A lightweight algorithm for steel surface defect detection using improved YOLOv8 by Shuangbao Ma, Xin Zhao, Li Wan, Yapeng Zhang, Hongliang Gao

“…Finally, the SIoU (Simplified IoU ) is used to replace the traditional CIoU loss function, which can make the anchor frame more fast and accurate in the regression process, to improve the stability and the robustness of detection. …”
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Automated Dead Chicken Detection in Poultry Farms Using Knowledge Distillation and Vision Transformers by Ridip Khanal, Wenqin Wu, Joonwhoan Lee

“…Then, a deep learning classifier, enhanced through knowledge distillation, confirms whether the detected stationary object is indeed a chicken. EfficientNet-B0 is employed as the teacher model, while DeiT-Tiny functions as the student model, balancing high accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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Lightweight and Accurate YOLOv7-Based Ensembles With Knowledge Distillation for Urinary Sediment Detection by Keita Sasaki, Hiroki Nishikawa, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye

“…Urine sediment analysis plays an important role in evaluating kidney function. In addition to improving detection accuracy, reducing model size is also a key challenge, especially when considering deployment on medical devices where computational resources are limited. …”
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Research on a UAV-View Object-Detection Method Based on YOLOv7-Tiny by Yuyang Miao, Xihan Wang, Ning Zhang, Kai Wang, Lianhe Shao, Quanli Gao

“…The algorithm’s performance in handling object occlusion and multi-scale detection is enhanced by introducing the VarifocalLoss loss function and improving the feature fusion network to BiFPN. …”
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Testing the functionality and contact error of a GPS‐based wildlife tracking network by Melanie J. Davis, Sravan Thokala, Xinyu Xing, N. Thompson Hobbs, Michael W. Miller, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra

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Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly by Angela K. Fuller, Ben C. Augustine, Eric H. Clifton, Ann E. Hajek, Arden Blumenthal, Josh Beese, Aimee Hurt, Carrie J. Brown‐Lima

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Automatic Detection and Identification of Underdense Meteors Based on YOLOv8n-BP Model by Siyuan Chen, Guobin Yang, Chunhua Jiang, Tongxin Liu, Xuhui Liu

“…Utilizing the Fresnel oscillation properties of meteor echoes, a BP network based on a Gaussian activation function is designed in this paper to enable it to detect meteor head and tail positions more accurately. …”
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Deep learning vulnerability detection method based on optimized inter-procedural semantics of programs by Yan LI, Weizhong QIANG, Zhen LI, Deqing ZOU, Hai JIN

“…In recent years, software vulnerabilities have been causing a multitude of security incidents, and the early discovery and patching of vulnerabilities can effectively reduce losses.Traditional rule-based vulnerability detection methods, relying upon rules defined by experts, suffer from a high false negative rate.Deep learning-based methods have the capability to automatically learn potential features of vulnerable programs.However, as software complexity increases, the precision of these methods decreases.On one hand, current methods mostly operate at the function level, thus unable to handle inter-procedural vulnerability samples.On the other hand, models such as BGRU and BLSTM exhibit performance degradation when confronted with long input sequences, and are not adept at capturing long-term dependencies in program statements.To address the aforementioned issues, the existing program slicing method has been optimized, enabling a comprehensive contextual analysis of vulnerabilities triggered across functions through the combination of intra-procedural and inter-procedural slicing.This facilitated the capture of the complete causal relationship of vulnerability triggers.Furthermore, a vulnerability detection task was conducted using a Transformer neural network architecture equipped with a multi-head attention mechanism.This architecture collectively focused on information from different representation subspaces, allowing for the extraction of deep features from nodes.Unlike recurrent neural networks, this approach resolved the issue of information decay and effectively learned the syntax and semantic information of the source program.Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves an F1 score of 73.4% on a real software dataset.Compared to the comparative methods, it shows an improvement of 13.6% to 40.8%.Furthermore, it successfully detects several vulnerabilities in open-source software, confirming its effectiveness and applicability.…”
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Leveraging large language models for automated detection of velopharyngeal dysfunction in patients with cleft palate by Myranda Uselton Shirk, Catherine Dang, Jaewoo Cho, Hanlin Chen, Lily Hofstetter, Jack Bijur, Claiborne Lucas, Andrew James, Ricardo-Torres Guzman, Andrea Hiller, Noah Alter, Amy Stone, Maria Powell, Matthew E. Pontell, Matthew E. Pontell

