Wahidul Hasan Abir¹, Faria Rahman Khanam¹, Kazi Nabiul Alam¹, Myriam Hadjouni², Hela Elmannai³, Sami Bourouis⁴, Rajesh Dey⁵, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan^1,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 2151-2169, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029653 - 19 July 2022

Abstract Nowadays, deepfake is wreaking havoc on society. Deepfake content is created with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace one person’s likeness with another person in pictures or recorded videos. Although visual media manipulations are not new, the introduction of deepfakes has marked a breakthrough in creating fake media and information. These manipulated pictures and videos will undoubtedly have an enormous societal impact. Deepfake uses the latest technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) to construct automated methods for creating fake content that is becoming increasingly difficult… More >

S. Prabu, K. Joseph Abraham Sundar^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 2071-2086, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029105 - 19 July 2022

Abstract Recognizing irregular text in natural images is a challenging task in computer vision. The existing approaches still face difficulties in recognizing irregular text because of its diverse shapes. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful irregular text recognition framework based on an encoder-decoder architecture. The proposed framework is divided into four main modules. Firstly, in the image transformation module, a Thin Plate Spline (TPS) transformation is employed to transform the irregular text image into a readable text image. Secondly, we propose a novel Spatial Attention Module (SAM) to compel the model to concentrate… More >

Yang Zhang¹, Liru Qiu², Yongkai Zhu¹, Long Wen^1,*, Xiaoping Luo^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.3, pp. 873-894, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022322 - 03 August 2022

Abstract Pneumonia is part of the main diseases causing the death of children. It is generally diagnosed through chest X-ray images. With the development of Deep Learning (DL), the diagnosis of pneumonia based on DL has received extensive attention. However, due to the small difference between pneumonia and normal images, the performance of DL methods could be improved. This research proposes a new fine-grained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for children’s pneumonia diagnosis (FG-CPD). Firstly, the fine-grained CNN classification which can handle the slight difference in images is investigated. To obtain the raw images from the real-world… More >

Chao-Lung Yang¹, Yulius Harjoseputro^2,3, Yu-Chen Hu⁴, Yung-Yao Chen^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 4577-4593, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031305 - 28 July 2022

Abstract This research proposed an improved transfer-learning bird classification framework to achieve a more precise classification of Protected Indonesia Birds (PIB) which have been identified as the endangered bird species. The framework takes advantage of using the proposed sequence of Batch Normalization Dropout Fully-Connected (BNDFC) layers to enhance the baseline model of transfer learning. The main contribution of this work is the proposed sequence of BNDFC that can be applied to any Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based model to improve the classification accuracy, especially for image-based species classification problems. The experiment results show that the proposed More >

Gulzar Ahmed¹, Tahir Alyas², Muhammad Waseem Iqbal^3,*, Muhammad Usman Ashraf⁴, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi⁵, Adel A. Bahaddad⁶, Khalid Ali Almarhabi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2967-2984, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029314 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Handwritten character recognition systems are used in every field of life nowadays, including shopping malls, banks, educational institutes, etc. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, and it is the fourth spoken language in the world. However, it is still challenging to recognize Urdu handwritten characters owing to their cursive nature. Our paper presents a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) model to recognize Urdu handwritten alphabet recognition (UHAR) offline and online characters. Our research contributes an Urdu handwritten dataset (aka UHDS) to empower future works in this field. For offline systems, optical readers are used for… More >

Yue Zhang^1,3,4, Pengyu Liu^1,2,3,4,*, Xiaowei Jia⁵, Shanji Chen², Tianyu Liu^1,3,4, Chang Liu^1,3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3545-3556, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028226 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Versatile video coding (H.266/VVC), which was newly released by the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET), introduces quad-tree plus multi-type tree (QTMT) partition structure on the basis of quad-tree (QT) partition structure in High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC). More complicated coding unit (CU) partitioning processes in H.266/VVC significantly improve video compression efficiency, but greatly increase the computational complexity compared. The ultra-high encoding complexity has obstructed its real-time applications. In order to solve this problem, a CU partition algorithm using convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed in this paper to speed up the H.266/VVC CU partition process. More >

Vinay Gautam^1,*, Jyoti Rani²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 849-864, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025113 - 03 May 2022

Abstract Mango is a widely growing and consumable fruit crop. The quantity and quality of production are most important to satisfy the needs of the huge population. Numerous research has been conducted to increase the yield of the crop. But a good number of crop harvests were destroyed due to various factors and leaf stress is one of them. The various types of stresses include biotic and abiotic that impact the mangoes productivity. But here the focus is on biotic stress factors such as fungus and bacteria. The effect of the stress can be reduced in… More >

Chengfan Li^1,2, Lan Liu^3,*, Junjuan Zhao¹, Xuefeng Liu⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.1, pp. 429-444, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019202 - 24 January 2022

Abstract Target detection of small samples with a complex background is always difficult in the classification of remote sensing images. We propose a new small sample target detection method combining local features and a convolutional neural network (LF-CNN) with the aim of detecting small numbers of unevenly distributed ground object targets in remote sensing images. The k-nearest neighbor method is used to construct the local neighborhood of each point and the local neighborhoods of the features are extracted one by one from the convolution layer. All the local features are aggregated by maximum pooling to obtain global… More >

Rahul Dubey^*, Jitendra Agrawal

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.2, pp. 747-763, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020975 - 17 November 2021

Abstract Extracting the features from an image is a cumbersome task. Initially, this task was performed by domain experts through a process known as handcrafted feature design. A deep embedding technique known as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) later solved this problem by introducing the feature learning concept, through which the CNN is directly provided with images. This CNN then learns the features of the image, which are subsequently given as input to the further layers for an intended task like classification. CNNs have demonstrated astonishing performance in several practicable applications in the last few years. Nevertheless,… More >

Taher M. Ghazal^1,2, Sagheer Abbas³, Sundus Munir^3,4, M. A. Khan⁵, Munir Ahmad³, Ghassan F. Issa², Syeda Binish Zahra⁴, Muhammad Adnan Khan^6,*, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5005-5019, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020866 - 11 October 2021

Abstract Alzheimer's disease is a severe neuron disease that damages brain cells which leads to permanent loss of memory also called dementia. Many people die due to this disease every year because this is not curable but early detection of this disease can help restrain the spread. Alzheimer's is most common in elderly people in the age bracket of 65 and above. An automated system is required for early detection of disease that can detect and classify the disease into multiple Alzheimer classes. Deep learning and machine learning techniques are used to solve many medical problems More >