Electronics, Volume 12, Issue 2

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have succeeded for handwritten numeral recognition (HNR) applications. However, CNN seems to misclassify similarly shaped numerals (i.e., the silhouette of the numerals that look the same). This paper...

Functional metal parts with complicated geometry and internal features for the aerospace and automotive industries can be created using the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM) technique. However, the lack of uniform quality of the pro...

Human–object interaction (HOI) detection is important for promoting the development of many fields such as human–computer interactions, service robotics, and video security surveillance. A high percentage of human–object pairs with...

Background: Alzheimer’s, the predominant formof dementia, is a neurodegenerative brain disorder with no known cure. With the lack of innovative findings to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s, the number of middle-aged people with dementia is...

This paper presents a compact balun with a common inductor design. The design used Wilkinson-type balun topology with modified lumped transmission lines and a common inductor to realize circuit size reduction on a lossy CMOS process. Measurements of...

In order to solve the low accuracy in rolling bearing fault diagnosis caused by irrelevant and redundant features, a feature selection method based on a clustering hybrid binary cuckoo search is proposed. First, the measured motor signal is processed...

Three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs) have been widely applied to analyze Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain images for a better understanding of the disease progress or predicting the conversion from cognitively impaired (CU) o...

The evaluation of heart health status is the reference standard for measuring the intensity of exercise performed by different individuals. Thus, the effective analysis of heart conditions is an important research topic. In this study, we propose a s...

The performance of analog and RF circuits is widely affected by the interconnection parasitic in the circuit. With the progress of technology, interconnection parasitics plays a larger role in performance deterioration. To solve this problem, designe...

Dual-Core Lockstep (DCLS) is one of the most commonly used techniques in applications requiring functional safety. As the semiconductor process nodes keep shrinking, the DCLS technique is also more and more frequently seen in industrial or even consu...

Software-defined networks (SDNs) are computer networks where parameters and devices are configured by software. Recently, artificial intelligence aspects have been used for SDN programs for various applications, including packet classification and fo...

The characteristics of load-independent constant current (CC) output and zero phase angle (ZPA) operation are required in many scenarios of inductive power transfer (IPT) applications. However, the existing topologies with CC output characteristics u...

With the rapid evolution of network technologies over recent years, emerging network services, especially industrial control networks, video conferencing, intelligent driving, and other scenarios, have put forward higher demand for the low-latency fo...

Viruses are one of the main threats to the security of today’s cyberspace. With the continuous development of virus and artificial intelligence technologies in recent years, the intelligentization of virus technology has become a trend. It is o...

The Internet of things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been rapidly and tremendously developing recently as computing technologies have brought about a significant revolution. Their applications and implementations can be found all aro...

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be rapid, making it an essential part of information technology. As a result, IoT devices must be able to handle data collection, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and preprocessing of dat...

The estimation accuracy of the mixed matrix is very important to the performance of the underdetermined blind source separation (UBSS) system. To improve the estimation accuracy of the mixed matrix, the sparsity of the mixed signal is required. The n...

3D virtual reality spaces, whether running on desktop environments or on immersive displays, have been noted to support a radically new and highly stimulating way of working with digital content in a variety of application domains. At the same time,...

Reversible data hiding (RDH) is an active area of research in the field of information security. In RDH, a secret can be embedded inside a cover medium. Unlike other data-hiding schemes, RDH becomes important in applications that demand recovery of t...

A photonic microwave frequency measurement system with single-branch detection based on polarization interference is proposed. In this scheme, a 15-line non-flat optical frequency comb (OFC) based on sawtooth signal modulation via a Mach–Zehnde...

The aim of the present study is to find solutions for better management of online education, starting from students’ perspectives regarding the challenges they encountered in the last two years when online courses were imposed during the COVID-...

In this paper, we introduce an electronically tuneable band-stop filter based on a dielectric resonator, along with its design principles and equivalent circuit model aimed at the coexistence of intelligent transport systems (ITS) and cellular vehicl...

The multi-axis servo control system has been extensively used in industrial control. However, the applications of traditional MCU and DSP chips in high-performance multi-axis servo control systems are becoming increasingly difficult due to their lack...

A 5G wireless network requires an efficient approach to effectively manage and segment the resource. A Centralized Radio Access Network (CRAN) is used to handle complex distributed networks. Specific to network infrastructure, multicast communication...

In this paper, we analyze the performances of an Enhanced Static Segment Multiplier (ESSM) when the inputs have both uniform and non-uniform distribution. The enhanced segmentation divides the multiplicands into a lower, a middle, and an upper segmen...

