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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,176 Views
17 Pages

In this paper, the application of the Gaussian Kernel Smoothing Filter (GKSF) in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) for bridges is explored. A baseline-free, GKSF-based method is developed to detect and localize structural damage in brid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Health Monitoring in Bridge Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,258 Views
16 Pages

An ECG Signal De-Noising Approach Based on Wavelet Energy and Sub-Band Smoothing Filter

  • Dengyong Zhang,
  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Feng Li,
  • Jin Wang and ,
  • Arun Kumar Sangaiah,
  • Victor S. Sheng and
  • Xiangling Ding
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 November 2019

Electrocardiographic (ECG) signal is essential to diagnose and analyse cardiac disease. However, ECG signals are susceptible to be contaminated with various noises, which affect the application value of ECG signals. In this paper, we propose an ECG s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Computing with Big Data System over Secure Internet of Things )
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,629 Views
21 Pages

8 January 2025

In this paper, a novel particle filter based on one-step smoothing is proposed for nonlinear systems with random one-step delay and missing measurements. Such problems are commonly encountered in networked control systems, where random one-step delay...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
11,309 Views
19 Pages

Comparison of Smoothing Filters in Analysis of EEG Data for the Medical Diagnostics Purposes

  • Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk,
  • Michal Podpora,
  • Mariusz Pelc,
  • Monika Blaszczyszyn and ,
  • Edward Jacek Gorzelanczyk,
  • Radek Martinek and
  • Stepan Ozana
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 February 2020

This paper covers a brief review of both the advantages and disadvantages of the implementation of various smoothing filters in the analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data for the purpose of potential medical diagnostics. The EEG data are very...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing of Sensor Data: Recent Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,475 Views
27 Pages

An Improved Smooth Variable Structure Filter for Robust Target Tracking

  • Yu Chen,
  • Luping Xu,
  • Guangmin Wang,
  • Bo Yan and
  • Jingrong Sun

16 November 2021

As a new-style filter, the smooth variable structure filter (SVSF) has attracted significant interest. Based on the predictor-corrector method and sliding mode concept, the SVSF is more robust in the face of modeling errors and uncertainties compared...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Signal Processing for Target Tracking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,417 Views
25 Pages

Dynamic Smoothing, Filtering and Differentiation of Signals Defining the Path of the UAV

  • Aleksey S. Antipov,
  • Julia G. Kokunko,
  • Svetlana A. Krasnova and
  • Victor A. Utkin

4 December 2022

On the example of a control system for an unmanned aerial vehicle, we consider the problems of filtering, smoothing and restoring derivatives of reference action signals. These signals determine the desired spatial path of the plant at the first appr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Mobile Things and Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,134 Views
25 Pages

27 September 2023

The aim of the research is to identify the optimal method for smoothing the surface of a hybrid digital bathymetric model (HDBM). The initiation of this research is justified by the fact that a model created from diverse types of data may have differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing of the Inland and Coastal Water Zones II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,140 Views
17 Pages

6 May 2024

This paper introduces a novel filter algorithm termed as an MKMC-CSVSF which combined square-root cubature Kalman (SR-CKF) and smooth variable structure filtering (SVSF) under multi-kernel maximum correntropy criterion (MKMC) for accurately estimatin...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,329 Views
16 Pages

A Data Reconstruction Method for Inspection Mode in GBSAR Monitoring Using Sage–Husa Adaptive Kalman Filtering and RTS Smoothing

  • Yaolong Qi,
  • Jialiang Guo,
  • Jiaxin Hui,
  • Ting Hou and ,
  • Pingping Huang,
  • Weixian Tan and
  • Wei Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2025

Ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GBSAR) has been widely used in the fields of early warning of geologic hazards and deformation monitoring of engineering structures due to its characteristics of high spatial resolution, zero spatial baseline, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,595 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2017

High-accuracy railway track surveying is essential for railway construction and maintenance. The traditional approaches based on total station equipment are not efficient enough since high precision surveying frequently needs static measurements. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,451 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2021

Battery Management Systems (BMSs) are used to manage the utilization of batteries and their operation in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. It is imperative for efficient and safe operation of batteries to be able to accurately estimate the State of Charg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art in Electric Vehicle Battery State of Charge, Health and Power Estimation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,212 Views
23 Pages

27 May 2017

This paper gives a detailed overview of the current state of research in relation to the use of state space models and the Kalman-filter in the field of stochastic claims reserving. Most of these state space representations are matrix-based, which co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,315 Views
12 Pages

