Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 18

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and can seriously threaten patient health. Research on AF detection carries important clinical significance. This manuscript proposes an AF detection method based on ballistocardiogram (BCG) sign...

In recent years, great progress has been made in the recognition of skeletal behaviors based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs). In most existing methods, however, the fixed adjacency matrix and fixed graph structure are used for skeleton data fe...

TikTok has consistently been one of the most used mobile apps worldwide on any mobile operating system. However, despite people’s enjoyment of using the application, there have been growing concerns about the application’s origins and all...

Internet-of-Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchains (BCs) are essential techniques that are heavily researched and investigated today. This work here specifies, implements, and evaluates an IoT architecture with integrated BC and...

Electronic equipment in nuclear power plants and nuclear warfare is damaged by transient effects that cause high-energy pulsed radiation. There is a concern that this type of damage can even cause enormous economic losses and human casualties by para...

Visual-frame prediction is a pixel-dense prediction task that infers future frames from past frames. A lack of appearance details, low prediction accuracy and a high computational overhead are still major problems associated with current models or me...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is primarily used to resolve the problems of taking care of the majority of nodes perceived and tracking tags related to the items. Utilizing contactless radio frequency identification data can be communicated di...

The application of the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) in the power system is expanding day by day since it provides a higher reliability through fast symmetrically monitoring and protection and assists in controlling power systems. For power systems,...

State-of-the-art modern microprocessor and domain-specific accelerator designs are dominated by data-paths composed of regular structures, also known as bit-slices. Random logic placement and routing techniques may not result in an optimal layout for...

Emotional intelligence is the automatic detection of human emotions using various intelligent methods. Several studies have been conducted on emotional intelligence, and only a few have been adopted in education. Detecting student emotions can signif...

With the advent of the era of rapid information expansion, the massive data backlog that exists on the Internet has led to a serious information overload problem, which makes recommendation systems a crucial part of human life. In particular, the Poi...

As research into additives and intentionally introduced impurities in dielectric thin film for enhancing the resistive switching based random access memories (RRAM) continues to gain momentum, the aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of chemi...

This study aims to introduce a new phased array design with improved radiation properties for future cellular networks. The procedure of the array design is simple and has been accomplished on a low-cost substrate material while offering several inte...

The wireless sensor network (WSN) provides us with a cost-effective way to remotely monitor a large number of objects, locations, and environmental parameters. Taking advantage of WSNs to applications can add new capabilities to existing products and...

Driving a car is an activity that became necessary for exploration, even when living in the present world. Research exploring the topic of safety on the roads has therefore become increasingly relevant. In this paper, we propose a recognition algorit...

Motion video recognition has been well explored in applications of computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel video representation, which enhances motion recognition in videos based on SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features) and two filters. Firstl...

The presented system for non-contact examination of tissue perfusion is one of the tools for complex examination of human body tissues (skin, subcutaneous) and their mutual interactions, including blood flow and activity under various external stimul...

An electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) sensor is an array capacitive sensor that is sensitive to the medium of the measured object and can be widely used in oil, natural gas, machinery and other industrial fields to solve the problem of multiphas...

Remotely driven smart actuator technology by microwave is attractive since it simplifies and reduces the complexity and weight of the remote system. A rectifying antenna (rectenna) array receives and converts microwave power into DC power for actuato...

Elements in massive narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) for 5G networks suffer severely from packet drops due to queue overflow. Active Queue Management (AQM) techniques help in maintaining queue length by dropping packets early, based on certain...

In this study, a 3 mm gap GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch (GaAs PCSS) was triggered by pulsed spark discharge. The typical linear mode of GaAs PCSS was fulfilled at a low bias voltage. The on-state current waveform was similar to that of an...

Current source topologies have several advantages compared to conventional voltage systems. Their inherent voltage-boosting function, intrinsic short-circuit protection, no electrolytic capacitor, direct-current control, continuous input current, and...

Aiming at the problems of poor load balancing ability and weak generalization of the existing routing algorithms, this paper proposes an intelligent routing algorithm, GNN-DRL, in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) environment. The GNN-DRL algorit...

The possibility of making compact stopband filters using coplanar-coupled EBG resonators in inverted microstrip gap waveguide technology is studied in this work. To do this, the filtering characteristics of different configurations of mushroom-type e...

Brownian motion is a dynamic behavior with random changes over time (stochastic) that occurs in many vital functions related to fluid environments, stock behavior, or even renewable energy generation. In this paper, we present a circuit implementatio...

