Generative Adversarial Networks Research Articles

Batch channel normalized-CWGAN with Swin Transformer for imbalanced data fault diagnosis of rotating machinery

Abstract In real scenarios, rotating machinery is mainly operated in optimal condition, leading to fault data scarce and difficult to collect. This issue results in imbalanced data, significantly limiting the effectiveness of intelligent fault diagnosis methods. To address this issue, a novel fault diagnosis method for rotating machinery is proposed in this paper, which combines the batch channel normalized conditional wasserstein generative adversarial network (BCN-CWGAN) with Swin Transformer. Firstly, the one-dimensional vibration signal is preprocessed into two-dimensional feature images using a symmetrized dot pattern (SDP). Subsequently, self-attention mechanism and deep feature learning module constructed by DenseNet are integrated into the generator of GAN to acquire more discriminative feature information. Meanwhile, the discriminator of GAN is combined with batch channel normalization strategy, which further enhances the generalization ability. Besides, a two time-scale update rule strategy enhances training stability and convergence speed by updating model parameters at different time scales. Then, the data augmentation capability of BCN-CWGAN is used to generate high-quality fault samples to augment the imbalanced dataset. Finally, Swin Transformer is combined to achieve accurate fault diagnosis. The performance enhancement of the proposed method is verified through comparison and diagnosis results of two engineering experiments, demonstrating its substantial value for research in engineering practice. With the proposed data augmentation method, the average accuracy of A1, B1, C1, and D1 datasets in experiment 1 reached 99.24%, 98.85%, 96.78%, and 96.04%, respectively. Meanwhile, the proposed method achieved the best accuracy in experiment 2.

Design of a Capacitive Tactile Sensor Array System for Human-Computer Interaction.

This paper introduces a novel capacitive sensor array designed for tactile perception applications. Utilizing an all-in-one inkjet deposition printing process, the sensor array exhibited exceptional flexibility and accuracy. With a resolution of up to 32.7 dpi, the sensor array was capable of capturing the fine details of touch inputs, making it suitable for applications requiring high spatial resolution. The design incorporates two multiplexers to achieve a scanning rate of 100 Hz, ensuring the rapid and responsive data acquisition that is essential for real-time feedback in interactive applications, such as gesture recognition and haptic interfaces. To evaluate the performance of the capacitive sensor array, an experiment that involved handwritten number recognition was conducted. The results demonstrated that the sensor accurately captured fingertip inputs with a high precision. When combined with an Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network (ACGAN) algorithm, the sensor system achieved a recognition accuracy of 98% for various handwritten numbers from "0" to "9". These results show the potential of the capacitive sensor array for advanced human-computer interaction applications.

Traffic data imputation via knowledge graph-enhanced generative adversarial network

Traffic data imputation is crucial for the reliability and efficiency of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), forming the foundation for downstream tasks like traffic prediction and management. However, existing deep learning-based imputation methods struggle with two significant challenges: poor performance under high missing data rates and the limited incorporation of external traffic-related factors. To address these challenges, we propose a novel knowledge graph-enhanced generative adversarial network (KG-GAN) for traffic data imputation. Our approach uniquely integrates external knowledge with traffic spatiotemporal dependencies to improve data imputation quality. Specifically, we construct a fine-grained knowledge graph (KG) that differentiates attributes and relationships of external factors such as points of interest (POI) and weather conditions, facilitating more robust knowledge representation learning. We then introduce a knowledge-aware embedding cell (EM-cell) that merges traffic data with these learned external representations, providing richer inputs for the spatiotemporal GAN. Extensive experiments on a large-scale real-world traffic dataset demonstrate that KG-GAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods under various missing data scenarios. Additionally, ablation studies confirm the superior performance gained from incorporating external knowledge, underscoring the importance of this approach in addressing complex missing data patterns.

