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Android mobile malware detection using machine learning: a systematic review. (2021)
Journal Article
SENANAYAKE, J., KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2021. Android mobile malware detection using machine learning: a systematic review. Electronics [online], 10(13), article 1606. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131606

With the increasing use of mobile devices, malware attacks are rising, especially on Android phones, which account for 72.2% of the total market share. Hackers try to attack smartphones with various methods such as credential theft, surveillance, and... Read More about Android mobile malware detection using machine learning: a systematic review..

Fast blind deblurring of QR code images based on adaptive scale control. (2021)
Journal Article
CHEN, R., ZHENG, Z., PAN, J., YU, Y., ZHAO, H. and REN, J. 2022. Fast blind deblurring of QR code images based on adaptive scale control. Mobile networks and applications [online], 26(6), pages 2472-2487. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-021-01780-y

With the development of 5G technology, the short delay requirements of commercialization and large amounts of data change our lifestyle day-to-day. In this background, this paper proposes a fast blind deblurring algorithm for QR code images, which ma... Read More about Fast blind deblurring of QR code images based on adaptive scale control..

Fast restoration for out-of-focus blurred images of QR code with edge prior information via image sensing. (2021)
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CHEN, R., ZHENG, Z., YU, Y., ZHAO, H., REN, J. and TAN, H.-Z. 2021. Fast restoration for out-of-focus blurred images of QR code with edge prior information via image sensing. IEEE sensors journal [online], 21(16), article 103048, pages 18222-18236. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3085568

Out-of-focus blurring of the QR code is very common in mobile Internet systems, which often causes failure of authentication as a result of a misreading of the information hence adversely affects the operation of the system. To tackle this difficulty... Read More about Fast restoration for out-of-focus blurred images of QR code with edge prior information via image sensing..

Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. (2021)
Journal Article
SNAITH, M., NIELSEN, R.Ø., KOTNIS, S.R. and PEASE, A. 2021. Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. Argument and computation [online], 12(2), pages 249-264. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-200908

As the average age of the population increases, so too do the number of people living with chronic illnesses. With limited resources available, the development of dialogue-based e-health systems that provide justified general health advice offers a c... Read More about Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context..

Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. (2021)
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SUN, H., REN, J., ZHAO, H., YUEN, P. and TSCHANNERL, J. 2022. Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5506413. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3075663

As an important topic in hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis, band selection has attracted increasing attention in the last two decades for dimensionality reduction in HSI. With the great success of deep learning (DL)-based models recently, a robust u... Read More about Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection..

DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre. (2021)
Journal Article
MEKALA, M.S., PATAN, R., ISLAM, S.H., SAMANTA, D., MALLAH, G.A. and CHAUDHRY, S.A. 2021. DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre. Security and communication networks [online], 2021: security, trust and privacy for cloud, fog and Internet of Things, article ID 6688162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6688162

The heterogeneous resource-required application tasks increase the cloud service provider (CSP) energy cost and revenue by providing demand resources. Enhancing CSP profit and preserving energy cost is a challenging task. Most of the existing approac... Read More about DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre..

Nondestructive phenolic compounds measurement and origin discrimination of peated barley malt using near-infrared hyperspectral imagery and machine learning. (2021)
Journal Article
YAN, Y., REN, J., TSCHANNERL, J., ZHAO, H., HARRISON, B. and JACK, F. 2021. Nondestructive phenolic compounds measurement and origin discrimination of peated barley malt using near-infrared hyperspectral imagery and machine learning. IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement [online], 70, article 5010715. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2021.3082274

Quantifying phenolic compound in peated barley malt and discriminating its origin are essential to maintain the aroma of high-quality Scottish whisky during the manufacturing process. The content of the total phenol varies in peated barley malts, whi... Read More about Nondestructive phenolic compounds measurement and origin discrimination of peated barley malt using near-infrared hyperspectral imagery and machine learning..

A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. (2021)
Journal Article
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., ELYAN, E. and JOHNSTON, P. 2021. A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. Information fusion [online], 75, pages 55-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.04.015

Face Recognition is considered one of the most common biometric solutions these days and is widely used across a range of devices for various security purposes. The performance of FR systems has improved by orders of magnitude over the past decade. T... Read More about A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods..

Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting. (2021)
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WARES, S., ISAACS, J. and ELYAN, E. 2021. Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting. Journal of information and knowledge management [online], 20(2), article 2150027. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649221500271

Concept drift detection algorithms have historically been faithful to the aged architecture of forcefully resetting the base classifiers for each detected drift. This approach prevents underlying classifiers becoming outdated as the distribution of a... Read More about Burst detection-based selective classifier resetting..

Computational intelligent sensor-rank consolidation approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). (2021)
Journal Article
MEKALA, M.S., RIZWAN, P. and KHAN, M.S. 2023. Computational intelligent sensor-rank consolidation approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). IEEE Internet of Things journal [online], 10(3), pages 2121-2130. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3073600

Continues field monitoring and searching sensor data remains an imminent element emphasizes the influence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Most of the existing systems are concede spatial coordinates or semantic keywords to retrieve the entail data,... Read More about Computational intelligent sensor-rank consolidation approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)..

