Lirong Yin¹, Lei Wang¹, Siyu Lu^2,*, Ruiyang Wang², Youshuai Yang², Bo Yang², Shan Liu², Ahmed AlSanad³, Salman A. AlQahtani³, Zhengtong Yin⁴, Xiaolu Li⁵, Xiaobing Chen⁶, Wenfeng Zheng^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.1, pp. 87-106, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.051083 - 20 August 2024

Abstract This study addresses the limitations of Transformer models in image feature extraction, particularly their lack of inductive bias for visual structures. Compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), the Transformers are more sensitive to different hyperparameters of optimizers, which leads to a lack of stability and slow convergence. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Convolution-based Efficient Transformer Image Feature Extraction Network (CEFormer) as an enhancement of the Transformer architecture. Our model incorporates E-Attention, depthwise separable convolution, and dilated convolution to introduce crucial inductive biases, such as translation invariance, locality, and scale invariance, into the Transformer… More >

Bing Li^1,2,*, Liangyu Wang¹, Xia Liu^1,2, Hongbin Fan¹, Bo Wang³, Shoudi Tong¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1543-1561, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052009 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of breasts often presents complex backgrounds. Breast tumors exhibit varying sizes, uneven intensity, and indistinct boundaries. These characteristics can lead to challenges such as low accuracy and incorrect segmentation during tumor segmentation. Thus, we propose a two-stage breast tumor segmentation method leveraging multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms. Initially, the breast region of interest is extracted to isolate the breast area from surrounding tissues and organs. Subsequently, we devise a fusion network incorporating multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms for breast tumor segmentation. We incorporate multi-scale parallel dilated convolution modules into… More >

Haoran Huang, Weiting Chen^*, Zheming Fan

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 3665-3681, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048008 - 26 March 2024

Abstract Time series forecasting plays an important role in various fields, such as energy, finance, transport, and weather. Temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) based on dilated causal convolution have been widely used in time series forecasting. However, two problems weaken the performance of TCNs. One is that in dilated casual convolution, causal convolution leads to the receptive fields of outputs being concentrated in the earlier part of the input sequence, whereas the recent input information will be severely lost. The other is that the distribution shift problem in time series has not been adequately solved. To address… More >

Hongyu Lin, Feng Jiang^*, Yu Jiang, Huiyin Luo, Jian Yao, Jiaxin Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5321-5336, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036893 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Detecting non-motor drivers’ helmets has significant implications for traffic control. Currently, most helmet detection methods are susceptible to the complex background and need more accuracy and better robustness of small object detection, which are unsuitable for practical application scenarios. Therefore, this paper proposes a new helmet-wearing detection algorithm based on the You Only Look Once version 5 (YOLOv5). First, the Dilated convolution In Coordinate Attention (DICA) layer is added to the backbone network. DICA combines the coordinated attention mechanism with atrous convolution to replace the original convolution layer, which can increase the perceptual field of… More >

Akbar Khan¹, Kushsairy Abdul Kadir^1,*, Jawad Ali Shah², Waleed Albattah³, Muhammad Saeed⁴, Haidawati Nasir⁵, Megat Norulazmi Megat Mohamed Noor⁵, Muhammad Haris Kaka Khel¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5825-5844, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027077 - 28 July 2022

Abstract With the rapid progress of deep convolutional neural networks, several applications of crowd counting have been proposed and explored in the literature. In congested scene monitoring, a variety of crowd density estimating approaches has been developed. The understanding of highly congested scenes for crowd counting during Muslim gatherings of Hajj and Umrah is a challenging task, as a large number of individuals stand nearby and, it is hard for detection techniques to recognize them, as the crowd can vary from low density to high density. To deal with such highly congested scenes, we have proposed… More >

Junding Sun^1,3,#, Xiang Li^1,#, Chaosheng Tang^1,*, Shixin Chen^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.129, No.2, pp. 729-753, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.016416 - 08 October 2021

Abstract Purpose: As to January 11, 2021, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide. Mainly diagnostic methods of COVID-19 are: (i) nucleic acid testing. This method requires high requirements on the sample testing environment. When collecting samples, staff are in a susceptible environment, which increases the risk of infection. (ii) chest computed tomography. The cost of it is high and some radiation in the scan process. (iii) chest X-ray images. It has the advantages of fast imaging, higher spatial recognition than chest computed tomography. Therefore, our team chose the chest X-ray images as More >

Xinyue Zhang¹, Ting Jin^1,*, Mingjie Han¹, Jingsheng Lei², Zhichao Cao³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.30, No.2, pp. 439-452, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018643 - 11 August 2021

Abstract Saliency prediction has recently gained a large number of attention for the sake of the rapid development of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. However, there are still dilemmas that need to be addressed. In this paper, we design a visual saliency prediction model using attention-based cross-model integration strategies in RGB-D images. Unlike other symmetric feature extraction networks, we exploit asymmetric networks to effectively extract depth features as the complementary information of RGB information. Then we propose attention modules to integrate cross-modal feature information and emphasize the feature representation of salient regions, meanwhile neglect… More >

Muhammed Binsawad^1,*, Marwan Albahar², Abdullah Bin Sawad¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2791-2806, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016141 - 13 April 2021

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating impact on the health and welfare of the global population. A key measure to combat COVID-19 has been the effective screening of infected patients. A vital screening process is the chest radiograph. Initial studies have shown irregularities in the chest radiographs of COVID-19 patients. The use of the chest X-ray (CXR), a leading diagnostic technique, has been encouraged and driven by several ongoing projects to combat this disease because of its historical effectiveness in providing clinical insights on lung diseases. This study introduces a dilated… More >

Mustaqeem, Soonil Kwon^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 4039-4059, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015070 - 01 March 2021

Abstract Emotion recognition from speech data is an active and emerging area of research that plays an important role in numerous applications, such as robotics, virtual reality, behavior assessments, and emergency call centers. Recently, researchers have developed many techniques in this field in order to ensure an improvement in the accuracy by utilizing several deep learning approaches, but the recognition rate is still not convincing. Our main aim is to develop a new technique that increases the recognition rate with reasonable cost computations. In this paper, we suggested a new technique, which is a one-dimensional dilated… More >

Maosen Wang¹, Shaozhang Niu^1,*, Zhenguang Gao²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.2, pp. 781-794, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05595

Abstract Scene text recognition is one of the most important techniques in pattern recognition and machine intelligence due to its numerous practical applications. Scene text recognition is also a sequence model task. Recurrent neural network (RNN) is commonly regarded as the default starting point for sequential models. Due to the non-parallel prediction and the gradient disappearance problem, the performance of the RNN is difficult to improve substantially. In this paper, a new TRDD network architecture which base on dilated convolution and residual block is proposed, using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) instead of RNN realizes the recognition… More >