Advancing semantic segmentation: Enhanced UNet algorithm with attention mechanism and deformable convolution. by Effat Sahragard, Hassan Farsi, Sajad Mohamadzadeh

“…Additionally, we incorporate an attention mechanism, specifically ECA-ASPP (Attention Spatial Pyramid Pooling), in the encoding path of UNet to capture multi-scale contextual information effectively. …”
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Shelf-life extension of green leafy vegetables through minimal processing: Special emphasis on the use of novel techniques by Riya Goel, Darshanjot Kaur, Ravneet Kaur, Kaiser Younis, Ovais Shafiq Qadri

“…Leafy greens are a rich source of nutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants, and they hold a higher place in the food pyramid. Traditional preservation techniques like thermal processing, drying, and freezing have been unable to provide the desired results, leading to certain disadvantages like microbial spoiling, unwanted residue, and short shelf life. …”
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Shale-pore Semantic Segmentation Network Based on Pseudo-labeling by Chenzhang WANG, Yanfei WANG, Zhijing BAI

“…A total of 251 scanning electron microscopy images of the Longmaxi Formation shale reservoir in Chongqing are used, and the Pyramid Scene Parsing Network is utilized for training. …”
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Stripe segmentation of oceanic internal waves in SAR images based on SegFormer by Hong-Sheng Zhang, Ji-Yu Sun, Kai-Tuo Qi, Ying-Gang Zheng, Jiao-Jiao Lu, Yu Zhang

“…Comparative experimental results demonstrated that SegFormer outperformed other models, including U-Net, Fast-SCNN (Fast Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network), ORCNet (Ocular Region Context Network), and PSPNet (Pyramid Scene Parsing Network), efficiently and accurately segmenting marine internal wave stripes in SAR images. …”
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Selective union of ATP vs ADP to an amino/amide macrocycle and its Cu2+ complexes: potentiometric, spectrophotometric and theoretical approximations by Armando Ferrer Serrano, Yennys Hernández Molina

“…It was found that the studied ligand forms stable mononuclear and binuclear complexes with Cu (II) and these species have similar geometries, squared pyramid, above pH 7. An evaluation through its potentiometrically determined stability constants of the selective recognition of ATP over ADP by this macrocycle and its Cu (II) complexes is presented. …”
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MSGU-Net: a lightweight multi-scale ghost U-Net for image segmentation by Hua Cheng, Yang Zhang, Huangxin Xu, Huangxin Xu, Dingliang Li, Zejian Zhong, Yinchuan Zhao, Zhuo Yan

“…This can efficiently and quickly process image segmentation tasks while generating high-quality object masks for each object. The pyramid structure (SPP-Inception) module and ghost module are seamlessly integrated in a lightweight manner. …”
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Design and Analysis of an Optical Coupler for Concentrated Solar Light Using Optical Fibers in Residential Buildings by Afshin Aslian, Barmak Honarvar Shakibaei Asli, Chin Joo Tan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan, Alireza Toloei

“…In this study, a parabolic dish was used as the primary concentrator, a coupler that contains nine components called a compound truncated pyramid and a cone (CTPC), all of which were mounted on a plate. …”
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Reservoir Stochastic Simulation Based on Octave Convolution and Multistage Generative Adversarial Network by Xuechao Wu, Wenyao Fan, Shijie Peng, Bing Qin, Qing Wang, Mingjie Li, Yang Li

“…Therefore, a hybrid framework combined with octave convolution and multi-stage GAN (OctSinGAN) is proposed to perform reservoir simulation. Specifically, a pyramid structure is introduced to perform multiscale representation based on single Training Image (TI), with feature information being captured under different scales. …”
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SerpensGate-YOLOv8: an enhanced YOLOv8 model for accurate plant disease detection by Yongzheng Miao, Yongzheng Miao, Wei Meng, Wei Meng, Xiaoyu Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhou

“…Key enhancements include the incorporation of Dynamic Snake Convolution (DySnakeConv) into the C2F module, which improves the detection of intricate features in complex structures, and the integration of the SPPELAN module, combining Spatial Pyramid Pooling (SPP) and Efficient Local Aggregation Network (ELAN) for superior feature extraction and fusion. …”
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A Dynamic Cascade Cross-Modal Coassisted Network for AAV Image Object Detection by Shu Tian, Li Wang, Lin Cao, Lihong Kang, Xian Sun, Jing Tian, Xiangwei Xing, Bo Shen, Chunzhuo Fan, Kangning Du, Chong Fu, Ye Zhang

