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

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 the original backbone network Xception… More >

Wei Wu¹, Weigong Zhang^1,*, Dong Wang¹, Lydia Zhu², Xiang Song³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3811-3828, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.029787

Abstract An increase in car ownership brings convenience to people’s life. However, it also leads to frequent traffic accidents. Precisely forecasting surrounding agents’ future trajectories could effectively decrease vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-pedestrian collisions. Long-short-term memory (LSTM) network is often used for vehicle trajectory prediction, but it has some shortages such as gradient explosion and low efficiency. A trajectory prediction method based on an improved Transformer network is proposed to forecast agents’ future trajectories in a complex traffic environment. It realizes the transformation from sequential step processing of LSTM to parallel processing of Transformer based on attention mechanism. To perform trajectory prediction more… More >

Zhiyun Yang^1,#, Qi Liu^1,#,*, Hao Wu¹, Xiaodong Liu², Yonghong Zhang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 45-64, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022045

Abstract Accurate precipitation nowcasting can provide great convenience to the public so they can conduct corresponding arrangements in advance to deal with the possible impact of upcoming heavy rain. Recent relevant research activities have shown their concerns on various deep learning models for radar echo extrapolation, where radar echo maps were used to predict their consequent moment, so as to recognize potential severe convective weather events. However, these approaches suffer from an inaccurate prediction of echo dynamics and unreliable depiction of echo aggregation or dissipation, due to the size limitation of convolution filter, lack of global feature, and less attention to… More > Graphic Abstract

Hyun-Sam Shin¹, Jun-Ki Hong^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 235-248, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.033082

Abstract Recently, artificial-intelligence-based automatic customer response system has been widely used instead of customer service representatives. Therefore, it is important for automatic customer service to promptly recognize emotions in a customer’s voice to provide the appropriate service accordingly. Therefore, we analyzed the performance of the emotion recognition (ER) accuracy as a function of the simulation time using the proposed chunk-based speech ER (CSER) model. The proposed CSER model divides voice signals into 3-s long chunks to efficiently recognize characteristically inherent emotions in the customer’s voice. We evaluated the performance of the ER of voice signal chunks by applying four RNN techniques—long… More >

Yongjie Yang¹, Shanshan Tu¹, Raja Hashim Ali², Hisham Alasmary^3,4, Muhammad Waqas^5,6,*, Muhammad Nouman Amjad⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 801-815, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031907

Abstract With the recent developments in the Internet of Things (IoT), the amount of data collected has expanded tremendously, resulting in a higher demand for data storage, computational capacity, and real-time processing capabilities. Cloud computing has traditionally played an important role in establishing IoT. However, fog computing has recently emerged as a new field complementing cloud computing due to its enhanced mobility, location awareness, heterogeneity, scalability, low latency, and geographic distribution. However, IoT networks are vulnerable to unwanted assaults because of their open and shared nature. As a result, various fog computing-based security models that protect IoT networks have been developed.… More >

Xiliang Zhang¹, Jin Liu^1,*, Yue Li¹, Zhongdai Wu^2,3, Y. Ken Wang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6407-6424, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027097

Abstract Performance of Video Question and Answer (VQA) systems relies on capturing key information of both visual images and natural language in the context to generate relevant questions’ answers. However, traditional linear combinations of multimodal features focus only on shallow feature interactions, fall far short of the need of deep feature fusion. Attention mechanisms were used to perform deep fusion, but most of them can only process weight assignment of single-modal information, leading to attention imbalance for different modalities. To address above problems, we propose a novel VQA model based on Triple Multimodal feature Cyclic Fusion (TMCF) and Self-Adaptive Multimodal Balancing… More >

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 >