An improved model based on you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)is proposed to solve the problem of low detection accuracy due to the diversity of object sizes in optical remote sensing images.Firstly,the feature pyram...An improved model based on you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)is proposed to solve the problem of low detection accuracy due to the diversity of object sizes in optical remote sensing images.Firstly,the feature pyramid network(FPN)structure of the original YOLOv8 mode is replaced by the generalized-FPN(GFPN)structure in GiraffeDet to realize the"cross-layer"and"cross-scale"adaptive feature fusion,to enrich the semantic information and spatial information on the feature map to improve the target detection ability of the model.Secondly,a pyramid-pool module of multi atrous spatial pyramid pooling(MASPP)is designed by using the idea of atrous convolution and feature pyramid structure to extract multi-scale features,so as to improve the processing ability of the model for multi-scale objects.The experimental results show that the detection accuracy of the improved YOLOv8 model on DIOR dataset is 92%and mean average precision(mAP)is 87.9%,respectively 3.5%and 1.7%higher than those of the original model.It is proved the detection and classification ability of the proposed model on multi-dimensional optical remote sensing target has been improved.展开更多
Underwater target detection is extensively applied in domains such as underwater search and rescue,environmental monitoring,and marine resource surveys.It is crucial in enabling autonomous underwater robot operations ...Underwater target detection is extensively applied in domains such as underwater search and rescue,environmental monitoring,and marine resource surveys.It is crucial in enabling autonomous underwater robot operations and promoting ocean exploration.Nevertheless,low imaging quality,harsh underwater environments,and obscured objects considerably increase the difficulty of detecting underwater targets,making it difficult for current detection methods to achieve optimal performance.In order to enhance underwater object perception and improve target detection precision,we propose a lightweight underwater target detection method using You Only Look Once(YOLO)v8 with multi-scale cross-channel attention(MSCCA),named YOLOv8-UOD.In the proposed multiscale cross-channel attention module,multi-scale attention(MSA)augments the variety of attentional perception by extracting information from innately diverse sensory fields.The cross-channel strategy utilizes RepVGGbased channel shuffling(RCS)and one-shot aggregation(OSA)to rearrange feature map channels according to specific rules.It aggregates all features only once in the final feature mapping,resulting in the extraction of more comprehensive and valuable feature information.The experimental results show that the proposed YOLOv8-UOD achieves a mAP50 of 95.67%and FLOPs of 23.8 G on the Underwater Robot Picking Contest 2017(URPC2017)dataset,outperforming other methods in terms of detection precision and computational cost-efficiency.展开更多
Detecting abnormal cervical cells is crucial for early identification and timely treatment of cervical cancer.However,this task is challenging due to the morphological similarities between abnormal and normal cells an...Detecting abnormal cervical cells is crucial for early identification and timely treatment of cervical cancer.However,this task is challenging due to the morphological similarities between abnormal and normal cells and the significant variations in cell size.Pathologists often refer to surrounding cells to identify abnormalities.To emulate this slide examination behavior,this study proposes a Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network(MSFF-Net)for detecting cervical abnormal cells.MSFF-Net employs a Cross-Scale Pooling Model(CSPM)to effectively capture diverse features and contextual information,ranging from local details to the overall structure.Additionally,a Multi-Scale Fusion Attention(MSFA)module is introduced to mitigate the impact of cell size variations by adaptively fusing local and global information at different scales.To handle the complex environment of cervical cell images,such as cell adhesion and overlapping,the Inner-CIoU loss function is utilized to more precisely measure the overlap between bounding boxes,thereby improving detection accuracy in such scenarios.Experimental results on the Comparison detector dataset demonstrate that MSFF-Net achieves a mean average precision(mAP)of 63.2%,outperforming state-of-the-art methods while maintaining a relatively small number of parameters(26.8 M).This study highlights the effectiveness of multi-scale feature fusion in enhancing the detection of cervical abnormal cells,contributing to more accurate and efficient cervical cancer screening.展开更多
With the rapid growth of socialmedia,the spread of fake news has become a growing problem,misleading the public and causing significant harm.As social media content is often composed of both images and text,the use of...With the rapid growth of socialmedia,the spread of fake news has become a growing problem,misleading the public and causing significant harm.As social media content is often composed of both images and text,the use of multimodal approaches for fake news detection has gained significant attention.To solve the problems existing in previous multi-modal fake news detection algorithms,such as insufficient feature extraction and insufficient use of semantic relations between modes,this paper proposes the MFFFND-Co(Multimodal Feature Fusion Fake News Detection with Co-Attention Block)model.First,the model deeply explores the textual content,image content,and frequency domain features.Then,it employs a Co-Attention mechanism for cross-modal fusion.Additionally,a semantic consistency detectionmodule is designed to quantify semantic deviations,thereby enhancing the performance of fake news detection.Experimentally verified on two commonly used datasets,Twitter and Weibo,the model achieved F1 scores of 90.0% and 94.0%,respectively,significantly outperforming the pre-modified MFFFND(Multimodal Feature Fusion Fake News Detection with Attention Block)model and surpassing other baseline models.This improves the accuracy of detecting fake information in artificial intelligence detection and engineering software detection.展开更多
Transportation systems are experiencing a significant transformation due to the integration of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the context of intelligent transportatio...Transportation systems are experiencing a significant transformation due to the integration of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the context of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), the development of efficient and reliable traffic light detection mechanisms is crucial for enhancing road safety and traffic management. This paper presents an optimized convolutional neural network (CNN) framework designed to detect traffic lights in real-time within complex urban environments. Leveraging multi-scale pyramid feature maps, the proposed model addresses key challenges such as the detection of small, occluded, and low-resolution traffic lights amidst complex backgrounds. The integration of dilated convolutions, Region of Interest (ROI) alignment, and Soft Non-Maximum Suppression (Soft-NMS) further improves detection accuracy and reduces false positives. By optimizing computational efficiency and parameter complexity, the framework is designed to operate seamlessly on embedded systems, ensuring robust performance in real-world applications. Extensive experiments using real-world datasets demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms existing methods, providing a scalable solution for ITS and ADAS applications. This research contributes to the advancement of Artificial Intelligence-driven (AI-driven) pattern recognition in transportation systems and offers a mathematical approach to improving efficiency and safety in logistics and transportation networks.展开更多