Non-resonant background removal in broadband CARS microscopy using deep-learning algorithms

Broadband Coherent anti-Stokes Raman (BCARS) microscopy is an imaging technique that can acquire full Raman spectra (400–3200 cm−1) of biological samples within a few milliseconds. However, the CARS signal suffers from an undesired non-resonant background (NRB), deriving from four-wave-mixing processes, which distorts the peak line shapes and reduces the chemical contrast. Traditionally, the NRB is removed using numerical algorithms that require expert users and knowledge of the NRB spectral profile. Recently, deep-learning models proved to be powerful tools for unsupervised automation and acceleration of NRB removal. Here, we thoroughly review the existing NRB removal deep-learning models (SpecNet, VECTOR, LSTM, Bi-LSTM) and present two novel architectures. The first one combines convolutional layers with Gated Recurrent Units (CNN + GRU); the second one is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that trains an encoder-decoder network and an adversarial convolutional neural network. We also introduce an improved training dataset, generalized on different BCARS experimental configurations. We compare the performances of all these networks on test and experimental data, using them in the pipeline for spectral unmixing of BCARS images. Our analyses show that CNN + GRU and VECTOR are the networks giving the highest accuracy, GAN is the one that predicts the highest number of true positive peaks in experimental data, whereas GAN and VECTOR are the most suitable ones for real-time processing of BCARS images.

A Novel Electromagnetic Sensing Generative Adversarial Network for Uniaxial Objects

Electromagnetic imaging achieves enhanced resolution by leveraging the advanced sensing and data analysis capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) systems. This paper introduces a novel learning approach for generative adversarial networks (GANs) to tackle significant challenges in electromagnetic sensing. The proposed method involves deploying additional transmitters and receivers to irradiate TM (transverse magnetic) and TE (transverse electric) polarization waves around uniaxial objects to capture the scattered field in free space. Subsequently, scattered field generative adversarial networks (SF-GANs) are utilized to simulate and learn the characteristics of Maxwell’s equations. Numerical simulations and experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the SF-GANs compared to backpropagation generative adversarial networks (BP-GANs). Furthermore, it is worth noting that our method is capable of reconstructing high-dielectric-constant objects.

Malware Detection Based on API Call Sequence Analysis: A Gated Recurrent Unit–Generative Adversarial Network Model Approach

Malware remains a major threat to computer systems, with a vast number of new samples being identified and documented regularly. Windows systems are particularly vulnerable to malicious programs like viruses, worms, and trojans. Dynamic analysis, which involves observing malware behavior during execution in a controlled environment, has emerged as a powerful technique for detection. This approach often focuses on analyzing Application Programming Interface (API) calls, which represent the interactions between the malware and the operating system. Recent advances in deep learning have shown promise in improving malware detection accuracy using API call sequence data. However, the potential of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for this purpose remains largely unexplored. This paper proposes a novel hybrid deep learning model combining Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and GANs to enhance malware detection based on API call sequences from Windows portable executable files. We evaluate our GRU–GAN model against other approaches like Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) on multiple datasets. Results demonstrated the superior performance of our hybrid model, achieving 98.9% accuracy on the most challenging dataset. It outperformed existing models in resource utilization, with faster training and testing times and low memory usage.

ACGAN for Addressing the Security Challenges in IoT-Based Healthcare System

The continuous evolution of the IoT paradigm has been extensively applied across various application domains, including air traffic control, education, healthcare, agriculture, transportation, smart home appliances, and others. Our primary focus revolves around exploring the applications of IoT, particularly within healthcare, where it assumes a pivotal role in facilitating secure and real-time remote patient-monitoring systems. This innovation aims to enhance the quality of service and ultimately improve people’s lives. A key component in this ecosystem is the Healthcare Monitoring System (HMS), a technology-based framework designed to continuously monitor and manage patient and healthcare provider data in real time. This system integrates various components, such as software, medical devices, and processes, aimed at improvi1g patient care and supporting healthcare providers in making well-informed decisions. This fosters proactive healthcare management and enables timely interventions when needed. However, data transmission in these systems poses significant security threats during the transfer process, as malicious actors may attempt to breach security protocols.This jeopardizes the integrity of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and ultimately endangers patient safety. Two feature sets—biometric and network flow metric—have been incorporated to enhance detection in healthcare systems. Another major challenge lies in the scarcity of publicly available balanced datasets for analyzing diverse IoMT attack patterns. To address this, the Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network (ACGAN) was employed to generate synthetic samples that resemble minority class samples. ACGAN operates with two objectives: the discriminator differentiates between real and synthetic samples while also predicting the correct class labels. This dual functionality ensures that the discriminator learns detailed features for both tasks. Meanwhile, the generator produces high-quality samples that are classified as real by the discriminator and correctly labeled by the auxiliary classifier. The performance of this approach, evaluated using the IoMT dataset, consistently outperforms the existing baseline model across key metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, area under curve (AUC), and confusion matrix results.

