Taxonomy on Ambient Computing: A Research Methodology Perspective
The rise of Internet-of-Things, Cloud infrastructure, and intelligent home solutions has resulted in the growth of Ambient Computing over the past decade. This article is an attempt to cluster the multi-dimensional research in ambient computing into ...
A Visual Detection Method for Foreign Objects in Power Lines Based on Mask R-CNN
The high-voltage power lines and transmission towers are large in volume, large in number, and wide in coverage, so they are easily attached to foreign objects, which may cause failure of the transmission line. The existing object detection methods ...
An Enhanced Facial Expression Recognition Model Using Local Feature Fusion of Gabor Wavelets and Local Directionality Patterns
Facial expression analysis and recognition has gained popularity in the last few years for its challenging nature and broad area of applications like HCI, pain detection, operator fatigue detection, surveillance, etc. The key of real-time FER system ...
Quantitative Research on Contribution Degree of Vibration Affecting Factors of Vehicle Suspension System Based on Robustness Analysis
Suspension system is the key component affecting vehicle ride comfort and finding out the main factors affecting suspension system vibration is the precondition of controlling suspension system vibration and improving vehicle comfort. Based on the ...
A Hybrid Active Contour Model based on New Edge-Stop Functions for Image Segmentation
Edge-based active contour methods are popular algorithms for image segmentation, with the purpose to extract the area of interest. However, they may face to boundary leakage and improper segmentation when handle images under weak edges or complex ...
Analysis of the Damage of Cyclists in Electric Bicycle - Sedan Angle Collision: Electric Bicycle - Sedan Angle Collision
In order to study the vulnerable factors of the traffic accidents—the cyclist's injury factor at the moment of the accident—the computer simulation analysis method is used to restore the information collected by a real accident combined with the ...
Dynamic Search Fireworks Algorithm with Adaptive Parameters
As a comparatively new algorithm of swarm intelligence, the dynamic search fireworks algorithm (dynFWA) imitates the explosion procedure of fireworks. With the goal of achieving global optimization and further boosting performance of dynFWA, adaptive ...