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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,642 Views
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Edge Consistency Feature Extraction Method for Multi-Source Image Registration

  • Yang Zhou,
  • Zhen Han,
  • Zeng Dou,
  • Chengbin Huang and ,
  • Li Cong,
  • Ning Lv and
  • Chen Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 October 2023

Multi-source image registration has often suffered from great radiation and geometric differences. Specifically, grayscale and texture from similar landforms in different source images often show significantly different visual features, and these dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Convergence of Remote Sensing, Communication, and Computing for 6G Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,252 Views
20 Pages

Achieving seamless integration between virtual objects and real scenes has always been an important issue in augmented reality (AR) research. To achieve this, it is necessary to provide virtual objects with real-time and accurate lighting conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
240 Views
23 Pages

17 September 2026

Sentiment classification often relies on costly in-domain annotations, while weak-supervision sources provide low-cost but inconsistent labels. We propose Multi-Source Reliability-Aware Aggregation and Cross-domain Consistency Learning (MSRA-CCL) for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
442 Views
21 Pages

Finite-Aperture Ultrasound Field Reproduction in Coarse-Grid FDTD via Operator-Consistent Source Reduction

  • Hui Zhang,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Weicheng Yan,
  • Yun Wu and ,
  • Xiang Guo,
  • Xiang Zhou,
  • Pengcheng Zhang,
  • Zaituo Li,
  • Hongrui Tan and
  • Ming Yuchi
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) typically employs finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods to solve the wave equation under the point-source assumption. For computational efficiency, the coarsest grid that satisfies dispersion and stability require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Medical Ultrasound Tomography Technology and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,630 Views
16 Pages

Biological Concepts as a Source of Inspiration for Efficiency, Consistency, and Sufficiency

  • Olga Speck,
  • Martin Möller,
  • Rainer Grießhammer and
  • Thomas Speck

20 July 2022

Sustainable development is a global challenge addressed by the 2030 Agenda with internationally adopted goals. The consideration of the three major sustainability strategies of efficiency, consistency, and sufficiency can guide us toward more sustain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,902 Views
20 Pages

A Multi-Source Consistency Domain Adaptation Neural Network MCDANN for Fault Diagnosis

  • Heng Chen,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Shikun Zhou,
  • Yingying Yue and
  • Ninggang An

8 October 2022

As the complexity and cost of industrial systems continue to increase, so does the need for the safety and reliability of industrial systems. In recent years, in the field of mechanical fault diagnosis, methods based on deep learning are gradually ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,460 Views
13 Pages

Adaptive Contrastive Learning with Label Consistency for Source Data Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

  • Xuejun Zhao,
  • Rafal Stanislawski,
  • Paolo Gardoni,
  • Maciej Sulowicz and ,
  • Adam Glowacz,
  • Grzegorz Krolczyk and
  • Zhixiong Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 June 2022

Unsupervised domain adaptation, which aims to alleviate the domain shift between source domain and target domain, has attracted extensive research interest; however, this is unlikely in practical application scenarios, which may be due to privacy iss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,073 Views
25 Pages

Vector road networks are vital components of intelligent transportation systems and electronic navigation maps. There is a pressing need for efficient and rapid dynamic updates for road network data. In this paper, we propose a series of methods desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
24 Pages

9 September 2026

Published source models for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake differ in shallow slip, northern rupture contribution, and peak-slip location, producing different predictions of coseismic deformation and tsunami-relevant seafloor motion. This study does n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Visualization: Evaluation and Monitoring of Geohazards—3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,586 Views
37 Pages

Due to the weak signal power and the publicly known structure of civil signals, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) face an increasingly severe threat from spoofing interference. Constrained by inherent limitations such as physical boundaries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,579 Views
23 Pages

12 January 2021

Land cover products are an indispensable data source in land surface process research, and their accuracy directly affects the reliability of related research. Due to the differences in factors such as satellite sensors, the temporal–spatial re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
39 Pages

Spatiotemporal Variations and Spatially Associated Factors of Drought in Hebei Province Based on Multi-Source Consistency Evaluation of Remote Sensing Drought Indices

  • Suya Zhao,
  • Kaiyu Wang,
  • Xia Zhang,
  • Guofei Shang and ,
  • Chengyu Liu,
  • Tengyuan Cui and
  • Jingyi Ren
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 August 2026

Global climate change has intensified drought risk, threatening water resources, agriculture, and ecosystems. This study evaluated four Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based drought indices in Hebei Province: the evapotranspirat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
19 Pages