With the development of modern electromagnetic stealth technology and ARM, traditional active radar detection cannot accomplish its detection mission, limited by its ability. Relying on such superior advantages such as imperceptibility, anti-electrom...

In this work, an efficient slotted waveguide antenna (SWA) system is designed for S-band high power microwave (HPM) applications. The designed SWA comprises of 10-slot elements placed on the broad wall of SWA with a modified Gaussian distribution (MG...

This research proposes a methodology for the selection of input variables based on eXplainable AI (XAI) for energy consumption prediction. For this purpose, the energy consumption prediction model (R² = 0.871; MAE = 2.176; MSE = 9.870) was selected b...

In broad terms, UX design is concerned with minimizing the workload neccessary for the user to interact with the system. In gaming, however, the system is supposed to provide a level of challenge to keep the player entertained, along with offering sp...

The heterogeneity of the multiple processing elements (PEs) is a feature of real-time embedded systems. General-purpose processors and several embedded processors, as well as dedicated high-speed interfaces, are among these elements. Communication be...

Due to influence of COVID-19, telemedicine is becoming more and more important. High-quality medical videos can provide a physician with a better visual experience and increase the accuracy of disease diagnosis, but this requires a dramatic increase...

Advances in microtechnology have enabled an exponential increase in the number of neurons that can be simultaneously recorded. To meet high-channel count and implantability demands, emerging applications require new methods for local real-time proces...

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) network has greatly benefited from the expansion of sensing technologies. These networks interconnect with wireless systems and collaborate with other devices using multi-hop communication. Besides data...

Blockchain technology has allowed many abnormal schemes to hide behind smart contracts. This causes serious financial losses, which adversely affects the blockchain. Machine learning technology has mainly been utilized to enable automatic detection o...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamental and disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of the modality of educational delivery from face-to-face to online occurre...

As the digitalization process has become more and more important in our daily lives, during recent decades e-commerce has greatly increased in popularity, becoming increasingly used, therefore representing an extremely convenient alternative to tradi...

Water environment monitoring has always been an important method of water resource environmental protection. In practical applications, there are problems such as large water bodies, long monitoring periods, and large transmission and processing dela...

In large buildings, during the situation of fire or other hazards, a smart evacuation guidance system needs to fully consider manifold aspects of hazards to guide evacuees through exit gates as fast as possible by dynamic and safe routes. In this pap...

Since the regulatory relationship between genes is usually non-stationary, the homogeneity assumption cannot be satisfied when modeling with dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs). For this reason, the homogeneity assumption in dynamic Bayesian networks sh...

The reported work aims to improve the performance of LSTM-based (Long Short-Term Memory) forecasting algorithms in cases of NARX (Nonlinear Autoregressive with eXogenous input) models by using evolutionary search. The proposed approach, ES-LSTM, comb...

Harvesting energy from solar radiation has emerged as an effective approach to prolong the lifetime of outdoor energy harvesting sensor networks. The harvested energy must be carefully managed to ensure that sufficient energy is available when solar...

Energy and throughput efficient acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNN) on devices with a strict power budget is achieved by leveraging different scheduling techniques to minimize data movement and maximize data reuse. Several dataflow ma...

To better address the problem of the low prediction accuracy of used car prices under a large number of features and big data and improve the accuracy of existing deep learning models, an iterative framework combining XGBoost and LightGBM is proposed...

High-precision mapping and positioning of urban underground pipelines are the basic requirements of urban digital construction. Aiming at the above problems, a dead reckoning algorithm based on the starting point and ending point correction and forwa...

In this paper, we propose a new type of smoothing reactor using different types of reactors with different magnetic flux saturation to construct a DC-DC converter with low current ripple under the light load of the bidirectional DC-DC converter. Redu...

Unstructured off-road environments with complex terrain obstacles and pavement properties bring obvious challenges for special purpose autonomous vehicle control. A cascade direct yaw moment control strategy (CDYC), which contains a main loop and a s...

The systolic array provides extremely high efficiency for running matrix multiplication and is one of the mainstream architectures of today’s deep learning accelerators. In order to develop efficient accelerators, people usually employ simulato...

To improve the generation quality of image style transfer, this paper proposes a light progressive attention adaptive instance normalization (LPAdaIN) model that combines the adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) layer and the convolutional block a...

With the improved hardware storage capabilities and the rapid development of artificial intelligence image recognition technology, information is becoming image-oriented. Increasingly sensitive image data needs to be processed. When facing a large am...

Skills needed in jobs and skills mismatches are important topics for research and policy in the field of economic development and the labour market. Understanding skill needs is essential for improving education and training policies, as labour marke...