In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scal...In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scale object detection algorithm based on an improved YOLOv8 has been proposed. Firstly, a lightweight attention mechanism, Triplet Attention, is introduced to enhance the algorithm’s ability to extract multi-dimensional and multi-scale features, thereby improving the receptive capability of the feature maps. Secondly, the Diverse Branch Block (DBB) is integrated into the CSP Bottleneck with two Convolutions (C2F) module to strengthen the fusion of semantic information across different layers. Thirdly, a new decoupled detection head is proposed by redesigning the original network head based on the Diverse Branch Block module to improve detection accuracy and reduce missed and false detections. Finally, the Minimum Point Distance based Intersection-over-Union (MPDIoU) is used to replace the original YOLOv8 Complete Intersection-over-Union (CIoU) to accelerate the network’s training convergence. Comparative experiments and dehazing pre-processing tests were conducted on the RTTS and VOC-Fog datasets. Compared to the baseline YOLOv8 model, the improved algorithm achieved mean Average Precision (mAP) improvements of 4.6% and 3.8%, respectively. After defogging pre-processing, the mAP increased by 5.3% and 4.4%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved algorithm exhibits high practicality and effectiveness in foggy traffic scenarios.展开更多
Accurate and real-time road defect detection is essential for ensuring traffic safety and infrastructure maintenance.However,existing vision-based methods often struggle with small,sparse,and low-resolution defects un...Accurate and real-time road defect detection is essential for ensuring traffic safety and infrastructure maintenance.However,existing vision-based methods often struggle with small,sparse,and low-resolution defects under complex road conditions.To address these limitations,we propose Multi-Scale Guided Detection YOLO(MGD-YOLO),a novel lightweight and high-performance object detector built upon You Only Look Once Version 5(YOLOv5).The proposed model integrates three key components:(1)a Multi-Scale Dilated Attention(MSDA)module to enhance semantic feature extraction across varying receptive fields;(2)Depthwise Separable Convolution(DSC)to reduce computational cost and improve model generalization;and(3)a Visual Global Attention Upsampling(VGAU)module that leverages high-level contextual information to refine low-level features for precise localization.Extensive experiments on three public road defect benchmarks demonstrate that MGD-YOLO outperforms state-of-the-art models in both detection accuracy and efficiency.Notably,our model achieves 87.9%accuracy in crack detection,88.3%overall precision on TD-RD dataset,while maintaining fast inference speed and a compact architecture.These results highlight the potential of MGD-YOLO for deployment in real-time,resource-constrained scenarios,paving the way for practical and scalable intelligent road maintenance systems.展开更多
Detecting surface defects on unused rails is crucial for evaluating rail quality and durability to ensure the safety of rail transportation.However,existing detection methods often struggle with challenges such as com...Detecting surface defects on unused rails is crucial for evaluating rail quality and durability to ensure the safety of rail transportation.However,existing detection methods often struggle with challenges such as complex defect morphology,texture similarity,and fuzzy edges,leading to poor accuracy and missed detections.In order to resolve these problems,we propose MSCM-Net(Multi-Scale Cross-Modal Network),a multiscale cross-modal framework focused on detecting rail surface defects.MSCM-Net introduces an attention mechanism to dynamically weight the fusion of RGB and depth maps,effectively capturing and enhancing features at different scales for each modality.To further enrich feature representation and improve edge detection in blurred areas,we propose a multi-scale void fusion module that integrates multi-scale feature information.To improve cross-modal feature fusion,we develop a cross-enhanced fusion module that transfers fused features between layers to incorporate interlayer information.We also introduce a multimodal feature integration module,which merges modality-specific features from separate decoders into a shared decoder,enhancing detection by leveraging richer complementary information.Finally,we validate MSCM-Net on the NEU RSDDS-AUG RGB-depth dataset,comparing it against 12 leading methods,and the results show that MSCM-Net achieves superior performance on all metrics.展开更多
Due to multi-scale variations and occlusion problems,accurate traffic road pedestrian detection faces great challenges.This paper proposes an improved pedestrian detection method called Multi Scales Attention-YOLOv5x(...Due to multi-scale variations and occlusion problems,accurate traffic road pedestrian detection faces great challenges.This paper proposes an improved pedestrian detection method called Multi Scales Attention-YOLOv5x(MSA-YOLOv5x)based on the YOLOv5x framework.Firstly,by replacing the first convolutional operation of the backbone network with the Focus module,this method expands the number of image input channels to enhance feature expressiveness.Secondly,we construct C3_CBAM module instead of the original C3 module for better feature fusion.In this way,the learning process could achieve more multi-scale features and occluded pedestrian target features through channel attention and spatial attention.Additionally,a new feature pyramid detection layer and a new detection channel are embedded in the feature fusion part for enhancing multi-scale pedestrian detection accuracy.Compared with the baseline methods,experimental results on a public dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves optimal detection accuracy for traffic road pedestrian detection.展开更多
This paper proposes an automated detection framework for transmission facilities using a featureattention multi-scale robustness network(FAMSR-Net)with high-fidelity virtual images.The proposed framework exhibits thre...This paper proposes an automated detection framework for transmission facilities using a featureattention multi-scale robustness network(FAMSR-Net)with high-fidelity virtual images.The proposed framework exhibits three key characteristics.First,virtual images of the transmission facilities generated using StyleGAN2-ADA are co-trained with real images.This enables the neural network to learn various features of transmission facilities to improve the detection performance.Second,the convolutional block attention module is deployed in FAMSR-Net to effectively extract features from images and construct multi-dimensional feature maps,enabling the neural network to perform precise object detection in various environments.Third,an effective bounding box optimization method called Scylla-IoU is deployed on FAMSR-Net,considering the intersection over union,center point distance,angle,and shape of the bounding box.This enables the detection of power facilities of various sizes accurately.Extensive experiments demonstrated that FAMSRNet outperforms other neural networks in detecting power facilities.FAMSR-Net also achieved the highest detection accuracy when virtual images of the transmission facilities were co-trained in the training phase.The proposed framework is effective for the scheduled operation and maintenance of transmission facilities because an optical camera is currently the most promising tool for unmanned aerial vehicles.This ultimately contributes to improved inspection efficiency,reduced maintenance risks,and more reliable power delivery across extensive transmission facilities.展开更多
