Traditional Global Positioning System(GPS)technology,with its high power consumption and limited perfor-mance in obstructed environments,is unsuitable for many Internet of Things(IoT)*** paper explores LoRa as an alte...
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Traditional Global Positioning System(GPS)technology,with its high power consumption and limited perfor-mance in obstructed environments,is unsuitable for many Internet of Things(IoT)*** paper explores LoRa as an alternative localization technology,leveraging its low power consumption,robust indoor penetration,and extensive coverage area,which render it highly suitable for diverse IoT *** comprehensively review several LoRa-based localization techniques,including time of arrival(ToA),time difference of arrival(TDoA),round trip time(RTT),received signal strength indicator(RSSI),and fingerprinting *** this review,we evaluate the strengths and limitations of each technique and investigate hybrid models to potentially improve positioning *** studies in smart cities,agriculture,and logistics exemplify the versatility of LoRa for indoor and outdoor *** findings demonstrate that LoRa technology not only overcomes the limitations of GPS regarding power consumption and coverage but also enhances the scalability and efficiency of IoT deployments in complex environments.
Seal authentication is an important task for verifying the authenticity of stamped seals used in various domains to protect legal documents from tampering and *** seal inspection is commonly audited manually to ensure...
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Seal authentication is an important task for verifying the authenticity of stamped seals used in various domains to protect legal documents from tampering and *** seal inspection is commonly audited manually to ensure document ***,manual assessment of seal images is tedious and laborintensive due to human errors,inconsistent placement,and completeness of the *** image recognition systems are inadequate enough to identify seal types accurately,necessitating a neural network-based method for seal image ***,neural network-based classification algorithms,such as Residual Networks(ResNet)andVisualGeometryGroup with 16 layers(VGG16)yield suboptimal recognition rates on stamp ***,the fixed training data categories make handling new categories to be a challenging *** paper proposes amulti-stage seal recognition algorithmbased on Siamese network to overcome these ***,the seal image is pre-processed by applying an image rotation correction module based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients(HOG).Secondly,the similarity between input seal image pairs is measured by utilizing a similarity comparison module based on the Siamese ***,we compare the results with the pre-stored standard seal template images in the database to obtain the seal *** evaluate the performance of the proposed method,we further create a new seal image dataset that contains two subsets with 210,000 valid labeled pairs in *** proposed work has a practical significance in industries where automatic seal authentication is essential as in legal,financial,and governmental sectors,where automatic seal recognition can enhance document security and streamline validation ***,the experimental results show that the proposed multi-stage method for seal image recognition outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the two established datasets.
Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are one of the best technologies of the 21st century and have seen tremendous growth over the past *** work has been put into its development in various aspects such as architectural atte...
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Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are one of the best technologies of the 21st century and have seen tremendous growth over the past *** work has been put into its development in various aspects such as architectural attention,routing protocols,location exploration,time exploration,*** research aims to optimize routing protocols and address the challenges arising from conflicting objectives in WSN environments,such as balancing energy consumption,ensuring routing reliability,distributing network load,and selecting the shortest *** optimization techniques have shown success in achieving one or two objectives but struggle to achieve the right balance between multiple conflicting *** address this gap,this paper proposes an innovative approach that integrates Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)with a fuzzy multi-objective *** proposed method uses fuzzy logic to effectively control multiple competing objectives to represent its major development beyond existing methods that only deal with one or two *** search efficiency is improved by particle swarm optimization(PSO)which overcomes the large computational requirements that serve as a major drawback of existing *** PSO algorithm is adapted for WSNs to optimize routing paths based on fuzzy multi-objective *** fuzzy logic framework uses predefined membership functions and rule-based reasoning to adjust routing *** adjustments influence PSO’s velocity updates,ensuring continuous adaptation under varying network *** proposed multi-objective PSO-fuzzy model is evaluated using NS-3 *** results show that the proposed model is capable of improving the network lifetime by 15.2%–22.4%,increasing the stabilization time by 18.7%–25.5%,and increasing the residual energy by 8.9%–16.2% compared to the state-of-the-art *** proposed model also achieves a 15%–24% reduction in load variance,demonstrating balanced routing and extended net
In recent times,an image enhancement approach,which learns the global transformation function using deep neural networks,has gained ***,many existing methods based on this approach have a limitation:their transformati...