Derivative dynamic time warping algorithm with introduced correction for varying load fault diagnosis of nuclear power system steam turbine units

The Derivative Dynamic Time Warping (DDTW) algorithm is improved to address the multi-parameters time series classification problem faced by nuclear power system steam turbine units varying load fault diagnosis. Firstly, the entire load changing process is treated as a single sample rather than multiple time-step-samples. This ensures the complete information on the load changing processes, while avoiding interference from normal data fluctuations during faults. Secondly, Time Series Position Coefficient and Time Series Length Coefficient are proposed to correct the DDTW algorithm from two perspectives: the sequences lengths and the data positions in the sequences. This solves the singularities and timeline scaling problems, thereby preventing interference introduced by data sequences' lengths differences and ''similar data appearing at different times'' problem. The nuclear power system steam turbine unit simulation model was built to obtain load changing processes data under normal and faults statuses. In the varying load fault diagnosis test based on these data, the improved DDTW algorithm achieved an accuracy of 1.38%–12.06% higher than other methods, reaching 87.50%. Finally, The Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) model was used to generate data to supplement the limited samples of complete load changing processes, and the accuracy of the novel method increased to 95.51% with the increase of data used to support the comparison.

ACT‐GAN: Radio map construction based on generative adversarial networks with ACT blocks

AbstractThe radio map serves as a vital tool in assessing wireless communication networks and monitoring radio coverage, providing a visual representation of electromagnetic spatial characteristics. To address the limitation of low accuracy in current radio map construction method, this article presents a novel method based on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), called ACT‐GAN. This method incorporates the aggregated contextual‐transformation block, the convolutional block attention module, and the transposed convolutional block into the generator, significantly enhancing the construction accuracy of radio map. The performance of ACT‐GAN is validated in three distinct scenarios. The results indicate that, in scenario 1, where the transmitter locations are known, the average reduction in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) is 14.6%. In scenario 2, where the transmitter locations are known and supplemented with sparse measurement maps, the average reduction in RMSE is 13.3%. Finally, in scenario 3, where the transmitter locations are unknown, the average reduction in RMSE is 7.1%. Moreover, the proposed model exhibits clearer predictive results and can accurately capture multi‐scale shadow fading.

Stochastic Parameterization of Moist Physics Using Probabilistic Diffusion Model

Deep-learning-based convection schemes have garnered significant attention for their notable improvements in simulating precipitation distribution and tropical convection in Earth system models. However, these schemes struggle to capture the stochastic nature of moist physics, which can degrade the simulation of large-scale circulations, climate means, and variability. To address this issue, a stochastic parameterization scheme called DIFF-MP, based on a probabilistic diffusion model, is developed. Cloud-resolving data are coarse-grained into resolved-scale variables and subgrid contributions, which serve as conditional inputs and outputs for DIFF-MP. The performance of DIFF-MP is compared with that of generative adversarial networks and variational autoencoders. The results demonstrate that DIFF-MP consistently outperforms these models in terms of prediction error, coverage ratio, and spread–skill correlation. Furthermore, the standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis of the subgrid contributions generated by DIFF-MP more closely match the test data than those produced by the other models. Interpretability experiments confirm that DIFF-MP’s parameterization of moist physics is physically consistent.

