Underwater images often suffer from low contrast, low visibility, and color deviation. In this work, we propose a hybrid underwater enhancement method consisting of addressing an inverse problem with novel Retinex transmission map estimation and adap...
As the automotive industry transitions from internal combustion engine vehicles to the era of electric cars, extensive research is being conducted in the field of electric vehicles. While a significant portion of this research focuses on the electrif...
Low-light enhancement (LLE) has seen significant advancements over decades, leading to substantial improvements in image quality that even surpass ground truth. However, these advancements have come with a downside as the models grew in size and comp...
In this paper, we consider a wireless energy-carrying communication network of a UAV. In this communication network, the internet of things (IoT) devices maintain their work via the power supply of batteries. The energy of batteries is slowly consume...
Haze removal is an ill-posed problem that has attracted much scientific interest due to its various practical applications. Existing methods are usually founded upon various priors; consequently, they demonstrate poor performance in circumstances in...
A chaos-based cryptosystem has been suggested and investigated since last decade because of its sensitivity to the initial condition, unpredictability and ergodicity properties. The paper introduces a new chaotic map which helps to enhance the securi...
Low illumination, light reflections, scattering, absorption, and suspended particles inevitably lead to critically degraded underwater image quality, which poses great challenges for recognizing objects from underwater images. The existing underwater...
A novel strategy is proposed to address block artifacts in a conventional dark channel prior (DCP). The DCP was used to estimate the transmission map based on patch-based processing, which also results in image blurring. To enhance a degraded image,...
The deep integration of smart grid and Internet of Things technologies has made high-speed power line carrier communication a key communication technology in energy management, industrial monitoring, and smart home applications, owing to its advantag...
Recently, the stereo imaging-based image enhancement approach has attracted increasing attention in the field of video analysis. This paper presents a dual camera-based stereo image defogging algorithm. Optical flow is first estimated from the stereo...
Architecture is the stone book of history, and the evolution of architectural styles showcases a non-verbal history constructed through images. As an important part of China’s historical and cultural heritage, the architectural forms and styles...
Most existing chaotic systems have many drawbacks in engineering applications, such as the discontinuous range of chaotic parameters, weak chaotic properties, uneven chaotic sequence outputs, and dynamic degradation. Therefore, based on the above, th...
Mycobacterial diseases are persistent and characterized by lengthy latent periods. Thus, epidemiological models require careful delineation of transmission routes. Understanding transmission routes will improve the quality and success of control prog...
Haze imagery suffers from reduced clarity, which can be attributed to atmospheric conditions such as dust or water vapor, resulting in blurred visuals and heightened brightness due to light scattering. Conventional methods employing the dark channel...
One of the important routes of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) transmission in dairy calves is milk. The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of milk treatments to prevent MAP infection transmission to calves. A one-y...
Tourism cultural image is vital for conveying the cultural essence of a destination, enhancing tourists’ cultural understanding and engagement. However, traditional tourism cultural maps often face challenges in clearly defining cultural themes...
ACOM/TEM is an automated electron diffraction pattern indexing tool that enables the structure, phase and crystallographic orientation of materials to be routinely determined. The software package, which is part of ACOM/TEM, has substantially evolved...
With increasing advancement of science and technology, remote sensing satellite imaging does not only monitor the Earth’s surface environment instantly and accurately but also helps to prevent destruction from inevitable disasters. The changing...
Exposure modeling plays a crucial role in disaster risk assessments by providing geospatial information about assets at risk and their characteristics. Detailed exposure data enhances the spatial representation of a rapidly changing environment, enab...
Environmental samples are often used to classify the paratuberculosis status of cattle herds. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), predominantly through oral ingestion during infancy. In this explorative study,...
Underwater images tend to suffer from critical quality degradation, such as poor visibility, contrast reduction, and color deviation by virtue of the light absorption and scattering in water media. It is a challenging problem for these images to enha...
This study aimed to investigate the possible dynamics of paratuberculosis or Johne’s disease in a typical Slovenian dairy herd of about 17 cows. Paratuberculosis is a worldwide endemic disease of cattle caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. para...
Image dehazing plays a pivotal role in numerous computer vision applications such as object recognition, surveillance systems, and security systems, where it can be considered as an introductory stage. Recently, many proposed learning-based works add...
Commercial visibility sensors among meteorological sensors estimate the visibility distance based on transmission, backward scattering, and forward scattering principle. These optical visibility sensors yield comparatively accurate local visibility d...
Commutative encryption and watermarking (CEW) is an emerging method that combines encryption technology with digital watermarking technology. It has the dual capability of secure transmission and copyright protection. However, the existing CEW method...
