Aamir Shahzad^1,*, Shadi Munshi², Sufyan Azam², Muhammad Nasir Khan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2897-2911, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028441

Abstract The main objective of this research is to design a state-feedback controller for the rotary inverted pendulum module utilizing the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) technique. The controller maintains the pendulum in the inverted (upright) position and is robust enough to reject external disturbance to maintain its stability. The research work involves three major contributions: mathematical modeling, simulation, and real-time implementation. To design a controller, mathematical modeling has been done by employing the Newton-Euler, Lagrange method. The resulting model was nonlinear so linearization was required, which has been done around a working point. For the estimation of the controller parameters, MATLAB… More >

Abdul Saboor^1,*, Mohd Fadzil Hassan², Rehan Akbar¹, Erwin Susanto³, Syed Nasir Mehmood Shah⁴, Muhammad Aadil Siddiqui⁵, Saeed Ahmed Magsi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2223-2239, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028382

Abstract Cloud computing has gained significant use over the last decade due to its several benefits, including cost savings associated with setup, deployments, delivery, physical resource sharing across virtual machines, and availability of on-demand cloud services. However, in addition to usual threats in almost every computing environment, cloud computing has also introduced a set of new threats as consumers share physical resources due to the physical co-location paradigm. Furthermore, since there are a growing number of attacks directed at cloud environments (including dictionary attacks, replay code attacks, denial of service attacks, rootkit attacks, code injection attacks, etc.), customers require additional assurances… More >

Sarayut Yaemprayoon, Jakkree Srinonchat^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3667-3684, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028358

Abstract Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has gradually become a research focus in recent years to measure the power consumption in households for energy conservation. Most of the existing algorithms on NILM models independently measure when the total current load of appliances occurs, and NILM usually undergoes the problem of signatures of the appliance. This paper presents a distingue NILM design to measure and classify the appliances by investigating the inrush current pattern when the alliances begin. The proposed method is implemented while the five appliances operate simultaneously. The high sampling rate of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is used to sample the… More >

Adel Hafeezallah¹, Ahlam Al-Dhamari^2,3,*, Syed Abd Rahman Abu-Bakar²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3879-3903, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028289

Abstract Estimating the crowd count and density of highly dense scenes witnessed in Muslim gatherings at religious sites in Makkah and Madinah is critical for developing control strategies and organizing such a large gathering. Moreover, since the crowd images in this case can range from low density to high density, detection-based approaches are hard to apply for crowd counting. Recently, deep learning-based regression has become the prominent approach for crowd counting problems, where a density-map is estimated, and its integral is further computed to acquire the final count result. In this paper, we put forward a novel multi-scale network (named 2U-Net)… More >

Magdy M. Fadel^1,*, Sally M. El-Ghamrawy², Amr M. T. Ali-Eldin¹, Mohammed K. Hassan³, Ali I. El-Desoky¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2293-2312, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028287

Abstract Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are designed to interrupt network services such as email servers and webpages in traditional computer networks. Furthermore, the enormous number of connected devices makes it difficult to operate such a network effectively. Software defined networks (SDN) are networks that are managed through a centralized control system, according to researchers. This controller is the brain of any SDN, composing the forwarding table of all data plane network switches. Despite the advantages of SDN controllers, DDoS attacks are easier to perpetrate than on traditional networks. Because the controller is a single point of failure, if it fails, the… More >

Noman Mazhar^1,2, Rosli Saleh^1,*, Reza Zaba^1,3, Muhammad Zeeshan⁴, M. Muzaffar Hameed¹, Nauman Khan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3099-3118, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028285

Abstract The advent of the latest technologies like the Internet of things (IoT) transforms the world from a manual to an automated way of lifestyle. Meanwhile, IoT sector open numerous security challenges. In traditional networks, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) have been the key player in the market to ensure security. The challenges to the conventional IDPS are implementation cost, computing power, processing delay, and scalability. Further, online machine learning model training has been an issue. All these challenges still question the IoT network security. There has been a lot of research for IoT based detection systems to secure the… More >

Sana Yasin¹, Umar Draz^2,3,*, Tariq Ali⁴, Kashaf Shahid¹, Amna Abid¹, Rukhsana Bibi¹, Muhammad Irfan⁵, Mohammed A. Huneif⁶, Sultan A. Almedhesh⁶, Seham M. Alqahtani⁶, Alqahtani Abdulwahab⁶, Mohammed Jamaan Alzahrani⁶, Dhafer Batti Alshehri⁶, Alshehri Ali Abdullah⁷, Saifur Rahman⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 4349-4367, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028251

Abstract Diagnosing a baby’s feelings poses a challenge for both doctors and parents because babies cannot explain their feelings through expression or speech. Understanding the emotions of babies and their associated expressions during different sensations such as hunger, pain, etc., is a complicated task. In infancy, all communication and feelings are propagated through cry-speech, which is a natural phenomenon. Several clinical methods can be used to diagnose a baby’s diseases, but nonclinical methods of diagnosing a baby’s feelings are lacking. As such, in this study, we aimed to identify babies’ feelings and emotions through their cry using a nonclinical method. Changes… More >

Woo Hyun Park¹, Isma Farah Siddiqui², Dong Ryeol Shin¹, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2985-3001, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028241

Abstract For the last couple years, governments and health authorities worldwide have been focused on addressing the Covid-19 pandemic; for example, governments have implemented countermeasures, such as quarantining, pushing vaccine shots to minimize local spread, investigating and analyzing the virus’ characteristics, and conducting epidemiological investigations through patient management and tracers. Therefore, researchers worldwide require funding to achieve these goals. Furthermore, there is a need for documentation to investigate and trace disease characteristics. However, it is time consuming and resource intensive to work with documents comprising many types of unstructured data. Therefore, in this study, natural language processing technology is used to… More >

Ghulam Gilanie¹, Mahmood ul Hassan², Mutyyba Asghar¹, Ali Mustafa Qamar^3,*, Hafeez Ullah⁴, Rehan Ullah Khan⁵, Nida Aslam⁶, Irfan Ullah Khan⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2513-2528, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028229

Abstract Depression is a mental psychological disorder that may cause a physical disorder or lead to death. It is highly impactful on the social-economical life of a person; therefore, its effective and timely detection is needful. Despite speech and gait, facial expressions have valuable clues to depression. This study proposes a depression detection system based on facial expression analysis. Facial features have been used for depression detection using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We extracted micro-expressions using Facial Action Coding System (FACS) as Action Units (AUs) correlated with the sad, disgust, and contempt features for depression detection.… More >

Yue Zhang^1,3,4, Pengyu Liu^1,2,3,4,*, Xiaowei Jia⁵, Shanji Chen², Tianyu Liu^1,3,4, Chang Liu^1,3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3545-3556, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028226

Abstract Versatile video coding (H.266/VVC), which was newly released by the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET), introduces quad-tree plus multi-type tree (QTMT) partition structure on the basis of quad-tree (QT) partition structure in High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC). More complicated coding unit (CU) partitioning processes in H.266/VVC significantly improve video compression efficiency, but greatly increase the computational complexity compared. The ultra-high encoding complexity has obstructed its real-time applications. In order to solve this problem, a CU partition algorithm using convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed in this paper to speed up the H.266/VVC CU partition process. Firstly, 64 × 64 CU… More >