Innovative lane detection method to increase the accuracy of lane departure warning system
Lane departure warning is one important feature in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which aims to improve overall safety on the road. However, challenges such as inconsistent shadows and fading lane ...
Ting Yau Teo, Ricky Sutopo, Joanne Mun-Yee Lim… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Boundary discrimination and proposal uation for temporal action proposal generation
Temporal action proposal generation for temporal action localization aims to capture temporal intervals that are likely to contain actions from untrimmed videos. Prevailing bottom-up proposal generation method...
Tianyu Li, Bing Bing, Xinxiao Wu in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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An adaptive text-line extraction algorithm for printed Arabic documents with diacritics
The performance of document text recognition depends on text line segmentation algorithms, which heavily relies on the type of language, author’s writing style, pen type, and document quality. In this paper, w...
Khader Mohammad, Aziz Qaroush, Mahdi Washha… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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A new restricted boltzmann machine training algorithm for image restoration
A variety of approaches have been proposed for addressing different image restoration challenges. Recently, deep generative models were one of the mostly used ones. In this paper, a new Restricted Boltzmann Ma...
Ali Fakhari, Kourosh Kiani in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Double linear regression prediction based reversible data hiding in encrypted images
Existing prediction-based works on reversible data hiding in encrypted images usually embed the secret messages by referring to the difference between current pixel and its predicted value. An accurate predict...
Fengyong Li, Hengjie Zhu, Jiang Yu, Chuan Qin in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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An efficient image encryption scheme for TMIS based on elliptic curve integrated encryption and linear cryptography
Nowadays, diagnosing patient diseases remotely is a routine and digital medical images analysis as a part of Telecare Medical Information Systems (TMIS) play a fundamental role in early diagnosing and treating...
Mustapha Benssalah, Yesser Rhaskali, Karim Drouiche in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Sensorineural hearing loss classification via deep-HLNet and few-shot learning
We propose a new method for hearing loss classification from magnetic resonance image (MRI), which can automatically detect tissue-specific features in a given MRI. Sensorineural hearing loss (SHNL) is highly ...
Xi Chen, Qinghua Zhou, Rushi Lan, Shui-Hua Wang… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Image splicing detection technique based on Illumination-Reflectance model and LBP
A Copy-create digital image forgery is image tampering that merges two or more areas of images from different sources into one composite image; it is also known as image splicing. Excellent forgeries are so tr...
Patrick Niyishaka, Chakravarthy Bhagvati in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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An efficient and robust watermarking approach based on single value decompression, multi-level DWT, and wavelet fusion with scrambled medical images
This paper offers a medical image watermarking approach based on Wavelet Fusion (WF), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and Multi-Level Discrete Wavelet Transform (M-DWT) with scrambling techniques for secur...
Ezz El-Din Hemdan in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Security-enhanced cloud-based image secret sharing and authentication using POB number system
Recently, the image secret sharing technique based on POB (Permutation Ordered Binary) number systems has drawn attention in academia. Thanks to Singh et al.’s pioneer in combining image confidentiality and au...
Tzung-Her Chen, Tzu-Ching Chang, Ting-Le Zhu in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Image recognition based on improved convolutional deep belief network model
Aiming at the homogeneity of convolution kernels in Convolutional Deep Belief Network (CDBN), a cross-entropy-based sparse penalty mechanism suitable for Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (CRBM) model...
Wang Hongmei, Liu Pengzhong in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Noise and acoustic modeling with waveform generator in text-to-speech and neutral speech conversion
This article focuses on developing a system for high-quality synthesized and converted speech by addressing three fundamental principles. Although the noise-like component in the state-of-the-art parametric vo...
Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Tamás Gábor Csapó… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Fall detection based on fused saliency maps
Fall detection is drawing more attention from both academia and industry. The human body occupies smaller space relative to the background in images, so the complex background affects the extraction of human f...
Hongjun Li, Chaobo Li, Yupeng Ding in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Presentation of a mixed reality software with a HoloLens headset for a nutrition workshop
Microsoft has recently released a mixed reality headset called HoloLens. This semi-transparent visor headset allows the user who wears it to view the projection of 3D virtual objects placed in its real environ...
Hugo Rositi, Owen Kevin Appadoo, Daniel Mestre… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Elastic caching solutions for content dissemination services elastic caching solutions for content dissemination services of ip-based internet technologies prospective
The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) provides a new data dissemination Internet paradigm to support the communication services that will meet the end-users’ modern requirements. ICN focuses on transmitting...
Yahui Meng, Muhammad Ali Naeem, Muhammad Sohail… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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An ontology-based approach to integrate TV and IoT middlewares
Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection of physical devices, known of smart objects, that share data and collaborate among them to support users. There are IoT usage scenarios in several domains. In-ho...
Danne Makleyston G. Pereira… in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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DeepRibSt: a multi-feature convolutional neural network for predicting ribosome stalling
Ribosomes are a kind of organelle in cells, which are mainly involved in the translation process of genetic materials, but the underlying mechanisms associated with ribosome stalling are not fully understood. ...
Yuan Zhang, Sai Zhang, Xizhi He, Jing Lu, Xieping Gao in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Embedding in medical images with contrast enhancement and tamper detection capability
This paper presents an efficient data hiding technique capable of providing improved visual quality of watermarked images, besides having the ability to detect the tamper, if any. It is a spatial domain approa...
Shifa Showkat, Shabir A. Parah, Solihah Gull in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Hyperspectral remote sensing image classification based on dense residual three-dimensional convolutional neural network
Data-driven deep learning techniques set the current state of the art in image classification for hyperspectral remote sensing images. The lack of labeled training data and high dimensionality of hyperspectral...
Suting Chen, Meng Jin, Jie Ding in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)
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Identification of cyberbullying: A deep learning based multimodal approach
Cyberbullying can be delineated as a purposive and recurrent act, which is aggressive in nature, done via different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. While existing approa...
Sayanta Paul, Sriparna Saha, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020)