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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts

Farida Mohsen, Thowayba Elkaffash, Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani +3

Vision-language-action (VLA) models face a crucial tradeoff between their task success rate and the policy-call frequency. Executing a single action per inference () enables a…

cs.CV2026

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…

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…