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The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced substantial security vulnerabilities, highlighting the need for robust Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems (ML-IDS)…
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Despite rapid advances in image-based machine learning, the threat identification of a knife wielding attacker has not garnered substantial academic attention. This relative research gap appears less understandable given the high knife…
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