including ecotoxicological studies. Although bioassays generally recommend using small test org...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,467 Views
11 Pages

Due to the long-term service through wheel-rail rolling contact, the train wheelset tread will inevitably suffer from different types of defects, such as wear, cracks, and scratches. The effective detection of wheelset tread defects can provide criti...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,596 Views
21 Pages

29 March 2023

Tomatoes are a crop of significant economic importance, and disease during growth poses a substantial threat to yield and quality. In this paper, we propose IBSA_Net, a tomato leaf disease recognition network that employs transfer learning and small...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,568 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2023

Change detection with heterogeneous remote sensing images (Hete-CD) plays a significant role in practical applications, particularly in cases where homogenous remote sensing images are unavailable. However, directly comparing bitemporal heterogeneous...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Land Use Change and Its Ecological Effects)
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  • Open Access
301 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2026

In the digital twin modeling of aero-engine turbine blades, traditional CFD requires extensive computational time. Existing data-driven models also struggle to achieve multi-physics decoupling and high-accuracy predictions with extremely small sample...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Multidisciplinary Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Aerospace Engineering (Volume III))
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,669 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2024

The utilization of deep learning in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) has witnessed a recent surge owing to its remarkable feature extraction capabilities. Nonetheless, deep learning methodologies are often encumbered...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,640 Views
20 Pages

Segment Anything Model-Based Hyperspectral Image Classification for Small Samples

  • Kaifeng Ma,
  • Changxu Yao,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Qingfeng Hu and ,
  • Shiming Li,
  • Peipei He and
  • Jing Han
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 April 2025

Hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) represents a significant area of research within the domain of remote sensing. Given the intricate nature of hyperspectral images and the substantial volume of data they generate, it is essential to introduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Approaches for Semantic and Instance Segmentation in Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,707 Views
17 Pages

High-Quality Samples for Next-Generation Sequencing and PD-L1 Assessment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The Role of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

  • Marta Rodríguez González,
  • Juan Carlos Montero,
  • José María Sayagués,
  • Tamara Clavero Sánchez and ,
  • Jonnathan Roldán Ruiz,
  • Miguel Iglesias Heras,
  • María Belén Rivas Marcos,
  • Mar Abad and
  • Rosa Cordovilla Pérez
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Recent advances in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have shifted from conventional chemotherapy to targeted therapies aimed at specific genetic mutations, particularly in the adenocarcinoma subtype. These the...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,873 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)
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  • Open Access
581 Views
14 Pages

This study addresses the instability of statistical modeling for small-sample maximum friction torque data under multiple temperature conditions. Within the Weibull distribution framework, a sample-aggregation method is proposed, and a unified modeli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Strength, Life Reliability and Design Optimization of Aircraft Engines)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,892 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2023

Traditional methods for identifying gear faults typically require a substantial number of faulty samples, which in reality are challenging to obtain. To tackle this challenge, this paper introduces a sophisticated approach for intelligent gear fault...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,170 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2021

Although automatic target recognition (ATR) models based on data-driven algorithms have achieved excellent performance in recent years, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ATR model often suffered from performance degradation when it encountered a sma...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,341 Views
13 Pages

4 June 2024

Surface roughness is one of the main bases for measuring the surface quality of machined parts. A large amount of training data can effectively improve model prediction accuracy. However, obtaining a large and complete surface roughness sample datase...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,227 Views
19 Pages

DAT-MT Accelerated Graph Fusion Dependency Parsing Model for Small Samples in Professional Fields

  • Rui Li,
  • Shili Shu,
  • Shunli Wang,
  • Yang Liu and ,
  • Yanhao Li and
  • Mingjun Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2023

The rapid development of information technology has made the amount of information in massive texts far exceed human intuitive cognition, and dependency parsing can effectively deal with information overload. In the background of domain specializatio...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,071 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2024

