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The rapid mutations of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 require vaccine updates and the development of novel antiviral drugs. This article presents an improved database filtering technology for a more effective design of novel antiviral agents. Different f...

The state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries is essential for their proper functioning and serves as the basis for estimating other parameters within the battery management system. To enhance the accuracy of SOC estimation in lithium-ion batter...

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are primarily designed to recognize normal speech. Due to a considerable acoustic mismatch between normal speech and whisper, ASR systems suffer from a significant loss of performance in whisper recog...

Spectral filter arrays imaging exhibits a strong similarity with color filter arrays. This permits us to embed this technology in practical vision systems with little adaptation of the existing solutions. In this communication, we define an imaging p...

The use of Multispectral (MS) imaging is growing fast across many research fields. However, one of the obstacles researchers face is the limited availability of multispectral image databases. This arises from two factors: multispectral cameras are a...

Long-term vehicular motion prediction is a crucial function for both autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistant systems. However, due to the uncertainties of vehicle dynamics and complexities of surroundings, long-term motion prediction is neve...

In this study, we designed a dentary bone conduction system that transmits and receives audio by laser. The main objective of this research was to propose a complete hardware design method, including a laser audio transmitter and receiver and digital...

Tactile sensors, because of their intrinsic insensitivity to lighting conditions and water turbidity, provide promising opportunities for augmenting the capabilities of vision sensors in applications involving object recognition and localization. Thi...

This paper proposes a novel approach to map-based navigation for unmanned aircraft. The proposed approach employs pattern matching of ground objects, not feature-to-feature or image-to-image matching, between an aerial image and a map database. Deep...

Neutron devices such as neutron detectors, optical devices including supermirror devices and ³He neutron spin filters, and choppers are successfully developed and installed at the Materials Life Science Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator...

The characteristics or aspects of important fiducial points (FPs) in the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal are complicated because of various factors, such as non-stationary effects and low signal-to-noise ratio. Due to the various noises caused by the...

Amongst all biometric-based personal authentication systems, a fingerprint that gives each person a unique identity is the most commonly used parameter for personal identification. In this paper, we present an automatic fingerprint-based authenticati...

All around the world, partial or total blindness has become a direct consequence of diabetes and hypertension. Visual disorders related to these diseases require automatic and specialized methods to detect early malformations, artifacts, or irregular...

This study contributes to scientific theory by analyzing the models proposed within the framework of circular agriculture to determine how the three dimensions of sustainability—environmental, economic, and social—are integrated into thei...

In this study, we developed a range of motion sensing system (ROMSS) to simulate the function of the elbow joint, with errors less than 0.76 degrees and 0.87 degrees in static and dynamic verification by the swinging and angle recognition modules, re...

The source-filter model is one of the main techniques applied to speech analysis and synthesis. Recent advances in voice production by means of three-dimensional (3D) source-filter models have overcome several limitations of classic one-dimensional t...

A bloom filter is an extremely useful tool applicable to various fields of electronics and computers; it enables highly efficient search of extremely large data sets with no false negatives but a possibly small number of false positives. A counting b...

Regulatory threshold levels (RTL) represent robust benchmarks for assessing risks of pesticides, e.g., in surface waters. However, comprehensive scientific risk evaluations comparing RTL to measured environmental concentrations (MEC) of pesticides in...

Precise route planning needs huge amounts of trajectory data recorded in multimedia devices. The data, including each user’s location privacy, are stored as cipher text. The ability to plan routes on an encrypted trajectory database is an urgen...

High-throughput virtual screening (HTVS) is, in conjunction with rapid advances in computer hardware, becoming a staple in drug design research campaigns and cheminformatics. In this context, virtual compound library design becomes crucial as it gene...

This research reviews a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based application called TLDetect, which filters and classifies anomalous glow curves (GCs) of thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs). Until recently, GC review and correction in the lab were pe...

Recycling lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays an important role in environmental preservation since it prevents heavy metals from polluting the soil and underground water through the recovering of valuable metals. The interest in LIB recycling has gro...

As multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects the visual pathway, visual electrophysiological tests can be used to diagnose it. The objective of this paper is to research methods for processing multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) recordings to improve...

In this paper, we present a new unsupervised algorithm for retinal vessels segmentation. The algorithm utilizes a directionally sensitive matched filter bank using a modified Dolph-Chebyshev type II basis function and a new method to combine the matc...

Over-regulation of Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) has been recently identified in many types of human cancer, and in these cases, poor clinical outcomes are normally reported. Indeed, the inhibition of HO-1 is being considered as an anticancer approach. Imi...

