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Content-sensitive superpixel generation with boundary adjustment. (2020)
Journal Article
ZHANG, D., XIE, G., REN, J., ZHANG, Z., BAO, W. and XU, X. 2020. Content-sensitive superpixel generation with boundary adjustment. Applied sciences [online], 10(9), article 3150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093150

Superpixel segmentation has become a crucial tool in many image processing and computer vision applications. In this paper, a novel content-sensitive superpixel generation algorithm with boundary adjustment is proposed. First, the image local entropy... Read More about Content-sensitive superpixel generation with boundary adjustment..

Spatial residual blocks combined parallel network for hyperspectral image classification. (2020)
Journal Article
ZHANG, B., QING, C., XU, X. and REN, J. 2020. Spatial residual blocks combined parallel network for hyperspectral image classification. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 74513-74524. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988553

In hyperspectral image (HSI) classification, there are challenges of the spatial variation in spectral features and the lack of labeled samples. In this paper, a novel spatial residual blocks combined parallel network (SRPNet) is proposed for HSI cla... Read More about Spatial residual blocks combined parallel network for hyperspectral image classification..

Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection. (2020)
Journal Article
SUN, H., REN, J., ZHAO, H., SUN, G., LIAO, W., FANG, Z. and ZABALZA, J. 2022. Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection. IEEE transactions on cybernetics [online], 52(1), pages 215-227. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2020.2977750

Band selection has become a significant issue for the efficiency of the hyperspectral image (HSI) processing. Although many unsupervised band selection (UBS) approaches have been developed in the last decades, a flexible and robust method is still la... Read More about Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection..

Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM. (2020)
Journal Article
LI, S., XIE, G., REN, J., GUO, L., YANG, Y. and XU, X. 2020. Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM. Applied sciences [online], 10(6), article 1953. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10061953

Urban particulate matter forecasting is regarded as an essential issue for early warning and control management of air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5). However, existing methods for PM2.5 concentration prediction neglect the eff... Read More about Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM..

Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning. (2020)
Journal Article
GUO, L., XIE, G., XU, X. and REN, J. 2020. Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 51276-51284. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2980386

Catastrophic forgetting is a key challenge for class-incremental learning with deep neural networks, where the performance decreases considerably while dealing with long sequences of new classes. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we propose a new... Read More about Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning..

Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches. (2020)
Journal Article
XU, X., XUE, Y., HAN, X., ZHANG, Z., XIE, J. and REN, J. 2020. Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches. Applied sciences [online], 10(5), article 1679. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10051679

Image semantic segmentation (ISS) is used to segment an image into regions with differently labeled semantic category. Most of the existing ISS methods are based on fully supervised learning, which requires pixel-level labeling for training the model... Read More about Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches..

Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images. (2020)
Journal Article
FABIYI, S.D., VU, H., TACHTATZIS, C., MURRAY, P., HARLE, D., DAO, T.K., ANDONOVIC, I., REN, J. and MARSHALL, S. 2020. Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 22493-22505. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2969847

Inspection of rice seeds is a crucial task for plant nurseries and farmers since it ensures seed quality when growing seedlings. Conventionally, this process is performed by expert inspectors who manually screen large samples of rice seeds to identif... Read More about Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images..

MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. (2020)
Journal Article
CHEN, W., YANG, Z., REN, J., CAO, J., CAI, N., ZHAO, H. and YUEN, P. 2020. MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. Pattern recognition [online], 102, article 107213. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107213

Band selection plays an important role in hyperspectral imaging for reducing the data and improving the efficiency of data acquisition and analysis whilst significantly lowering the cost of the imaging system. Without the category labels, it is chall... Read More about MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection..

Automatic extraction of water inundation areas using Sentinel-1 data for large plain areas. (2020)
Journal Article
HU, S., QIN, J., REN, J., ZHAO, H., REN, J., and HONG, H. 2020. Automatic extraction of water inundation areas using sentinel-1 data for large plain areas. Remote sensing [online], 12(2), article 243. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12020243

Accurately quantifying water inundation dynamics in terms of both spatial distributions and temporal variability is essential for water resources management. Currently, the water map is usually derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with th... Read More about Automatic extraction of water inundation areas using Sentinel-1 data for large plain areas..

Combining t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding with convolutional neural networks for hyperspectral image classification. (2019)
Journal Article
GAO, L., GU, D., ZHUANG, L., REN, J., YANG, D. and ZHANG, B. 2020. Combining t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding with convolutional neural networks for hyperspectral image classification. IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters [online], 17(8), pages 1368-1372. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2945122

Hyperspectral images (HSIs), featured by high spectral resolution over a wide range of electromagnetic spectra, have been widely used to characterize materials with subtle differences in the spectral domain. However, a large number of bands and an in... Read More about Combining t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding with convolutional neural networks for hyperspectral image classification..

TGMCF: a tree-guided multi-modality correlation filter for visual tracking. (2019)
Journal Article
LIU, Q., LIU, W., WANG, Y., REN, J., DU, Q., LV, Y. and SUN, H. 2019. TGMCF: a tree-guided multi-modality correlation filter for visual tracking. IEEE access [online], 7, pages 166950-166963. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2943917

For updating the tracking models, most existing approaches have an assumption that the target changes smoothly over time. Despite their success in some cases, these approaches struggle in dealing with occlusion, illumination changes and abrupt motion... Read More about TGMCF: a tree-guided multi-modality correlation filter for visual tracking..

