Destination-Aware Time-Constrained Task Allocation in Mobile Crowdsensing for Orienteering Application by Xia Hua, Lei Han

“…Extensive simulation results show the higher performance of our proposed MUPR as compared with the existing baseline algorithms.…”
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CCL-YOLO: Catenary Components Location Based on YOLO and Gather-Distribute Mechanism by Shuai Xu, Jiyou Fei, Geng Zhao, Xiaodong Liu, Hua Li

“…Aiming at the problem of the difficult locating of multiple components, this paper proposes a catenary complex component locating method based on the improved YOLO algorithm named CCL-YOLO. Firstly, based on the YOLO baseline method, a framework for locating complex components of railway catenary is proposed, which achieves the accurate locating of 40 catenary components and paves the way for subsequent defect detection. …”
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Tongue Image Alignment via Conformal Mapping for Disease Detection by Jian Wu, Bob Zhang, Yong Xu, David Zhang

“…The conformal alignment consists of two stages: the mapping on the boundary is firstly established via the Fourier descriptor before the mapping is extended onto the interior region via Cauchy’s integral and finite-difference method. …”
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Dynamic Conjugate Gradient Unfolding for Symbol Detection in Time-Varying Massive MIMO by Toluwaleke Olutayo, Benoit Champagne

“…Furthermore, in non-stationary scenarios, DyCoGNet exhibits rapid and efficient adaptation, achieving significant SER performance gains compared to baseline cases without meta-learning and a recent benchmark using self-supervised learning.…”
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Layer Information Similarity Concerned Network Embedding by Ruili Lu, Pengfei Jiao, Yinghui Wang, Huaming Wu, Xue Chen

“…To evaluate our proposed model, we conduct node classification and link prediction tasks to verify the effectiveness of our model, and the results show that LISCNE can achieve better or comparable performance compared to existing baseline methods.…”
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A Collaborative Control Framework: Achieving Emergency Vehicle Priority While Minimizing Negative Impact on Ordinary Vehicles at Signalized Intersection by Ke-jun Long, Zhong-gen Zhang, Zhi-bo Gao, Si-qi Zhong, Jian Gu

“…The case study results reveal that in comparison to other baseline methods, our proposed model significantly reduces EV travel time, simultaneously lowering the travel time and fuel consumption of OVs. …”
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Contrastive meta-learning framework for few-shot cross-lingual text classification by GUO Jianming, ZHAO Yuran, LIU Gongshen

“…However, the advancement of cross-lingual text classification is faced with several challenges. Firstly, it has been found difficult to obtain language-agnostic representations that perform well in cross-lingual transfer. …”
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Propensity Score Matching: should we use it in designing observational studies? by Fei Wan

“…In a valid PSM design where all baseline confounders are measured and matched, the confounders would be balanced, allowing the treatment status to be considered as if it were randomly assigned. …”
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A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach for Humanized Driver Modelling by Yuxiang Feng, Pejman Iravani, Chris Brace

“…The developed driver model’s performance was assessed using the collected driving data and a baseline PID driver model. With the performance validated, models representing more aggressive and more defensive driving styles were derived following the same procedure. …”
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Improvement of photogrammetric joint roughness coefficient value by integrating automatic shooting parameter selection and composite error model by Qinzheng Yang, Ang Li, Feng Dai, Zhen Cui, Hongtian Wang

“…Meanwhile, the photogrammetric tests were performed with custom-built equipment capable of adjusting baseline lengths, and a total of 36 sets of JRC data was gathered via a combination of laboratory and field tests. …”
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Research on Mine-Personnel Helmet Detection Based on Multi-Strategy-Improved YOLOv11 by Lei Zhang, Zhipeng Sun, Hongjing Tao, Meng Wang, Weixun Yi

“…The proposed improvements are realized through three key aspects: Firstly, the traditional convolution is replaced with GSConv, which significantly enhances feature extraction capabilities while simultaneously reducing computational costs. …”
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AI-based carbon peak prediction and energy transition optimization for thermal power industry in energy-intensive regions of China by Chenhao Huang, Zhongyang Lin, Jian Wu, Penghan Li, Chaofeng Zhang, Yanzhao Liu, Weirong Chen, Xin Xu, Jinsong Deng

