Palmprint identification has been conducted over the last two decades in many biometric systems.High-dimensional data with many uncorrelated and duplicated features remains difficult due to several computational compl...Palmprint identification has been conducted over the last two decades in many biometric systems.High-dimensional data with many uncorrelated and duplicated features remains difficult due to several computational complexity issues.This paper presents an interactive authentication approach based on deep learning and feature selection that supports Palmprint authentication.The proposed model has two stages of learning;the first stage is to transfer pre-trained VGG-16 of ImageNet to specific features based on the extraction model.The second stage involves the VGG-16 Palmprint feature extraction in the Siamese network to learn Palmprint similarity.The proposed model achieves robust and reliable end-to-end Palmprint authentication by extracting the convolutional features using VGG-16 Palmprint and the similarity of two input Palmprint using the Siamese network.The second stage uses the CASIA dataset to train and test the Siamese network.The suggested model outperforms comparable studies based on the deep learning approach achieving accuracy and EER of 91.8%and 0.082%,respectively,on the CASIA left-hand images and accuracy and EER of 91.7%and 0.084,respectively,on the CASIA right-hand images.展开更多
Nowadays,the COVID-19 virus disease is spreading rampantly.There are some testing tools and kits available for diagnosing the virus,but it is in a lim-ited count.To diagnose the presence of disease from radiological i...Nowadays,the COVID-19 virus disease is spreading rampantly.There are some testing tools and kits available for diagnosing the virus,but it is in a lim-ited count.To diagnose the presence of disease from radiological images,auto-mated COVID-19 diagnosis techniques are needed.The enhancement of AI(Artificial Intelligence)has been focused in previous research,which uses X-ray images for detecting COVID-19.The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever,dry cough and sore throat.These symptoms may lead to an increase in the rigorous type of pneumonia with a severe barrier.Since medical imaging is not suggested recently in Canada for critical COVID-19 diagnosis,computer-aided systems are implemented for the early identification of COVID-19,which aids in noticing the disease progression and thus decreases the death rate.Here,a deep learning-based automated method for the extraction of features and classi-fication is enhanced for the detection of COVID-19 from the images of computer tomography(CT).The suggested method functions on the basis of three main pro-cesses:data preprocessing,the extraction of features and classification.This approach integrates the union of deep features with the help of Inception 14 and VGG-16 models.At last,a classifier of Multi-scale Improved ResNet(MSI-ResNet)is developed to detect and classify the CT images into unique labels of class.With the support of available open-source COVID-CT datasets that consists of 760 CT pictures,the investigational validation of the suggested method is estimated.The experimental results reveal that the proposed approach offers greater performance with high specificity,accuracy and sensitivity.展开更多
The use of the internet is increasing all over the world on a daily basis in the last two decades.The increase in the internet causes many sexual crimes,such as sexual misuse,domestic violence,and child pornography.Va...The use of the internet is increasing all over the world on a daily basis in the last two decades.The increase in the internet causes many sexual crimes,such as sexual misuse,domestic violence,and child pornography.Various research has been done for pornographic image detection and classification.Most of the used models used machine learning techniques and deep learning models which show less accuracy,while the deep learning model ware used for classification and detection performed better as compared to machine learning.Therefore,this research evaluates the performance analysis of intelligent neural-based deep learning models which are based on Convolution neural network(CNN),Visual geometry group(VGG-16),VGG-14,and Residual Network(ResNet-50)with the expanded dataset,trained using transfer learning approaches applied in the fully connected layer for datasets to classify rank(Pornographic vs.Nonpornographic)classification in images.The simulation result shows that VGG-16 performed better than the used model in this study without augmented data.The VGG-16 model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.97,0.94 with a loss of 0.070,0.16.The precision,recall,and f-measure values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.94,0.94,0.94)and(0.94,0.94,0.94).Similarly,The VGG-14 model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.98,0.96 with a loss of 0.059,0.11.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.98,0.98,0.98)and(0.98,0.98,0.98).The CNN model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.776&0.78 with losses of 0.48&0.46.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.80,0.80,0.80)and(0.78,0.79,0.78).The ResNet-50 model with expanded data reached with training accuracy of 0.89 with a loss of 0.389 and 0.86 of validation accuracy and a loss of 0.47.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.86,0.97,0.91)and(0.86,0.93,0.89).Where else without augmented data the VGG-16 model reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.997,0.986 with a loss of 0.008,0.056.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.94,0.99,0.97)and(0.99,0.93,0.96)which outperforms the used models with the augmented dataset in this study.展开更多