Many techniques have been studied for recovering information from shared media such as optical fiber that carries different types of communication, sensing, and data streaming. This article focuses on a simple method for retrieving the targeted infor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectral Detection Technology, Sensors and Instruments)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,792 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2024

Data trading platforms play a crucial role in facilitating data circulation and promoting the sustainable allocation of data resources. Establishing a transparent, fair, and efficient pricing mechanism is key to ensuring the long-term stability and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,071 Views
16 Pages

Method for Recognition of Communication Interference Signals under Small-Sample Conditions

  • Rong Ge,
  • Yusheng Li,
  • Yonggang Zhu,
  • Xiuzai Zhang and ,
  • Kai Zhang and
  • Minghu Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2024

To address the difficulty in obtaining a large number of labeled jamming signals in complex electromagnetic environments, this paper proposes a small-sample communication jamming signal recognition method based on WDCGAN-SA (Wasserstein Deep Convolut...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,473 Views
21 Pages

DRnet: Dynamic Retraining for Malicious Traffic Small-Sample Incremental Learning

  • Ruonan Wang,
  • Jinlong Fei,
  • Rongkai Zhang,
  • Maohua Guo and ,
  • Zan Qi and
  • Xue Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Deep learning has achieved good classification results in the field of traffic classification in recent years due to its good feature representation ability. However, the existing traffic classification technology cannot meet the requirements for the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,189 Views
22 Pages

17 August 2022

In this paper, a compact cat swarm optimization algorithm based on a Small Sample Probability Model (SSPCCSO) is proposed. In the same way as with previous algorithms, there is a tracking mode and a searching mode in the processing of searching for o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Research and Application on Swarm Optimization and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
365 Views
38 Pages

17 October 2026

This study demonstrates a workflow for assessing the reliability of small-sample water quality retrieval from full-coverage UAV multispectral surveys of a small inland lake. Because at most 20 paired samples were available, a physically constrained f...

(This article belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,727 Views
19 Pages

Depthwise Separable Relation Network for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Aili Wang,
  • Chengyang Liu,
  • Dong Xue,
  • Haibin Wu and ,
  • Yuxiao Zhang and
  • Meihong Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 September 2021

Although hyperspectral data provide rich feature information and are widely used in other fields, the data are still scarce. Training small sample data classification is still a major challenge for HSI classification based on deep learning. Recently,...

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  • Open Access
38 Views
27 Pages

5 November 2026

Small object detection in side-scan sonar imagery is hindered by heavy speckle noise, limited target texture, and severe data scarcity. Existing studies mostly transplant improvements designed for natural images to sonar scenarios, and their effectiv...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • 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)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,696 Views
10 Pages

Reliability Analysis of Small-Sample Failure Data for Random Truncation High-Voltage Relay

  • Yingzhi Zhang,
  • Feng Han,
  • Fang Yang,
  • Xiaofeng Wang and
  • Yutong Zhou

6 June 2024

In order to model and evaluate the reliability of long-life high-voltage relays with small-sample fault data characteristics, a reliability analysis method integrating average rank, the minimum mean square distance empirical distribution function, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,650 Views
24 Pages

Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako,
  • Guo Cao,
  • Boshan Shi,
  • Di Yang and
  • Benedict Boakye Acka

9 January 2025

Most current hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) models require a large number of training samples, and when the sample size is small, the classification performance decreases. To address this issue, we propose an innovative model that combines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,923 Views
24 Pages

6 August 2022

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has attracted widespread concern in recent years. However, due to the complexity of the HSI gathering environment, it is difficult to obtain a great number of HSI labeled samples. Therefore, how to effectively...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectral-Spatial Segmentation and Classification of Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
687 Views
22 Pages

14 May 2026

Accurate and timely information on forest disturbance drivers is important for sustainable forest management, global carbon cycle accounting, and climate change response. However, forest disturbance classification is difficult due to two major challe...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantifying Forest Structure, Biomass, and Dynamics Using Inventory and Remote Sensing Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,336 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)

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