Ziqing Yan^1,2, Pengpeng Yang^1,2, Rongrong Ni^1,2,*, Yao Zhao^1,2, Hairong Qi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3205-3216, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.020324 - 24 August 2021

Abstract As one of the most popular digital image manipulations, contrast enhancement (CE) is frequently applied to improve the visual quality of the forged images and conceal traces of forgery, therefore it can provide evidence of tampering when verifying the authenticity of digital images. Contrast enhancement forensics techniques have always drawn significant attention for image forensics community, although most approaches have obtained effective detection results, existing CE forensic methods exhibit poor performance when detecting enhanced images stored in the JPEG format. The detection of forgery on contrast adjustments in the presence of JPEG post processing is… More >

Xiaona Zhang^1,*, Jie Feng², Zhiguo Yu¹, Zhen Hong³, Xinge Yun¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3871-3888, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.020057 - 24 August 2021

Abstract The existence of soil macropores is a common phenomenon. Due to the existence of soil macropores, the amount of solute loss carried by water is deeply modified, which affects watershed hydrologic response. In this study, a new improved BP (Back Propagation) neural network method, using Levenberg–Marquand training algorithm, was used to analyze the solute loss on slopes taking into account the soil macropores. The rainfall intensity, duration, the slope, the characteristic scale of macropores and the adsorption coefficient of ions, are used as the variables of network input layer. The network middle layer is used… More >

Yifu Sheng¹, Jianjun Zhang^1,*, Wenwu Tan¹, Jiang Wu¹, Haijun Lin¹, Guang Sun², Peng Guo³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 4043-4059, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019900 - 24 August 2021

Abstract There are many influencing factors of fiscal revenue, and traditional forecasting methods cannot handle the feature dimensions well, which leads to serious over-fitting of the forecast results and unable to make a good estimate of the true future trend. The grey neural network model fused with Lasso regression is a comprehensive prediction model that combines the grey prediction model and the BP neural network model after dimensionality reduction using Lasso. It can reduce the dimensionality of the original data, make separate predictions for each explanatory variable, and then use neural networks to make multivariate predictions,… More >

Hanyu Shi¹, Weiguang Qu^1,2,*, Tingxin Wei^2,3, Junsheng Zhou¹, Yunfei Long⁴, Yanhui Gu¹, Bin Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 4113-4127, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019518 - 24 August 2021

Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, when the noun head appears in the context, a quantity noun phrase can be reduced to a quantity phrase with the noun head omitted. This phrase structure is called elliptical quantity noun phrase. The automatic recovery of elliptical quantity noun phrase is crucial in syntactic parsing, semantic representation and other downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose a hybrid neural network model to identify the semantic category for elliptical quantity noun phrases and realize the recovery of omitted semantics by supplementing concept categories. Firstly, we use BERT to generate character-level vectors. Secondly,… More >

Mamdouh El Haj Assad¹, Ibrahim Mahariq^2,*, Zaher Al Barakeh², Mahmoud Khasawneh², Mohammad Ali Amooie³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3767-3781, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018872 - 24 August 2021

Abstract CO₂ emission is considerably dependent on energy consumption and on share of energy sources as well as on the extent of economic activities. Consequently, these factors must be considered for CO₂ emission prediction for seven middle eastern countries including Iran, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar. In order to propose a predictive model, a Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLP ANN) is applied. Three transfer functions including logsig, tansig and radial basis functions are utilized in the hidden layer of the network. Moreover, various numbers of neurons are applied in the structure… More >

Wan Hyun Cho¹, Sang Kyoon Kim², Myung Hwan Na¹, In Seop Na^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 4003-4024, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018758 - 24 August 2021

Abstract Fruit processing devices, that automatically detect the freshness and ripening stages of fruits are very important in precision agriculture. Recently, based on deep learning, many attempts have been made in computer image processing, to monitor the ripening stage of fruits. However, it is time-consuming to acquire images of the various ripening stages to be used for training, and it is difficult to measure the ripening stages of fruits accurately with a small number of images. In this paper, we propose a prediction system that can automatically determine the ripening stage of fruit by a combination… More >

Suliman Aladhadh¹, Hidayat Ur Rehman², Ali Mustafa Qamar^3,4,*, Rehan Ullah Khan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3399-3411, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018724 - 24 August 2021

Abstract A tremendous amount of vendor invoices is generated in the corporate sector. To automate the manual data entry in payable documents, highly accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is required. This paper proposes an end-to-end OCR system that does both localization and recognition and serves as a single unit to automate payable document processing such as cheques and cash disbursement. For text localization, the maximally stable extremal region is used, which extracts a word or digit chunk from an invoice. This chunk is later passed to the deep learning model, which performs text recognition. The deep… More >

Imran Ahmed^1,*, Humaira Sardar¹, Hanan Aljuaid², Fakhri Alam Khan¹, Muhammad Nawaz¹, Adnan Awais¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3365-3381, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018486 - 24 August 2021

Abstract Osteosarcoma is one of the most widespread causes of bone cancer globally and has a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis may increase the chances of treatment and survival however the process is time-consuming (reliability and complexity involved to extract the hand-crafted features) and largely depends on pathologists’ experience. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN—an end-to-end model) is known to be an alternative to overcome the aforesaid problems. Therefore, this work proposes a compact CNN architecture that has been rigorously explored on a Small Osteosarcoma histology Image Dataaseet (a high-class imbalanced dataset). Though, during training, class-imbalanced data can… More >

Habib Dhahri^1,2,*, Besma Rabhi³, Slaheddine Chelbi⁴, Omar Almutiry¹, Awais Mahmood¹, Adel M. Alimi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3259-3274, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018449 - 24 August 2021

Abstract The exponential increase in new coronavirus disease 2019 ({COVID-19}) cases and deaths has made COVID-19 the leading cause of death in many countries. Thus, in this study, we propose an efficient technique for the automatic detection of COVID-19 and pneumonia based on X-ray images. A stacked denoising convolutional autoencoder (SDCA) model was proposed to classify X-ray images into three classes: normal, pneumonia, and {COVID-19}. The SDCA model was used to obtain a good representation of the input data and extract the relevant features from noisy images. The proposed model’s architecture mainly composed of eight autoencoders, More >

Sujeet More¹, Jimmy Singla¹, Oh-Young Song^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Sharaf Malebary⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3127-3143, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018230 - 24 August 2021

Abstract Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive, nonradioactive, and meticulous diagnostic modality capability in the field of medical imaging. However, the efficiency of MR image reconstruction is affected by its bulky image sets and slow process implementation. Therefore, to obtain a high-quality reconstructed image we presented a sparse aware noise removal technique that uses convolution neural network (SANR_CNN) for eliminating noise and improving the MR image reconstruction quality. The proposed noise removal or denoising technique adopts a fast CNN architecture that aids in training larger datasets with improved quality, and SARN algorithm is used for More >