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20 Citations
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Guided Spatial Transformers for Facial Expression Recognition

  • Cristina Luna-Jiménez,
  • Jorge Cristóbal-Martín,
  • Ricardo Kleinlein,
  • Manuel Gil-Martín and ,
  • José M. Moya and
  • Fernando Fernández-Martínez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2021

Spatial Transformer Networks are considered a powerful algorithm to learn the main areas of an image, but still, they could be more efficient by receiving images with embedded expert knowledge. This paper aims to improve the performance of convention...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Views
28 Pages

29 October 2026

Cultural heritage spatial patterns reflect both the long-term accumulation of historical resources and their successive recognition within national heritage protection systems. Here, the recognition year specifically refers to the time when a heritag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage and Land System Dynamics: Historical Perspectives for Sustainable Spatial Planning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,358 Views
21 Pages

DNA-Programmed Biomolecular Spatial Pattern Recognition

  • Yue Wang,
  • Lei Ren,
  • Hongzhen Peng,
  • Linjie Guo and
  • Lihua Wang

Molecular recognition based on non-covalent interactions between two or more molecules plays a crucial role in biological systems. Specific biological molecule recognition has been widely applied in biotechnology, clinical diagnosis, and treatment. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Recognition and Biosensors: A Theme Issue in Honor of Professor Hong-Yuan Chen)
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  • Open Access
1,411 Views
25 Pages

Spatial Orientation Relation Recognition for Water Surface Targets

  • Peiyong Gong,
  • Kai Zheng,
  • Yi Jiang,
  • Huixuan Zhao and ,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Zhiwen Feng and
  • Wenbin Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2025

Recently, extensive research efforts have concentrated on comprehending the semantic features of images in the field of computer vision. In order to address the spatial orientation relations among water surface targets (WSTs) in an image, which is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,805 Views
22 Pages

GeoFAN: Point Pattern Recognition in Spatial Vector Data

  • Zhuoyi Yang,
  • Zeyi Li,
  • Haitao Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang and ,
  • Yanwei Wang and
  • Yihang Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The recognition of point patterns in spatial vector data has important applications in geographic mapping and formation recognition. However, the application of traditional methods to spatial vector data faces two difficulties. Firstly, these data ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,221 Views
18 Pages

Action Recognition Using a Spatial-Temporal Network for Wild Felines

  • Liqi Feng,
  • Yaqin Zhao,
  • Yichao Sun,
  • Wenxuan Zhao and
  • Jiaxi Tang

12 February 2021

Behavior analysis of wild felines has significance for the protection of a grassland ecological environment. Compared with human action recognition, fewer researchers have focused on feline behavior analysis. This paper proposes a novel two-stream ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,349 Views
20 Pages

12 April 2024

Occlusion or posture change of the face in natural scenes has typical asymmetry; however, an asymmetric face plays a key part in the lack of information available for facial expression recognition. To solve the problem of low accuracy of asymmetric f...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Based on Deep Learning Methods Such as Convolutional Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,453 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Spatial Transformation Networks for Periocular Recognition

  • Diana Laura Borza,
  • Ehsan Yaghoubi,
  • Simone Frintrop and
  • Hugo Proença

23 February 2023

Periocular recognition has emerged as a particularly valuable biometric identification method in challenging scenarios, such as partially occluded faces due to COVID-19 protective masks masks, in which face recognition might not be applicable. This w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biometrics Recognition Based on Sensor Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,322 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2024

Focusing on the issue of the low recognition rates achieved by traditional deep-information-based action recognition algorithms, an action recognition approach was developed based on skeleton spatial–temporal and dynamic features combined with...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,071 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2023

Gait recognition is a distinctive biometric technique that can identify pedestrians by their walking patterns from considerable distances. A critical challenge in gait recognition lies in effectively acquiring discriminative spatial-temporal represen...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,033 Views
17 Pages

Deep Temporal–Spatial Aggregation for Video-Based Facial Expression Recognition

  • Xianzhang Pan,
  • Wenping Guo,
  • Xiaoying Guo,
  • Wenshu Li and ,
  • Junjie Xu and
  • Jinzhao Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 January 2019

The proposed method has 30 streams, i.e., 15 spatial streams and 15 temporal streams. Each spatial stream corresponds to each temporal stream. Therefore, this work correlates with the symmetry concept. It is a difficult task to classify video-based f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,613 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2022

Although graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have shown their demonstrated ability in skeleton-based action recognition, both the spatial and the temporal connections rely too much on the predefined skeleton graph, which imposes a fixed prior knowled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,416 Views
22 Pages

