Hee-Jin Yoon¹, Kang-Jik Kim¹, Jun-Chul Chun^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 459-472, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08799

Abstract Recently, virtual reality technology that can interact with various data is used for urban design and analysis. Reality, one of the most important elements in virtual reality technology, means visual expression so that a person can experience threedimensional space like reality. To obtain this realism, real-world data are used in the various fields. For example, in order to increase the realism of 3D modeled building textures real aerial images are utilized in 3D modelling. However, the aerial image captured during the day can be shadowed by the sun and it can cause the distortion or deterioration of image. To resolve… More >

Gang Xu^{1, *}, Ran Ling¹, Lishan Deng¹, Qing Wu¹, Weiyin Ma²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 309-319, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06509

Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel image interpolation method by using Gaussian-Sinc automatic interpolators with partition of unity property. A comprehensive comparison is made with classical image interpolation methods, such as the bicubic interpolation, Lanczos interpolation, cubic Schaum interpolation, cubic B-spline interpolation and cubic Moms interpolation. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the improved image interpolation method via some image quality metrics such as PSNR and SSIM. More >

Fangming Bi^{1, 2}, Xuanyi Fu^{1, 2}, Wei Chen^{1, 2, 3, *}, Weidong Fang⁴, Xuzhi Miao^{1, 2}, Biruk Assefa^{1, 5}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 199-216, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06258

Abstract Aiming at the defects of the traditional fire detection methods, which are caused by false positives and false negatives in large space buildings, a fire identification detection method based on video images is proposed. The algorithm first uses the hybrid Gaussian background modeling method and the RGB color model to perform fire prejudgment on the video image, which can eliminate most non-fire interferences. Secondly, the traditional regional growth algorithm is improved and the fire image segmentation effect is effectively improved. Then, based on the segmented image, the dynamic and static features of the fire flame are further analyzed and extracted… More >

Jinwei Wang^{1, *}, Yang Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 99-112, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.04373

Abstract In the paper, a convolutional neural network based on quaternion transformation is proposed to detect median filtering for color images. Compared with conventional convolutional neural network, color images can be processed in a holistic manner in the proposed scheme, which makes full use of the correlation between RGB channels. And due to the use of convolutional neural network, it can effectively avoid the one-sidedness of artificial features. Experimental results have shown the scheme’s improvement over the state-of-the-art scheme on the accuracy of color image median filtering detection. More >

Zhangyi Shen¹, Feng Ding^{2, *}, Yunqing Shi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08291

Abstract As a common medium in our daily life, images are important for most people to gather information. There are also people who edit or even tamper images to deliberately deliver false information under different purposes. Thus, in digital forensics, it is necessary to understand the manipulating history of images. That requires to verify all possible manipulations applied to images. Among all the image editing manipulations, recoloring is widely used to adjust or repaint the colors in images. The color information is an important visual information that image can deliver. Thus, it is necessary to guarantee the correctness of color in… More >

MIROSLAV VAŘECHA^1*, DANIELA PÁCLOVÁ², JIŘINA PROCHÁZKOVÁ², PAVEL MATULA¹, DUŠAN CMARKO³, AND MICHAL KOZUBEK¹

BIOCELL, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 121-126, 2012, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2012.36.121

Abstract Recent findings suggest that apoptotic protein apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) may also play an important non-apoptotic function inside mitochondria. AIF was proposed to be an important component of respiratory chain complex I that is the major producer of superoxide radical. The possible role of AIF is still controversial. Superoxide production could be used as a valuable measure of complex I function, because the majority of superoxide is produced there. Therefore, we employed superoxide-specific mitochondrial fluorescence dye for detection of superoxide production. We studied an impact of AIF knockdown on function of mitochondrial complex I by analyzing superoxide production in selected cell… More >

Salomón N¹, V Misller¹, C Delrieux², R Miranda³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 306-311, 2015, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2015.84.306

Abstract Color is one of the factors used in quality estimation in many agricultural and food products. Currently, the evaluation of color depends on judgments made by human experts. These are subjective and inevitably affected by physical, physiological and environmental conditions. Suitable instrumental is required to provide objectivity and coherence to color measurements and quantitative expressions. It would be very useful to have tools that allow both practical and precise approaches to chromatic evaluation of products for human consumption. This work suggests a methodology which might contribute to solve that constraint and the analysis of environmental influences on this character in… More >

González-Cervantes G¹, JA Chávez-Simental², IA Ortiz-Sánchez³, LM Valenzuela-Núñez⁴, MA Macías-Corral⁵, JG Arreola-Avila⁶

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.86, pp. 40-45, 2017, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2017.86.040

Abstract The introduction of ornamental crops to the Comarca Lagunera is a great market opportunity for producers of flowers, just as it is the case of Caladium bicolor which is exported to Europe, USA, Caribbean islands and Africa. The use of organic products derived from cattle manure for fertilization, improves physical soil conditions and provides significant amount of nutrients to plants and reduce production costs. Therefore, the objective of this study was to quantify the growth of tubercle and root of the ornamental plant Caladium bicolor by applying organic fertilizer (OF) extracted from cattle manure. The experimental design was completely randomized… More >

Chaowen Lu^1,a, Feifei Lee^1,a,*, Lei Chen¹, Sheng Huang¹, Qiu Chen^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.121, No.2, pp. 593-608, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.07796

Abstract Image retrieval has become more and more important because of the explosive growth of images on the Internet. Traditional image retrieval methods have limited image retrieval performance due to the poor image expression abhility of visual feature and high dimension of feature. Hashing is a widely-used method for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search due to its rapidity and timeliness. Meanwhile, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have strong discriminative characteristics which are used for image classification. In this paper, we propose a CNN architecture based on improved deep supervised hashing (IDSH) method, by which the binary compact codes can be generated directly.… More >

Tianyi Li¹, Xin Gu¹, Qing Zhang^1,*, Dong Lei¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.121, No.2, pp. 425-444, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06700

Abstract Digital image correlation (DIC) measurement technique and peridynamics (PD) method have been applied in specific fields extensively owing to their respective advantages in obtaining full-field deformation and local failure of loaded materials and structures. This study provides a simple way to couple DIC measurements with PD simulations, which can circumvent the difficulties of DIC in dealing with discontinuous deformations. Taking the failure analysis of a compact tension specimen of aluminum alloy and a static three-point bending concrete beam as examples, the DIC experimental system firstly measures the full-field displacements, and then the PD simulation is applied on potential damage regions… More >