Muhammad Adeel Azam¹, Khan Bahadar Khan^2,*, Muhammad Ahmad³, Manuel Mazzara⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 821-840, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016131 - 22 March 2021

Abstract For the last two decades, physicians and clinical experts have used a single imaging modality to identify the normal and abnormal structure of the human body. However, most of the time, medical experts are unable to accurately analyze and examine the information from a single imaging modality due to the limited information. To overcome this problem, a multimodal approach is adopted to increase the qualitative and quantitative medical information which helps the doctors to easily diagnose diseases in their early stages. In the proposed method, a Multi-resolution Rigid Registration (MRR) technique is used for multimodal… More >

Dah-Jing Jwo^1,*, Wei-Yeh Chang¹, I-Hua Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3983-4003, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014752 - 01 March 2021

Abstract This paper revisits the characteristics of windowing techniques with various window functions involved, and successively investigates spectral leakage mitigation utilizing the Welch method. The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is ubiquitous in digital signal processing (DSP) for the spectrum analysis and can be efficiently realized by the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The sampling signal will result in distortion and thus may cause unpredictable spectral leakage in discrete spectrum when the DFT is employed. Windowing is implemented by multiplying the input signal with a window function and windowing amplitude modulates the input signal so that the spectral… More >

Jianmin Wu^*, Bingbing Zhang, Chunsheng Wu, Zhiqiang Shu, Shaoqing Li, Jianqi Yang

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.5, pp. 993-1011, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.014304 - 20 February 2021

Abstract In order to improve the utilization of milling materials, save stone resources and reduce milling energy consumption, the aged Styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) modified asphalt was used as a binder to prepare AC-16 asphalt mixture to simulate old asphalt pavement materials. First, the test and discrete element simulation results of uniaxial compression tests were used to calibrate the parameters of the parallel bonding contact model between asphalt mortar and aggregates. On this basis, a microscopic model of the asphalt mixture was established to simulate the old asphalt pavement. Then, the discrete element software PFC (Particle Flow Code)… More >

Muhammad Kashif¹, Ayyaz Hussain², Asim Munir¹, Abdul Basit Siddiqui³, Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi⁴, Muhammad Aakif⁵, Arif Jamal Malik⁴, Fayez Eid Alazemi⁶, Oh-Young Song^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 2123-2139, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014782 - 05 February 2021

Abstract Expression detection plays a vital role to determine the patient’s condition in healthcare systems. It helps the monitoring teams to respond swiftly in case of emergency. Due to the lack of suitable methods, results are often compromised in an unconstrained environment because of pose, scale, occlusion and illumination variations in the image of the face of the patient. A novel patch-based multiple local binary patterns (LBP) feature extraction technique is proposed for analyzing human behavior using facial expression recognition. It consists of three-patch [TPLBP] and four-patch LBPs [FPLBP] based feature engineering respectively. Image representation is… More >

Xu Li¹, Ying Yan², Shuai Shao³, Shunying Ji^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.126, No.2, pp. 645-671, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.013674 - 21 January 2021

Abstract Considering the interaction between a sleeper, ballast layer, and substructure, a three-dimensional coupled discrete-finite element method for a ballasted railway track is proposed in this study. Ballast granules with irregular shapes are constructed using a clump model using the discrete element method. Meanwhile, concrete sleepers, embankments, and foundations are modelled using 20-node hexahedron solid elements using the finite element method. To improve computational efficiency, a GPU-based (Graphics Processing Unit) parallel framework is applied in the discrete element simulation. Additionally, an algorithm containing contact search and transfer parameters at the contact interface of discrete particles and… More >

Ankit Kumar, Balram Dubey^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.126, No.2, pp. 505-547, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.013206 - 21 January 2021

Abstract In this paper, the impact of additional food and two discrete delays on the dynamics of a prey-predator model is investigated. The interaction between prey and predator is considered as Holling Type-II functional response. The additional food is provided to the predator to reduce its dependency on the prey. One delay is the gestation delay in predator while the other delay is the delay in supplying the additional food to predators. The positivity, boundedness and persistence of the solutions of the system are studied to show the system as biologically well-behaved. The existence of steady… More >

Nancy Awadallah Awad^1,*, Amena Mahmoud²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3151-3160, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014426 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Data compression is one of the core fields of study for applications of image and video processing. The raw data to be transmitted consumes large bandwidth and requires huge storage space as a result, it is desirable to represent the information in the data with considerably fewer bits by the mean of data compression techniques, the data must be reconstituted very similarly to the initial form. In this paper, a hybrid compression based on Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is used to enhance the quality of the reconstructed image. These techniques are… More >

Zhigang Deng^1,*, Zhenzhong Chu², Zaman Mohammed Tousif³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1503-1515, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010798 - 24 December 2020

Abstract Trajectory tracking control can be considered as one of the main researches of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV). The bio-inspired neurodynamics model was used to make the output continuous and smooth for the inflection points to deal with the speed jump of the conventional tracking controller for discrete trajectories. A horizon-plane trajectory tracking control law is designed using the bio-inspired neurodynamics model and sliding-mode method without chattering. Finally, the simulation of the mentioned two methods is compared with the results showing this as effective and feasible. More >

Yefeng Liu^1,2,*, Yuan Zhao^1,2, Kangju Li^1,2, Shengping Yu³, Shaowu Li⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.5, pp. 1081-1096, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010139

Abstract The intelligent flexible system is a powerful means for manufacturing enterprises to achieve high efficiency and high output. The physical structure of the flexible system is constructed in this paper. The three systems; workshop intelligent logistics system, management and control system and three flexible processing that produce four products are given by the deeper design. The local workshop net which contains; position sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID), AGVs, intelligent machine, robots, raw materials and operation devices is constructed in this paper. The software, which includes gages, real-time workshops, logistics trolley, and information of all kinds More >

Yuanchao Zhang¹, Zhiyuan Xia^2,*, Yujing Jiang¹, Miao Chen³, Jiankang Liu¹, Qian Yin⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.1, pp. 259-280, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.011076 - 18 September 2020

Abstract Hole-like defects are very common in natural rock or coal mass, and play an important role in the failure and mechanical behaviors of rock or coal mass. In this research, multi-holed coal specimens are constructed numerically and calibrated based on UDEC-GBM models. Then, the strength, deformation and failure behavior of the porous specimens are analyzed, with consideration of hole density (P) and confining pressure (σ₃). The simulation results are highly consistent with those available experiment results, and show that the compressive strength decreases exponentially with the increasing hole density. The strength loss is mainly caused by More >