Targeting the problems of the insufficient utilization of temporal and spatial information in videos and a lower accuracy rate, this paper proposes a human action recognition method for dynamic videos of emergency rescue based on a spatial-temporal f...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,631 Views
17 Pages

A Channel-Wise Spatial-Temporal Aggregation Network for Action Recognition

  • Huafeng Wang,
  • Tao Xia,
  • Hanlin Li,
  • Xianfeng Gu and ,
  • Weifeng Lv and
  • Yuehai Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 December 2021

A very challenging task for action recognition concerns how to effectively extract and utilize the temporal and spatial information of video (especially temporal information). To date, many researchers have proposed various spatial-temporal convoluti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning, Optimization, and Control Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
564 Views
28 Pages

GLSTNet: A Global-Local Spatial Relations and Temporal Dynamics Network for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition

  • Ran Zhang,
  • Meiyu Zhong,
  • Caiyun Ma,
  • Zhijun Xiao and ,
  • Yuwei Zhang and
  • Chengyu Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2026

Electroencephalography (EEG)-based emotion recognition is an important biosensing technique for affective brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), mental-state assessment, and physiological monitoring. Existing methods often rely on a single spectral descri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of AI in Non-Invasive Biosensing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,435 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2025

Skeleton representation learning offers substantial advantages for action recognition by encoding intricate motion details and spatial–temporal dependencies among joints. However, fully supervised approaches necessitate large amounts of annotat...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,259 Views
24 Pages

Deep-Learning-Based Stress Recognition with Spatial-Temporal Facial Information

  • Taejae Jeon,
  • Han Byeol Bae,
  • Yongju Lee,
  • Sungjun Jang and
  • Sangyoun Lee

11 November 2021

In recent times, as interest in stress control has increased, many studies on stress recognition have been conducted. Several studies have been based on physiological signals, but the disadvantage of this strategy is that it requires physiological-si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image and Video Processing and Recognition Based on Artificial Intelligence-2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,133 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2023

Brain biometrics have received increasing attention from the scientific community due to their unique properties compared to traditional biometric methods. Many studies have shown that EEG features are distinct across individuals. In this study, we p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,648 Views
18 Pages

This paper proposes a facial expression recognition network called the Lightweight Facial Network with Spatial Bias (LFNSB). The LFNSB model effectively balances model complexity and recognition accuracy. It has two key components: a lightweight feat...

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  • Open Access
250 Views
31 Pages

Micro-Behavioral Load Decoding and Spatial Behavioral Signature Recognition in Museums Using Natural Videos

  • Yuxiao Zhang,
  • Shaohan Hu,
  • Le Zhao,
  • Mengjie Li and ,
  • Gengpei Zhang,
  • Lin Zhang and
  • Rong Peng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2026

Museum fatigue can weaken visitor experience and learning outcomes, yet post-visit questionnaires and controlled experiments often miss early, low-intensity behavioral changes during natural visits. This study proposes a Micro-behavioral Load Decodin...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,376 Views
15 Pages

Shedding Light on People Action Recognition in Social Robotics by Means of Common Spatial Patterns

  • Itsaso Rodríguez-Moreno,
  • José María Martínez-Otzeta,
  • Izaro Goienetxea,
  • Igor Rodriguez-Rodriguez and
  • Basilio Sierra

24 April 2020

Action recognition in robotics is a research field that has gained momentum in recent years. In this work, a video activity recognition method is presented, which has the ultimate goal of endowing a robot with action recognition capabilities for a mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image and Video Processing and Recognition Based on Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,382 Views
15 Pages

11 March 2019

Recently, automatic modulation recognition has been an important research topic in wireless communication. Due to the application of deep learning, it is prospective of using convolution neural networks on raw in-phase and quadrature signals in devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
363 Views
23 Pages

Hilbert Space-Filling Curves for Assistive Emotion Recognition: A Spatial Locality Approach for Children with Down Syndrome

  • Mauro Daniel Castillo Pérez,
  • Jesús Jaime Moreno Escobar,
  • Hugo Quintana Espinosa and
  • Erika Yolanda Aguilar del Villar

Since many children with Down syndrome have difficulties with emotion recognition, there is a significant application gap in assistive technologies and affective computing that could be addressed. Conventional deep learning methods, which depend on t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Medical and Assistive Technologies Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
34 Pages

