Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 90

Volume 90, March 2021

Special section on Image Processing in Security Applications

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  Saud S. Alotaibi:
  Regression coefficients as triad scale for malware detection. 106886
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  Ali Zamani, Bahador Bakhshi, Saeed Sharifian:
  An efficient load balancing approach for service function chain mapping. 106890
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  Lucas C. Silva, Eduardo F. Simas Filho, Maria C. S. Albuquerque, Ivan C. Silva, Claudia T. T. Farias:
  Embedded decision support system for ultrasound nondestructive evaluation based on extreme learning machines. 106891
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  Y. Mounica, K. Naresh Kumar, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, S. K. Noor Mahammad:
  Energy efficient signed and unsigned radix 16 booth multiplier design. 106892
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  Thuan Thanh Nguyen, Thang Trung Nguyen, Bac Le:
  Optimization of electric distribution network configuration for power loss reduction based on enhanced binary cuckoo search algorithm. 106893
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  Mustafa Sinasi Ayas, Erdinc Sahin:
  FOPID controller with fractional filter for an automatic voltage regulator. 106895
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  Ankur Kumar Gupta, Tanmoy Maity, Anandakumar Haldorai, Yogesh Kumar Chauhan:
  An electromagnetic strategy to improve the performance of PV panel under partial shading. 106896
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  Bharat Bhushan, Preeti Sinha, Kulandairaj Martin Sagayam, J. Andrew Onesimu:
  Untangling blockchain technology: A survey on state of the art, security threats, privacy services, applications and future research directions. 106897
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  Rinki Gupta, Arun Kumar:
  Indian sign language recognition using wearable sensors and multi-label classification. 106898
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  Shaik K. Ayesha, V. Masilamani:
  A novel digital watermarking scheme using dragonfly optimizer in transform domain. 106923

Regular papers

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  Kaleeswari Muthusamy, Madheswaran Muthusamy, Rajvir Kaur, Vijayakumar Krishnasamy:
  An intelligent hybrid interfacing converter of fuel cell powered telecom loads for efficient power conversion. 106941
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  Souhila Mammeri, Mohand Yazid, Rahim Kacimi, Louiza Bouallouche-Medjkoune:
  Starvation avoidance-based dynamic multichannel access for low priority traffics in 802.11ac communication systems. 106942
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  Dan Oneata, Horia Cucu:
  Multimodal speech recognition for unmanned aerial vehicles. 106943
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  Túlio Araujo, Matheus B. R. Cardoso, Erivelton G. Nepomuceno, Carlos H. Llanos, Janier Arias-Garcia:
  A new floating-point adder FPGA-based implementation using RN-coding of numbers. 106947
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  Sumeyye Agac, Muhammad Shoaib, Özlem Durmaz Incel:
  Context-aware and dynamically adaptable activity recognition with smart watches: A case study on smoking. 106949
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  Claudio Urrea, John Kern, Ricardo López-Escobar:
  Design and implementation of a fault-tolerant system for industrial robots under hostile operating conditions. 106951
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  Ali Tarinejad, Habib Izadkhah, Mohammad Reza Mollahoseini Ardakani, Kamal Mirzaie:
  Metrics for assessing reliability of self-healing software systems. 106952
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  Aymen Flah, Irfan Ahmad Khan, Anshul Agarwal, Lassaâd Sbita, Marcelo Godoy Simões:
  Field-oriented control strategy for double-stator single-rotor and double-rotor single-stator permanent magnet machine: Design and operation. 106953
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  M. Kenan Dösoglu:
  Enhancement of new rotor resistance unit for doubly fed induction generator-based wind turbines. 106954
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  Mahmoud Abbasi, Amin Shahraki, Hamid R. Barzegar, Claus Pahl:
  Synchronization Techniques in "Device to Device- and Vehicle to Vehicle-Enabled" Cellular Networks: A survey. 106955

Special section on Data Preprocessing for Big Biomedical Data in Deep Learning Models

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  Muhammad Attique Khan, Yudong Zhang, Muhammad Sharif, Tallha Akram:
  Pixels to Classes: Intelligent Learning Framework for Multiclass Skin Lesion Localization and Classification. 106956
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  Min-Wei Huang, Chih-Fong Tsai, Wei-Chao Lin:
  Instance selection in medical datasets: A divide-and-conquer framework. 106957
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  Punitha Stephan, Fadi M. Al-Turjman, Thompson Stephan:
  An automated breast cancer diagnosis using feature selection and parameter optimization in ANN. 106958

Regular papers

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  Merve Tas, Bülent Yilmaz:
  Super resolution convolutional neural network based pre-processing for automatic polyp detection in colonoscopy images. 106959

Special section on Data Preprocessing for Big Biomedical Data in Deep Learning Models

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  Muhammad Attique Khan, Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Yudong Zhang, Tallha Akram, Muhammad Sharif, Amjad Rehman, Tanzila Saba:
  Prediction of COVID-19 - Pneumonia based on Selected Deep Features and One Class Kernel Extreme Learning Machine. 106960
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  Xiang Yu, Kaijian Xia, Yudong Zhang:
  DisepNet for breast abnormality recognition. 106961
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  Abhilasha Chaudhuri, Tirath Prasad Sahu:
  A hybrid feature selection method based on Binary Jaya algorithm for micro-array data classification. 106963

