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Peer-reviewed

Research Article

An improved beluga whale optimizer—Derived Adaptive multi-channel DeepLabv3+ for semantic segmentation of aerial images

  • Anilkumar P.,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

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  • Venugopal P.

    Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    venugopal.p@vit.ac.in

    Affiliation School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

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Retraction

Following publication of [1], concerns were raised that this article contains a substantial degree of overlap with a previously published article [2] by the same authors with regard to the article text, reported methodology, equations, datasets, and quantitative results.

The corresponding author stated that there are differences in the literature review and that only two performance metrics are analyzed in [1] whereas additional analyses are included in [2], noting that the work in [2] is an extension of [1]. On the basis of PLOS’ editorial assessment and input received from a member of the PLOS One Editorial Board, the PLOS One Editors consider the extent of overlap is such that this article [1] constitutes a redundant publication.

The PLOS One Editors retract this article [1] because, per our editorial assessment, it does not meet PLOS One’s publication criteria (#2) [3].

All authors did not agree with the retraction and stand by the article’s findings.

The retracted article [1] was removed from the PLOS One website on March 5, 2025, due to the similarity with [2]. The article’s Copyright and Data Availability statements were also updated at that time, and the removed contents are no longer offered under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

17 Mar 2025: The PLOS One Editors (2025) Retraction: An improved beluga whale optimizer—Derived Adaptive multi-channel DeepLabv3+ for semantic segmentation of aerial images. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320728. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320728 View retraction

Citation: P. A, P. V (2023) An improved beluga whale optimizer—Derived Adaptive multi-channel DeepLabv3+ for semantic segmentation of aerial images. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0290624. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290624

Editor: Xiaoyong Sun, Shandong Agricultural University, CHINA

Received: May 4, 2023; Accepted: August 12, 2023; Published: October 30, 2023

Copyright: © 2023 P. P.. Due to the similarity of this article with a previously published work, the article contents were removed from PLOS One at the time of retraction. Readers are hereby on notice that the removed contents are not offered under the Creative Commons Attribution License; see the accompanying retraction notice for details.

Data Availability: The Data Availability statement was deleted at the time of the article’s removal. See the accompanying retraction notice for more information.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.