All Outputs (29)

Composite repair and remanufacturing. (2022)
Book Chapter
VON FREEDEN, J., DE WIT, J., CABA, S., KROLL, S., ZHAO, H., REN, J., YAN, Y., ARSHED, F., AHMAD, A. and XIROUCHAKIS, P. 2022. Composite repair and remanufacturing. In Colledani, M. and Turri, S. (eds.) Systemic circular economy solutions for fiber reinforced composites. Cham: Springer [online], pages 191-214. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22352-5_10

For the reuse of components and structures made of fiber composite materials, a complete remanufacturing process chain is necessary to prepare the parts for a further life cycle. The first step is to dismantle the parts to be reused. Fiber composite... Read More about Composite repair and remanufacturing..

An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHAO, C., QIN, B., FENG, S., ZHU, W., ZHANG, L. and REN, J. 2022. An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5546216. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3230378

Despite success in the same-scene hyperspectral image classification (HSIC), for the cross-scene classification, samples between source and target scenes are not drawn from the independent and identical distribution, resulting in significant performa... Read More about An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification..

Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
FABIYI, S.D., REN, J., HAN, Y., ZHU, Q. and BARCLAY, D. 2022. Mobile platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. In Proceedings of the 3rd International informatics and software engineering conference 2022 (IISEC 2022), 15-16 December 2022, Ankara, Turkey. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9998279. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/iisec56263.2022.9998297

Livestock keepers acquire and manage information (e.g. identification numbers, images, etc.) about livestock to identify and keep track of livestock using systems with capabilities to extract such information. Examples of such systems are Radio Frequ... Read More about Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection..

Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture. (2022)
Journal Article
HUANG, H., TANG, Y., TAN, Z., ZHUANG, J., HOU, C., CHEN, W. and REN, J. 2022. Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article number 4416013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3224580

Color calibration is a critical step for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, especially in precision agriculture, which relies mainly on correlating color changes to specific quality attributes, e.g. plant health, disease, and pest stresses... Read More about Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture..

Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures. (2022)
Journal Article
ZABALZA, J., MURRAY, P., MARSHALL, S., REN, J., BERNARD, R. and HEPWORTH, S. 2023. Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures. IEEE sensors journal [online], 23(1), pages 452-459. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3221680

Traditionally, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) at Sellafield has been stored in multi-layered packages, consisting of metallic cans and an over-layer of plasticized Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) as an intermediate layer when transitioning between areas of... Read More about Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures..

Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
HASAN, M.J., YAN, Y. and REN, J. 2022. Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy. Presented at the 12th Annual science meeting of the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS ASM 2022), 8-10 November 2022, Glasgow, UK.

In the process of decommissioning energy systems, condition monitoring is crucial. It can make the health status of offshore oil and gas installations, pipelines, wind farms etc. transparent to policymakers and stakeholders, and aid them in creating... Read More about Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy..

A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography. (2022)
Journal Article
XIE, G., REN, J., MARSHALL, S., ZHAO, H. and LI, R. 2023. A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography. Signal processing [online], 203, article 108813. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108813

Designing an effective cost function has always been the key in image steganography after the development of the near-optimal encoders. To learn the cost maps automatically, the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are often trained from the given c... Read More about A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography..

Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
LIN, H., MEN, H., YAN, Y., REN, J. and SAUPE, D. 2022. Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study. In Proceedings of 14th International conference on quality of multimedia experience 2022 (QoMEX 2022), 5-7 September 2022, Lippstadt, Germany. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9900904. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX55416.2022.9900904

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is essential for a high-quality underwater optical imaging system. While a number of UIE algorithms have been proposed in recent years, there is little study on image quality assessment (IQA) of enhanced underwater... Read More about Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study..

Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHANG, A., SUN, G., PAN, Z., REN, J., JIA, X., ZHANG, C., FU, H. and YAO, Y. 2022. Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5542714. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3203488

Integration of spectral and spatial information is extremely important for the classification of high-resolution hyperspectral images (HSIs). Gravitation describes interaction among celestial bodies which can be applied to measure similarity between... Read More about Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images..

Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions. (2022)
Journal Article
TANG, Y., ZHAO, J., HUANG, H., ZHUANG, J., TAN, Z., HOU, C., CHEN, W. and REN, J. 2022. Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions. International journal of intelligent systems [online], 37(12), pages 12169-12191. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/int.23081

Rice leaf disease (RLD) is one of the major factors that cause the decline in production, and the automatic recognition of such diseases under natural field conditions is of great significance for timely targeted rice management. Although many machin... Read More about Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions..

DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHU, L., WANG, J., WANG, Y., JI, Y. and REN, J. 2022. DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution. Sensors [online], 22(17), article 6475. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176475

The required navigation performance (RNP) procedure is one of the two basic navigation specifications for the performance-based navigation (PBN) procedure as proposed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) through an integration of t... Read More about DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution..

An approach to emotion recognition using brain rhythm sequencing and asymmetric features. (2022)
Journal Article
LI, J.W., CHEN, R.J., BARMA, S., CHEN, F., PUN, S.H., MAK, P.U., WANG, L.J., ZENG, X.X., REN, J.C. and ZHAO, H.M. 2022. An approach to emotion recognition using brain rhythm sequencing and asymmetric features. Cognitive computation [online], 14(6), pages 2260-2273. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10053-z

Emotion can be influenced during self-isolation, and to avoid severe mood swings, emotional regulation is meaningful. To achieve this, efficiently recognizing emotion is a vital step, which can be realized by electroencephalography signals. Previousl... Read More about An approach to emotion recognition using brain rhythm sequencing and asymmetric features..