Determination of the Cutoff Frequency of Smoothing Filters for Center of Pressure (COP) Data via Kinetic Energy in Standing Dogs

  • Julia Wegscheider,
  • Christiane Lutonsky,
  • Nadja Affenzeller,
  • Masoud Aghapour and ,
  • Barbara Bockstahler and
  • Christian Peham
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 September 2025

This article investigates the determination of the optimal cutoff frequency of smoothing filters for motion data based on kinetic energy. The underlying hypothesis is that an upper limit of kinetic energy can serve as a basis for setting the cutoff f...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,283 Views
20 Pages

13 February 2023

At present, in the situation that wind power penetration is increasing year by year, the use of a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) to smooth out wind power fluctuations becomes an effective method. However, the existing control strategy has the pr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Distributed Energy Systems and Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,653 Views
23 Pages

5 March 2025

When collecting data using ERT2D (2D electrical resistivity tomography) and TDIPT2D (2D time domain-induced polarization), different phenomena can occur, which can cause natural or anthropogenic noise, contaminating the data and making its processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,084 Views
10 Pages

Computer-Vision-Based Statue Detection with Gaussian Smoothing Filter and EfficientDet

  • Mubarak Auwalu Saleh,
  • Zubaida Said Ameen,
  • Chadi Altrjman and
  • Fadi Al-Turjman

12 September 2022

Smart tourism is a developing industry, and numerous nations are planning to establish smart cities in which technology is employed to make life easier and link nearly everything. Many researchers have created object detectors; however, there is a de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role and Impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,294 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2024

Image fusion is an effective and efficient way to express the feature information of an infrared image and abundant detailed information of a visible image in a single fused image. However, obtaining a fused result with good visual effect, while pres...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,096 Views
14 Pages

Adaptive Integrated Navigation Algorithm Based on Interactive Filter

  • Bin Zhao,
  • Chunlei Gao,
  • Hui Xia,
  • Jinxia Han and
  • Ying Zhu

23 July 2025

To address the diverse requirements of accuracy and robustness in integrated navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles, an interactive robust filter algorithm that integrates the interactive multiple model concept and leverages the complementary applic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Environment Perception, Decision Planning, and Intelligent Control of Transport Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
12,759 Views
13 Pages

22 May 2021

An oscillatory S-curve causes unexpected fluctuations in a unit hydrograph (UH) of desired duration or an instantaneous UH (IUH) that may affect the constraints for hydrologic stability. On the other hand, the Savitzky–Golay smoothing and differentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,161 Views
24 Pages

Improving V2G Systems Performance with Low-Pass Filter and Fuzzy Logic for PV Power Smoothing in Weak Low-Voltage Networks

  • Edisson Villa-Ávila,
  • Paul Arévalo,
  • Danny Ochoa-Correa,
  • Juan Leonardo Espinoza and ,
  • Esteban Albornoz-Vintimilla and
  • Francisco Jurado
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 February 2025

The rapid integration of photovoltaic (PV) energy into weak low-voltage networks presents significant challenges to grid stability and power quality, highlighting the need for effective power smoothing methods. This paper proposes and evaluates three...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,612 Views
22 Pages

18 April 2025

In view of the typical multi-target scenarios of underwater direction-of-arrival (DOA) tracking complicated by uncertain measurement noise in unknown underwater environments, a robust underwater multi-target DOA tracking method is proposed by incorpo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,487 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Divergence-Free Hatch Filter for GNSS Single-Frequency Measurement

  • Byungwoon Park,
  • Cheolsoon Lim,
  • Youngsun Yun,
  • Euiho Kim and
  • Changdon Kee

24 February 2017

The Hatch filter is a code-smoothing technique that uses the variation of the carrier phase. It can effectively reduce the noise of a pseudo-range with a very simple filter construction, but it occasionally causes an ionosphere-induced error for low-...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,981 Views
20 Pages

On-Line Temperature Estimation for Noisy Thermal Sensors Using a Smoothing Filter-Based Kalman Predictor

  • Xin Li,
  • Xingtao Ou,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Henglu Wei and ,
  • Wei Zhou and
  • Zhemin Duan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 February 2018

Dynamic thermal management (DTM) mechanisms utilize embedded thermal sensors to collect fine-grained temperature information for monitoring the real-time thermal behavior of multi-core processors. However, embedded thermal sensors are very susceptibl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Infrared Imaging: Sensing, Exploitation and Applications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,017 Views
11 Pages

