Liang-Bi Chen

National Penghu University · Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

Ships have many uses in human social life and can be used for various purposes, such as the transportation of people and goods, military affairs, and scientific research. Generally, major ship accidents rarely occur because ships’ design and construction are completed in strict compliance with relevant regulations and international standards (Pan e...

In recent years, underwater robots have been an essential focus of marine science and technology applications. Whether it is the application of military tasks or general civil affairs, underwater robots have played a significant role. For example, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) can work in the sea for a long time, have high maneuverability, an...

Since aging in agriculture has currently become a problem in many advanced countries worldwide, in response to the growing shortage of agricultural labor, several of these countries have invested in the development of agricultural robots to solve the agricultural labor shortage problem. Automatic equipment to support agricultural harvesting can red...

This article proposes an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) system based on the artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) for collecting garbage. The proposed system consists of an AMR subsystem, a robot operating system (ROS) robot subsystem, an AI garbage recognition subsystem, solar power supply subsystem, and a smart trash can subsystem. The AMR subs...

In the process of white shrimp farming, shrimp larvae trading is a time-consuming and laborious process. In the traditional shrimp larvae counting process, it is often necessary to count the number of shrimp larvae for sale through manual counting. However, there is not a unified standard method for counting. Computer counting methods can only iden...

Precision agriculture is a high-level agricultural production process that achieves high quality and high efficiency by combining traditional agricultural technology with Internet of Things (IoT) technology and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This method achieves high-quality, high-tech, and high-level agricultural production. Value-added...

In recent years, the application and development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased significantly. In general, the IoT requires many technologies. Usually, a large amount of IoT sensor information is collected through IoT devices, and devices are connected to each other through IoT communication technology. The Internet exchanges and tra...

In recent years, single societies and aging societies around the worldwide increasingly see the emerging problem of loneliness and the growing need for companionship. To satisfy the need, the population of pet keepers is growing, and the proportion of households with pets is increasing. It is normal to have pets at home. Pet fish are kept not only...

The movement restrictions of coronavirus had a significant impact on consumer behavior. The rise of cross-border e-commerce has also increased the risks in logistics activities. This work identified the critical threat of cross-border logistics. Additionally, artificial intelligence over Internet of Things (AIoT) technology was found to reduce logi...

Given the high pressures of life in modern society, promoting relaxation can improve the quality of daily life. This study proposes a relaxation system that uses monaural beats with ultralow-frequency inaudible sounds to promote relaxation. To effectively promote relaxation, monaural beats in the $\delta $ band, $\theta $ band, and $\alpha $...

The decisions made regarding traditional fish feeding systems mainly depend on experience and simple time control. Most previous works have focused on image-based analysis of the leftover feed at the bottom of the pond to determine whether to continue or to stop feeding. However, the feasibility of such a method in an actual outdoor aquaculture pon...

Most installed lighting systems are outdated and have poor energy efficiency. Therefore, there is an urgent need for smart LED lighting systems that are energy efficient, easy to install, and inexpensive. In this article, a leader-follower smart office lighting control system based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology is proposed to satisfy the g...

Reducing residential and industrial electricity consumption has been a goal of governments around the world. Lighting sources account for a large portion of the whole energy/power consumption. Unfortunately, most of the existing installed lighting systems are ancient and have poor energy efficiency. Today, many manufacturers have introduced light-c...

This article proposes an intelligent calorie management system, named iBuffet, based on artificial intelligence over the Internet of Things (AIoT) techniques for eating buffet meals with calorie intake control. The proposed iBuffet system consists of intelligent buffet table modules, an artificial intelligence (AI) Wi-Fi base station, a mobile devi...

Research at the nexus of maritime management and operational performance suggests that lean management may benefit from sociotechnical systems theory (STS) in terms of long-term business performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which lean management practices can improve operational performance. This study aims to assess t...

As the population worldwide continues to age and the percentage of elderly people continues to increase, falls have been become the second leading cause of death from accidental or unintentional injuries. Although many imaging sensing devices have been used to detect falls for elderly people, most involve using the Internet to transfer images taken...

The organizing committee expresses its warmest appreciation to the contribution of Liang-Bi Chen for being a chair of session F7: Internet of Things, Internet of Everywhere, and Edge Computing at the IEEE 2021 International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan in Penghu, Taiwan.

This study empirically investigates the influence of information security marketing and response cost on employees' information security intention in the container shipping industry. Survey data were collected from 285 respondents in Taiwan. Exploratory factor analysis was employed to identify all the measures to be summarized in a relative set. Co...

Today, the world’s electricity consumption is growing rapidly, and therefore energy demands are also increasing. In the past few decades, various measures have been taken to improve equipment and system design to increase production and transmission efficiency and reduce power consumption. This article proposes a novel Internet of Things (IoT)-base...

This paper proposes a wearable assistive system based on artificial intelligence (AI) edge computing techniques to help visually impaired consumers safely use marked crosswalks, or zebra crossings. The proposed wearable assistive system consists of a pair of smart sunglasses, a waist-mounted intelligent device, and an intelligent walking cane (stic...