Saliency detection as an active research direction in image understanding and analysis has been studied extensively. In this paper, to improve the accuracy of saliency detection, we propose an efficient unsupervised salient object detection method. T...

Recently, hybrid logic circuits based on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have been widely investigated to realize zero standby power. However, such hybrid CMOS/MTJ logic circuits suffer from a severe sensing reliability due to the limited tunnel mag...

In order to measure tunnel illumination with high efficiency and accuracy, a vehicle-mounted tunnel illumination measurement device is designed in this paper. The device comprises a measurement module, a control module, a display module, and a power...

Artificial intelligence is widely used in mathematical modeling. The technical means in mathematical modeling are more and more diversified, especially the application of artificial intelligence algorithm greatly promotes the development of mathemati...

Development of deep learning has led to progress in computer vision, including metric learning tasks such as image retrieval, through convolutional neural networks. In image retrieval, the metric distance (i.e., the similarity) between the images nee...

The employment of chaotic maps in a variety of applications such as cryptosecurity, image encryption schemes, communication schemes, and secure communication has been made possible thanks to their properties of high levels of complexity, ergodicity,...

In July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency; in the future, this may cause the closure of higher education institutions and a shift toward digital learning. As before,...

Implementation of the permanent magnet synchronous motor vector control implies strong time dependencies. The control process requires precise measurement of motor shaft position and winding currents to establish correct driving. The tight time depen...

This paper presents the development of a device that creates two or more light pulses with a precision time delay in a range from microseconds to several seconds and for the purpose of the calibration of velocity of detonation (VOD) measurement instr...

Skin disease is one of the most common diseases. Due to the intricate categories of skin diseases, their symptoms being very similar in the early stage, and the lesion samples being extremely unbalanced, their classification is challenging. At the sa...

Nowadays, the classical aperture theory is supplemented by data on the properties of electromagnetic fields in the near radiated field zone. A fundamental feature of the functioning of antennas in this area is the possibility of spatial focusing of e...

With the noteworthy expansion of textual data sources in recent years, easy, quick, and precise text processing has become a challenge for key qualifiers. Automatic text summarization is the process of squeezing text documents into shorter summaries...

The use of telerehabilitation systems has shown a significant growth in the past years, demonstrating their crucial relevance in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many devices and sensors have been proposed to analytically measure parameters for pat...

When micro-expressions are mixed with normal or macro-expressions, it becomes increasingly challenging to spot them in long videos. Aiming at the specific time prior of micro-expressions (MEs), an ME spotting network called AEM-Net (adaptive enhanced...

At present, there are many technical methods in the field of target detection, but the detection methods are greatly affected by direct-path signals and need technical support such as extracting pure direct-path signals, so they cannot be used under...

In this study, we designed a Ka-band two-stage differential power amplifier (PA) using a 65 nm RFCMOS process. To enhance the output power of the PA, a three-stack structure was utilized in the power stage, while the driver stage of the PA was design...

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cybercriminals are targeting critical infrastructures such as traffic light systems and smart grids. A major concern is the security of such systems, which can be broken down into a number of categories...

One of the promises of AI in the military domain that seems to guarantee its adoption is its broad applicability. In a military context, the potential for AI is present in all operational domains (i.e., land, sea, air, space, and cyber-space) and all...

In this paper, we investigate the trust-degree-based secure relay selection in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-enabled relay networks. In particular, we optimize the interference power by selecting the appropriate relay a...

In this paper, a fuzzy-based evaluation method is presented for the impact of e-learning on several aspects of the learning lives of academic students of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the...

The output power of a PV (photovoltaic) array decreases due to the partial shading condition (PSC). If one or more PV modules receives less irradiance compared to other PV modules in a PV array then it is called PSC. To enhance the output power of PV...

We present a solution based on blockchain technology and smart contracts for agile project management in light of the continuing transition in the software development industry. Due to the fact that these technologies are self-executing, customized,...

Hardware description languages and tools require a considerable amount of teaching activities in a digital systems design course, which is difficult to accommodate in a limited time frame, and to use for e-learning. This paper presents our user-frien...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an extended version of the Internet of Things (IoT). It mainly concentrates on the integration of medical things for servicing needy people who cannot get medical services easily, especially rural area people...

The development of social media has triggered important changes in our society and in the way consumers read and trust online information. The presence of consumers in the online environment exposes them to a greater extent to various instances of fa...