HAF-YOLO: Dynamic Feature Aggregation Network for Object Detection in Remote-Sensing Images by Pengfei Zhang, Jian Liu, Jianqiang Zhang, Yiping Liu, Jiahao Shi

“…HAF-YOLO also maintained a low computational cost of 11.8 GFLOPs, outperforming other YOLO models. …”
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Integrating Machine Learning and Material Feeding Systems for Competitive Advantage in Manufacturing by Müge Sinem Çağlayan, Aslı Aksoy

“…Material feeding systems are of pivotal importance in the optimization of productivity, with attendant improvements in quality, reduction of costs, and minimization of delivery times. …”
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Special Issue on Contemporary Research Studies in Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence by Viswanath Kumar Ganesan, S. Vinodh, Malolan Sundararaman, M. Vimala Rani, M. Mathirajan

“…Globally, enterprises are undergoing significant transformation in line with developments based on industrial revolution by leveraging extensive computing resources, data capture technologies, information processing systems, and advanced data science models that span analytics, optimization, and algorithmic intelligence. …”
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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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A Lightweight YOLO-Based Architecture for Apple Detection on Embedded Systems by Juan Carlos Olguín-Rojas, Juan Irving Vasquez, Gilberto de Jesús López-Canteñs, Juan Carlos Herrera-Lozada, Canek Mota-Delfin

“…However, training and deploying YOLO models typically requires substantial computational resources, making it essential to develop lightweight and cost-effective detection systems, especially for edge computing systems. …”
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Future of Alzheimer's detection: Advancing diagnostic accuracy through the integration of qEEG and artificial intelligence by Sahar Rezaei, Farzan Asadirad, Alireza Motamedi, Mohammadsadegh Kamran, Farzaneh Parsa, Haniyeh Samimi, Parna Ghannadikhosh, Mahdi Zahmatyar, Seyed Ali Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Arabi

“…This review highlights the significant potential of AI-enhanced qEEG as a non-invasive, cost-effective tool for the diagnosis of AD in its prodromal and dementia stages, while also identifying areas requiring further research to optimize its clinical application. …”
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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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High-robustness integrated adversarial training method for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems by ZHANG Xuejun, LI Mei, CHEN Hui, WANG Guohua

“…In EDEAD, the data distillation technique was employed to improve the quality of the augmented data and the early stopping algorithm was used to save training costs. …”
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An End-to-End Solution for Large-Scale Multi-UAV Mission Path Planning by Jiazhan Gao, Liruizhi Jia, Minchi Kuang, Heng Shi, Jihong Zhu

“…Additionally, we integrate a Multi-Start Greedy Rollout Baseline to evaluate diverse trajectories via parallelized greedy searches, thereby reducing policy gradient variance and improving training stability. Experiments demonstrated significant improvements in scalability, particularly in 100-node scenarios, where our method drastically reduced inference time compared to conventional methods, while maintaining a competitive path cost efficiency. …”
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Challenges of the Biopharmaceutical Industry in the Application of Prescriptive Maintenance in the Industry 4.0 Context: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Johnderson Nogueira de Carvalho, Felipe Rodrigues da Silva, Erick Giovani Sperandio Nascimento

“…The limitations presented in the literature include a reduced number of models, the lack of a clearer understanding of its construction, lack of applications directly linked to the biopharmaceutical industry, and lack of measurement of costs and implementation time of these models. …”
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A novel canopy water indicator for UAV imaging to monitor winter wheat water status by Meiyan Shu, Zhenghang Ge, Yang Li, Jibo Yue, Wei Guo, Yuanyuan Fu, Ping Dong, Hongbo Qiao, Xiaohe Gu

“…To develop robust estimation models, four machine learning algorithms were implemented across individual and combined growth stages, and their performance was validated using independent ground-measured datasets that were not used during the training process. …”
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A Framework for Autonomous UAV Navigation Based on Monocular Depth Estimation by Jonas Gaigalas, Linas Perkauskas, Henrikas Gricius, Tomas Kanapickas, Andrius Kriščiūnas