Currently, the 1st generation and 2nd generation solar water heating tanks' design is unsatisfactory in the current use situation. When hot water is used with the hot water being consumed, thus cold water will be added into the same tank at the same time, resulting in a significant drop in the temperature of the hot water in the tank and making it...

This article proposes a methodology for diagnosing faults in oil-immersed power transformers that considers correlation as a random variable and models the power transformer diagnosis problem as a hypothesis testing problem. Based on conventional estimation and detection theory, a novel diagnosis methodology for oil-immersed power transformer fault...

Many people suffer from scalp hair problems such as dandruff, folliculitis, hair loss, and oily hair due to poor daily habits, imbalanced nutritional intake, high stress, and toxic substances in their environment. To treat these scalp problems, dedicated services such as scalp hair physiotherapy have emerged in recent years. This article proposes a...

Recently, the expansion of e-commerce is leading to a massive increase in e-commerce transactions. At present, e-commerce has been accepted by most consumers, who have begun to purchase high-price and fragile goods via e-commerce. However, a major problem that current logistics companies must consider is how to ensure the safe delivery of such high...

This paper proposes an intelligent assistive system based on wearable smart glasses and an intelligent walking stick for visually impaired people to achieve the goals of aerial obstacle avoidance and fall detection. The proposed assistive system comprises wearable smart glasses, an intelligent walking stick, a mobile device app, and a cloud-based i...

A CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE AS Guest Editor of Special Issue "Power/Performance Analysis for Embedded Mobile Applications and Devices" for energies Journal.

Dear Colleagues, The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject of "Power/Performance Analysis for Embedded Mobile Applications and Devices." Power and performance are vital terms for power/energy-aware embedded mobile applications and devices. Recently, there have been many emerging techniques for power/ener...

Today, with the arrival of an aging society, the average age of the population is rising. It is known that the physiology of a person degrades with age. There are approximately 285 million visually impaired people in the world, of whom 140 million are elderly people over the age of 50, and 110 million of these visually impaired elderly people suffe...

In this paper, we propose a 3D limb trajectory tracking system, named BodyTracker, which is based on deep learning techniques for assisting rehabilitation. The proposed BodyTracker is composed of two limbs recognition camera and a deep learning training server. As a result, the proposed system can provide medical personnel with an effective way to...

Most individuals involved in traffic accidents receive assistance from drivers, passengers, or other people. However, when a traffic accident occurs in a sparsely populated area or the driver is the only person in the vehicle and the crash results in loss of consciousness, no one will be available to send a distress message to the proper authoritie...

This paper proposes an intelligent liquid waste barrels monitoring system, named iCAP system, which is based on the Internet of things (IoT) technologies for detecting abnormal opening and dumping of the liquid waste barrels. The proposed system is composed of an inbound/outbound areas management system, intelligent screw caps (named iCAP), and an...

This paper proposes a wireless communication scheme, named AudioNet, which is based on the audio frequency domain modulation/demodulation techniques for wireless personal area networks (WPAN). The proposed AudioNet includes a transmitter and a receiver. Frequency modulation scheme of the transmitter adopts frequency-shift keying (FSK). The Goertzel...

This paper proposes an intelligent motorcycle helmet that includes two miniature infrared (IR) transceivers, a miniature image sensor (camera), an embedded computation processing (ECP) module, a battery charging module, a microphone, and earphones. Two large truck/bus vehicle registration plate image recognition modes (day and night) are designed a...

This paper proposes an intelligent medicine recognition system based on deep learning techniques, named ST-Med-Box. The proposed system can assist chronic patients with taking multiple medications correctly and avoiding taking the wrong medications, which may cause drug interactions, and provide related medication functionalities such as reminders...

Recently, the popularity of automated and unmanned restaurants has increased. Due to the absence of staff, there is no direct perception of the customers' impressions in order to find out what their experiences with the restaurant concept are like. For this purpose, this paper presents a rating system based on facial expression recognition with pre...

In this paper, we design and implement a next-generation hybrid Internet of Vehicles (IoV) communication system, which integrates DC-based power line communication (PLC), visible light communication (VLC), and 3G/4G mobile communication techniques. As a result, the proposed system can achieve the goal of interconnection of in-vehicle (IV), vehicle-...

This paper proposes a drowsiness-fatigue-detection (DFD) system based on wearable smart glasses to increase road safety. The proposed system is composed of a pair of wearable smart glasses, an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) telematics platform, an on-board diagnostics (OBD)-II-based automotive diagnostic bridge, an active vehicle rear light alert me...

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Deep learning has become the most popular research subject in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. In Oct 2013, MIT Technology Review commented that deep learning was a breakthrough technology. Deep learning has made progress in voice and image recognition, image classification, and natural language processing. Prior to...

Driving safety is the most important issue for drivers all the time. In general, so far there is no direct communication channel between two vehicles. Sometimes a driver may alert the front car driver by pressing horn or flashing headlight. However, the car driver cannot convey any message to the vehicle behind him. In this paper, we propose a mech...

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