{"title":"MEET: A Million-Scale Dataset for Fine-Grained Geospatial Scene Classification With Zoom-Free Remote Sensing Imagery","authors":"Yansheng Li;Yuning Wu;Gong Cheng;Chao Tao;Bo Dang;Yu Wang;Jiahao Zhang;Chuge Zhang;Yiting Liu;Xu Tang;Jiayi Ma;Yongjun Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125324","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate fine-grained geospatial scene classification using remote sensing imagery is essential for a wide range of applications. However, existing approaches often rely on manually zooming remote sensing images at different scales to create typical scene samples. This approach fails to adequately support the fixed-resolution image interpretation requirements in real-world scenarios. To address this limitation, we introduce the million-scale fine-grained geospatial scene classification dataset (MEET), which contains over 1.03 million zoom-free remote sensing scene samples, manually annotated into 80 fine-grained categories. In MEET, each scene sample follows a scene-in-scene layout, where the central scene serves as the reference, and auxiliary scenes provide crucial spatial context for fine-grained classification. Moreover, to tackle the emerging challenge of scene-in-scene classification, we present the context-aware transformer (CAT), a model specifically designed for this task, which adaptively fuses spatial context to accurately classify the scene samples. CAT adaptively fuses spatial context to accurately classify the scene samples by learning attentional features that capture the relationships between the center and auxiliary scenes. Based on MEET, we establish a comprehensive benchmark for fine-grained geospatial scene classification, evaluating CAT against 11 competitive baselines. The results demonstrate that CAT significantly outperforms these baselines, achieving a 1.88% higher balanced accuracy (BA) with the Swin-Large backbone, and a notable 7.87% improvement with the Swin-Huge backbone. Further experiments validate the effectiveness of each module in CAT and show the practical applicability of CAT in the urban functional zone mapping. The source code and dataset will be publicly available at https://jerrywyn.github.io/project/MEET.html.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"1004-1023"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memory of Wolter J. Fabrycky: A Pioneer of Systems Engineering and US-Sino Academic Exchange","authors":"Fei-Yue Wang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125468","url":null,"abstract":"The passing of Professor Wolter “Wolt” Fabrycky, an outstanding member and great leader, is a big loss to our international systems engineering professional community. “Wolt was a legend in the systems engineering community with his teaching, advising, and dissemination of knowledge through the books he authored.”, as stated by Professor Eileen Aken, a former student of Wolt and the head of the Virginia Tech's Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineeirng where Wolt had served and led for 30 years and retired as John L. Lawrence Professor emeritus.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"839-840"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11005746","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperation Under Stochastic Punishment in Social Dilemma Situations","authors":"Shiping Gao;Jinghui Suo;Nan Li","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.123912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.123912","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter is concerned with the evolutionary dynamics of cooperative strategies in social dilemma situations. Stochastic punishment has been proposed, in which whether an individual acts as a punisher or not is stochastic and depends on its preference for punishment. Meanwhile, both the cost of punishment and whether a defector would be punished are also stochastic. In previous models, the cost of punishment is considered to be either constant or proportional to the number of individuals to be punished. Furthermore, the hypothesis that all defectors should be penalized is frequently adopted. Actually, some defectors may refrain from being punished due to the presence of noise or the limitation of the punishment cost, and the cost of punishment is also dependent on the number of punishers. Thus, we establish an analytic model of stochastic punishment for infinite and well-mixed populations, investigate the effects of stochastic punishment on the evolution of cooperation, and analyze how to support the evolution of cooperation effectively when the stochastic punishment is possible. The objective of this letter is to design a cooperation-promoting stochastic punishment that will allow the system to evolve to full cooperation. The replicator equations have been used to explore the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation under stochastic punishment, and the conditions under which cooperation is favored by natural selection have been specified.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"1050-1052"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11005754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data-Driven Two-Stage Robust Optimization Allocation and Loading for Salt Lake Chemical Enterprise Products Under Demand Uncertainty","authors":"Yiyin Tang;Yalin Wang;Chenliang Liu;Qingkai Sui;Yishun Liu;Keke Huang;Weihua Gui","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125204","url":null,"abstract":"Most enterprises rely on railway transportation to deliver their products to customers, particularly in the salt lake chemical industry. Notably, allocating products to freight spaces and their assembly on transport vehicles are critical pre-transportation processes. However, due to demand fluctuations from changing product orders and unforeseen railway scheduling delays, manually adjusted allocation and loading may lead to excessive loading and unloading distances and times, ultimately increasing transportation costs for enterprises. To address these issues, this paper proposes a data-driven two-stage robust optimization (TSRO) framework embedding with the gated stacked temporal autoencoder clustering based on the attention mechanism (GSTAC-AM), which aims to overcome demand uncertainty and enhance the efficiency of freight allocation and loading. Specifically, GSTAC-AM is developed to help predict the deviation level of demand uncertainty and mitigate the impact of potential outliers. Then, a robust counterpart model is formulated to ensure computational tractability. In addition, a multi-stage hybrid heuristic algorithm is designed to handle the large scale and complexity inherent in the freight space allocation and loading processes. Finally, the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed framework are validated through a real case study conducted in a large salt lake chemical enterprise.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"989-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Surrogate and Inverse Surrogate Models for Expensive Multiobjective Optimization","authors":"Qi Deng;Qi Kang;MengChu Zhou;Xiaoling Wang;Shibing Zhao;Siqi Wu;Mohammadhossein Ghahramani","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125111","url":null,"abstract":"When dealing with expensive multiobjective optimization problems, majority of existing surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) generate solutions in decision space and screen candidate solutions mostly by using designed surrogate models. The generated solutions exhibit excessive randomness, which tends to reduce the likelihood of generating good-quality solutions and cause a long evolution to the optima. To improve SAEAs greatly, this work proposes an evolutionary algorithm based on surrogate and inverse surrogate models by 1) Employing a surrogate model in lieu of expensive (true) function evaluations; and 2) Proposing and using an inverse surrogate model to generate new solutions. By using the same training data but with its inputs and outputs being reversed, the latter is simple to train. It is then used to generate new vectors in objective space, which are mapped into decision space to obtain their corresponding solutions. Using a particular example, this work shows its advantages over existing SAEAs. The results of comparing it with state-of-the-art algorithms on expensive optimization problems show that it is highly competitive in both solution performance and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"961-973"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synchronous Membership Function Dependent Event-Triggered $boldsymbol{H}_{infty}$ Control of T-S Fuzzy Systems Under Network Communications","authors":"Bo-Lin Xu;Chen Peng;Wen-Bo Xie","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.123729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.123729","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter deals with the controller synthesis problem of networked Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems. Due to the introduction of network communications, the same premise is no longer shared by fuzzy plants and fuzzy controllers. This makes the classic parallel distribution compensation (PDC) control infeasible. To overcome this situation, a novel method for reconstructing the membership functions' grades is proposed, which synchronizes the time scales. Then, the membership function dependent method is adopted to introduce asynchronous errors and detailed membership function information. For the event-triggered control strategy, a series of robust <tex>$H_{infty}$</tex> stable conditions in LMI form are derived. Finally, a simulation of a practical system is used to demonstrate the method proposed in this letter can reduce conservatism.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 5","pages":"1041-1043"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11005750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Hua;Zhongyuan Wang;Xin Tian;Qin Zou;Jinsheng Xiao;Jiayi Ma
{"title":"Full Perception Head: Bridging the Gap Between Local and Global Features","authors":"Jie Hua;Zhongyuan Wang;Xin Tian;Qin Zou;Jinsheng Xiao;Jiayi Ma","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125333","url":null,"abstract":"Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision that involves identifying and localizing objects within an image. Local features extracted by convolutions, etc., capture fine-grained details such as edges and textures, while global features extracted by full connection layers, etc., represent the overall structure and long-range relationships within the image. These features are crucial for accurate object detection, yet most existing methods focus on aggregating local and global features, often overlooking the importance of medium-range dependencies. To address this gap, we propose a novel full perception module (FP-Module), a simple yet effective feature extraction module designed to simultaneously capture local details, medium-range dependencies, and long-range dependencies. Building on this, we construct a full perception head (FP-Head) by cascading multiple FP-Modules, enabling the prediction layer to leverage the most informative features. Experimental results in the MS COCO dataset demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances object recognition and localization, achieving 2.7-5.7 AP<inf>val</inf> gains when integrated into standard object detectors. Notably, the FP-Module is a universal solution that can be seamlessly incorporated into existing detectors to boost performance. The code will be released at https://github.com/Idcogroup/FP-Head.