Yifan Yu, Dazhi Wang^*, Yanhua Chen, Hongfeng Wang, Min Huang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.3, pp. 3761-3780, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057103 - 19 December 2024

Abstract For data mining tasks on large-scale data, feature selection is a pivotal stage that plays an important role in removing redundant or irrelevant features while improving classifier performance. Traditional wrapper feature selection methodologies typically require extensive model training and evaluation, which cannot deliver desired outcomes within a reasonable computing time. In this paper, an innovative wrapper approach termed Contribution Tracking Feature Selection (CTFS) is proposed for feature selection of large-scale data, which can locate informative features without population-level evolution. In other words, fewer evaluations are needed for CTFS compared to other evolutionary methods. We initially More >

Rashid Ahmad¹, Asif Nawaz^1,*, Ghulam Mustafa¹, Tariq Ali¹, Mehdi Tlija², Mohammed A. El-Meligy^3,4, Zohair Ahmed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.3, pp. 4171-4194, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.056971 - 19 December 2024

Abstract Crime hotspot detection is essential for law enforcement agencies to allocate resources effectively, predict potential criminal activities, and ensure public safety. Traditional methods of crime analysis often rely on manual, time-consuming processes that may overlook intricate patterns and correlations within the data. While some existing machine learning models have improved the efficiency and accuracy of crime prediction, they often face limitations such as overfitting, imbalanced datasets, and inadequate handling of spatiotemporal dynamics. This research proposes an advanced machine learning framework, CHART (Crime Hotspot Analysis and Real-time Tracking), designed to overcome these challenges. The proposed methodology… More >

Zhaoqiang Wang¹, Fuyin Ni^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.12, pp. 3779-3799, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.055535 - 22 November 2024

Abstract Under the partial shading conditions (PSC) of Photovoltaic (PV) modules in a PV hybrid system, the power output curve exhibits multiple peaks. This often causes traditional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods to fall into local optima and fail to find the global optimum. To address this issue, a composite MPPT algorithm is proposed. It combines the improved kepler optimization algorithm (IKOA) with the optimized variable-step perturb and observe (OIP&O). The update probabilities, planetary velocity and position step coefficients of IKOA are nonlinearly and adaptively optimized. This adaptation meets the varying needs of the initial… More >

Mingyuan Zhai^1,2, Hanquan Zhang¹, Le Wang¹, Dong Xiao^1,*, Zhengmin Gu³, Zhenni Li¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 3241-3260, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.056241 - 18 November 2024

Abstract In the process of dense vehicles traveling fast, there will be mutual occlusion between vehicles, which will lead to the problem of deterioration of the tracking effect of different vehicles, so this paper proposes a research method of virtual simulation video vehicle target tracking based on you only look once (YOLO)v5s and deep simple online and realtime tracking (DeepSort). Given that the DeepSort algorithm is currently the most effective tracking method, this paper merges the YOLOv5 algorithm with the DeepSort algorithm. Then it adds the efficient channel attention networks (ECA-Net) focusing mechanism at the back… More >

Suya Li¹, Ying Cao^1,*, Hengyi Ren², Dongsheng Zhu³, Xin Xie¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 1449-1470, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.056824 - 15 October 2024

Abstract Multi-object tracking (MOT) has seen rapid improvements in recent years. However, frequent occlusion remains a significant challenge in MOT, as it can cause targets to become smaller or disappear entirely, resulting in low-quality targets, leading to trajectory interruptions and reduced tracking performance. Different from some existing methods, which discarded the low-quality targets or ignored low-quality target attributes. LQTTrack, with a low-quality association strategy (LQA), is proposed to pay more attention to low-quality targets. In the association scheme of LQTTrack, firstly, multi-scale feature fusion of FPN (MSFF-FPN) is utilized to enrich the feature information and assist… More >

Asifa Mehmood Qureshi¹, Abdul Haleem Butt¹, Abdulwahab Alazeb², Naif Al Mudawi², Mohammad Alonazi³, Nouf Abdullah Almujally⁴, Ahmad Jalal¹, Hui Liu^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3315-3332, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052582 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Intelligent vehicle tracking and detection are crucial tasks in the realm of highway management. However, vehicles come in a range of sizes, which is challenging to detect, affecting the traffic monitoring system’s overall accuracy. Deep learning is considered to be an efficient method for object detection in vision-based systems. In this paper, we proposed a vision-based vehicle detection and tracking system based on a You Look Only Once version 5 (YOLOv5) detector combined with a segmentation technique. The model consists of six steps. In the first step, all the extracted traffic sequence images are subjected… More >

Mofadal Alymani¹, Mohamed Esmail Karar^2,*, Hazem Ibrahim Shehata^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2181-2197, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052406 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Object tracking is one of the major tasks for mobile robots in many real-world applications. Also, artificial intelligence and automatic control techniques play an important role in enhancing the performance of mobile robot navigation. In contrast to previous simulation studies, this paper presents a new intelligent mobile robot for accomplishing multi-tasks by tracking red-green-blue (RGB) colored objects in a real experimental field. Moreover, a practical smart controller is developed based on adaptive fuzzy logic and custom proportional-integral-derivative (PID) schemes to achieve accurate tracking results, considering robot command delay and tolerance errors. The design of developed… More >

Chunjuan Bo^1,*, Xin Chen², Junxing Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1105-1122, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052329 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Significant advancements have been witnessed in visual tracking applications leveraging ViT in recent years, mainly due to the formidable modeling capabilities of Vision Transformer (ViT). However, the strong performance of such trackers heavily relies on ViT models pretrained for long periods, limiting more flexible model designs for tracking tasks. To address this issue, we propose an efficient unsupervised ViT pretraining method for the tracking task based on masked autoencoders, called TrackMAE. During pretraining, we employ two shared-parameter ViTs, serving as the appearance encoder and motion encoder, respectively. The appearance encoder encodes randomly masked image data,… More >

Zhongyang Wang, Hu Zhu, Feng Liu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 605-623, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050959 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Visual object tracking plays a crucial role in computer vision. In recent years, researchers have proposed various methods to achieve high-performance object tracking. Among these, methods based on Transformers have become a research hotspot due to their ability to globally model and contextualize information. However, current Transformer-based object tracking methods still face challenges such as low tracking accuracy and the presence of redundant feature information. In this paper, we introduce self-calibration multi-head self-attention Transformer (SMSTracker) as a solution to these challenges. It employs a hybrid tensor decomposition self-organizing multi-head self-attention transformer mechanism, which not only… More >

Bo Yang^1,2, Rui Xie¹, Zhengxun Guo^3,4,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.8, pp. 2009-2022, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.049423 - 19 July 2024

Abstract Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technology plays a key role in improving the energy conversion efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems, especially when multiple local maximum power points (LMPPs) occur under partial shading conditions (PSC). It is necessary to modify the operating point efficiently and accurately with the help of MPPT technology to maximize the collected power. Even though a lot of research has been carried out and impressive progress achieved for MPPT technology, it still faces some challenges and dilemmas. Firstly, the mathematical model established for PV cells is not precise enough. Second, the existing… More > Graphic Abstract