The in-flight calibration and performance of the Solar Disk Imager(SDI),which is a pivotal instrument of the LyαSolar Telescope onboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory mission,suggested a much lower spatia...The in-flight calibration and performance of the Solar Disk Imager(SDI),which is a pivotal instrument of the LyαSolar Telescope onboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory mission,suggested a much lower spatial resolution than expected.In this paper,we developed the SDI point-spread function(PSF)and Image Bivariate Optimization Algorithm(SPIBOA)to improve the quality of SDI images.The bivariate optimization method smartly combines deep learning with optical system modeling.Despite the lack of information about the real image taken by SDI and the optical system function,this algorithm effectively estimates the PSF of the SDI imaging system directly from a large sample of observational data.We use the estimated PSF to conduct deconvolution correction to observed SDI images,and the resulting images show that the spatial resolution after correction has increased by a factor of more than three with respect to the observed ones.Meanwhile,our method also significantly reduces the inherent noise in the observed SDI images.The SPIBOA has now been successfully integrated into the routine SDI data processing,providing important support for the scientific studies based on the data.The development and application of SPIBOA also paves new ways to identify astronomical telescope systems and enhance observational image quality.Some essential factors and precautions in applying the SPIBOA method are also discussed.展开更多
Grass constitutes a vital poetic imagery in classical Chinese poetry,embodying multifaceted symbolic connotations ranging from the tenacity of life to sentiments of separation and nostalgic longing.The translation of ...Grass constitutes a vital poetic imagery in classical Chinese poetry,embodying multifaceted symbolic connotations ranging from the tenacity of life to sentiments of separation and nostalgic longing.The translation of this botanical motif necessitates not merely lexical equivalence,but more importantly,the transmission of its profound cultural resonance and aesthetic essence.This study posits that effective rendition of grass imagery should adopt an integrative approach synthesizing the objectives of cultural translation with the intrinsic aesthetic characteristics of classical poetry.Through systematic analysis of the cultural semiotics embedded in grass symbolism,the research investigates practical translation techniques at lexical,syntactic,and stylistic dimensions.The findings aim to contribute to the theoretical framework of cultural image translation in Chinese poetic tradition while providing methodological references for cross-cultural interpretation of classical verse.By bridging cultural semiotics with translation praxis,this investigation seeks to advance the intercultural communication of Chinese poetic heritage through nuanced treatment of its botanical symbolism.展开更多
With rapid urbanization,fires pose significant challenges in urban governance.Traditional fire detection methods often struggle to detect smoke in complex urban scenes due to environmental interferences and variations...With rapid urbanization,fires pose significant challenges in urban governance.Traditional fire detection methods often struggle to detect smoke in complex urban scenes due to environmental interferences and variations in viewing angles.This study proposes a novel multimodal smoke detection method that fuses infrared and visible imagery using a transformer-based deep learning model.By capturing both thermal and visual cues,our approach significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of smoke detection in business parks scenes.We first established a dual-view dataset comprising infrared and visible light videos,implemented an innovative image feature fusion strategy,and designed a deep learning model based on the transformer architecture and attention mechanism for smoke classification.Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms existing methods,under the condition of multi-view input,it achieves an accuracy rate of 90.88%,precision rate of 98.38%,recall rate of 92.41%and false positive and false negative rates both below 5%,underlining the effectiveness of the proposed multimodal and multi-view fusion approach.The attention mechanism plays a crucial role in improving detection performance,particularly in identifying subtle smoke features.展开更多
Landslide hazard detection is a prevalent problem in remote sensing studies,particularly with the technological advancement of computer vision.With the continuous and exceptional growth of the computational environmen...Landslide hazard detection is a prevalent problem in remote sensing studies,particularly with the technological advancement of computer vision.With the continuous and exceptional growth of the computational environment,the manual and partially automated procedure of landslide detection from remotely sensed images has shifted toward automatic methods with deep learning.Furthermore,attention models,driven by human visual procedures,have become vital in natural hazard-related studies.Hence,this paper proposes an enhanced YOLOv5(You Only Look Once version 5)network for improved satellite-based landslide detection,embedded with two popular attention modules:CBAM(Convolutional Block Attention Module)and ECA(Efficient Channel Attention).These attention mechanisms are incorporated into the backbone and neck of the YOLOv5 architecture,distinctly,and evaluated across three YOLOv5 variants:nano(n),small(s),and medium(m).The experiments use opensource satellite images from three distinct regions with complex terrain.The standard metrics,including F-score,precision,recall,and mean average precision(mAP),are computed for quantitative assessment.The YOLOv5n+CBAM demonstrates the most optimal results with an F-score of 77.2%,confirming its effectiveness.The suggested attention-driven architecture augments detection accuracy,supporting post-landslide event assessment and recovery.展开更多
