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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,987 Views
15 Pages

19 March 2023

In this paper, an ultrasonic target detection system based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) is proposed, which consists of the PMUTs based ultrasonic sensor and the sensor system. Two pieces of 3 × 3 PMUTs arrays wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,394 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2022

Automated construction site supervision systems are critical for reducing accident risks. We propose a helmet detection system with low-altitude remote sensing by UAVs in this paper to automate the detection of helmet-wearing workers to overcome the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,616 Views
15 Pages

YOLO-HVS: Infrared Small Target Detection Inspired by the Human Visual System

  • Xiaoge Wang,
  • Yunlong Sheng,
  • Qun Hao,
  • Haiyuan Hou and
  • Suzhen Nie

To address challenges of background interference and limited multi-scale feature extraction in infrared small target detection, this paper proposes a YOLO-HVS detection algorithm inspired by the human visual system. Based on YOLOv8, we design a multi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,615 Views
11 Pages

Target Detection Algorithm Based on Two Layers Human Visual System

  • Zheng Cui,
  • Jingli Yang,
  • Shouda Jiang and
  • Changan Wei

29 July 2015

Robust small target detection of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is very important in infrared search and track applications for self-defense or attacks. Due to the complex background, current algorithms have some unsolved issues with false alarm rat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,695 Views
19 Pages

18 April 2012

In order to detect and track multiple maneuvering dim targets in sensor systems, an improved dynamic programming track-before-detect algorithm (DP-TBD) called penalty DP-TBD (PDP-TBD) is proposed. The performances of tracking techniques are used as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,754 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2023

Intelligent traffic systems represent one of the crucial domains in today’s world, aiming to enhance traffic management efficiency and road safety. However, current intelligent traffic systems still face various challenges, particularly in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,208 Views
20 Pages

The sCMOS imaging system with deep vacuum cooling technology has become a necessary way to improve the detection capability of space targets. In order to improve the detection capability of the photoelectric detection equipment for space targets, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,542 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2022

In general, a constant false alarm rate algorithm (CFAR) is widely used to automatically detect targets in an automotive frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system. However, if the number of guard cells, the number of training cells, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,702 Views
11 Pages

Infrared Imaging System with a Local Polarization Channel for Target Detection

  • Xin Liu,
  • Zikang Jiang,
  • Chunhui Niu,
  • Xiaoying Li,
  • Yong Lv and
  • Jun Chang

18 November 2024

Infrared imaging can detect the targets from their backgrounds during the day and night. As a supplementary tool, polarization imaging can visually characterize the polarized information of targets in complicated environments. In this study, an infra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,032 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2018

To better solve the problem of target detection in marine environment and to deal with the difficulty of 3D reconstruction of underwater target, a binocular vision-based underwater target detection and 3D reconstruction system is proposed in this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,811 Views
16 Pages

Optimization Method for Space-Based Target Detection System Based on Background-Oriented Schlieren

  • Kang Li,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Yun Su,
  • Weihe Ren,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Jiaquan Deng and
  • Ruiyan Shan

25 April 2024

Currently, the visual detection of a target’s shock flow field through background schlieren technology is a novel detection system. However, there are very few studies on the long-distance background schlieren imaging mechanism and its applicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,444 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2020

This article studies the design, modeling, and implementation challenges for a target detection algorithm using multi-sensor technology of a co-operative autonomous offshore system, formed by an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and an autonomous underw...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,660 Views
12 Pages

1 January 2022

In this paper, a joint maritime moving target detection and imaging approach, referred to as the fast inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging approach, based on the multi-resolution space−time adaptive processing (STAP), is proposed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,306 Views
31 Pages

Broad Area Target Search System for Ship Detection via Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • Yanan You,
  • Zezhong Li,
  • Bohao Ran,
  • Jingyi Cao,
  • Sudi Lv and
  • Fang Liu

21 August 2019

High-resolution optical remote sensing data can be utilized to investigate the human behavior and the activities of artificial targets, for example ship detection on the sea. Recently, the deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in the field of deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,883 Views
19 Pages

An Image-Free Single-Pixel Detection System for Adaptive Multi-Target Tracking

  • Yicheng Peng,
  • Jianing Yang,
  • Yuhao Feng,
  • Shijie Yu,
  • Fei Xing and
  • Ting Sun

