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  • Open Access
5 Citations
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22 Pages

12 December 2024

Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is widely used within and across data centers due to its low latency, high throughput, and low CPU overhead. To further enhance the transmission performance of RDMA, techniques such as multi-path RDMA have been prop...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Integrated Circuit Design and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,100 Views
13 Pages

14 July 2014

Even though WM-Bus is being considered to be the most promising network protocol for smart metering, it is not suitable for a sustainable real-time home energy management system (HEMS), which requires higher reliability and longer lifetime despite re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Green IT System for Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,146 Views
17 Pages

BMRC: A Bitmap-Based Maximum Range Counting Approach for Temporal Data in Sensor Monitoring Networks

  • Bin Cao,
  • Wangyuan Chen,
  • Ying Shen,
  • Chenyu Hou and ,
  • Jung Yoon Kim and
  • Lifeng Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 September 2017

Due to the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), many feasible deployments of sensor monitoring networks have been made to capture the events in physical world, such as human diseases, weather disasters and traffic accidents, which gener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models, Systems and Applications for Sensors in Cyber Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,526 Views
38 Pages

Partitioning rectangular and rectilinear shapes in n-dimensional binary images into the smallest set of axis-aligned n-cuboids is a fundamental problem in image analysis, pattern recognition, and computational geometry, with applications in object de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Image Processing: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,467 Views
9 Pages

1 November 2021

There is spiking interest in graph analysis, mainly sparked by social network analysis done for various purposes. With social network graphs often achieving very large size, there is a need for capable tools to perform such an analysis. In this artic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information for Business and Management–Software Development for Data Processing and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,947 Views
11 Pages

Creating Digital Watermarks in Bitmap Images Using Lagrange Interpolation and Bezier Curves

  • Aigerim Yerimbetova,
  • Elmira Daiyrbayeva,
  • Ekaterina Merzlyakova,
  • Andrey Fionov and ,
  • Nazerke Baisholan,
  • Mussa Turdalyuly,
  • Nurzhan Mukazhanov and
  • Almas Turganbayev
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 September 2023

The article is devoted to the introduction of digital watermarks, which formthe basis for copyright protection systems. Methods in this area are aimed at embedding hidden markers that are resistant to various container transformations. This paper pro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,341 Views
19 Pages

ORNIC: A High-Performance RDMA NIC with Out-of-Order Packet Direct Write Method for Multipath Transmission

  • Jiandong Ma,
  • Zhichuan Guo,
  • Yipeng Pan,
  • Mengting Zhang and ,
  • Zhixiang Zhao,
  • Zezheng Sun and
  • Yiwei Chang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology provides a low-latency, high-bandwidth, and CPU-bypassed method for data transmission between servers. Recent works have proved that multipath transmission, especially packet spraying, can avoid network c...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Integrated Circuit Design and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,989 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2023

The Join task between Spark large tables takes a long time to run and produces a lot of disk I/O, network I/O and disk occupation in the Shuffle process. This paper proposes a lightweight distributed data filtering model that combines broadcast varia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,208 Views
18 Pages

8 September 2023

The blockchain-based searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) scheme allows the retrieval and verification of outsourced data on cloud servers in sixth generation (6G) networks while ensuring the privacy of data. However, existing schemes are challengin...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
968 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2025

Identifying abnormal group behavior formed by multi-type participants from large-scale historical industry and tax data is important for regulators to prevent potential criminal activity. We propose an Abnormal Alliance detection framework comprising...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,895 Views
14 Pages

Data Processing and Information Classification—An In-Memory Approach

  • Milena Andrighetti,
  • Giovanna Turvani,
  • Giulia Santoro,
  • Marco Vacca and ,
  • Andrea Marchesin,
  • Fabrizio Ottati,
  • Massimo Ruo Roch,
  • Mariagrazia Graziano and
  • Maurizio Zamboni
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 March 2020

To live in the information society means to be surrounded by billions of electronic devices full of sensors that constantly acquire data. This enormous amount of data must be processed and classified. A solution commonly adopted is to send these data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society – Sensing Systems and Pervasive Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,566 Views
24 Pages

3 August 2019

In this paper, a high-precision image authentication scheme for absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC)-compressed images is presented. For each block, two sub-bitmaps are conducted using the symmetrical separation, and the six-bit authentica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Engineering Sciences II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,805 Views
17 Pages

