Jianyin Tang, Zhenglin Yu^*, Changshun Shao

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2829-2850, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063287 - 16 April 2025

Abstract In the field of automated fruit harvesting, precise and efficient fruit target recognition and localization play a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency of harvesting robots. However, this domain faces two core challenges: firstly, the dynamic nature of the automatic picking process requires fruit target detection algorithms to adapt to multi-view characteristics, ensuring effective recognition of the same fruit from different perspectives. Secondly, fruits in natural environments often suffer from interference factors such as overlapping, occlusion, and illumination fluctuations, which increase the difficulty of image capture and recognition. To address these challenges, this study conducted… More >

Ali Batouche¹, Souham Meshoul^2,*, Hadil Shaiba³, Mohamed Batouche^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 1727-1752, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063227 - 16 April 2025

Abstract The field of biometric identification has seen significant advancements over the years, with research focusing on enhancing the accuracy and security of these systems. One of the key developments is the integration of deep learning techniques in biometric systems. However, despite these advancements, certain challenges persist. One of the most significant challenges is scalability over growing complexity. Traditional methods either require maintaining and securing a growing database, introducing serious security challenges, or relying on retraining the entire model when new data is introduced—a process that can be computationally expensive and complex. This challenge underscores the… More >

Yumei Hao^1,2, Haiyan Wang^1,2,*, Dong Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2989-3005, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063008 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Named entity recognition (NER) in musk deer domain is the extraction of specific types of entities from unstructured texts, constituting a fundamental component of the knowledge graph, Q&A system, and text summarization system of musk deer domain. Due to limited annotated data, diverse entity types, and the ambiguity of Chinese word boundaries in musk deer domain NER, we present a novel NER model, CAELF-GP, which is based on cross-attention mechanism enhanced lexical features (CAELF). Specifically, we employ BERT as a character encoder and advocate the integration of external lexical information at the character representation layer.… More >

Shabana Ziyad Puthu Vedu^1,*, Wafaa A. Ghonaim², Naglaa M. Mostafa³, Pradeep Kumar Singh⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2599-2617, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.062695 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Hearing and Speech impairment can be congenital or acquired. Hearing and speech-impaired students often hesitate to pursue higher education in reputable institutions due to their challenges. However, the development of automated assistive learning tools within the educational field has empowered disabled students to pursue higher education in any field of study. Assistive learning devices enable students to access institutional resources and facilities fully. The proposed assistive learning and communication tool allows hearing and speech-impaired students to interact productively with their teachers and classmates. This tool converts the audio signals into sign language videos for the… More >

Qingqing Song^1,*, Shaoliang Xia¹, Zhen Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2619-2642, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.062526 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Load time series analysis is critical for resource management and optimization decisions, especially automated analysis techniques. Existing research has insufficiently interpreted the overall characteristics of samples, leading to significant differences in load level detection conclusions for samples with different characteristics (trend, seasonality, cyclicality). Achieving automated, feature-adaptive, and quantifiable analysis methods remains a challenge. This paper proposes a Threshold Recognition-based Load Level Detection Algorithm (TRLLD), which effectively identifies different load level regions in samples of arbitrary size and distribution type based on sample characteristics. By utilizing distribution density uniformity, the algorithm classifies data points and ultimately… More >

Zijian Sun^1,2, Yaqian Li^3,4,*, Haoran Liu^1,2, Haibin Li^3,4, Wenming Zhang^3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 3187-3210, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061920 - 16 April 2025

Abstract In recent years, audio pattern recognition has emerged as a key area of research, driven by its applications in human-computer interaction, robotics, and healthcare. Traditional methods, which rely heavily on handcrafted features such as Mel filters, often suffer from information loss and limited feature representation capabilities. To address these limitations, this study proposes an innovative end-to-end audio pattern recognition framework that directly processes raw audio signals, preserving original information and extracting effective classification features. The proposed framework utilizes a dual-branch architecture: a global refinement module that retains channel and temporal details and a multi-scale embedding… More >

Jiahao Wu^1,2, Jinzhong Xu¹, Xiaoming Liu^1,*, Guan Yang^1,3, Jie Liu⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2809-2828, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061359 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Large language models cross-domain named entity recognition task in the face of the scarcity of large language labeled data in a specific domain, due to the entity bias arising from the variation of entity information between different domains, which makes large language models prone to spurious correlations problems when dealing with specific domains and entities. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a cross-domain named entity recognition method based on causal graph structure enhancement, which captures the cross-domain invariant causal structural representations between feature representations of text sequences and annotation sequences by establishing… More >

Rui Fang, Liangzhong Cui^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 3247-3275, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.060422 - 16 April 2025

Abstract Named Entity Recognition (NER) is vital in natural language processing for the analysis of news texts, as it accurately identifies entities such as locations, persons, and organizations, which is crucial for applications like news summarization and event tracking. However, NER in the news domain faces challenges due to insufficient annotated data, complex entity structures, and strong context dependencies. To address these issues, we propose a new Chinese-named entity recognition method that integrates transfer learning with word embeddings. Our approach leverages the ERNIE pre-trained model for transfer learning and obtaining general language representations and incorporates the More >

Xinyi Song¹, Haixiang Zhang^1,*, Shaohua Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2735-2750, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059006 - 16 April 2025

Abstract In recent years, Transformer has achieved remarkable results in the field of computer vision, with its built-in attention layers effectively modeling global dependencies in images by transforming image features into token forms. However, Transformers often face high computational costs when processing large-scale image data, which limits their feasibility in real-time applications. To address this issue, we propose Token Masked Pose Transformers (TMPose), constructing an efficient Transformer network for pose estimation. This network applies semantic-level masking to tokens and employs three different masking strategies to optimize model performance, aiming to reduce computational complexity. Experimental results show More >

Zaid Derea^1,2,*, Beiji Zou¹, Xiaoyan Kui^1,*, Monir Abdullah³, Alaa Thobhani¹, Amr Abdussalam⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.1, pp. 115-136, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.062729 - 26 March 2025

Abstract Improving website security to prevent malicious online activities is crucial, and CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) has emerged as a key strategy for distinguishing human users from automated bots. Text-based CAPTCHAs, designed to be easily decipherable by humans yet challenging for machines, are a common form of this verification. However, advancements in deep learning have facilitated the creation of models adept at recognizing these text-based CAPTCHAs with surprising efficiency. In our comprehensive investigation into CAPTCHA recognition, we have tailored the renowned UpDown image captioning model specifically for this… More >