Zihao Sun^1,*, Xiao Hu², Yining Qi², Yongfeng Huang², Songbin Li³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1657-1669, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036558 - 06 February 2023

Abstract The marine environment is becoming increasingly complex due to the various marine vehicles, and the diversity of maritime objects poses a challenge to marine environmental governance. Maritime object detection technology plays an important role in this segment. In the field of computer vision, there is no sufficiently comprehensive public dataset for maritime objects in the contrast to the automotive application domain. The existing maritime datasets either have no bounding boxes (which are made for object classification) or cover limited varieties of maritime objects. To fulfil the vacancy, this paper proposed the Multi-Category Large-Scale Dataset for… More >

Geng Qin¹, Ping Luo¹, Kaiyuan Li¹, Yufeng Sun¹, Shiwei Wang¹, Xiaoting Li^1,2,3, Shuang Liu^1,2,3, Linyan Xue^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 999-1015, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035777 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Due to small size and high occult, metacarpophalangeal fracture diagnosis displays a low accuracy in terms of fracture detection and location in X-ray images. To efficiently detect metacarpophalangeal fractures on X-ray images as the second opinion for radiologists, we proposed a novel one-stage neural network named MPFracNet based on RetinaNet. In MPFracNet, a deformable bottleneck block (DBB) was integrated into the bottleneck to better adapt to the geometric variation of the fractures. Furthermore, an integrated feature fusion module (IFFM) was employed to obtain more in-depth semantic and shallow detail features. Specifically, Focal Loss and Balanced… More >

Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir¹, Hyunsik Ahn^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1847-1861, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035698 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Deep learning has been constantly improving in recent years, and a significant number of researchers have devoted themselves to the research of defect detection algorithms. Detection and recognition of small and complex targets is still a problem that needs to be solved. The authors of this research would like to present an improved defect detection model for detecting small and complex defect targets in steel surfaces. During steel strip production, mechanical forces and environmental factors cause surface defects of the steel strip. Therefore, the detection of such defects is key to the production of high-quality… More >

M. Zeeshan Sarwar¹, Mohammed Hamad Alatiyyah², Ahmad Jalal¹, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman³, Nawal Alsufyani³, Jeongmin Park^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 959-976, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035442 - 06 February 2023

Abstract In the last decade, there has been remarkable progress in the areas of object detection and recognition due to high-quality color images along with their depth maps provided by RGB-D cameras. They enable artificially intelligent machines to easily detect and recognize objects and make real-time decisions according to the given scenarios. Depth cues can improve the quality of object detection and recognition. The main purpose of this research study to find an optimized way of object detection and identification we propose techniques of object detection using two RGB-D datasets. The proposed methodology extracts image normally… More >

Xinliang Tang¹, Caixing Wang¹, Jingfang Su^1,*, Cecilia Taylor²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 117-131, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033327 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Fast recognition of elevator buttons is a key step for service robots to ride elevators automatically. Although there are some studies in this field, none of them can achieve real-time application due to problems such as recognition speed and algorithm complexity. Elevator button recognition is a comprehensive problem. Not only does it need to detect the position of multiple buttons at the same time, but also needs to accurately identify the characters on each button. The latest version 5 of you only look once algorithm (YOLOv5) has the fastest reasoning speed and can be used… More >

Xiaorui Zhang^1,2,3,4,*, Ziquan Zhao¹, Wei Sun^4,5, Qi Cui⁶

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 537-550, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034230 - 20 January 2023

Abstract LIDAR point cloud-based 3D object detection aims to sense the surrounding environment by anchoring objects with the Bounding Box (BBox). However, under the three-dimensional space of autonomous driving scenes, the previous object detection methods, due to the pre-processing of the original LIDAR point cloud into voxels or pillars, lose the coordinate information of the original point cloud, slow detection speed, and gain inaccurate bounding box positioning. To address the issues above, this study proposes a new two-stage network structure to extract point cloud features directly by PointNet++, which effectively preserves the original point cloud coordinate… More >

Mesfer Alduhayyem^1,*, Mrim M. Alnfiai^2,3, Nabil Almalki⁴, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁶, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁶

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 475-489, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034067 - 20 January 2023

Abstract Visual impairment is one of the major problems among people of all age groups across the globe. Visually Impaired Persons (VIPs) require help from others to carry out their day-to-day tasks. Since they experience several problems in their daily lives, technical intervention can help them resolve the challenges. In this background, an automatic object detection tool is the need of the hour to empower VIPs with safe navigation. The recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques make it possible. The current study proposes IoT-assisted Transient Search Optimization with a… More >

Mrim M. Alnfiai^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6505-6521, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033422 - 28 December 2022

Abstract There is a drastic increase experienced in the production of vehicles in recent years across the globe. In this scenario, vehicle classification system plays a vital part in designing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for automatic highway toll collection, autonomous driving, and traffic management. Recently, computer vision and pattern recognition models are useful in designing effective vehicle classification systems. But these models are trained using a small number of hand-engineered features derived from small datasets. So, such models cannot be applied for real-time road traffic conditions. Recent developments in Deep Learning (DL)-enabled vehicle classification models are… More >

Saeed Masoud Alshahrani¹, Saud S. Alotaibi², Shaha Al-Otaibi³, Mohamed Mousa⁴, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^5,*, Amgad Atta Abdelmageed⁵, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁵, Mohamed I. Eldesouki⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3117-3131, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033038 - 31 October 2022

Abstract Object detection (OD) in remote sensing images (RSI) acts as a vital part in numerous civilian and military application areas, like urban planning, geographic information system (GIS), and search and rescue functions. Vehicle recognition from RSIs remained a challenging process because of the difficulty of background data and the redundancy of recognition regions. The latest advancements in deep learning (DL) approaches permit the design of effectual OD approaches. This study develops an Artificial Ecosystem Optimizer with Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Vehicle Detection (AEODCNN-VD) model on Remote Sensing Images. The proposed AEODCNN-VD model focuses on… More >

Gibrael Abosamra^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3539-3560, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032976 - 31 October 2022

Abstract This paper introduces the third enhanced version of a genetic algorithm-based technique to allow fast and accurate detection of vehicle plate numbers (VPLN) in challenging image datasets. Since binarization of the input image is the most important and difficult step in the detection of VPLN, a hybrid technique is introduced that fuses the outputs of three fast techniques into a pool of connected components objects (CCO) and hence enriches the solution space with more solution candidates. Due to the combination of the outputs of the three binarization techniques, many CCOs are produced into the output… More >