Lingjie Zhao, Cong Li^*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.5, pp. 1363-1380, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.046918

Abstract The Miller cycle is a program that effectively reduces NO_x emissions from marine diesel engines by lowering the maximum combustion temperature in the cylinder, thereby reducing NO_x emissions. To effectively investigate the impact of Miller cycle optimum combustion performance and emission capability under high load conditions, this study will perform a one-dimensional simulation of the performance of a marine diesel engine, as well as a three-dimensional simulation of the combustion in the cylinder. A 6-cylinder four-stroke single-stage supercharged diesel engine is taken as the research object. The chassis dynamometer and other related equipment are used to build the test system,… More >

Siyuan Liu^1,*, Jinying Huang², Jiancheng Ma¹, Licheng Jing², Yuxuan Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 761-777, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049484

Abstract Recent research in cross-domain intelligence fault diagnosis of machinery still has some problems, such as relatively ideal speed conditions and sample conditions. In engineering practice, the rotational speed of the machine is often transient and time-varying, which makes the sample annotation increasingly expensive. Meanwhile, the number of samples collected from different health states is often unbalanced. To deal with the above challenges, a complementary-label (CL) adversarial domain adaptation fault diagnosis network (CLADAN) is proposed under time-varying rotational speed and weakly-supervised conditions. In the weakly supervised learning condition, machine prior information is used for sample annotation via cost-friendly complementary label learning.… More >

Yiming Tang^1,2, Jianwei Gao^1,*, Yifan Huang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1063-1088, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049341

Abstract The α-universal triple I (α-UTI) method is a recognized scheme in the field of fuzzy reasoning, which was proposed by our research group previously. The robustness of fuzzy reasoning determines the quality of reasoning algorithms to a large extent, which is quantified by calculating the disparity between the output of fuzzy reasoning with interference and the output without interference. Therefore, in this study, the interval robustness (embodied as the interval stability) of the α-UTI method is explored in the interval-valued fuzzy environment. To begin with, the stability of the α-UTI method is explored for the case of an individual rule,… More >

Chunbin Qin^*, Xiaotian Ran

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1319-1334, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048850

Abstract Traditional feature-based image stitching techniques often encounter obstacles when dealing with images lacking unique attributes or suffering from quality degradation. The scarcity of annotated datasets in real-life scenes severely undermines the reliability of supervised learning methods in image stitching. Furthermore, existing deep learning architectures designed for image stitching are often too bulky to be deployed on mobile and peripheral computing devices. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel unsupervised image stitching method based on the YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once version 8) framework that introduces deep homography networks and attention mechanisms. The methodology is partitioned into three distinct… More >

Lin Wang¹, Juan Zhao², Hu Song³, Xiaolong Xu^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1105-1135, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048688

Abstract In smart classrooms, conducting multi-face expression recognition based on existing hardware devices to assess students’ group emotions can provide educators with more comprehensive and intuitive classroom effect analysis, thereby continuously promoting the improvement of teaching quality. However, most existing multi-face expression recognition methods adopt a multi-stage approach, with an overall complex process, poor real-time performance, and insufficient generalization ability. In addition, the existing facial expression datasets are mostly single face images, which are of low quality and lack specificity, also restricting the development of this research. This paper aims to propose an end-to-end high-performance multi-face expression recognition algorithm model suitable… More >

Supeng Yu¹, Fen Huang^1,*, Chengcheng Fan^2,3,4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 549-562, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048608

Abstract Significant advancements have been achieved in road surface extraction based on high-resolution remote sensing image processing. Most current methods rely on fully supervised learning, which necessitates enormous human effort to label the image. Within this field, other research endeavors utilize weakly supervised methods. These approaches aim to reduce the expenses associated with annotation by leveraging sparsely annotated data, such as scribbles. This paper presents a novel technique called a weakly supervised network using scribble-supervised and edge-mask (WSSE-net). This network is a three-branch network architecture, whereby each branch is equipped with a distinct decoder module dedicated to road extraction tasks. One… More >

Meng Huang, Honglei Wei^*, Xianyi Zhai

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 531-547, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048510

Abstract In pursuit of cost-effective manufacturing, enterprises are increasingly adopting the practice of utilizing recycled semiconductor chips. To ensure consistent chip orientation during packaging, a circular marker on the front side is employed for pin alignment following successful functional testing. However, recycled chips often exhibit substantial surface wear, and the identification of the relatively small marker proves challenging. Moreover, the complexity of generic target detection algorithms hampers seamless deployment. Addressing these issues, this paper introduces a lightweight YOLOv8s-based network tailored for detecting markings on recycled chips, termed Van-YOLOv8. Initially, to alleviate the influence of diminutive, low-resolution markings on the precision of… More >

Jun Wang^1,2, Linxi Zhang^1,2, Hao Zhang¹, Funan Peng^1,*, Mohammed A. El-Meligy³, Mohamed Sharaf³, Qiang Fu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1281-1299, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048495

Abstract The existing algorithms for solving multi-objective optimization problems fall into three main categories: Decomposition-based, dominance-based, and indicator-based. Traditional multi-objective optimization problems mainly focus on objectives, treating decision variables as a total variable to solve the problem without considering the critical role of decision variables in objective optimization. As seen, a variety of decision variable grouping algorithms have been proposed. However, these algorithms are relatively broad for the changes of most decision variables in the evolution process and are time-consuming in the process of finding the Pareto frontier. To solve these problems, a multi-objective optimization algorithm for grouping decision variables based… More >

Hala AlShamlan^*, Halah AlMazrua^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 675-694, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048146

Abstract In this study, our aim is to address the problem of gene selection by proposing a hybrid bio-inspired evolutionary algorithm that combines Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) with Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) for feature selection. The motivation for utilizing GWO and HHO stems from their bio-inspired nature and their demonstrated success in optimization problems. We aim to leverage the strengths of these algorithms to enhance the effectiveness of feature selection in microarray-based cancer classification. We selected leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV) to evaluate the performance of both two widely used classifiers, k-nearest neighbors (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM), on high-dimensional cancer microarray… More >

Jungpil Shin^1,*, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan², Md. Maniruzzaman¹, Taiki Watanabe¹, Issei Jozume¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1205-1222, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046954

Abstract Person identification is one of the most vital tasks for network security. People are more concerned about their security due to traditional passwords becoming weaker or leaking in various attacks. In recent decades, fingerprints and faces have been widely used for person identification, which has the risk of information leakage as a result of reproducing fingers or faces by taking a snapshot. Recently, people have focused on creating an identifiable pattern, which will not be reproducible falsely by capturing psychological and behavioral information of a person using vision and sensor-based techniques. In existing studies, most of the researchers used very… More >