“…The results showed that, compared to the baseline, the carbon peak under the Economic Development Scenario will be delayed by three years, with an additional 92.74 Mt CO2; while under the Environmental Protection and Energy Transition Scenarios, the peak will be advanced by five and three years, with 106.48 and 73.86 Mt CO2 reductions, respectively. …”
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IMC-YOLO: a detection model for assisted razor clam fishing in the mudflat environment by Jianhao Xu, Lijie Cao, Lanlan Pan, Xiankun Li, Lei Zhang, Hongyong Gao, Weibo Song

“…After testing, IMC-YOLO achieved mAP50, mAP50:95, and F1best of 0.963, 0.636, and 0.918, respectively, representing improvements of 2.2%, 3.5%, and 2.4% over the baseline model. Comparison with other mainstream object detection models confirmed that IMC-YOLO strikes a good balance between accuracy and numbers of parameters.…”
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Detecting, Monitoring, and Analyzing the Surface Subsidence in the Yellow River Delta (China) Combined with CenterNet Network and SBAS-InSAR by Zhenjin Li, Zhiyong Wang, Wei Liu, Xing Li, Maotong Zhou, Baojing Zhang

“…The surface type of the Yellow River Delta in China is complex and there are many industrial activities, so it is necessary to monitor the surface subsidence in this area. Small Baseline Subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) can monitor the surface subsidence with millimeter-level accuracy, but it takes a long time to process wide images (Sentinel-1) and is seriously affected by atmospheric errors. …”
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Edible mushrooms as a potent therapeutics of subclinical thyroid dysfunction among adults, especially in obese individuals: a prospective cohort study by Juanjuan Zhang, Sabina Rayamajhi, Amrish Thapa, Ge Meng, Qing Zhang, Li Liu, Hongmei Wu, Yeqing Gu, Shunming Zhang, Tingjing Zhang, Xuena Wang, Zhixia Cao, Jun Dong, Xiaoxi Zheng, Xu Zhang, Xinrong Dong, Xing Wang, Shaomei Sun, Ming Zhou, Qiyu Jia, Kun Song, Kaijun Niu

“…Edible mushrooms consumption was measured at baseline using a validated food frequency questionnaire. …”
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WED-YOLO: A Detection Model for Safflower Under Complex Unstructured Environment by Zhenguo Zhang, Yunze Wang, Peng Xu, Ruimeng Shi, Zhenyu Xing, Junye Li

“…These results represent improvements of 2.9%, 6.69%, 4.5%, and 6.22% over the baseline model. Compared with Faster R-CNN, YOLOv5, YOLOv7, and YOLOv10, the WED-YOLO achieved the highest <i>mAP</i> value. …”
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PC-YOLO11s: A Lightweight and Effective Feature Extraction Method for Small Target Image Detection by Zhou Wang, Yuting Su, Feng Kang, Lijin Wang, Yaohua Lin, Qingshou Wu, Huicheng Li, Zhiling Cai

“…The core innovation of PC-YOLO11s lies in the optimization of the detection network structure, which includes the following aspects: Firstly, PC-YOLO11s has adjusted the hierarchical structure of the detection network and added a P2 layer specifically for small object detection. …”
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HCFC-141b (CH3CCl2F) Emission Estimates for 2000–2050 in Eastern China by Dayu Zhang, Jing Wu, Zehua Liu, Tong Wang, Yueling Zhang, Dongmei Hu, Lin Peng

“…Under the control of the Montreal Protocol, China should phase out the production and consumption of HCFC-141b by 2030. This study firstly estimated the HCFC-141b emissions in eastern China based on the bottom-up method during 2000–2019. …”
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GANCE: Generative Adversarial Network Assisted Channel Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Empowered 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks by Chirag Gupta, Ramani Kumar Das, Rabindra K. Barik, Shahazad Niwazi Qurashi, Diptendu Sinha Roy, Satyendra Singh Yadav

“…The proposed model is compared with the baseline approaches in terms of bit error rate (BER), outage probability (OP), and normalized mean squared error (NMSE) for different velocities and modulation schemes. …”
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Linking the life stages of fish into a habitat-ecological flow assessment scheme under climate change and human activities by Yiming Zhang, Wensheng Wang, Siyi Yu

“…Here the runoff under different scenarios was firstly acquired, including baseline scenario (BS, with no impact), climate change scenario (CS, impacted by climate change), and variation scenario (VS, impacted by climate change and human activities). …”
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