Sensor Phase Information Compensation Method Based on MQPSO

  • Fengcai Cao,
  • Ruyu Luo,
  • Wenhao Li,
  • Yonghong Tian and
  • Jian Li

23 October 2025

In the source location of underground explosions, the phase non-consistency among sensors can cause significant errors in the extraction of the time difference in the arrival of seismic waves, seriously affecting the accuracy of source location. To a...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,188 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2024

Deep learning has achieved remarkable progress in medical image analysis, but its effectiveness heavily relies on large-scale and well-annotated datasets. However, assembling a large-scale dataset of annotated histopathological images is challenging...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,263 Views
15 Pages

22 November 2024

The extended noncommutative modified KP (exncmKP) hierarchy is firstly constructed, which gives rise to two types of the ncmKP equation with self-consistent sources (ncmKPESCSs). Then, the noncommutative (NC) Miura transformation between the extended...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,242 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2024

The symmetry for two-dimensional (2D) dispersionless Toda lattice hierarchy (dTLH) is firstly derived, and then the 2D dTLH is extended based on the symmetry constraint. The commutativity of two different flows for this new hierarchy is shown, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Methods and Applications Related to Integrable Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,580 Views
11 Pages

18 August 2021

For the FNS-ST compact neutron source, the dependence of the neutron yield on the tritium content in the bulk plasma is analyzed for the operation of the heating injectors with different isotope compositions of the neutral beams. Self-consistent simu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fusion Engineering and Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
25 Pages

21 September 2026

Maize is globally important for food production, while insect pests adversely affect its yield and quality. Multi-source physiological and spectral responses can support early pest identification, but variable correlations and temporal changes in dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,538 Views
15 Pages

3 June 2023

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) can monitor the real-time hemodynamic state of a conscious and spontaneously breathing patient noninvasively. However, cardiac volume signal (CVS) extracted from EIT images has a small amplitude and is sensitive...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,163 Views
19 Pages

Consistency Analysis and Accuracy Evaluation of Multi-Source Land Cover Data Products in the Eastern European Plain

  • Guangmao Jiang,
  • Juanle Wang,
  • Kai Li,
  • Chen Xu and ,
  • Heng Li,
  • Zongyi Jin and
  • Jingxuan Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 August 2023

Land-use and land-cover changes in the Eastern European Plain have important implications for regional and global ecological environments, food security, and socio-economic development. Here, three 30 m resolution global land cover data products (FRO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accuracy Assessment and Validation of Remotely Sensed Data and Product II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,917 Views
25 Pages

Spatial Consistency and Accuracy Analysis of Multi-Source Land Cover Products on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

  • Binghua Zhang,
  • Linshan Liu,
  • Yili Zhang,
  • Bo Wei and ,
  • Dianqing Gong and
  • Lanhui Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 August 2024

Land cover products provide the key inputs for terrestrial change monitoring and modeling. Numerous land cover products have been generated in the past few decades, but their performance on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau remains unclear. This study...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Land Use Change and Its Ecological Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,775 Views
21 Pages

Consistency Analysis of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Land Cover Products in Arid Regions—A Case Study of Xinjiang

  • Shen Liu,
  • Zhonglin Xu,
  • Yuchuan Guo,
  • Tingting Yu and ,
  • Fujin Xu and
  • Yao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 December 2023

Arid regions are considered to be among the most ecologically fragile and highly sensitive to environmental change globally, and land use and land cover conditions in the region directly influence large-scale ecosystem processes. Currently, thanks to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,361 Views
20 Pages

Symmetry-Guided Prototype Alignment and Entropy Consistency for Multi-Source Pedestrian ReID in Power Grids: A Domain Adaptation Framework

  • Jia He,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Xiaofeng Zhang,
  • Tong Xu and ,
  • Kejun Wang,
  • Pengsheng Li and
  • Xia Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 April 2025

This study proposes a multi-source unsupervised domain adaptation framework for person re-identification (ReID), addressing cross-domain feature discrepancies and label scarcity in electric power field operations. Inspired by symmetry principles in f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating New Horizons: Symmetry and Advances in the Integration and Active Support of Large-Scale Renewable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
513 Views
29 Pages

17 June 2026

We derive multisoliton solutions for a nonisospectral mKdV-sG equation with self-consistent sources by means of the bilinear approach. This nonisospectral equation is a generic one which is related to a time-dependent spectral parameter with time evo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Integrable Systems: Topics and Advances (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,623 Views
18 Pages