In Hyperspectral Imaging(HSI),the detrimental influence of noise and distortions on data quality is profound,which has severely affected the following-on analytics and decisionmaking such as land mapping.This study pr...In Hyperspectral Imaging(HSI),the detrimental influence of noise and distortions on data quality is profound,which has severely affected the following-on analytics and decisionmaking such as land mapping.This study presents an innovative framework for assessing HSI band quality and reconstructing the low-quality bands,based on the Prophet model.By introducing a comprehensive quality metric to start,the authors approach factors in both spatial and spectral characteristics across local and global scales.This metric effectively captures the intricate noise and distortions inherent in the HSI data.Subsequently,the authors employ the Prophet model to forecast information within the low-quality bands,leveraging insights from neighbouring high-quality bands.To validate the effectiveness of the authors’proposed model,extensive experiments on three publicly available uncorrected datasets are conducted.In a head-to-head comparison,the framework against six state-ofthe-art band reconstruction algorithms including three spectral methods,two spatialspectral methods and one deep learning method is benchmarked.The authors’experiments also delve into strategies for band selection based on quality metrics and the quality evaluation of the reconstructed bands.In addition,the authors assess the classification accuracy utilising these reconstructed bands.In various experiments,the results consistently affirm the efficacy of the authors’method in HSI quality assessment and band reconstruction.Notably,the authors’approach obviates the need for manually prefiltering of noisy bands.This comprehensive framework holds promise in addressing HSI data quality concerns whilst enhancing the overall utility of HSI.展开更多
Efficient banana crop detection is crucial for precision agriculture;however,traditional remote sensing methods often lack the spatial resolution required for accurate identification.This study utilizes low-altitude U...Efficient banana crop detection is crucial for precision agriculture;however,traditional remote sensing methods often lack the spatial resolution required for accurate identification.This study utilizes low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)images and deep learning-based object detection models to enhance banana plant detection.A comparative analysis of Faster Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network(Faster R-CNN),You Only Look Once Version 3(YOLOv3),Retina Network(RetinaNet),and Single Shot MultiBox Detector(SSD)was conducted to evaluate their effectiveness.Results show that RetinaNet achieved the highest detection accuracy,with a precision of 96.67%,a recall of 71.67%,and an F1 score of 81.33%.The study further highlights the impact of scale variation,occlusion,and vegetation density on detection performance.Unlike previous studies,this research systematically evaluates multi-scale object detection models for banana plant identification,offering insights into the advantages of UAV-based deep learning applications in agriculture.In addition,this study compares five evaluation metrics across the four detection models using both RGB and grayscale images.Specifically,RetinaNet exhibited the best overall performance with grayscale images,achieving the highest values across all five metrics.Compared to its performance with RGB images,these results represent a marked improvement,confirming the potential of grayscale preprocessing to enhance detection capability.展开更多
Throughout the SMILE mission the satellite will be bombarded by radiation which gradually damages the focal plane devices and degrades their performance.In order to understand the changes of the CCD370s within the sof...Throughout the SMILE mission the satellite will be bombarded by radiation which gradually damages the focal plane devices and degrades their performance.In order to understand the changes of the CCD370s within the soft X-ray Imager,an initial characterisation of the devices has been carried out to give a baseline performance level.Three CCDs have been characterised,the two flight devices and the flight spa re.This has been carried out at the Open University in a bespo ke cleanroom measure ment facility.The results show that there is a cluster of bright pixels in the flight spa re which increases in size with tempe rature.However at the nominal ope rating tempe rature(-120℃) it is within the procure ment specifications.Overall,the devices meet the specifications when ope rating at -120℃ in 6 × 6 binned frame transfer science mode.The se rial charge transfer inefficiency degrades with temperature in full frame mode.However any charge losses are recovered when binning/frame transfer is implemented.展开更多
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)will shine a spotlight on magnetopause dynamics during magnetic reconnection.We simulate an event with a southward interplanetary magne...The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)will shine a spotlight on magnetopause dynamics during magnetic reconnection.We simulate an event with a southward interplanetary magnetic field turning and produce SXI count maps with a 5-minute integration time.By making assumptions about the magnetopause shape,we find the magnetopause standoff distance from the count maps and compare it with the one obtained directly from the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)simulation.The root mean square deviations between the reconstructed and MHD standoff distances do not exceed 0.2 RE(Earth radius)and the maximal difference equals 0.24 RE during the 25-minute interval around the southward turning.展开更多
Time-encoded imaging is useful for identifying potential special nuclear materials and other radioactive sources at a distance.In this study,a large field-of-view time-encoded imager was developed for gamma-ray and ne...Time-encoded imaging is useful for identifying potential special nuclear materials and other radioactive sources at a distance.In this study,a large field-of-view time-encoded imager was developed for gamma-ray and neutron source hotspot imaging based on a depth-of-interaction(DOI)detector.The imager primarily consists of a DOI detector system and a rotary dual-layer cylindrical coded mask.An EJ276 plastic scintillator coupled with two SiPMs was designed as the DOI detector to increase the field of view and improve the imager performance.The difference in signal time at both ends and the log of the signal amplitude ratio were used to calculate the interaction position resolution.The position resolution of the DOI detector was calibrated using a collimated Cs-137 source,and the full width at half maximum of the reconstruction position of the Gaussian fitting curve was approximately 4.4 cm.The DOI detector can be arbitrarily divided into several units to independently reconstruct the source distribution images.The unit length was optimized via Am-Be source-location experiments.A multidetector filtering method is proposed for image denoising.This method can effectively reduce image noise caused by poor DOI detector position resolution.The vertical field of view of the imager was(-55°,55°)when the detector was placed in the center of the coded mask.A DT neutron source at 20 m standoff could be located within 2400 s with an angular resolution of 3.5°.展开更多
