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9 Citations
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Visual Description Augmented Integration Network for Multimodal Entity and Relation Extraction

  • Min Zuo,
  • Yingjun Wang,
  • Wei Dong,
  • Qingchuan Zhang and ,
  • Yuanyuan Cai and
  • Jianlei Kong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 May 2023

Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) and multimodal Relationship Extraction (MRE) play an important role in processing multimodal data and understanding entity relationships across textual and visual domains. However, irrelevant image informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,130 Views
17 Pages

A Study on Generative Models for Visual Recognition of Unknown Scenes Using a Textual Description

  • Jose Martinez-Carranza,
  • Delia Irazú Hernández-Farías,
  • Victoria Eugenia Vazquez-Meza,
  • Leticia Oyuki Rojas-Perez and
  • Aldrich Alfredo Cabrera-Ponce

27 October 2023

In this study, we investigate the application of generative models to assist artificial agents, such as delivery drones or service robots, in visualising unfamiliar destinations solely based on textual descriptions. We explore the use of generative m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision in AI for Robotics Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,644 Views
18 Pages

Recent studies in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies have spurred a surge in experimental research, particularly in Audio Description (AD) reception studies. However, experimental research has largely focused on the linguistic composition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,176 Views
20 Pages

Crowdfunding has gained popularity among entrepreneurs who seek funding for their business projects on crowdfunding platforms. The success of these campaigns largely depends on the ability to attract and convince backers to support the fundraising in...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,052 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2022

Visual question answering (VQA), which is an important presentation form of AI-complete task and visual Turing tests, coupled with its potential application value, attracted widespread attention from both researchers in computer vision and natural la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,484 Views
14 Pages

16 November 2017

This paper describes three coarse image description strategies, which are meant to promote a rough perception of surrounding objects for visually impaired individuals, with application to indoor spaces. The described algorithms operate on images (gra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor LiDAR/Vision Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,370 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2025

In this paper, a fully convolutional data description (FCDD) model is applied to defect detection and its concurrent visualization for industrial products and materials. The authors’ propose a MATLAB application that enables users to efficientl...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,609 Views
13 Pages

6 May 2020

The automatic generation of language description is an important task in the intelligent analysis of aluminum alloy metallographic images, and is crucial for the high-quality development of the non-ferrous metals manufacturing industry. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,157 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2020

Video description plays an important role in the field of intelligent imaging technology. Attention perception mechanisms are extensively applied in video description models based on deep learning. Most existing models use a temporal-spatial attentio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Imaging Technology Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
179 Views
25 Pages

26 October 2026

Persistent multimodal conversational memory requires unified access to textual and visual evidence across sessions, yet differences between image content and textual queries make relevant sources harder to locate. We propose DualBridgeMem, a structur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications Based on Asymmetry/Symmetry in Data Mining and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,033 Views
15 Pages

23 August 2022

Technologies came to revolutionize the teaching of technical design; they brought resources that enabled 3D and 2D graphic simulation. The objective of this research is to understand how the implementation of the dynamic software GeoGebra on the topi...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,384 Views
19 Pages

Monitoring, response, mitigation and damage assessment of disasters places a wide variety of demands on the spatial and temporal resolutions of remote sensing images. Images are divided into tile pyramids by data sources or resolutions and published...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,638 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2019

The perception of our heritage is based on sign-functions, which relate visual representations to cognitive types, allowing us to make perceptual judgements over physical objects. The recording of these types of assertions is paramount for the compre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On Provenance of Knowledge and Documentation: Select Papers from “CIDOC 2018”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,352 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2022

Under the influences of global environmental change, the water cycle exhibits a characteristic “natural-social” duality. The theoretical framework of this dualistic water cycle model has become relatively mature and the frameworks for the...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,731 Views
23 Pages

The current research landscape in ontology visualization has largely focused on tool development, yielding an extensive array of visualization tools. Although many existing solutions provide multiple ontology visualization layouts, there is limited r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,651 Views
24 Pages

Ship Detection in Panchromatic Optical Remote Sensing Images Based on Visual Saliency and Multi-Dimensional Feature Description

  • Ting Nie,
  • Xiyu Han,
  • Bin He,
  • Xiansheng Li and ,
  • Hongxing Liu and
  • Guoling Bi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 January 2020