25 January 2022

Bilateral Filtering (BF) is an effective edge-preserving smoothing technique in image processing. However, an inherent problem of BF for image denoising is that it is challenging to differentiate image noise and details with the range kernel, thus of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence in Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,747 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2019

In May 2016, the availability of GNSS raw measurements on smart devices was announced by Google with the release of Android 7. It means that developers can access carrier-phase and pseudorange measurements and decode navigation messages for the first...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Navigation Satellite Systems for Earth Observing System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,420 Views
16 Pages

13 May 2016

In this paper, a novel nonlinear framework of smoothing method, non-Gaussian delayed particle smoother (nGDPS), is proposed, which enables vehicle state estimation (VSE) with high accuracy taking into account the non-Gaussianity of the measurement an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,827 Views
20 Pages

Integrated Quantitative Evaluation Method of SAR Filters

  • Fengcheng Guo,
  • Chuang Sun,
  • Ning Sun,
  • Xiaoxiao Ma and
  • Wensong Liu

2 March 2023

An excellent quantitative evaluation method of SAR de-speckling filters needs to contain a comprehensive evaluation of both noise smoothing and edge preservation. However, most existing evaluation models only evaluate a single aspect, while a few com...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,236 Views
20 Pages

21 May 2012

Wind power parallel operation is an effective way to realize the large scale use of wind power, but the fluctuations of power output from wind power units may have great influence on power quality, hence a new method of power smoothing and capacity o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Turbines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,945 Views
29 Pages

A Two-Filter Approach for State Estimation Utilizing Quantized Output Data

  • Angel L. Cedeño,
  • Ricardo Albornoz,
  • Rodrigo Carvajal,
  • Boris I. Godoy and
  • Juan C. Agüero

18 November 2021

Filtering and smoothing algorithms are key tools to develop decision-making strategies and parameter identification techniques in different areas of research, such as economics, financial data analysis, communications, and control systems. These algo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,185 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Energy Power Quality in Low-Voltage Networks Integrating Renewable Energy Generation: A Case Study in a Microgrid Laboratory

  • Edisson Villa-Ávila,
  • Paul Arévalo,
  • Roque Aguado,
  • Danny Ochoa-Correa and ,
  • Vinicio Iñiguez-Morán,
  • Francisco Jurado and
  • Marcos Tostado-Véliz
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 July 2023

Nowadays, energy decarbonization due to integrating renewable energy sources presents important challenges to overcome. The intermittent nature of photovoltaic systems reduces power quality by producing voltage variations and frequency deviations in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges of Renewable Energy in Developing Countries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,201 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2020

The smooth variable structure filter (SVSF) is a new-type filter based on the sliding-mode concepts and has good stability and robustness in overcoming the modeling uncertainties and errors. However, SVSF is insufficient to suppress Gaussian noise. A...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,861 Views
34 Pages

19 February 2025

This study explores smoothing techniques to refine financial risk tolerance (FRT) data for the improved prediction of financial market indicators, including the Volatility Index and S&P 500 ETF. Raw FRT data often contain noise and volatility, ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,343 Views
22 Pages

13 July 2023

The absence of a reliable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal leads to degraded position robustness in standalone receivers. To address this issue, integrating GNSS with inertial measurement units (IMUs) can improve positioning accuracy....

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,019 Views
16 Pages

This article presents the smoothed shock filter, which iteratively produces local segmentations in image’s inflection zones with smoothed morphological operators (dilations, erosions). Hence, it enhances contours by creating smoothed ruptures, while...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2020 Selected Papers from Journal of Imaging Editorial Board Members)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,877 Views
22 Pages

In recent years, the application of Deep Neural Networks to gas recognition has been developing. The classification performance of the Deep Neural Network depends on the efficient representation of the input data samples. Therefore, a variety of filt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Sensors for Volatile Organic Compound Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,886 Views
20 Pages

Multisensor-Based Target-Tracking Algorithm with Out-of-Sequence-Measurements in Cluttered Environments

  • Ihsan Ullah,
  • Muhammad Bilal Qureshi,
  • Uzair Khan,
  • Sufyan Ali Memon and ,
  • Yifang Shi and
  • Dongliang Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 November 2018

A localization and tracking algorithm for an early-warning tracking system based on the information fusion of Infrared (IR) sensor and Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) is proposed. The proposed Kalman filter scheme incorporates Out-of-Sequence Mea...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,680 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2013