Regular papers

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  Mohammad Hossein Shafiabadi, Hossein Pedram, Midia Reshadi, Akram Reza:
  An accurate model to predict the performance of graphical processors using data mining and regression theory. 106965
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  Muhammad Farhan Khan, Syed Muhammad G. Monir, Imran Naseem, Bilal Muhammad Khan:
  Adaptive just-noticeable difference profile for image hashing. 106967
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  Qi Ge, Guangwei Gao, Wenze Shao, Liqian Wang, Fei Wu:
  Graph regularized Bayesian tensor factorization based on Kronecker-Decomposable dictionary. 106968
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  Jun-Yi Mao, Song Han, Hong-Qian Li, Zhong-Qiang Zhou:
  Unbalanced disturbance evaluation in power grid using spiked covariance model and phase transition phenomenon. 106969
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  Jin Xu, Qiyu Tian:
  Continuous power regulation in wireless power transfer system with a new magnetic field superposition transmitter. 106970
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  Shivam Kundan, Ourania Spantidi, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos:
  Online frequency-based performance and power estimation for clustered multi-processor systems. 106971
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  M. Kenan Dösoglu:
  Hybrid control approach for low-voltage ride-through capability in doubly-fed induction generator-based wind turbines. 106972
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  Farnaz Garehdaghi, Saeed Meshgini, Reza Afrouzian:
  Positron emission tomography image enhancement using magnetic resonance images and U-net structure. 106973
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  Murtaza Cicioglu, Ali Çalhan:
  Smart agriculture with internet of things in cornfields. 106982

Special section on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

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  Huige Yin, Yuantao Chen, Jie Xiong, Runlong Xia, Jingbo Xie, Kai Yang:
  An improved local binary pattern method for pollen image classification and recognition. 106983
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  Chen Li, Yajun Liang, Hongmei Li, Lihua Tian:
  Main melody extraction from polyphonic music based on frequency amplitude and multi-octave relation. 106985
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  Kejun Zhang, Xinxin Li, Xin Jin, Biao Liu, Xiaodong Li, Hongbo Sun:
  Outdoor illumination estimation via all convolutional neural networks. 106987

Regular papers

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  Ushna Khalil, Adnan Ahmad, Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty, Mohamed Elhoseny, Mohamed W. Abo El-Soud, Furkh Zeshan:
  Identification of trusted IoT devices for secure delegation. 106988
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  Thomas Girdler, Vassilios G. Vassilakis:
  Implementing an intrusion detection and prevention system using Software-Defined Networking: Defending against ARP spoofing attacks and Blacklisted MAC Addresses. 106990

Special section on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

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  Xiaoqin Wang, Rushi Lan, Huadeng Wang, Zhenbing Liu, Xiaonan Luo:
  Fine-grained correlation analysis for medical image retrieval. 106992
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  Huibin Wang, Chao Zhu, Jie Shen, Zhen Zhang, Xiaotao Shi:
  Salient object detection by robust foreground and background seed selection. 106993
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  Ponnan Suresh, Saravanakumar Umathurai, Celestine Iwendi, Senthilkumar Mohan, Gautam Srivastava:
  Field-programmable gate arrays in a low power vision system. 106996
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  Ziqiang Zheng, Hongzhi Liu, Fan Yang, Xingyu Zheng, Zhibin Yu, Shaoda Zhang:
  Representation-guided generative adversarial network for unpaired photo-to-caricature translation. 106999
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  Xu Zhang, Wenpeng Lu, Yan Pan, Hao Wu, Rongyao Wang, Rui Yu:
  Empirical study on tangent loss function for classification with deep neural networks. 107000
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  Xiaokun Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Haoyang Yu, Xin Jin, Xiaodong Li, Chenggen Song, Mingxue Yu, Xi Fang:
  Random invertible matrix for privacy preserving object detection. 107001
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  Wei Chen, Xiao Ma, Jiangfeng Zeng, Yaoqing Duan, Grace Zhong:
  Hierarchical quantization for billion-scale similarity retrieval on GPUs. 107002
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  Junxing Zhang, Shuo Yang, Chunjuan Bo, Zhiyuan Zhang:
  Vehicle logo detection based on deep convolutional networks. 107004

Regular papers

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  Rafizah Mohd Hanifa, Khalid Isa, Shamsul Mohamad:
  A review on speaker recognition: Technology and challenges. 107005

Special section on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

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  Ting Rui, Yucheng Hu, Chengsong Yang, Dong Wang, Xun Liu:
  Research on fast natural aerial image mosaic. 107007

Regular papers

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  Hualong Yu, Houjuan Xie, Xibei Yang, Haitao Zou, Shang Gao:
  Online sequential extreme learning machine with the increased classes. 107008
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  Sepehr Ghafari, Milad Ghobadi Tarnik, Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi:
  Robustness of convolutional neural network models in hyperspectral noisy datasets with loss functions. 107009
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  Fan Liu, Zhiyu Chen, Yuhua Ding, Sai Yang, Tao Zhang:
  A face attribute based recommendation system via integrating denoising autoencoder and hash coding. 107020
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  Erik Cuevas, Jorge Gálvez, Omar Ávalos, Ángel Chavarin:
  A mean shift segmentation scheme using several pixel characteristics. 107022
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  Gensheng Hu, Huaiyu Wang, Yan Zhang, Mingzhu Wan:
  Detection and severity analysis of tea leaf blight based on deep learning. 107023

Special section on Data Preprocessing for Big Biomedical Data in Deep Learning Models

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  Shuihua Wang, Zhengchao Dong, Shuai Liu:
  Introduction to the special section on data preprocessing for big biomedical data in deep learning models (VSI-dpbd). 107054

Special section on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

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  Yujie Li, Huimin Lu, Joze Guna:
  nIntroduction to the special section on artificial intelligence and computer vision (VSI-aicv4). 107055