Saif Saad Hameed, Ismail Taha Ahmed^*, Omar Munthir Al Okashi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 327-340, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031622

Abstract Biometric recognition refers to the identification of individuals through their unique behavioral features (e.g., fingerprint, face, and iris). We need distinguishing characteristics to identify people, such as fingerprints, which are world-renowned as the most reliable method to identify people. The recognition of fingerprints has become a standard procedure in forensics, and different techniques are available for this purpose. Most current techniques lack interest in image enhancement and rely on high-dimensional features to generate classification models. Therefore, we proposed an effective fingerprint classification method for classifying the fingerprint image as authentic or altered since criminals and hackers routinely change their fingerprints… More >

Fatemeh Sadeghi¹, Omid Rostami², Myung-Kyu Yi³, Seong Oun Hwang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 751-768, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031519

Abstract Real-time detection of Covid-19 has definitely been the most widely-used world-wide classification problem since the start of the pandemic from 2020 until now. In the meantime, airspace opacities spreads related to lung have been of the most challenging problems in this area. A common approach to do on that score has been using chest X-ray images to better diagnose positive Covid-19 cases. Similar to most other classification problems, machine learning-based approaches have been the first/most-used candidates in this application. Many schemes based on machine/deep learning have been proposed in recent years though increasing the performance and accuracy of the system… More >

Swaleha Zubair¹, Anjani Kumar Singha¹, Nitish Pathak², Neelam Sharma³, Shabana Urooj^4,*, Samia Rabeh Larguech⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 2005-2019, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031481

Abstract Deep learning is the process of determining parameters that reduce the cost function derived from the dataset. The optimization in neural networks at the time is known as the optimal parameters. To solve optimization, it initialize the parameters during the optimization process. There should be no variation in the cost function parameters at the global minimum. The momentum technique is a parameters optimization approach; however, it has difficulties stopping the parameter when the cost function value fulfills the global minimum (non-stop problem). Moreover, existing approaches use techniques; the learning rate is reduced during the iteration period. These techniques are monotonically… More >

Mohamed Amine Ouamri^1,2, Reem Alkanhel^3,*, Cedric Gueguen¹, Manal Abdullah Alohali⁴, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 453-467, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031450

Abstract With the rapid development of emerging 5G and beyond (B5G), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly important to improve the performance of dense cellular networks. As a conventional metric, coverage probability has been widely studied in communication systems due to the increasing density of users and complexity of the heterogeneous environment. In recent years, stochastic geometry has attracted more attention as a mathematical tool for modeling mobile network systems. In this paper, an analytical approach to the coverage probability analysis of UAV-assisted cellular networks with imperfect beam alignment has been proposed. An assumption was considered that all users are distributed… More >

Yu Fan^1,6, Jingbing Li^1,2,*, Uzair Aslam Bhatti^1,2, Chunyan Shao¹, Cheng Gong¹, Jieren Cheng^3,5, Yenwei Chen⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1279-1302, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031445

Abstract Medical images are a critical component of the diagnostic process for clinicians. Although the quality of medical photographs is essential to the accuracy of a physician’s diagnosis, they must be encrypted due to the characteristics of digital storage and information leakage associated with medical images. Traditional watermark embedding algorithm embeds the watermark information into the medical image, which reduces the quality of the medical image and affects the physicians’ judgment of patient diagnosis. In addition, watermarks in this method have weak robustness under high-intensity geometric attacks when the medical image is attacked and the watermarks are destroyed. This paper proposes… More >

Mehdi Jamei¹, Nadjem Bailek^2,*, Kada Bouchouicha³, Muhammed A. Hassan⁴, Ahmed Elbeltagi⁵, Alban Kuriqi⁶, Nadhir Al-Ansar⁷, Javier Almorox⁸, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy^9,10

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1625-1640, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031406

Abstract Solar energy represents one of the most important renewable energy sources contributing to the energy transition process. Considering that the observation of daily global solar radiation (GSR) is not affordable in some parts of the globe, there is an imperative need to develop alternative ways to predict it. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of different hybrid data-driven techniques in predicting daily GSR in semi-arid regions, such as the majority of Spanish territory. Here, four ensemble-based hybrid models were developed by hybridizing Additive Regression (AR) with Random Forest (RF), Locally Weighted Linear Regression (LWLR),… More >

Anwer Mustafa Hilal^1,2,*, Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hashim¹, Heba G. Mohamed³, Mohamed K. Nour⁴, Mashael M. Asiri⁵, Ali M. Al-Sharafi⁶, Mahmoud Othman⁷, Abdelwahed Motwakel²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 607-621, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031371

Abstract Cybersecurity-related solutions have become familiar since it ensures security and privacy against cyberattacks in this digital era. Malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) can be embedded in email or Twitter and used to lure vulnerable internet users to implement malicious data in their systems. This may result in compromised security of the systems, scams, and other such cyberattacks. These attacks hijack huge quantities of the available data, incurring heavy financial loss. At the same time, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models paved the way for designing models that can detect malicious URLs accurately and classify them. With this motivation,… More >

Iftikhar Ahmad^1,*, Ambreen Shahnaz², Muhammad Asfand-e-Yar³, Wajeeha Khalil¹, Yasmin Bano¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 279-291, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031344

Abstract The demand for cloud computing has increased manifold in the recent past. More specifically, on-demand computing has seen a rapid rise as organizations rely mostly on cloud service providers for their day-to-day computing needs. The cloud service provider fulfills different user requirements using virtualization - where a single physical machine can host multiple Virtual Machines. Each virtual machine potentially represents a different user environment such as operating system, programming environment, and applications. However, these cloud services use a large amount of electrical energy and produce greenhouse gases. To reduce the electricity cost and greenhouse gases, energy efficient algorithms must be… More >

Zakir Hussain Ahmed^1,*, Naif Al-Otaibi¹, Abdullah Al-Tameem², Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1575-1605, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031325

Abstract We study the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) which is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem (COP). The aim of the problem is to serve different customers by a convoy of vehicles starting from a depot so that sum of the routing costs under their capacity constraints is minimized. Since the problem is very complicated, solving the problem using exact methods is almost impossible. So, one has to go for the heuristic/metaheuristic methods and genetic algorithm (GA) is broadly applied metaheuristic method to obtain near optimal solution to such COPs. So, this paper studies GAs to find solution to the… More >

Jasurbek Gulomov^1,*, Oussama Accouche², Rayimjon Aliev¹, Marc AZAB², Irodakhon Gulomova¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 575-590, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031289

Abstract Today, it has become an important task to modify existing traditional silicon-based solar cell factory to produce high-efficiency silicon-based heterojunction solar cells, at a lower cost. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze CH₃NH₃PbI₃ and ZnO materials as an emitter layer for p-type silicon wafer-based heterojunction solar cells. CH₃NH₃PbI₃ and ZnO can be synthesized using the cheap Sol-Gel method and can form n-type semiconductor. We propose to combine these two materials since CH₃NH₃PbI₃ is a great light absorber and ZnO has an optimal complex refractive index which can be used as antireflection material. The photoelectric parameters of n-CH₃NH₃PbI₃/p-Si,… More >