Hamza Murad Khan¹, Shakila Basheer², Mohammad Tabrez Quasim³, Raja`a Al-Naimi⁴, Vijaykumar Varadarajan⁵, Anwar Khan^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.087222 - 23 July 2026

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Joong-Hyun Park¹, Jiho Choi², Libor Mesicek³, Hoon Ko^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084659 - 23 July 2026

Abstract With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the importance of digital identity–based security has significantly increased. However, conventional static authentication mechanisms are insufficient to effectively address various identity misuse and abuse attacks. In this study, we model digital identity as a dynamic security entity and propose an AI-based framework that integrates a risk scoring model—combining unsupervised anomaly detection with context-aware analysis—and a multi-level risk-adaptive access control mechanism (Permit, Step-Up, Restrict). Experimental results using an extended version of the CERT Insider Threat Dataset tailored for IoMT environments provide proof-of-concept evidence that the More >

Shih-Lin Lin^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084571 - 23 July 2026

Abstract Connected automated driving increasingly relies on cooperative perception from onboard sensors, roadside units (RSUs), smart traffic lights, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) links, but communication uncertainty can concentrate residual risk on vulnerable road users (VRUs). This study proposes an Ethical-Improved risk-allocation objective for edge-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) cooperative autonomous driving. The objective internalizes responsibility as a bounded risk weight, normalizes equality and maximin terms, and adds explicit VRU tail-risk and VRU/Ego ratio penalties. The evaluation is organized into two strictly separated tracks. In the planner-objective track, Ethical-Improved reduces physical collision rate, aggregate harm, inequality, and VRU More >

Yixiang Wan, Wenqiu Zhu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084474 - 23 July 2026

Abstract Addressing the two critical challenges of missed detection of distant small targets and difficulty in identifying occluded targets under complex road conditions, this paper proposes YOLO-PBE, an improved high-precision vehicle detection model based on YOLOv11n. First, to tackle the fine-grained feature loss caused by conventional strided convolutions during downsampling, we add a high-resolution P2 detection layer and introduce SPD-Conv, a lossless spatial-to-depth feature transformation technique, for feature extraction. By preserving complete pixel-level information, the model's perception accuracy for distant small vehicles is enhanced. For feature fusion, we design an improved BiFPN incorporating a Ghost module.… More >

Saeed Ullah¹, Junsheng Wu^1,*, Mian Muhammad Kamal^2,*, Mohammed K. Alzaylaee³, Heba G. Mohamed^4,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084409 - 23 July 2026

Abstract The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has introduced unprecedented security challenges, necessitating efficient intrusion detection systems (IDS) capable of operating under severe resource constraints. This research presents a hardware-informed empirical study of quantized neural-network-based intrusion detection for resource-constrained IoT platforms, using an ARM Cortex-M4 deployment target as a reference. We evaluate FP32, FP16, and INT8 TensorFlow Lite model variants derived from a lightweight 1D-CNN and assess their trade-offs in clean-data accuracy, model size, estimated inference latency, estimated energy consumption, and adversarial robustness. INT8-quantized model achieves 99.10% accuracy on clean data while maintaining 97.50%… More >

Amit Pimpalkar^1,*, Kapil N. Vhatkar², Rachna K. Somkunwar³, Shweta Koparde⁴, Dalia H. Elkamchouchi⁵, Ateeq Ur Rehman^6,*, Pooja Verma⁷, Salil Bharany⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084384 - 23 July 2026

Abstract Plants are fundamental to global food security; however, plant diseases significantly reduce agricultural productivity, making early and accurate detection essential. Traditional inspection approaches rely heavily on manual observation, which is labor-intensive, subjective, difficult to scale, and susceptible to human error. In contrast, artificial intelligence (AI) combined with computer vision (CV) offers an effective solution for early-stage disease detection, minimizing yield losses while overcoming the limitations of manual monitoring systems. In this study, a novel deep learning architecture, the Swin Transformer with Harmonic Densely Connected Network (STHarDNet), is proposed. The framework integrates a Swin Transformer (ST)… More >

Xing Fang¹, Yuanfang Chen^1,2,*, Qiang Lin³, Kun Yang^2,4, Gyu Myoung Lee⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.084208 - 23 July 2026

Abstract The deployment of supervised anomaly detection is typically limited by the high cost of annotation, privacy constraints, and the scarcity of anomalous samples. These constraints have motivated the use of vision-language pre-trained models for zero-shot anomaly detection. However, existing CLIP-based methods still face three limitations: a shared set of prompts is applied across feature layers, anomaly maps are fused by fixed strategies, and image-level anomaly scores are determined solely by global image-text similarity. These limitations reduce the accuracy of pixel-level localization and weaken the reliability of image-level anomaly prediction. To overcome these limitations, LaRP-CLIP is More >

Phil Steadman^*, Paul Jenkins, Rajkumar Singh Rathore^*, Chaminda Hewage

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.083998 - 23 July 2026

Abstract Modern malware is increasingly employing polymorphism, packing, and metamorphism to evade traditional signature-based detection. Because of this, there is an urgency to have more reliable classification systems. Visual malware analysis, where binaries are converted into grayscale images, has demonstrated potential in revealing structural patterns of malware family classification. However, recent methods mostly rely on single-stream, lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). These models have a major blind spot. The visual representation textures can be heavily obscured without changing the underlying malicious code, causing severe performance drops on newer or even rare malware classes. This paper presents… More >

Tianqi Wang, Yang Li, Zhisong Pan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.083923 - 23 July 2026

Abstract Existing knowledge distillation methods for object detection struggle to bridge the teacher-student capacity gap and overlook the inherent differences between classification and regression subtasks. To address these issues, we propose a Bridging Multi-dimensional Gaps Knowledge Distillation (BMGKD) method, which comprises two core modules: a feature difference distillation module and a response difference distillation module. The feature difference distillation module achieves global feature structural alignment via improved centered kernel alignment and performs local key feature alignment using joint spatial and channel-wise cosine similarity masks. The response difference distillation module constructs a dynamic classification mask and a… More >

Amir Ijaz^*, Hashem Haghbayan, Abdul Malik, Ethiopia Nigussie, Juha Plosila

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.083797 - 23 July 2026

Abstract The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to an urgent need for highly energy-efficient communication strategies, especially for battery-powered or self-sustaining devices. In this work, we present a comprehensive framework for minimizing communication energy in IoT nodes operating in swarm robotic systems. We examine and integrate multiple low-power wireless technologies (BLE, LoRaWAN, MQTT, CoAP) with advanced Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. We additionally propose adaptive scenarios leveraging both ambient energy harvesting and passive backscatter transmission. Our solution employs adaptive scheduling and dynamic transmission power management. Specifically, a Deep Q-Learning (DQL) agent More >