Ship detection in panchromatic optical remote sensing images is faced with two major challenges, locating candidate regions from complex backgrounds quickly and describing ships effectively to reduce false alarms. Here, a practical method was propose...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,441 Views
24 Pages

A Review of Data Analytic Applications in Road Traffic Safety. Part 1: Descriptive and Predictive Modeling

  • Amir Mehdizadeh,
  • Miao Cai,
  • Qiong Hu,
  • Mohammad Ali Alamdar Yazdi and ,
  • Nasrin Mohabbati-Kalejahi,
  • Alexander Vinel,
  • Steven E. Rigdon,
  • Karen C. Davis and
  • Fadel M. Megahed
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 February 2020

This part of the review aims to reduce the start-up burden of data collection and descriptive analytics for statistical modeling and route optimization of risk associated with motor vehicles. From a data-driven bibliometric analysis, we show that the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,790 Views
38 Pages

31 July 2022

Despite the fact that the concept of forecasting has emerged in the realm of tourism, studies delving into this sector have yet to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of tourism forecasting visualization. This research presents an analy...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Data Analytics and Computing with Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,447 Views
23 Pages

3 October 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of keypoint detection and description algorithms for stereo vision-based odometry in dynamic environments. Five widely used methods—FAST, GFTT, ORB, BRISK, and KAZE—were analyzed in terms of...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,277 Views
17 Pages

1 April 2025

In response to increasing numbers of people switching from offline to online shopping after the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sought to obtain an in-depth understanding of apparel website design and digital accessibility for all people, including peo...

(This article belongs to the Section Disabled People/People with Disabilities (Non-Medical Coverage))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,773 Views
21 Pages

The Place of Descriptive Geometry in the Face of Industry 4.0 Challenges

  • M. Carmen Ladrón-de-Guevara-Muñoz,
  • María Alonso-García,
  • Óscar D. de-Cózar-Macías and
  • E. Beatriz Blázquez-Parra

12 December 2023

Industrial process automation has long been the main goal in production lines that seek to decrease human involvement. However, it is broadly agreed that a collaboration between humans and technologies must still exist as human capital is required to...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,022 Views
12 Pages

Background: Young females tend to overestimate their weight status, which might induce unhealthy weight loss intentions and behaviours. This study aimed to examine weight perception measured by visual and verbal descriptions and its correlation with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,287 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2024

Image captioning is a technique that enables the automatic extraction of natural language descriptions about the contents of an image. On the one hand, information in the form of natural language can enhance accessibility by reducing the expertise re...

(This article belongs to the Topic Deep Learning and Transformers’ Methods Applied to Remotely Captured Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,910 Views
15 Pages

A Descriptive Analysis of Visual and Oculomotor Skills in Federated University Athletes

  • Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena,
  • Xabier Rodríguez-Alonso,
  • Clara Martinez-Perez,
  • José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera and ,
  • Vicente J. Clemente-Suárez,
  • Celia Sanchez-Ramos and
  • Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 January 2025

Background: Visual and oculomotor skills are essential components of athletic performance, particularly in sports that demand rapid visual processing and precise motor execution. This study aimed to provide a descriptive analysis of the visual and oc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Effects of Exercise on Physical Characteristics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,417 Views
8 Pages

Since visually impaired individuals cannot observe their surroundings, they face challenges in accurately locating objects. Particularly in restrooms, where various facilities are spread across a limited space, the risk of tripping and being injured...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,012 Views
19 Pages

High flows of road traffic noise in urban agglomerations can negatively affect the livability of squares and parks located at the neighborhood, district and city levels, therefore pushing anyone who wants to enjoy calmer, quieter areas to move to non...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,949 Views
28 Pages

Accessible IoT Dashboard Design with AI-Enhanced Descriptions for Visually Impaired Users

  • George Alex Stelea,
  • Livia Sangeorzan and
  • Nicoleta Enache-David

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to an abundance of data streams and real-time dashboards in domains such as smart cities, healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture. However, many current IoT dashboards emphasize complex vis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,718 Views
38 Pages

14 May 2021

It is widely acknowledged that the visual dimension of photovoltaics (PV) is fundamental for social acceptance. In this sense, the so-called Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) is a possible catalyzer, as PV is hidden (integrated) into building...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Transition and Cities: Renewable Energy Storage, Production and Social Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
665 Views
31 Pages

