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Cracks provide an essential indicator of infrastructure performance degradation, and achieving high-precision pixel-level crack segmentation is an issue of concern. Unlike the common research paradigms that adopt novel artificial…

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Neutron reflectometry (NR) is a powerful technique to probe surfaces and interfaces. NR is inherently an indirect measurement technique, access to the physical quantities of interest (layer thickness, scattering length density, roughness),…

Ground segmentation is crucial for terrestrial mobile platforms to perform navigation or neighboring object recognition. Unfortunately, the ground is not flat, as it features steep slopes; bumpy roads; or objects, such as curbs, flower…

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Deep learning (DL) has gained popularity in recent years as an effective tool for classifying the current health and predicting the future of industrial equipment. However, most DL models have black-box components with an underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hao Lu , Austin M. Bray , Chao Hu , Andrew T. Zimmerman , Hongyi Xu

Accurate estimation of subsurface material properties, such as soil moisture, is critical for wildfire risk assessment and precision agriculture. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive geophysical technique widely used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Zixin Wang , Ishfaq Aziz , Mohamad Alipour

Conventional radar segmentation research has typically focused on learning category labels for different moving objects. Although fundamental differences between radar and optical sensors lead to differences in the reliability of predicting…

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Utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), our system introduces an innovative approach to defect detection in manufacturing. This technology excels in…

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As the demands for railway transportation safety increase, traditional methods of rail track inspection no longer meet the needs of modern railway systems. To address the issues of automation and efficiency in rail fault detection, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Jiale Li , Yulin Fu , Dongwei Yan , Sean Longyu Ma , Chiu-Wing Sham

The large volumes of Sentinel-1 data produced over Europe are being used to develop pan-national ground motion services. However, simple analysis techniques like thresholding cannot detect and classify complex deformation signals reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs , Krisztina Kelevitz , Zahra Sadeghi , Tim Wright , James Thompson , Alin Achim , David Bull

With the rapid expansion of urban areas and the increasingly use of electricity, the need for locating buried cables is becoming urgent. In this paper, a noval method to locate underground cables based on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xiren Zhou , Qiuju Chen , Shengfei Lyu , Huanhuan Chen

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models have been widely used for fault diagnosis of complex systems. However, traditional CNN models rely on small kernel filters to obtain local features from images. Thus, an excessively deep CNN is…

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This paper addresses a critical preliminary step in radar signal processing: detecting the presence of a radar signal and robustly estimating its bandwidth. Existing methods which are largely statistical feature-based approaches face…

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Hydrogeological flow and transport strongly depend on the connectivity of subsurface properties. Uncertainty concerning the underlying geological setting, due to a lack of field data and prior knowledge, calls for an evaluation of…

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Automatic crack detection on pavement surfaces is an important research field in the scope of developing an intelligent transportation infrastructure system. In this paper, a cost effective solution for road crack inspection by mounting…

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The article presents the system architecture for automatic decoding of railway track defectograms in real time. The system includes an ultrasound data preprocessing module, a set of neutral network classifiers, a decision block.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Igonin Andrey , Ulybin Vitaliy

Fault diagnostics and prognostics are important topics both in practice and research. There is an intense pressure on industrial plants to continue reducing unscheduled downtime, performance degradation, and safety hazards, which requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Amin Khorram , Mohammad Khalooei , Mansoor Rezghi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Different from the conventional deep learning work based on an images content in computer vision, deep steganalysis is an art to detect the secret information embedded in an image via deep learning, pose challenge of detection weak…

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