Continuous Learning Graphical Knowledge Unit for Cluster Identification in High Density Data Sets

  • K.K.L.B. Adikaram,
  • Mohamed A. Hussein,
  • Mathias Effenberger and
  • Thomas Becker

14 December 2016

Big data are visually cluttered by overlapping data points. Rather than removing, reducing or reformulating overlap, we propose a simple, effective and powerful technique for density cluster generation and visualization, where point marker (graphical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scientific Programming in Practical Symmetric Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,640 Views
19 Pages

Historical network traffic retrieval, both at the packet and flow level, has been applied in many fields of network security, such as network traffic analysis and network forensics. To retrieve specific packets from a vast number of packet traces, it...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
26 Pages

27 September 2026

Procedural textures trade image storage for runtime shader evaluation, whereas baked bitmaps replace repeated procedural computation with stored image data. Controlled path-tracing comparisons that isolate this representation choice remain limited. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Visualization and Computer Graphics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,335 Views
16 Pages

An Authentication Method for AMBTC Compressed Images Using Dual Embedding Strategies

  • Xiaoyu Zhou,
  • Jeanne Chen,
  • Guangsong Yang,
  • Zheng-Feng Lin and
  • Wien Hong

20 January 2023

In this paper, we proposed an efficient authentication method with dual embedment strategies for absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) compressed images. Prior authentication works did not take the smoothness of blocks into account and only...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence in Image and Video Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,549 Views
14 Pages

27 December 2018

In this paper, we propose a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) approach using color and texture features extracted from block truncation coding based on binary ant colony optimization (BACOBTC). First, we present a near-optimized common bitmap sche...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Data Hiding Systems in Image Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,127 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2018

In this paper, an efficient data hiding method that embeds data into absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) codes is proposed. The AMBTC method represents image blocks by trios, and each trio consists of two quantization levels and an asymme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Data Hiding Systems in Image Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,502 Views
18 Pages

A High Fidelity Authentication Scheme for AMBTC Compressed Image Using Reference Table Encoding

  • Tungshou Chen,
  • Xiaoyu Zhou,
  • Rongchang Chen,
  • Wien Hong and
  • Kiasheng Chen

16 October 2021

In this paper, we propose a high-quality image authentication method based on absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) compressed images. The existing AMBTC authentication methods may not be able to detect certain malicious tampering due to th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Approaches to Image Processing with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,103 Views
20 Pages

25 July 2018

Data mining plays a critical role in sustainable decision-making. Although the k-prototypes algorithm is one of the best-known algorithms for clustering both numeric and categorical data, clustering a large number of spatial objects with mixed numeri...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advanced IT based Future Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,827 Views
15 Pages

High-Capacity Data Hiding for ABTC-EQ Based Compressed Image

  • Cheonshik Kim,
  • Ching-Nung Yang and
  • Lu Leng

We present a new data hiding method based on Adaptive BTC Edge Quantization (ABTC-EQ) using an optimal pixel adjustment process (OPAP) to optimize two quantization levels. The reason we choose ABTC-EQ as a cover media is that it is superior to AMBTC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications in Digital Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,129 Views
22 Pages

A Hardware Security-Monitoring Architecture Based on Data Integrity and Control Flow Integrity for Embedded Systems

  • Qiang Hao,
  • Zhun Zhang,
  • Dongdong Xu,
  • Jiqing Wang and ,
  • Jiakang Liu,
  • Jinlei Zhang,
  • Jinhui Ma and
  • Xiang Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

1 August 2022

As technology evolves, embedded systems access more networks and devices, which means more security threats. Existing security-monitoring methods with a single parameter (data or control flow) are not effective in detecting attackers tampering with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,410 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2025

Image filtering systems have become essential in large-scale content platforms to prevent the dissemination of unauthorized data. While extensive research has focused on identifying images based on categories or visual similarity, the filtering probl...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,707 Views
15 Pages

5 April 2016

A multi-variable visualization technique on a 2D bitmap for big data is introduced. If A and B are two data points that are represented using two similar shapes with m pixels, where each shape is colored with RGB color of (0, 0, k), when A ∩ B ≠ ɸ, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,934 Views
22 Pages

