A guide to image and video based small object detection using deep learning: Case study of maritime surveillance

AM Rekavandi, L Xu, F Boussaid… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that
even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify …

Transformers in small object detection: A benchmark and survey of state-of-the-art

AM Rekavandi, S Rashidi, F Boussaid, S Hoefs… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in computer vision, especially in the field of
object recognition and detection. Upon examining the outcomes of state-of-the-art object …

TRPAST: A tunable and robust projection approximation subspace tracking method

AM Rekavandi, AK Seghouane… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the problem of estimating and tracking a subspace signal in the presence of
non-Gaussian noise is addressed. In contrast to non-robust methods such as PAST, NIC …

[HTML][HTML] An effective multi-source data fusion approach based on α-divergence in belief functions theory with applications to air target recognition and fault diagnosis

Z Liu, M Deveci, D Pamučar, W Pedrycz - Information Fusion, 2024 - Elsevier
Belief functions theory (BFT) plays a critical role in addressing uncertainty and imprecision in
multi-source data fusion. Unfortunately, the application of Dempster's rule in BFT often …

Learning Robust and Sparse Principal Components with the α-Divergence

AM Rekavandi, AK Seghouane… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, novel robust principal component analysis (RPCA) methods are proposed to
exploit the local structure of datasets. The proposed methods are derived by minimizing the …

B-Pose: Bayesian Deep Network for Camera 6-DoF Pose Estimation from RGB Images

AM Rekavandi, F Boussaid… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera pose estimation has long relied on geometry-based approaches and sparse 2D-3D
keypoint correspondences. With the advent of deep learning methods, the estimation of …

RBDL: Robust block-Structured dictionary learning for block sparse representation

AK Seghouane, A Iqbal, AM Rekavandi - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Dictionary learning methods have been extensively used in different types of image and
signal processing tasks. In a number of applications, the collected data/signal may have a …

Extended expectation maximization for under-fitted models

AM Rekavandi, AK Seghouane… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we generalize the well-known Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm using
the α− divergence for Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). This approach is used in robust …

Adaptive brain activity detection in structured interference and partially homogeneous locally correlated disturbance

AM Rekavandi, AK Seghouane… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: In this paper, we aim to address the problem of subspace detection in the
presence of locally-correlated complex Gaussian noise and interference. For applications …

A precise bare simulation approach to the minimization of some distances. I. Foundations

M Broniatowski, W Stummer - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In information theory—as well as in the adjacent fields of statistics, machine learning,
artificial intelligence, signal processing and pattern recognition—many flexibilizations of the …