Jongwook Si¹, Sungyoung Kim^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 2893-2908, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.046081 - 26 March 2024

Abstract In the context of high compression rates applied to Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) images through lossy compression techniques, image-blocking artifacts may manifest. This necessitates the restoration of the image to its original quality. The challenge lies in regenerating significantly compressed images into a state in which these become identifiable. Therefore, this study focuses on the restoration of JPEG images subjected to substantial degradation caused by maximum lossy compression using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The generator in this network is based on the U-Net architecture. It features a new hourglass structure that preserves the characteristics… More >

Dayu Xu^1,#, Jiaming Lü^1,#, Xuyao Zhang², Hongtao Zhang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2557-2573, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.045932 - 27 February 2024

Abstract Data stream clustering is integral to contemporary big data applications. However, addressing the ongoing influx of data streams efficiently and accurately remains a primary challenge in current research. This paper aims to elevate the efficiency and precision of data stream clustering, leveraging the TEDA (Typicality and Eccentricity Data Analysis) algorithm as a foundation, we introduce improvements by integrating a nearest neighbor search algorithm to enhance both the efficiency and accuracy of the algorithm. The original TEDA algorithm, grounded in the concept of “Typicality and Eccentricity Data Analytics”, represents an evolving and recursive method that requires… More >

Li Liu¹, Jing Li¹, Yingchun Wu¹, Chin-Chen Chang^2,*, Anhong Wang¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1415-1432, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040039 - 28 July 2023

Abstract Data hiding (DH) is an important technology for securely transmitting secret data in networks, and has increasing become a research hotspot throughout the world. However, for Joint photographic experts group (JPEG) images, it is difficult to balance the contradiction among embedded capacity, visual quality and the file size increment in existing data hiding schemes. Thus, to deal with this problem, a high-imperceptibility data hiding for JPEG images is proposed based on direction modification. First, this proposed scheme sorts all of the quantized discrete cosine transform (DCT) block in ascending order according to the number of… More >

Yuchen Li¹, Baohong Ling^1,2,*, Donghui Hu¹, Shuli Zheng¹, Guoan Zhang³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2213-2225, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029983 - 21 June 2023

Abstract The goal of steganalysis is to detect whether the cover carries the secret information which is embedded by steganographic algorithms. The traditional steganalysis detector is trained on the stego images created by a certain type of steganographic algorithm, whose detection performance drops rapidly when it is applied to detect another type of steganographic algorithm. This phenomenon is called as steganographic algorithm mismatch in steganalysis. To resolve this problem, we propose a deep learning driven feature-based approach. An advanced steganalysis neural network is used to extract steganographic features, different pairs of training images embedded with steganographic More >

Mochamad Chalid^1,*, Gifrandy Gustiraharjo¹, Azizah Intan Pangesty¹, Alyssa Adyandra¹, Yudan Whulanza², Sugeng Supriadi²

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.7, pp. 3043-3056, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.026788 - 05 June 2023

Abstract Polyethylene glycol (PEG) was added at different concentrations to the blend of poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) and poly(D,L-lactic acid)(PDLLA) to tailor the properties. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement showed that all blends were miscible due to shifting a single glass transition temperature into a lower temperature for increasing PEG content. The DSC, FTIR, and XRD results implied the crystallinity enhancement for PEG content until 8 wt%, then decreased at 12 wt% PEG. The XRD result indicated the homo crystalline phase formation in all blends and no stereocomplex crystal. The in vitro degradation study indicated that… More > Graphic Abstract

Panpan Cao^1,2, Xiulin Huang^1,3,*, Shenxu Bao⁴, Jin Yang^5,*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.8, pp. 2041-2051, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.027399 - 04 April 2023

Abstract Using ethylene glycol monovinyl polyoxyethylene ether, 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS) and acrylic acid as the main synthetic monomers, a high robustness polycarboxylate superplasticizer was prepared. The effects of initial temperature, ratio of acid to ether, amount of chain transfer agent, and synthesis process on the properties of the superplasticizer were studied. The molecular structure was characterized by GPC (Gel Permeation Chromatography) and IR (Infrared Spectrometer). As shown by the results, when the initial reaction temperature is 15°C, the ratio of acid to ether is 3.4:1 and the acrylic acid pre-neutralization is 15%, The AMPS substitution More > Graphic Abstract

Xiaojie Zhao¹, Xiankui Meng¹, Ruyong Ren², Shaozhang Niu^2,*, Zhenguang Gao³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1765-1781, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.029552 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Detecting double Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compression for color images is vital in the field of image forensics. In previous researches, there have been various approaches to detecting double JPEG compression with different quantization matrices. However, the detection of double JPEG color images with the same quantization matrix is still a challenging task. An effective detection approach to extract features is proposed in this paper by combining traditional analysis with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). On the one hand, the number of nonzero pixels and the sum of pixel values of color space conversion error… More >

Kun Wan^*

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 89-101, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2022.039764 - 17 April 2023

Abstract JPEG (Joint Image Experts Group) is currently the most widely used image format on the Internet. Existing cases show that many tampering operations occur on JPEG images. The basic process of the operation is that the JPEG file is first decompressed, modified in the null field, and then the tampered image is compressed and saved in JPEG format, so that the tampered image may be compressed several times. Therefore, the double compression detection of JPEG images can be an important part for determining whether an image has been tampered with, and the study of double More >

Anatoliy Zabrovskiy^1,3, Prateek Agrawal^1,2,*, Vladislav Kashansky¹, Roland Kersche⁴, Christian Timmerer^1,4, Radu Prodan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5677-5697, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023630 - 14 January 2022

Abstract HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) of video content is becoming an undivided part of the Internet and accounts for most of today's network traffic. Video compression technology plays a vital role in efficiently utilizing network channels, but encoding videos into multiple representations with selected encoding parameters is a significant challenge. However, video encoding is a computationally intensive and time-consuming operation that requires high-performance resources provided by on-premise infrastructures or public clouds. In turn, the public clouds, such as Amazon elastic compute cloud (EC2), provide hundreds of computing instances optimized for different purposes and clients’ budgets. Thus,… More >

Mukhtar Ahmed^1,*, Ahmed M. S. Kheir^2,3, Muhammad Zeeshan Mehmood¹, Shakeel Ahmad⁴, Mirza Hasanuzzaman^5,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.4, pp. 713-726, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.018552 - 09 December 2021

Abstract Drought is considered one of the leading abiotic constraints to agricultural crop production globally. Present study was conducted to assess the effects of different drought treatments (viz. Control, 10% PEG, and 20% PEG) on seed germination, germination indices, seedling traits, and drought tolerance indices of sesame. Our results showed that maximum reduction in the studied parameters was observed at higher PEG concentration (i.e., 20% PEG). As compared to control, the drought treatments viz. 10% and 20% PEG decreased the values for germination indices, such as germination percentage, coefficient of variation of germination time, germination index,… More >