Min Long^1,2,*, Yan Zeng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 493-504, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04378

Abstract Aim to countermeasure the presentation attack for iris recognition system, an iris liveness detection scheme based on batch normalized convolutional neural network (BNCNN) is proposed to improve the reliability of the iris authentication system. The BNCNN architecture with eighteen layers is constructed to detect the genuine iris and fake iris, including convolutional layer, batch-normalized (BN) layer, Relu layer, pooling layer and full connected layer. The iris image is first preprocessed by iris segmentation and is normalized to 256×256 pixels, and then the iris features are extracted by BNCNN. With these features, the genuine iris and fake iris are determined by… More >

Xiangyan Tang^1,2, Liang Wang³, Jieren Cheng^1,2,4,*, Jing Chen², Victor S. Sheng⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 463-491, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03816

Abstract The accuracy of predicting the Producer Price Index (PPI) plays an indispensable role in government economic work. However, it is difficult to forecast the PPI. In our research, we first propose an unprecedented hybrid model based on fuzzy information granulation that integrates the GA-SVR and ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model) models. The fuzzy-information-granulation-based GA-SVR-ARIMA hybrid model is intended to deal with the problem of imprecision in PPI estimation. The proposed model adopts the fuzzy information-granulation algorithm to pre-classification-process monthly training samples of the PPI, and produced three different sequences of fuzzy information granules, whose Support Vector Regression (SVR) machine… More >

Lin Wang^1,*, Huixiang Liu¹, Wenyuan Liu^1,2, Nan Jing¹, Ahmad Adnan¹, Chenshu Wu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 437-449, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03814

Abstract The indoor subarea localization has wide application space in dynamic hot zone identification, indoor layout optimization, store dynamic pricing and crowd flow trend prediction. The ubiquitous mobile devices provide the opportunity for wireless fingerprinting-based indoor localization services. However, there are two short board where the existing methods have been criticized. One is that a tagging approach requires a large number of professional surveys for wireless fingerprint construction, which weakens the scalability of the methods. The other is that the crowdsourcing-based methods encounter the cold boot problem in the system initial stage. To address these issues, the paper proposes a topology… More >

Guodong Zhao¹, Yuewei Zhang¹, Yiqi Shi², Haiyan Lan^1,*, Qing Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 421-436, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03782

Abstract Climate change is the main factor affecting the country’s vulnerability, meanwhile, it is also a complicated and nonlinear dynamic system. In order to solve this complex problem, this paper first uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and natural breakpoint method (NBM) to implement an AHP-NBM comprehensive evaluation model to assess the national vulnerability. By using ArcGIS, national vulnerability scores are classified and the country’s vulnerability is divided into three levels: fragile, vulnerable, and stable. Then, a BP neural network prediction model which is based on multivariate linear regression is used to predict the critical point of vulnerability. The function of… More >

Yajie Sun^1,2,*, Yanqing Yuan², Qi Wang², Lihua Wang³, Enlu Li², Li Qiao⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 409-420, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03642

Abstract The signal processing problem has become increasingly complex and demand high acquisition system, this paper proposes a new method to reconstruct the structure phased array structural health monitoring signal. The method is derived from the compressive sensing theory and the signal is reconstructed by using the basis pursuit algorithm to process the ultrasonic phased array signals. According to the principles of the compressive sensing and signal processing method, non-sparse ultrasonic signals are converted to sparse signals by using sparse transform. The sparse coefficients are obtained by sparse decomposition of the original signal, and then the observation matrix is constructed according… More >

Yuejin Zhou^1,*, Mingpeng Li¹, Xiaoding Xu¹, Meng Li¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 391-407, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04456

Abstract The changeable structure and movement law of overlying strata are the main contributor to the change of mining stress. Starting from the relevant theory of key stratum and particularly based on the theory of mine ground pressure and strata control, this research proposed a new solution to mining stress problems by establishing a dual-load-zone stratum structural model. Elastic foundation beam theory was used to solve the stress of overlying strata of the dual-load-zones with superposition method, which revised the traditional calculation method of mining stress. The abnormal increase of lead abutment pressure in the mining area was explained effectively, through… More >

Xudong Hong¹, Xiao Zheng^1,*, Jinyuan Xia¹, Linna Wei¹, Wei Xue¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 379-389, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04059

Abstract To acquire non-ferrous metals related news from different countries’ internet, we proposed a cross-lingual non-ferrous metals related news recognition method based on CNN with a limited bilingual dictionary. Firstly, considering the lack of related language resources of non-ferrous metals, we use a limited bilingual dictionary and CCA to learn cross-lingual word vector and to represent news in different languages uniformly. Then, to improve the effect of recognition, we use a variant of the CNN to learn recognition features and construct the recognition model. The experimental results show that our proposed method acquires better results. More >

Feng Guo¹, Pingzeng Liu^1,*, Wanming Ren², Ning Cao³, Chao Zhang¹, Fujiang Wen¹, Helen Min Zhou⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 363-378, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03794

Abstract In view of the problems such as frequent fluctuation of garlic price, lack of efficient forecasting means and difficulty in realizing the steady development of garlic industry, combined with the current situation of garlic industry and the collected data information. Taking Big Data platform of garlic industry chain as the core, using the methods of correlation analysis, smoothness test, co-integration test, and Granger causality test, this paper analyzes the correlation, dynamic, and causality between garlic price and young garlic shoot price. According to the current situation of garlic industry, the garlic industry service based on Big Data is put forward.… More >

Zhao Dou¹, Gang Xu^1,*, Xiubo Chen¹, Kaiguo Yuan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 335-347, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04159

Abstract Rational participants want to maximize their benefits. The protocol with rational participants will be more realistic than the protocol with honest, semi-honest and dishonest participants. We research the rational non-hierarchical quantum state sharing in this paper. General steps of some known quantum state sharing protocol are summarized. Based on these steps, a new rational protocol is proposed. It means that lots of common protocols could be modified to rational protocols. Our protocol is widely applicable. Analyses show that the proposed protocol is rational and secure. It is also all-win for agents. Furthermore, number of deceiving agents is considered to redefine… More >

Tao Shen^1,*, Yukari Nagai¹, Chan Gao²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 307-318, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04876

Abstract Computer visualization has marvelous effects when it is applied in various fields, especially in architectural design. As an emerging force in the innovation industry, architects and design agencies have already demonstrated the value of architectural visual products in actual application projects. Based on the digital image technology, virtual presentation of future scenes simulates architecture design, architectural renderings and multimedia videos. Therefore, it can help design agencies transform the theoretical design concept into a lively and realistic visual which can provide the audience with a clearer understanding of the engineering and construction projects. However, it is challenging for designers to produce… More >