Hefei Ling¹, Jia Wu¹, Ping Li^1,*, Jialie Shen²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1041-1054, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05605

Abstract Gait recognition is a complicated task due to the existence of co-factors like carrying conditions, clothing, viewpoints, and surfaces which change the appearance of gait more or less. Among those co-factors, clothing analysis is the most challenging one in the area. Conventional methods which are proposed for clothing invariant gait recognition show the body parts and the underlying relationships from them are important for gait recognition. Fortunately, attention mechanism shows dramatic performance for highlighting discriminative regions. Meanwhile, latent semantic analysis is known for the ability of capturing latent semantic variables to represent the underlying attributes and capturing the relationships from… More >

Aziguli Wulam^1,2, Yingshuai Wang^1,2, Dezheng Zhang^1,2,*, Jingyue Sang³, Alan Yang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1003-1013, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.07704

Abstract In recent years, the models combining traditional machine learning with the deep learning are applied in many commodity recommendation practices. It has been proved better performance by the means of the neural network. Feature engineering has been the key to the success of many click rate estimation model. As we know, neural networks are able to extract high-order features automatically, and traditional linear models are able to extract low-order features. However, they are not necessarily efficient in learning all types of features. In traditional machine learning, gradient boosting decision tree is a typical representative of the tree model, which can… More >

Feng Xu¹, Xuefen Zhang^2,*, Zhanhong Xin¹, Alan Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 697-709, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05375

Abstract Nowadays, the amount of wed data is increasing at a rapid speed, which presents a serious challenge to the web monitoring. Text sentiment analysis, an important research topic in the area of natural language processing, is a crucial task in the web monitoring area. The accuracy of traditional text sentiment analysis methods might be degraded in dealing with mass data. Deep learning is a hot research topic of the artificial intelligence in the recent years. By now, several research groups have studied the sentiment analysis of English texts using deep learning methods. In contrary, relatively few works have so far… More >

Yecai Guo^1,2,*, Chen Li^1,2, Qi Liu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 829-843, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03729

Abstract Visual degradation of captured images caused by rainy streaks under rainy weather can adversely affect the performance of many open-air vision systems. Hence, it is necessary to address the problem of eliminating rain streaks from the individual rainy image. In this work, a deep convolution neural network (CNN) based method is introduced, called Rain-Removal Net (R²N), to solve the single image de-raining issue. Firstly, we decomposed the rainy image into its high-frequency detail layer and low-frequency base layer. Then, we used the high-frequency detail layer to input the carefully designed CNN architecture to learn the mapping between it and its… More >

Min Long^1,2,*, Yan Zeng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 493-504, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04378

Abstract Aim to countermeasure the presentation attack for iris recognition system, an iris liveness detection scheme based on batch normalized convolutional neural network (BNCNN) is proposed to improve the reliability of the iris authentication system. The BNCNN architecture with eighteen layers is constructed to detect the genuine iris and fake iris, including convolutional layer, batch-normalized (BN) layer, Relu layer, pooling layer and full connected layer. The iris image is first preprocessed by iris segmentation and is normalized to 256×256 pixels, and then the iris features are extracted by BNCNN. With these features, the genuine iris and fake iris are determined by… More >

Guodong Zhao¹, Yuewei Zhang¹, Yiqi Shi², Haiyan Lan^1,*, Qing Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 421-436, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03782

Abstract Climate change is the main factor affecting the country’s vulnerability, meanwhile, it is also a complicated and nonlinear dynamic system. In order to solve this complex problem, this paper first uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and natural breakpoint method (NBM) to implement an AHP-NBM comprehensive evaluation model to assess the national vulnerability. By using ArcGIS, national vulnerability scores are classified and the country’s vulnerability is divided into three levels: fragile, vulnerable, and stable. Then, a BP neural network prediction model which is based on multivariate linear regression is used to predict the critical point of vulnerability. The function of… More >

Ma Ning^1,*, Jianhe Guan¹, Pingzeng Liu², Ziqing Zhang³, Gregory M. P. O’Hare⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 215-227, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03763

Abstract With the rapid development of China’s economy, the scale of the city has been continuously expanding, industrial enterprises have been increasing, the discharge of multiple pollutants has reached the top of the world, and the environmental problems become more and more serious. The air pollution problem is particularly prominent. Air quality has become a daily concern for people. In order to control air pollution, it is necessary to grasp the air quality situation in an all-round way. It is necessary to evaluate air quality. Accurate results of air quality evaluation can help people know more about air quality. In this… More >

Nianbin Wang¹, Ming He^1,2, Jianguo Sun^1,*, Hongbin Wang¹, Lianke Zhou¹, Ci Chu¹, Lei Chen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 169-181, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03709

Abstract Underwater target recognition is a key technology for underwater acoustic countermeasure. How to classify and recognize underwater targets according to the noise information of underwater targets has been a hot topic in the field of underwater acoustic signals. In this paper, the deep learning model is applied to underwater target recognition. Improved anti-noise Power-Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (ia-PNCC) is proposed, based on PNCC applied to underwater noises. Multitaper and normalized Gammatone filter banks are applied to improve the anti-noise capacity. The method is combined with a convolutional neural network in order to recognize the underwater target. Experiment results show that the… More >

Yuhong Zhang^1,*, Qinqin Wang¹, Yuling Li¹, Xindong Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 285-297, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02604

Abstract Recently, the effectiveness of neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, has been validated in the field of natural language processing, in which, sentiment classification for online reviews is an important and challenging task. Existing convolutional neural networks extract important features of sentences without local features or the feature sequence. Thus, these models do not perform well, especially for transition sentences. To this end, we propose a Piecewise Pooling Convolutional Neural Network (PPCNN) for sentiment classification. Firstly, with a sentence presented by word vectors, convolution operation is introduced to obtain the convolution feature map vectors. Secondly, these vectors are segmented according… More >

Daojian Zeng^1,3, Yuan Dai^1,3, Feng Li^1,3, R. Simon Sherratt², Jin Wang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 121-136, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.121

Abstract Recently, many researchers have concentrated on using neural networks to learn features for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction (DSRE). These approaches generally use a softmax classifier with cross-entropy loss, which inevitably brings the noise of artificial class NA into classification process. To address the shortcoming, the classifier with ranking loss is employed to DSRE. Uniformly randomly selecting a relation or heuristically selecting the highest score among all incorrect relations are two common methods for generating a negative class in the ranking loss function. However, the majority of the generated negative class can be easily discriminated from positive class and will contribute… More >