A secured accreditation and equivalency certification using Merkle mountain range and transformer based deep learning model for the education ecosystem by Sumathy Krishnan, Surendran Rajendran, Mohammad Zakariah

“…TCRN employs Bi-GRU to retain long-term academic trends, Depth-wise separable convolutions (DSC) to concentrate on course-specific information, and BERT to capture global semantic context. …”
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Enhancing Portfolio Optimization: A Two-Stage Approach with Deep Learning and Portfolio Optimization by Shiguo Huang, Linyu Cao, Ruili Sun, Tiefeng Ma, Shuangzhe Liu

“…Moreover, we incorporate the self-attention mechanism into the GCN to extract deeper data features and employ k-reciprocal NN to enhance the accuracy and robustness of the graph structure in the GCN. In the second stage, we employ the Global Minimum Variance (GMV) model for portfolio optimization, culminating in the AGC-CNN+GMV two-stage approach. …”
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A method for identifying gully-type debris flows based on adaptive multi-scale feature extraction by Qiuyu Liu, Ting Wang, Zhijie Zheng, Baoyun Wang

“…First, the feature extraction component consists of a dual-branch structure with a global feature extraction part based on self-attention mechanisms and a local feature extraction part based on multi-scale methods, designed to extract gully features at different scales and establish connections among them. …”
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MCGFE-CR: Cloud Removal With Multiscale Context-Guided Feature Enhancement Network by Qiang Bie, Xiaojie Su

“…To enhance the global structural features after fusion and reduce the impact of SAR speckle noise, we incorporate a Residual Block with Channel Attention (RBCA). …”
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PC3D-YOLO: An Enhanced Multi-Scale Network for Crack Detection in Precast Concrete Components by Zichun Kang, Kedi Gu, Andrew Yin Hu, Haonan Du, Qingyang Gu, Yang Jiang, Wenxia Gan

“…To address these limitations, we propose PC3D-YOLO, an enhanced framework derived from YOLOv11, which strengthens long-range dependency modeling through multi-scale feature integration, offering a novel approach for crack detection in precast concrete structures. Our methodology involves three key innovations: (1) the Multi-Dilation Spatial-Channel Fusion with Shuffling (MSFS) module, employing dilated convolutions and channel shuffling to enable global feature fusion, replaces the C3K2 bottleneck module to enhance long-distance dependency capture; (2) the AIFI_M2SA module substitutes the conventional SPPF to mitigate its restricted receptive field and information loss, incorporating multi-scale attention for improved near-far contextual integration; (3) a redesigned neck network (MSCD-Net) preserves rich contextual information across all feature scales. …”
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An Efficient Semantic Segmentation Framework with Attention-Driven Context Enhancement and Dynamic Fusion for Autonomous Driving by Jia Tian, Peizeng Xin, Xinlu Bai, Zhiguo Xiao, Nianfeng Li

“…Recognizing the limitations of convolutional networks in modeling long-range dependencies and capturing global semantic context, the model incorporates an attention-based feature extraction component. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…Unlike traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers capture global context from the first layer, enabling more comprehensive image representation, which is crucial for identifying subtle nodule boundaries. …”
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Extensive identification of landslide boundaries using remote sensing images and deep learning method by Chang-dong Li, Peng-fei Feng, Xi-hui Jiang, Shuang Zhang, Jie Meng, Bing-chen Li

“…SCDnn exhibits notable improvements in landslide feature extraction and semantic segmentation by combining an enhanced Atrous Spatial Pyramid Convolutional Block (ASPC) with a coding structure that reduces model complexity. …”
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MDNN-DTA: a multimodal deep neural network for drug-target affinity prediction by Xu Gao, Xu Gao, Mengfan Yan, Mengfan Yan, Chengwei Zhang, Chengwei Zhang, Gang Wu, Gang Wu, Jiandong Shang, Jiandong Shang, Congxiang Zhang, Congxiang Zhang, Kecheng Yang, Kecheng Yang

“…One notable strength of our method is its ability to accurately predict DTA directly from the sequences of the target proteins, obviating the need for protein 3D structures, which are frequently unavailable in drug discovery. …”
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SCCA-YOLO: Spatial Channel Fusion and Context-Aware YOLO for Lunar Crater Detection by Jiahao Tang, Boyuan Gu, Tianyou Li, Ying-Bo Lu