The generic properties of an acoustic signal provide numerous benefits for localization by applying energy-based methods over a deployed wireless sensor network (WSN). However, the signal generated by a stationary target utilizes a significant amount...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,190 Views
21 Pages

27 February 2015

The Kalman filter (KF) is an extremely powerful and versatile tool for signal processing that has been applied extensively in various fields. We introduce a novel Kalman-based analysis procedure that encompasses robustness towards outliers, Kalman sm...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Views
26 Pages

6 November 2026

Frame-level classification fluctuations in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based selective fixed-filter active noise control (SFANC) can trigger abrupt controller-filter switching and click/pop transients. This study proposes a switching-stabiliza...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Design and Optimization of Fault Diagnosis Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,583 Views
18 Pages

On-Line Smoothing for an Integrated Navigation System with Low-Cost MEMS Inertial Sensors

  • Kai-Wei Chiang,
  • Thanh Trung Duong,
  • Jhen-Kai Liao,
  • Ying-Chih Lai and ,
  • Chin-Chia Chang,
  • Jia-Ming Cai and
  • Shih-Ching Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 December 2012

The integration of the Inertial Navigation System (INS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely applied to seamlessly determine the time-variable position and orientation parameters of a system for navigation and mobile mapping applications...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
846 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2026

GNSS/INS integrated navigation systems play a critical role in marine navigation, providing high-precision position and attitude information for moving platforms. However, in complex marine environments—such as occlusions caused by offshore eng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue INS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Systems: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
12,965 Views
28 Pages

10 December 2014

A data assimilation method to produce complete temporal sequences of synthetic medium-resolution images is presented. The method implements a Kalman filter recursive algorithm that integrates medium and moderate resolution imagery. To demonstrate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,930 Views
16 Pages

Covariance-Based Estimation for Clustered Sensor Networks Subject to Random Deception Attacks

  • Raquel Caballero-Águila,
  • Aurora Hermoso-Carazo and
  • Josefa Linares-Pérez

14 July 2019

In this paper, a cluster-based approach is used to address the distributed fusion estimation problem (filtering and fixed-point smoothing) for discrete-time stochastic signals in the presence of random deception attacks. At each sampling time, measur...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,581 Views
20 Pages

Accurate forecasting of COVID-19 case numbers is critical for timely and effective public health interventions. However, epidemiological data’s irregular and noisy nature often undermines the predictive performance. This study examines the infl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications in Public Health: 2nd Edition)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1,790 Views
7 Pages

14 August 2023

(1) Background: mfERG testing is used to study the function of cone photoreceptors in the central retina. Various filters including “smoothing” (Smooth) and “adaptive data filtering” (Adapt) are used to simplify raw data. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Fundus Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,283 Views
16 Pages

UV-B Filter Octylmethoxycinnamate Induces Vasorelaxation by Ca2+ Channel Inhibition and Guanylyl Cyclase Activation in Human Umbilical Arteries

  • Margarida Lorigo,
  • Carla Quintaneiro,
  • Manuel C. Lemos,
  • José Martinez-de-Oliveira and ,
  • Luiza Breitenfeld and
  • Elisa Cairrao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Ultraviolet (UV) filters are chemicals widely used in personal care products (PCPs). Due to their effect as endocrine disruptor compounds (EDCs), the toxicity of UV filters is a current concern for human health. EDC exposure may be correlated to card...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
651 Views
21 Pages

Accurate online tracking of state of charge (SOC) inconsistency in lithium-ion battery packs is essential for safety. It is equally critical for effective battery management in real-world operation. To achieve robust performance in dynamic battery en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State Estimation and Efficient Charging Strategies for Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
228 Views
25 Pages

22 October 2026

This review surveys the mathematical theory and methods of state estimation for stochastic dynamical systems when the Gaussian-linear-least-squares paradigm fails, focusing on the role of sparsity-promoting and constraint-encoding regularization. The...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,421 Views
21 Pages

2 February 2018

We developed a new strategy for a synchronous generation of real-time (RT) and near real-time (NRT) tropospheric products. It exploits the precise point positioning method with Kalman filtering and backward smoothing, both supported by real-time orbi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
731 Views
18 Pages

9 March 2026

Wind power generation exhibits pronounced volatility and intermittency, and direct grid connection may cause instability in grid frequency. To address this issue, this paper proposes an optimisation strategy for hybrid energy storage systems to mitig...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)

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