Internet of Things and Cloud Computing-based Disease Diagnosis using Optimized Improved Generative Adversarial Network in Smart Healthcare System

ABSTRACT The integration of IoT and cloud services enhances communication and quality of life, while predictive analytics powered by AI and deep learning enables proactive healthcare. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, efficiently analyzes vast datasets, offering rapid disease prediction. Leveraging recurrent neural networks on electronic health records improves accuracy for timely intervention and preventative care. In this manuscript, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing-based Disease Diagnosis using Optimized Improved Generative Adversarial Network in Smart Healthcare System (IOT-CC-DD-OICAN-SHS) is proposed. Initially, an Internet of Things (IoT) device collects diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and heart disease data from patients via wearable devices and intelligent sensors and then saves the patient’s large data in the cloud. These cloud data are pre-processed to turn them into a suitable format. The pre-processed dataset is sent into the Improved Generative Adversarial Network (IGAN), which reliably classifies the data as disease-free or diseased. Then, IGAN was optimized using the Flamingo Search optimization algorithm (FSOA). The proposed technique is implemented in Java using Cloud Sim and examined utilizing several performance metrics. The proposed method attains greater accuracy and specificity with lower execution time compared to existing methodologies, IoT-C-SHMS-HDP-DL, PPEDL‐MDTC and CSO-CLSTM-DD-SHS respectively.

Intelligent agricultural robotic detection system for greenhouse tomato leaf diseases using soft computing techniques and deep learning

The development of soft computing methods has had a significant influence on the subject of autonomous intelligent agriculture. This paper offers a system for autonomous greenhouse navigation that employs a fuzzy control algorithm and a deep learning-based disease classification model for tomato plants, identifying illnesses using photos of tomato leaves. The primary novelty in this study is the introduction of an upgraded Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) that creates augmented pictures of disease tomato leaves from original genuine samples, considerably enhancing the training dataset. To find the optimum training model, four deep learning networks (VGG19, Inception-v3, DenseNet-201, and ResNet-152) were carefully compared on a dataset of nine tomato leaf disease classes. These models have validation accuracy of 92.32%, 90.83%, 96.61%, and 97.07%, respectively, when using the original PlantVillage dataset. The system then uses an enhanced dataset with ResNet-152 network design to achieve a high accuracy of 99.69%, as compared to the original dataset with ResNet-152’s accuracy of 97.07%. This improvement indicates the use of the proposed DCGAN in improving the performance of the deep learning model for greenhouse plant monitoring and disease detection. Furthermore, the proposed approach may have a broader use in various agricultural scenarios, potentially altering the field of autonomous intelligent agriculture.

CGAN Facilitated Data Augmentation of Voice and Speech Parameters for Detecting Parkinson’s Disease in the Prodromal Phase

Parkinson’s disease is a multi-faceted disease affecting the brain. The enormity of its recent rise is quite alarming. This calls for intense research to diagnose early to hasten the progress of diagnosis. Voice distortion is considered an early precursor for Parkinson’s disease. Though several studies in Machine Learning using voice parameters have provided useful information, none of them have been successful in evolving an efficient and generalized model to detect it. Deep Learning techniques were applied to improve the performance of the model but its major limitation was the size of the dataset. Hence, a need arose to extend the dataset using an appropriate data augmentation method. At this juncture, the conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) proved to be a useful technique because of its innate feature for generating synthetic data from input noise. The RNN-LSTM classifier could achieve a training accuracy of 87.32%, testing accuracy of 86.3%, training precision of 87.92 %, and testing precision of 89.94%. The results of the experimental study are compared with other state-of-the-art methods. This technique succeeded in reducing the problem of over-fitting and could elevate the performance of the RNN-LSTM classifier in the prediction of Parkinson’s disease.

Generating Payloads of Power Monitoring Systems Compliant with Power Network Protocols Using Generative Adversarial Networks

In the network environment of power systems, payload generation is used to construct data packets, which are used to obtain data for the security management of network assets. Payloads generated by existing methods cannot satisfy the specifications of the protocols in power systems, resulting in low efficiency and information errors. In this paper, a payload generation model, LoadGAN, is proposed by using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Firstly, we find segmentation points to cut payloads into different segment sequences using sliding window schema based on Bayesian optimization. Then, we use different payload segments to train several child generators to generate corresponding parts of a whole payload. Segment sequences generated by these generators are assembled to form a whole new payload that is compliant with the specifications of the original network protocol. Experiments on the Mozi botnet dataset show that LoadGAN achieves precise payload segmentation while maintaining a high payload effectiveness of 85.5%, which is a 40% improvement compared to existing methods.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Traditional and Advanced Approaches of Image Restoration Techniques