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a noninvasive technique to supervise wildlife. Acoustic surveillance is preferable in some situations such as in the case of marine mammals, when the animals spend most of their time underwater, making it hard to...

In the domain of mining and mineral processing, LIDAR sensors are employed to obtain precise three-dimensional measurements of the surrounding environment. However, the functionality of these sensors is hindered by the dust produced by mining operati...

In this paper, a complete computer aided procedure based on the power density concept and aimed at the automatic design of EMI filters for power electronic converters is presented. It is rule-based, and it uses suitable databases built-up by consider...

Background and purpose: Biometrics is a commonly studied research issue for both biomedical engineering and forensics sciences. Besides, the purpose of hidden biometrics is to discover hidden biometrics features. This work aims to demonstrate the bio...

Background: When performing motion analysis using sensors, the signal often comes with noise and it is necessary to use filters to exclude unwanted frequencies. For this reason, the objective of this work was to carry out a systematic review on the f...

Discriminative correlation filters (DCFs) have been widely used in visual object tracking, but often suffer from two problems: the boundary effect and temporal filtering degradation. To deal with these issues, many DCF-based variants have been propos...

Considering the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, we developed a receptor-based pharmacophore model for identifying FDA-approved drugs and hits from natural products. The COVID-19 main protease (M^pro) was selected for the development of the pharmacop...

The geomagnetic field constitutes a massive fingerprint database, and its unique structure provides potential position correction information. In recent years, particle filter technology has received more attention in the context of robot navigation....

This article presents a new method of image filtering based on a new kind of image processing transformation, particularly the wavelet-Ateb–Gabor transformation, that is a wider basis for Gabor functions. Ateb functions are symmetric functions. The d...

This study reports on the development and validation of a HPTLC-derived database to identify phenolic compounds in honey. Two database sets are developed to contain the profiles of 107 standard compounds. Rich data in the form of Rf values, colour hu...

Applications for facial recognition have eased the process of personal identification. However, there are increasing concerns about the performance of these systems against the challenges of presentation attacks, spoofing, and disguises. One of the r...

With the advancement of the Internet of Medical Things technology, many vital sign-sensing devices are being developed. Among the diverse healthcare devices, portable electrocardiogram (ECG) measuring devices are being developed most actively with th...

As the global digitalization process continues, information is transformed into data and widely used, while the data are also at risk of serious privacy breaches. The Cuckoo filter is a data structure based on the Cuckoo hash. It encrypts data when i...

This paper presents a Regeneration filter for reducing near Salt-and-Pepper (nS&P) noise in images, designed for selective noise removal while simultaneously preserving structural details. Unlike conventional methods, the proposed filter eliminat...

Background and objectives: A concept of personalized eating originates from personalized nutrition, where dietary advice is tailored to an individual. In personalized nutrition solutions, dietary advice is more and more based on clinical biomarkers,...

To support advanced network services, Internet routers must perform packet classification based on a set of rules called packet filters. If two or more filters overlap, a filter conflict will occur and lead to ambiguity in packet classification. Furt...

Power density is one of the most significant issues in designing electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters for power electronic-based applications. Therefore, an effective EMI filter design should consider both its capability to ensure the complianc...

The scarcity of open SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radars) imagery databases (especially the labeled ones) and sparsity of pre-trained neural networks lead to the need for heavy data generation, augmentation, or transfer learning usage. This paper describe...

Recently, population growth and resource depletion have been matched by a growing demand for self-sustaining communities. Numerous studies promote sustainable solutions to the concerns of climate change and food scarcity. This study aims at creating...

In this paper, we evaluate the effect of scale analysis as well as the filtering process on the performances of an original compressed-domain classifier in the field of material surface topographies classification. Each surface profile is multiscale...

Direct infusion nanoelectrospray high-resolution mass spectrometry (DI-nESI-HRMS) is a promising tool for high-throughput metabolomics analysis. However, metabolite assignment is limited by the inadequate mass accuracy and chemical space of the metab...

Conventional finger-vein recognition systems perform recognition based on the finger-vein lines extracted from the input images or image enhancement, and texture feature extraction from the finger-vein images. In these cases, however, the inaccurate...

In this work, a new methodology is proposed in order to derive vertical total electron content (VTEC) maps from the radiometric measurements of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission as an alternative approach to those based on external...

Background/Objectives: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor is currently one of the most explored targets exploited for the management of diabetes and obesity, with many aspects of its mechanisms behind cardiovascular protection yet to be fully e...

This study aims at building an ITS gene dataset to support the Italian Health Service in mushroom identification. The target species were selected among those mostly involved in regional (Tuscany) poisoning cases. For each target species, all the ITS...