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  1. Beyond Group Splits: Specimen-Level Cross-Validation and Visual Attribution for Remaining-Shelf-Life Regression in Climacteric Fruit

    Oct 7, 2026Rovhona Mudau, Jean Frederic Isingizwe Nturambirwe, Clement Nthambazale NyirendaRUL EstimationAgricultural Image Analysis

    Department of Computer Science University of the Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa · eResearch Office University of the Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa · Department of Computer Science / eResearch Office University of the Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa

  2. Towards Deployable Underwater Vessel Classification

    Sep 24, 2026Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul +4Passive Acoustic MonitoringLightweight CNNs

    ICNS, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

  3. LightMIS: Ultra-Lightweight Medical Image Segmentation Without a Stage-Wise Decoder

    Sep 23, 2026Andrei Arhire, Mihaela-Elena Breabăn, Radu TimofteMedical Image SegmentationLightweight CNNs

    Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi · Computer Vision Lab, CAIDAS & IFI University of Wurzburg, Germany

  4. Lightweight Pedestrian Head-Orientation Recognition Network for Safe Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Yuanzhe Li, Yidi Huang, Xiaotong Chang +1Autonomous Driving PerceptionLightweight CNNs

    Chair of Automotive Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 13355, Germany.

  5. A Lightweight CNN Integrated Compact Convolutional Transformer for Multi-Scale Feature Learning and reducing computational complexity for breast cancer mammography image detection and classification

    Sep 16, 2026Md Taimur Ahad, Ainuddin AhmedHybrid CNN-Transformer ArchitecturesMedical Image Classification

    Department of Management North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  6. The Unbearable Weight: Scaling Models and Methods for UAV Audio Classification

    Sep 15, 2026Andrew P. Berg, Qian Zhang, Mia Y. WangLightweight CNNsAudio Classification

    Department of Computer Science, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, USA. · Department of Engineering, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, USA.

  7. AgroVisNet: A lightweight Convolutional Network and the BD-PlantDX Expert-Validated Benchmark for Radish, Potato and Pointed Gourd Disease Classification

    Sep 9, 2026Md. Abdullah Mandal, Saad Ahmed, Md. Khalid SyfullahPlant Disease ClassificationLightweight CNNs

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi, 6204, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Army University of Science & Technology, Saidpur, Bangladesh

  8. BarkNet-Lite: A Lightweight Texture and Colour Network with the BarkBD Benchmark for Bark-Based Tree Species Recognition in Bangladesh

    Sep 7, 2026Aroshi Ali, Saad Ahmed, Md. Khalid SyfullahEfficient Neural Network InferenceTree Species Classification

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, 9203, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Army University of Science & Technology, Saidpur, Bangladesh

  9. Domain-Aware Lightweight Spectral-Grouped Convolutions for Hyperspectral Fish Freshness Classification

    Aug 12, 2026Kazi Nabiul Alam, Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Akbar Sheikh-AkbariRepresentation LearningHyperspectral Image Classification

    School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing, Leeds Beckett University. Leeds LS6 3QS, United Kingdom.

  10. BoltNet: An Ultra-Lightweight Convolutional Network for On-Device Plant Species Identification

    Aug 12, 2026Daniel Rossi, Guido Borghi, Roberto VezzaniFine-Grained Image ClassificationLightweight CNNs

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

  11. LITEWAY: LIghtweight HAR via Temporal Efficient highWAY

    Aug 10, 2026Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Mengxi Liu +2Efficient Neural Network InferenceHuman Activity Recognition

    RPTU, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany

  12. Toward Deployable Bangla Sign Language Recognition with Expert-Validated Data and a Lightweight Attention-Based Model

    Aug 6, 2026Saad Ahmed, Md Khalid SyfullahConvolutional Neural NetworksSign Language Recognition

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology, Saidpur Cantonment, Saidpur, Bangladesh