As the use of deepfake facial videos proliferate,the associated threats to social security and integrity cannot be overstated.Effective methods for detecting forged facial videos are thus urgently needed.While many de...As the use of deepfake facial videos proliferate,the associated threats to social security and integrity cannot be overstated.Effective methods for detecting forged facial videos are thus urgently needed.While many deep learning-based facial forgery detection approaches show promise,they often fail to delve deeply into the complex relationships between image features and forgery indicators,limiting their effectiveness to specific forgery techniques.To address this challenge,we propose a dual-branch collaborative deepfake detection network.The network processes video frame images as input,where a specialized noise extraction module initially extracts the noise feature maps.Subsequently,the original facial images and corresponding noise maps are directed into two parallel feature extraction branches to concurrently learn texture and noise forgery clues.An attention mechanism is employed between the two branches to facilitate mutual guidance and enhancement of texture and noise features across four different scales.This dual-modal feature integration enhances sensitivity to forgery artifacts and boosts generalization ability across various forgery techniques.Features from both branches are then effectively combined and processed through a multi-layer perception layer to distinguish between real and forged video.Experimental results on benchmark deepfake detection datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of detection performance,accuracy,and generalization ability.展开更多
Flexible pressure sensors have excellent prospects in applications of human-machine interfaces,artificial intelligence and human health monitoring due to their bendable and lightweight characteristics compared to rigi...Flexible pressure sensors have excellent prospects in applications of human-machine interfaces,artificial intelligence and human health monitoring due to their bendable and lightweight characteristics compared to rigid pressure sensors.However,arising from the limited compressibility of soft materials and the hardening of microstructures at the device interface,there is always a trade-off between high sensitivity and broad sensing range for most flexible pressure sensors,which results in a gradual saturation response and limits their practical applications.Herein,inspired by the distinct pressure perception function of crocodile receptors,a highly sensitive and wide-range flexible pressure sensor with multiscale microdomes and interlocked architecture is developed via a facile PS-decorated molding method.Combined with interlocked architecture,the multiscale dome-shaped structured interface enhances the compressibility of the material through structural complementarity,increases the contact area between functional materials,which compensates for the stiffness induced by the deformation of dense microscale columns.This effectively mitigates structural hardening across a wide pressure range,leading to the overall high performance of the sensor.As a result,the obtained sensor exhibits a low detection limit of 5 Pa,a high sensitivity of 6.14 kPa^(-1),a wide measurement range up to 231 kPa,short response/recovery time of 56 ms/69 ms,outstanding stability over 10,000 cycles.Considering these excellent properties,the sensor shows promising potential in health monitoring,human-computer interaction,wearable electronics.This study presents a strategy for the fabrication of flexible pressure sensors exhibiting high sensitivity and a wide pressure response range.展开更多
Aiming at the problem of low detection accuracy due to the different scale sizes of apple leaf disease spots and their similarity to the background,this paper proposes a multi-scale lightweight network(MSL-Net).Firstl...Aiming at the problem of low detection accuracy due to the different scale sizes of apple leaf disease spots and their similarity to the background,this paper proposes a multi-scale lightweight network(MSL-Net).Firstly,a multiplexed aggregated feature extraction network is proposed using residual bottleneck block(RES-Bottleneck)and middle partial-convolution(MP-Conv)to capture multi-scale spatial features and enhance focus on disease features for better differentiation between disease targets and background information.Secondly,a lightweight feature fusion network is designed using scale-fuse concatenation(SF-Cat)and triple-scale sequence feature fusion(TSSF)module to merge multi-scale feature maps comprehensively.Depthwise convolution(DWConv)and GhostNet lighten the network,while the cross stage partial bottleneck with 3 convolutions ghost-normalization attention module(C3-GN)reduces missed detections by suppressing irrelevant background information.Finally,soft non-maximum suppression(Soft-NMS)is used in the post-processing stage to improve the problem of misdetection of dense disease sites.The results show that the MSL-Net improves mean average precision at intersection over union of 0.5(mAP@0.5)by 2.0%over the baseline you only look once version 5s(YOLOv5s)and reduces parameters by 44%,reducing computation by 27%,outperforming other state-of-the-art(SOTA)models overall.This method also shows excellent performance compared to the latest research.展开更多
The increasing global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment(MCI)necessitates a paradigm shift in early detection strategies.Conventional neuropsychological assessment methods,predominantly paper-and-pencil tests suc...The increasing global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment(MCI)necessitates a paradigm shift in early detection strategies.Conventional neuropsychological assessment methods,predominantly paper-and-pencil tests such as the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment,exhibit inherent limitations with respect to accessibility,administration burden,and sensitivity to subtle cognitive decline,particularly among diverse populations.This commentary critically examines a recent study that champions a novel approach:The integration of gait and handwriting kinematic parameters analyzed via machine learning for MCI screening.The present study positions itself within the broader landscape of MCI detection,with a view to comparing its advantages against established neuropsychological batteries,advanced neuroimaging(e.g.,positron emission tomography,magnetic resonance imaging),and emerging fluid biomarkers(e.g.,cerebrospinal fluid,blood-based assays).While the study demonstrates promising accuracy(74.44%area under the curve 0.74 with gait and graphic handwriting)and addresses key unmet needs in accessibility and objectivity,we highlight its cross-sectional nature,limited sample diversity,and lack of dual-task assessment as areas for future refinement.This commentary posits that kinematic biomarkers offer a distinctive,scalable,and ecologically valid approach to widespread MCI screening,thereby complementing existing methods by providing real-world functional insights.Future research should prioritize longitudinal validation,expansion to diverse cohorts,integration with multimodal data including dual-tasking,and the development of highly portable,artificial intelligence-driven solutions to achieve the democratization of early MCI detection and enable timely interventions.展开更多