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 7","pages":"1391-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Sensor Scheduling for Remote State Estimation with Partial Channel Observation","authors":"Bowen Sun;Xianghui Cao","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125180","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter investigates the optimal transmission scheduling problem in remote state estimation systems over an unknown wireless channel. We propose a partially observable Markov decision Process (POMDP) framework to model the sensor scheduling problem. By truncating and simplifying the POMDP problem, we have established the properties of the optimal solution under the POMDP model, through a fixed-point contraction method, and have shown that the threshold structure of the POMDP solution is not easily attainable. Subsequently, we obtained a suboptimal solution via Q-learning. Numerical simulations are used to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed Q-learning approach.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 7","pages":"1510-1512"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11004458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Controllability and Essential Controllability of Directed Circle and Tree Graphs","authors":"Jijun Qu;Zhijian Ji;Jirong Wang;Yungang Liu","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124866","url":null,"abstract":"The multi-agent controllability is intrinsically affected by the network topology and the selection of leaders. A focus of exploring this problem is to uncover the relationship between the eigenspace of Laplacian matrix and network topology. For strongly connected directed circle graphs, we elaborate how the zero entries in the left eigenvectors of Laplacian matrix <tex>$L$</tex> arise. The topologies arising from left eigenvectors with zero entries are filtered to construct essentially controllable directed circle graphs regardless of the choice of leaders. We propose two methods for constructing a substantial quantity of essentially controllable graphs, with a focus on utilizing essentially controllable circle graphs as the foundation. For a special directed graph-OT tree, the controllability is shown to be related with its substructure-paths. This promotes the establishment of a sufficient and necessary condition for controllability. Finally, a method is presented to check the controllable subspace by identifying the left eigenvectors and generalized left eigenvectors.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 4","pages":"694-704"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143740229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaqi Yang;Xinyue Cao;Xiyu Zhang;Yuxin Cheng;Zhaoshuai Qi;Siwen Quan
{"title":"Instance by Instance: An Iterative Framework for Multi-Instance 3D Registration","authors":"Jiaqi Yang;Xinyue Cao;Xiyu Zhang;Yuxin Cheng;Zhaoshuai Qi;Siwen Quan","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.125058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.125058","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-instance registration is a challenging problem in computer vision and robotics, where multiple instances of an object need to be registered in a standard coordinate system. Pioneers followed a non-extensible one-shot framework, which prioritizes the registration of simple and isolated instances, often struggling to accurately register challenging or occluded instances. To address these challenges, we propose the first iterative framework for multi-instance 3D registration (MI-3DReg) in this work, termed instance-by-instance (IBI). It successively registers instances while systematically reducing outliers, starting from the easiest and progressing to more challenging ones. This enhances the likelihood of effectively registering instances that may have been initially overlooked, allowing for successful registration in subsequent iterations. Under the IBI framework, we further propose a sparse-to-dense correspondence-based multi-instance registration method (IBI-S2DC) to enhance the robustness of MI-3DReg. Experiments on both synthetic and real datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of IBI and suggested the new state-of-the-art performance with IBI-S2DC, e.g., our mean registration F1 score is 12.02%/12.35% higher than the existing state-of-the-art on the synthetic/real datasets. The source codes are available online at https://github.com/caoxy01/IBI.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"12 6","pages":"1117-1128"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144281243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}