The spherical crystal imaging system,noted for its high energy spectral resolution(monochromaticity)and spatial resolution,is extensively applied in high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research...The spherical crystal imaging system,noted for its high energy spectral resolution(monochromaticity)and spatial resolution,is extensively applied in high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research.This system supports studies on fast electron transport,hydrodynamic instabilities,and implosion dynamics.The x-ray source,produced through laser-plasma interaction,emits a limited number of photons within short time scales,resulting in predominantly photon-starved images.Through ray-tracing simulations,we investigated the impact of varying crystal dimensions on the performance of a spherical crystal self-emission imager.We observed that increasing the crystal dimension leads to higher imaging efficiency but at the expense of monochromaticity,causing broader spectral acceptance and reduced spatial resolution.Furthermore,we presented a theoretical model to estimate the spatial resolution of the imaging system within a specific energy spectrum range,detailing the expressions for the effective size of the crystal.The spatial resolution derived from the model closely matches the numerical simulations.展开更多
An extreme ultraviolet solar corona multispectral imager can allow direct observation of high temperature coronal plasma,which is related to solar flares,coronal mass ejections and other significant coronal activities...An extreme ultraviolet solar corona multispectral imager can allow direct observation of high temperature coronal plasma,which is related to solar flares,coronal mass ejections and other significant coronal activities.This manuscript proposes a novel end-to-end computational design method for an extreme ultraviolet(EUV)solar corona multispectral imager operating at wavelengths near 100 nm,including a stray light suppression design and computational image recovery.To suppress the strong stray light from the solar disk,an outer opto-mechanical structure is designed to protect the imaging component of the system.Considering the low reflectivity(less than 70%)and strong-scattering(roughness)of existing extreme ultraviolet optical elements,the imaging component comprises only a primary mirror and a curved grating.A Lyot aperture is used to further suppress any residual stray light.Finally,a deep learning computational imaging method is used to correct the individual multi-wavelength images from the original recorded multi-slit data.In results and data,this can achieve a far-field angular resolution below 7",and spectral resolution below 0.05 nm.The field of view is±3 R_(☉)along the multi-slit moving direction,where R☉represents the radius of the solar disk.The ratio of the corona's stray light intensity to the solar center's irradiation intensity is less than 10-6 at the circle of 1.3 R_(☉).展开更多
Cloud detection from satellite and drone imagery is crucial for applications such as weather forecasting and environmentalmonitoring.Addressing the limitations of conventional convolutional neural networks,we propose ...Cloud detection from satellite and drone imagery is crucial for applications such as weather forecasting and environmentalmonitoring.Addressing the limitations of conventional convolutional neural networks,we propose an innovative transformer-based method.This method leverages transformers,which are adept at processing data sequences,to enhance cloud detection accuracy.Additionally,we introduce a Cyclic Refinement Architecture that improves the resolution and quality of feature extraction,thereby aiding in the retention of critical details often lost during cloud detection.Our extensive experimental validation shows that our approach significantly outperforms established models,excelling in high-resolution feature extraction and precise cloud segmentation.By integrating Positional Visual Transformers(PVT)with this architecture,our method advances high-resolution feature delineation and segmentation accuracy.Ultimately,our research offers a novel perspective for surmounting traditional challenges in cloud detection and contributes to the advancement of precise and dependable image analysis across various domains.展开更多
The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)is part of the scientific payload of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)mission.SMILE is a joint science mission between the European Space Agency(ESA)and the Chinese...The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)is part of the scientific payload of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)mission.SMILE is a joint science mission between the European Space Agency(ESA)and the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)and is due for launch in 2025.SXI is a compact X-ray telescope with a wide field-of-view(FOV)capable of encompassing large portions of Earth’s magnetosphere from the vantage point of the SMILE orbit.SXI is sensitive to the soft X-rays produced by the Solar Wind Charge eXchange(SWCX)process produced when heavy ions of solar wind origin interact with neutral particles in Earth’s exosphere.SWCX provides a mechanism for boundary detection within the magnetosphere,such as the position of Earth’s magnetopause,because the solar wind heavy ions have a very low density in regions of closed magnetic field lines.The sensitivity of the SXI is such that it can potentially track movements of the magnetopause on timescales of a few minutes and the orbit of SMILE will enable such movements to be tracked for segments lasting many hours.SXI is led by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom(UK)with collaborating organisations on hardware,software and science support within the UK,Europe,China and the United States.展开更多
Automatically detecting Ulva prolifera(U.prolifera)in rainy and cloudy weather using remote sensing imagery has been a long-standing problem.Here,we address this challenge by combining high-resolution Synthetic Apertu...Automatically detecting Ulva prolifera(U.prolifera)in rainy and cloudy weather using remote sensing imagery has been a long-standing problem.Here,we address this challenge by combining high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)imagery with the machine learning,and detect the U.prolifera of the South Yellow Sea of China(SYS)in 2021.The findings indicate that the Random Forest model can accurately and robustly detect U.prolifera,even in the presence of complex ocean backgrounds and speckle noise.Visual inspection confirmed that the method successfully identified the majority of pixels containing U.prolifera without misidentifying noise pixels or seawater pixels as U.prolifera.Additionally,the method demonstrated consistent performance across different im-ages,with an average Area Under Curve(AUC)of 0.930(+0.028).The analysis yielded an overall accuracy of over 96%,with an average Kappa coefficient of 0.941(+0.038).Compared to the traditional thresholding method,Random Forest model has a lower estimation error of 14.81%.Practical application indicates that this method can be used in the detection of unprecedented U.prolifera in 2021 to derive continuous spatiotemporal changes.This study provides a potential new method to detect U.prolifera and enhances our under-standing of macroalgal outbreaks in the marine environment.展开更多
