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  • Open Access
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Federated Learning for Surface Roughness

  • Kai-Lun Cheng,
  • Yu-Hung Ting,
  • Wen-Ren Jong,
  • Shia-Chung Chen and
  • Zhe-Wei Zhou

23 June 2025

This study proposes a federated learning-based real-time surface roughness prediction framework for WEDM to address issues of empirical parameter tuning and data privacy. By sharing only the model parameters, cross-machine training was enabled withou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,590 Views
27 Pages

Machine Learning to Estimate Surface Roughness from Satellite Images

  • Abhilash Singh,
  • Kumar Gaurav,
  • Atul Kumar Rai and
  • Zafar Beg

22 September 2021

We apply the Support Vector Regression (SVR) machine learning model to estimate surface roughness on a large alluvial fan of the Kosi River in the Himalayan Foreland from satellite images. To train the model, we used input features such as radar back...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
16,689 Views
10 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Classification of Weld Surface Defects

  • Haixing Zhu,
  • Weimin Ge and
  • Zhenzhong Liu

12 August 2019

In order to realize the non-destructive intelligent identification of weld surface defects, an intelligent recognition method based on deep learning is proposed, which is mainly formed by convolutional neural network (CNN) and forest random. First, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Task Deep Learning for Surface Metrology

  • Dawid Kucharski,
  • Adam Gąska,
  • Tomasz Kowaluk,
  • Krzysztof Stępień,
  • Marta Rępalska,
  • Bartosz Gapiński,
  • Michal Wieczorowski,
  • Michal Nawotka,
  • Piotr Sobecki and
  • Adam Wójtowicz
  • + 2 authors

8 December 2025

A reproducible deep learning framework is presented for surface metrology to predict surface texture parameters together with their reported standard uncertainties. Using a multi-instrument dataset spanning tactile and optical systems, we jointly add...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,093 Views
29 Pages

A Systematic Review on Deep Learning with CNNs Applied to Surface Defect Detection

  • Esteban Cumbajin,
  • Nuno Rodrigues,
  • Paulo Costa,
  • Rolando Miragaia,
  • Luís Frazão,
  • Nuno Costa,
  • Antonio Fernández-Caballero,
  • Jorge Carneiro,
  • Leire H. Buruberri and
  • António Pereira

25 September 2023

Surface defect detection with machine learning has become an important tool in industries and a large field of study for researchers or workers in recent years. It is necessary to have a simplified source of information that helps us to better focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,134 Views
19 Pages

FS-RSDD: Few-Shot Rail Surface Defect Detection with Prototype Learning

  • Yongzhi Min,
  • Ziwei Wang,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Zheng Wang

15 September 2023

As an important component of the railway system, the surface damage that occurs on the rails due to daily operations can pose significant safety hazards. This paper proposes a simple yet effective rail surface defect detection model, FS-RSDD, for rai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,668 Views
25 Pages

25 November 2021

Geohazards such as landslides, which are often accompanied by surface cracks, have caused great harm to public safety and property. If these surface cracks could be identified in time, this would be of great significance for the monitoring and early...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,573 Views
40 Pages

Using Machine Learning for Aerostructure Surface Damage Digital Reconstruction

  • Yijia Wu,
  • Hon Ping Tang,
  • Anthony Mannion,
  • Robert Voyle and
  • Ying Xin

20 January 2025

Aerostructure surface damage inspection is carried out over the whole life-cycle using legacy processes and recording during maintenance. The inspection techniques record the detailed history of the damage and repair. However it remains elusive to pr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,947 Views
11 Pages

Machine Learning of Surface Layer Property Prediction for Milling Operations

  • Eckart Uhlmann,
  • Tobias Holznagel,
  • Philipp Schehl and
  • Yannick Bode

Tool wear and cutting parameters have a significant effect on the surface layer properties in milling. Since the relation between tool wear, cutting parameters, and surface layer properties is mostly unknown, the latter cannot be controlled during pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,385 Views
19 Pages

A Generalised Method for Friction Optimisation of Surface Textured Seals by Machine Learning

  • Markus Brase,
  • Jonathan Binder,
  • Mirco Jonkeren and
  • Matthias Wangenheim

Friction behaviour is an important characteristic of dynamic seals. Surface texturing is an effective method to control the friction level without the need to change materials or lubricants. However, it is difficult to put the manual prediction of op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,049 Views
16 Pages

Outcomes of a Teaching Learning Sequence on Modelling Surface Phenomena in Liquids

