2024 June-2 - 197 articles
The rapid growth of electronic health (eHealth) systems has led to serious security and privacy challenges, highlighting the critical importance of protecting sensitive healthcare data. Although researchers have employed blockchain to tackle data man...
While using multirotor UAVs for transport of suspended payloads, there is a need for stability along the desired path, in addition to avoidance of any excessive payload oscillations, and a good level of precision in maintaining the desired path of th...
Effective real-time autonomous navigation for mobile robots in static and dynamic environments has become a challenging and active research topic. Although the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm offers a solution, it often heavily...
In-loop restoration is a post-processing task aiming to reduce losses caused by the quantization and the inverse quantization phases in a video coding process. Emerging in-loop restoration methods, most of them based on deep learning, have reported h...
In the last decade, graph embedding-based dimensionality reduction for multi-view data has been extensively studied. However, constructing a high-quality graph for dimensionality reduction is still a significant challenge. Herein, we propose a new al...
Adversarial attacks have received much attention as communication network applications rise in popularity. Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) must be protected against adversarial attacks to ensure passenger and vehicle safety on the road. Never...
Maintenance planning is crucial for efficient operation of wind turbines, particularly in harsh conditions where degradation of critical components, such as bearings, can lead to costly downtimes and safety threats. In this context, prognostics of de...
Depth images captured by low-cost three-dimensional (3D) cameras are subject to low spatial density, requiring depth completion to improve 3D imaging quality. Image-guided depth completion aims at predicting dense depth images from extremely sparse d...
This paper addresses the scientific problem of enhancing the security and capacity of steganographic methods for protecting digital media. The primary aim is to develop an advanced steganographic technique that optimizes quantization tables to surpas...
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) are used for dynamically modeling facts in the temporal dimension, and are widely used in various fields. However, existing reasoning models often fail to consider the similarity features between entity relationships...
In recent years, most internet communications have focused on accessing content such as video, web services, and audio. Conversely, traditional Internet communications are inefficient because they are primarily designed for data transfer between host...
The memristor, a revolutionary electronic component, mimics both neural synapses and electromagnetic induction phenomena. Recent study challenges are the development of effective neural models and discovering their dynamics. In this study, we propose...
This paper introduces a variational autoencoder network designed for video colorization using reference images, addressing the challenge of colorizing black-and-white videos. Although recent techniques perform well in some scenarios, they often strug...
In maintaining roads and ensuring safety, promptly detecting and repairing pavement defects is crucial. However, conventional detection methods demand substantial manpower, incur high costs, and suffer from low efficiency. To enhance road maintenance...
Accurate vibration classification using inertial measurement unit (IMU) data is critical for various applications such as condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. This study proposes a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach, the IMU...
Cough is a frequent symptom in many common respiratory diseases and is considered a predictor of early exacerbation or even disease progression. Continuous cough monitoring offers valuable insights into treatment effectiveness, aiding healthcare prov...
In everyday life, 5G-based localization technology is commonly used, but non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments can block the propagation of the localization signal, thus preventing localization. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a r...
Though most people are capable of performing many tasks regardless of cognitive or physical challenges, some individuals, especially those with visual impairments, must rely on others to perform even basic tasks. The chance of them interacting with a...
This paper presents a wideband ridge waveguide Magic-T based on an E- and an H-arm waveguide power divider using a stepped conducting T-junction transition. The Magic-T is designed to cover the full band of 18–40 GHz with a relative bandwidth o...
Transformers have demonstrated a significant advantage over CNNs in modeling long-range dependencies, leading to increasing attention being paid towards their application in semantic segmentation tasks. In the present work, a novel semantic segmentat...
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are an important tool to mitigate cybersecurity threats in the ICT infrastructures. Preferable properties of the IDSs are the optimization of the attack detection accuracy and the minimization of the computing resou...
As network sizes grow, attack schemes not only become more varied but also increase in complexity. This diversification leads to a proliferation of attack variants, complicating the identification and differentiation of potential threats. Enhancing s...
Vibration signal analysis is regarded as a fundamental approach in diagnosing faults in rolling bearings, and recent advancements have shown notable progress in this domain. However, the presence of substantial background noise often results in the m...
This paper presents a polar-format algorithm (PFA)-based synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) processor that can be mounted on a small drone to support video SAR (ViSAR) imaging. For drone mounting, it requires miniaturization, low power consumption, and h...
