Jun Wang¹, Tingjuan Zhang^2,*, Yong Cheng³, Najla Al-Nabhan⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 165-182, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.017016

Abstract Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in people s life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of semantic objects of a certain class. With the rapid development of deep learning algorithms for detection tasks, the performance of object detectors has been greatly improved. In order to understand the main development status of target detection, a comprehensive literature review of target detection and an overall discussion of the works closely related to it are presented in this paper. This… More >

Lei Zhao^*, Ming Zhao

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.3, No.1, pp. 1-8, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2021.010065

Abstract Object detection has been studied for many years. The convolutional neural network has made great progress in the accuracy and speed of object detection. However, due to the low resolution of small objects and the representation of fuzzy features, one of the challenges now is how to effectively detect small objects in images. Existing target detectors for small objects: one is to use high-resolution images as input, the other is to increase the depth of the CNN network, but these two methods will undoubtedly increase the cost of calculation and time-consuming. In this paper, based on the RefineDet network framework,… More >

Sidharth Samanta¹, Mrutyunjaya Panda¹, Somula Ramasubbareddy², S. Sankar³, Daniel Burgos^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1937-1948, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014406

Abstract Earth surveillance through aerial images allows more accurate identification and characterization of objects present on the surface from space and airborne platforms. The progression of deep learning and computer vision methods and the availability of heterogeneous multispectral remote sensing data make the field more fertile for research. With the evolution of optical sensors, aerial images are becoming more precise and larger, which leads to a new kind of problem for object detection algorithms. This paper proposes the “Sliding Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN),” which is an extension of the Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) object detection framework to make… More >

Arif Iqbal^*, Abdul Basit, Imran Ali, Junaid Babar, Ihsan Ullah

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.2, pp. 299-309, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014250

Abstract Automated meter reading has recently been adopted by utility service providers for improving the reading and billing process. Images captured during meter reading are incorporated in consumer bills to prevent reporting false reading and ensure transparency. The availability of images captured during the meter reading process presents the potential of completely automating the meter reading process. This paper proposes a convolutional network-based multi-box model for the automatic meter reading. The proposed research leverages the inception model with a single shot detector to achieve high accuracy and efficiency compared to the existing state-of-the-art machine learning methods. We tested the multi-box detector… More >

Sulaiman Khan¹, Shah Nazir¹, Habib Ullah Khan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 895-915, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013878

Abstract During the last decade the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) based applications inspired the world by providing state of the art solutions to many common problems. From traffic management systems to urban cities planning and development, IoT based home monitoring systems, and many other smart applications. Regardless of these facilities, most of these IoT based solutions are data driven and results in small accuracy values for smaller datasets. In order to address this problem, this paper presents deep learning based hybrid approach for the development of an IoT-based intelligent home security and appliance control system in the smart cities.… More >

Dan Liu^1,3, Yajuan Wu¹, Yuxin He², Lu Qin², Bochuan Zheng^2,3,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 145-156, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014646

Abstract Multi-license plate detection in complex scenes is still a challenging task because of multiple vehicle license plates with different sizes and classes in the images having complex background. The edge features of high-density distribution and the high curvature features of stroke turning of Chinese character are important signs to distinguish Chinese license plate from other objects. To accurately detect multiple vehicle license plates with different sizes and classes in complex scenes, a multi-object detection of Chinese license plate method based on improved YOLOv3 network was proposed in this research. The improvements include replacing the residual block of the YOLOv3 backbone… More >

Zhiyong Dai^1,*, Jianjun Yi¹, Yajun Zhang¹, Liang He²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.5, pp. 887-903, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010122

Abstract The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has boosted smart energy networks in recent years. However, power line surveillance systems still suffer from the low accuracy and efficiency of the power line area recognition and risk objects detection. This paper proposes a new customized loss function to tackle the disequilibrium of the size of objects on multi-scale feature maps in the deep learning-based detectors. To validate the new concept and improve the efficiency, we also presented a new object detection model. Experimental results are provided to exhibit the advantage of our proposed method in both accuracy and efficiency. More >

Kashif Iqbal^1,2, Sagheer Abbas¹, Muhammad Adnan Khan^3,*, Atifa Athar⁴, Muhammad Saleem Khan¹, Areej Fatima³, Gulzar Ahmad¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1595-1612, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013231

Abstract The rapid development and progress in deep machine-learning techniques have become a key factor in solving the future challenges of humanity. Vision-based target detection and object classification have been improved due to the development of deep learning algorithms. Data fusion in autonomous driving is a fact and a prerequisite task of data preprocessing from multi-sensors that provide a precise, well-engineered, and complete detection of objects, scene or events. The target of the current study is to develop an in-vehicle information system to prevent or at least mitigate traffic issues related to parking detection and traffic congestion detection. In this study… More >

Abdul Qayyum^1,*, Iftikhar Ahmad², Mohsin Iftikhar³, Moona Mazher⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 693-702, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010103

Abstract UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) equipped with remote sensing devices can acquire spatial data with a relevant area of interest. In this paper, we have acquired UAV data for high voltage power poles, urban areas and vegetation/trees near power lines. For object classification, the proposed approach based on the fuzzy classifier is compared with the traditional minimum distance classifier and maximum likelihood classifier on our three defined segments of UAV images. The performance evaluation of all the classifiers was based on the statistics parameters which included the mean, standard deviation and PDF (probability density function) of each object present in the… More >

Ruilong Chen¹, Guangfu Zeng¹, Ke Wang², Lei Luo^1,*, Zhiping Cai¹

Journal on Internet of Things, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 55-64, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jiot.2020.09814

Abstract Smoking is the main reason for fire disaster and pollution in petrol station, construction site and warehouse. Existing solutions based on wearable devices and smoking sensors were costly and hard to obtain evidence of smoking in unmanned scenarios. With the developments of closed circuit television (CCTV) system, vision-based methods for object detection, mostly driven by deep learning techniques, were introduced recently. However, the massive GPU computing hardware required by the deep learning algorithm made these methods hard to be deployed. This paper aims at solving the smoking detection problem on edge and proposes the solution that has fast detection speed,… More >