Zhong Liu^1,2, Xin’an Wang¹, Chengjun Sun¹, Ken Lu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 653-664, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04597

Abstract With the high-speed development of transportation industry, highway traffic safety has become a considerable problem. Meanwhile, with the development of embedded system and hardware chip, in recent years, human eye detection eye tracking and positioning technology have been more and more widely used in man-machine interaction, security access control and visual detection.
In this paper, the high parallelism of FPGA was utilized to realize an elliptical approximate real-time human eye tracking system, which was achieved by the series register structure and random sample consensus (RANSAC), thus improving the speed of image processing without using external memory. Because eye images acquired by… More >

Wentao Ma¹, Jiaohua Qin^1,*, Xuyu Xiang¹, Yun Tan¹, Yuanjing Luo¹, Neal N. Xiong²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 665-677, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05683

Abstract As the first barrier to protect cyberspace, the CAPTCHA has made significant contributions to maintaining Internet security and preventing malicious attacks. By researching the CAPTCHA, we can find its vulnerability and improve the security of CAPTCHA. Recently, many studies have shown that improving the image preprocessing effect of the CAPTCHA, which can achieve a better recognition rate by the state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. There are many kinds of noise and distortion in the CAPTCHA images of this experiment. We propose an adaptive median filtering algorithm based on divide and conquer in this paper. Firstly, the filtering window data quickly sorted… More >

Ou Zhang^1,*, Xueye Wei¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 529-544, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04075

Abstract Aiming at the detection of the sucker rod defects, a real-time detection system is designed using the non-destructive testing technology of magnetic flux leakage (MFL). An MFL measurement system consists of many parts, and this study focuses on the signal acquisition and processing system. First of all, this paper introduces the hardware part of the acquisition system in detail, including the selection of the Hall-effect sensor, the design of the signal conditioning circuit, and the working process of the single chip computer (SCM) control serial port. Based on LabVIEW, a graphical programming software, the software part of the acquisition system… More >

Nianbin Wang¹, Ming He^1,2, Jianguo Sun^1,*, Hongbin Wang¹, Lianke Zhou¹, Ci Chu¹, Lei Chen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 169-181, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03709

Abstract Underwater target recognition is a key technology for underwater acoustic countermeasure. How to classify and recognize underwater targets according to the noise information of underwater targets has been a hot topic in the field of underwater acoustic signals. In this paper, the deep learning model is applied to underwater target recognition. Improved anti-noise Power-Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (ia-PNCC) is proposed, based on PNCC applied to underwater noises. Multitaper and normalized Gammatone filter banks are applied to improve the anti-noise capacity. The method is combined with a convolutional neural network in order to recognize the underwater target. Experiment results show that the… More >

Xian Tang^1,*, Ziyang Chen², Haiyan Zhang³, Xiang Liu¹, Yunyu Shi¹, Asad Shahzadi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.2, pp. 267-283, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.01839

Abstract Answering reachability queries is one of the fundamental graph operations. Existing approaches either accelerate index construction by constructing an index that covers only partial reachability relationship, which may result in performing cost traversing operation when answering a query; or accelerate query answering by constructing an index covering the complete reachability relationship, which may be inefficient due to comparing the complete node labels. We propose a novel labeling scheme, which covers the complete reachability relationship, to accelerate reachability queries processing. The idea is to decompose the given directed acyclic graph (DAG) G into two subgraphs, G1 and G2. For G1, we… More >

R. Praveena¹, S. Nirmala²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.53, No.1, pp. 37-47, 2017, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2017.053.039

Abstract DSP operation in a Biomedical related therapeutic hardware need to be performed with high accuracy and with high speed. Portable DSP hardware’s like pulse/heart beat detectors must perform with reduced operational power due to lack of conventional power sources. This work proposes a hybrid biomedical hardware chip in which the speed and power utilization factors are greatly improved. Multipliers are the core operational unit of any DSP SoC. This work proposes a LUT based unsigned multiplication which is proven to be efficient in terms of high operating speed. For n bit input multiplication n*n memory array of 2n bit size… More >

Ang Li¹, Guo-jian Shao^1,2, Pei-rong Du³, Sheng-yong Ding¹, Jing-bo Su⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 17-38, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2015.045.017

Abstract This paper investigates the failure behaviors of stratified rocks under uniaxial compression using a digital image processing (DIP) based finite difference method (FDM). The two-dimensional (2D) mesostructure of stratified rocks, represented as the internal spatial distribution of two main rock materials (marble and greenschist), is first identified with the DIP technique. And then the binaryzation image information is used to generate the finite difference grid. Finally, the failure behaviors of stratified rock samples are simulated by FDM considering the inhomogeneity of rock materials. In the DIP, an image segmentation algorithm based on seeded region growing (SRG) is proposed, instead of… More >

Ridha Djebali¹, Mohsen Toujani², Bernard Pateyron³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 147-160, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.037.147

Abstract In this paper a study of the atmospheric plasma spraying process was conducted. The Jets&Poudres code was used to solve the partial differential equations for the conservation of mass, momentum and energy involved in the problem together with the K-e turbulent model. The Taguchi technique was used to study the influence of processing factors on droplet impact properties obtained on dense zirconia (ZrO₂) under H₂Ar75% plasma gas that allow optimal functioning condition. The test of the operating parameters for the studied ranges showed that the "thermal power" factor plays a key role on the state of sprayed powder. It was… More >

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 271-300, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2010.018.271

Abstract The processing maps are a superimposition of iso-efficiency contour map and flow instability map, which are used to design hot working processing conditions in a wide variety of materials. In order to construct the processing maps, the efficiency of power dissipation and an instability criterion taking into account the contribution of strain and microstructure evolution are proposed based on a set of microstructure-based viscoplastic constitutive equations. In viscoplastic constitutive equations, the grain size of matrix phase and the dislocation density are taken as internal state variables. And, the material constants in present equations can be identified by a genetic algorithm… More >

Stephen R. Niezgoda¹, Surya R. Kalidindi^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 79-98, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2009.014.079

Abstract The generalized Hough transform is a common technique for feature detection in image processing. In this paper, we develop a size invariant Hough framework for the detection of arbitrary shapes in three dimensional digital microstructure datasets. The Hough transform is efficiently implemented via kernel convolution with complex Hough filters, where shape is captured in the magnitude of the filter and scale in the complex phase. In this paper, we further generalize the concept of a Hough filter by encoding other parameters of interest (e.g. orientation of plate or fiber constituents) in the complex phase, broadening the applicability of Hough transform… More >