Yang Wang¹, Ying Tian^1,*, Ou Tian²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2203-2216, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018709 - 21 July 2021

Abstract As the use of facial attributes continues to expand, research into facial age estimation is also developing. Because face images are easily affected by factors including illumination and occlusion, the age estimation of faces is a challenging process. This paper proposes a face age estimation algorithm based on lightweight convolutional neural network in view of the complexity of the environment and the limitations of device computing ability. Improving face age estimation based on Soft Stagewise Regression Network (SSR-Net) and facial images, this paper employs the Center Symmetric Local Binary Pattern (CSLBP) method to obtain the More >

Saddam Bekhet^1,*, Monagi H. Alkinani², Reinel Tabares-Soto³, M. Hassaballah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2475-2491, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018514 - 21 July 2021

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant milestone in the modern history of civilization with a catastrophic effect on global wellbeing and monetary. The situation is very complex as the COVID-19 test kits are limited, therefore, more diagnostic methods must be developed urgently. A significant initial step towards the successful diagnosis of the COVID-19 is the chest X-ray or Computed Tomography (CT), where any chest anomalies (e.g., lung inflammation) can be easily identified. Most hospitals possess X-ray or CT imaging equipments that can be used for early detection of COVID-19. Motivated by this, various artificial intelligence… More >

Marwan Albahar^*, Mohammed Thanoon, Monaj Alzilai, Alaa Alrehily, Munirah Alfaar, Maimoona Algamdi, Norah Alassaf

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2181-2202, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018260 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Malicious Portable Document Format (PDF) files represent one of the largest threats in the computer security space. Significant research has been done using handwritten signatures and machine learning based on detection via manual feature extraction. These approaches are time consuming, require substantial prior knowledge, and the list of features must be updated with each newly discovered vulnerability individually. In this study, we propose two models for PDF malware detection. The first model is a convolutional neural network (CNN) integrated into a standard deviation based regularization model to detect malicious PDF documents. The second model is a More >

Muzamil Ahmed^1,2, Muhammad Ramzan^3,4, Hikmat Ullah Khan², Saqib Iqbal⁵, Muhammad Attique Khan⁶, Jung-In Choi⁷, Yunyoung Nam^8,*, Seifedine Kadry⁹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2217-2230, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018103 - 21 July 2021

Abstract Violence recognition is crucial because of its applications in activities related to security and law enforcement. Existing semi-automated systems have issues such as tedious manual surveillances, which causes human errors and makes these systems less effective. Several approaches have been proposed using trajectory-based, non-object-centric, and deep-learning-based methods. Previous studies have shown that deep learning techniques attain higher accuracy and lower error rates than those of other methods. However, the their performance must be improved. This study explores the state-of-the-art deep learning architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and inception V4 to detect and recognize violence… More >

Sajib Sarker, Ling Tan^*, Wenjie Ma, Shanshan Rong, Osibo Benjamin Kwapong, Oscar Famous Darteh

Journal on Internet of Things, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 39-51, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jiot.2021.014877 - 15 July 2021

Abstract The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spreading around the world and turns into a pandemic situation, consequently, detecting the coronavirus (COVID-19) affected patients are now the most critical task for medical specialists. The deficiency of medical testing kits leading to huge complexity in detecting COVID-19 patients worldwide, resulting in the number of infected cases is expanding. Therefore, a significant study is necessary about detecting COVID-19 patients using an automated diagnosis method, which hinders the spreading of coronavirus. In this paper, the study suggests a Deep Convolutional Neural Network-based multi-classification framework (COVMCNet) using eight different pre-trained… More >

Munif Alotaibi^1,*, Bandar Alotaibi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 885-898, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018350 - 01 July 2021

Abstract The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is one of a large family of viruses that cause illness, the symptoms of which range from a common cold, fever, coughing, and shortness of breath to more severe symptoms. The virus rapidly and easily spreads from infected people to others through close contact in the absence of protection. Early detection of COVID-19 assists governmental authorities and healthcare specialists in reducing the chain of transmission and flattening the curve of the pandemic. The widespread form of the COVID-19 diagnostic test lacks a high true positive rate and a low false… More >

Mengyuan Liao¹, Jing Duan^2,3,*, Rong Zhang^2,3, Xu Zhou^2,3, Xi Wu¹, Xin Wang⁴, Jinrong Hu¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 787-801, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018190 - 01 July 2021

Abstract In the field of weather modification, it is important to accurately identify the ice crystal particles in ice clouds. When ice crystal habits are correctly identified, cloud structure can be further understood and cloud seeding and other methods of weather modification can be used to change the microstructure of the cloud. Consequently, weather phenomena can be changed at an appropriate time to support human production and quality of life. However, ice crystal morphology is varied. Traditional ice crystal particle classification methods are based on expert experience, which is subjective and unreliable for the identification of More >

Hyun Yoo¹, Ji-Won Baek², Kyungyong Chung^3,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.2, pp. 319-334, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018115 - 16 June 2021

Abstract With the convergence and development of the Internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, closed-circuit television, wearable devices, and artificial neural networks have been combined and applied to crime prevention and follow-up measures against crimes. However, these IoT devices have various limitations based on the physical environment and face the fundamental problem of privacy violations. In this study, voice data are collected and emotions are classified based on an acoustic sensor that is free of privacy violations and is not sensitive to changes in external environments, to overcome these limitations. For the classification of emotions… More >

Yu Xue^1,2,*, Yiling Tong¹, Ziming Yuan¹, Shoubao Su², Adam Slowik³, Sam Toglaw⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.2, pp. 497-509, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016884 - 16 June 2021

Abstract Because of the characteristics of high redundancy, high parallelism and nonlinearity in the handwritten character recognition model, the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are becoming the first choice to solve these complex problems. The complexity, the types of characters, the character similarity of the handwritten character dataset, and the choice of optimizers all have a great impact on the network model, resulting in low accuracy, high loss, and other problems. In view of the existence of these problems, an improved LeNet-5 model is proposed. Through increasing its convolutional layers and fully connected layers, higher quality features… More >

Kentaro Mori^1,*, Kotaro Kitaya², Tomomoto Ishikawa², Yutaka Hata³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.2, pp. 335-352, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.01010 - 16 June 2021

Abstract In infertility treatment, it is required to improve a success rate of the treatment. A purpose of this study is to develop a prediction system for pregnancy outcomes using ultrasonic images. In infertility treatment, it is typical to evaluate the endometrial shape by using ultrasonic images. The convolutional neural network (CNN) system developed in the current study predicted pregnancy outcome by velocity information. The velocity information has a movement feature of uterine. It is known that a uterine movement is deep related to infertility. Experiments compared the velocity-based and shape-based systems. The shape-based systems predict… More >