Anitha Ramachandran, Sendhil Kumar K.S.^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 827-842, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054768 - 15 October 2024

Abstract Research on panicle detection is one of the most important aspects of paddy phenotypic analysis. A phenotyping method that uses unmanned aerial vehicles can be an excellent alternative to field-based methods. Nevertheless, it entails many other challenges, including different illuminations, panicle sizes, shape distortions, partial occlusions, and complex backgrounds. Object detection algorithms are directly affected by these factors. This work proposes a model for detecting panicles called Border Sensitive Knowledge Distillation (BSKD). It is designed to prioritize the preservation of knowledge in border areas through the use of feature distillation. Our feature-based knowledge distillation method More >

Changfeng Feng¹, Chunping Wang², Dongdong Zhang¹, Renke Kou¹, Qiang Fu^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 3993-4013, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048351 - 26 March 2024

Abstract Transformer-based models have facilitated significant advances in object detection. However, their extensive computational consumption and suboptimal detection of dense small objects curtail their applicability in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. Addressing these limitations, we propose a hybrid transformer-based detector, H-DETR, and enhance it for dense small objects, leading to an accurate and efficient model. Firstly, we introduce a hybrid transformer encoder, which integrates a convolutional neural network-based cross-scale fusion module with the original encoder to handle multi-scale feature sequences more efficiently. Furthermore, we propose two novel strategies to enhance detection performance without incurring additional inference… More >

Yuling Dou¹, Fengqin Yao¹, Xiandong Wang¹, Liang Qu², Long Chen³, Zhiwei Xu⁴, Laihui Ding⁴, Leon Bevan Bullock¹, Guoqiang Zhong¹, Shengke Wang^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 1001-1014, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027764 - 22 September 2023

Abstract UAV marine monitoring plays an essential role in marine environmental protection because of its flexibility and convenience, low cost and convenient maintenance. In marine environmental monitoring, the similarity between objects such as oil spill and sea surface, Spartina alterniflora and algae is high, and the effect of the general segmentation algorithm is poor, which brings new challenges to the segmentation of UAV marine images. Panoramic segmentation can do object detection and semantic segmentation at the same time, which can well solve the polymorphism problem of objects in UAV ocean images. Currently, there are few studies on… More >