“…BackgroundHypernasality, a hallmark of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), is a speech disorder with significant psychosocial and functional implications. Conventional diagnostic methods rely heavily on specialized expertise and equipment, posing challenges in resource-limited settings. …”
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Employing SAE-GRU deep learning for scalable botnet detection in smart city infrastructure by Usman Tariq, Tariq Ahamed Ahanger

“…These findings enhance the understanding of IoT security by offering a scalable and resource-efficient solution for botnet detection. The functional investigation establishes a foundation for future research into adaptive security mechanisms that address emerging threats and highlights the practical potential of advanced deep learning techniques in safeguarding next-generation smart city ecosystems.…”
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YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Shimin Weng, Han Wang, Jiashu Wang, Changming Xu, Ende Zhang

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) face a significant challenge in balancing high accuracy and high efficiency when performing real-time object detection tasks, especially amidst intricate backgrounds, diverse target scales, and stringent onboard computational resource constraints. …”
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A Contrast-Enhanced Approach for Aerial Moving Target Detection Based on Distributed Satellites by Yu Li, Hansheng Su, Jinming Chen, Weiwei Wang, Yingbin Wang, Chongdi Duan, Anhong Chen

“…This method compensates for the range difference rather than the target range. In the detection period, we develop two weighting functions, i.e., the Doppler frequency rate (DFR) variance function and smooth spatial filtering function, to extract prominent areas and make efficient detection, respectively. …”
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GESC-YOLO: Improved Lightweight Printed Circuit Board Defect Detection Based Algorithm by Xiangqiang Kong, Guangmin Liu, Yanchen Gao

“…Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are an indispensable part of electronic products, and their quality is crucial to the operational integrity and functional reliability of these products. Currently, existing PCB defect detection models are beset with issues such as excessive model size and parameter complexity, rendering them ill-equipped to meet the requirements for lightweight deployment on mobile devices. …”
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RSWD-YOLO: A Walnut Detection Method Based on UAV Remote Sensing Images by Yansong Wang, Xuanxi Yang, Haoyu Wang, Huihua Wang, Zaiqing Chen, Lijun Yun

“…Furthermore, to optimize the detection performance under hardware resource constraints, we apply knowledge distillation to RSWD-YOLO, thereby further improving the detection accuracy. …”
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Quantifying the spatial impact of an invasive Acacia on ecosystem functioning using remote sensing by André Große-Stoltenberg, Christiane Werner, Christine Hellmann, Jens Oldeland, Jan Thiele

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Automatic detection of human gait events: a simple but versatile 3D algorithm by Théo Vancanneyt, Camille Le Moal, Maxence Blard, Juliette Lenoir, Nicolas Roche, Céline Bonnyaud, Fabien Dubois

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GSF-YOLOv8: A Novel Approach for Fire Detection Using Gather-Distribute Mechanism and SimAM Attention by Caixiong Li, Dali Wu, Xing Zhang, Peng Wu

“…To address the current challenges in fire detection algorithms, including insufficient feature extraction, high computational complexity, limited deployment on resource-constrained devices, missed detections, false detections, and low accuracy, we developed a high-precision algorithm named GSF-YOLOv8. …”
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Classification of SERS spectra for agrochemical detection using a neural network with engineered features by Mateo Frausto-Avila, Monserrat Ochoa-Elias, Jose Pablo Manriquez-Amavizca, María del Carmen González-López, Gonzalo Ramírez-García, Mario Alan Quiroz-Juárez

“…Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates offer a promising solution for the sensitive and specific detection of agrochemicals, enabling timely interventions to mitigate their harmful effects on humans and ecosystems. …”
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YOLOLS: A Lightweight and High-Precision Power Insulator Defect Detection Network for Real-Time Edge Deployment by Qinglong Wang, Zhengyu Hu, Entuo Li, Guyu Wu, Wengang Yang, Yunjian Hu, Wen Peng, Jie Sun

“…However, deploying deep learning models on edge devices presents significant challenges due to limited computational resources and strict latency constraints. To address these issues, we propose YOLOLS, a lightweight and efficient detection model derived from YOLOv8n and optimized for real-time edge deployment. …”
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The proteome of circulating extracellular vesicles and their functional effect on platelets vary with the isolation method by Eva M. Fernández-Sáez, Susana B. Bravo, Carmen Pena, Ángel García

“…Abstract Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a crucial role in cell-to-cell communication and serve as a source of biomarkers in several pathologies. In this study, we aimed to characterize plasma-derived EVs isolated by ultracentrifugation (UC) or size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to define the best method for proteomic and functional studies. …”
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