Chuanlong Sun, Hong Zhao^*, Liang Mu, Fuliang Xu, Laiwei Lu

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 787-801, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025119

Abstract Image semantic segmentation has become an essential part of autonomous driving. To further improve the generalization ability and the robustness of semantic segmentation algorithms, a lightweight algorithm network based on Squeeze-and-Excitation Attention Mechanism (SE) and Depthwise Separable Convolution (DSC) is designed. Meanwhile, Adam-GC, an Adam optimization algorithm based on Gradient Compression (GC), is proposed to improve the training speed, segmentation accuracy, generalization ability and stability of the algorithm network. To verify and compare the effectiveness of the algorithm network proposed in this paper, the trained network model is used for experimental verification and comparative test on the Cityscapes semantic segmentation… More >

Tao Duan¹, Yue Liu¹, Jingze Li¹, Zhichao Lian^2,*, Qianmu Li²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 223-239, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024742

Abstract The application of unmanned driving in the Internet of Things is one of the concrete manifestations of the application of artificial intelligence technology. Image semantic segmentation can help the unmanned driving system by achieving road accessibility analysis. Semantic segmentation is also a challenging technology for image understanding and scene parsing. We focused on the challenging task of real-time semantic segmentation in this paper. In this paper, we proposed a novel fast architecture for real-time semantic segmentation named DuFNet. Starting from the existing work of Bilateral Segmentation Network (BiSeNet), DuFNet proposes a novel Semantic Information Flow (SIF) structure for context information… More > Graphic Abstract

S. Gnanapriya^1,*, K. Rahimunnisa²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 1105-1119, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032832

Abstract The performance of Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) depends on the hand shape. Segmentation helps in the recognition of hand gestures for more accuracy and improves the overall performance compared to other existing deep neural networks. The crucial segmentation task is extremely complicated because of the background complexity, variation in illumination etc. The proposed modified UNET and ensemble model of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) undergoes a two stage process and results in proper hand gesture recognition. The first stage is segmenting the regions of the hand and the second stage is gesture identification. The modified UNET segmentation model is trained using… More >

Jieren Cheng^1,3, Hua Li^2,*, Dengbo Li³, Shuai Hua², Victor S. Sheng⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1941-1957, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032757

Abstract Image semantic segmentation is an important branch of computer vision of a wide variety of practical applications such as medical image analysis, autonomous driving, virtual or augmented reality, etc. In recent years, due to the remarkable performance of transformer and multilayer perceptron (MLP) in computer vision, which is equivalent to convolutional neural network (CNN), there has been a substantial amount of image semantic segmentation works aimed at developing different types of deep learning architecture. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of deep learning methods in the field of general image semantic segmentation. Firstly, the commonly used image segmentation… More >

Yingpeng Dai¹, Junzheng Wang¹, Jing Li^1,*, Lingfeng Meng², Songfeng Wang^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 135-156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021525

Abstract It is important for the autonomous system to understand environmental information. For the autonomous system, it is desirable to have a strong generalization ability to deal with different complex environmental information, as well as have high accuracy and quick inference speed. Network ensemble architecture is a good choice to improve network performance. However, it is unsuitable for real-time applications on the autonomous system. To tackle this problem, a new neural network ensemble named partial-shared ensemble network (PSENet) is presented. PSENet changes network ensemble architecture from parallel architecture to scatter architecture and merges multiple component networks together to accelerate the inference… More >

A. Deepak Kumar^1,2,*, T. Sasipraba¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 2273-2288, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.028996

Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy is a disease, which happens due to abnormal growth of blood vessels that causes spots on the vision and vision loss. Various techniques are applied to identify the disease in the early stage with different methods and parameters. Machine Learning (ML) techniques are used for analyzing the images and finding out the location of the disease. The restriction of the ML is a dataset size, which is used for model evaluation. This problem has been overcome by using an augmentation method by generating larger datasets with multidimensional features. Existing models are using only one augmentation technique, which produces… More >

Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir¹, Hyunsik Ahn^2,*

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 99-114, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jai.2022.031235

Abstract The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial redundancy, fluctuating sample density and lack of apparent organization. The research area has a wide range of robotics applications, including intelligent vehicles, autonomous mapping and navigation. A number of researchers have introduced various methodologies and algorithms. Deep learning has been successfully used to a spectrum of 2D vision domains as a prevailing A.I. methods. However, due to the specific problems of processing point clouds… More >

Ni Ruiwen¹, Mu Ye^1,2,3,4,*, Li Ji¹, Zhang Tong¹, Luo Tianye¹, Feng Ruilong¹, Gong He^1,2,3,4, Hu Tianli^1,2,3,4, Sun Yu^1,2,3,4, Guo Ying^1,2,3,4, Li Shijun^5,6, Thobela Louis Tyasi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3263-3274, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026881

Abstract In order to accurately segment architectural features in high-resolution remote sensing images, a semantic segmentation method based on U-net network multi-task learning is proposed. First, a boundary distance map was generated based on the remote sensing image of the ground truth map of the building. The remote sensing image and its truth map were used as the input in the U-net network, followed by the addition of the building ground prediction layer at the end of the U-net network. Based on the ResNet network, a multi-task network with the boundary distance prediction layer was built. Experiments involving the ISPRS aerial… More >

Kyamelia Roy¹, Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri¹, Sayan Pramanik², Soumen Banerjee^2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 647-662, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024997

Abstract In recent years, computer vision finds wide applications in maritime surveillance with its sophisticated algorithms and advanced architecture. Automatic ship detection with computer vision techniques provide an efficient means to monitor as well as track ships in water bodies. Waterways being an important medium of transport require continuous monitoring for protection of national security. The remote sensing satellite images of ships in harbours and water bodies are the image data that aid the neural network models to localize ships and to facilitate early identification of possible threats at sea. This paper proposes a deep learning based model capable enough to… More >

Syed Irtaza Haider¹, Khursheed Aurangzeb^2,*, Musaed Alhussein²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1501-1526, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025479

Abstract The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a challenging task due to the presence of various pathologies as well as the low-contrast of thin vessels and non-uniform illumination. In recent years, encoder-decoder networks have achieved outstanding performance in retinal vessel segmentation at the cost of high computational complexity. To address the aforementioned challenges and to reduce the computational complexity, we propose a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN)-based encoder-decoder deep learning model for accurate retinal vessels segmentation. The proposed deep learning model consists of encoder-decoder architecture along with bottleneck layers that consist of depth-wise squeezing, followed by full-convolution, and finally depth-wise… More >