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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,738 Views
16 Pages

The accurate assessment of peanut seed plumpness is crucial for optimizing peanut production and quality. The current method is mainly manual and visual inspection, which is very time-consuming and causes seed deterioration. A novel imaging technique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,386 Views
15 Pages

29 August 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising method by coupling with L0, L1 and L2 gradient minimization. Our proposed method smoothes the gradient difference between image pixels and noise pixels and sharpens the edges by increasing the steepne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
5,436 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Approach to Generalized Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets and Its Application in Decision Support System

  • Muhammad Jabir Khan,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Peide Liu,
  • Wiyada Kumam and
  • Shahzaib Ashraf

13 August 2019

The basic idea underneath the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy soft set is very constructive in decision making, since it considers how to exploit an extra intuitionistic fuzzy input from the director to make up for any distortion in the information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
793 Views
18 Pages

28 September 2025

Partial discharge (PD) signals are used to evaluate the insulation condition of stators in electrical machines. Their measurements are often heavily corrupted by ambient noise, making denoising essential for effective detection and analysis of PD sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
399 Views
19 Pages

18 November 2025

Infrasound leakage signals, with low propagation energy loss, are ideal for long-distance and small leakage detection but suffer severe background noise interference. Existing wavelet denoising methods using traditional soft/hard threshold functions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,085 Views
18 Pages

4 May 2024

Soft rocks are prone to softening upon contact with water, and their rapid deterioration in mechanical properties is a significant cause of instability and failure soft rock masses. Besides, the macroscopic mechanical response of rocks is closely rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
767 Views
27 Pages

Ultrasonic Localization of Transformer Patrol Robot Based on Wavelet Transform and Narrowband Beamforming

  • Hongxin Ji,
  • Zijian Tang,
  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Chao Zheng,
  • Xinghua Liu and
  • Liqing Liu

13 September 2025

The large size and metal-enclosed casings of oil-immersed power transformers present significant challenges for patrol robots attempting to accurately locate their position within the transformer. Therefore, this paper proposes a three-dimensional sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,196 Views
18 Pages

29 November 2021

Signal features can be obscured in noisy environments, resulting in low accuracy of radar emitter signal recognition based on traditional methods. To improve the ability of learning features from noisy signals, a new radar emitter signal recognition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,291 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2021

High-G accelerometers are mainly used for motion measurement in some special fields, such as projectile penetration and aerospace equipment. This paper mainly explores the wavelet threshold denoising and wavelet packet threshold denoising in wavelet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,854 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2021

Soft compression is a lossless image compression method that is committed to eliminating coding redundancy and spatial redundancy simultaneously. To do so, it adopts shapes to encode an image. In this paper, we propose a compressible indicator functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,584 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2024

To achieve high-precision geomagnetic matching navigation, a reliable geomagnetic anomaly basemap is essential. However, the accuracy of the geomagnetic anomaly basemap is often compromised by noise data that are inherent in the process of data acqui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,299 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2022

With the growth of factory automation, deep learning-based methods have become popular diagnostic tools because they can extract features automatically and diagnose faults under various fault conditions. Among these methods, a novelty detection appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
11,155 Views
16 Pages

10 August 2012

In structural vibration tests, one of the main factors which disturb the reliability and accuracy of the results are the noise signals encountered. To overcome this deficiency, this paper presents a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) approach to denois...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,708 Views
13 Pages

27 July 2023

Among various network compression methods, network pruning has developed rapidly due to its superior compression performance. However, the trivial pruning threshold limits the compression performance of pruning. Most conventional pruning threshold me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,002 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2023

The wavelet threshold functions are widely used in oil chromatography denoising because high-quality signals are the basis for Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA), which determines the accuracy of transformer fault monitoring. However, there are certain lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,536 Views
12 Pages

4 February 2019

It is difficult to capture the real-time online measurement data for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in wastewater treatment processes. An optimized extreme learning machine (ELM) based on an improved cuckoo search algorithm (ICS) is proposed in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,015 Views
22 Pages