TransSLC: skin lesion classification in dermatoscopic images using transformers. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
SARKER, M.M.K., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., REN, J. and ELYAN, E. 2022. TransSLC: skin lesion classification in dermatoscopic images using transformers. In Yang, G., Aviles-Rivero, A., Roberts, M. and Schönlieb, C.-B. (eds.) Medical image understanding and analysis: proceedings of 26th Medical image understanding and analysis 2022 (MIUA 2022), 27-29 July 2022, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in computer sciences, 13413. Cham: Springer [online], pages 651-660. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12053-4_48

Early diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer can reduce patients' fatality rates significantly. In the area of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been widely used for image classification, segmentation, and rec... Read More about TransSLC: skin lesion classification in dermatoscopic images using transformers..

Nondestructive detection and grading of flesh translucency in pineapples with visible and near-infrared spectroscopy. (2022)
Journal Article
XU, S., REN, J., LU, H., WANG, X., SUN, X. and LIANG, X. 2022. Nondestructive detection and grading of flesh translucency in pineapples with visible and near-infrared spectroscopy. Postharvest biology and technology [online], 192, article 112029. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2022.112029

Rapid, accurate, and nondestructive internal quality detection for large and rough surface fruit, such as translucency in pineapples, is challenging. In this paper, a visible and near infrared (VIS/NIR) spectrum-based platform is proposed for optimiz... Read More about Nondestructive detection and grading of flesh translucency in pineapples with visible and near-infrared spectroscopy..

An artificial neural network algorithm to retrieve chlorophyll a for Northwest European shelf seas from top of atmosphere ocean colour reflectance. (2022)
Journal Article
HADJAL, M., MEDINA-LOPEZ, E., REN, J., GALLEGO, A. and MCKEE, D. 2022. An artificial neural network algorithm to retrieve chlorophyll a for Northwest European shelf seas from top of atmosphere ocean colour reflectance. Remote sensing [online], 14(14), article 3353. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143353

Chlorophyll-a (Chl) retrieval from ocean colour remote sensing is problematic for relatively turbid coastal waters due to the impact of non-algal materials on atmospheric correction and standard Chl algorithm performance. Artificial neural networks (... Read More about An artificial neural network algorithm to retrieve chlorophyll a for Northwest European shelf seas from top of atmosphere ocean colour reflectance..

A novel band selection and spatial noise reduction method for hyperspectral image classification. (2022)
Journal Article
FU, H., ZHANG, A., SUN, G., REN, J., JIA, X., PAN, Z. and MA, H. 2022. A novel band selection and spatial noise reduction method for hyperspectral image classification. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5535713. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3189015

As an essential reprocessing method, dimensionality reduction (DR) can reduce the data redundancy and improve the performance of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. A novel unsupervised DR framework with feature interpretability, which integrat... Read More about A novel band selection and spatial noise reduction method for hyperspectral image classification..

A music cognition-guided framework for multi-pitch estimation. (2022)
Journal Article
LI, X., YAN, Y., SORAGHAN, J., WANG, Z. and REN, J. 2023. A music cognition-guided framework for multi-pitch estimation. Cognitive computation [online], 15(1), pages 23-35. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10031-5

As one of the most important subtasks of automatic music transcription (AMT), multi-pitch estimation (MPE) has been studied extensively for predicting the fundamental frequencies in the frames of audio recordings during the past decade. However, how... Read More about A music cognition-guided framework for multi-pitch estimation..

IR-capsule: two-stream network for face forgery detection. (2022)
Journal Article
LIN, K., HAN, W., LI, S., GU, Z., ZHAO, H., REN, J., ZHU, L. and LV, J. 2023 IR-capsule: two-stream network for face forgery detection. Cognitive computation [online], 15(1), pages 13-22. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10008-4

With the emergence of deep learning, generating forged images or videos has become much easier in recent years. Face forgery detection, as a way to detect forgery, is an important topic in digital media forensics. Despite previous works having made r... Read More about IR-capsule: two-stream network for face forgery detection..

SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHAO, H., FANG, Z., REN, J., MACLELLAN, C., XIA, Y., SUN, M. and REN, K. 2022. SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics [online], 26(8), pages 4032-4043. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3177854

The pandemic of COVID-19 has become a global crisis in public health, which has led to a massive number of deaths and severe economic degradation. To suppress the spread of COVID-19, accurate diagnosis at an early stage is crucial. As the popularly u... Read More about SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images..

Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image. (2022)
Journal Article
HA, V.K., REN, J., WANG, Z., SUN, G., ZHAO, H. and MARSHALL, S. 2022. Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image. IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing [online], 15, pages 4583-4598. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3176969

Hyperspectral images (HSI) features rich spectral information in many narrow bands but at a cost of a relatively low spatial resolution. As such, various methods have been developed for enhancing the spatial resolution of the low-resolution HSI (Lr-H... Read More about Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image..