Hong Qian^1,2, Haixin Wang^1,*, Guangji Wang³, Qingyun Yan⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 679-698, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.043377

Abstract This study presents a proposed method for assessing the condition and predicting the future status of condensers operating in seawater over an extended period. The aim is to address the problems of scaling and corrosion, which lead to increased loss of cold resources. The method involves utilising a set of multivariate feature parameters associated with the condenser as input for evaluation and trend prediction. This methodology offers a precise means of determining the optimal timing for condenser cleaning, with the ultimate goal of improving its overall performance. The proposed approach involves the integration of the analytic network process with subjective… More >

Canghong Jin^1,*, Jiapeng Chen¹, Shuyu Wu¹, Hao Wu², Shuoping Wang¹, Jing Ying³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 873-891, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.043230

Abstract Time series data plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems. Traffic flow forecasting represents a precise estimation of future traffic flow within a specific region and time interval. Existing approaches, including sequence periodic, regression, and deep learning models, have shown promising results in short-term series forecasting. However, forecasting scenarios specifically focused on holiday traffic flow present unique challenges, such as distinct traffic patterns during vacations and the increased demand for long-term forecastings. Consequently, the effectiveness of existing methods diminishes in such scenarios. Therefore, we propose a novel long-term forecasting model based on scene matching and embedding fusion representation to… More >

Chaoji Liu¹, Xingqiao Liu^1,*, Chong Chen², Kang Zhou¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 405-440, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031040

Abstract Pose-invariant facial expression recognition (FER) is an active but challenging research topic in computer vision. Especially with the involvement of diverse observation angles, FER makes the training parameter models inconsistent from one view to another. This study develops a deep global multiple-scale and local patches attention (GMS-LPA) dual-branch network for pose-invariant FER to weaken the influence of pose variation and self-occlusion on recognition accuracy. In this research, the designed GMS-LPA network contains four main parts, i.e., the feature extraction module, the global multiple-scale (GMS) module, the local patches attention (LPA) module, and the model-level fusion model. The feature extraction module… More >

Zheng Shi, Wanru Song^*, Junhao Shan, Feng Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3467-3488, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045849

Abstract Visible-infrared Cross-modality Person Re-identification (VI-ReID) is a critical technology in smart public facilities such as cities, campuses and libraries. It aims to match pedestrians in visible light and infrared images for video surveillance, which poses a challenge in exploring cross-modal shared information accurately and efficiently. Therefore, multi-granularity feature learning methods have been applied in VI-ReID to extract potential multi-granularity semantic information related to pedestrian body structure attributes. However, existing research mainly uses traditional dual-stream fusion networks and overlooks the core of cross-modal learning networks, the fusion module. This paper introduces a novel network called the Augmented Deep Multi-Granularity Pose-Aware Feature… More >

Jun Shu^1,2, Shuai Wang^1,2, Shiqi Yu^1,2, Jie Zhang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 2677-2697, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045818

Abstract Traditional models for semantic segmentation in point clouds primarily focus on smaller scales. However, in real-world applications, point clouds often exhibit larger scales, leading to heavy computational and memory requirements. The key to handling large-scale point clouds lies in leveraging random sampling, which offers higher computational efficiency and lower memory consumption compared to other sampling methods. Nevertheless, the use of random sampling can potentially result in the loss of crucial points during the encoding stage. To address these issues, this paper proposes cross-fusion self-attention network (CFSA-Net), a lightweight and efficient network architecture specifically designed for directly processing large-scale point clouds.… More >

Chaoqian He^1,2, Runfang Hao^1,2,*, Kun Yang^1,2, Zhongyun Yuan^1,2, Shengbo Sang^1,2, Xiaorui Wang^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3423-3442, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045718

Abstract Intelligent fault diagnosis in modern mechanical equipment maintenance is increasingly adopting deep learning technology. However, conventional bearing fault diagnosis models often suffer from low accuracy and unstable performance in noisy environments due to their reliance on a single input data. Therefore, this paper proposes a dual-channel convolutional neural network (DDCNN) model that leverages dual data inputs. The DDCNN model introduces two key improvements. Firstly, one of the channels substitutes its convolution with a larger kernel, simplifying the structure while addressing the lack of global information and shallow features. Secondly, the feature layer combines data from different sensors based on their… More >

Abdul Haseeb¹, Muhammad Attique Khan^2,*, Majed Alhaisoni³, Ghadah Aldehim⁴, Leila Jamel⁴, Usman Tariq⁵, Taerang Kim⁶, Jae-Hyuk Cha⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3895-3920, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045244

Abstract Diagnosing gastrointestinal cancer by classical means is a hazardous procedure. Years have witnessed several computerized solutions for stomach disease detection and classification. However, the existing techniques faced challenges, such as irrelevant feature extraction, high similarity among different disease symptoms, and the least-important features from a single source. This paper designed a new deep learning-based architecture based on the fusion of two models, Residual blocks and Auto Encoder. First, the Hyper-Kvasir dataset was employed to evaluate the proposed work. The research selected a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) model and improved it with several residual blocks. This process aims to improve… More >

Vinay Kukreja¹, Asha Abraham², K. Kalaiselvi³, K. Deepa Thilak³, Shanmugasundaram Hariharan⁴, Shih-Yu Chen^5,6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 2899-2914, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045136

Abstract Data fusion generates fused data by combining multiple sources, resulting in information that is more consistent, accurate, and useful than any individual source and more reliable and consistent than the raw original data, which are often imperfect, inconsistent, complex, and uncertain. Traditional data fusion methods like probabilistic fusion, set-based fusion, and evidential belief reasoning fusion methods are computationally complex and require accurate classification and proper handling of raw data. Data fusion is the process of integrating multiple data sources. Data filtering means examining a dataset to exclude, rearrange, or apportion data according to the criteria. Different sensors generate a large… More >

Wen Dong¹, Ziyan Liu^1,2,*, Mo Yang¹, Ying Wu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3551-3572, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044967

Abstract Autonomous driving technology has made a lot of outstanding achievements with deep learning, and the vehicle detection and classification algorithm has become one of the critical technologies of autonomous driving systems. The vehicle instance segmentation can perform instance-level semantic parsing of vehicle information, which is more accurate and reliable than object detection. However, the existing instance segmentation algorithms still have the problems of poor mask prediction accuracy and low detection speed. Therefore, this paper proposes an advanced real-time instance segmentation model named FIR-YOLACT, which fuses the ICIoU (Improved Complete Intersection over Union) and Res2Net for the YOLACT algorithm. Specifically, the… More >

Shuqin Zhang, Xinyu Su^*, Yunfei Han, Tianhui Du, Peiyu Shi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3993-4023, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044526

Abstract Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is now the most common network assault. However, the existing threat analysis models cannot simultaneously predict the macro-development trend and micro-propagation path of APT attacks. They cannot provide rapid and accurate early warning and decision responses to the present system state because they are inadequate at deducing the risk evolution rules of network threats. To address the above problems, firstly, this paper constructs the multi-source threat element analysis ontology (MTEAO) by integrating multi-source network security knowledge bases. Subsequently, based on MTEAO, we propose a two-layer threat prediction model (TL-TPM) that combines the knowledge graph and the… More >