Salah Alghyaline^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4905-4924, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052016

Abstract Handwritten character recognition is considered challenging compared with machine-printed characters due to the different human writing styles. Arabic is morphologically rich, and its characters have a high similarity. The Arabic language includes 28 characters. Each character has up to four shapes according to its location in the word (at the beginning, middle, end, and isolated). This paper proposed 12 CNN architectures for recognizing handwritten Arabic characters. The proposed architectures were derived from the popular CNN architectures, such as VGG, ResNet, and Inception, to make them applicable to recognizing character-size images. The experimental results on three More >

Sohaib Latif^1,*, M. Saad Bin Ilyas¹, Azhar Imran², Hamad Ali Abosaq³, Abdulaziz Alzubaidi⁴, Vincent Karovič Jr.⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.2, pp. 353-379, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.047080

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly and impacting almost every aspect of our lives, from wearables and healthcare to security, traffic management, and fleet management systems. This has generated massive volumes of data and security, and data privacy risks are increasing with the advancement of technology and network connections. Traditional access control solutions are inadequate for establishing access control in IoT systems to provide data protection owing to their vulnerability to single-point OF failure. Additionally, conventional privacy preservation methods have high latency costs and overhead for resource-constrained devices. Previous machine learning approaches were… More >

Shuting Ge^1,2, Jin Ren^2,3,*, Yihua Shi⁴, Yujun Zhang¹, Shunzhi Yang², Jinfeng Yang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 3215-3245, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.046746

Abstract In air traffic control communications (ATCC), misunderstandings between pilots and controllers could result in fatal aviation accidents. Fortunately, advanced automatic speech recognition technology has emerged as a promising means of preventing miscommunications and enhancing aviation safety. However, most existing speech recognition methods merely incorporate external language models on the decoder side, leading to insufficient semantic alignment between speech and text modalities during the encoding phase. Furthermore, it is challenging to model acoustic context dependencies over long distances due to the longer speech sequences than text, especially for the extended ATCC data. To address these issues,… More >

Arpit Jain¹, Nageswara Rao Moparthi¹, A. Swathi², Yogesh Kumar Sharma¹, Nitin Mittal³, Ahmed Alhussen⁴, Zamil S. Alzamil^5,*, MohdAnul Haq⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.2, pp. 341-362, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036973

Abstract Recently, the coronavirus disease 2019 has shown excellent attention in the global community regarding health and the economy. World Health Organization (WHO) and many others advised controlling Corona Virus Disease in 2019. The limited treatment resources, medical resources, and unawareness of immunity is an essential horizon to unfold. Among all resources, wearing a mask is the primary non-pharmaceutical intervention to stop the spreading of the virus caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) droplets. All countries made masks mandatory to prevent infection. For such enforcement, automatic and effective face detection systems are crucial.… More >

Cong Jin¹, Jinjie Huang^1,2,*, Yuanjian Chen¹, Yuqing Gong¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 1547-1568, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.047489

Abstract In differentiable search architecture search methods, a more efficient search space design can significantly improve the performance of the searched architecture, thus requiring people to carefully define the search space with different complexity according to various operations. Meanwhile rationalizing the search strategies to explore the well-defined search space will further improve the speed and efficiency of architecture search. With this in mind, we propose a faster and more efficient differentiable architecture search method, AllegroNAS. Firstly, we introduce a more efficient search space enriched by the introduction of two redefined convolution modules. Secondly, we utilize a… More >

Yi-Bo Cao^1,*, Xiu-Bo Chen¹, Yun-Feng He², Lu-Xi Liu², Yin-Mei Che², Xiao Wang², Ke Xiao³, Gang Xu³, Si-Yi Chen¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2813-2827, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046816

Abstract Due to the rapid advancements in network technology, blockchain is being employed for distributed data storage. In the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, different participants manage multiple blockchains located in different trust domains, which has resulted in the extensive development of cross-domain authentication techniques. However, the emergence of many attackers equipped with quantum computers has the potential to launch quantum computing attacks against cross-domain authentication schemes based on traditional cryptography, posing a significant security threat. In response to the aforementioned challenges, our paper demonstrates a post-quantum cross-domain identity authentication scheme to negotiate the session key… More >

Ruchun Jia, Jianwei Zhang^*, Yi Lin

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2391-2418, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.044149

Abstract With the popularization of the Internet and the development of technology, cyber threats are increasing day by day. Threats such as malware, hacking, and data breaches have had a serious impact on cybersecurity. The network security environment in the era of big data presents the characteristics of large amounts of data, high diversity, and high real-time requirements. Traditional security defense methods and tools have been unable to cope with the complex and changing network security threats. This paper proposes a machine-learning security defense algorithm based on metadata association features. Emphasize control over unauthorized users through… More >

Hongshang Xu¹, Bei Dong^1,2,*, Xiaochang Liu¹, Xiaojun Wu^1,2

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 185-202, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.041177

Abstract Deep neural networks often outperform classical machine learning algorithms in solving real-world problems. However, designing better networks usually requires domain expertise and consumes significant time and computing resources. Moreover, when the task changes, the original network architecture becomes outdated and requires redesigning. Thus, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained attention as an effective approach to automatically generate optimal network architectures. Most NAS methods mainly focus on achieving high performance while ignoring architectural complexity. A myriad of research has revealed that network performance and structural complexity are often positively correlated. Nevertheless, complex network structures will bring… More >

Zifeng Yu¹, Xianfeng Li^1,*, Lianpeng Sun², Jinjun Zhu², Jianxin Lin³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 435-451, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.046685

Abstract Urban sewer pipes are a vital infrastructure in modern cities, and their defects must be detected in time to prevent potential malfunctioning. In recent years, to relieve the manual efforts by human experts, models based on deep learning have been introduced to automatically identify potential defects. However, these models are insufficient in terms of dataset complexity, model versatility and performance. Our work addresses these issues with a multi-stage defect detection architecture using a composite backbone Swin Transformer. The model based on this architecture is trained using a more comprehensive dataset containing more classes of defects.… More >

Jingyu Zhang^1,2, Pian Zhou¹, Jin Wang¹, Osama Alfarraj³, Saurabh Singh⁴, Min Zhu^5,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.2, pp. 1613-1633, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.044418

Abstract Blockchain can realize the reliable storage of a large amount of data that is chronologically related and verifiable within the system. This technology has been widely used and has developed rapidly in big data systems across various fields. An increasing number of users are participating in application systems that use blockchain as their underlying architecture. As the number of transactions and the capital involved in blockchain grow, ensuring information security becomes imperative. Addressing the verification of transactional information security and privacy has emerged as a critical challenge. Blockchain-based verification methods can effectively eliminate the need… More >