Cropland Product Fusion Method Based on the Overall Consistency Difference: A Case Study of China

  • Yanfei Zhong,
  • Chang Luo,
  • Xin Hu,
  • Lifei Wei and ,
  • Xinyu Wang and
  • Shuying Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 May 2019

There is inconsistency between the existing remote sensing cropland products, whose accuracy of estimated cropland area and spatial positioning needs to be improved. The existing generalized methods of generating synergy cropland products for improvi...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,932 Views
18 Pages

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) pose serious threats to human health. Increasing attention has been paid to POPs to protect the environment and prevent disease. Humans are exposed to POPs through diet (the major route), inhaling air and dust and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological Economics, Environmental Health Policy and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,818 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Pharmaceutical Processes in Chinese Medicine Based on Quantity and Measure Value Transfer: A Case of Salvia miltiorrhiza Purified Extract Preparation

  • Junhui Qian,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Yanni Tai,
  • Zhilong Tang and ,
  • Zhenhua Wang,
  • Kunling Guo,
  • Xicheng Liu and
  • Xingchu Gong
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Quantity and measure value transfer is widely used to examine the correlation between the quality of Chinese herbs, Chinese herbal intermediates, and Chinese patent medicines. This study performed a quantity and measure value transfer analysis to ass...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis of Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,108 Views
23 Pages

14 April 2024

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) region contains maximal alpine grassland ecology at the mid-latitudes. This region is also recognized as an ecologically fragile and sensitive area under the effects of global warming. Regional climate modeling and ecosystem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
609 Views
65 Pages

Zero Tier Execution Substrate for Evolutionary Software Systems

  • Aleksandar Ivanović,
  • Miloš Radenković,
  • Sergei Prokhorov,
  • Aleksandra Labus and
  • Božidar Radenković

11 May 2026

Adaptive and evolutive software systems are characterized by ontologically defined non-determinism—not a defect but the primary force of their evolution. Non-determinism arises from recursion, interaction, and selection between abstract compone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,282 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2025

The paper considers the results of experiments on localization of the sources of geoacoustic radiation generated in near-surface sedimentary rocks. Geoacoustic signals from sources were recorded by a spaced sensor system consisting of two combined re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Acoustic Sensing and Monitoring in Urban and Natural Environments (2nd Edition))
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,063 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2025

Accurate delineation of urban built-up areas is critical for urban monitoring and planning. We evaluated the performance and consistency of three widely used methods—thresholding, multi-temporal image fusion, and support vector machine (SVM)&md...

  • Article
  • Open Access
946 Views
24 Pages

14 November 2025

Nonlinear evolution equations play a key role in modeling various physical processes, such as wave propagation in nonlinear optical and hydrodynamic media, as well as in the dynamics of plasma and quantum systems. In this paper, we study an integrabl...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,815 Views
13 Pages

Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) in frail older adults is increasingly recognized as a sentinel event, with mortality often driven by medical complications rather than neurosurgical factors. We report a failure-to-rescue case in which rapid postopera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
495 Views
34 Pages

FS-YOLOv3: A Reliability-Driven, Temporally Consistent, and Scene-Adaptive Dual-Source Forest Smoke Detector

  • Yalei Jia,
  • Fansen Meng,
  • Xufeng Yang,
  • Jisong Zang and ,
  • Renjie Song and
  • Jianhui Meng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Early smoke detection for forest fire prevention requires accurate and temporally stable decisions under dynamic clutter, tiny long-range targets, atmospheric degradation, and partial sensor unreliability. This paper presents FS-YOLOv3, a reliability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,484 Views
15 Pages

Data Consistency Theory and Case Study for Scientific Big Data

  • Peng Shi,
  • Yulin Cui,
  • Kangming Xu,
  • Mingmei Zhang and
  • Lianhong Ding

12 April 2019

Big data technique is a series of novel technologies to deal with large amounts of data from various sources. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that the data from different sources conflict with each other from the aspects of format, semantics, and val...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,486 Views
18 Pages

Publically accessible pollution databases, such as the Australian National Pollutant Inventory, contain information on chemical emissions released by industrial facility and diffuse sources. They are meant to enable public scrutiny of industrial acti...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,762 Views
28 Pages

Increasing power demands require multiple generating units interconnected with each other to maintain the power balance of the system. This results in a highly dense power system consisting of multiple generating units which coordinate with each othe...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,781 Views
20 Pages

