Classification of Prominent Cacao Pod Diseases Using Multi-Feature Visual Analysis and k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm by Earl Clarence San Diego, Seph Gerald Rodrin, Edwin Arboleda

“…The study's outcome suggested the continuous practicality of fusing visual feature extraction processes with supervised machine learning to generate models that can be applied to improve agricultural methods.         …”
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A Review of Multi-Source Data Fusion and Analysis Algorithms in Smart City Construction: Facilitating Real Estate Management and Urban Optimization by Binglin Liu, Qian Li, Zhihua Zheng, Yanjia Huang, Shuguang Deng, Qiongxiu Huang, Weijiang Liu

“…We found that multi-source data, including sensors, social media, citizen feedback, and GIS data, face challenges such as data quality and privacy security when being fused. Data fusion algorithms are diverse and have their own advantages and disadvantages. …”
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Real-Time Audio-Visual Analysis for Multiperson Videoconferencing by Petr Motlicek, Stefan Duffner, Danil Korchagin, Hervé Bourlard, Carl Scheffler, Jean-Marc Odobez, Giovanni Del Galdo, Markus Kallinger, Oliver Thiergart

“…The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design, the various algorithms, and the benefit of fusing different modalities in this scenario.…”
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Standoff Methods for the Detection of Threat Agents: A Review of Several Promising Laser-Based Techniques by J. Bruce Johnson, Susan D. Allen, Jonathan Merten, Lewis Johnson, Daniel Pinkham, Scott W. Reeve

“…A number of methods for spanning the range of optical sensor technologies exist which, when integrated, could produce a fused sensor system possessing a high level of sensitivity to threat agents and a moderate standoff real-time capability appropriate for portal screening of personnel or vehicles. …”
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e-TEP Retromuscular Repair for Recurrent Incisional Hernias: Report of Three Cases by Vikal Chandra Shakya, Bikram Byanjankar, Rabin Pandit, Anang Pangeni, Anir Ram Moh Shrestha

“…There are many factors involved in the recurrence, and due to extensive dissections, the planes are fused with adhesions, and we may need a new plane for dissection and placement of meshes. …”
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Enhanced Immunogenicity and Affinity with A35R-Fc-Based Chimeric Protein Compared to MPXV A35R Protein by Shimeng Bai, Yanxin Cui, Qibin Liao, Hongyang Yi, Zhonghui Liao, Gengwei Zhang, Fenfang Wu, Hongzhou Lu

“…In this study, we focused on the A35R protein and created a chimeric A35R-Fc protein by fusing the Fc region of IgG to its C-terminal. We then assessed its reactivity with A35R-specific antibodies and human convalescent plasma, as well as its immunogenicity. …”
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Health Monitoring System for Nursing Homes with Lightweight Security and Privacy Protection by Yu’e Jiang, Jiaxiang Liu

“…Dual-band RFID, virtual routing location algorithm, and diet and exercise data collection based on RFID were adopted to obtain the location and health information. And that fused a mobile authentication protocol based on Hash function to realize security access and privacy protection, which can improve security and reduce the complexity of calculation and the implementation cost compared with the typical authentication protocols. …”
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Collaborative Penalized Least Squares for Background Correction of Multiple Raman Spectra by Long Chen, Yingwen Wu, Tianjun Li, Zhuo Chen

“…Based on weighted penalized least squares, the new approaches will use the fused weights from multiple spectra or the weights from the average spectrum to estimate the background of each spectrum in the set. …”
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Discriminatively Constrained Semi-Supervised Multi-View Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Graph Regularization by Guosheng Cui, Ye Li, Jianzhong Li, Jianping Fan

“…Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is one of the most popular feature learning technologies in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition. It has been widely used and studied in the multi-view clustering tasks because of its effectiveness. …”
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The EDI Multi-Modal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Dataset (EDI-SLAM) by Peteris Racinskis, Gustavs Krasnikovs, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans

“…In this paper, we describe the methods used to collect the dataset, its contents, and its intended use.…”
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Delayed Neurologic Deficit due to Foraminal Stenosis following Osteoporotic Late Collapse of a Lumbar Spine Vertebral Body by Yu Sasaki, Yasuchika Aoki, Arata Nakajima, Yoshifumi Shibata, Masato Sonobe, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Seiji Ohtori, Koichi Nakagawa