21 June 2025

Conventional vision-based sensors face limitations such as low update rates, restricted applicability, and insufficient robustness in dynamic environments with complex object motions. Single-pixel tracking systems offer high efficiency and minimal da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,434 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2023

To improve the identification accuracy of target detection for intelligent vehicles, a real-time target detection system based on the multi-source fusion method is proposed. Based on the ROS melodic software development environment and the NVIDIA Xav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,714 Views
15 Pages

21 March 2023

In real-time remote sensing application, frames of data are continuously flowing into the processing system. The capability of detecting objects of interest and tracking them as they move is crucial to many critical surveillance and monitoring missio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,042 Views
18 Pages

Energy-Efficient Ultrasonic Water Level Detection System with Dual-Target Monitoring

  • Sanggoo Kang,
  • Dafnik Saril Kumar David,
  • Muil Yang,
  • Yin Chao Yu and
  • Suyun Ham

23 March 2021

This study presents a developed ultrasonic water level detection (UWLD) system with an energy-efficient design and dual-target monitoring. The water level monitoring system with a non-contact sensor is one of the suitable methods since it is not dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,488 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2023

On-site management of construction sites has always been a significant problem faced by the construction industry. With the development of UAVs, their use to monitor construction safety and progress will make construction more intelligent. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Citations
24,972 Views
24 Pages

25 October 2016

Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks are a prom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,043 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2024

In recent years, the detection performance of SAR-GMTI (synthetic aperture radar-ground moving target indication) algorithm based on deep learning has always been limited by insufficient measured data due to the heavy operation complexity and high co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
17 Pages

Gear Target Detection and Fault Diagnosis System Based on Hierarchical Annotation Training

  • Haojie Huang,
  • Qixin Liang,
  • Rui Wu,
  • Dan Yang,
  • Jiaorao Wang,
  • Rong Zheng and
  • Zhezhuang Xu

30 September 2025

Gears are the core components of transmission systems, and their health status is critical to the safety and stability of the entire system. In order to efficiently identify the typical fault types such as missing teeth and broken teeth in gears, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,632 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2020

Infrared detectors suffer from severe non-uniform noise which highly reduces image resolution and point target signal-to-noise ratio. This is the restriction for airborne point target detection systems in reaching the background limit. The existing m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,557 Views
17 Pages

RPEOD: A Real-Time Pose Estimation and Object Detection System for Aerial Robot Target Tracking

  • Chi Zhang,
  • Zhong Yang,
  • Luwei Liao,
  • Yulong You,
  • Yaoyu Sui and
  • Tang Zhu

3 March 2022

Pose estimation and environmental perception are the fundamental capabilities of autonomous robots. In this paper, a novel real-time pose estimation and object detection (RPEOD) strategy for aerial robot target tracking is presented. The aerial robot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,222 Views
20 Pages

23 August 2022

This paper establishes a hybrid distributed phased array multiple-input multiple-output (PA-MIMO) radar system model to improve the target detection performance by combining coherent processing gain and spatial diversity gain. First, the radar system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,498 Views
18 Pages

28 January 2025

To meet the demands for heightened detection sensitivity in satellite-based space target detection systems, we introduce an innovative square aperture diaphragm system utilizing freeform surfaces for detecting targets in the visible light spectrum. C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,885 Views
21 Pages

Underwater Hyperspectral Target Detection with Band Selection

  • Xianping Fu,
  • Xiaodi Shang,
  • Xudong Sun,
  • Haoyang Yu,
  • Meiping Song and
  • Chein-I Chang

25 March 2020

Compared to multi-spectral imagery, hyperspectral imagery has very high spectral resolution with abundant spectral information. In underwater target detection, hyperspectral technology can be advantageous in the sense of a poor underwater imaging env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,745 Views
13 Pages

12 July 2018

This paper considers the detection of fluctuating targets in heavy-tailed clutter through the use of dynamic programming based on track-before-detect (DP–TBD) in radar systems. The clutter is modeled in terms of K-distribution, which can be wid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
6,057 Views
19 Pages

