Badriyya B. Al-onazi¹, Mohamed K. Nour², Hussain Alshahran³, Mohamed Ahmed Elfaki³, Mrim M. Alnfiai⁴, Radwa Marzouk⁵, Mahmoud Othman⁶, Mahir M. Sharif⁷, Abdelwahed Motwakel^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3413-3429, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035303 - 31 March 2023

Abstract Sign language includes the motion of the arms and hands to communicate with people with hearing disabilities. Several models have been available in the literature for sign language detection and classification for enhanced outcomes. But the latest advancements in computer vision enable us to perform signs/gesture recognition using deep neural networks. This paper introduces an Arabic Sign Language Gesture Classification using Deer Hunting Optimization with Machine Learning (ASLGC-DHOML) model. The presented ASLGC-DHOML technique mainly concentrates on recognising and classifying sign language gestures. The presented ASLGC-DHOML model primarily pre-processes the input gesture images and generates feature More >

Mrityunjoy Gain¹, Md Arifur Rahman¹, Rameswar Debnath¹, Mrim M. Alnfiai², Abdullah Sheikh³, Mehedi Masud³, Anupam Kumar Bairagi^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 1059-1077, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034809 - 20 January 2023

Abstract Colorization is the practice of adding appropriate chromatic values to monochrome photographs or videos. A real-valued luminance image can be mapped to a three-dimensional color image. However, it is a severely ill-defined problem and not has a single solution. In this paper, an encoder-decoder Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model is used for colorizing gray images where the encoder is a Densely Connected Convolutional Network (DenseNet) and the decoder is a conventional CNN. The DenseNet extracts image features from gray images and the conventional CNN outputs a * b * color channels. Due to a large number of desaturated… More >

R. Nandakumar¹, P. Saranya^2,*, Vijayakumar Ponnusamy³, Subhashree Hazra², Antara Gupta²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 279-292, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.028703 - 16 August 2022

Abstract A prevalent diabetic complication is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), which can damage the retina’s veins, leading to a severe loss of vision. If treated in the early stage, it can help to prevent vision loss. But since its diagnosis takes time and there is a shortage of ophthalmologists, patients suffer vision loss even before diagnosis. Hence, early detection of DR is the necessity of the time. The primary purpose of the work is to apply the data fusion/feature fusion technique, which combines more than one relevant feature to predict diabetic retinopathy at an early stage with… More >

Waleed Albattah, Saleh Albahli^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 531-544, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.021548 - 16 August 2022

Abstract The world of information technology is more than ever being flooded with huge amounts of data, nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes every day. This large stream of data is called big data, and the amount is increasing each day. This research uses a technique called sampling, which selects a representative subset of the data points, manipulates and analyzes this subset to identify patterns and trends in the larger dataset being examined, and finally, creates models. Sampling uses a small proportion of the original data for analysis and model training, so that it is relatively faster while… More >

Md. Saiful Islam, Shuvo Jyoti Das, Md. Riajul Alam Khan, Sifat Momen^*, Nabeel Mohammed

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 519-534, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025282 - 01 June 2022

Abstract COVID-19 has created a panic all around the globe. It is a contagious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), originated from Wuhan in December 2019 and spread quickly all over the world. The healthcare sector of the world is facing great challenges tackling COVID cases. One of the problems many have witnessed is the misdiagnosis of COVID-19 cases with that of healthy and pneumonia cases. In this article, we propose a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based approach to detect COVID+ (i.e., patients with COVID-19), pneumonia and normal cases, from the… More >

Wei Chen¹, Caoyang Chen^1,*, Mi Liu¹, Xuhong Zhou², Haozhi Tan³, Mingliang Zhang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 767-782, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028571 - 18 May 2022

Abstract The present paper proposes a detection method for building exterior wall cracks since manual detection methods have high risk and low efficiency. The proposed method is based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technology. First, a crack dataset of 1920 images was established using UAV to collect the images of a residential building exterior wall under different lighting conditions. Second, the average crack detection precisions of different methods including the Single Shot MultiBox Detector, You Only Look Once v3, You Only Look Once v4, Faster Regional Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) and Mask R-CNN… More >

Muhammad Irfan¹, Ali Raza^2,*, Faisal Althobiani³, Nasir Ayub^4,5, Muhammad Idrees⁶, Zain Ali⁷, Kashif Rizwan⁴, Abdullah Saeed Alwadie¹, Saleh Mohammed Ghonaim³, Hesham Abdushkour³, Saifur Rahman¹, Omar Alshorman¹, Samar Alqhtani⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4249-4265, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025863 - 21 April 2022

Abstract In the Smart Grid (SG) residential environment, consumers change their power consumption routine according to the price and incentives announced by the utility, which causes the prices to deviate from the initial pattern. Thereby, electricity demand and price forecasting play a significant role and can help in terms of reliability and sustainability. Due to the massive amount of data, big data analytics for forecasting becomes a hot topic in the SG domain. In this paper, the changing and non-linearity of consumer consumption pattern complex data is taken as input. To minimize the computational cost and… More >

Yingnan Zhao^1,*, Guanlan Ji¹, Fei Chen¹, Peiyuan Ji¹, Yi Cao²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.2, pp. 719-735, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.027288 - 20 April 2022

Abstract Improving short-term wind speed prediction accuracy and stability remains a challenge for wind forecasting researchers. This paper proposes a new variational mode decomposition (VMD)-attention-based spatio-temporal network (VASTN) method that takes advantage of both temporal and spatial correlations of wind speed. First, VASTN is a hybrid wind speed prediction model that combines VMD, squeeze-and-excitation network (SENet), and attention mechanism (AM)-based bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). VASTN initially employs VMD to decompose the wind speed matrix into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMF). Then, to extract the spatial features at the bottom of the model, each More >

S. Deivanayagi^1,*, P. S. Periasamy²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 639-653, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025632 - 15 April 2022

Abstract Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a major reason for increased mortality over the globe, comprising myocardial infarction and ischemic cardiomyopathy. The CAD is highly linked to coronary stenosis owing to the encumbrance of atherosclerotic plaques. Particularly, diversified atherosclerotic plaques are highly responsible for major cardiac adverse events over the calcified and non-calcified plaques. There, the recognition and classification of atherosclerotic plaques play a vital role to prevent and intervene in CAD. The process of detecting various class labels of the atherosclerotic plaques is significant to identify the disease at the earlier stages. Since several automated… More >

Batyrkhan Omarov^1,2,3,4,*, Sergazy Narynov¹, Zhandos Zhumanov^1,2, Aidana Gumar^1,5, Mariyam Khassanova^1,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 315-331, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024566 - 24 February 2022

Abstract In this paper, we propose a skeleton-based method to identify violence and aggressive behavior. The approach does not necessitate high-processing equipment and it can be quickly implemented. Our approach consists of two phases: feature extraction from image sequences to assess a human posture, followed by activity classification applying a neural network to identify whether the frames include aggressive situations and violence. A video violence dataset of 400 min comprising a single person's activities and 20 h of video data including physical violence and aggressive acts, and 13 classifications for distinguishing aggressor and victim behavior were More >