Focused on the task of fast and accurate armored target detection in ground battlefield,a detection method based on multi-scale representation network(MS-RN) and shape-fixed Guided Anchor(SF-GA)scheme is proposed.Firs...Focused on the task of fast and accurate armored target detection in ground battlefield,a detection method based on multi-scale representation network(MS-RN) and shape-fixed Guided Anchor(SF-GA)scheme is proposed.Firstly,considering the large-scale variation and camouflage of armored target,a new MS-RN integrating contextual information in battlefield environment is designed.The MS-RN extracts deep features from templates with different scales and strengthens the detection ability of small targets.Armored targets of different sizes are detected on different representation features.Secondly,aiming at the accuracy and real-time detection requirements,improved shape-fixed Guided Anchor is used on feature maps of different scales to recommend regions of interests(ROIs).Different from sliding or random anchor,the SF-GA can filter out 80% of the regions while still improving the recall.A special detection dataset for armored target,named Armored Target Dataset(ARTD),is constructed,based on which the comparable experiments with state-of-art detection methods are conducted.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves outstanding performance in detection accuracy and efficiency,especially when small armored targets are involved.展开更多
While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection ...While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection of objects with multiple aspect ratios and scales is still a key problem. This paper proposes a top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid network(TDBU-FPN),which combines multi-scale feature representation and anchor generation at multiple aspect ratios. First, in order to build the multi-scale feature map, this paper puts a number of fully convolutional layers after the backbone. Second, to link neighboring feature maps, top-down and bottom-up flows are adopted to introduce context information via top-down flow and supplement suboriginal information via bottom-up flow. The top-down flow refers to the deconvolution procedure, and the bottom-up flow refers to the pooling procedure. Third, the problem of adapting different object aspect ratios is tackled via many anchor shapes with different aspect ratios on each multi-scale feature map. The proposed method is evaluated on the pattern analysis, statistical modeling and computational learning visual object classes(PASCAL VOC)dataset and reaches an accuracy of 79%, which exhibits a 1.8% improvement with a detection speed of 23 fps.展开更多
This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a mult...This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a multi-scale quality manner.In the proposed approach,the reference data composed of several parts and each part is protected by a channel coding rate according to its importance.The first part,which is used to reconstruct a rough approximation of the original image,is highly protected in order to resist against higher tampering rates.Other parts are protected with lower rates according to their importance leading to lower tolerable tampering rate(TTR),but the higher quality of the recovered images.The proposed MSSR approach is an efficient solution for the main disadvantage of the current methods,which either recover a tampered image in low tampering rates or fails when tampering rate is above the TTR value.The simulation results on 10000 test images represent the efficiency of the multi-scale self-recovery feature of the proposed approach in comparison with the existing methods.展开更多
This paper introduces a multi-scale morphological edge detection algorithm to extract SAR image edge which suffers seriously from noise. Combining the basic theme of morphology with that of multi-scale analysis, the a...This paper introduces a multi-scale morphological edge detection algorithm to extract SAR image edge which suffers seriously from noise. Combining the basic theme of morphology with that of multi-scale analysis, the algorithm presents the outstanding characteristics of accuracy and robustness. Comparative Experiments reveal its fine performance.展开更多
Distributed Denial-of-Service(DDoS)has caused great damage to the network in the big data environment.Existing methods are characterized by low computational efficiency,high false alarm rate and high false alarm rate....Distributed Denial-of-Service(DDoS)has caused great damage to the network in the big data environment.Existing methods are characterized by low computational efficiency,high false alarm rate and high false alarm rate.In this paper,we propose a DDoS attack detection method based on network flow grayscale matrix feature via multi-scale convolutional neural network(CNN).According to the different characteristics of the attack flow and the normal flow in the IP protocol,the seven-tuple is defined to describe the network flow characteristics and converted into a grayscale feature by binary.Based on the network flow grayscale matrix feature(GMF),the convolution kernel of different spatial scales is used to improve the accuracy of feature segmentation,global features and local features of the network flow are extracted.A DDoS attack classifier based on multi-scale convolution neural network is constructed.Experiments show that compared with correlation methods,this method can improve the robustness of the classifier,reduce the false alarm rate and the missing alarm rate.展开更多
Fingerprint authentication system is used to verify users' identification according to the characteristics of their fingerprints.However,this system has some security and privacy problems.For example,some artifici...Fingerprint authentication system is used to verify users' identification according to the characteristics of their fingerprints.However,this system has some security and privacy problems.For example,some artificial fingerprints can trick the fingerprint authentication system and access information using real users' identification.Therefore,a fingerprint liveness detection algorithm needs to be designed to prevent illegal users from accessing privacy information.In this paper,a new software-based liveness detection approach using multi-scale local phase quantity(LPQ) and principal component analysis(PCA) is proposed.The feature vectors of a fingerprint are constructed through multi-scale LPQ.PCA technology is also introduced to reduce the dimensionality of the feature vectors and gain more effective features.Finally,a training model is gained using support vector machine classifier,and the liveness of a fingerprint is detected on the basis of the training model.Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can detect the liveness of users' fingerprints and achieve high recognition accuracy.This study also confirms that multi-resolution analysis is a useful method for texture feature extraction during fingerprint liveness detection.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62241109)the Tianjin Science and Technology Commissioner Project(No.20YDTPJC01110)。
文摘An improved model based on you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)is proposed to solve the problem of low detection accuracy due to the diversity of object sizes in optical remote sensing images.Firstly,the feature pyramid network(FPN)structure of the original YOLOv8 mode is replaced by the generalized-FPN(GFPN)structure in GiraffeDet to realize the"cross-layer"and"cross-scale"adaptive feature fusion,to enrich the semantic information and spatial information on the feature map to improve the target detection ability of the model.Secondly,a pyramid-pool module of multi atrous spatial pyramid pooling(MASPP)is designed by using the idea of atrous convolution and feature pyramid structure to extract multi-scale features,so as to improve the processing ability of the model for multi-scale objects.The experimental results show that the detection accuracy of the improved YOLOv8 model on DIOR dataset is 92%and mean average precision(mAP)is 87.9%,respectively 3.5%and 1.7%higher than those of the original model.It is proved the detection and classification ability of the proposed model on multi-dimensional optical remote sensing target has been improved.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 62402085,61972062,62306060the Liaoning Doctoral Research Start-Up Fund 2023-BS-078+1 种基金the Dalian Youth Science and Technology Star Project 2023RQ023the Liaoning Basic Research Project 2023JH2/101300191.
