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29 May 2024

Transformer has emerged as one of the modern neural networks that has been applied in numerous applications. However, transformers’ large and deep architecture makes them computationally and memory-intensive. In this paper, we propose the block...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,265 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Integer Transform Combining with an Irregular Block Partition

  • Shaowei Weng,
  • Yi Chen,
  • Wien Hong,
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan,
  • Chin-Chen Chang and
  • Yijun Liu

4 January 2019

After conducting deep research on all existing reversible data hiding (RDH) methods based on Alattar’s integer transform, we discover that the frequently-used method in obtaining the difference value list of an image block may lead to high embe...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,233 Views
17 Pages

Saturation Detection-Based Blocking Scheme for Transformer Differential Protection

  • Byung Eun Lee,
  • Jinsik Lee,
  • Sung Ho Won,
  • Byongjun Lee,
  • Peter A. Crossley and
  • Yong Cheol Kang

18 July 2014

This paper describes a current differential relay for transformer protection that operates in conjunction with a core saturation detection-based blocking algorithm. The differential current for the magnetic inrush or over-excitation has a point of in...

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  • Open Access
1,809 Views
19 Pages

15 December 2023

The instability of the winding-cushion structure is one of the primary causes of transformer failures. Insulation cushion compression and offset are the predominant forms leading to structural instability. Therefore, this paper, using the SFSZ7-31500...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,305 Views
21 Pages

3 November 2021

The paper explores the possibilities of the structural and functional transformation of blocks in the historical center of Zagreb as a part of modernization after many years of neglect as well as earthquakes in 2020. The research aims to determine ho...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,569 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2018

The goal of block matching (BM) is to locate small patches of an image that are similar to a given patch or template. This can be done either in the spatial domain or, more efficiently, in a transform domain. Full search (FS) BM is an accurate, but c...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,873 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2019

In this paper, we proposed a high accurate and stable Legendre transform algorithm, which can reduce the potential instability for a very high order at a very small increase in the computational time. The error analysis of interpolative decomposition...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,154 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2023

Fine-grained image classification remains an ongoing challenge in the computer vision field, which is particularly intended to identify objects within sub-categories. It is a difficult task since there is both minimal and substantial intra-class vari...

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  • Open Access
351 Views
20 Pages

Efficient Quantization of Pretrained Deep Networks via Adaptive Block Transform Coding

  • Milan Dubljanin,
  • Stefan Panić,
  • Milan Savić,
  • Milan Dejanović and
  • Oliver Popović

12 January 2026

This work investigates the effectiveness of block transform coding (BTC) as a lightweight, training-free quantization strategy for compressing the weights of pretrained deep neural networks. The proposed method applies a rule-based block transform wi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,247 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2020

Multichannel images, i.e., images of the same object or scene taken in different spectral bands or with different imaging modalities/settings, are common in many applications. For example, multispectral images contain several wavelength bands and hen...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,439 Views
32 Pages

11 August 2022

As a result of the rise in network technology, information security has become particularly important. Digital images play an important role in network transmission. To improve their security and efficiency, a new color image encryption algorithm is...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,543 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2024

Recently, transformers have demonstrated notable improvements in natural advanced visual tasks. In the field of computer vision, transformer networks are beginning to supplant conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their global rece...

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  • Open Access
119 Citations
7,340 Views
17 Pages

An Image Encryption Scheme Based on Block Scrambling, Modified Zigzag Transformation and Key Generation Using Enhanced Logistic—Tent Map

  • Priya Ramasamy,
  • Vidhyapriya Ranganathan,
  • Seifedine Kadry,
  • Robertas Damaševičius and
  • Tomas Blažauskas

3 July 2019

Nowadays, the images are transferred through open channels that are subject to potential attacks, so the exchange of image data requires additional security in many fields, such as medical, military, banking, etc. The security factors are essential i...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,007 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2022

Nowadays, HSI classification can reach a high classification accuracy when given sufficient labeled samples as training set. However, the performances of existing methods decrease sharply when trained on few labeled samples. Existing methods in few-s...