Road embankments along irrigation canals, constructed on soft Bangkok clay, have always been unstable. Numerous studies have shown that rapid drawdown of water level may be one of the main causes, while vehicle cyclic loading may also contribute to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,976 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2023

Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems often suffer from unscheduled maintenance or abnormal shutdown due to the fault of their interior sensor system. Traditional fault diagnosis methods for HVAC sensor systems primarily focus on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,393 Views
17 Pages

Data Analysis Approach for Incomplete Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets

  • Hongwu Qin,
  • Huifang Li,
  • Xiuqin Ma,
  • Zhangyun Gong,
  • Yuntao Cheng and
  • Qinghua Fei

27 June 2020

The model of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets is a novel excellent solution which can manage the uncertainty and fuzziness of data. However, when we apply this model into practical applications, it is an indisputable fact that there are...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,233 Views
12 Pages

Machine Learning-Assisted Mitigation of Optical Multipath Interference in PAM4 IM-DD Transmission Systems

  • Wenxin Cui,
  • Jiahao Huo,
  • Jin Zhu,
  • Jianlong Tao,
  • Peng Qin,
  • Xiaoying Zhang and
  • Haolin Bai

This paper aims to mitigate multipath interference (MPI) in intensity modulation with direct detection (IM-DD) systems using machine learning techniques, specifically for four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) systems. We propose a machine lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,316 Views
21 Pages

24 December 2018

Owing to the problems that imperfect decomposition process of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) denoising algorithm and poor self-adaptability, it will be extremely difficult to reduce the noise of signal. In this paper, a noise reduction method of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,475 Views
16 Pages

27 December 2023

Macular pathologies can cause significant vision loss. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the retina can assist ophthalmologists in diagnosing macular diseases. Traditional deep learning networks for retinal disease classification cannot ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,195 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2021

In this paper, a fault diagnosis algorithm named improved one-dimensional deep residual shrinkage network with a wide convolutional layer (1D-WIDRSN) is proposed for quadrotor propellers with minor damage, which can effectively identify the fault cla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,602 Views
17 Pages

27 February 2024

Dynamic decision-making is the process of seeking optimal choice with multiple related attributes under the multi-time-point situation. Considering that the time-varying nature of decision information can have a specific impact on the psychology of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,294 Views
12 Pages

An Analytical Approach to Calculate Soft Error Rate Induced by Atmospheric Neutrons

  • Frédéric Wrobel,
  • Ygor Aguiar,
  • Cleiton Marques,
  • Giuseppe Lerner,
  • Rubén García Alía,
  • Frédéric Saigné and
  • Jérôme Boch

27 December 2022

In the atmosphere, it is generally understood that neutrons are the main contributor to the soft error rate (SER) in electronic devices. These particles are indeed able to trigger nuclear reactions in the sensitive regions of the devices, leading to...

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Multi-Scale Soft-Thresholding Attention Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Recognition

  • Xin Ma,
  • Linfeng Sui,
  • Ruixuan Chen,
  • Taiyo Maeda and
  • Jianting Cao

8 January 2026

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of preventable vision loss, and its early detection is essential for timely clinical intervention. However, existing deep learning-based DR recognition methods still face two fundamental challenges: substant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,082 Views
24 Pages

6 June 2022

Due to energy efficiency, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gradually been considered as an alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various machine learning tasks. In image recognition tasks, leveraging the superior capability of CNN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
277 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Layer-Dependent Threshold Function for Wavelet Denoising of ECG and Multimode Fiber Cardiorespiratory Signals

  • Yuanfang Zhang,
  • Kaimin Yu,
  • Chufeng Huang,
  • Ruiting Qu,
  • Zhichun Fan,
  • Peibin Zhu,
  • Wen Chen and
  • Jianzhong Hao

17 December 2025

This paper proposes an adaptive layer-dependent threshold function (ALDTF) for denoising electrocardiogram (ECG) and multimode optical fiber-based cardiopulmonary signals. Based on wavelet transform, the method employs a layer-dependent threshold fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
939 Views
26 Pages

14 June 2025

In deformation monitoring, complex environments, such as seismic excitation, often lead to noise during signal acquisition and transmission processing. This study integrates sequential variational mode decomposition (SVMD), a dual-parameter (DP) mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,558 Views
17 Pages

A Symmetrical Leech-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot Based on Gesture Control

  • Jiabiao Li,
  • Ruiheng Liu,
  • Tianyu Zhang and
  • Jianbin Liu

This paper presents a novel soft crawling robot controlled by gesture recognition, aimed at enhancing the operability and adaptability of soft robots through natural human–computer interactions. The Leap Motion sensor is employed to capture han...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,999 Views
16 Pages

Bio-inspired thin-wall structures with excellent mechanical properties, high-energy absorption capabilities, and a desirable lightweight level have been extensively applied to the passive safety protection of transportation and aerospace. Collaborati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
18,473 Views
27 Pages

18 May 2019

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images map Earth’s surface at high resolution, regardless of the weather conditions or sunshine phenomena. Therefore, SAR images have applications in various fields. Speckle noise, which has the characteristic of...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,494 Views
9 Pages

Can In-Line Iodine Value Predictions (NitFomTM) Be Used for Early Classification of Pork Belly Firmness?

  • Stephanie Lam,
  • Bethany Uttaro,
  • Benjamin M. Bohrer,
  • Marcio Duarte and
  • Manuel Juárez

6 January 2022

Commercial technologies for assessing meat quality may be useful for performing early in-line belly firmness classification. This study used 207 pork carcasses to measure predicted iodine value (IV) at the clear plate region of the carcass with an in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,781 Views
23 Pages

13 March 2022

A data-driven prediction method is proposed to predict the soft fault and estimate the service life of a DC–DC-converter circuit. First, based on adaptive online non-bias least-square support-vector machine (AONBLSSVM) and the double-population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,719 Views
14 Pages

A Method for Automatically Predicting the Radiation-Induced Vulnerability of Unit Integrated Circuits

  • Rui Dong,
  • Hongliang Lu,
  • Caozhen Yang,
  • Yutao Zhang,
  • Ruxue Yao,
  • Yujian Wang and
  • Yuming Zhang

18 April 2024

With the rapid development of semiconductor technology, the reduction in device operating voltage and threshold voltage has made integrated circuits more susceptible to the effects of particle radiation. Moreover, as process sizes decrease, the impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,177 Views
15 Pages

4 August 2021

Signal denoising is one of the most important issues in signal processing, and various techniques have been proposed to address this issue. A combined method involving wavelet decomposition and multiscale principal component analysis (MSPCA) has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,351 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2024

Seismic inversion is a process of imaging or predicting the spatial and physical properties of underground strata. The most commonly used one is sparse-spike seismic inversion with sparse regularization. There are many effective methods to solve spar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,361 Views
19 Pages

20 June 2024

The issue of uneven ground settlement caused by the excavation of subway tunnels represents a significant challenge in the design and construction of subway projects. This paper examined the fractal characteristics of surface settlement caused by sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,156 Views
27 Pages

A New Blind Selection Approach for Lunar Landing Zones Based on Engineering Constraints Using Sliding Window

  • Hengxi Liu,
  • Yongzhi Wang,
  • Shibo Wen,
  • Jianzhong Liu,
  • Jiaxiang Wang,
  • Yaqin Cao,
  • Zhiguo Meng and
  • Yuanzhi Zhang

19 June 2023

Deep space exploration has risen in interest among scientists in recent years, with soft landings being one of the most straightforward ways to acquire knowledge about the Moon. In general, landing mission success depends on the selection of landing...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,413 Views
14 Pages

Fast Frequency-Diverse Radar Imaging Based on Adaptive Sampling Iterative Soft-Thresholding Deep Unfolding Network