Introduction: Tremendous developments in multimedia technology have promoted a massive amount of research in image and video processing. As imaging technologies are rapidly increasing, it is becoming essential to use images in almost every application in our day-today life. Materials and Method: This paper presents a comparative analysis of various image restoration approaches, ranging from fundamental methods to advanced techniques. These approaches aim to improve the quality of images that have been degraded during acquisition or transmission. A brief overview of the image restoration approaches is mentioned in the paper, which are as follows: Wiener Filter: The Wiener filter is a classical approach used for image restoration. It is a linear filter that minimizes the mean square error between the original image and the restored image. Inverse Filter: The inverse filter is another traditional restoration technique. It attempts to invert the degradation process to recover the original image. However, inverse filtering is highly sensitive to noise and tends to amplify noise artifacts. Linear and Nonlinear Filtering: These methods involve applying linear or nonlinear filters to the degraded image to enhance its quality. Linear filters, such as Gaussian filters, can effectively reduce noise but may blur the image. Nonlinear filters, such as median filters, can preserve edges while reducing noise. Compressive Sensing (CS) Restoration Approaches: Compressive sensing is a signal processing technique that exploits the sparsity of signals or images to reconstruct them from fewer measurements. CS-based restoration methods aim to recover high-quality images from compressed or incomplete measurements. Neural Networks Approaches: With the advancements in deep learning, neural networks have been widely used for image restoration tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising results in restoring degraded images by learning from large datasets. Result: The paper likely provides a detailed analysis and comparison of these approaches, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and performance in different scenarios. Conclusion: This paper aims to improve the quality of restored images. Several image restoration approaches have been compared, and they have exhibited enhanced performance compared to several existing image restoration approaches.

A Study on Enhancing the Visual Fidelity of Aviation Simulators Using WGAN-GP for Remote Sensing Image Color Correction

When implementing outside-the-window (OTW) visuals in aviation tactical simulators, maintaining terrain image color consistency is critical for enhancing pilot immersion and focus. However, due to various environmental factors, inconsistent image colors in terrain can cause visual confusion and diminish realism. To address these issues, a color correction technique based on a Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network with Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP) is proposed. The proposed WGAN-GP model utilizes multi-scale feature extraction and Wasserstein distance to effectively measure and adjust the color distribution difference between the input image and the reference image. This approach can preserve the texture and structural characteristics of the image while maintaining color consistency. In particular, by converting Bands 2, 3, and 4 of the BigEarthNet-S2 dataset into RGB images as the reference image and preprocessing the reference image to serve as the input image, it is demonstrated that the proposed WGAN-GP model can handle large-scale remote sensing images containing various lighting conditions and color differences. The experimental results showed that the proposed WGAN-GP model outperformed traditional methods, such as histogram matching and color transfer, and was effective in reflecting the style of the reference image to the target image while maintaining the structural elements of the target image during the training process. Quantitative analysis demonstrated that the mid-stage model achieved a PSNR of 28.93 dB and an SSIM of 0.7116, which significantly outperforms traditional methods. Furthermore, the LPIPS score was reduced to 0.3978, indicating improved perceptual similarity. This approach can contribute to improving the visual elements of the simulator to enhance pilot immersion and has the potential to significantly reduce time and costs compared to the manual methods currently used by the Republic of Korea Air Force.

Method for Wind–Solar–Load Extreme Scenario Generation Based on an Improved InfoGAN

In recent years, extreme events have frequently occurred, and the extreme uncertainty of the source-demand side of high-ratio renewable energy systems poses a great challenge to the safe operation of power systems. Accurately generating extreme scenarios related to the source-demand side under a high percentage of new power systems is vital for the safe operation of power systems and the assessment of their reliability. However, at this stage, methods for extreme scenario generation that fully consider the correlation between wind power, solar power, and load are lacking. To address these problems, this paper proposes a method for extreme scenario generation based on information-maximizing generative adversarial networks (InfoGANs) for high-proportion renewable power systems. The example analysis shows that the method for extreme scenario generation proposed in this paper can fully explore the correlation between historical wind–solar–load data, greatly improve the accuracy with which extreme scenarios are generated, and provide effective theories and methodologies for the safe operation of a new type of power system.