Currently,distracted driving is among the most important causes of traffic accidents.Consequently,intelligent vehicle driving systems have become increasingly important.Recently,interest in driver-assistance systems t...Currently,distracted driving is among the most important causes of traffic accidents.Consequently,intelligent vehicle driving systems have become increasingly important.Recently,interest in driver-assistance systems that detect driver actions and help them drive safely has increased.In these studies,although some distinct data types,such as the physical conditions of the driver,audio and visual features,and vehicle information,are used,the primary data source is images of the driver that include the face,arms,and hands taken with a camera inside the car.In this study,an architecture based on a convolution neural network(CNN)is proposed to classify and detect driver distraction.An efficient CNN with high accuracy is implemented,and to implement intense convolutional networks for large-scale image recognition,a new architecture was proposed based on the available Visual Geometry Group(VGG-16)architecture.The proposed architecture was evaluated using the StateFarm dataset for driver-distraction detection.This dataset is publicly available on Kaggle and is frequently used for this type of research.The proposed architecture achieved 96.95%accuracy.展开更多
Aiming at the problems such as diverse target scales and large-scale changes in crowds in dense crowd scenarios,a crowd density estimation method based on multi-scale feature fusion and information en-hancement is pro...Aiming at the problems such as diverse target scales and large-scale changes in crowds in dense crowd scenarios,a crowd density estimation method based on multi-scale feature fusion and information en-hancement is proposed.Firstly,considering that small-scale targets account for a relatively large proportion in the image,based on the VGG-16 network,the dilated convolution module is introduced to mine the detailed information of the image.Secondly,in order to make full use of the multi-scale information of the target,a new context-aware module is constructed to extract the contrast features between different scales.Finally,con-sidering the characteristic of continuous changes in the target scale,a multi-scale feature aggregation module is designed to enhance the sampling range of dense scales and multi-scale information interaction,thereby improving the network performance.Experiments on public datasets show that the proposed method in this paper can effectively estimate the population density compared with other advanced methods.展开更多
基金This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Jouf University under Grant No.(DSR-2022-RG-0104).
文摘Palmprint identification has been conducted over the last two decades in many biometric systems.High-dimensional data with many uncorrelated and duplicated features remains difficult due to several computational complexity issues.This paper presents an interactive authentication approach based on deep learning and feature selection that supports Palmprint authentication.The proposed model has two stages of learning;the first stage is to transfer pre-trained VGG-16 of ImageNet to specific features based on the extraction model.The second stage involves the VGG-16 Palmprint feature extraction in the Siamese network to learn Palmprint similarity.The proposed model achieves robust and reliable end-to-end Palmprint authentication by extracting the convolutional features using VGG-16 Palmprint and the similarity of two input Palmprint using the Siamese network.The second stage uses the CASIA dataset to train and test the Siamese network.The suggested model outperforms comparable studies based on the deep learning approach achieving accuracy and EER of 91.8%and 0.082%,respectively,on the CASIA left-hand images and accuracy and EER of 91.7%and 0.084,respectively,on the CASIA right-hand images.
基金Supporting this research through Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number(TURSP-2020/231),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Nowadays,the COVID-19 virus disease is spreading rampantly.There are some testing tools and kits available for diagnosing the virus,but it is in a lim-ited count.To diagnose the presence of disease from radiological images,auto-mated COVID-19 diagnosis techniques are needed.The enhancement of AI(Artificial Intelligence)has been focused in previous research,which uses X-ray images for detecting COVID-19.The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever,dry cough and sore throat.These symptoms may lead to an increase in the rigorous type of pneumonia with a severe barrier.Since medical imaging is not suggested recently in Canada for critical COVID-19 diagnosis,computer-aided systems are implemented for the early identification of COVID-19,which aids in noticing the disease progression and thus decreases the death rate.Here,a deep learning-based automated method for the extraction of features and classi-fication is enhanced for the detection of COVID-19 from the images of computer tomography(CT).The suggested method functions on the basis of three main pro-cesses:data preprocessing,the extraction of features and classification.This approach integrates the union of deep features with the help of Inception 14 and VGG-16 models.At last,a classifier of Multi-scale Improved ResNet(MSI-ResNet)is developed to detect and classify the CT images into unique labels of class.With the support of available open-source COVID-CT datasets that consists of 760 CT pictures,the investigational validation of the suggested method is estimated.The experimental results reveal that the proposed approach offers greater performance with high specificity,accuracy and sensitivity.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Jouf University under Gran Number DSR–2022–RG–0101.
