Hina Bhanbhro^1,*, Yew Kwang Hooi¹, Mohammad Nordin Bin Zakaria¹, Worapan Kusakunniran², Zaira Hassan Amur¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 2243-2259, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052138 - 18 November 2024

Abstract Object detection has made a significant leap forward in recent years. However, the detection of small objects continues to be a great difficulty for various reasons, such as they have a very small size and they are susceptible to missed detection due to background noise. Additionally, small object information is affected due to the downsampling operations. Deep learning-based detection methods have been utilized to address the challenge posed by small objects. In this work, we propose a novel method, the Multi-Convolutional Block Attention Network (MCBAN), to increase the detection accuracy of minute objects aiming to… More >

Sannasi Chakravarthy¹, Bharanidharan Nagarajan², Surbhi Bhatia Khan^3,7,*, Vinoth Kumar Venkatesan², Mahesh Thyluru Ramakrishna⁴, Ahlam Al Musharraf⁵, Khursheed Aurungzeb⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 5029-5045, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052531 - 12 September 2024

Abstract Breast cancer is a type of cancer responsible for higher mortality rates among women. The cruelty of breast cancer always requires a promising approach for its earlier detection. In light of this, the proposed research leverages the representation ability of pretrained EfficientNet-B0 model and the classification ability of the XGBoost model for the binary classification of breast tumors. In addition, the above transfer learning model is modified in such a way that it will focus more on tumor cells in the input mammogram. Accordingly, the work proposed an EfficientNet-B0 having a Spatial Attention Layer with More >

Chunwei Tian^1,2,3,4, Haoyang Gao^2,3, Pengwei Wang², Bob Zhang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 105-118, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052097 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Generative adversarial networks (GANs) with gaming abilities have been widely applied in image generation. However, gamistic generators and discriminators may reduce the robustness of the obtained GANs in image generation under varying scenes. Enhancing the relation of hierarchical information in a generation network and enlarging differences of different network architectures can facilitate more structural information to improve the generation effect for image generation. In this paper, we propose an enhanced GAN via improving a generator for image generation (EIGGAN). EIGGAN applies a spatial attention to a generator to extract salient information to enhance the truthfulness… More >

Yin Ni¹, Wu Zeng^2,*, Peng Xia¹, Guang Stanley Yang³, Ruochen Tan⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5295-5312, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049911 - 20 June 2024

Abstract Deepfake-generated fake faces, commonly utilized in identity-related activities such as political propaganda, celebrity impersonations, evidence forgery, and familiar fraud, pose new societal threats. Although current deepfake generators strive for high realism in visual effects, they do not replicate biometric signals indicative of cardiac activity. Addressing this gap, many researchers have developed detection methods focusing on biometric characteristics. These methods utilize classification networks to analyze both temporal and spectral domain features of the remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signal, resulting in high detection accuracy. However, in the spectral analysis, existing approaches often only consider the power spectral density… More >

Lyuchao Liao^1,2, Hankun Xiao^2,*, Pengqi Xing², Zhenhua Gan^1,2, Youpeng He², Jiajun Wang²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 557-576, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.047452 - 16 April 2024

Abstract Autonomous driving has witnessed rapid advancement; however, ensuring safe and efficient driving in intricate scenarios remains a critical challenge. In particular, traffic roundabouts bring a set of challenges to autonomous driving due to the unpredictable entry and exit of vehicles, susceptibility to traffic flow bottlenecks, and imperfect data in perceiving environmental information, rendering them a vital issue in the practical application of autonomous driving. To address the traffic challenges, this work focused on complex roundabouts with multi-lane and proposed a Perception Enhanced Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (PE-DDPG) for Autonomous Driving in the Roundabouts. Specifically, the… More >

Zhihua Liu, Shengquan Liu^*, Jian Zhang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 411-433, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.046237 - 30 January 2024

Abstract Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) based on deep learning have continued to make significant advances. However, the following challenges remain: on the one hand, simply applying only Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs) can lead to models that ignore the impact of network traffic features at different scales on the detection performance. On the other hand, some intrusion detection methods consider multi-scale information of traffic data, but considering only forward network traffic information can lead to deficiencies in capturing multi-scale temporal features. To address both of these issues, we propose a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network that supports… More >

Siyu Lu¹, Yueming Ding¹, Zhengtong Yin², Mingzhe Liu^3,*, Xuan Liu⁴, Wenfeng Zheng^1,*, Lirong Yin⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 1149-1161, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.038598 - 26 May 2023

Abstract Visual question answering (VQA) has attracted more and more attention in computer vision and natural language processing. Scholars are committed to studying how to better integrate image features and text features to achieve better results in VQA tasks. Analysis of all features may cause information redundancy and heavy computational burden. Attention mechanism is a wise way to solve this problem. However, using single attention mechanism may cause incomplete concern of features. This paper improves the attention mechanism method and proposes a hybrid attention mechanism that combines the spatial attention mechanism method and the channel attention More >

Can Xiao^1,2, Feng Li^1,2,*, Dengyong Zhang^1,2, Pu Huang^1,2, Xiangling Ding³, Victor S. Sheng⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 1145-1154, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.027249 - 09 May 2022

Abstract Image inpainting based on deep learning has been greatly improved. The original purpose of image inpainting was to repair some broken photos, such as inpainting artifacts. However, it may also be used for malicious operations, such as destroying evidence. Therefore, detection and localization of image inpainting operations are essential. Recent research shows that high-pass filtering full convolutional network (HPFCN) is applied to image inpainting detection and achieves good results. However, those methods did not consider the spatial location and channel information of the feature map. To solve these shortcomings, we introduce the squeezed excitation blocks More >

Jingjun Zhou^1,2, Jing Liu³, Jingbing Li^1,2,*, Mengxing Huang^1,2, Jieren Cheng⁴, Yen-Wei Chen⁵, Yingying Xu^3,6, Saqib Ali Nawaz¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.39, No.1, pp. 133-146, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.016633 - 10 June 2021

Abstract Recent applications of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in single image super-resolution (SISR) have achieved unprecedented performance. However, existing CNN-based SISR network structure design consider mostly only channel or spatial information, and cannot make full use of both channel and spatial information to improve SISR performance further. The present work addresses this problem by proposing a mixed attention densely residual network architecture that can make full and simultaneous use of both channel and spatial information. Specifically, we propose a residual in dense network structure composed of dense connections between multiple dense residual groups to form a More >

Huanrong Tang¹, Aoming Peng¹, Dongming Zhang², Tianming Liu³, Jianquan Ouyang^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 293-307, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06427

Abstract With the improvement of the national economic level, the number of vehicles is still increasing year by year. According to the statistics of National Bureau of Statics, the number is approximately up to 327 million in China by the end of 2018, which makes urban traffic pressure continues to rise so that the negative impact of urban traffic order is growing. Illegal parking-the common problem in the field of transportation security is urgent to be solved and traditional methods to address it are mainly based on ground loop and manual supervision, which may miss detection… More >