Tianmin Deng^*, Xiyue Zhang, Xinxin Cheng

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 533-549, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044639

Abstract Vehicle detection plays a crucial role in the field of autonomous driving technology. However, directly applying deep learning-based object detection algorithms to complex road scene images often leads to subpar performance and slow inference speeds in vehicle detection. Achieving a balance between accuracy and detection speed is crucial for real-time object detection in real-world road scenes. This paper proposes a high-precision and fast vehicle detector called the feature-guided bidirectional pyramid network (FBPN). Firstly, to tackle challenges like vehicle occlusion and significant background interference, the efficient feature filtering module (EFFM) is introduced into the deep network, which amplifies the disparities between… More >

Jinxian Bai, Yao Fan^*, Zhiwei Zhao, Lizhi Zheng

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 999-1025, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044612

Abstract Recently, deep learning-based image inpainting methods have made great strides in reconstructing damaged regions. However, these methods often struggle to produce satisfactory results when dealing with missing images with large holes, leading to distortions in the structure and blurring of textures. To address these problems, we combine the advantages of transformers and convolutions to propose an image inpainting method that incorporates edge priors and attention mechanisms. The proposed method aims to improve the results of inpainting large holes in images by enhancing the accuracy of structure restoration and the ability to recover texture details. This method divides the inpainting task… More >

Lujuan Deng, Boyi Liu^*, Zuhe Li

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 1157-1170, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042150

Abstract Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to understand people’s emotions and opinions from diverse data. Concatenating or multiplying various modalities is a traditional multi-modal sentiment analysis fusion method. This fusion method does not utilize the correlation information between modalities. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a model based on a multi-head attention mechanism. First, after preprocessing the original data. Then, the feature representation is converted into a sequence of word vectors and positional encoding is introduced to better understand the semantic and sequential information in the input sequence. Next, the input coding sequence is fed into the transformer model for further… More >

Jinhai Wang¹, Wei Wang¹, Zongyin Zhang¹, Xuemin Lin¹, Jingxian Zhao¹, Mingyou Chen¹, Lufeng Luo^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 759-780, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041600

Abstract As computer technology continues to advance, factories have increasingly higher demands for detecting defects. However, detecting defects in a plant environment remains a challenging task due to the presence of complex backgrounds and defects of varying shapes and sizes. To address this issue, this paper proposes YOLO-DD, a defect detection model based on YOLOv5 that is effective and robust. To improve the feature extraction process and better capture global information, the vanilla YOLOv5 is augmented with a new module called Relative-Distance-Aware Transformer (RDAT). Additionally, an Information Gap Filling Strategy (IGFS) is proposed to improve the fusion of features at different… More >

Cheng Zhao¹, Zhe Peng², Xuefeng Lan³, Yuefeng Cen⁴, Zuxin Wang^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 1503-1523, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.039232

Abstract The present study examines the impact of short-term public opinion sentiment on the secondary market, with a focus on the potential for such sentiment to cause dramatic stock price fluctuations and increase investment risk. The quantification of investment sentiment indicators and the persistent analysis of their impact has been a complex and significant area of research. In this paper, a structured multi-head attention stock index prediction method based adaptive public opinion sentiment vector is proposed. The proposed method utilizes an innovative approach to transform numerous investor comments on social platforms over time into public opinion sentiment vectors expressing complex sentiments.… More >

Fan Xiao¹, Xiong Ping¹, Yeyang Li^2,*, Yusen Xu², Yiqun Kang¹, Dan Liu¹, Nianming Zhang¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.2, pp. 359-376, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.040887

Abstract The fluctuation of wind power affects the operating safety and power consumption of the electric power grid and restricts the grid connection of wind power on a large scale. Therefore, wind power forecasting plays a key role in improving the safety and economic benefits of the power grid. This paper proposes a wind power predicting method based on a convolutional graph attention deep neural network with multi-wind farm data. Based on the graph attention network and attention mechanism, the method extracts spatial-temporal characteristics from the data of multiple wind farms. Then, combined with a deep neural network, a convolutional graph… More >

Weisi Chen^1,*, Walayat Hussain^2,*, Francesco Cauteruccio³, Xu Zhang¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 187-224, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031388

Abstract Financial time series prediction, whether for classification or regression, has been a heated research topic over the last decade. While traditional machine learning algorithms have experienced mediocre results, deep learning has largely contributed to the elevation of the prediction performance. Currently, the most up-to-date review of advanced machine learning techniques for financial time series prediction is still lacking, making it challenging for finance domain experts and relevant practitioners to determine which model potentially performs better, what techniques and components are involved, and how the model can be designed and implemented. This review article provides an overview of techniques, components and… More > Graphic Abstract

Chaoji Liu¹, Xingqiao Liu^1,*, Chong Chen², Kang Zhou¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 405-440, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031040

Abstract Pose-invariant facial expression recognition (FER) is an active but challenging research topic in computer vision. Especially with the involvement of diverse observation angles, FER makes the training parameter models inconsistent from one view to another. This study develops a deep global multiple-scale and local patches attention (GMS-LPA) dual-branch network for pose-invariant FER to weaken the influence of pose variation and self-occlusion on recognition accuracy. In this research, the designed GMS-LPA network contains four main parts, i.e., the feature extraction module, the global multiple-scale (GMS) module, the local patches attention (LPA) module, and the model-level fusion model. The feature extraction module… More >

Ning Li^*, Shucai Huang, Daozhi Wei

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3511-3531, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045987

Abstract This paper proposes a real-time detection method to improve the Infrared small target detection CenterNet (ISTD-CenterNet) network for detecting small infrared targets in complex environments. The method eliminates the need for an anchor frame, addressing the issues of low accuracy and slow speed. HRNet is used as the framework for feature extraction, and an ECBAM attention module is added to each stage branch for intelligent identification of the positions of small targets and significant objects. A scale enhancement module is also added to obtain a high-level semantic representation and fine-resolution prediction map for the entire infrared image. Besides, an improved… More >

Jun Shu^1,2, Shuai Wang^1,2, Shiqi Yu^1,2, Jie Zhang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 2677-2697, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045818

Abstract Traditional models for semantic segmentation in point clouds primarily focus on smaller scales. However, in real-world applications, point clouds often exhibit larger scales, leading to heavy computational and memory requirements. The key to handling large-scale point clouds lies in leveraging random sampling, which offers higher computational efficiency and lower memory consumption compared to other sampling methods. Nevertheless, the use of random sampling can potentially result in the loss of crucial points during the encoding stage. To address these issues, this paper proposes cross-fusion self-attention network (CFSA-Net), a lightweight and efficient network architecture specifically designed for directly processing large-scale point clouds.… More >