A Self-Supervised Adversarial Deblurring Face Recognition Network for Edge Devices by Hanwen Zhang, Myun Kim, Baitong Li, Yanping Lu

“…The model employs a generative adversarial network (GAN) as the core algorithm, optimizing its generation and recognition modules by decomposing the global loss function and incorporating a feature pyramid, thereby solving the balance challenge in GAN training. …”
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Blind super-resolution network based on local fuzzy discriminative loss for fabric data augmentation by Ning Dai, Xiaohan Hu, Kaixin Xu, Xudong Hu, Yanhong Yuan, Bo Cao, Luhong Shi

“…To address these challenges, this paper proposes a blind super-resolution algorithm for fabric defect data augmentation. The model is based on Real-ESRGAN and has been optimized specifically for the resolution degradation module to better adapt to the resolution degradation process in fabric images. …”
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A Registration Method for Historical Maps Based on Self-Supervised Feature Matching by Zikang Qin, Yumin Feng, Gang Wu, Qing Dong, Tianxin Han

“…Experimental results indicate that our solution achieves superior performance compared to existing models, with RMSE reduced by up to 20%, ROCC improved by up to 10%, and processing time shortened by at least 15%.…”
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Role,application and challenges of IoT in smart EV charging management:a review by Tripti Kunj, Kirti Pal

“…Additionally, the paper emphasizes the importance of adaptive algorithms and machine learning models for predictive maintenance and efficient resource allocation. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…From the health system and societal perspectives, there is an 11.5% and 25% probability of being cost-effective at a willingness-to-pay threshold of £20,000 per QALY gained. Over time, most outcome variables improved, although patients remained symptomatic. …”
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A Non-invasive Load Recognition Approach Incorporating SENet Attention Mechanism and GA-CNN by Xin SHEN, Gang WANG, Yitao ZHAO, Zhao LUO, Zhao LI, Xiaohua YANG

“…Secondly, the U-I trajectory map of the residential load is extracted and weighted pixelated to obtain the WVI (Weighted pixelated VI) feature matrix through computation, which is applied as the feature coefficient to train the SENet-CNN model. Finally, by virtue of the genetic algorithm, the SENet-CNN model is trained and the hyperparameters of the CNN-SENet model are optimized to improve the model load recognition performance and computational efficiency. …”
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Integration of Hash Encoding Technique with Machine Learning for Employee Turnover Prediction by Ahya Radiatul Kamila, Johanes Fernandes Andry, Francka Sakti Lee, Felliks F. Tampinongkol

“…It is part of the preprocessing stage, aiming to reduce memory usage, speed up data preprocessing, and improve model performance. After preprocessing is completed, the prediction model is trained using the Random Forest algorithm to predict employee turnover. …”
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Research on Resource Allocation Method of Integrated Avionics System considering Fault Propagation Risk by Changxiao Zhao, Wei Zhang, Fangzheng Dong, Jun Dai, Lei Dong

“…The resource allocation method is evaluated according to the fault propagation risk model, and a heuristic algorithm is applied to optimize the resource allocation method of the IMA system. …”
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A Lightweight Method for Road Defect Detection in UAV Remote Sensing Images with Complex Backgrounds and Cross-Scale Fusion by Wenya Zhang, Xiang Li, Lina Wang, Danfei Zhang, Pengfei Lu, Lei Wang, Chuanxiang Cheng

“…Experimental findings indicate that the CSGEH-YOLO algorithm surpasses the baseline YOLOv8s, achieving a 3.1% improvement in mAP. …”
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Advanced Human Pose Estimation and Event Classification Using Context-Aware Features and XGBoost Classifier by Wasim Wahid, Aisha Ahmed AlArfaj, Ebtisam Abdullah Alabdulqader, Touseef Sadiq, Hameedur Rahman, Ahmad Jalal

