2023 April - 52 articles
Contemporary software applications have shifted focus from 2D representations to 3D. Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) are two technologies that have captured the industry’s interest as they show great potential in many areas. This paper pr...
Deep neural networks have proven to be able to learn rich internal representations, including for features that can also be used for different purposes than those the networks are originally developed for. In this paper, we are interested in explorin...
The increasing amount of legal information available online is overwhelming for both citizens and legal professionals, making it difficult and time-consuming to find relevant information and keep up with the latest legal developments. Automatic text...
With methods for processing remote sensing data becoming widely available, the ability to quantify changes in spatial data and to evaluate the distribution of diverse landforms across target areas in datasets becomes increasingly important. One way t...
The energy consumption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) presents a new grand technological challenge. The two main approaches to tackle the challenge include the development of energy-efficient hardware and software. The development...
Power control in an RS-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system with error-and-erasure correction decoding in Rayleigh fading channels was investigated. The power of each symbol within a codeword was controlled to reduce the codewo...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the target positioning and tracking are very important topics. There are many different methods used in target positioning and tracking, for example, angle of arrival (AOA), time of arrival (TOA), time difference o...
This work describes a learning tool named ARGeoITS that combines augmented reality with an intelligent tutoring system to support geometry learning. The work depicts a study developed in Mexico to measure the impact on the learning and motivation of...
Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) typically employ with the aid of new technology to increase Quality-of-Service (QoS) when forwarding multiple data rates. This kind of network causes high forwarding delays and improper data transfer rates because of th...
In the world, with the continuous development of modern society and the acceleration of urbanization, the problem of air pollution is becoming increasingly salient. Methods for predicting the air quality grade and determining the necessary governance...
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of Transformers. From the first introduction of this technology in 2017, the use of transformers has become widespread and has had a profo...
The existing approaches to supporting the tasks of managing the urban areas development are aimed at choosing an alternative from a set of ready-made solutions. Little attention is paid to the procedure for the formation and analysis of acceptable op...
This paper presents a novel low-cost integrated system prototype, called School Violence Detection system (SVD), based on a 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). It is used for classifying and identifying automatically violent actions in educational...
The drone market’s growth poses a serious threat to the negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use of drones, especially in airports and their surroundings. Effective protection of an airport against drone intrusions should guarantee mandatory...
Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) cause human losses and irreparable physical and psychological damage to many of the victims. They also involve a very relevant economic dimension. It is urgent to improve the management of human and material resources for...
Reported experiences of chronic pain may convey qualities relevant to the exploration of this private and subjective experience. We propose this exploration by means of the Reddit Reports of Chronic Pain (RRCP) dataset. We define and validate the RRC...
Modern developments in machine learning methodology have produced effective approaches to speech emotion recognition. The field of data mining is widely employed in numerous situations where it is possible to predict future outcomes by using the inpu...
Although the Metaverse is becoming a popular technology in many aspects of our lives, there are some drawbacks to its implementation on clouds, including long latency, security concerns, and centralized infrastructures. Therefore, designing scalable...
Recently, federated learning (FL) has gradually become an important research topic in machine learning and information theory. FL emphasizes that clients jointly engage in solving learning tasks. In addition to data security issues, fundamental chall...
The main task of the National Research Program “Smart crop production”, supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria and approved by the Council of Ministers, is the development of a regional data center to facilitate th...
In this paper, we built an automated machine learning (AutoML) pipeline for structure-based learning and hyperparameter optimization purposes. The pipeline consists of three main automated stages. The first carries out the collection and preprocessin...
Residential electricity consumption forecasting plays a crucial role in the rational allocation of resources reducing energy waste and enhancing the grid-connected operation of power systems. Probabilistic forecasting can provide more comprehensive i...
Current microprocessor-based relay protection and automation (RPA) devices supported by IEC 61850 provide access to a large amount of information on the protected or controlled electric power facility in real time. The issue of using such information...
This paper addresses the problem concerning the efficient minimization of power losses in asymmetric distribution grids from the perspective of convex optimization. This research’s main objective is to propose an approximation optimization mode...
Traffic forecasting has been an important area of research for several decades, with significant implications for urban traffic planning, management, and control. In recent years, deep-learning models, such as graph neural networks (GNN), have shown...
This paper analyzes the relationships among eight ancient scripts from between Greece and India. We used convolutional neural networks combined with support vector machines to give a numerical rating of the similarity between pairs of signs (one sign...
