A Fingerprinting Method Based on Module Extraction Used to Protect Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property （IP） reuse methodology has been widely used in Integrate Circuit （IC） design. Meanwhile, the corresponding security problems caused by illegal IP distribution have aroused lots of attentions. Unlike using IP watermark to identify IP＇s ownership, IP fingerprinting can be used to trace illegal distributor. In this paper, IP buyer＇s fingerprint is mapped into different derived instances of extracted modules, and then is embedded into IP to identify distributor in case of illegal distribution. Comparing with other fingerprinting method, the proposed method has some good characteristics such as low design effort, small storage demand, high security and few physical overheads.

Optimizing reasoning in EL^(++) ontologies by using boundary-based module

In order to optimize ontology reasoning, a novel boundary-based modular extraction method is introduced for ontologies in EL^＋＋ description logics. The proposed module extraction method is capable of identifying relevant axioms in an ontology based on the notion of boundaries of symbols, with respect to a given reasoning task. Exactness of the method is ensured by discovering all axioms in the original ontology that may be directly or indirectly relevant to boundaries of symbols used in the reasoning task. Compactness of the method is ensured by boundary partition and intersection operation performed in the process of module extraction. The theoretical foundation and a practical algorithm for computing the proposed axiom-based modules are presented. The proposed algorithm is implemented for the description logic EL^＋＋. Experimental results on realworld ontologies show that, based on the proposed modularization method, the performance of ontology reasoning can be significantly improved.

A Lightweight Network with Dual Encoder and Cross Feature Fusion for Cement Pavement Crack Detection

Automatic crack detection of cement pavement chiefly benefits from the rapid development of deep learning,with convolutional neural networks(CNN)playing an important role in this field.However,as the performance of crack detection in cement pavement improves,the depth and width of the network structure are significantly increased,which necessitates more computing power and storage space.This limitation hampers the practical implementation of crack detection models on various platforms,particularly portable devices like small mobile devices.To solve these problems,we propose a dual-encoder-based network architecture that focuses on extracting more comprehensive fracture feature information and combines cross-fusion modules and coordinated attention mechanisms formore efficient feature fusion.Firstly,we use small channel convolution to construct shallow feature extractionmodule(SFEM)to extract low-level feature information of cracks in cement pavement images,in order to obtainmore information about cracks in the shallowfeatures of images.In addition,we construct large kernel atrous convolution(LKAC)to enhance crack information,which incorporates coordination attention mechanism for non-crack information filtering,and large kernel atrous convolution with different cores,using different receptive fields to extract more detailed edge and context information.Finally,the three-stage feature map outputs from the shallow feature extraction module is cross-fused with the two-stage feature map outputs from the large kernel atrous convolution module,and the shallow feature and detailed edge feature are fully fused to obtain the final crack prediction map.We evaluate our method on three public crack datasets:DeepCrack,CFD,and Crack500.Experimental results on theDeepCrack dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method compared to state-of-the-art crack detection methods,which achieves Precision(P)87.2%,Recall(R)87.7%,and F-score(F1)87.4%.Thanks to our lightweight crack detectionmodel,the parameter count of the model in real-world detection scenarios has been significantly reduced to less than 2M.This advancement also facilitates technical support for portable scene detection.

RF-Net: Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement Based on Retinex and Exposure Fusion

Low-light image enhancement methods have limitations in addressing issues such as color distortion,lack of vibrancy,and uneven light distribution and often require paired training data.To address these issues,we propose a two-stage unsupervised low-light image enhancement algorithm called Retinex and Exposure Fusion Network(RFNet),which can overcome the problems of over-enhancement of the high dynamic range and under-enhancement of the low dynamic range in existing enhancement algorithms.This algorithm can better manage the challenges brought about by complex environments in real-world scenarios by training with unpaired low-light images and regular-light images.In the first stage,we design a multi-scale feature extraction module based on Retinex theory,capable of extracting details and structural information at different scales to generate high-quality illumination and reflection images.In the second stage,an exposure image generator is designed through the camera response mechanism function to acquire exposure images containing more dark features,and the generated images are fused with the original input images to complete the low-light image enhancement.Experiments show the effectiveness and rationality of each module designed in this paper.And the method reconstructs the details of contrast and color distribution,outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods in both qualitative and quantitative metrics,and shows excellent performance in the real world.