Ya-Jie Sun¹, Li-Wei Qiao¹, Sai Ji^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 1769-1785, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.062950 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views. The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-class similarity in the collected vehicle images, which increases the complexity of re-identification tasks. To tackle these challenges, this study proposes AG-GCN (Attention-Guided Graph Convolutional Network), a novel framework integrating several pivotal components. Initially, AG-GCN embeds a lightweight attention module within the ResNet-50 structure to learn feature weights automatically, thereby improving the representation of vehicle features globally by highlighting salient features and suppressing extraneous ones. Moreover, AG-GCN adopts More >

Chengzhang Zhu^1,2, Ahmed Alasri¹, Tao Xu³, Yalong Xiao^1,2,*, Abdulrahman Noman¹, Raeed Alsabri¹, Xuanchu Duan⁴, Monir Abdullah⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 5153-5167, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.058647 - 06 March 2025

Abstract Globally, diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the primary cause of blindness, affecting millions of people worldwide. This widespread impact underscores the critical need for reliable and precise diagnostic techniques to ensure prompt diagnosis and effective treatment. Deep learning-based automated diagnosis for diabetic retinopathy can facilitate early detection and treatment. However, traditional deep learning models that focus on local views often learn feature representations that are less discriminative at the semantic level. On the other hand, models that focus on global semantic-level information might overlook critical, subtle local pathological features. To address this issue, we propose an… More >

Youngeun An, Jimin Lee, EunSang Bak^*, Sungbum Pan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1817-1832, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039460 - 30 August 2023

Abstract Emotion recognition based on facial expressions is one of the most critical elements of human-machine interfaces. Most conventional methods for emotion recognition using facial expressions use the entire facial image to extract features and then recognize specific emotions through a pre-trained model. In contrast, this paper proposes a novel feature vector extraction method using the Euclidean distance between the landmarks changing their positions according to facial expressions, especially around the eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth. Then, we apply a new classifier using an ensemble network to increase emotion recognition accuracy. The emotion recognition performance was More >

Chengfan Li^1,2, Lan Liu^3,*, Junjuan Zhao¹, Xuefeng Liu⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.1, pp. 429-444, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019202 - 24 January 2022

Abstract Target detection of small samples with a complex background is always difficult in the classification of remote sensing images. We propose a new small sample target detection method combining local features and a convolutional neural network (LF-CNN) with the aim of detecting small numbers of unevenly distributed ground object targets in remote sensing images. The k-nearest neighbor method is used to construct the local neighborhood of each point and the local neighborhoods of the features are extracted one by one from the convolution layer. All the local features are aggregated by maximum pooling to obtain global… More >

Shady Y. El-mashad¹, Amani M. Yassen¹, Abdulwahab K. Alsammak¹, Basem M. Elhalawany^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3857-3870, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018660 - 24 August 2021

Abstract The last decade shows an explosion of using social media, which raises several challenges related to the security of personal files including images. These challenges include modifying, illegal copying, identity fraud, copyright protection and ownership of images. Traditional digital watermarking techniques embed digital information inside another digital information without affecting the visual quality for security purposes. In this paper, we propose a hybrid digital watermarking and image processing approach to improve the image security level. Specifically, variants of the widely used Least-Significant Bit (LSB) watermarking technique are merged with a blob detection algorithm to embed More >

Xinliang Tang¹, Xing Sun¹, Zhenzhou Wang¹, Pingping Yu¹, Ning Cao^{2, *}, Yunfeng Xu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1185-1198, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010283 - 10 June 2020

Abstract The appearance of pedestrians can vary greatly from image to image, and different pedestrians may look similar in a given image. Such similarities and variabilities in the appearance and clothing of individuals make the task of pedestrian re-identification very challenging. Here, a pedestrian re-identification method based on the fusion of local features and gait energy image (GEI) features is proposed. In this method, the human body is divided into four regions according to joint points. The color and texture of each region of the human body are extracted as local features, and GEI features of… More >