Modeling and dynamic analysis of spiral bevel gear coupled system of intermediate and tail gearboxes in a helicopter. (2021)
Journal Article
ZHU, H., CHEN, W., ZHU, R., ZHANG, L., FU, B. and LU, X. 2021. Modeling and dynamic analysis of spiral bevel gear coupled system of intermediate and tail gearboxes in a helicopter. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, part C: journal of mechanical engineering science [online], 235(22), pages 5975-5993. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406221992798

The coupled dynamic model of the intermediate and tail gearboxes’ spiral bevel gear-oblique tail shaft-laminated membrane coupling was established by employing the hybrid modeling method of finite element and lumped mass. Among them, the dynamic equa... Read More about Modeling and dynamic analysis of spiral bevel gear coupled system of intermediate and tail gearboxes in a helicopter..

Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. (2021)
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CARLOTO, I., JOHNSTON, P., PESTANA, C.J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2021. Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. Science of the total environment [online], 784, article 146956. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146956

The presence of harmful algal bloom in many reservoirs around the world, alongside the lack of sanitation law/ordinance regarding cyanotoxin monitoring (particularly in developing countries), create a scenario in which the local population could pote... Read More about Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks..

A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals. (2021)
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SNAITH, M., CONWAY, N., BEINEMA, T., DE FRANCO, D., PEASE, A., KANTHARAJU, R., JANIER, M., HUIZING, G., PELACHAUD, C. and OP DEN AKKER, H. 2021. A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals. Language resources and evaluation [online], 55(4), pages 1077-1092. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09526-0

Language resources for studying doctor–patient interaction are rare, primarily due to the ethical issues related to recording real medical consultations. Rarer still are resources that involve more than one healthcare professional in consultation wit... Read More about A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals..

Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems. (2021)
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MEDINA, E.C.G., ESPITIA, V.M.V., SILVA, D.C., DE LAS CUEVAS, S.F.R., HIRATA, M.P., CHEN, A.Z., GONZÁLEZ, J.A.G., BUSTAMANTE-BELLO, R. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2021. Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems. Applied sciences [online], 11(7), article 2925. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11072925

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming a necessary trend towards building the smart cities of the future. Numerous proposals have been presented in recent years to tackle particular aspects of the working pipeline towards creating a functional... Read More about Object detection, distributed cloud computing and parallelization techniques for autonomous driving systems..

Feature selection using enhanced particle swarm optimisation for classification models. (2021)
Journal Article
XIE, H., ZHANG, L., LIM, C.P., YU, Y. and LIU, H. 2021. Feature selection using enhanced particle swarm optimisation for classification models. Sensors [online], 21(5), article 1816. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21051816

In this research, we propose two Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) variants to undertake feature selection tasks. The aim is to overcome two major shortcomings of the original PSO model, i.e., premature convergence and weak exploitation around the ne... Read More about Feature selection using enhanced particle swarm optimisation for classification models..

Intelligent human action recognition using an ensemble model of evolving deep networks with swarm-based optimization. (2021)
Journal Article
ZHANG, L., LIM, C.P. and YU, Y. 2021. Intelligent human action recognition using an ensemble model of evolving deep networks with swarm-based optimization. Knowledge-based systems [online], 220, article ID 106918. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106918

Automatic interpretation of human actions from realistic videos attracts increasing research attention owing to its growing demand in real-world deployments such as biometrics, intelligent robotics, and surveillance. In this research, we propose an e... Read More about Intelligent human action recognition using an ensemble model of evolving deep networks with swarm-based optimization..

Evaluating privacy: determining user privacy expectations on the web. (2021)
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PILTON, C., FAILY, S., and HENRIKSEN-BULMER, J. 2021. Evaluating privacy: determining user privacy expectations on the web. Computers and security [online], 105, article 102241. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2021.102241

Individuals don’t often have privacy expectations. When asked to consider them, privacy realities were frequently perceived not to meet these expectations. Some websites exploit the trust of individuals by selling, sharing, or analysing their data. W... Read More about Evaluating privacy: determining user privacy expectations on the web..

Fusion of infrared and visible images for remote detection of low-altitude slow-speed small targets. (2021)
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SUN, H., LIU, Q., WANG, J., REN, J., WU, Y., ZHAO, H. and LI, H. 2021. Fusion of infrared and visible images for remote detection of low-altitude slow-speed small targets. IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing [online], 14, pages 2971-2983. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3061496

Detection of the low-altitude and slow-speed small (LSS) targets is one of the most popular research topics in remote sensing. Despite of a few existing approaches, there is still an accuracy gap for satisfying the practical needs. As the LSS targets... Read More about Fusion of infrared and visible images for remote detection of low-altitude slow-speed small targets..

A new cost function for spatial image steganography based on 2D-SSA and WMF. (2021)
Journal Article
XIE, G., REN, J., MARSHALL, S., ZHAO, H. and LI, H. 2021. A new cost function for spatial image steganography based on 2D-SSA and WMF. IEEE access [online], 9, pages 30604-30614. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3059690

As an essential tool for secure communications, adaptive steganography aims to communicate secret information with the least security cost. Inspired by the Ranking Priority Profile (RPP), we propose a novel two-step cost function for adaptive stegano... Read More about A new cost function for spatial image steganography based on 2D-SSA and WMF..

Evaluating explainability methods intended for multiple stakeholders. (2021)
Journal Article
MARTIN, K., LIRET, A., WIRATUNGA, N., OWUSU, G. and KERN, M. 2021. Evaluating explainability methods intended for multiple stakeholders. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz [online], 35(3-4), pages 397-411. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-020-00702-6

Explanation mechanisms for intelligent systems are typically designed to respond to specific user needs, yet in practice these systems tend to have a wide variety of users. This can present a challenge to organisations looking to satisfy the explanat... Read More about Evaluating explainability methods intended for multiple stakeholders..