Artificial Intelligence(AI)Machine Learning(ML)technologies,particularly Deep Learning(DL),have demonstrated significant potential in the interpretation of Remote Sensing(RS)imagery,covering tasks such as scene classi...Artificial Intelligence(AI)Machine Learning(ML)technologies,particularly Deep Learning(DL),have demonstrated significant potential in the interpretation of Remote Sensing(RS)imagery,covering tasks such as scene classification,object detection,land-cover/land-use classification,change detection,and multi-view stereo reconstruction.Large-scale training samples are essential for ML/DL models to achieve optimal performance.However,the current organization of training samples is ad-hoc and vendor-specific,lacking an integrated approach that can effectively manage training samples from different vendors to meet the demands of various RS AI tasks.This article proposes a solution to address these challenges by designing and implementing LuoJiaSET,a large-scale training sample database system for intelligent interpretation of RS imagery.LuoJiaSET accommodates over five million training samples,providing support for cross-dataset queries and serving as a comprehensive training data store for RS AI model training and calibration.It overcomes challenges related to label semantic categories,structural heterogeneity in label representation,and interoperable data access.展开更多
The Solar Polar-orbit Observatory(SPO),proposed by Chinese scientists,is designed to observe the solar polar regions in an unprecedented way with a spacecraft traveling in a large solar inclination angle and a small e...The Solar Polar-orbit Observatory(SPO),proposed by Chinese scientists,is designed to observe the solar polar regions in an unprecedented way with a spacecraft traveling in a large solar inclination angle and a small ellipticity.However,one of the most significant challenges lies in ultra-long-distance data transmission,particularly for the Magnetic and Helioseismic Imager(MHI),which is the most important payload and generates the largest volume of data in SPO.In this paper,we propose a tailored lossless data compression method based on the measurement mode and characteristics of MHI data.The background out of the solar disk is removed to decrease the pixel number of an image under compression.Multiple predictive coding methods are combined to eliminate the redundancy utilizing the correlation(space,spectrum,and polarization)in data set,improving the compression ratio.Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves an average compression ratio of 3.67.The compression time is also less than the general observation period.The method exhibits strong feasibility and can be easily adapted to MHI.展开更多
Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-sc...Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
Remote sensing images often need to be merged into a larger mosaic image to support analysis on large areas in many applications.However,the performance of the mosaic imagery may be severely restricted if there are ma...Remote sensing images often need to be merged into a larger mosaic image to support analysis on large areas in many applications.However,the performance of the mosaic imagery may be severely restricted if there are many areas with cloud coverage or if these images used for merging have a long-time span.Therefore,this paper proposes a method of image selection for full coverage image(i.e.a mosaic image with no cloud-contaminated pixels)generation.Specifically,a novel High-Frequency-Aware(HFA)-Net based on Swin-Transformer for region quality grading is presented to provide a data basis for image selection.Spatiotemporal constraints are presented to optimize the image selection.In the temporal dimension,the shortest-time-span constraint shortens the time span of the selected images,obviously improving the timeliness of the image selection results(i.e.with a shorter time span).In the spatial dimension,a spatial continuity constraint is proposed to select data with better quality and larger area,thus improving the radiometric continuity of the results.Experiments on the GF-1 images indicate that the proposed method reduces the averages by 76.1%and 38.7%in terms of the shortest time span compared to the Improved Coverage-oriented Retrieval algorithm(MICR)and Retrieval Method based on Grid Compensation(RMGC)methods,respectively.Moreover,the proposed method also reduces the residual cloud amount by an average of 91.2%,89.8%,and 83.4%when compared to the MICR,RMGC,and Pixel-based Time-series Synthesis Method(PTSM)methods,respectively.展开更多
To extract vegetation pigment concentration and physiological status has been studied in two test areas covered with swamp and flourish vegetation using pushbroom hyperspectral imager (PHI) data which flied in Septemb...To extract vegetation pigment concentration and physiological status has been studied in two test areas covered with swamp and flourish vegetation using pushbroom hyperspectral imager (PHI) data which flied in September of 2000 at Daxing'anling district of Heilongjiang Province, China. The ratio analysis of reflectance spectra (RARS) indices, which were put forward by Chappelle et al (1992), are chosen in this paper owing to their effect and simpleness against both comparison with various methods and techniques for exploration of pigment concentration and characteristics of PHI data. The correlation coefficients between RARS indices and pigment concentration of vegetation were up to 0.8. The new RARS indices modes are established in the two test areas using both PHI data and spectra of different vegetations measured in the field. The indices' parameter images of chlorophyll a (Chl a), chlorophyll b (Chl b) and carotenoids (Cars) of the test areas covered with swamp and flourish vegetation are acquired by the new RARS indices modes. Furthermore, the regional concentration of Chl a and Chl b are extracted and quantified using regression equations between RARS indices and pigment concentrations, which were built by Blackburn (1998). The results showed the physiological status and variety clearly, and are in good agreement with the distribution of vegetation in the field.展开更多
The aim of this study was to report a case of multi-visceral sarcoidosis at the Mother-Child Hospital Center (CHME) “Le Luxembourg” in Bamako, Mali. Observation: This is a patient aged 62 at the time of consultation...The aim of this study was to report a case of multi-visceral sarcoidosis at the Mother-Child Hospital Center (CHME) “Le Luxembourg” in Bamako, Mali. Observation: This is a patient aged 62 at the time of consultation, a housewife, residing in the Banconi district, who was referred to us for thoracic-abdominopelvic imaging for chronic liver disease. After several diagnostic errors, the thoracic-abdominopelvic CT scan and liver MRI performed in our center showed, at the thoracoabdominal level, bilateral diffuse pulmonary micronodules and bilateral mediastinal-hilar lymphadenopathy;on the abdominal level, a dysmorphic liver with plaques of steatosis and a granular appearance of the liver parenchyma without periportal fibrosis. These imaging data combined with those from the liver nodule biopsy and biology confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis type II. Treatment with corticosteroids gave satisfactory results and the patient recovered after 18 months. Clinical and CT monitoring 2 years from the start of the disease and 2 months from the end of treatment showed complete resolution of the lesions. Conclusion: The multi-visceral location of sarcoidosis is an entity whose diagnosis remains difficult;diagnostic and interventional imaging has an important place in its management.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under grant No.12233012,the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,grant No.XDB0560102the National Key R&D Program of China 2022YFF0503003(2022YFF0503000)。
文摘The in-flight calibration and performance of the Solar Disk Imager(SDI),which is a pivotal instrument of the LyαSolar Telescope onboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory mission,suggested a much lower spatial resolution than expected.In this paper,we developed the SDI point-spread function(PSF)and Image Bivariate Optimization Algorithm(SPIBOA)to improve the quality of SDI images.The bivariate optimization method smartly combines deep learning with optical system modeling.Despite the lack of information about the real image taken by SDI and the optical system function,this algorithm effectively estimates the PSF of the SDI imaging system directly from a large sample of observational data.We use the estimated PSF to conduct deconvolution correction to observed SDI images,and the resulting images show that the spatial resolution after correction has increased by a factor of more than three with respect to the observed ones.Meanwhile,our method also significantly reduces the inherent noise in the observed SDI images.The SPIBOA has now been successfully integrated into the routine SDI data processing,providing important support for the scientific studies based on the data.The development and application of SPIBOA also paves new ways to identify astronomical telescope systems and enhance observational image quality.Some essential factors and precautions in applying the SPIBOA method are also discussed.
文摘Grass constitutes a vital poetic imagery in classical Chinese poetry,embodying multifaceted symbolic connotations ranging from the tenacity of life to sentiments of separation and nostalgic longing.The translation of this botanical motif necessitates not merely lexical equivalence,but more importantly,the transmission of its profound cultural resonance and aesthetic essence.This study posits that effective rendition of grass imagery should adopt an integrative approach synthesizing the objectives of cultural translation with the intrinsic aesthetic characteristics of classical poetry.Through systematic analysis of the cultural semiotics embedded in grass symbolism,the research investigates practical translation techniques at lexical,syntactic,and stylistic dimensions.The findings aim to contribute to the theoretical framework of cultural image translation in Chinese poetic tradition while providing methodological references for cross-cultural interpretation of classical verse.By bridging cultural semiotics with translation praxis,this investigation seeks to advance the intercultural communication of Chinese poetic heritage through nuanced treatment of its botanical symbolism.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171797)Chunhui Project Foundation of the Education Department of China(HZKY20220026).
文摘With rapid urbanization,fires pose significant challenges in urban governance.Traditional fire detection methods often struggle to detect smoke in complex urban scenes due to environmental interferences and variations in viewing angles.This study proposes a novel multimodal smoke detection method that fuses infrared and visible imagery using a transformer-based deep learning model.By capturing both thermal and visual cues,our approach significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of smoke detection in business parks scenes.We first established a dual-view dataset comprising infrared and visible light videos,implemented an innovative image feature fusion strategy,and designed a deep learning model based on the transformer architecture and attention mechanism for smoke classification.Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms existing methods,under the condition of multi-view input,it achieves an accuracy rate of 90.88%,precision rate of 98.38%,recall rate of 92.41%and false positive and false negative rates both below 5%,underlining the effectiveness of the proposed multimodal and multi-view fusion approach.The attention mechanism plays a crucial role in improving detection performance,particularly in identifying subtle smoke features.
基金supported by the Department of Science and Technology,Science and Engineering Research Board,New Delhi,India,under Grant No.EEQ/2022/000812.
文摘Landslide hazard detection is a prevalent problem in remote sensing studies,particularly with the technological advancement of computer vision.With the continuous and exceptional growth of the computational environment,the manual and partially automated procedure of landslide detection from remotely sensed images has shifted toward automatic methods with deep learning.Furthermore,attention models,driven by human visual procedures,have become vital in natural hazard-related studies.Hence,this paper proposes an enhanced YOLOv5(You Only Look Once version 5)network for improved satellite-based landslide detection,embedded with two popular attention modules:CBAM(Convolutional Block Attention Module)and ECA(Efficient Channel Attention).These attention mechanisms are incorporated into the backbone and neck of the YOLOv5 architecture,distinctly,and evaluated across three YOLOv5 variants:nano(n),small(s),and medium(m).The experiments use opensource satellite images from three distinct regions with complex terrain.The standard metrics,including F-score,precision,recall,and mean average precision(mAP),are computed for quantitative assessment.The YOLOv5n+CBAM demonstrates the most optimal results with an F-score of 77.2%,confirming its effectiveness.The suggested attention-driven architecture augments detection accuracy,supporting post-landslide event assessment and recovery.