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  • Open Access
1,372 Views
16 Pages

9 May 2025

Multi-person pose estimation is the task of detecting and regressing the keypoint coordinates of multiple people in a single image. Significant progress has been achieved in recent years, especially with the introduction of transformer-based end-to-e...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,923 Views
23 Pages

26 November 2014

This paper presents a novel framework for the fusion of multi-focus images explicitly designed for visual sensor network (VSN) environments. Multi-scale based fusion methods can often obtain fused images with good visual effect. However, because of t...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,167 Views
20 Pages

7 January 2025

The Transformer model has received significant attention in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to its self-attention mechanism that captures long dependencies in time series. However, for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor time-series signals,...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,912 Views
16 Pages

As a nonverbal cue, gaze plays a critical role in communication, expressing emotions and reflecting mental activity. It has widespread applications in various fields. Recently, the appearance-based gaze estimation method, which utilizes CNN (convolut...

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  • Open Access
263 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2026

In mineral processing, visual-based online particle size analysis systems depend on high-precision image segmentation to accurately quantify ore particle size distribution, thereby optimizing crushing and sorting operations. However, due to multi-sca...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,032 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2021

In this study, a Level III reliability design of an armor block of rubble mound breakwater was developed using the optimized probabilistic wave height model for the Korean marine environment and Van der Meer equation. To demonstrate what distinguishe...

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  • Open Access
75 Views
21 Pages

In recent years, Transformer-based methods have demonstrated proficiency in capturing complex patterns for time series forecasting. However, their quadratic complexity relative to input sequence length poses a significant bottleneck for scalability a...

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1 Citations
1,829 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2024

We propose a novel architecture, Transformer Dil-DenseUNet, designed to address the challenges of accurately segmenting stroke lesions in MRI images. Precise segmentation is essential for diagnosing and treating stroke patients, as it provides critic...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,277 Views
25 Pages

29 August 2024

Underwater object detection and classification pose significant challenges due to environmental factors such as water turbidity and variable lighting conditions. This research proposes a novel approach that integrates advanced imaging techniques with...

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  • Open Access

5 February 2026

Precise medical image segmentation plays a vital role in disease diagnosis and clinical treatment. Although U-Net-based architectures and their Transformer-enhanced variants have achieved remarkable progress in automatic segmentation tasks, they stil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,632 Views
21 Pages

2 October 2021

In this paper, an adaptive block compressive sensing (BCS) method is proposed for compression of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The proposed method enhances the compression efficiency by dividing the magnitude of the entire SAR image into mul...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,356 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2024

The normal operation of rolling bearings is crucial to the performance and reliability of rotating machinery. However, the collected vibration signals are often mixed with complex noise, and the transformer network cannot fully extract the characteri...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,636 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Hydrophobic Blocks of PEO-Containing Copolymers on Glyceryl Monooleate Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

  • Aleksander Forys,
  • Maria Chountoulesi,
  • Barbara Mendrek,
  • Tomasz Konieczny,
  • Theodore Sentoukas,
  • Marcin Godzierz,
  • Aleksandra Kordyka,
  • Costas Demetzos,
  • Stergios Pispas and
  • Barbara Trzebicka

5 August 2021

The investigation of properties of amphiphilic block copolymers as stabilizers for non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles represents a fundamental issue for the formation, stability and upgraded functionality of these nanosystems. Th...

