no code implementations • 29 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.
no code implementations • 19 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.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2023 • Hassan Khalid, Nisar Ahmed
BIQA (Blind Image Quality Assessment) is an important field of study that evaluates images automatically.
no code implementations • 16 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.
no code implementations • 16 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.
no code implementations • 13 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.
no code implementations • 26 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.
no code implementations • 19 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.
no code implementations • 18 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.
no code implementations • 22 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.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2021 • Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Asif, Hassan Khalid
Assessment of the quality of images in such scenarios becomes of particular interest.
no code implementations • 15 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.
no code implementations • 20 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.
1 code implementation • 21 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.
no code implementations • 10 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.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 23 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
no code implementations • 22 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).
no code implementations • 3 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.
no code implementations • 3 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.
no code implementations • 27 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.
no code implementations • 13 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.
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2016 • Brett Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed
With this improved model the agent is equipped to better adapt behaviors.