基金National Natural Science Foundation Major Project of China,Grant/Award Number:42192580Guangdong Province Key Construction Discipline Scientific Research Ability Promotion Project,Grant/Award Number:2022ZDJS015。
文摘In Hyperspectral Imaging(HSI),the detrimental influence of noise and distortions on data quality is profound,which has severely affected the following-on analytics and decisionmaking such as land mapping.This study presents an innovative framework for assessing HSI band quality and reconstructing the low-quality bands,based on the Prophet model.By introducing a comprehensive quality metric to start,the authors approach factors in both spatial and spectral characteristics across local and global scales.This metric effectively captures the intricate noise and distortions inherent in the HSI data.Subsequently,the authors employ the Prophet model to forecast information within the low-quality bands,leveraging insights from neighbouring high-quality bands.To validate the effectiveness of the authors’proposed model,extensive experiments on three publicly available uncorrected datasets are conducted.In a head-to-head comparison,the framework against six state-ofthe-art band reconstruction algorithms including three spectral methods,two spatialspectral methods and one deep learning method is benchmarked.The authors’experiments also delve into strategies for band selection based on quality metrics and the quality evaluation of the reconstructed bands.In addition,the authors assess the classification accuracy utilising these reconstructed bands.In various experiments,the results consistently affirm the efficacy of the authors’method in HSI quality assessment and band reconstruction.Notably,the authors’approach obviates the need for manually prefiltering of noisy bands.This comprehensive framework holds promise in addressing HSI data quality concerns whilst enhancing the overall utility of HSI.
文摘Efficient banana crop detection is crucial for precision agriculture;however,traditional remote sensing methods often lack the spatial resolution required for accurate identification.This study utilizes low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)images and deep learning-based object detection models to enhance banana plant detection.A comparative analysis of Faster Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network(Faster R-CNN),You Only Look Once Version 3(YOLOv3),Retina Network(RetinaNet),and Single Shot MultiBox Detector(SSD)was conducted to evaluate their effectiveness.Results show that RetinaNet achieved the highest detection accuracy,with a precision of 96.67%,a recall of 71.67%,and an F1 score of 81.33%.The study further highlights the impact of scale variation,occlusion,and vegetation density on detection performance.Unlike previous studies,this research systematically evaluates multi-scale object detection models for banana plant identification,offering insights into the advantages of UAV-based deep learning applications in agriculture.In addition,this study compares five evaluation metrics across the four detection models using both RGB and grayscale images.Specifically,RetinaNet exhibited the best overall performance with grayscale images,achieving the highest values across all five metrics.Compared to its performance with RGB images,these results represent a marked improvement,confirming the potential of grayscale preprocessing to enhance detection capability.
文摘Throughout the SMILE mission the satellite will be bombarded by radiation which gradually damages the focal plane devices and degrades their performance.In order to understand the changes of the CCD370s within the soft X-ray Imager,an initial characterisation of the devices has been carried out to give a baseline performance level.Three CCDs have been characterised,the two flight devices and the flight spa re.This has been carried out at the Open University in a bespo ke cleanroom measure ment facility.The results show that there is a cluster of bright pixels in the flight spa re which increases in size with tempe rature.However at the nominal ope rating tempe rature(-120℃) it is within the procure ment specifications.Overall,the devices meet the specifications when ope rating at -120℃ in 6 × 6 binned frame transfer science mode.The se rial charge transfer inefficiency degrades with temperature in full frame mode.However any charge losses are recovered when binning/frame transfer is implemented.
基金support from the UK Space Agency under Grant Number ST/T002964/1partly supported by the International Space Science Institute(ISSI)in Bern,through ISSI International Team Project Number 523(“Imaging the Invisible:Unveiling the Global Structure of Earth’s Dynamic Magnetosphere”)。
文摘The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)will shine a spotlight on magnetopause dynamics during magnetic reconnection.We simulate an event with a southward interplanetary magnetic field turning and produce SXI count maps with a 5-minute integration time.By making assumptions about the magnetopause shape,we find the magnetopause standoff distance from the count maps and compare it with the one obtained directly from the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)simulation.The root mean square deviations between the reconstructed and MHD standoff distances do not exceed 0.2 RE(Earth radius)and the maximal difference equals 0.24 RE during the 25-minute interval around the southward turning.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11975121,12205131)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.lzujbky-2021-sp58)the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.KYCX22_0354)。
文摘Time-encoded imaging is useful for identifying potential special nuclear materials and other radioactive sources at a distance.In this study,a large field-of-view time-encoded imager was developed for gamma-ray and neutron source hotspot imaging based on a depth-of-interaction(DOI)detector.The imager primarily consists of a DOI detector system and a rotary dual-layer cylindrical coded mask.An EJ276 plastic scintillator coupled with two SiPMs was designed as the DOI detector to increase the field of view and improve the imager performance.The difference in signal time at both ends and the log of the signal amplitude ratio were used to calculate the interaction position resolution.The position resolution of the DOI detector was calibrated using a collimated Cs-137 source,and the full width at half maximum of the reconstruction position of the Gaussian fitting curve was approximately 4.4 cm.The DOI detector can be arbitrarily divided into several units to independently reconstruct the source distribution images.The unit length was optimized via Am-Be source-location experiments.A multidetector filtering method is proposed for image denoising.This method can effectively reduce image noise caused by poor DOI detector position resolution.The vertical field of view of the imager was(-55°,55°)when the detector was placed in the center of the coded mask.A DT neutron source at 20 m standoff could be located within 2400 s with an angular resolution of 3.5°.
