Nazreen Banu A^*, S.K.B. Sangeetha

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.1, pp. 579-607, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.059805 - 03 January 2025

Abstract The increasing use of cloud-based devices has reached the critical point of cybersecurity and unwanted network traffic. Cloud environments pose significant challenges in maintaining privacy and security. Global approaches, such as IDS, have been developed to tackle these issues. However, most conventional Intrusion Detection System (IDS) models struggle with unseen cyberattacks and complex high-dimensional data. In fact, this paper introduces the idea of a novel distributed explainable and heterogeneous transformer-based intrusion detection system, named INTRUMER, which offers balanced accuracy, reliability, and security in cloud settings by multiple modules working together within it. The traffic captured… More >

Anum Saher¹, Ghulam Gilanie^1,*, Sana Cheema¹, Akkasha Latif¹, Syeda Naila Batool¹, Hafeez Ullah²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.6, pp. 1053-1071, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.057047 - 30 December 2024

Abstract Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness responsible for many of the world’s disabilities. It significantly impacts human society; thus, rapid, and efficient identification is required. This research aims to diagnose schizophrenia directly from a high-resolution camera, which can capture the subtle micro facial expressions that are difficult to spot with the help of the naked eye. In a clinical study by a team of experts at Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH), Bahawalpur, Pakistan, there were 300 people with schizophrenia and 299 healthy subjects. Videos of these participants have been captured and converted into their frames using… More >

Rihem Farkh^1,*, Ghislain Oudinet¹, Yasser Foued²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.3, pp. 3951-3968, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053245 - 19 December 2024

Abstract The process of generating descriptive captions for images has witnessed significant advancements in last years, owing to the progress in deep learning techniques. Despite significant advancements, the task of thoroughly grasping image content and producing coherent, contextually relevant captions continues to pose a substantial challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel multimodal method for image captioning by integrating three powerful deep learning architectures: YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) for robust object detection, EfficientNetB7 for efficient feature extraction, and Transformers for effective sequence modeling. Our proposed model combines the strengths of YOLOv8 in detecting objects,… More >

Boadu Nkrumah^1,*, Michal Asante¹, Gaddafi Adbdul-Salam¹, Wofa K. Adu-Gyamfi²

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.6, pp. 131-153, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2024.053954 - 17 December 2024

Abstract The changing nature of malware poses a cybersecurity threat, resulting in significant financial losses each year. However, traditional antivirus tools for detecting malware based on signatures are ineffective against disguised variations as they have low levels of accuracy. This study introduces Data Efficient Image Transformer-Malware Classifier (DeiT-MC), a system for classifying malware that utilizes Data-Efficient Image Transformers. DeiT-MC treats malware samples as visual data and integrates a newly developed Hybrid GridBay Optimizer (HGBO) for hyperparameter optimization and better model performance under varying malware scenarios. With HGBO, DeiT-MC outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques with a strong accuracy More >

Arar Al Tawil^1,*, Laiali Almazaydeh², Doaa Qawasmeh³, Baraah Qawasmeh⁴, Mohammad Alshinwan^1,5, Khaled Elleithy⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 3395-3412, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057279 - 18 November 2024

Abstract Cybercriminals often use fraudulent emails and fictitious email accounts to deceive individuals into disclosing confidential information, a practice known as phishing. This study utilizes three distinct methodologies, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency, Word2Vec, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, to evaluate the effectiveness of various machine learning algorithms in detecting phishing attacks. The study uses feature extraction methods to assess the performance of Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Multilayer Perceptron algorithms. The best results for each classifier using Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency were Multilayer Perceptron (Precision: 0.98, Recall: 0.98, F1-score: 0.98, Accuracy: 0.98). Word2Vec’s More >

Enas Yahya Alqulaity¹, Wael M.S. Yafooz^1,*, Abdullah Alourani², Ayman Jaradat³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.5, pp. 907-928, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.055470 - 31 October 2024

Abstract Arabic dialect identification is essential in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and forms a critical component of applications such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, and cross-language text generation. The difficulties in differentiating between Arabic dialects have garnered more attention in the last 10 years, particularly in social media. These difficulties result from the overlapping vocabulary of the dialects, the fluidity of online language use, and the difficulties in telling apart dialects that are closely related. Managing dialects with limited resources and adjusting to the ever-changing linguistic trends on social media platforms present additional challenges. A strong… More >

Mohamed A. Mahdi¹, Suliman Mohamed Fati^2,*, Mohamed A.G. Hazber¹, Shahanawaj Ahamad³, Sawsan A. Saad⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.2, pp. 1651-1671, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.052291 - 27 September 2024

Abstract Cyberbullying, a critical concern for digital safety, necessitates effective linguistic analysis tools that can navigate the complexities of language use in online spaces. To tackle this challenge, our study introduces a new approach employing Bidirectional Encoder Representations from the Transformers (BERT) base model (cased), originally pretrained in English. This model is uniquely adapted to recognize the intricate nuances of Arabic online communication, a key aspect often overlooked in conventional cyberbullying detection methods. Our model is an end-to-end solution that has been fine-tuned on a diverse dataset of Arabic social media (SM) tweets showing a notable… More >

Ayesha Khaliq¹, Salman Afsar Awan¹, Fahad Ahmad^2,*, Muhammad Azam Zia¹, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3221-3242, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053488 - 15 August 2024

Abstract The rapid expansion of online content and big data has precipitated an urgent need for efficient summarization techniques to swiftly comprehend vast textual documents without compromising their original integrity. Current approaches in Extractive Text Summarization (ETS) leverage the modeling of inter-sentence relationships, a task of paramount importance in producing coherent summaries. This study introduces an innovative model that integrates Graph Attention Networks (GATs) with Transformer-based Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), further enhanced by Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) values, to improve sentence selection by capturing comprehensive topical information. Our… More >

Dinh Phu Cuong Le^1,2, Dong Wang¹, Viet-Tuan Le^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 37-60, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050790 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Transformer models have emerged as dominant networks for various tasks in computer vision compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The transformers demonstrate the ability to model long-range dependencies by utilizing a self-attention mechanism. This study aims to provide a comprehensive survey of recent transformer-based approaches in image and video applications, as well as diffusion models. We begin by discussing existing surveys of vision transformers and comparing them to this work. Then, we review the main components of a vanilla transformer network, including the self-attention mechanism, feed-forward network, position encoding, etc. In the main part of More >

Hong Huang¹, Xingxing Zhang^1,*, Ye Lu¹, Ze Li¹, Shaohua Zhou²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 3929-3951, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047918 - 26 March 2024

Abstract While encryption technology safeguards the security of network communications, malicious traffic also uses encryption protocols to obscure its malicious behavior. To address the issues of traditional machine learning methods relying on expert experience and the insufficient representation capabilities of existing deep learning methods for encrypted malicious traffic, we propose an encrypted malicious traffic classification method that integrates global semantic features with local spatiotemporal features, called BERT-based Spatio-Temporal Features Network (BSTFNet). At the packet-level granularity, the model captures the global semantic features of packets through the attention mechanism of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)… More >