“…Meanwhile, to maintain the spatial correlation of multimodal cross-scale features and improve the quality of feature fusion, we derive a global collaborative enhancement module into the feature pyramid network for enhancing the detection accuracy across multiple scales. …”
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Uncertainty of the image of consumer behavioral disorders in the representations of students by Zul’fiya A. Aksyutina, Aleksey N. Il’in

“…They were modeled into a reflected pyramid of needs on the basis of A. Maslows theory of needs. …”
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Real-Time Stitching Algorithm of Vehicle Side View Image Based on Multi-Region Fast Phase Correlation by Mubin Xu, Xiaoyong Liu, Chuanhai Wan

“…Firstly, the background subtraction method based on Gaussian mixture model is used to obtain vehicle foreground image sequence, and the image is downsampled by Gaussian pyramid to reduce the running time of the program. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Oxidovanadium(IV) Complexes of 2-((E)-(6-Fluorobenzo[d]thiazol-2-ylimino)methyl)-6-methoxyphenol and Their Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and DNA-Bin... by K. Savithri, H. D. Revanasiddappa

“…Based on the spectral studies, the complexes have the general composition [VO(L)2] (C1) and [VO(L)phen] (C2) in a square pyramid geometrical fashion. The synthesized compounds were primarily screened for their in vitro growth inhibiting activity against different strains of bacteria, namely, E. coli, B. subtilis, S. aureus, and P. aeruginosa by the disc diffusion method. …”
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LCFF-Net: A lightweight cross-scale feature fusion network for tiny target detection in UAV aerial imagery. by Daoze Tang, Shuyun Tang, Zhipeng Fan

“…Second, a lightweight cross-scale feature pyramid network (LC-FPN) is employed to further enrich feature information, integrate multi-level feature maps, and provide more comprehensive semantic information. …”
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Culturally responsive pedagogy for the promotion of understanding Mathematics: The case of rural situated primary schools in Post-apartheid South Africa by Zingiswa Jojo

“…Results indicated that teachers’ references to several artefacts and indigenous activities, such as using straws, wool, and staplers, promoted the understanding of the construction of prisms and pyramids. Recommendations include training mathematics teachers to prepare lessons that incorporate indigenous knowledge and to explore ethnomathematics as a culturally responsive teaching strategy, particularly in contextualising mathematical geometry learning, so that this concept can have relevance and meaning for rural students.…”
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A Convection Nowcasting Method Based on Machine Learning by Aifang Su, Han Li, Liman Cui, Yungang Chen

“…First, the historical data were back-calculated using the pyramid optical flow method. Next, the generated optical flow field information of each pixel and the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image information were input into the Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) algorithm for training purposes. …”
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Research on Coal and Rock Type Recognition Based on Mechanical Vision by Qiang Zhang, Jieying Gu, Junming Liu

“…In order to identify different kinds of coal, rock, and gangue, the FPV integrated image transmission camera is used to collect images of 6 types of coal, 8 types of rocks, and 2 types of coal gangue, and the images are processed based on the two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT) based on the steerable pyramid decomposition (SPD). The maximum likelihood estimation method is used to estimate the parameters, and, the coal and rock types are judged by comparing the similarity of each image. …”
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Quand le pèlerin chrétien est-il devenu touriste ? by Bonneau Michel

“…L’évolution sera presque achevée au XVe siècle au point que, lors de leurs déplacements vers la Terre Sainte, les pèlerins auront à cœur de visiter des sites naturels, de beaux paysages, des monuments et des ruines, les marchés ou des hauts lieux emblématiques reconnus comme merveilles, comme les Pyramides. La recherche de ces « singularités » devient même l’élément moteur du déplacement qui n’est plus fait uniquement pour le seul souci du pèlerinage et de leur salut. …”
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TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF BERYL FROM SPODUMENE PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE KUNAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN by S.G. Skublov, A. Yosufzai, A.N. Evdokimov, A.K. Gavrilchik

“…The prism growth zone exhibits the growth pyramids: a decrease in the Na, Fe, V, Ni, and Cr content during growth towards the edge of the beryl crystal. …”
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Enhancing Road Scene Segmentation With an Optimized DeepLabV3+ by Zhe Ren, Libao Wang, Tianming Song, Yihang Li, Jian Zhang, Fengfeng Zhao

“…Second, the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module is optimized by introducing depthwise separable convolutions and a hierarchical feature fusion strategy, reducing computational complexity and mitigating the grid effect, a limitation in many current models. …”
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