Salman Khan^1,*, Ibrar Ali Shah¹, Nasser Tairan², Habib Shah², Muhammad Faisal Nadeem³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 6147-6163, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023234

Abstract In recent years, the significant growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought a lot of attention to information and communication industry. Various IoT paradigms like the Internet of Vehicle Things (IoVT) and the Internet of Health Things (IoHT) create massive volumes of data every day which consume a lot of bandwidth and storage. However, to process such large volumes of data, the existing cloud computing platforms offer limited resources due to their distance from IoT devices. Consequently, cloud-computing systems produce intolerable latency problems for latency-sensitive real-time applications. Therefore, a new paradigm called fog computing makes use of… More >

N. B. Ghazali¹, F. C. Seman^1,*, K. Isa¹, K. N. Ramli¹, Z. Z. Abidin¹, S. M. Mustam¹, M. A. Haek², A. N. Z. Abidin², A. Asrokin²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5427-5440, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023211

Abstract Applying the fault diagnosis techniques to twisted pair copper cable is beneficial to improve the stability and reliability of internet access in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Access Network System. The network performance depends on the occurrence of cable fault along the copper cable. Currently, most of the telecommunication providers monitor the network performance degradation hence troubleshoot the present of the fault by using commercial test gear on-site, which may be resolved using data analytics and machine learning algorithm. This paper presents a fault diagnosis method for twisted pair cable fault detection based on knowledge-based and data-driven machine learning methods. The… More >

Saeed Iqbal^1,*, Adnan N. Qureshi¹, Ghulam Mustafa²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4915-4939, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023178

Abstract Skin cancer (melanoma) is one of the most aggressive of the cancers and the prevalence has significantly increased due to increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, timely detection and management of the lesion is a critical consideration in order to improve lifestyle and reduce mortality. To this end, we have designed, implemented and analyzed a hybrid approach entailing convolutional neural networks (CNN) and local binary patterns (LBP). The experiments have been performed on publicly accessible datasets ISIC 2017, 2018 and 2019 (HAM10000) with data augmentation for in-distribution generalization. As a novel contribution, the CNN architecture is enhanced with an intelligible… More >

Hunmin Lee¹, Inseop Na², Kamoliddin Bultakov³, Youngchul Kim^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5413-5425, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023172

Abstract In this paper, we propose a BPR-CNN (Biometric Pattern Recognition-Convolution Neural Network) classifier for hand motion classification as well as a dynamic threshold algorithm for motion signal detection and extraction by EF (Electric Field) sensors. Currently, an EF sensor or EPS (Electric Potential Sensor) system is attracting attention as a next-generation motion sensing technology due to low computation and price, high sensitivity and recognition speed compared to other sensor systems. However, it remains as a challenging problem to accurately detect and locate the authentic motion signal frame automatically in real-time when sensing body-motions such as hand motion, due to the… More >

Faisal Saeed^1,2,*, Mohammad Al-Sarem^1,3, Muhannad Al-Mohaimeed¹, Abdelhamid Emara^1,4, Wadii Boulila^1,5, Mohammed Alasli¹, Fahad Ghabban¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5639-5658, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023124

Abstract Several millions of people suffer from Parkinson's disease globally. Parkinson's affects about 1% of people over 60 and its symptoms increase with age. The voice may be affected and patients experience abnormalities in speech that might not be noticed by listeners, but which could be analyzed using recorded speech signals. With the huge advancements of technology, the medical data has increased dramatically, and therefore, there is a need to apply data mining and machine learning methods to extract new knowledge from this data. Several classification methods were used to analyze medical data sets and diagnostic problems, such as Parkinson's Disease… More >

Xiaojie Li¹, Yongpeng Ren¹, Hongping Ren¹, Canghong Shi², Xian Zhang¹, Lutao Wang¹, Imran Mumtaz³, Xi Wu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5021-5037, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023071

Abstract Recently, deep learning-based image outpainting has made greatly notable improvements in computer vision field. However, due to the lack of fully extracting image information, the existing methods often generate unnatural and blurry outpainting results in most cases. To solve this issue, we propose a perceptual image outpainting method, which effectively takes the advantage of low-level feature fusion and multi-patch discriminator. Specifically, we first fuse the texture information in the low-level feature map of encoder, and simultaneously incorporate these aggregated features reusability with semantic (or structural) information of deep feature map such that we could utilize more sophisticated texture information to… More >

Broderick Crawford^1,*, Ricardo Soto¹, Hanns de la Fuente Mella¹, Claudio Elortegui¹, Wenceslao Palma¹, Claudio Torres-Rojas¹, Claudia Vasconcellos-Gaete², Marcelo Becerra¹, Javier Peña¹, Sanjay Misra³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4295-4318, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023068

Abstract Currently, the industry is experiencing an exponential increase in dealing with binary-based combinatorial problems. In this sense, metaheuristics have been a common trend in the field in order to design approaches to solve them successfully. Thus, a well-known strategy consists in the use of algorithms based on discrete swarms transformed to perform in binary environments. Following the No Free Lunch theorem, we are interested in testing the performance of the Fruit Fly Algorithm, this is a bio-inspired metaheuristic for deducing global optimization in continuous spaces, based on the foraging behavior of the fruit fly, which usually has much better sensory… More >

Punit Gupta¹, Sanjit Bhagat², Dinesh Kumar Saini^1,*, Ashish Kumar², Mohammad Alahmadi³, Prakash Chandra Sharma¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5659-5676, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023056

Abstract In the next generation of computing environment e-health care services depend on cloud services. The Cloud computing environment provides a real-time computing environment for e-health care applications. But these services generate a huge number of computational tasks, real-time computing and comes with a deadline, so conventional cloud optimization models cannot fulfil the task in the least time and within the deadline. To overcome this issue many resource optimization meta-heuristic models are been proposed but these models cannot find a global best solution to complete the task in the least time and manage utilization with the least simulation time. In order… More >

Maham Khan¹, Syed Adnan Shah¹, Tenvir Ali², Quratulain², Aymen Khan², Gyu Sang Choi^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5005-5020, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023007

Abstract Brain tumors are considered as most fatal cancers. To reduce the risk of death, early identification of the disease is required. One of the best available methods to evaluate brain tumors is Magnetic resonance Images (MRI). Brain tumor detection and segmentation are tough as brain tumors may vary in size, shape, and location. That makes manual detection of brain tumors by exploring MRI a tedious job for radiologists and doctors’. So an automated brain tumor detection and segmentation is required. This work suggests a Region-based Convolution Neural Network (RCNN) approach for automated brain tumor identification and segmentation using MR images,… More >

Turki M. Alanazi, Ahmed Ben Atitallah^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4319-4335, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022988

Abstract As the newest standard, the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is specially designed to minimize the bitrate for video data transfer and to support High Definition (HD) and ULTRA HD video resolutions at the cost of increasing computational complexity relative to earlier standards like the H.264. Therefore, real-time video decoding with HEVC decoder becomes a challenging task. However, the Dequantization and Inverse Transform (DE/IT) are one of the computationally intensive modules in the HEVC decoder which are used to reconstruct the residual block. Thus, in this paper, a unified hardware architecture is proposed to implement the HEVC DE/IT module for… More >