Deepfake is a technology that creates fake images and videos with replaced or synthesized faces. Deepfakes are becoming a concerning social phenomenon, as they can be maliciously used to generate false political news, disseminate dangerous information, falsify electronic evidence, and commit digital harassment and fraud. The ease and accuracy of creating Deepfakes have been bolstered by the popularity of wearing face masks since the beginning of the infectious disease outbreak (2020). Because these masks obstruct defining facial features, fake videos are now even more challenging to identify, increasing the necessity for advanced Deepfake detection technology. The research also creates a real/fake video dataset with face masks because the field lacks the dataset required for detection-model training. The proposed research proposes a Deepfake Face Mask Dataset (DFFMD) based on a novel Inception-ResNet-v2 with preprocessing stages, feature-based, residual connection, and batch normalization. The combination of preprocessing stages, feature-based, residual connection, and batch normalization increases the detection accuracy of deepfake videos in the presence of facemasks, unlike the traditional methods. The study’s results compared with existing state-of-the-art methods detect face-mask-Deepfakes with 99.81% accuracy compared to the traditional InceptionResNetV2 and VGG19, whose accuracy is 77.48%, and 99.25%, respectively. Future work should evaluate the accuracy of developing a subsequent experimental work for increased detection of deepfake with facemasks.

The load pressure on electrical power system is increased during last decade. The installation of new power generators (PGs) take huge time and cost. Therefore, to manage current power demands, the solar plants are considered a fruitful solution. However, critical caring and balance output power in solar plants are the highlighted issues. Which needs a proper procedure in order to minimize balance output power and caring issues in solar plants. This paper investigates artificial neural network (ANN) and hybrid boost converter (HBC) based MPPT for improving the output power of solar plants. The proposed model is analyzed in two steps, the offline step and the online step. Where the offline status is used for training various terms of ANNs in terms of structure and algorithm while in the online step, the online procedure is applied with optimum ANN for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using traditional converter and hybrid converter in solar plants. Moreover, a detail analytical framework is studied for both proposed steps. The mathematical and simulation approaches show that the presented model efficiently regulate the output of solar plants. This technique is applicable for current installed solar plants which reduces the cost per generation.

A human gesture is a non-verbal form of communication and is critical in human-robot interactions. Vision-based gesture recognition methods play a key role to detect hand motion and support such interactions. Hand gesture recognition allows a appropriate, and usable interface between users and devices. Hand gestures can be used for various fields which makes it be able to be implemented for communication and further. Hand gesture recognition is not only useful for people who are hearing-impaired or disabled but also for the people who have experienced a stroke, as they need to communicate with other people using different common essential gestures such as the sign of eating, drink, family and, more. In this paper, a system for recognizing hand gesture based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed. The developed method is evaluated and compared between training and testing modes based on several metrics such as execution time, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, likelihood and root mean square. Results show that testing accuracy is 99% using CNN and is an effective technique in extracting distinct features and classifying data.

This work presents a novel Best-Worst Ant System (BWAS) based algorithm to settle the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The researchers has been involved in ordinary Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique for TSP due to its versatile and easily adaptable nature. However, additional potential improvement in the arrangement way decrease is yet possible in this approach. In this paper BWAS based incorporated arrangement as a high level type of ACO to upgrade the exhibition of the TSP arrangement is proposed. In addition, a novel approach, based on hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and ACO (BWAS) has also been introduced in this work. The presentation measurements of arrangement quality and assembly time have been utilized in this work and proposed algorithm is tried against various standard test sets to examine the upgrade in search capacity. The outcomes for TSP arrangement show that initial trail setup for the best particle can result in shortening the accumulated process of the optimization by a considerable amount. The exhibition of the mathematical test shows the viability of the proposed calculation over regular ACO and PSO-ACO based strategies.

(1) Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate the patient experience with the Mawid application during the COVID-19 pandemic in Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia. (2) Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional survey was designed to evaluate the patient experience with the Mawid app during the COVID-19 pandemic in Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia. A total of 146 respondents completed the questionnaire. (3) Results: More than half of the participants (65.8%) opined that application was easy to use. Furthermore, 65.1% of the participants considered it to be very easy and easy to search for the required information; and 63.7% of the respondents reflected that it was easy to book an appointment. There was a statistically significant difference between the ease of searching for the required information (p-value = 0.006); the ease of undoing an unwanted move and gender (p-value = 0.049); the ease of searching for the required information and educational level (p-value = 0.048); the ease of booking an appointment and educational level (p = 0.049); and the ease of searching for the required information and the labor sector of the respondents (p value= 0.049) among the genders. No significant differences were identified among the age groups. (4) Conclusions: Overall, most participants suggested that the Mawid app was easy to use and had a potentially useful set of features to help mitigate and manage the COVID-19 pandemic in Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia.

The design of the modern computing paradigm of heuristics is an innovative development for parameter estimation of direction of arrival (DOA) using sparse antenna arrays. In this study, the optimization strength of the flower pollination algorithm (FPA) is exploited for the DOA estimation in a low signal to noise ratio (SNR) regime by applying coprime sensor arrays (CSA). The enhanced degree of freedom (DOF) is achieved with FPA by investigating the global minima of highly nonlinear cost function with multiple local minimas. The sparse structure of CSA demonstrates that the DOF up to $O\left(MN\right)$ is achieved by employing $M+N$ CSA elements, where M and N are the numbers of antenna elements used to construct the CSA. Performance analysis is conducted for estimation accuracy, robustness against noise, robustness against snapshots, frequency distribution of root mean square error (RMSE), variability analysis of RMSE, cumulative distribution function (CDF) of RMSE over Monte Carlo runs and the comparative studies of particle swarm optimization (PSO). These reveal the worth of the proposed methodology for estimating DOA.