基金Project supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA25051000,XDA25010100,XDA25010300,XDA25030100,and XDA25030200)。
文摘The spherical crystal imaging system,noted for its high energy spectral resolution(monochromaticity)and spatial resolution,is extensively applied in high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research.This system supports studies on fast electron transport,hydrodynamic instabilities,and implosion dynamics.The x-ray source,produced through laser-plasma interaction,emits a limited number of photons within short time scales,resulting in predominantly photon-starved images.Through ray-tracing simulations,we investigated the impact of varying crystal dimensions on the performance of a spherical crystal self-emission imager.We observed that increasing the crystal dimension leads to higher imaging efficiency but at the expense of monochromaticity,causing broader spectral acceptance and reduced spatial resolution.Furthermore,we presented a theoretical model to estimate the spatial resolution of the imaging system within a specific energy spectrum range,detailing the expressions for the effective size of the crystal.The spatial resolution derived from the model closely matches the numerical simulations.
基金This study is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(62005120,62125504).
文摘An extreme ultraviolet solar corona multispectral imager can allow direct observation of high temperature coronal plasma,which is related to solar flares,coronal mass ejections and other significant coronal activities.This manuscript proposes a novel end-to-end computational design method for an extreme ultraviolet(EUV)solar corona multispectral imager operating at wavelengths near 100 nm,including a stray light suppression design and computational image recovery.To suppress the strong stray light from the solar disk,an outer opto-mechanical structure is designed to protect the imaging component of the system.Considering the low reflectivity(less than 70%)and strong-scattering(roughness)of existing extreme ultraviolet optical elements,the imaging component comprises only a primary mirror and a curved grating.A Lyot aperture is used to further suppress any residual stray light.Finally,a deep learning computational imaging method is used to correct the individual multi-wavelength images from the original recorded multi-slit data.In results and data,this can achieve a far-field angular resolution below 7",and spectral resolution below 0.05 nm.The field of view is±3 R_(☉)along the multi-slit moving direction,where R☉represents the radius of the solar disk.The ratio of the corona's stray light intensity to the solar center's irradiation intensity is less than 10-6 at the circle of 1.3 R_(☉).
基金funded by the Chongqing Normal University Startup Foundation for PhD(22XLB021)supported by the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology,Zhejiang University,China(No.ICT2023B40).
文摘Cloud detection from satellite and drone imagery is crucial for applications such as weather forecasting and environmentalmonitoring.Addressing the limitations of conventional convolutional neural networks,we propose an innovative transformer-based method.This method leverages transformers,which are adept at processing data sequences,to enhance cloud detection accuracy.Additionally,we introduce a Cyclic Refinement Architecture that improves the resolution and quality of feature extraction,thereby aiding in the retention of critical details often lost during cloud detection.Our extensive experimental validation shows that our approach significantly outperforms established models,excelling in high-resolution feature extraction and precise cloud segmentation.By integrating Positional Visual Transformers(PVT)with this architecture,our method advances high-resolution feature delineation and segmentation accuracy.Ultimately,our research offers a novel perspective for surmounting traditional challenges in cloud detection and contributes to the advancement of precise and dependable image analysis across various domains.
基金funding and support from the United Kingdom Space Agency(UKSA)the European Space Agency(ESA)+5 种基金funded and supported through the ESA PRODEX schemefunded through PRODEX PEA 4000123238the Research Council of Norway grant 223252funded by Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 grant PID2019-107061GB-C61funding and support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)funding and support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)。
文摘The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)is part of the scientific payload of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)mission.SMILE is a joint science mission between the European Space Agency(ESA)and the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)and is due for launch in 2025.SXI is a compact X-ray telescope with a wide field-of-view(FOV)capable of encompassing large portions of Earth’s magnetosphere from the vantage point of the SMILE orbit.SXI is sensitive to the soft X-rays produced by the Solar Wind Charge eXchange(SWCX)process produced when heavy ions of solar wind origin interact with neutral particles in Earth’s exosphere.SWCX provides a mechanism for boundary detection within the magnetosphere,such as the position of Earth’s magnetopause,because the solar wind heavy ions have a very low density in regions of closed magnetic field lines.The sensitivity of the SXI is such that it can potentially track movements of the magnetopause on timescales of a few minutes and the orbit of SMILE will enable such movements to be tracked for segments lasting many hours.SXI is led by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom(UK)with collaborating organisations on hardware,software and science support within the UK,Europe,China and the United States.
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42071385)National Science and Technology Major Project of High Resolution Earth Observation System(No.79-Y50-G18-9001-22/23)。
文摘Automatically detecting Ulva prolifera(U.prolifera)in rainy and cloudy weather using remote sensing imagery has been a long-standing problem.Here,we address this challenge by combining high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)imagery with the machine learning,and detect the U.prolifera of the South Yellow Sea of China(SYS)in 2021.The findings indicate that the Random Forest model can accurately and robustly detect U.prolifera,even in the presence of complex ocean backgrounds and speckle noise.Visual inspection confirmed that the method successfully identified the majority of pixels containing U.prolifera without misidentifying noise pixels or seawater pixels as U.prolifera.Additionally,the method demonstrated consistent performance across different im-ages,with an average Area Under Curve(AUC)of 0.930(+0.028).The analysis yielded an overall accuracy of over 96%,with an average Kappa coefficient of 0.941(+0.038).Compared to the traditional thresholding method,Random Forest model has a lower estimation error of 14.81%.Practical application indicates that this method can be used in the detection of unprecedented U.prolifera in 2021 to derive continuous spatiotemporal changes.This study provides a potential new method to detect U.prolifera and enhances our under-standing of macroalgal outbreaks in the marine environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 42071354]supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant number 2042022dx0001]supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant number WUT:223108001].
