Thanh Bui-Minh¹, Nguyen Long Giang¹, Luan Thanh Le^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 1203-1226, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064403 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Image-based similar trademark retrieval is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task in the trademark examination process. This paper aims to support trademark examiners by training Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) models for effective Trademark Image Retrieval (TIR). To achieve this goal, we first develop a novel labeling method that automatically generates hundreds of thousands of labeled similar and dissimilar trademark image pairs using accompanying data fields such as citation lists, Vienna classification (VC) codes, and trademark ownership information. This approach eliminates the need for manual labeling and provides a large-scale dataset suitable for training deep learning… More >

Rajendran Thanikachalam¹, Anandhavalli Muniasamy², Ashwag Alasmari³, Rajendran Thavasimuthu^4,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.143, No.2, pp. 1971-2000, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.063063 - 30 May 2025

Abstract Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) and image mining are becoming more important study fields in computer vision due to their wide range of applications in healthcare, security, and various domains. The image retrieval system mainly relies on the efficiency and accuracy of the classification models. This research addresses the challenge of enhancing the image retrieval system by developing a novel approach, EfficientNet-Convolutional Neural Network (EffNet-CNN). The key objective of this research is to evaluate the proposed EffNet-CNN model’s performance in image classification, image mining, and CBIR. The novelty of the proposed EffNet-CNN model includes the integration… More >

Omar Alqahtani, Mohamed Ghouse^*, Asfia Sabahath, Omer Bin Hussain, Arshiya Begum

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2221-2244, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061977 - 16 April 2025

Abstract This paper introduces a novel method for medical image retrieval and classification by integrating a multi-scale encoding mechanism with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures and a dynamic multi-loss function. The multi-scale encoding significantly enhances the model’s ability to capture both fine-grained and global features, while the dynamic loss function adapts during training to optimize classification accuracy and retrieval performance. Our approach was evaluated on the ISIC-2018 and ChestX-ray14 datasets, yielding notable improvements. Specifically, on the ISIC-2018 dataset, our method achieves an F1-Score improvement of +4.84% compared to the standard ViT, with a precision increase of +5.46% More >

Linh Nguyen Thi My^1,2,*, Viet-Tuan Le³, Tham Vo¹, Vinh Truong Hoang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 3693-3740, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.060793 - 06 March 2025

Abstract Pill image recognition is an important field in computer vision. It has become a vital technology in healthcare and pharmaceuticals due to the necessity for precise medication identification to prevent errors and ensure patient safety. This survey examines the current state of pill image recognition, focusing on advancements, methodologies, and the challenges that remain unresolved. It provides a comprehensive overview of traditional image processing-based, machine learning-based, deep learning-based, and hybrid-based methods, and aims to explore the ongoing difficulties in the field. We summarize and classify the methods used in each article, compare the strengths and More >

Shaozheng Zhang, Qiuyu Zhang^*, Jiahui Tang, Ruihua Xu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.2, pp. 2137-2158, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057269 - 17 February 2025

Abstract Medical institutions frequently utilize cloud servers for storing digital medical imaging data, aiming to lower both storage expenses and computational expenses. Nevertheless, the reliability of cloud servers as third-party providers is not always guaranteed. To safeguard against the exposure and misuse of personal privacy information, and achieve secure and efficient retrieval, a secure medical image retrieval based on a multi-attention mechanism and triplet deep hashing is proposed in this paper (abbreviated as MATDH). Specifically, this method first utilizes the contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization method applicable to color images to enhance chest X-ray images. Next, a… More >

Ameerah Abdullah Alshahrani^*, Emad Sami Jaha, Nahed Alowidi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3489-3509, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044490 - 26 December 2023

Abstract The utilization of digital picture search and retrieval has grown substantially in numerous fields for different purposes during the last decade, owing to the continuing advances in image processing and computer vision approaches. In multiple real-life applications, for example, social media, content-based face picture retrieval is a well-invested technique for large-scale databases, where there is a significant necessity for reliable retrieval capabilities enabling quick search in a vast number of pictures. Humans widely employ faces for recognizing and identifying people. Thus, face recognition through formal or personal pictures is increasingly used in various real-life applications,… More >

Jiaao Cui¹, Sixian Chan^1,2,*, Pan Mu¹, Tinglong Tang², Xiaolong Zhou³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2263-2277, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039894 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Cross-modality pedestrian re-identification has important applications in the field of surveillance. Due to variations in posture, camera perspective, and camera modality, some salient pedestrian features are difficult to provide effective retrieval cues. Therefore, it becomes a challenge to design an effective strategy to extract more discriminative pedestrian detail. Although many effective methods for detailed feature extraction are proposed, there are still some shortcomings in filtering background and modality noise. To further purify the features, a pure detail feature extraction network (PDFENet) is proposed for VI-ReID. PDFENet includes three modules, adaptive detail mask generation module (ADMG),… More >

Ali Ahmed^1,*, Alaa Omran Almagrabi², Omar M. Barukab³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2355-2370, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039847 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features. There are many applications of CBMIR, such as teaching, research, diagnosis and electronic patient records. Several methods are applied to enhance the retrieval performance of CBMIR systems. Developing new and effective similarity measure and features fusion methods are two of the most powerful and effective strategies for improving these systems. This study proposes the relative difference-based similarity measure (RDBSM) for CBMIR. The new measure was first used in the similarity calculation stage for the CBMIR using an More >

Zhen Wang, Qiu-yu Zhang^*, Ling-tao Meng, Yi-lin Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 6161-6184, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037134 - 29 April 2023

Abstract To solve the problem that the existing ciphertext domain image retrieval system is challenging to balance security, retrieval efficiency, and retrieval accuracy. This research suggests a searchable encryption and deep hashing-based secure image retrieval technique that extracts more expressive image features and constructs a secure, searchable encryption scheme. First, a deep learning framework based on residual network and transfer learning model is designed to extract more representative image deep features. Secondly, the central similarity is used to quantify and construct the deep hash sequence of features. The Paillier homomorphic encryption encrypts the deep hash sequence… More >

Vidit Kumar^1,*, Hemant Petwal², Ajay Krishan Gairola¹, Pareshwar Prasad Barmola¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 2711-2724, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032047 - 03 April 2023

Abstract Fine-grained image search is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision that aims to retrieve similar images at the fine-grained level for a given query image. The key objective is to learn discriminative fine-grained features by training deep models such that similar images are clustered, and dissimilar images are separated in the low embedding space. Previous works primarily focused on defining local structure loss functions like triplet loss, pairwise loss, etc. However, training via these approaches takes a long training time, and they have poor accuracy. Additionally, representations learned through it tend to… More >