  • Onofrio Rosario Battaglia,
  • Aurelio Agliolo Gallitto,
  • Giulia Termini and
  • Claudio Fazio

21 April 2023

In this paper we discuss the effects of modelling and computer simulation activities in promoting student use of lines of reasoning useful to explain proposed or observed situations. The activities are part of a structured Teaching/Learning Sequence...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,987 Views
19 Pages

Review of Research on Ceramic Surface Defect Detection Based on Deep Learning

  • Yu Wang,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Xinjie Zhao,
  • Binghui Tang and
  • Weidong Yang

Ceramic surfaces are directly related to product quality and safety in industry, and any minor defects may affect performance. Therefore, surface defect detection has important practical significance. Traditional detection methods have limitations, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,659 Views
17 Pages

Deep Learning of Sea Surface Temperature Patterns to Identify Ocean Extremes

  • J. Xavier Prochaska,
  • Peter C. Cornillon and
  • David M. Reiman

17 February 2021

We performed an out-of-distribution (OOD) analysis of ∼12,000,000 semi-independent 128 × 128 pixel2 sea surface temperature (SST) regions, which we define as cutouts, from all nighttime granules in the MODIS R2019 Level-2 public dataset to discover t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,087 Views
13 Pages

1 May 2020

Surface chemical composition of bimetallic catalysts can differ from the bulk composition because of the segregation of the alloy components. Thus, it is very useful to know how the different components are arranged on the surface of catalysts to gai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,552 Views
21 Pages

13 September 2024

Surface integrity is a critical factor that affects the fatigue resistance of materials. A surface mechanical rolling treatment (SMRT) process can effectively improve the surface integrity of the material, thus enhancing the fatigue property. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,592 Views
14 Pages

16 November 2022

Investigating post-earthquake surface ruptures is important for understanding the tectonics of seismogenic faults. The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images to identify post-earthquake surface ruptures has the advantages of low cost, fast data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,928 Views
12 Pages

25 December 2023

Effectively managing the quality of iron ore is critical to iron and steel metallurgy. Although quality inspection is crucial, the perspective of sintered surface identification remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose a deep learni...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,200 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2021

Machine learning (ML), as an artificial intelligence tool, has acquired significant progress in data-driven research in Earth sciences. Land Surface Models (LSMs) are important components of the climate models, which help to capture the water, energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,756 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2024

Contemporary environmental challenges are increasingly significant. The primary cause is the drastic changes in climates. The prediction of solar radiation is a crucial aspect of solar energy applications and meteorological forecasting. The amount of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
18,240 Views
11 Pages

Several studies have shown that problematic smartphone use (PSU) is related to detrimental outcomes, such as worse psychological well-being, higher cognitive distraction, and poorer academic outcomes. In addition, many studies have shown that PSU is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,618 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2022

Quality inspection is inevitable in the steel industry so there are already benchmark datasets for the visual inspection of steel surface defects. In our work, we show, contrary to previous recent articles, that a generic state-of-art deep neural net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,491 Views
20 Pages

Upscaling of Surface Soil Moisture Using a Deep Learning Model with VIIRS RDR

  • Dongying Zhang,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Zhiming Hong and
  • Lingkui Meng

In current upscaling of in situ surface soil moisture practices, commonly used novel statistical or machine learning-based regression models combined with remote sensing data show some advantages in accurately capturing the satellite footprint scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,853 Views
12 Pages

23 October 2020

In order to tackle three-dimensional tumor volume reconstruction from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images, most of the existing algorithms rely on the segmentation of independent PET slices. To exploit cross-slice information, typically overloo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,154 Views
23 Pages

Superb Monocular Depth Estimation Based on Transfer Learning and Surface Normal Guidance

  • Kang Huang,
  • Xingtian Qu,
  • Shouqian Chen,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Wang Zhang,
  • Haogang Qi and
  • Fengshang Zhao

27 August 2020

Accurately sensing the surrounding 3D scene is indispensable for drones or robots to execute path planning and navigation. In this paper, a novel monocular depth estimation method was proposed that primarily utilizes a lighter-weight Convolutional Ne...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,233 Views
4 Pages

15 November 2018

With over 6000 rivers and 5358 lakes, surface water is one of the most important resources in Nepal. However, the quantity and quality of Nepal’s rivers and lakes are decreasing due to human activities and climate change. Therefore, the monitoring an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,611 Views
16 Pages

