Dan Liu^1,3, Yajuan Wu¹, Yuxin He², Lu Qin², Bochuan Zheng^2,3,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 145-156, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014646

Abstract Multi-license plate detection in complex scenes is still a challenging task because of multiple vehicle license plates with different sizes and classes in the images having complex background. The edge features of high-density distribution and the high curvature features of stroke turning of Chinese character are important signs to distinguish Chinese license plate from other objects. To accurately detect multiple vehicle license plates with different sizes and classes in complex scenes, a multi-object detection of Chinese license plate method based on improved YOLOv3 network was proposed in this research. The improvements include replacing the residual block of the YOLOv3 backbone… More >

Xinxin Lu^1,*, Hong Zhang²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.1, pp. 281-297, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010948

Abstract As an interdisciplinary comprehensive subject involving multidisciplinary knowledge, emotional analysis has become a hot topic in psychology, health medicine and computer science. It has a high comprehensive and practical application value. Emotion research based on the social network is a relatively new topic in the field of psychology and medical health research. The text emotion analysis of college students also has an important research significance for the emotional state of students at a certain time or a certain period, so as to understand their normal state, abnormal state and the reason of state change from the information they wrote. In… More >

Jianwei Chen, Jianbo Li^*, Ying Li

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.124, No.3, pp. 847-864, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010240

Abstract Predicting human mobility has great significance in Location based Social Network applications, while it is challenging due to the impact of historical mobility patterns and current trajectories. Among these challenges, historical patterns tend to be crucial in the prediction task. However, it is difficult to capture complex patterns from long historical trajectories. Motivated by recent success of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods, we propose a Union ConvGRU (UCG) Net, which can capture long short-term patterns of historical trajectories and sequential impact of current trajectories. Specifically, we first incorporate historical trajectories into hidden states by a shared-weight layer, and then utilize… More >

Jinwei Wang^{1, 2, 3, 4}, Qiye Ni³, Yang Zhang³, Xiangyang Luo^{2, *}, Yunqing Shi⁵, Jiangtao Zhai³, Sunil Kr Jha³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 929-943, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06569

Abstract Median filtering is a nonlinear signal processing technique and has an advantage in the field of image anti-forensics. Therefore, more attention has been paid to the forensics research of median filtering. In this paper, a median filtering forensics method based on quaternion convolutional neural network (QCNN) is proposed. The median filtering residuals (MFR) are used to preprocess the images. Then the output of MFR is expanded to four channels and used as the input of QCNN. In QCNN, quaternion convolution is designed that can better mix the information of different channels than traditional methods. The quaternion pooling layer is designed… More >

Wei Sun^1,3,*, Hongji Du¹, Shoubai Nie^2,3, Xiaozheng He⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.1, pp. 147-161, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03581

Abstract Traffic sign recognition (TSR), as a critical task to automated driving and driver assistance systems, is challenging due to the color fading, motion blur, and occlusion. Traditional methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) only use an end-layer feature as the input to TSR that requires massive data for network training. The computation-intensive network training process results in an inaccurate or delayed classification. Thereby, the current state-of-the-art methods have limited applications. This paper proposes a new TSR method integrating multi-layer feature and kernel extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier. The proposed method applies CNN to extract the multi-layer features of traffic… More >

Manyu Jin¹, Tao Wang¹, Zexuan Ji^1,*, Xiaobo Shen²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.3, pp. 501-515, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02371

Abstract Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is one of the most indispensable yet challenging problems in image processing and computer vision. It is quite necessary to develop automatic and efficient approaches that can accurately predict perceptual image quality consistently with human subjective evaluation. To further improve the prediction accuracy for the distortion of color images, in this paper, we propose a novel effective and efficient IQA model, called perceptual gradient similarity deviation (PGSD). Based on the gradient magnitude similarity, we proposed a gradient direction selection method to automatically determine the pixel-wise perceptual gradient. The luminance and chrominance channels are both took… More >

Yuhong Zhang^1,*, Qinqin Wang¹, Yuling Li¹, Xindong Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 285-297, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02604

Abstract Recently, the effectiveness of neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, has been validated in the field of natural language processing, in which, sentiment classification for online reviews is an important and challenging task. Existing convolutional neural networks extract important features of sentences without local features or the feature sequence. Thus, these models do not perform well, especially for transition sentences. To this end, we propose a Piecewise Pooling Convolutional Neural Network (PPCNN) for sentiment classification. Firstly, with a sentence presented by word vectors, convolution operation is introduced to obtain the convolution feature map vectors. Secondly, these vectors are segmented according… More >