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In recent times,an image enhancement approach,which learns the global transformation function using deep neural networks,has gained ***,many existing methods based on this approach have a limitation:their transformation functions are too simple to imitate complex colour transformations between low-quality images and manually retouched high-quality *** order to address this limitation,a simple yet effective approach for image enhancement is *** proposed algorithm based on the channel-wise intensity transformation is ***,this transformation is applied to the learnt embedding space instead of specific colour spaces and then return enhanced features to *** this end,the authors define the continuous intensity transformation(CIT)to describe the mapping between input and output intensities on the embedding ***,the enhancement network is developed,which produces multi-scale feature maps from input images,derives the set of transformation functions,and performs the CIT to obtain enhanced *** experiments on the MIT-Adobe 5K dataset demonstrate that the authors’approach improves the performance of conventional intensity transforms on colour space ***,the authors achieved a 3.8%improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio,a 1.8%improvement in structual similarity index measure,and a 27.5%improvement in learned perceptual image patch ***,the authors’algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives on three image enhancement datasets:MIT-Adobe 5K,Low-Light,and Google HDRþ.
Since most multiobjective optimization problems in real-world applications contain constraints, constraint-handling techniques (CHTs) are necessary for a multiobjective optimizer. However, existing CHTs give no relaxa...
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Nowadays, digital transformation, automation, and decision-making are critical needs. The importance of data science and improving data quality is increasing day by day due to this need. Currently, a lot of research d...
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Background: Collaborative Representation (CR) has been widely used in Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) with the assumption that Low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) features can be linearly represented by ...
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Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of human cancer. It is recognized mainly visually, beginning with clinical screening and continuing with the dermoscopic examination, histological assessment, and specime...
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To efficiently mine threat intelligence from the vast array of open-source cybersecurity analysis reports on the web,we have developed the Parallel Deep Forest-based Multi-Label Classification(PDFMLC)***,open-source c...
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To efficiently mine threat intelligence from the vast array of open-source cybersecurity analysis reports on the web,we have developed the Parallel Deep Forest-based Multi-Label Classification(PDFMLC)***,open-source cybersecurity analysis reports are collected and converted into a standardized text ***,five tactics category labels are annotated,creating a multi-label dataset for tactics *** the limitations of low execution efficiency and scalability in the sequential deep forest algorithm,our PDFMLC algorithm employs broadcast variables and the Lempel-Ziv-Welch(LZW)algorithm,significantly enhancing its acceleration ***,our proposed PDFMLC algorithm incorporates label mutual information from the established dataset as input *** captures latent label associations,significantly improving classification ***,we present the PDFMLC-based Threat intelligence Mining(PDFMLC-TIM)*** results demonstrate that the PDFMLC algorithm exhibits exceptional node scalability and execution ***,the PDFMLC-TIM method proficiently conducts text classification on cybersecurity analysis reports,extracting tactics entities to construct comprehensive threat *** a result,successfully formatted STIX2.1 threat intelligence is established.
Image captioning is an emerging field in machine *** refers to the ability to automatically generate a syntactically and semantically meaningful sentence that describes the content of an *** captioning requires a comp...
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Image captioning is an emerging field in machine *** refers to the ability to automatically generate a syntactically and semantically meaningful sentence that describes the content of an *** captioning requires a complex machine learning process as it involves two sub models:a vision sub-model for extracting object features and a language sub-model that use the extracted features to generate meaningful ***-based vision transformers models have a great impact in vision field *** this paper,we studied the effect of using the vision transformers on the image captioning process by evaluating the use of four different vision transformer models for the vision sub-models of the image captioning The first vision transformers used is DINO(self-distillation with no labels).The second is PVT(Pyramid Vision Transformer)which is a vision transformer that is not using convolutional *** third is XCIT(cross-Covariance Image Transformer)which changes the operation in self-attention by focusing on feature dimension instead of token *** last one is SWIN(Shifted windows),it is a vision transformer which,unlike the other transformers,uses shifted-window in splitting the *** a deeper evaluation,the four mentioned vision transformers have been tested with their different versions and different configuration,we evaluate the use of DINO model with five different backbones,PVT with two versions:PVT_v1and PVT_v2,one model of XCIT,SWIN *** results show the high effectiveness of using SWIN-transformer within the proposed image captioning model with regard to the other models.
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