“…The indicated surgery decompressed the L3-L4 foramen and fused the unstable segment. The back pain and neurologic symptoms improved significantly following surgery. …”
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Enhancing Medical Image Classification With Context Modulated Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Renhan Zhang, Xuegang Luo, Junrui Lv, Junyang Cao, Yangping Zhu, Juan Wang, Bochuan Zheng

“…Meanwhile, it extracts fine-grained local information via the multi-stage Contextual Information Refinement (CIR) module and gradually fuses multi-stage local and global features to generate richer semantic representations. …”
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An Integrated Cumulative Transformation and Feature Fusion Approach for Bearing Degradation Prognostics by Lixiang Duan, Fei Zhao, Jinjiang Wang, Ning Wang, Jiwang Zhang

“…Then, a new degradation index system is constructed, which fuses multidimensional cumulative features by kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). …”
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Movie scene segmentation using object detection and set theory by Ijaz Ul Haq, Khan Muhammad, Tanveer Hussain, Soonil Kwon, Maleerat Sodanil, Sung Wook Baik, Mi Young Lee

“…Texture and shape features are fused for shots segmentation, and each shot is represented by a set of detected objects acquired from a light-weight CNN model. …”
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Synthesis, SAR, and Docking Studies Disclose 2-Arylfuran-1,4-naphthoquinones as In Vitro Antiplasmodial Hits by Tatiane Freitas Borgati, Maria Fernanda Alves do Nascimento, Juma Fortunato Bernardino, Lunamaura Claudia Oliveira Martins, Alex Gutterres Taranto, Alaíde Braga de Oliveira

“…Ortho- and para-naphthoquinones with a furan ring fused to the quinonoid moiety were more potent than 2-hydroxy-3-(1′-alkenyl)-1,4-naphthoquinones, while ortho-furanonaphthoquinones were more cytotoxic. …”
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Nonalternant Extension of Multiple Resonance Emitter via Palladium-Catalyzed [5+2]-Annulation by Weiwen Zhuang, Waiming Chong, Junzhi Liu

“…Here, a green-yellow emitter consisting of two azepines was designed and synthesized via a palladium-catalyzed one-pot twofold [5+2]-annulation reaction with high selectivity and efficiency. The tetrabenzene-fused benzo[1,2-b:5,4-b']bis(azepine) (TBBBA) core induced a highly twisted and dynamically helical rim for the novel MR-skeleton, which reduced Π-Π stacking in the solid state. …”
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An Evapotranspiration Assimilation Method Based on Ensemble Kalman Filter and À Trous Wavelet by Shaohui Chen, Jianwei Qi, Xiaomin Sun, Xiangzheng Deng, Jing Tian

“…In this method, the AWT is used to decompose the EPs into multiple channels since it is very powerful in fusing high frequency spatial information of multisource data, and then the Kalman filter is performed in the AWT domain. …”
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Arthroscopic-assisted uniportal spinal surgery for treatment of lumbar burst fractures complicated with neurological symptoms: a case report by Hai-Wei Chen, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Peng-Ju Jing, Dong-Hong Ma, Wen-Bo Wang, En Song, Pei-Wu Li, Peng Cheng

“…Complete decompression and fixation of the L5 lumbar burst fracture, complicated by neurological symptoms, were achieved using arthroscopic-assisted uniportal spinal surgery (AUSS) combined with percutaneous pedicle screw fixation (PPSF). …”
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A LiDAR - camera fusion detection method based on weight allocation by Kang Haotian, Wang Tianshu

“…The weighted fusion method is adopted, image feature points are extracted by Fast RCNN, and then LiDAR point cloud data is fused into the model by the weighted method, environment variables are introduced, and different weight allocation methods are output under different environments through full connection layer preprocessing. …”
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Comparative Study of Multimodal Biometric Recognition by Fusion of Iris and Fingerprint by Houda Benaliouche, Mohamed Touahria

“…The scores combination approach is used after normalization of both scores using the min-max rule. …”
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