Zhongguo Li

Jun 12, 2024 | mdpi.com | Zhongguo Li |Qian Xi |Zhou Shi |Qi Wang

1. IntroductionUnmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are self-driving tools capable of performing tasks in a variety of complex environments without any human intervention. USVs exhibit significant practical value in both commercial and military applications [1]. In commercial sectors, they are utilized in environmental monitoring [2], resource exploration [3], shipping [4], and other related areas.

Sep 22, 2023 | mdpi.com | Zhou Shi |Zhongguo Li |Miaowei Gao |Hongchuan Tang

2. Research Content and WorksWith the advancement of deep learning in recent years, monocular visual ranging based on object detection has been widely used, yet there are some neglected issues in this research. First of all, most scholars have ignored an issue when using this method.