“…The solution utilizes a depth image estimation model to create an occupancy grid map of the surrounding area and uses an A* path planning algorithm to find optimal paths to end goals while navigating around the obstacles. …”
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Hierarchical Vehicle Scheduling Research on Tide Bicycle-Sharing Traffic of Autonomous Transportation Systems by Mai Hao, Ming Cai, Minghui Fang, Shuxin Jin

“…It minimizes operating costs and maximizes user satisfaction to dynamically optimize scheduling routes and required vehicles within each layered zone. …”
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Rice Growth Parameter Estimation Based on Remote Satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Fusion by Jiaqi Duan, Hong Wang, Yuhang Yang, Mingwang Cheng, Dan Li

“…The vegetation indices and textural features most correlated with rice LAI and SPAD were selected using Pearson correlation analysis, and based on vegetation indices, textural features, and their combinations, regression models were established. The results indicate the following: (1) The fusion of satellite and UAV images, combined with spectral information and textural features, can significantly improve the estimation accuracy of LAI and SPAD compared to using only spectral information or textural features. (2) Sparrow search algorithm-optimized extreme gradient boosting (SSA-XGBoost) regression achieved the highest accuracy, with R² and RMSE of 0.904 and 0.183 in LAI estimation and 0.857 and 0.882 in SPAD estimation, respectively. …”
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CPFD Simulation of Operation Characteristics of a 10t/d Sludge and Biomass Co-incineration Fluidized Bed Reactor by REN Shaohui, YU Qiao, LIN Li, XIANG Jiatao, MA Lun, ZHANG Shihong

“…ObjectiveThis research aims to comprehensively investigate the operational dynamics of a 10t/d sludge and biomass co-incineration fluidized bed reactor through Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics (CPFD) modeling, addressing critical gaps in industrial-scale waste valorization. …”
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Emerging trends in sustainable energy system assessments: integration of machine learning with techno-economic analysis and lifecycle assessment by Ebrahimpourboura Zahra, Mosalpuri Manish, Jonas Baltrusaitis, Dubey Pallavi, Mba Wright Mark

“…TEA and LCA methods are enhanced through ML’s predictive modeling, optimization algorithms, and data analysis capabilities, providing more precise and efficient evaluations of SES. …”
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Prediction of alkali-silica reaction expansion of concrete using explainable machine learning methods by Yasitha Alahakoon, Hirushan Sajindra, Ashen Krishantha, Janaka Alawatugoda, Imesh U. Ekanayake, Upaka Rathnayake

“…Abstract Traditionally, ASR expansion is determined using experimental and finite element method (FEM) based numerical modelling. However, these methods are time-consuming and computationally costly, which makes ASR prediction challenging. …”
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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

“…Statistical uncertainty was explored through bootstrapping 1000 randomly resampled pairs of costs and outcomes with cost-effectiveness planes and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves showing the likelihood of ECHOMANTRA being cost-effective at different willingness-to-pay levels generated. …”
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Tool wear prediction based on XGBoost feature selection combined with PSO-BP network by Zhangwen Lin, Yankun Fan, Jinling Tan, Zhen Li, Peng Yang, Hua Wang, Weiwei Duan

“…Experimental results show that PSO outperforms other algorithms in training the tool wear prediction model, with XGBoost feature selection reducing model construction time by 57.4% and increasing accuracy by 63.57%, demonstrating superior feature selection capabilities over Decision Tree, Random Fores, Adaboost and Extra Trees. …”
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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

“…In this paper, we propose a walnut detection method based on UAV (UAV means Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) remote sensing imagery to improve the walnut yield prediction accuracy. Based on the YOLOv11 network, we propose several improvements to enhance the multi-scale object detection capability while achieving a more lightweight model structure. …”
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