15 July 2026

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to integrate visual context with textual data to improve the translation of ambiguous source text, such as the inclusion of an image as additional context. However, the evaluation of systems largely still rel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human and Machine Translation: Recent Trends and Foundations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,207 Views
28 Pages

21 August 2018

Edge bundling is a promising graph visualization approach to simplifying the visual result of a graph drawing. Plenty of edge bundling methods have been developed to generate diverse graph layouts. However, it is difficult to defend an edge bundling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory Application in Visualization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,425 Views
17 Pages

Application of Social Network Analysis to Visualization and Description of Industrial Clusters: A Case of the Textile Industry

  • Marina Y. Sheresheva,
  • Lilia A. Valitova,
  • Elena R. Sharko and
  • Ekaterina V. Buzulukova

This paper discusses the issues of industrial cluster analysis. Initially, the authors explore theoretical approaches to understanding the clusters phenomenon and their identification and analysis. Looking at industrial clusters as network structures...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Information Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,986 Views
13 Pages

Scene Description for Visually Impaired People with Multi-Label Convolutional SVM Networks

  • Yakoub Bazi,
  • Haikel Alhichri,
  • Naif Alajlan and
  • Farid Melgani

23 November 2019

In this paper, we present a portable camera-based method for helping visually impaired (VI) people to recognize multiple objects in images. This method relies on a novel multi-label convolutional support vector machine (CSVM) network for coarse descr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,893 Views
22 Pages

Boosting Texture-Based Classification by Describing Statistical Information of Gray-Levels Differences

  • Óscar García-Olalla,
  • Laura Fernández-Robles,
  • Enrique Alegre,
  • Manuel Castejón-Limas and
  • Eduardo Fidalgo

1 March 2019

This paper presents a new texture descriptor booster, Complete Local Oriented Statistical Information Booster (CLOSIB), based on statistical information of the image. Our proposal uses the statistical information of the texture provided by the image...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,474 Views
20 Pages

Textile Retrieval Based on Image Content from CDC and Webcam Cameras in Indoor Environments

  • Oscar García-Olalla,
  • Enrique Alegre,
  • Laura Fernández-Robles,
  • Eduardo Fidalgo and
  • Surajit Saikia

25 April 2018

Textile based image retrieval for indoor environments can be used to retrieve images that contain the same textile, which may indicate that scenes are related. This makes up a useful approach for law enforcement agencies who want to find evidence bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
28,925 Views
11 Pages

Contemporary Business Analytics: An Overview

  • Wullianallur Raghupathi and
  • Viju Raghupathi

4 August 2021

We examine the state-of-the-art of the business analytics field by identifying and describing the four types of analytics and the three pillars of modeling. Further, we offer a framework of the interplay between the types of analytics and those pilla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges in Business Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,491 Views
19 Pages

Building an Enhanced Vocabulary of the Robot Environment with a Ceiling Pointing Camera

  • Alejandro Rituerto,
  • Henrik Andreasson,
  • Ana C. Murillo,
  • Achim Lilienthal and
  • José Jesús Guerrero

7 April 2016

Mobile robots are of great help for automatic monitoring tasks in different environments. One of the first tasks that needs to be addressed when creating these kinds of robotic systems is modeling the robot environment. This work proposes a pipeline...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotic Sensory Systems for Environment Protection and Conservation)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,887 Views
11 Pages

Among the tools available to designers to illustrate their thoughts, the most meaningful is axonometry. As testified by its use throughout art history, axonometry was by far preferred for technical explanations, as a three-dimensional proof of functi...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference IMMAGINI? Brixen, Italy, 27–28 November 2017.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,615 Views
13 Pages

28 January 2024

The goal of visual place recognition (VPR) is to determine the location of a query image by identifying its place in a collection of image databases. Visual sensor technologies are crucial for visual place recognition as they allow for precise identi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vision Sensors: Image Processing Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,353 Views
34 Pages

An Ontology for Spatio-Temporal Media Management and an Interactive Application

  • Takuro Sone,
  • Shin Kato,
  • Ray Atarashi,
  • Jin Nakazato and ,
  • Manabu Tsukada and
  • Hiroshi Esaki
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In addition to traditional viewing media, metadata that record the physical space from multiple perspectives will become extremely important in realizing interactive applications such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). This paper pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Techno-Social Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,540 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2024