Image Enhancement-Based Detection with Small Infrared Targets

  • Shuai Liu,
  • Pengfei Chen and
  • Marcin Woźniak

5 July 2022

Today, target detection has an indispensable application in various fields. Infrared small-target detection, as a branch of target detection, can improve the perception capability of autonomous systems, and it has good application prospects in infrar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,025 Views
25 Pages

25 January 2024

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have possible applications in wildlife monitoring, disaster monitoring, and emergency Search and Rescue (SAR). Autonomous capabilities such as waypoint flight modes and obstacle avoidance, as well as their a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,147 Views
16 Pages

Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Local–Global Feature Fusion

  • Xiao Ling,
  • Chuan Zhang,
  • Zhijun Yan,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Qinghong Sheng and
  • Jun Li

4 September 2024

Infrared detection, known for its robust anti-interference capabilities, performs well in all weather conditions and various environments. Its applications include precision guidance, surveillance, and early warning systems. However, detecting infrar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,400 Views
19 Pages

1 July 2019

Excellent performance, real-time and low memory requirement are three vital requirements for target detection in high resolution marine radar system. Unfortunately, many current state-of-the-art methods merely achieve excellent performance when copin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,057 Views
23 Pages

Sea-Surface Target Visual Tracking with a Multi-Camera Cooperation Approach

  • Jinjun Rao,
  • Kai Xu,
  • Jinbo Chen,
  • Jingtao Lei,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Qiuyu Zhang,
  • Wojciech Giernacki and
  • Mei Liu

17 January 2022

Cameras are widely used in the detection and tracking of moving targets. Compared to target visual tracking using a single camera, cooperative tracking based on multiple cameras has advantages including wider visual field, higher tracking reliability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,436 Views
17 Pages

Design and Application of Laser Polarization Underwater Detection Equipment

  • Yong Zhu,
  • Fangxing Zong,
  • Chao Dong,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Xiansong Gu,
  • Qingyi He,
  • Jianhua Liu,
  • Haili Zhao and
  • Jin Duan

28 January 2025

With the increasing demand for precise identification of underwater targets, the development of advanced underwater detection technologies has become a pivotal area of research. This study presents the design and implementation of a laser-based under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,315 Views
37 Pages

Sustainable Self-Training Pig Detection System with Augmented Single Labeled Target Data for Solving Domain Shift Problem

  • Junhee Lee,
  • Heechan Chae,
  • Seungwook Son,
  • Jongwoong Seo,
  • Yooil Suh,
  • Jonguk Lee,
  • Yongwha Chung and
  • Daihee Park

28 May 2025

As global pork consumption rises, livestock farms increasingly adopt deep learning-based automated monitoring systems for efficient pigsty management. Typically, a system applies a pre-trained model on a source domain to a target domain. However, rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,342 Views
34 Pages

16 June 2023

Space-based target surveillance is important for aerospace safety. However, with the increasing complexity of the space environment, the stellar target and strong noise interference pose difficulties for space target detection. Simultaneously, it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,488 Views
18 Pages

A Framework for Multiple Ground Target Finding and Inspection Using a Multirotor UAS

  • Ajmal Hinas,
  • Roshan Ragel,
  • Jonathan Roberts and
  • Felipe Gonzalez

3 January 2020

Small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) now have advanced waypoint-based navigation capabilities, which enable them to collect surveillance, wildlife ecology and air quality data in new ways. The ability to remotely sense and find a set of targets and d...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,375 Views
16 Pages

Joint Design of Transmitting Waveform and Receiving Filter via Novel Riemannian Idea for DFRC System

  • Yinan Zhao,
  • Zhongqing Zhao,
  • Fangqiu Tong,
  • Ping Sun,
  • Xiang Feng and
  • Zhanfeng Zhao

14 July 2023

Recently, the problem of target detection in noisy environments for the Dual-Functional Radar Communication (DFRC) integration system has been a hot topic. In this paper, to suppress the noise and further enhance the target detection performance, a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,486 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2022

The human visual system (HVS) mechanism has been successfully introduced into the field of infrared small target detection. However, most of the current detection algorithms based on the mechanism of the human visual system ignore the continuous dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,053 Views
18 Pages

16 June 2022

A single-beam radar system cannot adopt a side-looking installation scheme, which is completely perpendicular to the moving direction of the target in an intelligent transportation system (ITS), because of its own limitations. In this paper, a side-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,009 Views
19 Pages

