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An adaptive image watermarking scheme using cooperation of HBA and RSA metaheuristics
Journal of the Franklin Institute. 2026. Vol. 363. No. 15. Article 109005.
Open access to images creates opportunities for violation of the authors' rights. Digital watermarks can be used to securely publish images online. They are invisibly added into the images before publication and can be extracted at any time to verify ownership. However, achieving a balance between embedding imperceptibility and robustness to image processing operations is quite challenging. In this study, an adaptive image watermarking scheme is proposed in which the balance between imperceptibility and robustness is achieved by cooperation of two metaheuristic optimization algorithms. The watermark bit embedding is performed into 4 × 4 block pairs, and the synergy of two modern metaheuristics is used to optimize the embedding. First, the Honey Badger Algorithm (HBA) selects the best locations of watermark bits to reduce the level of image distortion during embedding. The Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA) then optimizes change vectors that are used to embed the watermark into coefficients of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) block pairs. As a result of embedding, ratios of sums of DCT coefficient absolute values of the block pairs are set in such a way that they correspond to specific watermark bits. The HBA and RSA are used for the first time in an image watermarking scheme. To ensure the best optimization performance, a detailed study of the effect of optimization parameter values on image watermarking quality metrics is done. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides a high level of embedding imperceptibility with the average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) metric value exceeding 50 dB. The watermark embedded using the algorithm is resistant to many image processing attacks, including brightness modification, gamma correction, sharpening, JPEG compression, Gaussian filter, and others. The average values of the Bit Error Rate (BER) and Normalized Correlation Coefficient (NCC) metrics are 0.0352 and 0.9702, respectively, for the classical set of test images.
Avdoshin S.M., Patrushev K. A., Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS 2026 No. 4 часть 2 P. 245–256
The cardinality-constrained Markowitz problem is NP-hard and traditionally solved with commercial MIQP solvers. Following the 2022 export restrictions that rendered both commercial MIQP software and cloud quantum platforms (IBM Quantum, D-Wave Leap) inaccessible from the Russian Federation, practitioners require open-source alternatives. This paper systematically compares three solver families for the discrete mean-variance problem: two open-source ...
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Zaikin A., Vlasenko D., Zakharov D. et al., Diagnostics 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 1–15
Background/Objectives: Synolitic graphs (SGs) were developed for task-based fMRI, where
edge weights encode the discriminative power of pairwise regional features; whether similar
information can be recovered from resting-state data was untested. We benchmarked
SGs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) classification using the multisite ABIDE-I dataset
(871 subjects: 403 subjects with ASD, 468 typical controls; 17 sites; CC200 atlas). Methods:
Using ...
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Тула: Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л.Н. Толстого, 2025.
Сборник содержит материалы, представленные на XXIV Международной конференции «Алгебра, теория чисел, дискретная геометрия и многомасштабное моделирование: современные проблемы, приложения и проблемы истории», посвящённой 110-летию со дня рождения академика Юрия Владимировича Линника и 110-летию со дня рождения профессора Андрея Борисовича Шидловского и 80-летию со дня рождения профессора Геннадия Ивановича Архипова. Материалы конференции будут полезны научным работникам, ...
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Eduard Sopin, Nazarin A., Begishev V. et al., IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2026 Vol. 75 No. 6 P. 10995–11007
Aimed at rate-greedy applications having extreme requirements for the data rate at the air interface, 5G New Radio (NR) systems may experience problems when the number of user equipment (UE) in the coverage of the cell increases due to limited capacity of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).The aim of this study is to explore ...
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Джонов А. Т., Avdoshin S. M., Информационные технологии 2026 Т. 32 № 8 С. 421–427
This systematic review presents an analysis of the "Vibe Coding" methodology — a contemporary approach to the iterative software development process using Large Language Models (LLMs). Code generation tools are transforming software development by enabling programmers to formulate tasks and describe the desired behavior of software in natural language, while LLMs generate source code corresponding ...
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IEEE, 2026.
It is with great pleasure that we welcome all the participants of the 12th Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT 2026) at the Polytechnic University of Bari – Orabona Street 4, 70125 Bari, Italy, July 13-16, 2026. CoDIT has grown to become one of the largest conferences organized in Europe and in the ...
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Лукьяненко Д. В., Ragimova A., Мухорина А. et al., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–24
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain vast volumes of clinical information that encode complex relationships between diseases. Traditional approaches to the analysis of interrelated or co-occurring diseases have focused on pairwise associations between diagnoses, missing the higher-order structures that characterise multimorbid patients. The present paper offers a narrative review of existing statistical, machine-learning, and artificial intelligence ...
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CEUR-WS.org, 2026.
The second edition of the Generative Code Intelligence Workshop (GeCoIn 2026) was held in conjunction with the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026), in Bremen, Germany, August 16, 2026. The workshop arose from the desire to bring together a research community that has, in recent years, witnessed rapid progress in the application ...
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Ryumina E., Aksenov A., Koryakovskaya D. et al., IEEE Access 2026 Vol. 14 P. 124759–124778
Psychological characteristic estimation from multimodal in-the-wild behavior is usually studied using separate corpora, each annotated for a single target task. Such annotation fragmentation limits cross-task learning and cross-domain generalization across affective, dispositional, and interactional phenomena. To address this problem, we use emotion, apparent personality trait, and ambivalence recognition as representative tasks and introduce MM-PSYCHE, a ...