“…Specifically, the Context-Aware Module (CAM) employs a multi-branch dilated convolutional structure to enhance feature richness and expand the local receptive field, thereby strengthening the feature extraction capability. …”
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Research on CTSA-DeepLabV3+ Urban Green Space Classification Model Based on GF-2 Images by Ruotong Li, Jian Zhao, Yanguo Fan

“…As an important part of urban ecosystems, urban green spaces play a key role in ecological environmental protection and urban spatial structure optimization. However, due to the complex morphology and high degree of fragmentation of urban green spaces, it is still challenging to effectively distinguish urban green space types from high spatial resolution images. …”
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Modeling energy consumption indexes of an industrial cement ball mill for sustainable production by Saeed Chehreh Chelgani, Rasoul Fatahi, Ali Pournazari, Hamid Nasiri

“…Abstract The total cement energy consumption is around 5% of global industrial energy usage. In cement plants, mills consume half of this energy for dry grinding particles. …”
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Dynamic Ensemble Selection for EEG Signal Classification in Distributed Data Environments by Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek, Jakub Sacewicz

“…Coalitions are formed based on conflict analysis between model predictions, allowing either consensus (unified) or diversity (diverse) to guide the ensemble structure. Experiments were conducted on two benchmark datasets: an epilepsy EEG dataset comprising 150 segmented EEG time series from ten patients, and the BCI Competition IV Dataset 1, with continuous recordings from seven subjects performing motor imagery tasks, for which a total of 1400 segments were extracted. …”
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Benchmarking CNN Architectures for Tool Classification: Evaluating CNN Performance on a Unique Dataset Generated by Novel Image Acquisition System by Muhenad Bilal, Ranadheer Podishetti, Daniel Grossmann, Markus Bregulla

“…It is compared with conventional diffuse ring illumination to assess its effectiveness in evaluating state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. This enabled a more targeted investigation of the role of global shape characteristics such as silhouettes versus localized features like the tool face, cutting edges, and delicate geometrical structures under different training strategies. …”
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Liver Semantic Segmentation Method Based on Multi-Channel Feature Extraction and Cross Fusion by Chenghao Zhang, Lingfei Wang, Chunyu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Peng Wang, Jin Li

“…Secondly, an atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) module is incorporated into the bottleneck layer to capture features at various receptive fields using dilated convolutions, while global pooling is applied to enhance the acquisition of contextual information and ensure efficient feature transmission. …”
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A Low Complexity Algorithm for 3D-HEVC Depth Map Intra Coding Based on MAD and ResNet by Erlin Tian, Jiabao Zhang, Qiuwen Zhang

“…As an extension of HEVC, 3D-HEVC retains the quadtree structure inherent to HEVC and is currently recognized as the most widely adopted international standard for stereoscopic video coding. …”
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MRFP-Mamba: Multi-Receptive Field Parallel Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Xiaofei Yang, Lin Li, Suihua Xue, Sihuan Li, Wanjun Yang, Haojin Tang, Xiaohui Huang

“…The proposed MRFP-Mamba introduces two key innovation modules: (1) A multi-receptive-field convolutional module employing parallel <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>5</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>7</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>7</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> kernels to capture fine-to-coarse spatial features, thereby improving discriminability for multi-scale objects; and (2) a parameter-optimized Vision Mamba branch that models global spatial–spectral relationships through structured state space mechanisms. …”
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Dual-branch attention network-based stereoscopicvideo compression by TANG Shu, ZHAO Yu, YANG Shuli, XIE Xian-Zhong

“…First, a Local and Global Encoder-decoder Block (LGEDB) based on Transformer and channel attention was proposed, which accurately captured non-repetitive texture details in local regions and global structural information by integrating pixel-level self-attention within each local area and global attention across channels. …”
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Design of an Iterative Method for Malware Detection Using Autoencoders and Hybrid Machine Learning Models by Rijvan Beg, R. K. Pateriya, Deepak Singh Tomar

“…This approach not only improves anomaly detection by 30% but also allows the model to learn probabilistic latent representations, thereby revealing underlying data structures. Finally, we address the challenge of temporal malware activity analysis through Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks augmented with an attention mechanism. …”
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Towards precision agriculture tea leaf disease detection using CNNs and image processing by Irfan Sadiq Rahat, Hritwik Ghosh, Suresh Dara, Shashi Kant

“…Our model’s architecture is not just a testament to the sophistication of modern deep learning techniques but also highlights the novelty of applying such complex structures to the challenges of agricultural disease detection. …”
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