Integration of RSM and Machine Learning for Accurate Prediction of Surface Roughness in Laser Processing

  • Dragan Rodić,
  • Milenko Sekulić,
  • Borislav Savković,
  • Miloš Madić and
  • Milan Trifunović

23 June 2025

This study investigates the modeling of surface roughness (Ra) in the laser cutting of EN 10130 steel process by integrating classical statistical and machine learning methods. First, a quadratic model was developed using response surface methodology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,693 Views
16 Pages

A Machine Learning Approach to Investigate the Surface Ozone Behavior

  • Roberta Valentina Gagliardi and
  • Claudio Andenna

30 October 2020

The concentration of surface ozone (O3) strongly depends on environmental and meteorological variables through a series of complex and non-linear functions. This study aims to explore the performances of an advanced machine learning (ML) method, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,223 Views
14 Pages

15 May 2023

When deep learning methods are used to detect rail surface defects, the training accuracy declines due to small defects and an insufficient number of samples. This paper investigates the problem of rail surface defect detection by using an improved f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,786 Views
14 Pages

Assessing Surface Water Flood Risks in Urban Areas Using Machine Learning

  • Zhufeng Li,
  • Haixing Liu,
  • Chunbo Luo and
  • Guangtao Fu

9 December 2021

Urban flooding is a devastating natural hazard for cities around the world. Flood risk mapping is a key tool in flood management. However, it is computationally expensive to produce flood risk maps using hydrodynamic models. To this end, this paper i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,921 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2022

Surface defect detection systems, which have advanced beyond conventional defect detection methods, lower the risk of accidents and increase working efficiency and productivity. Most fault detection techniques demand extra tools, such as ultrasonic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,800 Views
16 Pages

11 November 2021

Accurately predicting surface vibration signals of diesel engines is the key to evaluating the operation quality of diesel engines. Based on an improved empirical mode decomposition and extreme learning machine algorithm, the characteristics of diese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,156 Views
16 Pages

Comparing Three Machine Learning Techniques for Building Extraction from a Digital Surface Model

  • Nicla Maria Notarangelo,
  • Arianna Mazzariello,
  • Raffaele Albano and
  • Aurelia Sole

30 June 2021

Automatic building extraction from high-resolution remotely sensed data is a major area of interest for an extensive range of fields (e.g., urban planning, environmental risk management) but challenging due to urban morphology complexity. Among the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,020 Views
13 Pages

The accurate prediction of sea surface temperature (SST) is the basis for our understanding of local and global climate characteristics. At present, the existing sea temperature prediction methods fail to take full advantage of the potential spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,824 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2025

Optical freeform surfaces are widely used in imaging and non-imaging systems due to their high design freedom. In freeform surface manufacturing and assembly, dynamic freeform surface measurement that can guide the next operation remains a challenge....

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,726 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2024

In current railway rails, trains are propelled by the rolling contact between iron wheels and iron rails, and the high frequency of train repetition on rails results in a significant load exertion on a very small area where the wheel and rail come in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,244 Views
14 Pages

An Offline Reinforcement Learning Approach for Path Following of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

  • Zexing Zhou,
  • Tao Bao,
  • Jun Ding,
  • Yihong Chen,
  • Zhengyi Jiang and
  • Bo Zhang

28 November 2024

Path following is crucial for enhancing the autonomy of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in water monitoring missions. This paper presents an offline reinforcement learning (RL) controller for USVs. The controller employs the soft actor–critic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,065 Views
21 Pages

Machine Learning and 3D Reconstruction of Materials Surface for Nondestructive Inspection

  • Oleg O. Kartashov,
  • Andrey V. Chernov,
  • Alexander A. Alexandrov,
  • Dmitry S. Polyanichenko,
  • Vladislav S. Ierusalimov,
  • Semyon A. Petrov and
  • Maria A. Butakova

18 August 2022

During the steel pipeline installation, special attention is paid to the butt weld control performed by fusion welding. The operation of the currently popular automated X-ray and ultrasonic testing complexes is associated with high resource and monet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,960 Views
21 Pages

9 July 2025

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is essential for understanding the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere. This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of machine learning (ML)-based downscaling algorithms to enhance the spatial re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,013 Views
26 Pages

2 November 2025

A spatiotemporal, multi-task learning (MTL) model for simulating surface water–groundwater (SW-GW) dynamics is developed and applied to the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China. The Transformer-based model (MT-TFT) jointly forecasts surface runof...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
12,727 Views
21 Pages