文摘The use of the internet is increasing all over the world on a daily basis in the last two decades.The increase in the internet causes many sexual crimes,such as sexual misuse,domestic violence,and child pornography.Various research has been done for pornographic image detection and classification.Most of the used models used machine learning techniques and deep learning models which show less accuracy,while the deep learning model ware used for classification and detection performed better as compared to machine learning.Therefore,this research evaluates the performance analysis of intelligent neural-based deep learning models which are based on Convolution neural network(CNN),Visual geometry group(VGG-16),VGG-14,and Residual Network(ResNet-50)with the expanded dataset,trained using transfer learning approaches applied in the fully connected layer for datasets to classify rank(Pornographic vs.Nonpornographic)classification in images.The simulation result shows that VGG-16 performed better than the used model in this study without augmented data.The VGG-16 model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.97,0.94 with a loss of 0.070,0.16.The precision,recall,and f-measure values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.94,0.94,0.94)and(0.94,0.94,0.94).Similarly,The VGG-14 model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.98,0.96 with a loss of 0.059,0.11.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.98,0.98,0.98)and(0.98,0.98,0.98).The CNN model with augmented data reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.776&0.78 with losses of 0.48&0.46.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.80,0.80,0.80)and(0.78,0.79,0.78).The ResNet-50 model with expanded data reached with training accuracy of 0.89 with a loss of 0.389 and 0.86 of validation accuracy and a loss of 0.47.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.86,0.97,0.91)and(0.86,0.93,0.89).Where else without augmented data the VGG-16 model reached a training and validation accuracy of 0.997,0.986 with a loss of 0.008,0.056.The f-measure,recall,and precision values for explicit and non-explicit images are(0.94,0.99,0.97)and(0.99,0.93,0.96)which outperforms the used models with the augmented dataset in this study.
基金supported by Grant Number 13-INF2456-08-R from King Abdul Aziz City for Sciences and Technology(KACST),Riyadh,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
文摘Currently,distracted driving is among the most important causes of traffic accidents.Consequently,intelligent vehicle driving systems have become increasingly important.Recently,interest in driver-assistance systems that detect driver actions and help them drive safely has increased.In these studies,although some distinct data types,such as the physical conditions of the driver,audio and visual features,and vehicle information,are used,the primary data source is images of the driver that include the face,arms,and hands taken with a camera inside the car.In this study,an architecture based on a convolution neural network(CNN)is proposed to classify and detect driver distraction.An efficient CNN with high accuracy is implemented,and to implement intense convolutional networks for large-scale image recognition,a new architecture was proposed based on the available Visual Geometry Group(VGG-16)architecture.The proposed architecture was evaluated using the StateFarm dataset for driver-distraction detection.This dataset is publicly available on Kaggle and is frequently used for this type of research.The proposed architecture achieved 96.95%accuracy.
文摘Aiming at the problems such as diverse target scales and large-scale changes in crowds in dense crowd scenarios,a crowd density estimation method based on multi-scale feature fusion and information en-hancement is proposed.Firstly,considering that small-scale targets account for a relatively large proportion in the image,based on the VGG-16 network,the dilated convolution module is introduced to mine the detailed information of the image.Secondly,in order to make full use of the multi-scale information of the target,a new context-aware module is constructed to extract the contrast features between different scales.Finally,con-sidering the characteristic of continuous changes in the target scale,a multi-scale feature aggregation module is designed to enhance the sampling range of dense scales and multi-scale information interaction,thereby improving the network performance.Experiments on public datasets show that the proposed method in this paper can effectively estimate the population density compared with other advanced methods.