Predicting protein complexes in protein interaction networks using Mapper and graph convolution networks

Protein complexes are groups of interacting proteins that are central to multiple biological processes. Studying protein complexes can enhance our understanding of cellular functions and malfunctions and thus support the development of effective disease treatments. High-throughput experimental techniques allow the generation of large-scale protein-protein interaction datasets. Accordingly, various computational approaches to predict protein complexes from protein-protein interactions were presented in the literature. They are typically based on networks in which nodes and edges represent proteins and their interactions, respectively. State-of-the-art approaches mainly rely on clustering static networks to identify complexes. However, since protein interactions are highly dynamic in nature, recent approaches seek to model such dynamics by typically integrating gene expression data and identifying protein complexes accordingly. We propose MComplex, a method that utilizes time-series gene expression with interaction data to generate a temporal network which is passed to a generative adversarial network whose generator is a graph convolutional network. This creates embeddings which are then analyzed using a modified graph-based version of the Mapper algorithm to predict corresponding protein complexes. We test our approach on multiple benchmark datasets and compare identified complexes against gold-standard protein complex datasets. Our results show that MComplex outperforms existing methods in several evaluation aspects, namely recall and maximum matching ratio as well as a composite score covering aggregated evaluation measures. The code and data are available for free download from https://github.com/LeonardoDaou/MComplex.

High-Quality Image Compression Algorithm Design Based on Unsupervised Learning.

Increasingly massive image data is restricted by conditions such as information transmission and reconstruction, and it is increasingly difficult to meet the requirements of speed and integrity in the information age. To solve the urgent problems faced by massive image data in information transmission, this paper proposes a high-quality image compression algorithm based on unsupervised learning. Among them, a content-weighted autoencoder network is proposed to achieve image compression coding on the basis of a smaller bit rate to solve the entropy rate optimization problem. Binary quantizers are used for coding quantization, and importance maps are used to achieve better bit allocation. The compression rate is further controlled and optimized. A multi-scale discriminator suitable for the generative adversarial network image compression framework is designed to solve the problem that the generated compressed image is prone to blurring and distortion. Finally, through training with different weights, the distortion of each scale is minimized, so that the image compression can achieve a higher quality compression and reconstruction effect. The experimental results show that the algorithm model can save the details of the image and greatly compress the memory of the image. Its advantage is that it can expand and compress a large number of images quickly and efficiently and realize the efficient processing of image compression.

The return of the uncanny: artificial intelligence and estranged futures

Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is integral to models of image-processing regularly employed by artificial intelligence (AI). Evoking an inhuman logic, the works in Trevor Paglen’s Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations series (2017–ongoing) render this hallucinatory space visible and open it up to investigation from within these systems. Produced by a generative adversarial network (GAN), the project reveals an uncanny domain of image production that raises significant misgivings about the routine use of generative AI (GenAI) in tasks associated with facial recognition and video surveillance. Through exploring the issues raised by Paglen in this work, the following essay enquires into questions related to machinic vision and AI more broadly. Through training neural networks – such as those employed in a GAN – to see the world for us, are we, to begin with, priming and instructing ourselves to see more like machines? What, furthermore, will happen when these inhuman, hallucinatory models of ‘seeing’ and processing the world supersede – in part or wholly – the sphere of human vision, not least in the adjacent fields of surveillance and contemporary models of automated warfare? Will these post-ocular models of seeing – which already determine, if not over-determine, our relationship to the world – become in turn entirely unaccountable, if not completely unfathomable, guidelines for defining normative and, more worryingly, non-normative behaviour patterns and everyday events. If, finally, AI models of image-processing replace ocular-centric ways of seeing, will these models have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world and our responsibility for the future impact and prejudicial potential of such images?