“…The system begins with preprocessing steps, including converting videos into image sequences, applying sliding window techniques, and converting images to grayscale, then extracting human silhouettes using binary masks. We use the GrabCut algorithm for human detection and perform skeletonization with Hough transform algorithm. …”
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Design and Prototype Verification of a 3-meter Aperture Wrap-rib Reflector by ZHANG Han, YAN Zhongxi, XIANG Ping, WU Minger

“…The shape of the lenticular tube wrap-rib was optimized by combining the form-finding analysis of the flexible reflector with the genetic algorithm. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…Besma Hezili and Hichem Talbi from Algeria address the collaborative auto-diversified optimization scheme (CADOS) for solving continuous and combinatorial optimization problems by exploring the synergy of various optimization algorithms and enhance their effectiveness and efficiency, particularly for higher-dimensional problems. …”
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Research on Active–Passive Training Control Strategies for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot by Yongming Yang

“…By utilizing neural networks to train sample data during rehabilitation training, the fuzzy rules and membership functions in fuzzy intention recognition algorithm are optimized to improve the accuracy of intention recognition during training. …”
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Flexi-YOLO: A lightweight method for road crack detection in complex environments. by Jiexiang Yang, Renjie Tian, Zexing Zhou, Xingyue Tan, Pingyang He

“…Road crack detection is critical to global infrastructure maintenance and public safety, and complex background environments and nonlinear damage crack patterns challenge the need for real-time, efficient, and accurate detection.This paper proposes a lightweight yet robust Flexi-YOLO model based on the YOLOv8 algorithm. We designed Wise-IoU as the model's loss function to optimize the regression accuracy of its bounding boxes and enhance robustness to low-quality samples. …”
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Neural Network for Underwater Fish Image Segmentation Using an Enhanced Feature Pyramid Convolutional Architecture by Guang Yang, Junyi Yang, Wenyao Fan, Donghe Yang

“…The model was validated using the Fish4Knowledge dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate that the model achieves a Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) of 95.1%, with improvements of 1.3%, 1.5%, and 1.7% in the MIoU, Mean Pixel Accuracy (PA), and F1 score, respectively, compared to traditional segmentation methods. …”
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Utilization of Neural Network in the Diagnosis of Pes Planus and Pes Cavus with a Smartphone Camera by Samir Ghandour MD, Anton Lebedev BS, Wei Shao Tung BS, Konstantin Semianov BS, Artem Semyanov MS, Daniel Guss MD, MBA, Gregory R. Waryasz MD, John Y. Kwon MD, Christopher W. DiGiovanni MD, Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani MD, Lorena Bejarano-Pineda MD

“…Results: The CNN model demonstrated high accuracy in diagnosing Pes planus and Pes cavus, with an optimized area under the curve of 0.897 for Pes Planus and 0.898 for Pes cavus. …”
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Predicting the permeability and compressive strength of pervious concrete using a stacking ensemble machine learning approach by Fan Yu, Wei Chu, Rui Zhang, Zhang Gao, Yunan Yang

“…This represents an improvement of 15.9–23.9% over the optimal single-model prediction accuracy. …”
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Task allocation and path planning for multi-robot systems in intelligent warehousing by CHU Jing, TIAN Yiqiu, YUE Qi, HUANG Yong

“…The study proposes a warehouse task allocation strategy that incorporates traffic flow impact factors into the auction algorithm, optimizing task allocation by predicting robot density in various areas of the environment. …”
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Shearlet‐based compressed sensing with non‐local similarity for MRI breast image reconstruction by Xiaotao Shao, Caike Wei, Yi Xie, Zhongli Wang, Yan Shen

“…The proposed model is solved by the split Bregman algorithm to obtain the optimized image iteratively. …”
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Research on Viewpoints Planning for Industrial Robot-Based Three-Dimensional Sculpture Reconstruction by Zhen Zhang, Changcai Cui, Guanglin Qin, Hui Huang, Fangchen Yin

“…Subsequently, local viewpoint planning is conducted to refine regions that were incompletely captured in the initial step, with a genetic algorithm optimizing the scanning paths to enhance efficiency. …”
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