2024 April-1 - 243 articles
Named entity recognition (NER) is a critical subtask in natural language processing. It is particularly valuable to gain a deeper understanding of entity boundaries and entity types when addressing the NER problem. Most previous sequential labeling m...
Drainage pipes are a critical component of urban infrastructure, and their safety and proper functioning are vital. However, haze problems caused by humid environments and temperature differences seriously affect the quality and detection accuracy of...
The paper presents a nonlinear field-oriented control technique based on the tensor product representation of the nonlinear induction machine model and the solvability of linear matrix inequalities. The nonlinear model has 32 quasi linear parameter-v...
When designing a system at the Electronic System Level (ESL), designers are confronted with a very large number of design decisions, each affecting the characteristics of the resulting system. Simultaneously, the demands for the system’s perfor...
Following recent advancements in medical laboratory technology, the analysis of high-resolution renal pathological images has become increasingly important in the diagnosis and prognosis prediction of chronic nephritis. In particular, deep learning h...
This paper investigates the potential of active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to enhance wireless-powered communication networks (WPCNs), addressing the evolving connectivity needs of the internet of things (IoT). Active RIS, capable of a...
To effectively enhance the adaptability of earthquake rescue robots in dynamic environments and complex tasks, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive evaluation method that encompasses establishing an evaluation index system, testing performance...
Detecting and identifying small infrared targets has always been a crucial technology for many applications. To address the low accuracy, high false-alarm rate, and poor environmental adaptability that commonly exist in infrared target detection meth...
Online fashion retailers face enormous challenges due to high return rates that significantly affect their operational performance. Proactively predicting returns at the point of order placement allows for preemptive interventions to reduce potential...
In this paper, an n-i-p-type GaN barrier for the final quantum well, which is closest to the p-type GaN cap layer, is proposed for nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to enhance the confinement of electrons and to improve the efficiency of hole inje...
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology exhibits significant potential in enhancing the energy efficiency of 6G mobile communications. Nevertheless, recent studies sugg...
In recent years, the digitization of cultural heritage has been favored by significant advancements in specific technologies, such as photogrammetry and three-dimensional scanning. The digital representations of artifacts, paintings, books, and colle...
This study explores the use of large language models in constructing a knowledge graph for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to improve the representation, storage, and application of TCM knowledge. The knowledge graph, based on a graph structure, e...
Lung cancer, a prevalent and life-threatening condition, necessitates early detection for effective intervention. Considering the recent advancements in deep learning techniques, particularly in medical image analysis, which offer unparalleled accura...
Document image binarization is a challenging task, especially when it comes to text segmentation in degraded document images. The binarization, as a pre-processing step of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is one of the most fundamental and common...
A new decoding method for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented to lower the energy consumption of LDPC decoders for NAND flash-based storage systems. Since the channel condition of NAND flash memory is reliable for most of its lifetime,...
The swift embrace of Industry 4.0 paradigms has led to the growing convergence of Information Technology (IT) networks and Operational Technology (OT) networks. Traditionally isolated on air-gapped and fully trusted networks, OT networks are now beco...
Leakage diodes cause deviations in the thermal drift of ultra-low-power two-transistor (2T) reference circuits, resulting in either convex or concave output voltages against temperature, depending on the reference transistor types (n-type/p-type). Th...
Nowadays, fine-tuning has emerged as a powerful technique in machine learning, enabling models to adapt to a specific domain by leveraging pre-trained knowledge. One such application domain is automatic speech recognition (ASR), where fine-tuning pla...
Surface imperfections in steel materials potentially degrade quality and performance, thereby escalating the risk of accidents in engineering applications. Manual inspection, while traditional, is laborious and lacks consistency. However, recent adva...
The abilities of quantitative description of noise are restricted due to its origin, and only statistical and spectral analysis methods can be applied, while an exact time evolution cannot be defined or predicted. This emphasizes the challenges faced...
Cloud-service recommendation systems make suggestions based on ratings provided by cloud users. These ratings may contain sparse data, which makes it difficult to speculate on suitable cloud services. Moreover, new cloud users often suffer from cold-...
Mobile phone backplanes are an important part of mobile phones, and are often affected by a wide range of factors during the manufacturing process, resulting in defects of various scales and similar backgrounds. Therefore, accurately identifying thes...
In the realm of manufacturing processes, equipment failures can result in substantial financial losses and pose significant safety hazards. Consequently, prior research has primarily been focused on preemptively detecting anomalies before they manife...
This article proposes a novel 1 bit electronically reconfigurable transmitarray, designed to facilitate digital two-dimensional beam scanning, boasting both high gain and a slim profile. The fundamental phase shifting unit of the transmitarray unit c...