To reduce bandwidth usage in communications, absolute moment block truncation coding is employed to compress cover images. Confidential data are embedded into compressed images using reversible data-hiding technology for purposes such as image manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,536 Views
15 Pages

Calculation of Coke Layers Situation in the Cohesive Zone of Blast Furnace

  • Mikolaj Bernasowski,
  • Arkadiusz Klimczyk and
  • Ryszard Stachura

3 January 2021

Coke is the only batch component that does not soften in blast furnace thermal conditions. It is especially important at the temperatures of the cohesive zone forming because coke layers are the only gas-permeable charge. The aim of the work describe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical and Numerical Modeling of Process Metallurgy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,559 Views
14 Pages

Deep and Machine Learning Using SEM, FTIR, and Texture Analysis to Detect Polysaccharide in Raspberry Powders

  • Krzysztof Przybył,
  • Krzysztof Koszela,
  • Franciszek Adamski,
  • Katarzyna Samborska and ,
  • Katarzyna Walkowiak and
  • Mariusz Polarczyk
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 August 2021

In the paper, an attempt was made to use methods of artificial neural networks (ANN) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) to identify raspberry powders that are different from each other in terms of the amount and the type of polysaccha...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,970 Views
9 Pages

24 November 2020

Five-dimensional (5D) recording and decoding is demonstrated by using femtosecond direct laser writing in a silver-containing commercial glass. In particular, laser intensities and ellipse orientations generated by anamorphic focusing are employed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques for Ultrafast Laser Nano/Micro Patterning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,822 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2022

Machine learning (ML) is frequently used to identify malicious traffic flows on a network. However, the requirement of complex preprocessing of network data to extract features or attributes of interest before applying the ML models restricts their u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Network and Service Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,197 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Method for Regional Prospecting Based on Modern 3D Graphics

  • Zhaolong Xue,
  • Song Wu,
  • Miao Li and
  • Kaiwang Cheng

28 March 2024

During comprehensive regional prospecting evaluation and delineation of a prospecting target area, various types of data, including geological, geophysical, geochemical, and remote sensing, are usually integrated and visualized in a unified spatial e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geochemical Exploration for Critical Mineral Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,257 Views
24 Pages

Selected Issues on Material Properties of Objects in Computer Simulations of Floodlighting

  • Rafał Krupiński,
  • Henryk Wachta,
  • Wojciech Maciej Stabryła and
  • Cedric Büchner

1 September 2021

This paper addresses issues with computer simulation involved in designing illumination for architectural structures. In particular, the reflectance and transmittance of materials were studied with respect to their influence on luminance values, thus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the XXIXth Conference on Lighting Technology (KKO2021))
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,886 Views
12 Pages

A Character Validation Proposal for High-Speed Visual Monitoring of Expiration Codes on Beverage Cans

  • José Carlos Rodríguez-Rodríguez,
  • Gabriele Salvatore de Blasio,
  • Carmelo R. García and
  • Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

Character recognizers have generally focused on printed text on paper with an emphasis on generality rather than speed. This makes the proposed algorithms not applicable in the context of the very high-speed industrial validation of expiration codes...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2019‬)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,089 Views
19 Pages

Hybrid Encoding Scheme for AMBTC Compressed Images Using Ternary Representation Technique

  • Tung-Shou Chen,
  • Jie Wu,
  • Kai Sheng Chen,
  • Junying Yuan and
  • Wien Hong

10 January 2021

Absolute moment block truncated coding (AMBTC) is a lossy image compression technique aiming at low computational cost, and has been widely studied. Previous studies have investigated the performance improvement of AMBTC; however, they often over des...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,085 Views
17 Pages

With the increasing use of digital image compression technology, ensuring data integrity and security within the compression domain has become a crucial area of research. Absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC), an efficient lossy compression...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Distributed Intelligent Security Through AI-Driven Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,555 Views
14 Pages

Fabrication of Large-Area High-Resolution Templates by Focused Ion Beam Combined with Colloidal Nanoparticle Dimer Deposition for SERS Substrates

  • Liga Ignatane,
  • Reinis Ignatans,
  • Juris Prikulis,
  • Annamarija Trausa and ,
  • Ciro Federico Tipaldi,
  • Edgars Vanags,
  • Martins Zubkins,
  • Krisjanis Smits and
  • Anatolijs Sarakovskis
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 November 2024

