Murad Njoum^1,2,*, Rossilawati Sulaiman¹, Zarina Shukur¹, Faizan Qamar¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 183-211, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050090 - 15 October 2024

Abstract Random pixel selection is one of the image steganography methods that has achieved significant success in enhancing the robustness of hidden data. This property makes it difficult for steganalysts’ powerful data extraction tools to detect the hidden data and ensures high-quality stego image generation. However, using a seed key to generate non-repeated sequential numbers takes a long time because it requires specific mathematical equations. In addition, these numbers may cluster in certain ranges. The hidden data in these clustered pixels will reduce the image quality, which steganalysis tools can detect. Therefore, this paper proposes a… More >

Muhammad Zaman Ali¹, Omer Riaz¹, Hafiz Muhammad Hasnain², Waqas Sharif², Tenvir Ali², Gyu Sang Choi^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 2923-2943, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049139 - 15 May 2024

Abstract In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of communication technologies, ensuring the secure delivery of sensitive data has become an essential priority. To overcome these difficulties, different steganography and data encryption methods have been proposed by researchers to secure communications. Most of the proposed steganography techniques achieve higher embedding capacities without compromising visual imperceptibility using LSB substitution. In this work, we have an approach that utilizes a combination of Most Significant Bit (MSB) matching and Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution. The proposed algorithm divides confidential messages into pairs of bits and connects them with the MSBs of… More >

Nguyen Hai Minh¹, Nguyen Tu Trung^2,*, Tran Thi Ngan², Tran Manh Tuan²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3901-3909, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032311 - 03 April 2023

Abstract Fusing satellite (remote sensing) images is an interesting topic in processing satellite images. The result image is achieved through fusing information from spectral and panchromatic images for sharpening. In this paper, a new algorithm based on based the Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm with peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) index optimization is proposed to fusing remote sensing images in this paper. Firstly, Wavelet transform is used to split the input images into components over the high and low frequency domains. Then, two fusing rules are used for obtaining the fused images. The first rule is “the More >

Dur-e-Jabeen^1,*, Tahmina Khan², Rumaisa Iftikhar¹, Ali Akbar Siddique¹, Samiya Asghar¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 539-557, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032393 - 22 September 2022

Abstract In recent years, it has been evident that internet is the most effective means of transmitting information in the form of documents, photographs, or videos around the world. The purpose of an image compression method is to encode a picture with fewer bits while retaining the decompressed image’s visual quality. During transmission, this massive data necessitates a lot of channel space. In order to overcome this problem, an effective visual compression approach is required to resize this large amount of data. This work is based on lossy image compression and is offered for static color… More >

Khadem Ullah^1,*, Nasru Minallah¹, Durre Nayab¹, Ishtiaque Ahmed², Jaroslav Frnda^3,4, Jan Nedoma⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 995-1010, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030531 - 22 September 2022

Abstract With the ever growth of Internet users, video applications, and massive data traffic across the network, there is a higher need for reliable bandwidth-efficient multimedia communication. Versatile Video Coding (VVC/H.266) is finalized in September 2020 providing significantly greater compression efficiency compared to Highest Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) while providing versatile effective use for Ultra-High Definition (HD) videos. This article analyzes the quality performance of convolutional codes, turbo codes and self-concatenated convolutional (SCC) codes based on performance metrics for reliable future video communication. The advent of turbo codes was a significant achievement ever in the era… More >

P. L. Joseph Raj, K. Kalimuthu^*, Sabitha Gauni, C. T. Manimegalai

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 1187-1196, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026052 - 03 May 2022

Abstract Speckle Reduction Anisotropic Diffusion filter which is used to despeckle ultrasound images, perform well at homogeneous region than in heterogeneous region resulting in loss of information available at the edges. Extended SRAD filter does the same, preserving better the edges in addition, compared to the existing SRAD filter. The proposed Extended SRAD filter includes the intensity of four more neighboring pixels in addition with other four that is meant for SRAD filter operation. So, a total of eight pixels are involved in determining the intensity of a single pixel. This improves despeckling performance by maintaining More >

Walid El-Shafai^1,2, Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed^3,4,*, Medien Zeghid^3,5, Anas M. Ali^1,6, Moustafa H. Aly⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4879-4896, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028364 - 21 April 2022

Abstract High-quality medical microscopic images used for diseases detection are expensive and difficult to store. Therefore, low-resolution images are favorable due to their low storage space and ease of sharing, where the images can be enlarged when needed using Super-Resolution (SR) techniques. However, it is important to maintain the shape and size of the medical images while enlarging them. One of the problems facing SR is that the performance of medical image diagnosis is very poor due to the deterioration of the reconstructed image resolution. Consequently, this paper suggests a multi-SR and classification framework based on… More >

M. Maria Dominic Savio^1,*, T. Deepa¹, N. Bharathiraja², Anudeep Bonasu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3815-3834, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025924 - 29 March 2022

Abstract The processor is greatly hampered by the large dataset of picture or multimedia data. The logic of approximation hardware is moving in the direction of multimedia processing with a given amount of acceptable mistake. This study proposes various higher-order approximate counter-based compressor (CBC) using input shuffled 6:3 CBC. In the Wallace multiplier using a CBC is a significant factor in partial product reduction. So the design of 10-4, 11-4, 12-4, 13-4 and 14-4 CBC are proposed in this paper using an input shuffled 6:3 compressor to attain two stage multiplications. The input shuffling aims to… More >

B. Sakthivel^1,*, K. Jayaram², N. Manikanda Devarajan³, S. Mahaboob Basha⁴, S. Rajapriya⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.1, pp. 397-406, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021637 - 02 December 2021

Abstract Approximate Computing is a low power achieving technique that offers an additional degree of freedom to design digital circuits. Pruning is one of the types of approximate circuit design technique which removes logic gates or wires in the circuit to reduce power consumption with minimal insertion of error. In this work, a novel machine learning (ML) -based pruning technique is introduced to design digital circuits. The machine-learning algorithm of the random forest decision tree is used to prune nodes selectively based on their input pattern. In addition, an error compensation value is added to the… More >

Hesham Alhumyani^1,*, Ibrahim Alrube¹, Sameer Alsharif¹, Ashraf Afifi¹, Chokri Ben Amar¹, Hala S. El-Sayed², Osama S. Faragallah³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4657-4673, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020338 - 11 October 2021

Abstract The rapid development in the information technology field has introduced digital watermark technologies as a solution to prevent unauthorized copying and redistribution of data. This article introduces a self-embedded image verification and integrity scheme. The images are firstly split into dedicated segments of the same block sizes. Then, different Analytic Beta-Wavelet (ABW) orthogonal filters are utilized for embedding a self-segment watermark for image segment using a predefined method. ABW orthogonal filter coefficients are estimated to improve image reconstruction under different block sizes. We conduct a comparative study comparing the watermarked images using three kinds of More >