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most citedA Low-cost Strategic Monitoring Approach for Scalable and Interpretable Error Detection in Deep Neural Networks

8 citations · 21 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

BlueGlass: A Framework for Composite AI Safety

Harshal Nandigramwar, Syed Qutub, Kay-Ulrich Scholl

As AI systems become increasingly capable and ubiquitous, ensuring the safety of these systems is critical. However, existing safety tools often target different aspects of model s…

cs.CL2025

Investigating the Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation at the Query Level

Sezen Perçin, Xin Su, Qutub Sha Syed +4

Large language models (LLMs) are very costly and inefficient to update with new information. To address this limitation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been proposed as a…

cs.CV2024

Global Clipper: Enhancing Safety and Reliability of Transformer-based Object Detection Models

Qutub Syed Sha, Michael Paulitsch, Karthik Pattabiraman +6

As transformer-based object detection models progress, their impact in critical sectors like autonomous vehicles and aviation is expected to grow. Soft errors causing bit flips dur…

cs.CV2024

Situation Monitor: Diversity-Driven Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection using Budding Ensemble Architecture for Object Detection

Qutub Syed, Michael Paulitsch, Korbinian Hagn +5

We introduce Situation Monitor, a novel zero-shot Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection approach for transformer-based object detection models to enhance reliability in safety-critic…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

A Low-cost Strategic Monitoring Approach for Scalable and Interpretable Error Detection in Deep Neural Networks

Florian Geissler, Syed Qutub, Michael Paulitsch +1

We present a highly compact run-time monitoring approach for deep computer vision networks that extracts selected knowledge from only a few (down to merely two) hidden layers, yet…

cs.CV2023

BEA: Revisiting anchor-based object detection DNN using Budding Ensemble Architecture

Syed Sha Qutub, Neslihan Kose, Rafael Rosales +6

This paper introduces the Budding Ensemble Architecture (BEA), a novel reduced ensemble architecture for anchor-based object detection models. Object detection models are crucial i…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Hardware faults that matter: Understanding and Estimating the safety impact of hardware faults on object detection DNNs

Syed Qutub, Florian Geissler, Yang Peng +4

Object detection neural network models need to perform reliably in highly dynamic and safety-critical environments like automated driving or robotics. Therefore, it is paramount to…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Towards a Safety Case for Hardware Fault Tolerance in Convolutional Neural Networks Using Activation Range Supervision

Florian Geissler, Syed Qutub, Sayanta Roychowdhury +6

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become an established part of numerous safety-critical computer vision applications, including human robot interactions and automated driv…