5 papers
IAML: Illumination-Aware Mirror Loss for Progressive Learning in Low-Light Image Enhancement Auto-encoders
Farida Mohsen, Tala Zaim, Ali Al-Zawqari +2
This letter presents a novel training approach and loss function for learning low-light image enhancement auto-encoders. Our approach revolves around the use of a teacher-student a…
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…
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…
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…
Automating the Design of Multi-band Microstrip Antennas via Uniform Cross-Entropy Optimization
Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Gert Vandersteen
Automating the design of microstrip antennas has been an active area of research for the past decade. By leveraging machine learning techniques such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) or,…