文摘Artificial Intelligence(AI)Machine Learning(ML)technologies,particularly Deep Learning(DL),have demonstrated significant potential in the interpretation of Remote Sensing(RS)imagery,covering tasks such as scene classification,object detection,land-cover/land-use classification,change detection,and multi-view stereo reconstruction.Large-scale training samples are essential for ML/DL models to achieve optimal performance.However,the current organization of training samples is ad-hoc and vendor-specific,lacking an integrated approach that can effectively manage training samples from different vendors to meet the demands of various RS AI tasks.This article proposes a solution to address these challenges by designing and implementing LuoJiaSET,a large-scale training sample database system for intelligent interpretation of RS imagery.LuoJiaSET accommodates over five million training samples,providing support for cross-dataset queries and serving as a comprehensive training data store for RS AI model training and calibration.It overcomes challenges related to label semantic categories,structural heterogeneity in label representation,and interoperable data access.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(grant No.2022YFF0503800)by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(grant No.11427901)+1 种基金by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS-SPP)(grant No.XDA15320102)by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association(CAS No.2022057)。
文摘The Solar Polar-orbit Observatory(SPO),proposed by Chinese scientists,is designed to observe the solar polar regions in an unprecedented way with a spacecraft traveling in a large solar inclination angle and a small ellipticity.However,one of the most significant challenges lies in ultra-long-distance data transmission,particularly for the Magnetic and Helioseismic Imager(MHI),which is the most important payload and generates the largest volume of data in SPO.In this paper,we propose a tailored lossless data compression method based on the measurement mode and characteristics of MHI data.The background out of the solar disk is removed to decrease the pixel number of an image under compression.Multiple predictive coding methods are combined to eliminate the redundancy utilizing the correlation(space,spectrum,and polarization)in data set,improving the compression ratio.Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves an average compression ratio of 3.67.The compression time is also less than the general observation period.The method exhibits strong feasibility and can be easily adapted to MHI.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61903078)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.2232021A-10)+1 种基金Shanghai Sailing Program,China(No.22YF1401300)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai,China(No.20ZR1400400)。
文摘Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 41971422 and 42090010]the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China[grant number 2042022dx0001].
文摘Remote sensing images often need to be merged into a larger mosaic image to support analysis on large areas in many applications.However,the performance of the mosaic imagery may be severely restricted if there are many areas with cloud coverage or if these images used for merging have a long-time span.Therefore,this paper proposes a method of image selection for full coverage image(i.e.a mosaic image with no cloud-contaminated pixels)generation.Specifically,a novel High-Frequency-Aware(HFA)-Net based on Swin-Transformer for region quality grading is presented to provide a data basis for image selection.Spatiotemporal constraints are presented to optimize the image selection.In the temporal dimension,the shortest-time-span constraint shortens the time span of the selected images,obviously improving the timeliness of the image selection results(i.e.with a shorter time span).In the spatial dimension,a spatial continuity constraint is proposed to select data with better quality and larger area,thus improving the radiometric continuity of the results.Experiments on the GF-1 images indicate that the proposed method reduces the averages by 76.1%and 38.7%in terms of the shortest time span compared to the Improved Coverage-oriented Retrieval algorithm(MICR)and Retrieval Method based on Grid Compensation(RMGC)methods,respectively.Moreover,the proposed method also reduces the residual cloud amount by an average of 91.2%,89.8%,and 83.4%when compared to the MICR,RMGC,and Pixel-based Time-series Synthesis Method(PTSM)methods,respectively.
文摘To extract vegetation pigment concentration and physiological status has been studied in two test areas covered with swamp and flourish vegetation using pushbroom hyperspectral imager (PHI) data which flied in September of 2000 at Daxing'anling district of Heilongjiang Province, China. The ratio analysis of reflectance spectra (RARS) indices, which were put forward by Chappelle et al (1992), are chosen in this paper owing to their effect and simpleness against both comparison with various methods and techniques for exploration of pigment concentration and characteristics of PHI data. The correlation coefficients between RARS indices and pigment concentration of vegetation were up to 0.8. The new RARS indices modes are established in the two test areas using both PHI data and spectra of different vegetations measured in the field. The indices' parameter images of chlorophyll a (Chl a), chlorophyll b (Chl b) and carotenoids (Cars) of the test areas covered with swamp and flourish vegetation are acquired by the new RARS indices modes. Furthermore, the regional concentration of Chl a and Chl b are extracted and quantified using regression equations between RARS indices and pigment concentrations, which were built by Blackburn (1998). The results showed the physiological status and variety clearly, and are in good agreement with the distribution of vegetation in the field.
文摘The aim of this study was to report a case of multi-visceral sarcoidosis at the Mother-Child Hospital Center (CHME) “Le Luxembourg” in Bamako, Mali. Observation: This is a patient aged 62 at the time of consultation, a housewife, residing in the Banconi district, who was referred to us for thoracic-abdominopelvic imaging for chronic liver disease. After several diagnostic errors, the thoracic-abdominopelvic CT scan and liver MRI performed in our center showed, at the thoracoabdominal level, bilateral diffuse pulmonary micronodules and bilateral mediastinal-hilar lymphadenopathy;on the abdominal level, a dysmorphic liver with plaques of steatosis and a granular appearance of the liver parenchyma without periportal fibrosis. These imaging data combined with those from the liver nodule biopsy and biology confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis type II. Treatment with corticosteroids gave satisfactory results and the patient recovered after 18 months. Clinical and CT monitoring 2 years from the start of the disease and 2 months from the end of treatment showed complete resolution of the lesions. Conclusion: The multi-visceral location of sarcoidosis is an entity whose diagnosis remains difficult;diagnostic and interventional imaging has an important place in its management.