文摘Underwater target detection is extensively applied in domains such as underwater search and rescue,environmental monitoring,and marine resource surveys.It is crucial in enabling autonomous underwater robot operations and promoting ocean exploration.Nevertheless,low imaging quality,harsh underwater environments,and obscured objects considerably increase the difficulty of detecting underwater targets,making it difficult for current detection methods to achieve optimal performance.In order to enhance underwater object perception and improve target detection precision,we propose a lightweight underwater target detection method using You Only Look Once(YOLO)v8 with multi-scale cross-channel attention(MSCCA),named YOLOv8-UOD.In the proposed multiscale cross-channel attention module,multi-scale attention(MSA)augments the variety of attentional perception by extracting information from innately diverse sensory fields.The cross-channel strategy utilizes RepVGGbased channel shuffling(RCS)and one-shot aggregation(OSA)to rearrange feature map channels according to specific rules.It aggregates all features only once in the final feature mapping,resulting in the extraction of more comprehensive and valuable feature information.The experimental results show that the proposed YOLOv8-UOD achieves a mAP50 of 95.67%and FLOPs of 23.8 G on the Underwater Robot Picking Contest 2017(URPC2017)dataset,outperforming other methods in terms of detection precision and computational cost-efficiency.
基金funded by the China Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Bureau,grant numbers 2024TIAD-CYKJCXX0121,2024NSCQ-LZX0135Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development,grant number CKZ2024-87+3 种基金the Chongqing University of Technology graduate education high-quality development project,grant number gzlsz202401the Chongqing University of Technology-Chongqing LINGLUE Technology Co.,Ltd.,Electronic Information(Artificial Intelligence)graduate joint training basethe Postgraduate Education and Teaching Reform Research Project in Chongqing,grant number yjg213116the Chongqing University of Technology-CISDI Chongqing Information Technology Co.,Ltd.,Computer Technology graduate joint training base.
文摘Detecting abnormal cervical cells is crucial for early identification and timely treatment of cervical cancer.However,this task is challenging due to the morphological similarities between abnormal and normal cells and the significant variations in cell size.Pathologists often refer to surrounding cells to identify abnormalities.To emulate this slide examination behavior,this study proposes a Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network(MSFF-Net)for detecting cervical abnormal cells.MSFF-Net employs a Cross-Scale Pooling Model(CSPM)to effectively capture diverse features and contextual information,ranging from local details to the overall structure.Additionally,a Multi-Scale Fusion Attention(MSFA)module is introduced to mitigate the impact of cell size variations by adaptively fusing local and global information at different scales.To handle the complex environment of cervical cell images,such as cell adhesion and overlapping,the Inner-CIoU loss function is utilized to more precisely measure the overlap between bounding boxes,thereby improving detection accuracy in such scenarios.Experimental results on the Comparison detector dataset demonstrate that MSFF-Net achieves a mean average precision(mAP)of 63.2%,outperforming state-of-the-art methods while maintaining a relatively small number of parameters(26.8 M).This study highlights the effectiveness of multi-scale feature fusion in enhancing the detection of cervical abnormal cells,contributing to more accurate and efficient cervical cancer screening.
基金supported by Communication University of China(HG23035)partly supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CUC230A013).
文摘With the rapid growth of socialmedia,the spread of fake news has become a growing problem,misleading the public and causing significant harm.As social media content is often composed of both images and text,the use of multimodal approaches for fake news detection has gained significant attention.To solve the problems existing in previous multi-modal fake news detection algorithms,such as insufficient feature extraction and insufficient use of semantic relations between modes,this paper proposes the MFFFND-Co(Multimodal Feature Fusion Fake News Detection with Co-Attention Block)model.First,the model deeply explores the textual content,image content,and frequency domain features.Then,it employs a Co-Attention mechanism for cross-modal fusion.Additionally,a semantic consistency detectionmodule is designed to quantify semantic deviations,thereby enhancing the performance of fake news detection.Experimentally verified on two commonly used datasets,Twitter and Weibo,the model achieved F1 scores of 90.0% and 94.0%,respectively,significantly outperforming the pre-modified MFFFND(Multimodal Feature Fusion Fake News Detection with Attention Block)model and surpassing other baseline models.This improves the accuracy of detecting fake information in artificial intelligence detection and engineering software detection.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University,Arar,Saudi Arabia through research group No.(RG-NBU-2022-1234).
