Zhifeng Wang¹, Diqun Yan^1,*, Rangding Wang¹, Li Xiang¹, Tingting Wu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 247-259, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02902

Abstract Speech resampling is a typical tempering behavior, which is often integrated into various speech forgeries, such as splicing, electronic disguising, quality faking and so on. By analyzing the principle of resampling, we found that, compared with natural speech, the inconsistency between the bandwidth of the resampled speech and its sampling ratio will be caused because the interpolation process in resampling is imperfect. Based on our observation, a new resampling detection algorithm based on the inconsistency of band energy is proposed. First, according to the sampling ratio of the suspected speech, a band-pass Butterworth filter is designed to filter out the… More >

Yu Yang^1,2,*, Yuwei Chen^1,2, Yuling Chen², Wei Bi^3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 261-272, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02736

Abstract The state-of-the-art universal steganalysis method, spatial rich model (SRM), and the steganalysis method using image quality metrics (IQM) are both based on image residuals, while they use 34671 and 10 features respectively. This paper proposes a novel steganalysis scheme that combines their advantages in two ways. First, filters used in the IQM are designed according to the models of the SRM owning to their strong abilities for detecting the content adaptive steganographic methods. In addition, a total variant (TV) filter is also used due to its good performance of preserving image edge properties during filtering. Second, due to each type… More >

Taoyun Zhou^1,2, Baowang Lian¹, Siqing Yang^2,*, Yi Zhang¹, Yangyang Liu^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 225-245, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02671

Abstract For situations such as indoor and underground parking lots in which satellite signals are obstructed, GNSS cooperative positioning can be used to achieve high-precision positioning with the assistance of cooperative nodes. Here we study the cooperative positioning of two static nodes, node 1 is placed on the roof of the building and the satellite observation is ideal, node 2 is placed on the indoor windowsill where the occlusion situation is more serious, we mainly study how to locate node 2 with the assistance of node 1. Firstly, the two cooperative nodes are located with pseudo-range single point positioning, and the… More >

Yuhong Zhang^1,*, Qinqin Wang¹, Yuling Li¹, Xindong Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 285-297, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02604

Abstract Recently, the effectiveness of neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, has been validated in the field of natural language processing, in which, sentiment classification for online reviews is an important and challenging task. Existing convolutional neural networks extract important features of sentences without local features or the feature sequence. Thus, these models do not perform well, especially for transition sentences. To this end, we propose a Piecewise Pooling Convolutional Neural Network (PPCNN) for sentiment classification. Firstly, with a sentence presented by word vectors, convolution operation is introduced to obtain the convolution feature map vectors. Secondly, these vectors are segmented according… More >

Lin Chen^1,2, Chunfang Yang^1,2,*, Fenlin Liu^1,2, Daofu Gong^1,2, Shichang Ding³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 199-210, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02574

Abstract When dealing with the large-scale program, many automatic vulnerability mining techniques encounter such problems as path explosion, state explosion, and low efficiency. Decomposition of large-scale programs based on safety-sensitive functions helps solve the above problems. And manual identification of security-sensitive functions is a tedious task, especially for the large-scale program. This study proposes a method to mine security-sensitive functions the arguments of which need to be checked before they are called. Two argument-checking identification algorithms are proposed based on the analysis of two implementations of argument checking. Based on these algorithms, security-sensitive functions are detected based on the ratio of… More >

Wenjie Liu^1,2,*, Zhenyu Chen², Jinsuo Liu³, Zhaofeng Su⁴, Lianhua Chi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 211-223, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02288

Abstract The delegating private quantum computation (DQC) protocol with the universal quantum gate set {X,Z,H,P,R,CNOT} was firstly proposed by Broadbent et al. [Broadbent (2015)], and then Tan et al. [Tan and Zhou (2017)] tried to put forward a half-blind DQC protocol (HDQC) with another universal set {H,P,CNOT,T}. However, the decryption circuit of Toffoli gate (i.e. T) is a little redundant, and Tan et al.’s protocol [Tan and Zhou (2017)] exists the information leak. In addition, both of these two protocols just focus on the blindness of data (i.e. the client’s input and output), but do not consider the blindness of computation… More >

Kabir Fardad¹, Bahman Najafi¹, Sina Faizollahzadeh Ardabili¹, Amir Mosavi^2,3, Shahaboddin Shamshirband,^4,5,*, Timon Rabczuk²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 381-392, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.01803

Abstract Glycyrrhiza glabra, Mint, Cuminum cyminum, Lavender and Arctium medicinal are considered as edible plants with therapeutic properties and as medicinal plants in Iran. After extraction process of medicinal plants, residual wastes are not suitable for animal feed and are considered as waste and as an environmental threat. At present there is no proper management of waste of these plants and they are burned or buried. The present study discusses the possibility of biogas production from Glycyrrhiza Glabra Waste (GGW), Mentha Waste (MW), Cuminum Cyminum Waste (CCW), Lavender Waste (LW) and Arctium Waste (AW). 250 g of these plants with TS… More >

Xintao Duan^1,*, Haoxian Song¹, Chuan Qin², Muhammad Khurram Khan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 483-493, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.01798

Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel coverless image steganographic scheme based on a generative model. In our scheme, the secret image is first fed to the generative model database, to generate a meaning-normal and independent image different from the secret image. The generated image is then transmitted to the receiver and fed to the generative model database to generate another image visually the same as the secret image. Thus, we only need to transmit the meaning-normal image which is not related to the secret image, and we can achieve the same effect as the transmission of the secret image.… More >

Lizhi Xiong^1,*, Yunqing Shi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 523-539, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.01791

Abstract Advanced cloud computing technology provides cost saving and flexibility of services for users. With the explosion of multimedia data, more and more data owners would outsource their personal multimedia data on the cloud. In the meantime, some computationally expensive tasks are also undertaken by cloud servers. However, the outsourced multimedia data and its applications may reveal the data owner’s private information because the data owners lose the control of their data. Recently, this thought has aroused new research interest on privacy-preserving reversible data hiding over outsourced multimedia data. In this paper, two reversible data hiding schemes are proposed for encrypted… More >

Qijun Wu¹, Limin Han¹, Lingxuan Wang², Xun Gong^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 393-403, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.01740

Abstract We optimized the ground-state stable configuration of CoS molecule in different external radiation fields (0-0.04 atomic units (a.u.)) at the basis set level of 6-311G++ (d, p) using the B3LYP density functional theory. On this basis, the molecular structure, total energy, energy gap, and the intensities of infrared ray (IR) spectra, Raman spectra, and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectra of CoS molecule were computed using the same method. The results showed that the molecular structure changed greatly under the effect of the external radiation fields and had significant dependency on the radiation fields. The total energy of CoS molecule grew slightly… More >