Research Radar

Academic Publication • Published Jul 15, 2024

Crop pest identification using deep network based extracted features and MobileENet in smart agriculture

AbstractAgriculture has been considered an important source of food for humans throughout history. Plant pests cause significant damage to crops and reduce the productivity of global crop yields. Therefore, it is important to identify the plant pe...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 15, 2024

HCF-Net: Hierarchical Context Fusion Network for Infrared Small Object Detection

Academic Publication • Published Jul 15, 2024

Efficiency Optimization Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning With Homomorphic Encryption: A Brief Survey

Academic Publication • Published Jul 15, 2024

Impacts of Climate Change and Mitigation Strategies for Some Abiotic and Biotic Constraints Influencing Fruit Growth and Quality

Factors such as extreme temperatures, light radiation, and nutritional condition influence the physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes associated with fruit development and its quality. Besides abiotic stresses, biotic constraints can ...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 14, 2024

A Review of Precision Irrigation Water-Saving Technology under Changing Climate for Enhancing Water Use Efficiency, Crop Yield, and Environmental Footprints

Water is considered one of the vital natural resources and factors for performing short- and long-term agricultural practices on Earth. Meanwhile, globally, most of the available freshwater resources are utilized for irrigation purposes in agricul...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

A strategy for tough and fatigue-resistant hydrogels via loose cross-linking and dense dehydration-induced entanglements

AbstractOutstanding overall mechanical properties are essential for the successful utilization of hydrogels in advanced applications such as human-machine interfaces and soft robotics. However, conventional hydrogels suffer from fracture toughness...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education: The dynamics of ethical, social, and educational implications

AbstractThe increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education underscores the necessity to explore its implications on ethical, social, and educational dynamics within the sector. This study aims to comprehensively investig...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

Direct-a-Video: Customized Video Generation with User-Directed Camera Movement and Object Motion

Academic Publication • Published Jul 13, 2024

MotionCtrl: A Unified and Flexible Motion Controller for Video Generation

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

Optimizing high-temperature energy storage in tungsten bronze-structured ceramics via high-entropy strategy and bandgap engineering

AbstractAs a vital material utilized in energy storage capacitors, dielectric ceramics have widespread applications in high-power pulse devices. However, the development of dielectric ceramics with both high energy density and efficiency at high t...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

Maximizing Cloud Security: Empirical Evaluation of an Efficient Identity oriented Signature Verification Scheme for Wireless Networks

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

Creativity is core to being human. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)—including powerful large language models (LLMs)—holds promise for humans to be more creative by offering new ideas, or less creative by anchoring on generative AI ideas. We...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

Partitioning polar-slush strategy in relaxors leads to large energy-storage capability

Relaxor ferroelectric (RFE) films are promising energy-storage candidates for miniaturizing high-power electronic systems, which is credited to their high energy density ( U e ) and efficiency. However, advancin...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

Evaluating and Improving ChatGPT for Unit Test Generation

Unit testing plays an essential role in detecting bugs in functionally-discrete program units ( e.g. , methods). Manually writing high-quality unit tests is time-consuming and laborious. Although the traditi...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 12, 2024

The Role of the Microalgae–Bacteria Consortium in Biomass Formation and Its Application in Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Comprehensive Review

The optimization of wastewater treatment technologies using biological processes is no longer limited to improving the removal of organic matter and nutrients, as it is possible to reduce area and energy consumption, and recover value-added by-pro...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 11, 2024

An overview of implementing security and privacy in federated learning

AbstractFederated learning has received a great deal of research attention recently,with privacy protection becoming a key factor in the development of artificial intelligence. Federated learning is a special kind of distributed learning framework...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 11, 2024

Enhancing agriculture through real-time grape leaf disease classification via an edge device with a lightweight CNN architecture and Grad-CAM

AbstractCrop diseases can significantly affect various aspects of crop cultivation, including crop yield, quality, production costs, and crop loss. The utilization of modern technologies such as image analysis via machine learning techniques enabl...

Academic Publication • Published Jul 10, 2024

Designing Temperature-Insensitive Solvated Electrolytes for Low-Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries