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Selected Papers from the 10th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) 2018

A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2019) | Viewed by 28292

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Dynamic ICSP Graph Optimization Approach for Car-Like Robot Localization in Outdoor Environments
by Zhan Wang, Alain Lambert and Xun Zhang
Computers 2019, 8(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030063 - 2 Sep 2019
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 4785
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Localization has been regarded as one of the most fundamental problems to enable a mobile robot with autonomous capabilities. Probabilistic techniques such as Kalman or Particle filtering have long been used to solve robotic localization and mapping problem. Despite their good performance in [...] Read more.
Localization has been regarded as one of the most fundamental problems to enable a mobile robot with autonomous capabilities. Probabilistic techniques such as Kalman or Particle filtering have long been used to solve robotic localization and mapping problem. Despite their good performance in practical applications, they could suffer inconsistency problems. This paper presents an Interval Constraint Satisfaction Problem (ICSP) graph based methodology for consistent car-like robot localization in outdoor environments. The localization problem is cast into a two-stage framework: visual teach and repeat. During a teaching phase, the interval map is built when a robot navigates around the environment with GPS-support. The map is then used for real-time ego-localization as the robot repeats the path autonomously. By dynamically solving the ICSP graph via Interval Constraint Propagation (ICP) techniques, a consistent and improved localization result is obtained. Both numerical simulation results and real data set experiments are presented, showing the soundness of the proposed method in achieving consistent localization. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 10th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) 2018)
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An Intelligent Computer-Aided Scheme for Classifying Multiple Skin Lesions
by Nazia Hameed, Fozia Hameed, Antesar Shabut, Sehresh Khan, Silvia Cirstea and Alamgir Hossain
Computers 2019, 8(3), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030062 - 28 Aug 2019
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Skin diseases cases are increasing on a daily basis and are difficult to handle due to the global imbalance between skin disease patients and dermatologists. Skin diseases are among the top 5 leading cause of the worldwide disease burden. To reduce this burden, [...] Read more.
Skin diseases cases are increasing on a daily basis and are difficult to handle due to the global imbalance between skin disease patients and dermatologists. Skin diseases are among the top 5 leading cause of the worldwide disease burden. To reduce this burden, computer-aided diagnosis systems (CAD) are highly demanded. Single disease classification is the major shortcoming in the existing work. Due to the similar characteristics of skin diseases, classification of multiple skin lesions is very challenging. This research work is an extension of our existing work where a novel classification scheme is proposed for multi-class classification. The proposed classification framework can classify an input skin image into one of the six non-overlapping classes i.e., healthy, acne, eczema, psoriasis, benign and malignant melanoma. The proposed classification framework constitutes four steps, i.e., pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. Different image processing and machine learning techniques are used to accomplish each step. 10-fold cross-validation is utilized, and experiments are performed on 1800 images. An accuracy of 94.74% was achieved using Quadratic Support Vector Machine. The proposed classification scheme can help patients in the early classification of skin lesions. Full article
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RNN-ABC: A New Swarm Optimization Based Technique for Anomaly Detection
by Ayyaz-Ul-Haq Qureshi, Hadi Larijani, Nhamoinesu Mtetwa, Abbas Javed and Jawad Ahmad
Computers 2019, 8(3), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030059 - 14 Aug 2019
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The exponential growth of internet communications and increasing dependency of users upon software-based systems for most essential, everyday applications has raised the importance of network security. As attacks are on the rise, cybersecurity should be considered as a prime concern while developing new [...] Read more.
The exponential growth of internet communications and increasing dependency of users upon software-based systems for most essential, everyday applications has raised the importance of network security. As attacks are on the rise, cybersecurity should be considered as a prime concern while developing new networks. In the past, numerous solutions have been proposed for intrusion detection; however, many of them are computationally expensive and require high memory resources. In this paper, we propose a new intrusion detection system using a random neural network and an artificial bee colony algorithm (RNN-ABC). The model is trained and tested with the benchmark NSL-KDD data set. Accuracy and other metrics, such as the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed RNN-ABC, are compared with the traditional gradient descent algorithm-based RNN. While the overall accuracy remains at 95.02%, the performance is also estimated in terms of mean of the mean squared error (MMSE), standard deviation of MSE (SDMSE), best mean squared error (BMSE), and worst mean squared error (WMSE) parameters, which further confirms the superiority of the proposed scheme over the traditional methods. Full article
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Importance and Applications of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in Railway Maintenance Sector: A Review
by Randika K. W. Vithanage, Colin S. Harrison and Anjali K. M. DeSilva
Computers 2019, 8(3), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030056 - 30 Jul 2019
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Maintenance, which is critical for safe, reliable, quality, and cost-effective service, plays a dominant role in the railway industry. Therefore, this paper examines the importance and applications of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in railway maintenance. More than 70 research publications, which are [...] Read more.
Maintenance, which is critical for safe, reliable, quality, and cost-effective service, plays a dominant role in the railway industry. Therefore, this paper examines the importance and applications of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in railway maintenance. More than 70 research publications, which are either in practice or under investigation describing RAS developments in the railway maintenance, are analysed. It has been found that the majority of RAS developed are for rolling-stock maintenance, followed by railway track maintenance. Further, it has been found that there is growing interest and demand for robotics and autonomous systems in the railway maintenance sector, which is largely due to the increased competition, rapid expansion and ever-increasing expenses. Full article
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