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  • Open Access
110 Citations
5,471 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Construction of Efficient Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Fractional Transformation

  • Amjad Hussain Zahid,
  • Muhammad Junaid Arshad and
  • Musheer Ahmad

5 March 2019

A symmetric block cipher employing a substitution–permutation duo is an effective technique for the provision of information security. For substitution, modern block ciphers use one or more substitution boxes (S-Boxes). Certain criteria and des...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,321 Views
21 Pages

Data-Efficient Bone Segmentation Using Feature Pyramid- Based SegFormer

  • Naohiro Masuda,
  • Keiko Ono,
  • Daisuke Tawara,
  • Yusuke Matsuura and
  • Kentaro Sakabe

26 December 2024

The semantic segmentation of bone structures demands pixel-level classification accuracy to create reliable bone models for diagnosis. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are commonly used for segmentation, they often struggle with complex sha...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,611 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Analysis of 18-Pulse Autotransformer Rectifier Unit Topologies with Intrinsic Harmonic Current Cancellation

  • Shahbaz Khan,
  • Xiaobin Zhang,
  • Muhammad Saad,
  • Husan Ali,
  • Bakht Muhammad Khan and
  • Haider Zaman

25 May 2018

With the evolution of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) concept, high pulse converters have gained the attention of researchers due to their higher power quality. Among the high pulse converters, 18-pulse autotransformer rectifier unit (ATRU) offers b...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
13 Pages

Metro stray currents flowing into neutral-point-grounded transformers can cause serious direct current (DC) bias. Affected by both metro train and urban power grid operations, transformer neutral-point DC caused by metro stray current is complex, dyn...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,894 Views
17 Pages

A Big Coal Block Alarm Detection Method for Scraper Conveyor Based on YOLO-BS

  • Yuan Wang,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Shuanfeng Zhao,
  • Buqing Xue,
  • Wugang Zhang and
  • Zhizhong Xing

22 November 2022

With the aim of solving the problem of coal congestion caused by big coal blocks in underground mine scraper conveyors, in this paper we proposed the use of a YOLO-BS (YOLO-Big Size) algorithm to detect the abnormal phenomenon of coal blocks on scrap...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,216 Views
12 Pages

A Fast and Robust Safety Helmet Network Based on a Mutilscale Swin Transformer

  • Changcheng Xiang,
  • Duofen Yin,
  • Fei Song,
  • Zaixue Yu,
  • Xu Jian and
  • Huaming Gong

Visual inspection of the workplace and timely reminders of unsafe behaviors (e.g, not wearing a helmet) are particularly significant for avoiding injuries to workers on the construction site. Video surveillance systems generate large amounts of non-s...

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  • Open Access
1,097 Views
12 Pages

14 February 2025

The quality of ISAR (Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) images has a significant impact on the detection and recognition of targets. Therefore, ISAR image quality assessment is a fundamental prerequisite and primary link in the utilization of ISAR ima...

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  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,000 Views
26 Pages

4 May 2023

Current deep learning-based change detection approaches mostly produce convincing results by introducing attention mechanisms to traditional convolutional networks. However, given the limitation of the receptive field, convolution-based methods fall...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,230 Views
17 Pages

Improving Single-Image Super-Resolution with Dilated Attention

  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Boyuan Cheng,
  • Xiaosong Yang,
  • Zhidong Xiao,
  • Jianjun Zhang and
  • Lihua You

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) techniques have become a vital tool for improving image quality and clarity in the rapidly evolving field of digital imaging. Convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer-based SISR techniques are very popul...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,160 Views
20 Pages

14 July 2025

Traditional manual inspection methods for tunnel lining leakage are subjective and inefficient, while existing models lack sufficient recognition accuracy in complex scenarios. An intelligent leakage identification model adaptable to complex backgrou...

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  • Open Access
1,209 Views
25 Pages

A High-Precision Virtual Central Projection Image Generation Method for an Aerial Dual-Camera

  • Xingzhou Luo,
  • Haitao Zhao,
  • Yaping Liu,
  • Nannan Liu,
  • Jiang Chen,
  • Hong Yang and
  • Jie Pan

17 February 2025

Aerial optical cameras are the primary method for capturing high-resolution images to produce large-scale mapping products. To improve aerial photography efficiency, multiple cameras are often used in combination to generate large-format virtual cent...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,110 Views
14 Pages

Fine-Grained Facial Expression Recognition in Multiple Smiles

  • Zhijia Jin,
  • Xiaolu Zhang,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Xiaolin Xu and
  • Jiangjian Xiao

