The great content diversity of real-world digital images poses a grand challenge to image
quality assessment (IQA) models, which are traditionally designed and validated on a handful …

Unmanned aerial vehicles are an essential component in the realization of Industry 4.0.
With drones helping to improve industrial safety and efficiency in utilities, construction, and …

Bearing a total organic carbon (TOC) content of 9.3–10.7 kg C/m 2 , alpine grassland soils
of the Qinghai–Tibet plateau's permafrost region bear a greater organic carbon pool than do …

To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

The newly developed HEVC video coding standard can achieve higher compression
performance than the previous video coding standards, such as MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264/AVC. …

In this paper, we propose an efficient blind image quality assessment (BIQA) algorithm,
which is characterized by a new feature fusion scheme and a k-nearest-neighbor (KNN)-based …

Image noise usually causes depth-dependent visual artifacts in single image dehazing. Most
existing dehazing methods exploit a two-step strategy in the restoration, which inevitably …

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) has attracted a great deal of attention due to the
increasing demand in industry and the promising recent progress in academia. To bridge the …

Referring expression image segmentation aims to segment out the object referred by a
natural language query expression. Without considering the specific properties of visual and …

A reconfiguration control scheme is proposed for a quadrotor helicopter with loss of control
effectiveness via simple adaptive control and quantum logic. Some good control …