Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Hadil Shaiba², Radwa Marzouk³, Ahmad Alhindi⁴, Mashael M. Asiri⁵, Ishfaq Yaseen¹, Abdelwahed Motwakel¹, Mohammed Rizwanullah¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3235-3250, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029604

Abstract Environmental sustainability is the rate of renewable resource harvesting, pollution control, and non-renewable resource exhaustion. Air pollution is a significant issue confronted by the environment particularly by highly populated countries like India. Due to increased population, the number of vehicles also continues to increase. Each vehicle has its individual emission rate; however, the issue arises when the emission rate crosses the standard value and the quality of the air gets degraded. Owing to the technological advances in machine learning (ML), it is possible to develop prediction approaches to monitor and control pollution using real time data. With the development of… More >

Jeonghwan Im¹, Hyuk-Yoon Kwon^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3333-3350, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029566

Abstract The key-value store can provide flexibility of data types because it does not need to specify the data types to be stored in advance and can store any types of data as the value of the key-value pair. Various types of studies have been conducted to improve the performance of the key-value store while maintaining its flexibility. However, the research efforts storing the large-scale values such as multimedia data files (e.g., images or videos) in the key-value store were limited. In this study, we propose a new key-value store, WR-Store++ aiming to store the large-scale values stably. Specifically, it provides… More >

Bakhytzhan Kulambayev^1,*, Gulbakhram Beissenova^2,3, Nazbek Katayev⁴, Bayan Abduraimova⁵, Lyazzat Zhaidakbayeva², Alua Sarbassova⁶, Oxana Akhmetova⁷, Sapar Issayev⁴, Laura Suleimenova⁸, Syrym Kasenov⁶, Kunsulu Shadinova⁹, Abay Shyrakbaev¹⁰

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3403-3418, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029544

Abstract Timely detection and elimination of damage in areas with excessive vehicle loading can reduce the risk of road accidents. Currently, various methods of photo and video surveillance are used to monitor the condition of the road surface. The manual approach to evaluation and analysis of the received data can take a protracted period of time. Thus, it is necessary to improve the procedures for inspection and assessment of the condition of control objects with the help of computer vision and deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a model based on Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Mask R-CNN) architecture… More >

Jun Li¹, Xiang Li¹, Yifei Wei^1,*, Mei Song¹, Xiaojun Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2529-2540, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029542

Abstract Image keypoint detection and description is a popular method to find pixel-level connections between images, which is a basic and critical step in many computer vision tasks. The existing methods are far from optimal in terms of keypoint positioning accuracy and generation of robust and discriminative descriptors. This paper proposes a new end-to-end self-supervised training deep learning network. The network uses a backbone feature encoder to extract multi-level feature maps, then performs joint image keypoint detection and description in a forward pass. On the one hand, in order to enhance the localization accuracy of keypoints and restore the local shape… More >

Murtaza Ahmed Siddiqi, Wooguil Pak^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3921-3949, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029541

Abstract The network infrastructure has evolved rapidly due to the ever-increasing volume of users and data. The massive number of online devices and users has forced the network to transform and facilitate the operational necessities of consumers. Among these necessities, network security is of prime significance. Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) are among the most suitable approaches to detect anomalies and assaults on a network. However, keeping up with the network security requirements is quite challenging due to the constant mutation in attack patterns by the intruders. This paper presents an effective and prevalent framework for NIDS by merging image processing… More >

Jang Hyun Kim^1,2,3, Jisung Jang^1,3, Yonghwan Kim⁴, Dongyan Nan^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3815-3826, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029507

Abstract This study explored user satisfaction with mobile payments by applying a novel structural topic model. Specifically, we collected 17,927 online reviews of a specific mobile payment (i.e., PayPal). Then, we employed a structural topic model to investigate the relationship between the attributes extracted from online reviews and user satisfaction with mobile payment. Consequently, we discovered that “lack of reliability” and “poor customer service” tend to appear in negative reviews. Whereas, the terms “convenience,” “user-friendly interface,” “simple process,” and “secure system” tend to appear in positive reviews. On the basis of information system success theory, we categorized the topics “convenience,” “user-friendly… More >

Fadwa Alrowais¹, Saud S. Alotaibi², Sami Dhahbi^3,4, Radwa Marzouk⁵, Abdullah Mohamed⁶, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3419-3432, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029438

Abstract Sign language recognition can be considered as an effective solution for disabled people to communicate with others. It helps them in conveying the intended information using sign languages without any challenges. Recent advancements in computer vision and image processing techniques can be leveraged to detect and classify the signs used by disabled people in an effective manner. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms can be designed in a manner such that it fine tunes the hyper parameters, used in Deep Learning (DL) models as the latter considerably impacts the classification results. With this motivation, the current study designs the Optimal Deep Transfer Learning… More >

Muneerah Al Nuwairan^1,*, Zulqurnain Sabir², Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja³, Maryam Alnami¹, Hanan Almuslem¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 4441-4454, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029432

Abstract In this paper, a fractional order model based on the management of waste plastic in the ocean (FO-MWPO) is numerically investigated. The mathematical form of the FO-MWPO model is categorized into three components, waste plastic, Marine debris, and recycling. The stochastic numerical solvers using the Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation neural networks (LMQBP-NNs) have been applied to present the numerical solutions of the FO-MWPO system. The competency of the method is tested by taking three variants of the FO-MWPO model based on the fractional order derivatives. The data ratio is provided for training, testing and authorization is 77%, 12%, and 11% respectively. The… More >

Sarika R. Khope¹, Susan Elias^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2333-2350, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029423

Abstract Machine learning has proven to be one of the efficient solutions for analyzing complex data to perform identification and classification. With a large number of learning tools and techniques, the health section has significantly benefited from solving the diagnosis problems. This paper has reviewed some of the recent scientific implementations on learning-based schemes to find that existing studies of learning have mainly focused on predictive analysis with less emphasis on preprocessing and more inclination towards adopting sophisticated learning schemes that offer higher accuracy at the cost of the higher computational burden. Therefore, the proposed method addresses the concern mentioned above… More >

Haytham A. Ali^1,2,*, Hiroyuki Kudo¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3741-3756, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029394

Abstract This paper proposes a new level-set-based shape recovery approach that can be applied to a wide range of binary tomography reconstructions. In this technique, we derive generic evolution equations for shape reconstruction in terms of the underlying level-set parameters. We show that using the appropriate basis function to parameterize the level-set function results in an optimization problem with a small number of parameters, which overcomes many of the problems associated with the traditional level-set approach. More concretely, in this paper, we use Gaussian functions as a basis function placed at sparse grid points to represent the parametric level-set function and… More >