22 February 2023

Smiling has often been incorrectly interpreted as “happy” in the popular facial expression datasets (AffectNet, RAF-DB, FERPlus). Smiling is the most complex human expression, with positive, neutral, and negative smiles. We focused on fin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,087 Views
17 Pages

MT_Net: A Multi-Scale Framework Using the Transformer Block for Retina Layer Segmentation

  • Enyu Liu,
  • Xiang He,
  • Junchen Yue,
  • Yanxin Guan,
  • Shuai Yang,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Aiqun Wang,
  • Jianmei Li and
  • Weiye Song

Variations in the thickness of retinal layers serve as early diagnostic indicators for various fundus diseases, and precise segmentation of these layers is essential for accurately measuring their thickness. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an i...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,547 Views
18 Pages

Transformers have performed better than traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction in recent years. Currently, shifted window multi-head self-attention based on the swin transformer is a typical me...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,288 Views
18 Pages

Deep learning-based image classification techniques have been widely utilized in low-voltage AC series-type fault arc detection. However, the transformation of signals into images frequently leads to significant loss of current signal characteristics...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,406 Views
26 Pages

It is always an interesting research topic for digital receiver (DRX) designers to develop a DRX with (1) ultrawide instantaneous bandwidth (IBW), (2) high sensitivity, (3) fine time-of-arrival-measurement resolution (TMR), and (4) fine frequency-mea...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,558 Views
15 Pages

21 March 2024

Brain tumors are one of the deadliest types of cancer. Rapid and accurate identification of brain tumors, followed by appropriate surgical intervention or chemotherapy, increases the probability of survival. Accurate determination of brain tumors in...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,894 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Vision Transformer Network with a Residual Convolution Block for Bamboo Resource Image Identification

  • Qing Zou,
  • Xiu Jin,
  • Yi Song,
  • Lianglong Wang,
  • Shaowen Li,
  • Yuan Rao,
  • Xiaodan Zhang and
  • Qijuan Gao

20 February 2023

Bamboo is an important economic crop with up to a large number of species. The distribution of bamboo species is wide; therefore, it is difficult to collect images and make the recognition model of a bamboo species with few amount of images. In this...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,416 Views
20 Pages

Enhancing Blood Cell Diagnosis Using Hybrid Residual and Dual Block Transformer Network

  • Vishesh Tanwar,
  • Bhisham Sharma,
  • Dhirendra Prasad Yadav and
  • Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi

Leukemia is a life-threatening blood cancer that affects a large cross-section of the population, which underscores the great need for timely, accurate, and efficient diagnostic solutions. Traditional methods are time-consuming, subject to human vuln...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,774 Views
19 Pages

Split_ Composite: A Radar Target Recognition Method on FFT Convolution Acceleration

  • Xuanchao Li,
  • Yonghua He,
  • Weigang Zhu,
  • Wei Qu,
  • Yonggang Li,
  • Chenxuan Li and
  • Bakun Zhu

11 July 2024

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is renowned for its all-weather and all-time imaging capabilities, making it invaluable for ship target recognition. Despite the advancements in deep learning models, the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,576 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2023

Infrared and visible image fusion technologies are used to characterize the same scene using diverse modalities. However, most existing deep learning-based fusion methods are designed as symmetric networks, which ignore the differences between modal...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,279 Views
20 Pages

WSPRT Methods for Improving Power System Automation Devices in the Conditions of Distributed Generation Sources Operation

  • Aleksandr Kulikov,
  • Pavel Ilyushin,
  • Anton Loskutov,
  • Konstantin Suslov and
  • Sergey Filippov

11 November 2022

The trend towards the decentralization and decarbonization of the energy sector stimulates the adoption of generation facilities based on renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed generation (DG) facilities that utilize secondary energy resource...

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  • Open Access
647 Views
30 Pages

27 November 2025

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) requires modeling spatially extensive and interdependent degradations across large pixel regions, while directly equipping diffusion-based LLIE with heavy global modules inside the iterative denoising backbone leads...

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