In recent years, the increase of satellites and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) has multiplied the amount of remote sensing data available to people, but only a small part of the remote sensing data has been properly used; problems such as land planning, disaster management and resource monitoring still need to be solved. Buildings in remote sensing images have obvious positioning characteristics; thus, the detection of buildings can not only help the mapping and automatic updating of geographic information systems but also have guiding significance for the detection of other types of ground objects in remote sensing images. Aiming at the deficiency of traditional building remote sensing detection, an improved Faster R-CNN (region-based Convolutional Neural Network) algorithm was proposed in this paper, which adopts DRNet (Dense Residual Network) and RoI (Region of Interest) Align to utilize texture information and to solve the region mismatch problems. The experimental results showed that this method could reach 82.1% mAP (mean average precision) for the detection of landmark buildings, and the prediction box of building coordinates was relatively accurate, which improves the building detection results. Moreover, the recognition of buildings in a complex environment was also excellent.

The application of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) in the field of medical image processing has attracted extensive attention and demonstrated remarkable progress. An increasing number of deep learning methods have been devoted to classifying ChestX-ray (CXR) images, and most of the existing deep learning methods are based on classic pretrained models, trained by global ChestX-ray images. In this paper, we are interested in diagnosing ChestX-ray images using our proposed Fusion High-Resolution Network (FHRNet). The FHRNet concatenates the global average pooling layers of the global and local feature extractors—it consists of three branch convolutional neural networks and is fine-tuned for thorax disease classification. Compared with the results of other available methods, our experimental results showed that the proposed model yields a better disease classification performance for the ChestX-ray 14 dataset, according to the receiver operating characteristic curve and area-under-the-curve score. An ablation study further confirmed the effectiveness of the global and local branch networks in improving the classification accuracy of thorax diseases.

Text recognition in natural scene images has always been a hot topic in the field of document-image related visual sensors. The previous literature mostly solved the problem of horizontal text recognition, but the text in the natural scene is usually inclined and irregular, and there are many unsolved problems. For this reason, we propose a scene text recognition algorithm based on a text position correction (TPC) module and an encoder-decoder network (EDN) module. Firstly, the slanted text is modified into horizontal text through the TPC module, and then the content of horizontal text is accurately identified through the EDN module. Experiments on the standard data set show that the algorithm can recognize many kinds of irregular text and get better results. Ablation studies show that the proposed two network modules can enhance the accuracy of irregular scene text recognition.