  • Zhenhua Wu,
  • Fafa Zhao,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Yice Cao,
  • Jun Qian,
  • Jiafei Xu and
  • Lixia Yang

26 June 2023

Frequency-diverse radar imaging is an emerging field that combines computational imaging with frequency-diverse techniques to interrogate the high-quality images of objects. Despite the success of deep reconstruction networks in improving scene image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,065 Views
14 Pages

Comparing Inertial Measurement Units to Markerless Video Analysis for Movement Symmetry in Quarter Horses

  • Thilo Pfau,
  • Kiki Landsbergen,
  • Brittany L. Davis,
  • Olivia Kenny,
  • Nicole Kernot,
  • Nina Rochard,
  • Marion Porte-Proust,
  • Holly Sparks,
  • Yuji Takahashi and
  • Kasara Toth
  • + 1 author

12 October 2023

Background: With an increasing number of systems for quantifying lameness-related movement asymmetry, between-system comparisons under non-laboratory conditions are important for multi-centre or referral-level studies. This study compares an artifici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,277 Views
11 Pages

14 November 2022

Current soft scalding in broilers is not applicable to various strains of chickens with different market weights and ages. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of soft (57 °C for 120 s) and hard (60 °C for 60 s) scalding on defeather...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,063 Views
13 Pages

9 December 2017

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a promising imaging technology of permittivity distributions in multiphase flow. To reduce the effect of charging phenomenon on ECT measurement, an improved extreme learning machine method combined with adap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,368 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2024

Monitoring tree growth helps operators better understand the growth mechanism of trees and the health status of trees and to formulate more effective management measures. Computer vision technology can quickly restore the three-dimensional geometric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,734 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2021

According to the acousto elastic effect, the residual stress on the surface of the rail can be evaluated by measuring the change in the propagation velocity of ultrasonic waves, such as longitudinal critically refracted (LCR) waves on the surface of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,251 Views
25 Pages

A Lightweight Multi-Source Fast Android Malware Detection Model

  • Tao Peng,
  • Bochao Hu,
  • Junping Liu,
  • Junjie Huang,
  • Zili Zhang,
  • Ruhan He and
  • Xinrong Hu

26 May 2022

Most of the current malware detection methods running on Android are based on signature and cloud technologies leading to poor protection against new types of malware. Deep learning techniques take Android malware detection to a new level. Still, mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,942 Views
19 Pages

28 January 2024

With the development of modern military technology, electrical drive technology has become a power source for modern artillery. In fault monitoring of a driving motor mounted on a piece of artillery, various sensors are susceptible to interference fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
12 Pages

Dual-Wavelength Cascade Pumping for Low-Threshold and High-Efficiency 4.4 μm Emission in Dy3+:InF3 Fiber Laser: A Numerical Investigation

  • Linhai Yuan,
  • Shuaibin Hu,
  • Jianghao Gan,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Yizhou Hu,
  • Yuchen Wang,
  • Jun Liu and
  • Pinghua Tang

9 November 2025

Dy3+:InF3 fiber shows promise for 4.4 μm mid-infrared lasing, but the much shorter lifetime of its upper laser level compared to the lower level causes inevitable self-termination. While cascade 4.4 μm/3 μm lasing has been proposed as a pote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,692 Views
27 Pages

7 April 2025

Drowsiness while driving poses a significant risk in terms of road safety, making effective drowsiness detection systems essential for the prevention of accidents. Facial signal-based detection methods have proven to be an effective approach to drows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,433 Views
29 Pages

A New Adaptive Spatial Filtering Method in the Wavelet Domain for Medical Images

  • Maria Simona Răboacă,
  • Cătălin Dumitrescu,
  • Constantin Filote and
  • Ioana Manta

17 August 2020

Although there are many methods in the literature to eliminate noise from images, finding new methods remains a challenge in the field and, despite the complexity of existing methods, many of the methods do not reach a sufficient level of applicabili...

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