S. Prabu, K. Joseph Abraham Sundar^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 2071-2086, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029105

Abstract Recognizing irregular text in natural images is a challenging task in computer vision. The existing approaches still face difficulties in recognizing irregular text because of its diverse shapes. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful irregular text recognition framework based on an encoder-decoder architecture. The proposed framework is divided into four main modules. Firstly, in the image transformation module, a Thin Plate Spline (TPS) transformation is employed to transform the irregular text image into a readable text image. Secondly, we propose a novel Spatial Attention Module (SAM) to compel the model to concentrate on text regions and obtain… More >

Huiping Jiang^1,*, Demeng Wu¹, Xingqun Tang¹, Zhongjie Li¹, Wenbo Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2697-2712, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027856

Abstract Emotions serve various functions. The traditional emotion recognition methods are based primarily on readily accessible facial expressions, gestures, and voice signals. However, it is often challenging to ensure that these non-physical signals are valid and reliable in practical applications. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are more successful than other signal recognition methods in recognizing these characteristics in real-time since they are difficult to camouflage. Although EEG signals are commonly used in current emotional recognition research, the accuracy is low when using traditional methods. Therefore, this study presented an optimized hybrid pattern with an attention mechanism (FFT_CLA) for EEG emotional recognition. First, the… More >

Yu Xue^*, Ziming Yuan

Journal on Internet of Things, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 57-67, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jiot.2022.025327

Abstract The attention mechanism is one of the most important priori knowledge to enhance convolutional neural networks. Most attention mechanisms are bound to the convolutional layer and use local or global contextual information to recalibrate the input. This is a popular attention strategy design method. Global contextual information helps the network to consider the overall distribution, while local contextual information is more general. The contextual information makes the network pay attention to the mean or maximum value of a particular receptive field. Different from the most attention mechanism, this article proposes a novel attention mechanism with the heuristic difference attention module… More >

Yanman Li¹, Jun Zhang¹, Yang Hu¹, Yingnan Zhao^2,*, Yi Cao³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 1219-1230, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.028224

Abstract Safety helmet-wearing detection is an essential part of the intelligent monitoring system. To improve the speed and accuracy of detection, especially small targets and occluded objects, it presents a novel and efficient detector model. The underlying core algorithm of this model adopts the YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once version 5) network with the best comprehensive detection performance. It is improved by adding an attention mechanism, a CIoU (Complete Intersection Over Union) Loss function, and the Mish activation function. First, it applies the attention mechanism in the feature extraction. The network can learn the weight of each channel independently and enhance… More >

Yingnan Zhao^1,*, Peiyuan Ji¹, Fei Chen¹, Guanlan Ji¹, Sunil Kumar Jha²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 1001-1016, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.027710

Abstract This paper proposes a spatio-temporal model (VCGA) based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and attention mechanism. The proposed prediction model combines a squeeze-and-excitation network to extract spatial features and a gated recurrent unit to capture temporal dependencies. Primarily, the VMD can reduce the instability of the original wind speed data and the attention mechanism functions to strengthen the impact of important information. In addition, the VMD and attention mechanism act to avoid a decline in prediction accuracy. Finally, the VCGA trains the decomposition result and derives the final results after merging the prediction result of each component. Contrasting experiments for… More >

Wei Fang^1,2,*, Liang Shen¹, Victor S. Sheng³, Qiongying Xue¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4867-4877, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027197

Abstract Precipitation nowcasting is of great significance for severe convective weather warnings. Radar echo extrapolation is a commonly used precipitation nowcasting method. However, the traditional radar echo extrapolation methods are encountered with the dilemma of low prediction accuracy and extrapolation ambiguity. The reason is that those methods cannot retain important long-term information and fail to capture short-term motion information from the long-range data stream. In order to solve the above problems, we select the spatiotemporal long short-term memory (ST-LSTM) as the recurrent unit of the model and integrate the 3D convolution operation in it to strengthen the model's ability to capture… 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

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 IMF employs an improved convolutional… More >

Weiwei Cai^1,2, Yaping Song¹, Huan Duan¹, Zhenwei Xia¹, Zhanguo Wei^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.3, pp. 1539-1555, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019785

Abstract In the smart logistics industry, unmanned forklifts that intelligently identify logistics pallets can improve work efficiency in warehousing and transportation and are better than traditional manual forklifts driven by humans. Therefore, they play a critical role in smart warehousing, and semantics segmentation is an effective method to realize the intelligent identification of logistics pallets. However, most current recognition algorithms are ineffective due to the diverse types of pallets, their complex shapes, frequent blockades in production environments, and changing lighting conditions. This paper proposes a novel multi-feature fusion-guided multiscale bidirectional attention (MFMBA) neural network for logistics pallet segmentation. To better predict… More >

Rongrong Ni¹, Xiaofeng Liu^1,*, Yizhou Chen¹, Xu Zhou¹, Huili Cai¹, Loo Chu Kiong²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 149-164, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026813

Abstract Lonely older adults and persons restricted in movements are apt to cause negative emotions, which is harmful to their mental health. A humanoid robot with audiovisual interactions is presented, which can correspondingly output positive facial expressions to relieve human's negative facial expressions. The negative emotions are identified through an attention-enhanced facial expression recognition (FER) network. The network is firstly trained on MMEW macro-and micro-expression databases to discover expression-related features. Then, macro-expression recognition tasks are performed by fine-tuning the trained models on several benchmarking FER databases, including CK+ and Oulu-CASIA. A transformer network is introduced to process the sequential features engineered… More >

Zi Ye¹, Yogan Jaya Kumar², Goh Ong Sing², Fengyan Song³, Xianda Ni^4,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.2, pp. 1197-1215, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.023555

Abstract The determination of the probe viewpoint forms an essential step in automatic echocardiographic image analysis. However, classifying echocardiograms at the video level is complicated, and previous observations concluded that the most significant challenge lies in distinguishing among the various adjacent views. To this end, we propose an ECHO-Attention architecture consisting of two parts. We first design an ECHO-ACTION block, which efficiently encodes Spatio-temporal features, channel-wise features, and motion features. Then, we can insert this block into existing ResNet architectures, combined with a self-attention module to ensure its task-related focus, to form an effective ECHO-Attention network. The experimental results are confirmed… More >