In this article, a 1 × 4 wideband, dual-polarized patch antenna array fed by a novel, differentially fed structure is proposed. The differentially fed structure of the antenna was realized by a parallel line structure that was printed on a PCB...
During unexpected driving situations in autonomous vehicles, such as a system failure, the driver should take over control from the vehicles in SAE Level 3 to cope with unexpected situations. Therefore, it is necessary to develop reasonable takeover...
This research introduces WCC-EC 2.0 (Web-Crawled Corpus—English and Chinese), a comprehensive parallel corpus designed for enhancing Neural Machine Translation (NMT), featuring over 1.6 million English-Chinese sentence pairs meticulously gather...
Unlike previous approaches in speech emotion recognition (SER), which typically extract emotion embeddings from a trained classifier consisting of fully connected layers and training data without considering contextual information, this research intr...
As the adoption of renewable energy sources grows, ensuring a stable power balance across various time frames has become a central challenge for modern power systems. In line with the “dual carbon” objectives and the seamless integration...
Clandestine assailants infiltrate intelligent systems in smart cities and homes for different purposes. These attacks leave clues behind in multiple logs. Systems usually upload their local syslogs as encrypted files to the cloud for longterm storage...
The video game Factorio is a popular real-time strategy game that hosts a variety of gameplay scenarios analogous to real-world problems such as factory building, pipeline optimization, and conveyor belt logistics. It also considers environmental cos...
As the size of deep learning models continues to expand, the elongation of inference time has gradually evolved into a significant challenge to efficiency and practicality for autoregressive models. This work introduces a hybrid model acceleration st...
Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have had a profound impact on the experiential tasks of the smart home, particularly automated tasks supported by sensors, embedded systems, and communication devices that are capable of autonomously...
The integration of Digital Twins (DTs) is becoming increasingly important in various industries. This entails the need for a comprehensive and practical IT infrastructure framework. This paper presents a modifiable medium-level architecture that serv...
In this contribution, a novel optimization approach, derived from the behavioral patterns exhibited by Duroc pig herds, is proposed. In the developed metaheuristic, termed Artificial Duroc Pigs Optimization (ADPO), Ordered Fuzzy Numbers (OFN) have be...
Wire clamps and vibration-proof hammers are key components of high-voltage transmission lines. The wire clips and vibration-proof hammers detected in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) power inspections suffer from small size, scarce edge information, and...
This paper presents the author’s approaches based on computational intelligence methods for application in the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) of a smart ship. The considered task is collision avoidance, which is one of the vital functions o...
With the evolution of fifth-generation (5G) to sixth-generation (6G) communication systems, the utilization of spectrum resources faces incremental challenges. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology, as a crucial element in 6G technol...
The reliability of AI-based object detection models has gained interest with their increasing use in safety-critical systems and the development of new regulations on artificial intelligence. To meet the need for robustness evaluation, several author...
Studying how objects are positioned is vital for improving technologies like robots, cameras, and virtual reality. In our earlier papers, we introduced a bio-inspired artificial visual system for orientation detection, demonstrating its superiority o...
The article presents the issues related to load-power sharing in direct-current grid and a novel control method has advantages over known solutions. Unlike many similar-sounding papers, this article shows an attempt at creating fully controllable non...
In response to the challenges posed by climate change, including extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall and droughts, the agricultural sector is increasingly seeking solutions for the efficient use of resources, particularly water. Pivotal as...
In light of the energy crisis, extensive research is being conducted to enhance load forecasting, optimize the targeting of demand response programs, and advise building occupants on actions to enhance energy performance. Cluster analysis is increasi...
The fluctuation and intermittency of wind power generation seriously affect the stability and security of power grids. Aiming at smoothing wind power fluctuations, this paper proposes a flywheel–battery hybrid energy storage system (HESS) based...
This study investigates the effect of dynamic changes in monitor height and tilt on neck pain and posture of computer users. Using a wearable device, we aim to compare neck pain and spine angle between static and dynamic monitors. A spine angle track...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology with open-source large language models (LLMs). A dedicated web-based application, PaSSER, was developed, integrating RAG with Mistral:7b, Ll...
Defect pattern analysis of wafer bin maps (WBMs) is an important means of identifying process problems. Recently, automated analysis methods using machine learning or deep learning have been studied as alternatives to manual classification by enginee...
This new antenna, called the reconfigurable holographic surface (RHS), is lightweight and compact, and it can precisely steer many beams at once. Because of its reflecting characteristic, it differs from the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS),...
In the pursuit of advanced Predictive Health Management (PHM) for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs), conventional data-driven models encounter considerable barriers due to data reconstruction resulting in poor data quality, and the complex...
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