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9 papers

cs.CV2026

Feature extraction for plant growth estimation

Simbarashe Aldrin Ngorima, Albert Helberg, Marelie H. Davel

Precision agriculture requires the estimation of plant growth stages in real-time. When the plant growth stage is known, the wastage of resources in cultivation, such as nutrients…

eess.SP2026

REACH: Interpretability-Driven Feature Identification and Architecture Compression for Multi-Channel Vehicular Channel Estimation

Simbarashe Aldrin Ngorima, Albert Helberg, Marelie H. Davel

Multi-channel mixed-SNR training improves out-of-distribution (OOD) generalisation of deep learning channel estimators for IEEE 802.11p vehicular communications, yet the internal m…

eess.SP2026

Simplified Temporal Convolutional-Based Channel Estimation for a WiFi Vehicular Communication Channel

Simbarashe Aldrin Ngorima, Albert Helberg, Marelie Davel

Channel estimation in vehicular communication is a crucial element in the advancement of intelligent transportation systems. However, the use of pilot signals in the IEEE 802.11p s…

cs.LG2026

KnowIt: Deep Time Series Modeling and Interpretation

M. W. Theunissen, R. Rabe, H. L. Potgieter +1

KnowIt (Knowledge discovery in time series data) is a flexible framework for building deep time series models and interpreting them. It is implemented as a Python toolkit, with sou…

cs.LG2025

Does simple trump complex? Comparing strategies for adversarial robustness in DNNs

William Brooks, Marelie H. Davel, Coenraad Mouton

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown substantial success in various applications but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This study aims to identify and isolate the compone…

cs.LG2025

Impact of Batch Normalization on Convolutional Network Representations

Hermanus L. Potgieter, Coenraad Mouton, Marelie H. Davel

Batch normalization (BatchNorm) is a popular layer normalization technique used when training deep neural networks. It has been shown to enhance the training speed and accuracy of…