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cs.RO2025

Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction Intent Detection Using RGB-based Pose and Emotion Cues with Cross-Camera Model Generalization

Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa

Service robots in public spaces require real-time understanding of human behavioral intentions for natural interaction. We present a practical multimodal framework for frame-accura…

cs.ET2025

OpenMENA: An Open-Source Memristor Interfacing and Compute Board for Neuromorphic Edge-AI Applications

Ali Safa, Farida Mohsen, Zainab Ali +2

Memristive crossbars enable in-memory multiply-accumulate and local plasticity learning, offering a path to energy-efficient edge AI. To this end, we present Open-MENA (Open Memris…

cs.RO2025

MINT-RVAE: Multi-Cues Intention Prediction of Human-Robot Interaction using Human Pose and Emotion Information from RGB-only Camera Data

Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa

Efficiently detecting human intent to interact with ubiquitous robots is crucial for effective human-robot interaction (HRI) and collaboration. Over the past decade, deep learning…

cs.RO2025

A Novel Monte-Carlo Compressed Sensing and Dictionary Learning Method for the Efficient Path Planning of Remote Sensing Robots

Alghalya Al-Hajri, Ejmen Al-Ubejdij, Aiman Erbad +1

In recent years, Compressed Sensing (CS) has gained significant interest as a technique for acquiring high-resolution sensory data using fewer measurements than traditional Nyquist…

cs.AI2025

Learning to Control Dynamical Agents via Spiking Neural Networks and Metropolis-Hastings Sampling

Ali Safa, Farida Mohsen, Ali Al-Zawqari

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer biologically inspired, energy-efficient alternatives to traditional Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for real-time control systems. However, their t…

cs.RO2025

On the Importance of Neural Membrane Potential Leakage for LIDAR-based Robot Obstacle Avoidance using Spiking Neural Networks

Zainab Ali, Lujayn Al-Amir, Ali Safa

Using neuromorphic computing for robotics applications has gained much attention in recent year due to the remarkable ability of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) for high-precision y…

cs.RO2025

Deep Fusion of Ultra-Low-Resolution Thermal Camera and Gyroscope Data for Lighting-Robust and Compute-Efficient Rotational Odometry

Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa

Accurate rotational odometry is crucial for autonomous robotic systems, particularly for small, power-constrained platforms such as drones and mobile robots. This study introduces…

cs.CV2025

Federated Learning of Low-Rank One-Shot Image Detection Models in Edge Devices with Scalable Accuracy and Compute Complexity

Abdul Hannaan, Zubair Shah, Aiman Erbad +2

This paper introduces a novel federated learning framework termed LoRa-FL designed for training low-rank one-shot image detection models deployed on edge devices. By incorporating…

cs.RO2025

Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications

Ali Safa, Waqas Aman, Ali Al-Zawqari +1

Autonomously controlling the position of Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) is of crucial importance for a wide range of underwater engineering applications, such as in t…

cs.RO2025

Co-Design of a Robot Controller Board and Indoor Positioning System for IoT-Enabled Applications

Ali Safa, Ali Al-Zawqari

This paper describes the development of a cost-effective yet precise indoor robot navigation system composed of a custom robot controller board and an indoor positioning system. Fi…