22 September 2026

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) has transformed human–computer interaction, yet its application to understanding relationships between physical environments and human emotional responses remains an emerging area within urban studies. This stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing the City: Data-Driven Approaches to Urban Mobility, Liveability, and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,273 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2021

Skeleton-based human action recognition has made great progress, especially with the development of a graph convolution network (GCN). The most important work is ST-GCN, which automatically learns both spatial and temporal patterns from skeleton sequ...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,957 Views
15 Pages

Enhanced Novel Object Recognition and Spatial Memory in Rats Selectively Bred for High Nicotine Preference

  • Eren Bekci,
  • Ramazan Can Gokmen,
  • Lutfiye Kanit,
  • Oguz Gozen and ,
  • Burcu Balkan,
  • Ersin O. Koylu and
  • Aysegul Keser
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study examined the influence of genetic background on cognitive performance in a selectively bred high nicotine-preferring (NP) rat line. Using the novel object recognition (NOR), novel location recognition (NLR), and Morris water maze (MWM) tes...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,964 Views
15 Pages

30 October 2025

In cross-corpus scenarios, inappropriate feature-processing methods tend to cause the loss of key emotional information. Additionally, deep neural networks contain substantial redundancy, which triggers domain shift issues and impairs the generalizat...

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  • Open Access
746 Views
19 Pages

Mine Water Hazard Video Recognition Based on Residual Preprocessing and Temporal–Spatial Descriptors

  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Haining Wang,
  • Yuanze Du,
  • Xinrui Li and ,
  • Hongrui Luo and
  • Yingwang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2025

Traditional water hazard monitoring often relies on manual inspection and water level sensors, typically lacking in accuracy and real-time capabilities. However, the method of using video surveillance for monitoring water hazard characteristics can c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,432 Views
13 Pages

A Multiorder Attentional Spatial Interactive Convolutional Neural Network (MoAS-CNN) for Low-Resolution Haptic Recognition

  • Kailin Wen,
  • Jie Chu,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Dong Liang and ,
  • Chengkai Zhang and
  • Jueping Cai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 December 2022

In haptic recognition, pressure information is usually represented as an image, and then used for feature extraction and classification. Deep learning that processes haptic information in end-to-end manner has attracted attention. This study proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,892 Views
22 Pages

Although creating a high-quality urban green space (UGS) is of considerable importance in public health, few studies have used individuals’ emotions to evaluate the UGS quality. This study aims to conduct a multidimensional emotional assessment metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Exposures and Health –Mechanisms and Their Contingencies in a Developmental Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,151 Views
19 Pages

Enhanced Spatial and Extended Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

  • Fanjia Li,
  • Juanjuan Li,
  • Aichun Zhu,
  • Yonggang Xu and ,
  • Hongsheng Yin and
  • Gang Hua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 September 2020

In the skeleton-based human action recognition domain, the spatial-temporal graph convolution networks (ST-GCNs) have made great progress recently. However, they use only one fixed temporal convolution kernel, which is not enough to extract the tempo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,285 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2023

Engagement ability plays a fundamental role in allocating attentional resources and helps us perform daily tasks efficiently. Therefore, it is of great importance to recognize engagement level. Electroencephalography is frequently employed to recogni...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,895 Views
28 Pages

TSANN-TG: Temporal–Spatial Attention Neural Networks with Task-Specific Graph for EEG Emotion Recognition

  • Chao Jiang,
  • Yingying Dai,
  • Yunheng Ding,
  • Xi Chen and ,
  • Yingjie Li and
  • Yingying Tang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Electroencephalography (EEG)-based emotion recognition is increasingly pivotal in the realm of affective brain–computer interfaces. In this paper, we propose TSANN-TG (temporal–spatial attention neural network with a task-specific graph),...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,548 Views
17 Pages

7 March 2024

In the field of Chinese-named entity recognition, recent research has sparked new interest by combining lexical features with character-based methods. Although this vocabulary enhancement method provides a new perspective, it faces two main challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,425 Views
11 Pages

22 November 2018

In recent years, the application of deep neural networks to human behavior recognition has become a hot topic. Although remarkable achievements have been made in the field of image recognition, there are still many problems to be solved in the area o...