Membrane-type acoustic metamaterials (MAMs) have recently received widespread attention due to their good low-frequency sound-transmission-loss (STL) performance. A fast prediction method for the STL of rectangular membranes loaded with masses of arb...
The issue of underwater image restoration was investigated in this paper. Specifically, the color constancy of a single image was used to estimate the transmission map (TM), which can be used in the image formation model to restore the underwater ima...
The images discussed in this manuscript show atmospheric conditions of smog, sandstorm, and dust. Moreover, the images were taken in various environments and have features such as dimness or color cast. The smoggy image has a greenish or bluish color...
Reduced activation ferritic martensitic (RAFM) 9Cr steels, which are candidate materials for the test blanket module (TBM) of nuclear fusion reactors, are considered to be air hardenable. However, alloy composition and the processing conditions play...
The swift advancement of information and communication technology has made it increasingly difficult to guarantee the security of transmitted data. Traditional encryption techniques, particularly in multimedia applications, frequently fail to defend...
Haze significantly reduces visibility in critical applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance, and firefighting, making its removal essential for safety and reliability. Motivated by the limited robustness of the existing methods under non-...
In cultural heritage, paint stratigraphies are complex systems typically consisting of various paint layers with fine crystalline phases mixed with coarse pigment and filler grains. This complexity poses significant challenges for X-ray diffraction (...
Energy-dependent full field transmission soft X-ray microscopy (TXM) is able to give a full picture at the nanometer scale of the chemical state and spatial distribution of oxygen and other elements relevant for battery materials, providing pixel-by-...
Aiming at the application of the overhead transmission line insulator patrol inspection requirements based on the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a lightweight ECA-YOLOX-Tiny model is proposed by embedding the efficient channel attention (ECA) module...
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In order to follow the Preventive Chemotherapy (PC) for the transmission control as recommended by WHO, Gabon initiated in 2014 the mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH). Here, we report the results of the Northern and E...
The Nubian sandstone aquifer is the only water source for domestic use and irrigation in the Kharga oasis, Egypt. In this study, 46 pumping tests are analyzed to estimate the transmissivity of the aquifer and to derive a spatial distribution map by g...
Due to their complex morphology, karst terrains are particularly more fragile and vulnerable to environmental damage compared to most natural systems. Their hydraulic properties, such as their transmissivity (T) and spatial variability, can be releva...
This paper presents the Cell Transformer (CeT), which utilizes high-definition (HD) map data to predict future traffic states at signalized intersections, thereby aiding trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles. CeT employs discretized lane segmen...
The structure and the chemical composition of individual layers as well as of interfaces belonging to the two heterostructures M1 (BaFe12O19/YbFeO3/YSZ) and M2 (YbFeO3/BaFe12O19/YSZ) grown by pulsed laser deposition on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ...
This paper investigates the reactive power balance of the Zealand side of the Danish transmission system (DK2) by using QV-curves. The study is performed in cooperation with Energinet, who is the Danish transmission system operator (TSO). Firstly, th...
The complexity of chaotic systems, if used in information encryption, can determine the status of security. The paper proposes a novel image encryption scheme that uses chaotic maps and fuzzy numbers for the secure transmission of information. The en...
The importance evaluation of power grid transmission lines is crucial for preventing catastrophic grid failures, enhancing grid resilience, and ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system. To address the limitations in existing transmi...
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The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pathogens transmitted through food poses a significant threat to global public health, complicating infection treatment and increasing mortality rates. This review explores the role of resistome mapp...
In this paper, for the sake of enhancing the security of wireless transmission, we proposed a novel system based on spatial and direction modulation (SDM) combined with generalized spatial modulation (GSM) which is aided by covert information mapping...
Spotting is an important fire spread mechanism and cause of fireline breaches, yet current models provide only coarse metrics of spotting behavior that are underutilized in fire operations. We developed a spatial framework to quantify and map potenti...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the leading threats to human health worldwide. The identification of potential sources of antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) and their transmission routes in the environment is important for improving ou...
Recently, the concept of spatial and direction modulation (SDM) has been developed to reap the advantages of both spatial modulation (SM) and directional modulation (DM). On the one hand, DM ensures the transmission security at the expected direction...
This study aimed to show maps and analyses that display dengue cases and weather-related factors on dengue transmission in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand, namely Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat provinces. Data on the number of dengue case...
This study investigated the intra- and inter-herd diversity of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) isolates from four goat herds in Thuringia (Germany) that were affected by paratuberculosis for several years. The main focus was on the...
Nowadays, the demand for communication multi-carriers’ channels, where the sub-channels are made mutually independent by using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), is widespread both for wireless and wired communication systems. E...
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