Due to nonideal residue amplification, the limited resolution of pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has become a popular research topic for ADC designers. High-gain and high-speed amplifiers usually consume too much power for a decent ADC....
This work presents a methodology for the generation and classification of phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) patterns based on the use of a printed UHF monopole antenna and signal conditioning circuit to reduce hardware requirements. For this pu...
With the increasing complexity of integrated circuit design, the threat of a hardware Trojan (HT) is becoming more and more prominent. At present, the research mainly focuses on the detection of HTs, but the amount of research on the diagnosis of HTs...
The characterization of the detection capability assumes significance when the reliable monitoring of the region of interest by a non-contact sensor is a safety-relevant function. This paper introduces new validation scores that evaluate the detectio...
The rapid advancement of deepfake technology presents significant challenges in detecting highly convincing fake videos, posing risks such as misinformation, identity theft, and privacy violations. In response, this paper proposes an innovative appro...
A stratospheric pseudolite (SP) is a pseudolite installed on a stratospheric airship. A stratospheric pseudolite network (SPN) is composed of multiple SPs, which shows promising potential in navigation applications because of its station-keeping capa...
Digital audio–tactile maps (DATMs) on touchscreen devices provide valuable opportunities for people who are visually impaired (PVIs) to explore the spatial environment for engaging in travel activities. Existing solutions for DATMs usually requ...
Content dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) is a challenging topic due to the high mobility of nodes, resulting in the difficulty of keeping routing tables updated. State-of-the-art proposals overcome this problem by avoiding the manag...
This study explores the public library service evaluation domain through user-generated content on Google Maps, highlighting digital feedback’s significant yet underexplored potential in understanding public library patronage across Taiwan&rsqu...
As subsidies for renewable energy are progressively reduced worldwide, electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) powered by renewable energy must adopt market-driven approaches to stay competitive. The unpredictable nature of renewable energy produc...
Fe contamination has always been one of the most critical issues in the integrated circuit (IC) industry due to its catastrophic effect on device reliability and electrical characteristics. With complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technolo...
A prospective, single-center, non-randomized, pre-marketing clinical investigation was conducted with a single group of subjects to collect skin lesion images. These images were subsequently utilized to compare the results obtained from a traditional...
Chronic kidney disease–mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) frequently occurs in hemodialysis patients and is a common cause of osteoporosis. Regular dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans are used to monitor these patients, but frequent,...
Musical cultural heritage, as an important component of cultural heritage, possesses significant cultural value and inheritance significance. With the development of society and the passage of time, these precious traditional musical cultural heritag...
In the mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, base stations with computational capabilities are subject to service coverage limitations, and the mobility of devices leads to dynamic changes in their connections, directly impacting the offloading d...
The estimation of direction of arrival (DOA) is paramount in the realm of practical array signal processing systems. Nevertheless, traditional estimation methods often rely heavily on the Gaussian noise assumption, rendering them ineffective in achie...
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Al alloying/doping in HfO2-based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) has been proven to be an effective method for improving the low-resistance state (LRS) retention. However, a detailed understanding of Al concentration on oxygen vacancy migration...
A new type of anti-resonant hollow-core fiber for terahertz waveguides is proposed. By introducing central support pillars and an elliptical structure, the fiber achieves high birefringence while maintaining low confinement loss and low material abso...
Accurately detecting targets in remote-sensing images is crucial for the military, urban planning, and resource exploration. There are some challenges in extracting detailed features from remote-sensing images, such as complex backgrounds, large-scal...
Binary function analysis is fundamental in understanding the behavior and genealogy of malware. The detection, classification, and analysis of Linux IoT malware and its variants present significant challenges due to the wide range of architectures su...
The photon storage time in a superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonator is contingent on the loaded quality factor, primarily dictated by the input and output capacitance of the resonator. The phase-slip based superconducting quantum interfer...
In the domain of cybersecurity, available annotated data are often scarce, especially for Chinese cybersecurity datasets, often necessitating the manual construction of datasets. The scarcity of samples is one of the challenges in researching cyberse...
This paper deals with the position detection of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in dynamic resonant-inductive wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. A position detection is necessary to activate the correct transmitting coil. One of the simplest and...
Compared to text and images, video can show information more vividly and intuitively via a moving picture; therefore, video is widely used in all walks of life. However, videos uploaded or stored in various video applications have not been treated wi...
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