  13. LiteKD-Net: Lightweight Knowledge-Distilled Network for Mobile Image Denoising

    Aug 6, 2026Zhou ZhiyiLightweight CNNsOn-Device Inference

    Global College Shanghai Jiaotong University Shanghai, China

  14. When Less Is More: A Controlled Benchmark of Lightweight CNNs for Satellite Land-Cover Segmentation on DeepGlobe

    Jul 25, 2026Atiq Ur Rehman, Joseph Michael DonovanRemote Sensing Image SegmentationLand Cover Classification

    Department of Economics & Decision Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA · University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA

  15. Small, Bias-Free, Blind and Convolutional Denoiser: A compact ConvNeXt U-Net for blind Gaussian color-image denoising

    Jul 24, 2026Nikolas MarkouU-NetConvolutional Neural Networks

  16. Efficient and Interpretable Body-Based Emotion Recognition with Lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 23, 2026Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar AsadiEfficient Neural Network InferenceExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovations (IISRI) Deakin University Geelong, Australia

  17. Explainable Lightweight Compact Deep Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jul 18, 2026Nelly ElsayedSpeech Emotion RecognitionConvolutional Neural Networks

    School of Information Technology University of Cincinnati Ohio, United States

  18. Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

    Jul 15, 2026Ashish Thapa, Samrat KarkiCorruption RobustnessConvolutional Neural Networks

    Ampixa Labs · Pulchowk Campus

  19. Towards Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Embedded Hardware via Multi-Dimensional Pruning

    Jul 13, 2026Hao Kong, Di Liu, Xiangzhong Luo +5Efficient Neural Network InferenceConvolutional Neural Networks

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. +1

  20. Do Newer Lightweight CNNs Perform Better Under Resource Constraints? A Controlled Multigenerational Study of Architecture, Initialization, Training Budget, and Efficiency

    Jul 2, 2026Tasnim ShahriarEfficient Neural Network InferenceConvolutional Neural Networks

    Independent Researcher

  21. Real-Time Underwater Image Enhancement via Frequency-Guided Dual-Path Attention

    Jun 29, 2026Leshen Zhang, Ao Li, Ce ZhuImage EnhancementUnderwater Image Enhancement

    Glasgow College, UESTC, Chengdu, China · University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK · School of Information and Communication Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu, China

  22. An affordable hardware-aware neural architecture search for deploying convolutional neural networks on ultra-low-power computing platforms

    Jun 15, 2026Andrea Mattia Garavagno, Edoardo Ragusa, Antonio Frisoli +1Efficient Neural Network InferenceTiny ML

    Dept. of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy · Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI and Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy

  23. XTinyU-Net: Training-Free U-Net Scaling via Initialization-Time Sensitivity

    May 10, 2026Alvin Kimbowa, Moein Heidari, David Liu +1Model CompressionU-Net

    School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Department of Radiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  24. Robust Lightweight Crack Classification for Real-Time UAV Bridge Inspection

    Apr 30, 2026Wei Li, Haisheng Li, Weijie Li +3Convolutional Neural NetworksLightweight CNNs

    Bay Area Super Bridge Maintenance Technology Center, Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Co., Ltd., Guangdong, China · Guangdong AIHISUN Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong, China

  25. A Light Weight Multi-Features-View Convolution Neural Network For Plant Disease Identification

    Apr 28, 2026Muhammad Kaleem Ullah KhanEfficient Neural Network InferencePlant Disease Classification

    COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

  26. Vision-Based Lane Following and Traffic Sign Recognition for Resource-Constrained Autonomous Vehicles

    Apr 23, 2026Md Tanjemul Islam, Md Rafiul KabirVisual NavigationAutonomous Driving Perception

    Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

  27. A Parameter-efficient Convolutional Approach for Camouflaged Weed Detection in Multispectral Aerial Imagery

    Feb 28, 2026Leo Thomas Ramos, Angel D. SappaWeed DetectionCamouflaged Object Detection

    Computer Vision Center · Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona · ESPOL Polytechnic University

  28. Comparative Analysis of Lightweight CNNs for Resource-Constrained Devices: Predictive Performance, Efficiency Trade-offs, and Initialization Effects

    May 6, 2025Tasnim ShahriarConvolutional Neural NetworksLightweight CNNs

    Independent Researcher