To address the problems of low monitoring area coverage rate and the long moving distance of nodes in the process of coverage optimization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a multi-strategy improved sparrow search algorithm for coverage optimization in a WSN (IM-DTSSA) is proposed. Firstly, Delaunay triangulation is used to locate the uncovered areas in the network and optimize the initial population of the IM-DTSSA algorithm, which can improve the convergence speed and search accuracy of the algorithm. Secondly, the quality and quantity of the explorer population in the sparrow search algorithm are optimized by the non-dominated sorting algorithm, which can improve the global search capability of the algorithm. Finally, a two-sample learning strategy is used to improve the follower position update formula and to improve the ability of the algorithm to jump out of the local optimum. Simulation results show that the coverage rate of the IM-DTSSA algorithm is increased by 6.74%, 5.04% and 3.42% compared to the three other algorithms. The average moving distance of nodes is reduced by 7.93 m, 3.97 m, and 3.09 m, respectively. The results mean that the IM-DTSSA algorithm can effectively balance the coverage rate of the target area and the moving distance of nodes.

To accurately detect multi-scale remote sensing objects in complex backgrounds, we propose a novel transformer-based adaptive object detection method. The backbone network of the method is a dual attention vision transformer network that utilizes spatial window attention and channel group attention to capture feature interactions between different objects in complex scenes. We further design an adaptive path aggregation network. In the designed network, CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) is utilized to suppress background information in the fusion paths of different-level feature maps, and new paths are introduced to fuse same-scale feature maps to increase the feature information of the feature maps. The designed network can provide more effective feature information and improve the feature representation capability. Experiments conducted on the three datasets of RSOD, NWPU VHR-10, and DIOR show that the mAP of our method is 96.9%, 96.6%, and 81.7%, respectively, which outperforms compared object detection methods. The experimental results show that our method can detect remote-sensing objects better.

In recent years, chest X-ray (CXR) imaging has become one of the significant tools to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia. However, CXR images have complex-shaped and changing lesion areas, which makes it difficult to identify novel coronavirus pneumonia from the images. To address this problem, a new deep learning network model (BoT-ViTNet) for automatic classification is designed in this study, which is constructed on the basis of ResNet50. First, we introduce multi-headed self-attention (MSA) to the last Bottleneck block of the first three stages in the ResNet50 to enhance the ability to model global information. Then, to further enhance the feature expression performance and the correlation between features, the TRT-ViT blocks, consisting of Transformer and Bottleneck, are used in the final stage of ResNet50, which improves the recognition of complex lesion regions in CXR images. Finally, the extracted features are delivered to the global average pooling layer for global spatial information integration in a concatenated way and used for classification. Experiments conducted on the COVID-19 Radiography database show that the classification accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and F1-score of the BoT-ViTNet model is 98.91%, 97.80%, 98.76%, 99.13%, and 98.27%, respectively, which outperforms other classification models. The experimental results show that our model can classify CXR images better.