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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,880 Views
20 Pages

ISHS-Net: Single-View 3D Reconstruction by Fusing Features of Image and Shape Hierarchical Structures

  • Guoqing Gao,
  • Liang Yang,
  • Quan Zhang,
  • Chongmin Wang,
  • Hua Bao and
  • Changhui Rao

22 November 2023

The reconstruction of 3D shapes from a single view has been a longstanding challenge. Previous methods have primarily focused on learning either geometric features that depict overall shape contours but are insufficient for occluded regions, local fe...

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  • Open Access
1,321 Views
25 Pages

The often used analytical representation of the Maxwell–Boltzmann classical speed distribution function (F) for elastic, indivisible particles assumes an infinite limit for the speed. Consequently, volume and the number of particles (n) extend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,326 Views
23 Pages

8 December 2022

The parametric representation and aerodynamic shape optimization of a three-dimensional circular-to-rectangular transition nozzle designed and built using control lines distributed along the circumferential direction were investigated in this study....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,475 Views
23 Pages

15 June 2024

This article describes a novel fusion of a generative formal model for three-dimensional (3D) shapes with deep learning (DL) methods to understand the geometric structure of 3D objects and the relationships between their components, given a collectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,065 Views
21 Pages

Spatial media bring out new forms of interaction with places, leading to the emergence of new ways of embodying the experience. The perception of place and its dynamics of change has been multiplied by the emergence of digital platforms, which create...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,656 Views
20 Pages

18 December 2023

This paper offers a study regarding regression and correlation analysis and intercomparison of stress concentration factors obtained from FEM analysis with factors imported from external sources. The procedure for obtaining the stress concentration f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,066 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2023

With the rapid development and promotion of deep learning technology in the field of remote sensing, building change detection (BCD) has made great progress. Some recent approaches have improved detailed information about buildings by introducing hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,397 Views
18 Pages

Attentional Keypoint Detection on Point Clouds for 3D Object Part Segmentation

  • Feng Zhou,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • He Zhu,
  • Shibo Liu,
  • Na Jiang,
  • Xingquan Cai,
  • Qianfang Qi and
  • Yong Hu

21 November 2023

In the field of computer vision, segmenting a 3D object into its component parts is crucial to understanding its structure and characteristics. Much work has focused on 3D object part segmentation directly from point clouds, and significant progress...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,294 Views
35 Pages

Mind-Personality Relations from Childhood to Early Adulthood

  • Andreas Demetriou,
  • George Spanoudis,
  • Mislav Stjepan Žebec,
  • Maria Andreou,
  • Hudson Golino and
  • Smaragda Kazi

We present three studies which investigated the relations between cognition and personality from 7 to 20 years of age. All three studies showed that general cognitive ability and the general factor of personality are significantly related throughout...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,042 Views
13 Pages

A Spatial Lattice Model Applied for Meteorological Visualization and Analysis

  • Mingyue Lu,
  • Min Chen,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Jinzhong Min and
  • Aili Liu

Meteorological information has obvious spatial-temporal characteristics. Although it is meaningful to employ a geographic information system (GIS) to visualize and analyze the meteorological information for better identification and forecasting of me...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,915 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Attention Network for Sewage Treatment Plant Detection

  • Yue Shuai,
  • Jun Xie,
  • Kaixuan Lu and
  • Zhengchao Chen

28 March 2023

As an important facility for effectively controlling water pollution discharge and recycling waste water resources, accurate sewage treatment plant extraction is very important for protecting quality, function, and sustainable development of the wate...

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  • Open Access
1,488 Views
22 Pages

First Time in the European Rally Championship: What’s Next for Residents’ Perceptions of Urban Sustainability?

  • José E. Ramos-Ruiz,
  • Laura Guzmán-Dorado,
  • Paula C. Ferreira-Gomes and
  • David Algaba-Navarro

24 October 2025

Sport events generate economic, social, and environmental impacts that shape residents’ perceptions and levels of support. In the context of sustainable urban development, understanding how residents evaluate these impacts provides valuable kno...

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  • Open Access
635 Views
16 Pages

13 October 2025

Underemployment in Australia represents a critical facet of precarious work, shaped not only by insufficient hours and skill underutilisation but also by care responsibilities and financial insecurity. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour...

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  • Open Access
155 Views
27 Pages

8 January 2026

To address the issues of inadequate performance and excessive interaction costs when handling large-scale and complex-shaped change areas with existing interaction forms, this paper proposes RSICDNet, an interactive change detection (ICD) model with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,252 Views
14 Pages

Modelling Method and Application of Anti-Corrosion Pill Particles in Oil and Gas Field Wellbore Casing Annulus Based on the Discrete Element Method

  • Dongtao Liu,
  • Chunshang Qiao,
  • Jun Wan,
  • Yuliang Lu,
  • Jiming Song,
  • Zhenhe Yao,
  • Xinjie Wei and
  • Yajun Yu

9 June 2022

This study uses a self-developed anti-corrosion pill particle as the research object and develops the pill particle population modelling method in order to optimize the anti-corrosion process of oil and gas wellbore casing annuli. The shape of the pi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,636 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2022

To address the question of why corporate executives adopt diverse corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies, this conceptual paper proposes a decision-frame model to explain how differences in executives’ information-processing templates...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,734 Views
18 Pages

Stability Analysis of the Volcanic Cave El Mirador (Galápagos Islands, Ecuador) Combining Numerical, Empirical and Remote Techniques

  • Guido Rodríguez,
  • Maurizio Mulas,
  • Silvia Loaiza,
  • Michelle Del Pilar Villalta Echeverria,
  • Angel Amable Yanez Vinueza,
  • Erwin Larreta and
  • Luis Jordá Bordehore

27 January 2023

El Mirador de los Túneles is a tube-shaped volcanic cave with a sinuous structure in the Galápagos Islands formed due to cooled near-surface lava flows. Since this natural formation is considered a tourist site, a large number of people...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,143 Views
25 Pages

27 November 2020

To achieve considerably high thermal conductivity, hybrid nanofluids are some of the best alternatives that can be considered as renewable energy resources and as replacements for the traditional ways of heat transfer through fluids. The subject of t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,876 Views
20 Pages

29 February 2024

Non-conventional processes are considerably important for the machining of hard-to-cut alloys in various demanding applications. Given that the surface quality and integrity, dimensional accuracy, and productivity are important considerations in indu...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,311 Views
15 Pages

As-Built BIM for a Fifteenth-Century Chinese Brick Structure at Various LoDs

  • Zheng Sun,
  • Jiangtao Xie,
  • Yingying Zhang and
  • Yongkang Cao

Building information modeling (BIM) has received significant research attention in the field of built heritage. As-built BIM refers to a BIM representation of the “as-is” conditions of built heritage at the time of a survey. Determining the level of...

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  • Open Access
395 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2025

Accurate segmentation of lesion regions is essential for skin cancer diagnosis. As dermoscopic images of skin lesions demonstrate different sizes, diverse shapes, fuzzy boundaries, and so on, accurate segmentation still faces great challenges. To add...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,940 Views
24 Pages

With the three-dimensional (3D) geological information system development, 3D geological cross-sections (GCs) have become the primary data for geological work and scientific research. Throughout past geological surveys or research works, a lot of two...

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  • Open Access
195 Views
32 Pages

10 January 2026

Pediatric pneumonia detection faces the challenge of pathological asymmetry, where immature lung tissues present blurred boundaries and lesions exhibit extreme scale variations (e.g., small viral nodules vs. large bacterial consolidations). Conventio...

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  • Open Access
1,410 Views
24 Pages

Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (3D-CNN) in the Classification of Varieties and Quality Assessment of Soybean Seeds (Glycine max L. Merrill)

  • Piotr Rybacki,
  • Kiril Bahcevandziev,
  • Diego Jarquin,
  • Ireneusz Kowalik,
  • Andrzej Osuch,
  • Ewa Osuch and
  • Janetta Niemann

28 August 2025

The precise identification, classification, sorting, and rapid and accurate quality assessment of soybean seeds are extremely important in terms of the continuity of agricultural production, varietal purity, seed processing, protein extraction, and f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,786 Views
23 Pages

20 October 2023

Settlements are comprehensive carriers of the material form expression and social appearance of human activities under specific geographical environmental choices. The analysis and preservation of their forms are important principles and strategies f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,344 Views
21 Pages

This paper investigates the impact of the amount of training data and the shape variability on the segmentation provided by the deep learning architecture U-Net. Further, the correctness of ground truth (GT) was also evaluated. The input data consist...

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  • Open Access
424 Views
33 Pages

MVDCNN: A Multi-View Deep Convolutional Network with Feature Fusion for Robust Sonar Image Target Recognition

  • Yue Fan,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Zhisheng Zhang,
  • Guoping Zhang and
  • Jinsong Tang

25 December 2025

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in single-view sonar imagery is severely hampered by geometric distortions, acoustic shadows, and incomplete target information due to occlusions and the slant-range imaging geometry, which frequently give rise to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,950 Views
35 Pages

11 June 2025

The present study explores the affordances of virtual reality (VR) technologies to enhance digital and media literacy skills within an interdisciplinary and inclusive K-12 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning context. Addressing gaps in resea...