Light-Up Split Broccoli Aptamer as a Versatile Tool for RNA Assembly Monitoring in Cell-Free TX-TL Systems, Hybrid RNA/DNA Origami Tagging and DNA Biosensing

  • Emanuela Torelli,
  • Ben Shirt-Ediss,
  • Silvia A. Navarro,
  • Marisa Manzano,
  • Priya Vizzini and
  • Natalio Krasnogor

Binary light-up aptamers are intriguing and emerging tools with potential in different fields. Herein, we demonstrate the versatility of a split Broccoli aptamer system able to turn on the fluorescence signal only in the presence of a complementary s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,542 Views
23 Pages

5 February 2021

Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) play an increasingly important role in traffic management and traffic safety. Smart cameras are the most widely used sensors in ITSs. However, cameras suffer from a reduction in detection and positioning accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,132 Views
24 Pages

Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Weighted Improved Double Local Contrast Measure

  • Han Wang,
  • Yong Hu,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Long Cheng,
  • Cailan Gong,
  • Shuo Huang and
  • Fuqiang Zheng

30 October 2024

The robust detection of infrared small targets plays an important role in infrared early warning systems. However, the high-brightness interference present in the background makes it challenging. To solve this problem, we propose a weighted improved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,219 Views
21 Pages

Visual Detection and Tracking System for a Spherical Amphibious Robot

  • Shuxiang Guo,
  • Shaowu Pan,
  • Liwei Shi,
  • Ping Guo,
  • Yanlin He and
  • Kun Tang

15 April 2017

With the goal of supporting close-range observation tasks of a spherical amphibious robot, such as ecological observations and intelligent surveillance, a moving target detection and tracking system was designed and implemented in this study. Given t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,233 Views
16 Pages

Contextualized Small Target Detection Network for Small Target Goat Face Detection

  • Yaxin Wang,
  • Ding Han,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Ying Guo and
  • Hongwei Du

20 July 2023

With the advancement of deep learning technology, the importance of utilizing deep learning for livestock management is becoming increasingly evident. goat face detection provides a foundation for goat recognition and management. In this study, we pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,686 Views
12 Pages

RNA-Dependent RNA Targeting by CRISPR-Cas Systems: Characterizations and Applications

  • Natalia Gunitseva,
  • Marta Evteeva,
  • Anna Borisova,
  • Maxim Patrushev and
  • Fedor Subach

Genome editing technologies that are currently available and described have a fundamental impact on the development of molecular biology and medicine, industrial and agricultural biotechnology and other fields. However, genome editing based on detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,483 Views
16 Pages

An Improved YOLOv5 Algorithm for Vulnerable Road User Detection

  • Wei Yang,
  • Xiaolin Tang,
  • Kongming Jiang,
  • Yang Fu and
  • Xinling Zhang

8 September 2023

The vulnerable road users (VRUs), being small and exhibiting random movements, increase the difficulty of object detection of the autonomous emergency braking system for vulnerable road users AEBS-VRUs, with their behaviors highly random. To overcome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,251 Views
21 Pages

GNSS-Based Multi-Target RDM Simulation and Detection Performance Analysis

  • Jinxing Li,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Youcheng Wang and
  • Min Zhang

27 July 2025

This paper proposes a novel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based remote sensing method for simulating Radar Doppler Map (RDM) features through joint electromagnetic scattering modeling and signal processing, enabling characteristic paramet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,164 Views
23 Pages

Enhanced YOLO and Scanning Portal System for Vehicle Component Detection

  • Feng Ye,
  • Mingzhe Yuan,
  • Chen Luo,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Duotao Pan,
  • Wenhong Wang,
  • Feidao Cao and
  • Diwen Chen

5 August 2025

In this paper, a novel online detection system is designed to enhance accuracy and operational efficiency in the outbound logistics of automotive components after production. The system consists of a scanning portal system and an improved YOLOv12-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,585 Views
17 Pages

10 May 2016

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can navigate with low risk in obstacle-free environments using ground control stations that plan a series of GPS waypoints as a path to follow. This GPS waypoint navigation does however become dangerous in environments...

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