(This article belongs to the Section Techno-Social Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,172 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2022

Facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild is a challenging task due to some uncontrolled factors such as occlusion, illumination, and pose variation. The current methods perform well in controlled conditions. However, there are still two issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,321 Views
27 Pages

20 January 2019

Face-based biometric recognition systems that can recognize human faces are widely employed in places such as airports, immigration offices, and companies, and applications such as mobile phones. However, the security of this recognition method can b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Image Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,152 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2023

Early recognition of abnormal gait enables physicians to determine a prompt rehabilitation plan for patients for the most effective treatment and care. The Kinect depth sensor can easily collect skeleton data describing the position of joints in the...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,868 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2025

Recently, studies on driver inattention state recognition as an advanced mobility application technology are being actively conducted to prevent traffic accidents caused by driver drowsiness and distraction. The driver inattention state recognition s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based Behavioral Biometrics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,653 Views
16 Pages

Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Temporal-Spatial Learnable Graph Convolutional Neural Network

  • Jingjie Yan,
  • Haihua Li,
  • Fengfeng Xu,
  • Xiaoyang Zhou and ,
  • Ying Liu and
  • Yuan Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN) method has shown excellent performance in the field of deep learning, and using graphs to represent speech data is a computationally efficient and scalable approach. In order to enhance the adequacy of gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied AI in Emotion Recognition)
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  • Open Access
404 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2026

Hand gesture recognition plays an important role in computer vision with broad applications in human–computer interaction, intelligent perception, and contactless interaction systems. However, existing detection-based methods mainly rely on han...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,804 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2024

Next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems (ADASs) are a promising direction for intelligent transportation systems. To achieve intelligent security monitoring, it is imperative that vehicles possess the ability to accurately comprehend drive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,568 Views
21 Pages

Traffic sign recognition (TSR) is a noteworthy issue for real-world applications such as systems for autonomous driving as it has the main role in guiding the driver. This paper focuses on Taiwan’s prohibitory sign due to the lack of a database...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Based Object Detection)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,508 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2022

In recent years, spatial-temporal graph convolutional networks have played an increasingly important role in skeleton-based human action recognition. However, there are still three major limitations to most ST-GCN-based approaches: (1) They only use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,015 Views
30 Pages

Evaluating the Performance of Mobile-Convolutional Neural Networks for Spatial and Temporal Human Action Recognition Analysis

  • Stavros N. Moutsis,
  • Konstantinos A. Tsintotas,
  • Ioannis Kansizoglou and
  • Antonios Gasteratos

8 December 2023

Human action recognition is a computer vision task that identifies how a person or a group acts on a video sequence. Various methods that rely on deep-learning techniques, such as two- or three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D-CNNs, 3D-C...

(This article belongs to the Section Humanoid and Human Robotics)
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  • Open Access
72 Citations
16,914 Views
21 Pages

The Impact of Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress-Induced Depression on Spatial, Recognition and Reference Memory Tasks in Mice: Behavioral and Histological Study

  • Ghofran Khalid Alqurashi,
  • Emad A. Hindi,
  • Mohamed A. Zayed,
  • Gamal S. Abd El-Aziz and ,
  • Hani A. Alturkistani,
  • Rabee F. Ibrahim,
  • Mona Ali Al-thepyani,
  • Refal Bakhlgi,
  • Noor A. Alzahrani and
  • Badrah S. Alghamdi
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

29 May 2022

Depression-induced cognitive impairment has recently been given more attention in research. However, the relationship between depression and different types of memory is still not clear. Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) is a commonly used ani...

(This article belongs to the Section Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,852 Views
25 Pages

Intelligent Object Recognition of Urban Water Bodies Based on Deep Learning for Multi-Source and Multi-Temporal High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Shiran Song,
  • Jianhua Liu,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Guoqiang Feng and ,
  • Hui Han,
  • Yuan Yao and
  • Mingyi Du
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 January 2020

High spatial resolution remote sensing image (HSRRSI) data provide rich texture, geometric structure, and spatial distribution information for surface water bodies. The rich detail information provides better representation of the internal components...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing Data in Water Resources Management)
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  • Open Access
202 Views
25 Pages

12 October 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can acquire maritime imagery independently of daylight and under diverse weather conditions, which makes it well suited to persistent ship monitoring and maritime awareness. Nevertheless, recognizing SAR ships from only...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,826 Views
28 Pages

14 August 2025

Computer vision recognition technology, due to its non-invasive and convenient nature, can effectively avoid damage to fragile wild plants during recognition. However, balancing model complexity, recognition accuracy, and data processing difficulty o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Systems in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,387 Views
23 Pages

11 September 2025

Skeleton-based action recognition networks have widely adopted the approach of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) due to their superior capabilities in modeling data topology, but several key issues still require further investigation. Firstly, the g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Recognition, Image Segmentation, Image Fusion, and Singal Processing)

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