Cheng Dai

Dr. Cheng Dai

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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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1 January 2020 in Applied Soft Computing
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CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
XLXingang Liu
Xingang Liu
JLJinfeng Lai
Jinfeng Lai

9 July 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
XLXingang Liu
Xingang Liu
WCWeiting Chen
Weiting Chen
Chin-Feng LaiChin-Feng Lai
Chin-Feng Lai
The emergence of edge computing (EC) and intelligent vision-based driver assistance system is of great significance for the prospective development of Internet of Vehicle (IoV). The additional computation capability and extensive network coverage provides energy-limited smart devices with more op- portunities to enable IoV system for time-sensitive applications. However, the transmission of a large amount of redundant data not only causes data transmission delay but also severely compromises the accuracy of object detection when implement- ed in a vision-based driver assistance system. In this paper, an improved object detection algorithm based on video key- frame for latency reduction on edge IoV system is proposed. It can significantly improve latency reduction performance at the expense of small detection accuracy. In our proposal, we adopt an important coefficient and frame similarity comparison algorithm to filter redundant frames and achieve key frames for object detection. Then an improved Haar-like feature based classification algorithm is used for objection detection under the edge computation model. Finally, a scalable cluster object detection system as a practical EC case is implemented to verify our proposal, and extensive simulations confirm the superiority of the proposed scheme over regular schemes. It can speed up about 84 times with 40% of the similar frames filtered in comparison.

1 March 2021 in Applied Soft Computing
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CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
XLXingang Liu
Xingang Liu
ZLZhuolin Li
Zhuolin Li
MCMu-Yen Chen
Mu-Yen Chen

29 September 2021 in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
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CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
XLXingang Liu
Xingang Liu
HCHongqiang Cheng
Hongqiang Cheng
Laurence YangLaurence Yang
Laurence Yang
MDM. Jamal Deen
M. Jamal Deen
Deep learning has been proved to be one of the most effective method in feature encoding for different intelligent applications such as video-based human action recognition. However, its nonconvex optimization mechanism leads large memory consumption, which hinders its deployment on the smart embedded systems with limited computational resources. To overcome this challenge, we propose a novel deep model compression technique for smart embedded systems, which realizes both the memory size reduction and inference complexity decrease within a small drop of accuracy. First, we propose an improved naive Bayes inference-based channel parameter pruning to obtain a sparse model with higher accuracy. Then, to improve the inference efficiency, the improved Tucker decomposition method is proposed, where an improved genetic algorithm is used to optimize the Tucker ranks. Finally, to elevate the effectiveness of our proposed method, extensive experiments are conducted. The experimental results show that our method can achieve the state-of-the-art performance compared with existing methods in terms of accuracy, parameter compression, and floating-point operations reduction.

9 February 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
XLXingang Liu
Xingang Liu
HXHao Xu
Hao Xu
Laurence YangLaurence Yang
Laurence Yang
Jamal DeenJamal Deen
Jamal Deen
Human behavior understanding is playing more and more important role in human-centered Industrial Internet of Video Things (IIoVT) system with the deep combination of artificial intelligence and video-based industrial Internet of Things. However, it requires expensively computational resources, including high-performance computing units and large memory, to train a deep computation model with a large number of parameters, which limits its effectiveness and efficiency for IIoVT applications. In this article, a tensor-train mechanism based deep model is presented for video human behavior understanding to meet the requirement of IIoVT applications. It can get competitive performance in accuracy and training efficiency with potentiality for combination of artificial intelligence and prefront IIoVT system. On the one hand, to achieve desirable accuracy, we improved the conventional CNN and adopted the recurrent neural network mechanism to enhance the video representation over time, which takes the correlation between consecutive deep feature into consideration. On the other hand, to enhance the inference capacity between the spatial and temporal features, we carry out the self-critical reinforcement learning mechanism in parameter learning stage. Meanwhile, to further reduce parameter storage size to meet requirement for the deployment of deep neural network and edge device, the tensor-train mechanism is used, which transforms the parameter matrix to a tensor space and carry out tensor decomposition mechanism to decrease the number of parameter generated in parameter training. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments to evaluate our scheme, and the results demonstrate that our method can improve the training efficiency and save the memory space for the deep computation model with better accuracy.

19 June 2024 in Future Generation Computer Systems
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XLXiming Liu
Ximing Liu
YLYayong Li
Yayong Li
CDCheng Dai
Cheng Dai
HZHong Zhang
Hong Zhang