Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a powerful tool for various industrial and smart city applications. UAVs coupled with various sensors can perform many cognitive tasks such as object detection, surveillance, ...

Devices that monitor and measure various system parameters or physical phenomena form an integral part of cyber-physical systems. Such devices usually operate continuously and gather important data that is often critical ...

With the increasing incidence rate of lung cancer patients, early diagnosis could help in reducing the mortality rate. However, accurate recognition of cancerous lesions is immensely challenging owing to factors such as ...

Rainy weather greatly affects the visibility of salient objects and scenes in the captured images and videos. The object/scene visibility varies with the type of raindrops, i.e. adherent rain droplets, streaks, rain, ...

Mobile service providers can achieve cost savings by deploying Base Stations (BSs) which harvest renewable energy as they reduce the energy drawn from the grid and its associated cost. The cost savings can be further ...

The increasing popularity of social media platforms has simplified the sharing of news articles that have led to the explosion in fake news. With the emergence of fake news at a very rapid rate, a serious concern has ...

In the modern era of computing, the news ecosystem has transformed from old traditional print media to social media outlets. Social media platforms allow us to consume news much faster, with less restricted editing results ...

With the increasing popularity of social media and web-based forums, the distribution of fake news has become a major threat to various sectors and agencies. This has abated trust in the media, leaving readers in a state ...

This paper presents Hades, a Hadoop-based framework for detection of P2P botnets in an enterprise-level network, which is distributed and scalable by design. The contri- butions of this work are two-fold: Firstly, our ...

Search and rescue are essential applications of disaster management in which people are evacuated from the disaster-prone area to a safer place. This overall process of search and rescue can be more efficient if an automated ...