文摘Transportation systems are experiencing a significant transformation due to the integration of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the context of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), the development of efficient and reliable traffic light detection mechanisms is crucial for enhancing road safety and traffic management. This paper presents an optimized convolutional neural network (CNN) framework designed to detect traffic lights in real-time within complex urban environments. Leveraging multi-scale pyramid feature maps, the proposed model addresses key challenges such as the detection of small, occluded, and low-resolution traffic lights amidst complex backgrounds. The integration of dilated convolutions, Region of Interest (ROI) alignment, and Soft Non-Maximum Suppression (Soft-NMS) further improves detection accuracy and reduces false positives. By optimizing computational efficiency and parameter complexity, the framework is designed to operate seamlessly on embedded systems, ensuring robust performance in real-world applications. Extensive experiments using real-world datasets demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms existing methods, providing a scalable solution for ITS and ADAS applications. This research contributes to the advancement of Artificial Intelligence-driven (AI-driven) pattern recognition in transportation systems and offers a mathematical approach to improving efficiency and safety in logistics and transportation networks.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62101275 and 62101274).
文摘In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scale object detection algorithm based on an improved YOLOv8 has been proposed. Firstly, a lightweight attention mechanism, Triplet Attention, is introduced to enhance the algorithm’s ability to extract multi-dimensional and multi-scale features, thereby improving the receptive capability of the feature maps. Secondly, the Diverse Branch Block (DBB) is integrated into the CSP Bottleneck with two Convolutions (C2F) module to strengthen the fusion of semantic information across different layers. Thirdly, a new decoupled detection head is proposed by redesigning the original network head based on the Diverse Branch Block module to improve detection accuracy and reduce missed and false detections. Finally, the Minimum Point Distance based Intersection-over-Union (MPDIoU) is used to replace the original YOLOv8 Complete Intersection-over-Union (CIoU) to accelerate the network’s training convergence. Comparative experiments and dehazing pre-processing tests were conducted on the RTTS and VOC-Fog datasets. Compared to the baseline YOLOv8 model, the improved algorithm achieved mean Average Precision (mAP) improvements of 4.6% and 3.8%, respectively. After defogging pre-processing, the mAP increased by 5.3% and 4.4%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved algorithm exhibits high practicality and effectiveness in foggy traffic scenarios.
基金supported by Chengdu Jincheng College under the General Research Project Program(Project No.JG2024-1199)titled“Research on the Training Mechanism of Undergraduate Innovation Ability Based on Deep Integration of AI Industry-Education Collaboration”.
文摘Accurate and real-time road defect detection is essential for ensuring traffic safety and infrastructure maintenance.However,existing vision-based methods often struggle with small,sparse,and low-resolution defects under complex road conditions.To address these limitations,we propose Multi-Scale Guided Detection YOLO(MGD-YOLO),a novel lightweight and high-performance object detector built upon You Only Look Once Version 5(YOLOv5).The proposed model integrates three key components:(1)a Multi-Scale Dilated Attention(MSDA)module to enhance semantic feature extraction across varying receptive fields;(2)Depthwise Separable Convolution(DSC)to reduce computational cost and improve model generalization;and(3)a Visual Global Attention Upsampling(VGAU)module that leverages high-level contextual information to refine low-level features for precise localization.Extensive experiments on three public road defect benchmarks demonstrate that MGD-YOLO outperforms state-of-the-art models in both detection accuracy and efficiency.Notably,our model achieves 87.9%accuracy in crack detection,88.3%overall precision on TD-RD dataset,while maintaining fast inference speed and a compact architecture.These results highlight the potential of MGD-YOLO for deployment in real-time,resource-constrained scenarios,paving the way for practical and scalable intelligent road maintenance systems.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 62306186)the Technology Plan Joint Foundation of Liaoning Province(grant number 2023-MSLH-246)the Technology Plan Joint Foundation of Liaoning Province(grant number 2023-BSBA-238).
文摘Detecting surface defects on unused rails is crucial for evaluating rail quality and durability to ensure the safety of rail transportation.However,existing detection methods often struggle with challenges such as complex defect morphology,texture similarity,and fuzzy edges,leading to poor accuracy and missed detections.In order to resolve these problems,we propose MSCM-Net(Multi-Scale Cross-Modal Network),a multiscale cross-modal framework focused on detecting rail surface defects.MSCM-Net introduces an attention mechanism to dynamically weight the fusion of RGB and depth maps,effectively capturing and enhancing features at different scales for each modality.To further enrich feature representation and improve edge detection in blurred areas,we propose a multi-scale void fusion module that integrates multi-scale feature information.To improve cross-modal feature fusion,we develop a cross-enhanced fusion module that transfers fused features between layers to incorporate interlayer information.We also introduce a multimodal feature integration module,which merges modality-specific features from separate decoders into a shared decoder,enhancing detection by leveraging richer complementary information.Finally,we validate MSCM-Net on the NEU RSDDS-AUG RGB-depth dataset,comparing it against 12 leading methods,and the results show that MSCM-Net achieves superior performance on all metrics.
文摘Due to multi-scale variations and occlusion problems,accurate traffic road pedestrian detection faces great challenges.This paper proposes an improved pedestrian detection method called Multi Scales Attention-YOLOv5x(MSA-YOLOv5x)based on the YOLOv5x framework.Firstly,by replacing the first convolutional operation of the backbone network with the Focus module,this method expands the number of image input channels to enhance feature expressiveness.Secondly,we construct C3_CBAM module instead of the original C3 module for better feature fusion.In this way,the learning process could achieve more multi-scale features and occluded pedestrian target features through channel attention and spatial attention.Additionally,a new feature pyramid detection layer and a new detection channel are embedded in the feature fusion part for enhancing multi-scale pedestrian detection accuracy.Compared with the baseline methods,experimental results on a public dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves optimal detection accuracy for traffic road pedestrian detection.
基金supported by the Korea Electric Power Corporation(R22TA14,Development of Drone Systemfor Diagnosis of Porcelain Insulators in Overhead Transmission Lines)the National Fire Agency of Korea(RS-2024-00408270,Fire Hazard Analysis and Fire Safety Standards Development for Transportation and Storage Stage of Reuse Battery)the Ministry of the Interior and Safety of Korea(RS-2024-00408982,Development of Intelligent Fire Detection and Sprinkler Facility Technology Reflecting the Characteristics of Logistics Facilities).