Parallel corpora have been widely used in the fields of natural language processing and translation as they provide crucial multilingual information. They are used to train machine translation systems, compile dictionaries, or generate inter-language...
The ubiquity of the Internet and its technology and the increasing aging of the world’s population are ever more evident. Older users have different demands and capabilities when using the services offered in the digital environment. As a servi...
Currently, machine learning (ML) technologies are widely employed in the automotive field for determining physical quantities thanks to their ability to ensure lower computational costs and faster operations than traditional methods. Within this cont...
The field of automated machine learning (AutoML) has gained significant attention in recent years due to its ability to automate the process of building and optimizing machine learning models. However, the increasing amount of big data being generate...
Virtual users generate a gigantic volume of unbalanced sentiments over various online crowd-sourcing platforms which consist of text, emojis, or a combination of both. Its accurate analysis brings profits to various industries and their services. The...
Implementing single-channel speech enhancement under unknown noise conditions is a challenging problem. Most existing time-frequency domain methods are based on the amplitude spectrogram, and these methods often ignore the phase mismatch between nois...
This paper presents a multi-material dual “contouring” method used to convert a digital 3D voxel-based atlas of basal ganglia to a deformable discrete multi-surface model that supports surgical navigation for an intraoperative MRI-compati...
Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) is a promising technology for educational purposes. It allows for interactive, engaging, and spatially independent learning. While the didactic benefits of AR have been well studied in recent years and commodity smartpho...
Pedestrian tracking and detection have become critical aspects of advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), due to their academic and commercial potential. Their objective is to locate various pedestrians in videos and assign them unique identities...
The rise of social media as a platform for self-expression and self-understanding has led to increased interest in using the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to explore human personalities. Despite this, there needs to be more research on how...
How can useful information extracted from unstructured data be used to contribute to a better prediction of corporate failure or bankruptcy? In this research, we examine a data set of 2,163,147 financial statements of German companies that are triple...
Nowadays, in view of the growing traffic volume, an appropriate aircraft sequencing in the arrival sector is needed to maintain safety levels and improve the performance of the runway system and flight times. This paper presents a digital assistant s...
Plant phenotyping studies the complex characteristics of plants, with the aim of evaluating and assessing their condition and finding better exemplars. Recently, a new branch emerged in the phenotyping field, namely, high-throughput phenotyping (HTP)...
Neural network (NN) components are being increasingly incorporated into software systems. Neural network properties are determined by their architecture, as well as the training and testing datasets used. The engineering of datasets and neural networ...
The rapid growth of ship traffic leads to traffic congestion, which causes maritime accidents. Accurate ship trajectory prediction can improve the efficiency of navigation and maritime traffic safety. Previous studies have focused on developing a shi...
Solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant form of energy that can be obtained from the Sun. Solar panels convert this energy to generate solar power, which can be used for various electrical purposes, particularly in rural areas. Maximum solar p...
More than 1.3 million people are killed in traffic accidents annually. Road traffic accidents are mostly caused by human error. Therefore, an accurate driving fatigue detection system is required for drivers. Most driving fatigue detection studies co...
In today’s business environment, reducing costs is crucial due to the variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and security infrastructure. However, applying security measures to complex business scenarios can lead to performance degradation...
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an efficient method for feature learning in the field of machine learning and data mining. To investigate the nonlinear characteristics of datasets, kernel-method-based NMF (KNMF) and its graph-regularized ex...
E-learning is an innovative strategy for enhancing teaching and learning in digital environments with the goal of enhancing education. In the same context, recommendation models have been developed for predicting the user’s learning preferences...
In rehabilitation settings that exploit Mixed Reality, a clinician risks losing empathy with the patient by being immersed in different worlds, either real and/or virtual. While the patient perceives the rehabilitation stimuli in a mixed real–v...
Computation-intensive vehicle tasks sharply increase with the rapid growth of intelligent vehicles. The technology of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has the possibility of assisting vehicles with computation offloading. To solve the problem of computati...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to revolutionize agriculture by providing real-time data on crop and livestock conditions. This study aims to evaluate the performance scalability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in agriculture, speci...
In the public health sector and the field of medicine, the popularity of data mining and its usage in knowledge discovery and databases (KDD) are rising. The growing popularity of data mining has discovered innovative healthcare links to support deci...
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