This article presents an examination of well-controlled patterns created using a Ga+-based focused ion beam (FIB) on glass, while silicon substrates were used to evaluate the FIB performance by its achievable feature size versus time constraints. The...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series in “Synthesis, Structure and Application of Functional Nanocomposites”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,741 Views
19 Pages

Lacking indoor navigation graph has become a bottleneck in indoor applications and services. This paper presents a novel automated indoor navigation graph reconstruction approach from large-scale low-frequency indoor trajectories without any other da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,851 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2025

Background and Objectives: Medical diagnosis documents often exhibit diverse layouts and formats, posing significant challenges for automated information extraction. Ensuring the privacy of sensitive medical data further complicates the development o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Driven Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Decision Support System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,606 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2018

Since digital media is gaining popularity nowadays, people are more concerned about its integrity protection and authentication since tampered media may result in unexpected problems. Considering a better media protection technique, this paper propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,865 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Classification of Web Images as UML Static Diagrams Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Valentín Moreno,
  • Gonzalo Génova,
  • Manuela Alejandres and
  • Anabel Fraga

1 April 2020

Our purpose in this research is to develop a method to automatically and efficiently classify web images as Unified Modeling Language (UML) static diagrams, and to produce a computer tool that implements this function. The tool receives a bitmap file...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,045 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, we propose a two-layer data hiding method by using the Hamming code to enhance the hiding capacity without causing significantly increasing computation complexity for AMBTC-compressed images. To achieve our objective, for the first lay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications in Digital Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,256 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2023

Ensemble fuzzing in parallel with heterogeneous fuzzers has been proposed to leverage the advantages of diverse fuzzers and improve testing efficiency. However, in current ensemble fuzzing methods, the collaboration among different fuzzers is achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,386 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2015

TEV (Thermal Expansion Visualizing) is a user-friendly program for the calculation of the thermal expansion tensor αij from diffraction data. Unit cell parameters determined from temperature dependent data collections can be provided as input. An int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
18 Pages

A Priority-Aware Piggybacking-Based Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol Using Bit Mapping

  • Tanvi Mishra,
  • Manoj Tolani,
  • Gaurav Suman,
  • Himanshu Chaudhary and ,
  • Pankaj Kumar and
  • Simmi Sharma
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Battery-powered IoT sensor nodes require energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to extend network lifetime while supporting priority-sensitive traffic. This paper proposes a Priority-Aware Packet Aggregation/Piggybacking-Based (Priori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Trends and Advances)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,813 Views
22 Pages

30 April 2025

With the continuous growth of network traffic scale, traditional software-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) constrained by CPU-processing capabilities struggle to meet the requirements of 100 Gbps high-speed network environments. While existing...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,836 Views
12 Pages

ClothFace: A Batteryless RFID-Based Textile Platform for Handwriting Recognition

  • Han He,
  • Xiaochen Chen,
  • Adnan Mehmood,
  • Leevi Raivio and ,
  • Heikki Huttunen,
  • Pasi Raumonen and
  • Johanna Virkki
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2020

This paper introduces a prototype of ClothFace technology, a battery-free textile-based handwriting recognition platform that includes an e-textile antenna and a 10 × 10 array of radio frequency identification (RFID) integrated circuits (ICs),...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Machine Interaction and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,691 Views
13 Pages

25 September 2022

Image-based data hiding methods have been used in the development of various applications in computer vision. At present, there are two main types of data hiding based on secret sharing, namely dual-image data hiding and multi-image data hiding. Dual...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
370 Views
27 Pages

Tiered Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (TMWSNs), consisting of mobile sensor nodes and storage nodes, are widely used in various fields due to their scalability, energy efficiency, and flexibility. Most existing secure query algorithms assume that da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,128 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2021

The use of behavioral models based on deep learning (DL) to accelerate electromagnetic field computations has recently been proposed to solve complex electromagnetic problems. Such problems usually require time-consuming numerical analysis, while DL...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regularization Techniques for Machine Learning and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,904 Views
11 Pages

9 February 2025

Colored 3D printing, as one of the crucial directions in 3D printing technology, has been widely applied in various fields in recent years. Compared to traditional 3D printing, colored 3D printing introduces color information to achieve multi-materia...

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