Multiscale spatial-spectral convolutional network with image-based framework for hyperspectral imagery classification. (2019)
Journal Article
CUI, X., ZHENG, K., GAO, L., ZHANG, B., YANG, D. and REN, J. 2019. Multiscale spatial-spectral convolutional network with image-based framework for hyperspectral imagery classification. Remote sensing [online], 11(19), article 2220. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192220

Jointly using spatial and spectral information has been widely applied to hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Especially, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have gained attention in recent years due to their detailed representation of features... Read More about Multiscale spatial-spectral convolutional network with image-based framework for hyperspectral imagery classification..

Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data. (2019)
Journal Article
FENG, M., ZHENG, J., REN, J., HUSSAIN, A., LI, X., XI, Y. and LIU, Q. 2019. Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data. IEEE access [online], 7, pages 106111-106123. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930410

Big data analytics (BDA) is a systematic approach for analyzing and identifying different patterns, relations, and trends within a large volume of data. In this paper, we apply BDA to criminal data where exploratory data analysis is conducted for vis... Read More about Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data..

Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey. (2019)
Journal Article
HA, V.K., REN, J.-C., XU, X.-Y., ZHAO, S., XIE, G., MASERO, V. and HUSSAIN, A. 2019. Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey. International journal of automation and computing [online], 16(4), pages 413-426. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-019-1183-x

Single image super-resolution has attracted increasing attention and has a wide range of applications in satellite imaging, medical imaging, computer vision, security surveillance imaging, remote sensing, objection detection, and recognition. Recentl... Read More about Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey..

VIP-STB farm: scale-up village to county/province level to support science and technology at backyard (STB) program. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
YAN, Y., ZHAO, S., FANG, Y., LIU, Y., CHEN, Z. and REN, J. 2020. VIP-STB farm: scale-up village to county/province level to support science and technology at backyard (STB) program. In Ren, J., Hussain, A., Zhao, H., Huang, K., Zheng, J., Cai, J., Chen, R. and Xiao, Y. (eds.). 2020. Advances in brain inspired cognitive systems: proceedings of the 10th Brain inspired cognitive systems (BCIS) international conference 2019 (BCIS 2019), 13-14 July 2019, Guangzhou, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 11691. Cham: Springer [online], pages 283-292. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8_27

In this paper, we introduce a new concept in VIP-STB, a funded project through Agri-Tech in China: Newton Network+ (ATCNN), in developing feasible solutions towards scaling-up STB from village level to upper level via some generic models and systems.... Read More about VIP-STB farm: scale-up village to county/province level to support science and technology at backyard (STB) program..

Hyperspectral image reconstruction using multi-colour and time-multiplexed LED illumination. (2019)
Journal Article
TSCHANNERL, J., REN, J., ZHAO, H., KAO, F.-J., MARSHALL, S. and YUEN, P. 2019. Hyperspectral image reconstruction using multi-colour and time-multiplexed LED illumination. Optics and lasers in engineering [online], 121, pages 352-357. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2019.04.014

The rapidly rising industrial interest in hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has generated an increased demand for cost effective HSI devices. We are demonstrating a mobile and low-cost multispectral imaging system, enabled by time-multiplexed RGB Light Emi... Read More about Hyperspectral image reconstruction using multi-colour and time-multiplexed LED illumination..

Coastal wetland mapping with sentinel-2 MSI imagery based on gravitational optimized multilayer perceptron and morphological attribute profiles. (2019)
Journal Article
ZHANG, A., SUN, G., MA, P., JIA, X., REN, J., HUANG, H. and ZHANG, X. 2019. Coastal wetland mapping with sentinel-2 MSI imagery based on gravitational optimized multilayer perceptron and morphological attribute profiles. Remote sensing [online], 11(8), article 952. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080952

Coastal wetland mapping plays an essential role in monitoring climate change, the hydrological cycle, and water resources. In this study, a novel classification framework based on the gravitational optimized multilayer perceptron classifier and exten... Read More about Coastal wetland mapping with sentinel-2 MSI imagery based on gravitational optimized multilayer perceptron and morphological attribute profiles..

Building extraction from high-resolution aerial imagery using a generative adversarial network with spatial and channel attention mechanisms. (2019)
Journal Article
PAN, X., YANG, F., GAO, L., CHEN, Z., ZHANG, B., FAN, H. and REN, J. 2019. Building extraction from high-resolution aerial imagery using a generative adversarial network with spatial and channel attention mechanisms. Remote sensing [online], 11(8), article 917. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080917

Segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images is an important challenge with wide practical applications. The increasing spatial resolution provides fine details for image segmentation but also incurs segmentation ambiguities. In this paper,... Read More about Building extraction from high-resolution aerial imagery using a generative adversarial network with spatial and channel attention mechanisms..

A new type of eye movement model based on recurrent neural networks for simulating the gaze behavior of human reading. (2019)
Journal Article
WANG, X., ZHAO, X. and REN, J. 2019. A new type of eye movement model based on recurrent neural networks for simulating the gaze behavior of human reading. Complexity [online], 2019: complex deep learning and evolutionary computing models in computer vision, article ID 8641074. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8641074

Traditional eye movement models are based on psychological assumptions and empirical data that are not able to simulate eye movement on previously unseen text data. To address this problem, a new type of eye movement model is presented and tested in... Read More about A new type of eye movement model based on recurrent neural networks for simulating the gaze behavior of human reading..

EEG-based brain-computer interfaces using motor-imagery: techniques and challenges. (2019)
Journal Article
PADFIELD, N., ZABALZA, J., ZHAO, H., MASERO, V. and REN, J. 2019. EEG-based brain-computer interfaces using motor-imagery: techniques and challenges. Sensors [online], 19(6), article 1423. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061423

Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), particularly those using motor-imagery (MI) data, have the potential to become groundbreaking technologies in both clinical and entertainment settings. MI data is generated when a s... Read More about EEG-based brain-computer interfaces using motor-imagery: techniques and challenges..