文摘This paper proposes an automated detection framework for transmission facilities using a featureattention multi-scale robustness network(FAMSR-Net)with high-fidelity virtual images.The proposed framework exhibits three key characteristics.First,virtual images of the transmission facilities generated using StyleGAN2-ADA are co-trained with real images.This enables the neural network to learn various features of transmission facilities to improve the detection performance.Second,the convolutional block attention module is deployed in FAMSR-Net to effectively extract features from images and construct multi-dimensional feature maps,enabling the neural network to perform precise object detection in various environments.Third,an effective bounding box optimization method called Scylla-IoU is deployed on FAMSR-Net,considering the intersection over union,center point distance,angle,and shape of the bounding box.This enables the detection of power facilities of various sizes accurately.Extensive experiments demonstrated that FAMSRNet outperforms other neural networks in detecting power facilities.FAMSR-Net also achieved the highest detection accuracy when virtual images of the transmission facilities were co-trained in the training phase.The proposed framework is effective for the scheduled operation and maintenance of transmission facilities because an optical camera is currently the most promising tool for unmanned aerial vehicles.This ultimately contributes to improved inspection efficiency,reduced maintenance risks,and more reliable power delivery across extensive transmission facilities.
基金funded by the Ministry of Public Security Science and Technology Program Project(No.2023LL35)the Key Laboratory of Smart Policing and National Security Risk Governance,Sichuan Province(No.ZHZZZD2302).
文摘As the use of deepfake facial videos proliferate,the associated threats to social security and integrity cannot be overstated.Effective methods for detecting forged facial videos are thus urgently needed.While many deep learning-based facial forgery detection approaches show promise,they often fail to delve deeply into the complex relationships between image features and forgery indicators,limiting their effectiveness to specific forgery techniques.To address this challenge,we propose a dual-branch collaborative deepfake detection network.The network processes video frame images as input,where a specialized noise extraction module initially extracts the noise feature maps.Subsequently,the original facial images and corresponding noise maps are directed into two parallel feature extraction branches to concurrently learn texture and noise forgery clues.An attention mechanism is employed between the two branches to facilitate mutual guidance and enhancement of texture and noise features across four different scales.This dual-modal feature integration enhances sensitivity to forgery artifacts and boosts generalization ability across various forgery techniques.Features from both branches are then effectively combined and processed through a multi-layer perception layer to distinguish between real and forged video.Experimental results on benchmark deepfake detection datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of detection performance,accuracy,and generalization ability.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52175269)the Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52021003)+2 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province of China(No.20210101052JC)Science and Technology Research Project of Education Department of Jilin Province(JJKH20231146KJ,JJKH20241262KJ)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2024M751086).
文摘Flexible pressure sensors have excellent prospects in applications of human-machine interfaces,artificial intelligence and human health monitoring due to their bendable and lightweight characteristics compared to rigid pressure sensors.However,arising from the limited compressibility of soft materials and the hardening of microstructures at the device interface,there is always a trade-off between high sensitivity and broad sensing range for most flexible pressure sensors,which results in a gradual saturation response and limits their practical applications.Herein,inspired by the distinct pressure perception function of crocodile receptors,a highly sensitive and wide-range flexible pressure sensor with multiscale microdomes and interlocked architecture is developed via a facile PS-decorated molding method.Combined with interlocked architecture,the multiscale dome-shaped structured interface enhances the compressibility of the material through structural complementarity,increases the contact area between functional materials,which compensates for the stiffness induced by the deformation of dense microscale columns.This effectively mitigates structural hardening across a wide pressure range,leading to the overall high performance of the sensor.As a result,the obtained sensor exhibits a low detection limit of 5 Pa,a high sensitivity of 6.14 kPa^(-1),a wide measurement range up to 231 kPa,short response/recovery time of 56 ms/69 ms,outstanding stability over 10,000 cycles.Considering these excellent properties,the sensor shows promising potential in health monitoring,human-computer interaction,wearable electronics.This study presents a strategy for the fabrication of flexible pressure sensors exhibiting high sensitivity and a wide pressure response range.
文摘Aiming at the problem of low detection accuracy due to the different scale sizes of apple leaf disease spots and their similarity to the background,this paper proposes a multi-scale lightweight network(MSL-Net).Firstly,a multiplexed aggregated feature extraction network is proposed using residual bottleneck block(RES-Bottleneck)and middle partial-convolution(MP-Conv)to capture multi-scale spatial features and enhance focus on disease features for better differentiation between disease targets and background information.Secondly,a lightweight feature fusion network is designed using scale-fuse concatenation(SF-Cat)and triple-scale sequence feature fusion(TSSF)module to merge multi-scale feature maps comprehensively.Depthwise convolution(DWConv)and GhostNet lighten the network,while the cross stage partial bottleneck with 3 convolutions ghost-normalization attention module(C3-GN)reduces missed detections by suppressing irrelevant background information.Finally,soft non-maximum suppression(Soft-NMS)is used in the post-processing stage to improve the problem of misdetection of dense disease sites.The results show that the MSL-Net improves mean average precision at intersection over union of 0.5(mAP@0.5)by 2.0%over the baseline you only look once version 5s(YOLOv5s)and reduces parameters by 44%,reducing computation by 27%,outperforming other state-of-the-art(SOTA)models overall.This method also shows excellent performance compared to the latest research.
