Shuai Cao^1,3, Jianan Liang^1,2,*, Yongjun Cao^1,2,3,4, Jinglun Huang^1,4, Zhishu Yang^1,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 1491-1509, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049314 - 15 October 2024

Abstract The employment of deep convolutional neural networks has recently contributed to significant progress in single image super-resolution (SISR) research. However, the high computational demands of most SR techniques hinder their applicability to edge devices, despite their satisfactory reconstruction performance. These methods commonly use standard convolutions, which increase the convolutional operation cost of the model. In this paper, a lightweight Partial Separation and Multiscale Fusion Network (PSMFNet) is proposed to alleviate this problem. Specifically, this paper introduces partial convolution (PConv), which reduces the redundant convolution operations throughout the model by separating some of the features of… More >

Yu Zuo¹, Wenwen Li^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4413-4431, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049805 - 20 June 2024

Abstract In cornfields, factors such as the similarity between corn seedlings and weeds and the blurring of plant edge details pose challenges to corn and weed segmentation. In addition, remote areas such as farmland are usually constrained by limited computational resources and limited collected data. Therefore, it becomes necessary to lighten the model to better adapt to complex cornfield scene, and make full use of the limited data information. In this paper, we propose an improved image segmentation algorithm based on unet. Firstly, the inverted residual structure is introduced into the contraction path to reduce the… More >

Zhong Qu^1,*, Guoqing Mu¹, Bin Yuan²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 255-273, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.048175 - 16 April 2024

Abstract Automatic crack detection of cement pavement chiefly benefits from the rapid development of deep learning, with convolutional neural networks (CNN) playing an important role in this field. However, as the performance of crack detection in cement pavement improves, the depth and width of the network structure are significantly increased, which necessitates more computing power and storage space. This limitation hampers the practical implementation of crack detection models on various platforms, particularly portable devices like small mobile devices. To solve these problems, we propose a dual-encoder-based network architecture that focuses on extracting more comprehensive fracture feature… More > Graphic Abstract

Kun Yang^1,2, Lei Zhao¹, Xianghui Wang¹, Mingyang Zhang¹, Linyan Xue^1,2, Shuang Liu^1,2, Kun Liu^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5159-5176, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036401 - 29 April 2023

Abstract The diagnosis of COVID-19 requires chest computed tomography (CT). High-resolution CT images can provide more diagnostic information to help doctors better diagnose the disease, so it is of clinical importance to study super-resolution (SR) algorithms applied to CT images to improve the resolution of CT images. However, most of the existing SR algorithms are studied based on natural images, which are not suitable for medical images; and most of these algorithms improve the reconstruction quality by increasing the network depth, which is not suitable for machines with limited resources. To alleviate these issues, we propose… More >

Yang Zhou, Chunjiao Fu, Yuting Zhai, Jian Li, Ziqi Jin, Yanlei Xu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 4501-4517, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038446 - 31 March 2023

Abstract Accurate identification of rice diseases is crucial for controlling diseases and improving rice yield. To improve the classification accuracy of rice diseases, this paper proposed a classification and identification method based on an improved ShuffleNet V2 (GE-ShuffleNet) model. Firstly, the Ghost module is used to replace the convolution in the two basic unit modules of ShuffleNet V2, and the unimportant convolution is deleted from the two basic unit modules of ShuffleNet V2. The Hardswish activation function is applied to replace the ReLU activation function to improve the identification accuracy of the model. Secondly, an effective… More >

Qunbiao Wu¹, Zhen Wang^1,*, Haifeng Fang¹, Junji Chen¹, Xinfeng Wan²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 961-979, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036239 - 20 January 2023

Abstract For surface defects in electronic water pump shells, the manual detection efficiency is low, prone to misdetection and leak detection, and encounters problems, such as uncertainty. To improve the speed and accuracy of surface defect detection, a lightweight detection method based on an improved YOLOv5s method is proposed to replace the traditional manual detection methods. In this method, the MobileNetV3 module replaces the backbone network of YOLOv5s, depth-separable convolution is introduced, the parameters and calculations are reduced, and CIoU_Loss is used as the loss function of the boundary box regression to improve its detection accuracy.… More >

Yingpeng Dai¹, Junzheng Wang¹, Jing Li^1,*, Lingfeng Meng², Songfeng Wang^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 135-156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021525 - 24 August 2022

Abstract It is important for the autonomous system to understand environmental information. For the autonomous system, it is desirable to have a strong generalization ability to deal with different complex environmental information, as well as have high accuracy and quick inference speed. Network ensemble architecture is a good choice to improve network performance. However, it is unsuitable for real-time applications on the autonomous system. To tackle this problem, a new neural network ensemble named partial-shared ensemble network (PSENet) is presented. PSENet changes network ensemble architecture from parallel architecture to scatter architecture and merges multiple component networks More >

Helong Yu, Xianhe Cheng, Ziqing Li, Qi Cai, Chunguang Bi^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.3, pp. 711-738, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020263 - 27 June 2022

Abstract To solve the problem of difficulty in identifying apple diseases in the natural environment and the low application rate of deep learning recognition networks, a lightweight ResNet (LW-ResNet) model for apple disease recognition is proposed. Based on the deep residual network (ResNet18), the multi-scale feature extraction layer is constructed by group convolution to realize the compression model and improve the extraction ability of different sizes of lesion features. By improving the identity mapping structure to reduce information loss. By introducing the efficient channel attention module (ECANet) to suppress noise from a complex background. The experimental… More >