Aiming at the problems, in which the traditional radar signal sorting method has high requirements for manual experience and poor adaptability, and considering the differences in received power caused by radar beam scanning under long-term observatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,194 Views
23 Pages

Cryptographic Algorithm Designed by Extracting Brainwave Patterns

  • Marius-Alin Dragu,
  • Irina-Emilia Nicolae and
  • Mădălin-Corneliu Frunzete

25 June 2024

A new authentication method based on EEG signal is proposed here. Biometric features such as fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, iris scanning, voice recognition, and even brainwave patterns can be used for authentication methods. Brainwave pat...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,503 Views
26 Pages

Integrating CAD and Orthographic Projection in Descriptive Geometry Education: A Comparative Analysis with Monge’s System

  • Simón Gutiérrez de Ravé,
  • Eduardo Gutiérrez de Ravé and
  • Francisco J. Jiménez-Hornero

5 November 2025

Descriptive geometry plays a fundamental role in developing spatial reasoning and geometric problem-solving skills in engineering education. This study investigates the comparative effectiveness of two instructional methodologies—Monge’s...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,167 Views
28 Pages

30 August 2022

Electromyography (EMG) is a multidisciplinary field that brings together allied health (kinesiology and physical therapy) and the engineering sciences (biomedical and electrical). Since the physical sciences are used in the measurement of a biologica...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,569 Views
20 Pages

Time, Spatial, and Descriptive Features of Pedestrian Tracks on Set of Visualizations

  • Łukasz Wielebski,
  • Beata Medyńska-Gulij,
  • Łukasz Halik and
  • Frank Dickmann

The aim of the paper is to elaborate on and evaluate a multiperspective cartographic visualization of the spatial behavior of pedestrians in urban space. The detailed objective is to indicate the level of usefulness of the proposed visualization meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Cartography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
1,286 Views
17 Pages

Gaze Transitions when Learning with Multimedia

  • Krzysztof Krejtz,
  • Andrew T. Duchowski,
  • Izabela Krejtz,
  • Agata Kopacz and
  • Piotr Chrząstowski-Wachtel

10 February 2016

Eye tracking methodology is used to examine the influence of interactive multimedia on the allocation of visual attention and its dynamics during learning. We hypothesized that an interactive simulation promotes more organized switching of attention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,152 Views
18 Pages

17 July 2025

Many radar applications rely primarily on visual classification for their evaluations. However, new research is integrating textual descriptions alongside visual input and showing that such multimodal fusion improves contextual understanding. A criti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Powered RF Sensing and Signal Intelligence: Advances in Detection and Classification Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,546 Views
19 Pages

A Picture May Be Worth a Hundred Words for Visual Question Answering

  • Yusuke Hirota,
  • Noa Garcia,
  • Mayu Otani,
  • Chenhui Chu and
  • Yuta Nakashima

31 October 2024

How far can textual representations go in understanding images? In image understanding, effective representations are essential. Deep visual features from object recognition models currently dominate various tasks, especially Visual Question Answerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Advances and Applications on Natural Language Processing (NLP))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,980 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2024

Pedestrian detection has recently attracted widespread attention as a challenging problem in computer vision. The accuracy of pedestrian detection is affected by differences in gestures, background clutter, local occlusion, differences in scales, pix...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,929 Views
15 Pages

A Generic View Planning System Based on Formal Expression of Perception Tasks

  • Yanzi Kong,
  • Feng Zhu,
  • Haibo Sun,
  • Zhiyuan Lin and
  • Qun Wang

20 April 2022

View planning (VP) is a technique that guides the adjustment of the sensor’s postures in multi-view perception tasks. It converts the perception process into active perception, which improves the intelligence and reduces the resource consumptio...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,968 Views
15 Pages

Lightweight Multimodal Adapter for Visual Object Tracking

  • Vasyl Borsuk,
  • Vitaliy Yakovyna and
  • Nataliya Shakhovska

Visual object tracking is a fundamental computer vision task recently extended to multimodal settings, where natural language descriptions complement visual information. Existing multimodal trackers typically rely on large-scale transformer architect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Computer Vision and Human–Robot Interaction)

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