文摘The increasing global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment(MCI)necessitates a paradigm shift in early detection strategies.Conventional neuropsychological assessment methods,predominantly paper-and-pencil tests such as the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment,exhibit inherent limitations with respect to accessibility,administration burden,and sensitivity to subtle cognitive decline,particularly among diverse populations.This commentary critically examines a recent study that champions a novel approach:The integration of gait and handwriting kinematic parameters analyzed via machine learning for MCI screening.The present study positions itself within the broader landscape of MCI detection,with a view to comparing its advantages against established neuropsychological batteries,advanced neuroimaging(e.g.,positron emission tomography,magnetic resonance imaging),and emerging fluid biomarkers(e.g.,cerebrospinal fluid,blood-based assays).While the study demonstrates promising accuracy(74.44%area under the curve 0.74 with gait and graphic handwriting)and addresses key unmet needs in accessibility and objectivity,we highlight its cross-sectional nature,limited sample diversity,and lack of dual-task assessment as areas for future refinement.This commentary posits that kinematic biomarkers offer a distinctive,scalable,and ecologically valid approach to widespread MCI screening,thereby complementing existing methods by providing real-world functional insights.Future research should prioritize longitudinal validation,expansion to diverse cohorts,integration with multimodal data including dual-tasking,and the development of highly portable,artificial intelligence-driven solutions to achieve the democratization of early MCI detection and enable timely interventions.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant 2016YFC0802904National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant61671470the Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project of China under grant 2017M623423。
文摘Focused on the task of fast and accurate armored target detection in ground battlefield,a detection method based on multi-scale representation network(MS-RN) and shape-fixed Guided Anchor(SF-GA)scheme is proposed.Firstly,considering the large-scale variation and camouflage of armored target,a new MS-RN integrating contextual information in battlefield environment is designed.The MS-RN extracts deep features from templates with different scales and strengthens the detection ability of small targets.Armored targets of different sizes are detected on different representation features.Secondly,aiming at the accuracy and real-time detection requirements,improved shape-fixed Guided Anchor is used on feature maps of different scales to recommend regions of interests(ROIs).Different from sliding or random anchor,the SF-GA can filter out 80% of the regions while still improving the recall.A special detection dataset for armored target,named Armored Target Dataset(ARTD),is constructed,based on which the comparable experiments with state-of-art detection methods are conducted.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves outstanding performance in detection accuracy and efficiency,especially when small armored targets are involved.
基金supported by the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 Plan)of China(B14010)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31727901)
文摘While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection of objects with multiple aspect ratios and scales is still a key problem. This paper proposes a top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid network(TDBU-FPN),which combines multi-scale feature representation and anchor generation at multiple aspect ratios. First, in order to build the multi-scale feature map, this paper puts a number of fully convolutional layers after the backbone. Second, to link neighboring feature maps, top-down and bottom-up flows are adopted to introduce context information via top-down flow and supplement suboriginal information via bottom-up flow. The top-down flow refers to the deconvolution procedure, and the bottom-up flow refers to the pooling procedure. Third, the problem of adapting different object aspect ratios is tackled via many anchor shapes with different aspect ratios on each multi-scale feature map. The proposed method is evaluated on the pattern analysis, statistical modeling and computational learning visual object classes(PASCAL VOC)dataset and reaches an accuracy of 79%, which exhibits a 1.8% improvement with a detection speed of 23 fps.
文摘This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a multi-scale quality manner.In the proposed approach,the reference data composed of several parts and each part is protected by a channel coding rate according to its importance.The first part,which is used to reconstruct a rough approximation of the original image,is highly protected in order to resist against higher tampering rates.Other parts are protected with lower rates according to their importance leading to lower tolerable tampering rate(TTR),but the higher quality of the recovered images.The proposed MSSR approach is an efficient solution for the main disadvantage of the current methods,which either recover a tampered image in low tampering rates or fails when tampering rate is above the TTR value.The simulation results on 10000 test images represent the efficiency of the multi-scale self-recovery feature of the proposed approach in comparison with the existing methods.
基金Supported the NatioIlal Naturel Science Foundation of China(No.69831040)
文摘This paper introduces a multi-scale morphological edge detection algorithm to extract SAR image edge which suffers seriously from noise. Combining the basic theme of morphology with that of multi-scale analysis, the algorithm presents the outstanding characteristics of accuracy and robustness. Comparative Experiments reveal its fine performance.
基金This work was supported by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China[2018CXTD333,617048]National Natural Science Foundation of China[61762033,61702539]+1 种基金Hainan University Doctor Start Fund Project[kyqd1328]Hainan University Youth Fund Project[qnjj1444].
文摘Distributed Denial-of-Service(DDoS)has caused great damage to the network in the big data environment.Existing methods are characterized by low computational efficiency,high false alarm rate and high false alarm rate.In this paper,we propose a DDoS attack detection method based on network flow grayscale matrix feature via multi-scale convolutional neural network(CNN).According to the different characteristics of the attack flow and the normal flow in the IP protocol,the seven-tuple is defined to describe the network flow characteristics and converted into a grayscale feature by binary.Based on the network flow grayscale matrix feature(GMF),the convolution kernel of different spatial scales is used to improve the accuracy of feature segmentation,global features and local features of the network flow are extracted.A DDoS attack classifier based on multi-scale convolution neural network is constructed.Experiments show that compared with correlation methods,this method can improve the robustness of the classifier,reduce the false alarm rate and the missing alarm rate.
基金supported by the NSFC (U1536206,61232016,U1405254,61373133, 61502242)BK20150925the PAPD fund
文摘Fingerprint authentication system is used to verify users' identification according to the characteristics of their fingerprints.However,this system has some security and privacy problems.For example,some artificial fingerprints can trick the fingerprint authentication system and access information using real users' identification.Therefore,a fingerprint liveness detection algorithm needs to be designed to prevent illegal users from accessing privacy information.In this paper,a new software-based liveness detection approach using multi-scale local phase quantity(LPQ) and principal component analysis(PCA) is proposed.The feature vectors of a fingerprint are constructed through multi-scale LPQ.PCA technology is also introduced to reduce the dimensionality of the feature vectors and gain more effective features.Finally,a training model is gained using support vector machine classifier,and the liveness of a fingerprint is detected on the basis of the training model.Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can detect the liveness of users' fingerprints and achieve high recognition accuracy.This study also confirms that multi-resolution analysis is a useful method for texture feature extraction during fingerprint liveness detection.
