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most citedOnline Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Navigation and Exploration of Outdoor Environments

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cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

Average Calibration Losses for Reliable Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation

Theodore Barfoot, Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera, Samet Akcay +2

Deep neural networks for medical image segmentation are often overconfident, compromising both reliability and clinical utility. In this work, we propose differentiable formulation…

cs.CV2024

FEVER-OOD: Free Energy Vulnerability Elimination for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection

Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina, Mauricio Che, Yona F. A. Gaus +2

Modern machine learning models, that excel on computer vision tasks such as classification and object detection, are often overconfident in their predictions for Out-of-Distributio…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Anomalib: A Deep Learning Library for Anomaly Detection

Samet Akcay, Dick Ameln, Ashwin Vaidya +3

This paper introduces anomalib, a novel library for unsupervised anomaly detection and localization. With reproducibility and modularity in mind, this open-source library provides…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

A Novel Incremental Learning Driven Instance Segmentation Framework to Recognize Highly Cluttered Instances of the Contraband Items

Taimur Hassan, Samet Akcay, Mohammed Bennamoun +2

Screening cluttered and occluded contraband items from baggage X-ray scans is a cumbersome task even for the expert security staff. This paper presents a novel strategy that extend…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Tensor Pooling Driven Instance Segmentation Framework for Baggage Threat Recognition

Taimur Hassan, Samet Akcay, Mohammed Bennamoun +2

Automated systems designed for screening contraband items from the X-ray imagery are still facing difficulties with high clutter, concealment, and extreme occlusion. In this paper,…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Anomaly Instance Segmentation for Baggage Threat Recognition

Taimur Hassan, Samet Akcay, Mohammed Bennamoun +2

Identifying potential threats concealed within the baggage is of prime concern for the security staff. Many researchers have developed frameworks that can detect baggage threats fr…

cs.CV2020

Multi-Model Learning for Real-Time Automotive Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation

Naif Alshammari, Samet Akcay, Toby P. Breckon

Robust semantic scene segmentation for automotive applications is a challenging problem in two key aspects: (1) labelling every individual scene pixel and (2) performing this task…

cs.CV2020

Competitive Simplicity for Multi-Task Learning for Real-Time Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation

Naif Alshammari, Samet Akcay, Toby P. Breckon

Automotive scene understanding under adverse weather conditions raises a realistic and challenging problem attributable to poor outdoor scene visibility (e.g. foggy weather). Howev…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Trainable Structure Tensors for Autonomous Baggage Threat Detection Under Extreme Occlusion

Taimur Hassan, Samet Akcay, Mohammed Bennamoun +2

Detecting baggage threats is one of the most difficult tasks, even for expert officers. Many researchers have developed computer-aided screening systems to recognize these threats…

cs.CV2020

Exploring Racial Bias within Face Recognition via per-subject Adversarially-Enabled Data Augmentation

Seyma Yucer, Samet Akçay, Noura Al-Moubayed +1

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment…

cs.CV2020★ 15 cited

Cascaded Structure Tensor Framework for Robust Identification of Heavily Occluded Baggage Items from X-ray Scans

Taimur Hassan, Samet Akcay, Mohammed Bennamoun +2

In the last two decades, baggage scanning has globally become one of the prime aviation security concerns. Manual screening of the baggage items is tedious, error-prone, and compro…

cs.CV2020★ 9 cited

Cascaded Structure Tensor Framework for Robust Identification of Heavily Occluded Baggage Items from Multi-Vendor X-ray Scans

Taimur Hassan, Salman H. Khan, Samet Akcay +2

In the last two decades, luggage scanning has globally become one of the prime aviation security concerns. Manual screening of the baggage items is a cumbersome, subjective and ine…

cs.CV2020

Towards Automatic Threat Detection: A Survey of Advances of Deep Learning within X-ray Security Imaging

Samet Akcay, Toby Breckon

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in automated screening systems. This paper aims to…

cs.CV2019★ 25 cited

Online Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Navigation and Exploration of Outdoor Environments

Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson, Letizia Marchegiani, Samet Akcay +3

With the rapidly growing expansion in the use of UAVs, the ability to autonomously navigate in varying environments and weather conditions remains a highly desirable but as-of-yet…

cs.CV2019

Evaluating the Transferability and Adversarial Discrimination of Convolutional Neural Networks for Threat Object Detection and Classification within X-Ray Security Imagery

Yona Falinie A. Gaus, Neelanjan Bhowmik, Samet Akcay +1

X-ray imagery security screening is essential to maintaining transport security against a varying profile of threat or prohibited items. Particular interest lies in the automatic d…

cs.CV2019

On the Impact of Object and Sub-component Level Segmentation Strategies for Supervised Anomaly Detection within X-ray Security Imagery

Neelanjan Bhowmik, Yona Falinie A. Gaus, Samet Akcay +2

X-ray security screening is in widespread use to maintain transportation security against a wide range of potential threat profiles. Of particular interest is the recent focus on t…

cs.CV2019

Evaluation of a Dual Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Object-wise Anomaly Detection in Cluttered X-ray Security Imagery

Yona Falinie A. Gaus, Neelanjan Bhowmik, Samet Akçay +3

X-ray baggage security screening is widely used to maintain aviation and transport security. Of particular interest is the focus on automated security X-ray analysis for particular…

cs.CV2019

Skip-GANomaly: Skip Connected and Adversarially Trained Encoder-Decoder Anomaly Detection

Samet Akçay, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei, Toby P. Breckon

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavor of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly det…

cs.CV2018

GANomaly: Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection via Adversarial Training

Samet Akcay, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei, Toby P. Breckon

Anomaly detection is a classical problem in computer vision, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when datasets are highly biased towards one class (normal) due…