23 August 2025

This study presents the first comprehensive investigation establishing the relationship between color consistency and luminous efficacy of radiation (LER) in phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (LEDs), introducing novel selection criteria for en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Efficiency in Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,422 Views
21 Pages

Hybrid Deep Learning and Sensitivity Operator-Based Algorithm for Identification of Localized Emission Sources

  • Alexey Penenko,
  • Mikhail Emelyanov,
  • Evgeny Rusin,
  • Erjena Tsybenova and
  • Vasily Shablyko

25 December 2023

Hybrid approaches combining machine learning with traditional inverse problem solution methods represent a promising direction for the further development of inverse modeling algorithms. The paper proposes an approach to emission source identificatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Mathematical Modeling and Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,354 Views
20 Pages

High-precision land use/land cover classification mapping derived from remote sensing supplies essential datasets for scientific research on environmental assessment, climate change simulation, geographic condition monitoring, and environmental manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,953 Views
18 Pages

Statistical Evaluation of the Material-Source Effects on the DSR Rheological Properties of Plant-Mix Extracted Asphalt-Binders

  • Lubinda F. Walubita,
  • Jose G. Gonzalez-Hernandez,
  • Gilberto Martinez-Arguelles,
  • Hossain Tanvir and ,
  • Luis Fuentes and
  • Seyed Amid Tahami
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 April 2021

The work presented in this paper was carried out to statistically evaluate and quantify the material-source effect on the asphalt-binder’s rheological properties using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference (Tukey´s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,032 Views
22 Pages

20 May 2025

We consider a parabolic equation with a singular potential in a bounded domain Ω⊂Rn. The main result is a Lipschitz stability estimate for an inverse source problem of determining a spatial varying factor f(x) of the source term R(x,t)f(x)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,846 Views
26 Pages

Seeking the Sources of Dust: Geochemical and Magnetic Studies on “Cryodust” in Glacial Cores from Southern Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Norway)

  • Marek Lewandowski,
  • Monika A. Kusiak,
  • Tomasz Werner,
  • Adam Nawrot and ,
  • Barbara Barzycka,
  • Michał Laska and
  • Bartłomiej Luks
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 December 2020

Natural mineral particulate matter deposited from aerosols and trapped in glaciers—herein defined as “cryodust”—may be an excellent indicator of atmospheric circulation, if terrestrial sources of dust can be identified. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerosols)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,147 Views
18 Pages

6 August 2024

To investigate the combustion characteristics of multiple fire sources in the tunnel caused by ‘jumping’ discontinuous fire spread, we utilized scaled model experiments, numerical simulation software, and theoretical research. Our study f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fire Numerical Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,988 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Inter-Observer Variation on the Association between Contamination Hazards and the Microbiological Quality of Water Sources: A Longitudinal Study

  • Joseph Okotto-Okotto,
  • Diogo Trajano Gomes da Silva,
  • Emmah Kwoba,
  • Samuel.M Thumbi and ,
  • Peggy Wanza,
  • Weiyu Yu and
  • Jim A. Wright
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Sanitary risk inspection protocols are often used to identify contamination hazards at water sources; however, different observers sometimes struggle to record hazards consistently. This study aimed to assess the effect of inter-observer variation in...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
27 Pages

3 December 2025

Understanding how expert characteristics shape verdicts is critical. This study identified message (e.g., explanation satisfaction) and source characteristics (e.g., education) that predict perceived expertise and verdicts. We hypothesized an expert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognitive Processes in Legal Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,810 Views
17 Pages

The rural farmers in western Rajasthan State are uneducated and most of the applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are demonstrated and run in the English Language. The majority of these rural farmers who are illiterates with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,156 Views
22 Pages

24 September 2023

This study investigates the impact of various experimental parameters on the reflective photoelastic coating technique used to measure the stress and strain in model soil particles. The focus is directed towards three pivotal parameters: the choice o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,106 Views
20 Pages

A Review on Optimization and Control Methods Used to Provide Transient Stability in Microgrids

  • Seyfettin Vadi,
  • Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban,
  • Ramazan Bayindir,
  • Frede Blaabjerg and
  • Lucian Mihet-Popa

19 September 2019

Microgrids are distribution networks consisting of distributed energy sources such as photovoltaic and wind turbines, that have traditionally been one of the most popular sources of energy. Furthermore, microgrids consist of energy storage systems an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converters, Electric Drives and Energy Storage Systems for Electrified Transportation and Smart Grid)

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