Search Results for author: Nisar Ahmed

Found 24 papers, 1 papers with code

Exact Consistency Tests for Gaussian Mixture Filters using Normalized Deviation Squared Statistics

no code implementations29 Dec 2023 Nisar Ahmed, Luke Burks, Kailah Cabral, Alyssa Bekai Rose

We consider the problem of evaluating dynamic consistency in discrete time probabilistic filters that approximate stochastic system state densities with Gaussian mixtures.

Observation-Augmented Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits for Robotic Exploration with Uncertain Semantic Data

no code implementations19 Dec 2023 Shohei Wakayama, Nisar Ahmed

To this end, we propose a robust Bayesian inference process for OA-CMABs that is based on the concept of probabilistic data validation.

Bayesian Inference Decision Making +2

Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Multi-Stream Architecture with Spatial and Channel Attention

no code implementations19 Jul 2023 Hassan Khalid, Nisar Ahmed

BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically.

Blind Image Quality Assessment

PIQI: Perceptual Image Quality Index based on Ensemble of Gaussian Process Regression

no code implementations16 May 2023 Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif, Hassan Khalid

The scores of 0. 0552, 0. 9802 and 0. 9776 are achieved respectively for these metrics on CSIQ database.

GPR regression

Deep Ensembling for Perceptual Image Quality Assessment

no code implementations16 May 2023 Nisar Ahmed, H. M. Shahzad Asif, Abdul Rauf Bhatti, Atif Khan

It is demonstrated that synthetic distortion databases cannot provide generalization beyond the distortion types used in the database and they are not ideal candidates for general-purpose image quality assessment.

Blind Image Quality Assessment Transfer Learning

AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium: Lessons Learned for Autonomous Assessment of Machine Abilities (LLAAMA)

no code implementations13 Jan 2023 Nicholas Conlon, Aastha Acharya, Nisar Ahmed

Modern civilian and military systems have created a demand for sophisticated intelligent autonomous machines capable of operating in uncertain dynamic environments.

Decision Making

Image Quality Assessment for Foliar Disease Identification (AgroPath)

no code implementations26 Sep 2022 Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif, Gulshan Saleem, Muhammad Usman Younus

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security and their rapid identification is important to prevent yield loss.

Image Quality Assessment

Active Inference for Autonomous Decision-Making with Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits

no code implementations19 Sep 2022 Shohei Wakayama, Nisar Ahmed

In autonomous robotic decision-making under uncertainty, the tradeoff between exploitation and exploration of available options must be considered.

Decision Making Decision Making Under Uncertainty +1

Pareto Optimal Strategies for Event-Triggered Estimation

no code implementations18 Jul 2022 Anne Theurkauf, Nisar Ahmed, Morteza Lahijanian

A well understood technique for trading off communication costs with estimation accuracy is event triggering (ET), where measurements are only communicated when useful, e. g., when Kalman filter innovations exceed some threshold.

A Factor-Based Framework for Decision-Making Competency Self-Assessment

no code implementations22 Mar 2022 Brett W. Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed

We summarize our efforts to date in developing a framework for generating succinct human-understandable competency self-assessments in terms of machine self confidence, i. e. a robot's self-trust in its functional abilities to accomplish assigned tasks.

Decision Making Decision Making Under Uncertainty

BIQ2021: A Large-Scale Blind Image Quality Assessment Database

no code implementations8 Feb 2022 Nisar Ahmed, Shahzad Asif

By selecting images with naturally occurring distortions and reliable labeling, the dataset addresses the challenge of obtaining representative images for no-reference image quality assessment.

Benchmarking Blind Image Quality Assessment +1

Text Mining Through Label Induction Grouping Algorithm Based Method

no code implementations15 Dec 2021 Gulshan Saleem, Nisar Ahmed, Usman Qamar

As LINGO uses VSM in cluster content discovery, our task is to replace VSM with LSI for cluster content discovery and to analyze the feasibility of using LSI with Okapi BM25.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

HARPS: An Online POMDP Framework for Human-Assisted Robotic Planning and Sensing

no code implementations20 Oct 2021 Luke Burks, Hunter M. Ray, Jamison McGinley, Sousheel Vunnam, Nisar Ahmed

Autonomous robots can benefit greatly from human-provided semantic characterizations of uncertain task environments and states.

Time Dependence in Kalman Filter Tuning

1 code implementation21 Aug 2021 Zhaozhong Chen, Christoffer Heckman, Simon Julier, Nisar Ahmed

First, in theory, many of these measures do not guarantee a unique solution due to observability issues.

Bayesian Optimization Prediction Intervals

Development of Crop Yield Estimation Model using Soil and Environmental Parameters

no code implementations10 Feb 2021 Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif, Gulshan Saleem, Muhammad Usman Younus

The parameters collected are minimum and maximum temperature, humidity, rainfall, PH level of the soil, usage of pesticide and labor expertise.

Leaf Image-based Plant Disease Identification using Color and Texture Features

no code implementations8 Feb 2021 Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif, Gulshan Saleem

Identification of plant disease is usually done through visual inspection or during laboratory examination which causes delays resulting in yield loss by the time identification is complete.

feature selection General Classification

Weak in the NEES?: Auto-tuning Kalman Filters with Bayesian Optimization

no code implementations23 Jul 2018 Zhaozhong Chen, Christoffer Heckman, Simon Julier, Nisar Ahmed

Kalman filters are routinely used for many data fusion applications including navigation, tracking, and simultaneous localization and mapping problems.

Bayesian Optimization Simultaneous Localization and Mapping +1

Optimal Continuous State POMDP Planning with Semantic Observations: A Variational Approach

no code implementations22 Jul 2018 Luke Burks, Ian Loefgren, Nisar Ahmed

This work develops novel strategies for optimal planning with semantic observations using continuous state partially observable markov decision processes (CPOMDPs).

Clustering Decision Making

Closed-loop Bayesian Semantic Data Fusion for Collaborative Human-Autonomy Target Search

no code implementations3 Jun 2018 Luke Burks, Ian Loefgren, Luke Barbier, Jeremy Muesing, Jamison McGinley, Sousheel Vunnam, Nisar Ahmed

In search applications, autonomous unmanned vehicles must be able to efficiently reacquire and localize mobile targets that can remain out of view for long periods of time in large spaces.

Data-Free/Data-Sparse Softmax Parameter Estimation with Structured Class Geometries

no code implementations3 Jun 2018 Nisar Ahmed

This note considers softmax parameter estimation when little/no labeled training data is available, but a priori information about the relative geometry of class label log-odds boundaries is available.

Adaptive Simulation-based Training of AI Decision-makers using Bayesian Optimization

no code implementations27 Mar 2017 Brett W. Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed, Kenneth Center, Roderick Green, Winston Bennett Jr

This work studies how an AI-controlled dog-fighting agent with tunable decision-making parameters can learn to optimize performance against an intelligent adversary, as measured by a stochastic objective function evaluated on simulated combat engagements.

Bayesian Optimization Decision Making

Towards Adaptive Training of Agent-based Sparring Partners for Fighter Pilots

no code implementations13 Dec 2016 Brett W. Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed, Kenneth Center, Roderick Green, Winston Bennett Jr

One key benefit is that during optimization, the Gaussian Process learns a global estimate of the true objective function, with predicted outcomes and a statistical measure of confidence in areas that haven't been investigated yet.

Bayesian Optimization

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