Yao-Tien Chen¹, Nisar Ahmad^1,*, Khursheed Aurangzeb²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.1, pp. 1197-1224, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.066580 - 31 July 2025

Abstract Accurate and efficient brain tumor segmentation is essential for early diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical decision-making. However, the complex structure of brain anatomy and the heterogeneous nature of tumors present significant challenges for precise anomaly detection. While U-Net-based architectures have demonstrated strong performance in medical image segmentation, there remains room for improvement in feature extraction and localization accuracy. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid model designed to enhance 3D brain tumor segmentation. The architecture incorporates a 3D ResNet encoder known for mitigating the vanishing gradient problem and a 3D U-Net decoder. Additionally, to… More > Graphic Abstract

Haiyan Chen^*, Rong Li

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.3, pp. 5693-5712, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065339 - 30 July 2025

Abstract The detection of Ochotona Curzoniae serves as a fundamental component for estimating the population size of this species and for analyzing the dynamics of its population fluctuations. In natural environments, the pixels representing Ochotona Curzoniae constitute a small fraction of the total pixels, and their distinguishing features are often subtle, complicating the target detection process. To effectively extract the characteristics of these small targets, a feature fusion approach that utilizes up-sampling and channel integration from various layers within a CNN can significantly enhance the representation of target features, ultimately improving detection accuracy. However, the top-down… More >

Zongzhe Xu, Ming Yu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 2805-2826, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066244 - 03 July 2025

Abstract As the group-buying model shows significant progress in attracting new users, enhancing user engagement, and increasing platform profitability, providing personalized recommendations for group-buying users has emerged as a new challenge in the field of recommendation systems. This paper introduces a group-buying recommendation model based on multi-head attention mechanisms and multi-task learning, termed the Multi-head Attention Mechanisms and Multi-task Learning Group-Buying Recommendation (MAMGBR) model, specifically designed to optimize group-buying recommendations on e-commerce platforms. The core dataset of this study comes from the Chinese maternal and infant e-commerce platform “Beibei,” encompassing approximately 430,000 successful group-buying actions and… More >

Zhunruo Feng¹, Ruomeng Shi², Yuhan Jiang³, Yiming Han¹, Zeyang Ma¹, Yuheng Ren^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3559-3575, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065152 - 03 July 2025

Abstract In this study, we propose Space-to-Depth and You Only Look Once Version 7 (SPD-YOLOv7), an accurate and efficient method for detecting pests in maize crops, addressing challenges such as small pest sizes, blurred images, low resolution, and significant species variation across different growth stages. To improve the model’s ability to generalize and its robustness, we incorporate target background analysis, data augmentation, and processing techniques like Gaussian noise and brightness adjustment. In target detection, increasing the depth of the neural network can lead to the loss of small target information. To overcome this, we introduce the… More >

Hao Qiu, Shoudong Ni^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 2677-2697, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064629 - 03 July 2025

Abstract In response to the missed and false detections that are easily caused by the large variety of and significant differences among aluminum surface defects, a detection algorithm based on an improved You Only Look Once (YOLO)v8n network is proposed. First, a C2f_DWR_DRB module is constructed by introducing a dilation-wise residual (DWR) module and a dilated reparameterization block (DRB) to replace the C2f module at the high level of the backbone network, enriching the gradient flow information and increasing the effective receptive field (ERF). Second, an efficient local attention (ELA) mechanism is fused with the high-level… More >

Mengke Tang¹, Yong Gan^2,*, Yifan Zhang¹, Xinxin Gan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 2699-2716, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064541 - 03 July 2025

Abstract Infrared imaging technology has been widely adopted in various fields, such as military reconnaissance, medical diagnosis, and security monitoring, due to its excellent ability to penetrate smoke and fog. However, the prevalent low resolution of infrared images severely limits the accurate interpretation of their contents. In addition, deploying super-resolution models on resource-constrained devices faces significant challenges. To address these issues, this study proposes a lightweight super-resolution network for infrared images based on an adaptive attention mechanism. The network’s dynamic weighting module automatically adjusts the weights of the attention and non-attention branch outputs based on the… More >

Chao Li^1,3,#, Quanzhi Feng^1,3,#, Caichang Ding^2,*, Zhiwei Ye^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3605-3621, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063703 - 03 July 2025

Abstract The increasing adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urban low-altitude logistics systems, particularly for time-sensitive applications like parcel delivery and supply distribution, necessitates sophisticated coordination mechanisms to optimize operational efficiency. However, the limited capability of UAVs to extract state-action information in complex environments poses significant challenges to achieving effective cooperation in dynamic and uncertain scenarios. To address this, we presents an Improved Multi-Agent Hybrid Attention Critic (IMAHAC) framework that advances multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) through two key innovations. Firstly, a Temporal Difference Error and Time-based Prioritized Experience Replay (TT-PER) mechanism that dynamically adjusts… More >

Jinrong Li^1,2, Chunhua Wei², Lei Liang^2,3,*, Zhisheng Gao^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3259-3280, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063547 - 03 July 2025

Abstract The Pressure Sensitive Paint Technique (PSP) has gained attention in recent years because of its significant benefits in measuring surface pressure on wind tunnel models. However, in the post-processing process of PSP images, issues such as pressure taps, paint peeling, and contamination can lead to the loss of pressure data on the image, which seriously affects the subsequent calculation and analysis of pressure distribution. Therefore, image inpainting is particularly important in the post-processing process of PSP images. Deep learning offers new methods for PSP image inpainting, but some basic characteristics of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)… More >

Yu-Shiuan Tsai^*, Yuk-Hang Sit

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.143, No.3, pp. 3065-3090, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.064783 - 30 June 2025

Abstract To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective, we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB (AVA-PRB) model. AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention (CA) and the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM)—to enhance detection accuracy. Additionally, Shape-IoU is employed as the loss function to refine localization precision. Our model further incorporates an adaptive feature fusion mechanism, which optimizes multi-scale object representation, ensuring robust tracking in complex aerial environments. We evaluate the performance of AVA-PRB on two benchmark datasets: Aerial Person Detection and VisDrone2019-Det. The model achieves 60.9% mAP@0.5 on the Aerial Person… More >

Naveen Chandra¹, Himadri Vaidya^2,3, Suraj Sawant⁴, Shilpa Gite^5,6, Biswajeet Pradhan^7,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.143, No.3, pp. 3351-3375, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.064395 - 30 June 2025

Abstract Landslide hazard detection is a prevalent problem in remote sensing studies, particularly with the technological advancement of computer vision. With the continuous and exceptional growth of the computational environment, the manual and partially automated procedure of landslide detection from remotely sensed images has shifted toward automatic methods with deep learning. Furthermore, attention models, driven by human visual procedures, have become vital in natural hazard-related studies. Hence, this paper proposes an enhanced YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once version 5) network for improved satellite-based landslide detection, embedded with two popular attention modules: CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) More >