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Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026.
19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (2026) ...
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Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
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Moshkin A., Fedorov M., Arlazarov V. et al., Algorithms 2026 Vol. 19 No. 7 Article 523
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which are being actively developed in modern medicine today, increase the speed and quality of patient care. This article mainly seeks to demonstrate the use of various options of computer analysis of clinical images to solve practical problems of increasing the efficiency of routine diagnostics using retrospective analysis, as well as ...
Added: August 17, 2026
CHEN Y., Howlett R. J., Tanaka S. et al., Springer, 2026.
The Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies book series encompasses the topics of knowledge, intelligence, innovation and sustainability. The aim of the series is to make available a platform for the publication of books on all aspects of single and multi-disciplinary research on these themes in order to make the latest results available in a readily-accessible ...
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Khorunzheva K., Postnikov E., Zakharov D., Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 2026 Vol. 212 No. 2 P. 1–12
Identification of coherent states of spiking neural networks is a fundamental problem of
synchronization theory but conventional methods are computationally expensive. We apply
the crystallographic ideas of processing periodic structures to the analysis of various
states of spiking neuronal networks. In particular, the introduced approach is based on
the application of two-dimensional Fourier transform to rasterplots. By the position ...
Added: August 13, 2026
Yu Z., Wang J., Wang Z. et al., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2026 Vol. 384 P. 1–16
The integration of data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches in generative geospatial modelling (GGM) is often hindered by their mathematical incompatibilities. Here, we propose a geometric algebra (GA)-based framework that employs a unified multi-vector representation to fuse heterogeneous data and diverse knowledge. The framework facilitates structured reasoning and hypothesis generation through a task-adaptable, five-stage cycle: representation, reasoning, ...
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Cham: Springer, 2026.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics and Engineering, ENGAGE 2025, held in conjunction with Computer Graphics International conference, CGI 2025, in Hong Kong, China, on July 14, 2025.
The 14 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers ...
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Badarin A., Ratnikov F., Andreev A., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–10
EEG recordings are often affected by the loss or corruption of individual channels due to electrode detachment, poor scalp contact, or external interference. Such channels must be accurately reconstructed before further analysis. In this study, we investigate Next-Generation Reservoir Computing (NG-RC) as a data-driven approach for reconstructing corrupted EEG channels and compare its performance with ...
Added: August 12, 2026
Minets M., Krasnozhenov G., Trofimova E. et al., PeerJ Computer Science 2026 Vol. 12 Article e4063
This article presents CAD2TechSpec, a novel framework for automating design processes within computer-aided design (CAD) systems by leveraging multimodal large language models (LLMs). The framework enables the analysis and generation of detailed design specifications, including the automated creation of machining process plans. Our system architecture combines 3D model rendering, dimensionality reduction techniques, and the capabilities ...
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Мизинов П. В., Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques 2023 No. 20 P. 383–396
Biometric vein recognition systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks. Traditionally, researchers have used a near-infrared (NIR) drawing of the user’s vascular bed to create a presentation attack instrument (PAI). This paper investigates the feasibility of using free software to capture a venous pattern of the hand without NIR under normal lighting conditions and to create ...
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Trubochkina N. K., М.: Юрайт, 2026.
This textbook is designed to develop students' holistic understanding of modern production processes and methods for their analysis and management using machine learning technologies. In the context of the fourth industrial revolution, where traditional engineering disciplines are inextricably intertwined with intelligent data processing methods, there is a growing need for specialists capable of integrating knowledge ...
Added: August 8, 2026
Фирсанова В. И., ACM, 2023.
The inclusion of autistic people can be augmented by a mobile app that provides information without a human mediator making information perception more liberating for people in the spectrum. This paper is an overview of a doctoral work dedicated to the development of a web-based mobile tool for supporting the inclusion of people on the ...
Added: August 4, 2026
Фирсанова В. И., Хлусова Я. К., CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025.
Knowledge graphs are widely used in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Explainable AI (XAI), since they can illustrate semantic relationships generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies focus on generating knowledge graphs from unstructured data to improve RAG performance; however, they do not explain the underlying graph structure. The analysis of synthetic graphs behind ...
Added: August 4, 2026
Anna Melman, Mikhail Alexandrov, Oleg Evsutin, , in: 2025 XIХ International Symposium on Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems (Redundancy), 5-7 Nov. 2025.: IEEE, 2025. P. 1–6.
Digital steganography protects the privacy of data by hiding them in some digital containers, such as images. Protection of confidential messages by hiding them in digital images faces the problem of balancing the main performance indicators, i.e. embedding imperceptibility and capacity. Metaheuristic optimization can be used to flexibly customize embedding options, including parameters and locations ...
Added: January 28, 2026
Dzhanashia K., Evsyutin O., Applied Soft Computing Journal 2026 Vol. 186 Article 114125
Watermarking is a key tool in combating unauthorized content distribution, but its effectiveness is often challenged by the wide range of communication channels that can degrade or remove the watermark. We propose a block neural network-based watermarking scheme for digital images that is robust against diverse transmission channels, including compression, pre-processing, and digital-to-analog conversions such ...
Added: October 31, 2025