Morteza Analoui

Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, Morteza Analoui

Story continuation focuses on generating the next image in a narrative sequence so that it remains coherent with both the ongoing text description and the previously observed images. A central challenge in this setting lies in utilizing prior visual context effectively, while ensuring semantic alignment with the current textual input. In this work, we introduce AVC (Adaptive Visual Conditioning), a framework for diffusion-based story continuation. AVC employs the CLIP model to retrieve the most semantically aligned image from previous frames. Crucially, when no sufficiently relevant image is found, AVC adaptively restricts the influence of prior visuals to only the early stages of the diffusion process. This enables the model to exploit visual context when beneficial, while avoiding the injection of misleading or irrelevant information. Furthermore, we improve data quality by re-captioning a noisy dataset using large language models, thereby strengthening textual supervision and semantic alignment. Quantitative results and human evaluations demonstrate that AVC achieves superior coherence, semantic consistency, and visual fidelity compared to strong baselines, particularly in challenging cases where prior visuals conflict with the current input.

Atefe Pakzad, Morteza Analoui

We intend to generate low-dimensional explicit distributional semantic vectors. In explicit semantic vectors, each dimension corresponds to a word, so word vectors are interpretable. In this research, we propose a new approach to obtain low-dimensional explicit semantic vectors. First, the proposed approach considers the three criteria Word Similarity, Number of Zero, and Word Frequency as features for the words in a corpus. Then, we extract some rules for obtaining the initial basis words using a decision tree that is drawn based on the three features. Second, we propose a binary weighting method based on the Binary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm that obtains N_B = 1000 context words. We also use a word selection method that provides N_S = 1000 context words. Third, we extract the golden words of the corpus based on the binary weighting method. Then, we add the extracted golden words to the context words that are selected by the word selection method as the golden context words. We use the ukWaC corpus for constructing the word vectors. We use MEN, RG-65, and SimLex-999 test sets to evaluate the word vectors. We report the results compared to a baseline that uses 5k most frequent words in the corpus as context words. The baseline method uses a fixed window to count the co-occurrences. We obtain the word vectors using the 1000 selected context words together with the golden context words. Our approach compared to the Baseline method increases the Spearman correlation coefficient for the MEN, RG-65, and SimLex-999 test sets by 4.66%, 14.73%, and 1.08%, respectively.

Sara Shahsavarani, Morteza Analoui, Reza Shoja Ghiass

Despite significant advances in Deep Face Recognition (DFR) systems, introducing new DFRs under specific constraints such as varying pose still remains a big challenge. Most particularly, due to the 3D nature of a human head, facial appearance of the same subject introduces a high intra-class variability when projected to the camera image plane. In this paper, we propose a new multi-view Deep Face Recognition (MVDFR) system to address the mentioned challenge. In this context, multiple 2D images of each subject under different views are fed into the proposed deep neural network with a unique design to re-express the facial features in a single and more compact face descriptor, which in turn, produces a more informative and abstract way for face identification using convolutional neural networks. To extend the functionality of our proposed system to multi-view facial images, the golden standard Deep-ID model is modified in our proposed model. The experimental results indicate that our proposed method yields a 99.8% accuracy, while the state-of-the-art method achieves a 97% accuracy. We also gathered the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) face database with 6552 images of 504 subjects to accomplish our experiments.

Zeinab Ghafari, Taha Arian, Morteza Analoui

As ATM applications deploy for a banking system, the need to secure communications will become critical. However, multicast protocols do not fit the point-to-point model of most network security protocols which were designed with unicast communications in mind. In recent years, we have seen the emergence and the growing of ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) in banking systems. Many banks are extending their activity and increasing transactions by using ATMs. ATM will allow them to reach more customers in a cost effective way and to make their transactions fast and efficient. However, communicating in the network must satisfy integrity, privacy, confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation. Many frameworks have been implemented to provide security in communication and transactions. In this paper, we analyze ATM communication protocol and propose a novel framework for ATM systems that allows entities communicate in a secure way without using a lot of storage. We describe the architecture and operation of SFAMSS in detail. Our framework is implemented with Java and the software architecture, and its components are studied in detailed.