Xiaorui Zhang^1,2,3,4,*, Yingying Wang¹, Wei Sun^4,5, Qi Cui⁶, Xindong Wei⁷

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3057-3071, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.033578 - 15 March 2023

Abstract Signature verification, which is a method to distinguish the authenticity of signature images, is a biometric verification technique that can effectively reduce the risk of forged signatures in financial, legal, and other business environments. However, compared with ordinary images, signature images have the following characteristics: First, the strokes are slim, i.e., there is less effective information. Second, the signature changes slightly with the time, place, and mood of the signer, i.e., it has high intraclass differences. These challenges lead to the low accuracy of the existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). This study… More >

Peng Geng^*, Ji Lu, Hongtao Ma, Guiyi Yang

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 1-22, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.018632 - 02 March 2023

Abstract Accurate and reliable crack segmentation is a challenge and meaningful task. In this article, aiming at the characteristics of cracks on the concrete images, the intensity frequency information of source images which is obtained by Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is fed into deep learning-based networks to enhance the ability of network on crack segmentation. To well integrate frequency information into network an effective and novel DWTA module based on the DWT and scSE attention mechanism is proposed. The semantic information of cracks is enhanced and the irrelevant information is suppressed by DWTA module. And the… More >

Junjie Zhou, Hongkui Xu^*, Zifeng Zhang, Jiangkun Lu, Wentao Guo, Zhenye Li

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2277-2297, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036419 - 09 February 2023

Abstract Fraud cases have been a risk in society and people’s property security has been greatly threatened. In recent studies, many promising algorithms have been developed for social media offensive text recognition as well as sentiment analysis. These algorithms are also suitable for fraudulent phone text recognition. Compared to these tasks, the semantics of fraudulent words are more complex and more difficult to distinguish. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), the variants of RNN, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and hybrid neural networks to extract text features are used by most text classification research. However, a single network or… More >

Mi Zhou¹, Rui Liu^1,*, Pengfei Yi¹, Dongsheng Zhou^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 2093-2109, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024189 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Multi-view multi-person 3D human pose estimation is a hot topic in the field of human pose estimation due to its wide range of application scenarios. With the introduction of end-to-end direct regression methods, the field has entered a new stage of development. However, the regression results of joints that are more heavily influenced by external factors are not accurate enough even for the optimal method. In this paper, we propose an effective feature recalibration module based on the channel attention mechanism and a relative optimal calibration strategy, which is applied to the multi-view multi-person 3D More > Graphic Abstract

Pan Zhang, Hongwei Deng^*, Zhong Chen

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1411-1430, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034876 - 06 February 2023

Abstract In recent years, target detection of aerial images of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has become one of the hottest topics. However, target detection of UAV aerial images often presents false detection and missed detection. We proposed a modified you only look once (YOLO) model to improve the problems arising in object detection in UAV aerial images: (1) A new residual structure is designed to improve the ability to extract features by enhancing the fusion of the inner features of the single layer. At the same time, triplet attention module is added to strengthen the connection… More >

Longjuan Wang^1,2, Chunjie Cao^1,2, Binghui Zou^1,2, Jun Ye^1,2,*, Jin Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1801-1814, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032785 - 06 February 2023

Abstract License plate recognition technology use widely in intelligent traffic management and control. Researchers have been committed to improving the speed and accuracy of license plate recognition for nearly 30 years. This paper is the first to propose combining the attention mechanism with YOLO-v5 and LPRnet to construct a new license plate recognition model (LPR-CBAM-Net). Through the attention mechanism CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module), the importance of different feature channels in license plate recognition can be re-calibrated to obtain proper attention to features. Force information to achieve the purpose of improving recognition speed and accuracy. Experimental More >

Samer Abdulateef Waheeb^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 981-998, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035753 - 20 January 2023

Abstract Automatic extraction of the patient’s health information from the unstructured data concerning the discharge summary remains challenging. Discharge summary related documents contain various aspects of the patient health condition to examine the quality of treatment and thereby help improve decision-making in the medical field. Using a sentiment dictionary and feature engineering, the researchers primarily mine semantic text features. However, choosing and designing features requires a lot of manpower. The proposed approach is an unsupervised deep learning model that learns a set of clusters embedded in the latent space. A composite model including Active Learning (AL),… More >

Xiaorui Zhang^1,2,3,4,*, Ziquan Zhao¹, Wei Sun^4,5, Qi Cui⁶

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 537-550, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034230 - 20 January 2023

Abstract LIDAR point cloud-based 3D object detection aims to sense the surrounding environment by anchoring objects with the Bounding Box (BBox). However, under the three-dimensional space of autonomous driving scenes, the previous object detection methods, due to the pre-processing of the original LIDAR point cloud into voxels or pillars, lose the coordinate information of the original point cloud, slow detection speed, and gain inaccurate bounding box positioning. To address the issues above, this study proposes a new two-stage network structure to extract point cloud features directly by PointNet++, which effectively preserves the original point cloud coordinate… More >

Chuanlong Sun, Hong Zhao^*, Liang Mu, Fuliang Xu, Laiwei Lu

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 787-801, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025119 - 05 January 2023

Abstract Image semantic segmentation has become an essential part of autonomous driving. To further improve the generalization ability and the robustness of semantic segmentation algorithms, a lightweight algorithm network based on Squeeze-and-Excitation Attention Mechanism (SE) and Depthwise Separable Convolution (DSC) is designed. Meanwhile, Adam-GC, an Adam optimization algorithm based on Gradient Compression (GC), is proposed to improve the training speed, segmentation accuracy, generalization ability and stability of the algorithm network. To verify and compare the effectiveness of the algorithm network proposed in this paper, the trained network model is used for experimental verification and comparative test More >

Jianwei Yuan¹, Xinli Song^1,*, Huaijian Pu², Zhixiong Zheng³, Ziyang Niu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6485-6503, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035165 - 28 December 2022

Abstract Regular inspection of bridge cracks is crucial to bridge maintenance and repair. The traditional manual crack detection methods are time-consuming, dangerous and subjective. At the same time, for the existing mainstream vision-based automatic crack detection algorithms, it is challenging to detect fine cracks and balance the detection accuracy and speed. Therefore, this paper proposes a new bridge crack segmentation method based on parallel attention mechanism and multi-scale features fusion on top of the DeeplabV3+ network framework. First, the improved lightweight MobileNet-v2 network and dilated separable convolution are integrated into the original DeeplabV3+ network to improve… More >