Machine Learning for Intelligent-Reflecting-Surface-Based Wireless Communication towards 6G: A Review

  • Mohammad Abrar Shakil Sejan,
  • Md Habibur Rahman,
  • Beom-Sik Shin,
  • Ji-Hye Oh,
  • Young-Hwan You and
  • Hyoung-Kyu Song

20 July 2022

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a programmable device that can be used to control electromagnetic waves propagation by changing the electric and magnetic properties of its surface. Therefore, IRS is considered a smart technology for the si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,354 Views
27 Pages

Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimizing Profilometric Sensor Trajectories for Surface Inspection

  • Sara Roos-Hoefgeest,
  • Mario Roos-Hoefgeest,
  • Ignacio Álvarez and
  • Rafael C. González

3 April 2025

High-precision surface defect detection in manufacturing often relies on laser triangulation profilometric sensors for detailed surface measurements, providing detailed and accurate surface measurements over a line. Accurate motion between the sensor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,348 Views
26 Pages

Recent Progress on Surface Water Quality Models Utilizing Machine Learning Techniques

  • Mengjie He,
  • Qin Qian,
  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Jing Zhang and
  • James Curry

15 December 2024

Surface waterbodies are heavily exposed to pollutants caused by natural disasters and human activities. Empowering sensor technologies in water quality monitoring, sufficient measurements have become available to develop machine learning (ML) models....

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
8,383 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2019

With over 6000 rivers and 5358 lakes, surface water is one of the most important resources in Nepal. However, the quantity and quality of Nepal’s rivers and lakes are decreasing due to human activities and climate change. Despite the advancemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,684 Views
13 Pages

23 January 2020

Satellite-derived estimates of downward surface shortwave radiation (SSR) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) are a part of the surface radiation budget, an essential climate variable (ECV) required by climate and vegetation models. Ground...

  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
27 Pages

MTFE-Net: A Deep Learning Vision Model for Surface Roughness Extraction Based on the Combination of Texture Features and Deep Learning Features

  • Qiancheng Jin,
  • Wangzhe Du,
  • Huaxin Liu,
  • Xuwei Li,
  • Xiaomiao Niu,
  • Yaxing Liu,
  • Jiang Ji,
  • Mingjun Qiu and
  • Yuanming Liu

2 February 2026

Surface roughness, critically measured by the Arithmetical Mean Roughness (Ra), is a vital determinant of workpiece functional performance. Traditional contact-based measurement methods are inefficient and unsuitable for online inspection. While mach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,712 Views
26 Pages

Surface Defect-Extended BIM Generation Leveraging UAV Images and Deep Learning

  • Lei Yang,
  • Keju Liu,
  • Ruisi Ou,
  • Peng Qian,
  • Yunjie Wu,
  • Zhuang Tian,
  • Changping Zhu,
  • Sining Feng and
  • Fan Yang

26 June 2024

Defect inspection of existing buildings is receiving increasing attention for digitalization transfer in the construction industry. The development of drone technology and artificial intelligence has provided powerful tools for defect inspection of b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,176 Views
15 Pages

Machine Learning for COVID-19 Determination Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

  • Tomasz R. Szymborski,
  • Sylwia M. Berus,
  • Ariadna B. Nowicka,
  • Grzegorz Słowiński and
  • Agnieszka Kamińska

The rapid, low cost, and efficient detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, especially in clinical samples, remains a major challenge. A promising solution to this problem is the combination of a spectroscopic technique: surface-enhanced Raman spectr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,303 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Downscaling of Satellite Sea Surface Wind with Soft-Sharing Multi-Task Learning

  • Yinlei Yue,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Yongjian Sun,
  • Kaijun Ren,
  • Kefeng Deng and
  • Ke Deng

8 February 2025

Sea surface wind (SSW) plays a pivotal role in numerous research endeavors pertaining to meteorology and oceanography. SSW fields derived from remote sensing have been widely applied; however, regional and local studies require higher-spatial-resolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,274 Views
29 Pages

13 September 2022

Surface transportation has evolved through technology advancements using parallel knowledge areas such as machine learning (ML). However, the transportation industry has not yet taken full advantage of ML. To evaluate this gap, we utilized a literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,121 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2019

Aluminum profile surface defects can greatly affect the performance, safety, and reliability of products. Traditional human-based visual inspection has low accuracy and is time consuming, and machine vision-based methods depend on hand-crafted featur...

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