Saud Altaf

Prof. Saud Altaf

Auckland University of Technology
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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 April 2024 in IEEE Access
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MUMuhammad Umar
Muhammad Umar
Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
Shafiq AhmadShafiq Ahmad
Shafiq Ahmad
HMHaitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
Haitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
AMADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED
ADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED
RARashid Ayub
Rashid Ayub
The ability to accurately identify tomato leaves in a field setting is crucial for achieving early yield estimation, particularly with the growing importance of Precision Agriculture. It may be difficult to determine exactly what diseases are affecting tomato plants due to the overlap in symptoms between different diseases. These are the earliest signs of disease that we found in the leaves of tomato plants. Yellow leaf curl virus, leaf mold, light blight, early blight, Mosaic virus, Septoria leaf spot, and bacterial spot are just some of the seven types of plant leaf diseases that were taken into account in this paper. For the development of a testbed environment for data acquisition, the greenhouse at the university was utilized for data on the leaves of tomato plants. This study proposes a target detection model based on the improved YOLOv7 to accurately detect and categorize tomato leaves in the field. To improve the model’s feature extraction capabilities, we first incorporate the detection mechanisms SimAM and DAiAM into the framework of the baseline YOLOv7 network. To reduce the amount of information lost during the down sampling process, the max-pooling convolution (MPConv) structure is then improved. After that, this model arrived at a satisfactory outcome. Then, the image is segmented using the SIFT technique for classification, and the key regions are extracted for use in calculating feature values. After that, these data points are sent to a CNN classifier, which has a 98.8% accuracy rate and a 1.2% error rate. Finally, we compare our study to previous research to show how useful the proposed work is and to provide backing for the concept.

1 February 2024 in Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences
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SASadia Arooj
Sadia Arooj
Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
SAShafiq Ahmad
Shafiq Ahmad
HMHaitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
Haitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
AMADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED
ADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED

20 July 2020 in Sensors
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Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
Shafiq AhmadShafiq Ahmad
Shafiq Ahmad
MZMazen Zaindin
Mazen Zaindin
MSMuhammad Waseem Soomro
Muhammad Waseem Soomro
Real-time monitoring of fruit ripeness in storage and during logistics allows traders to minimize the chances of financial losses and maximize the quality of the fruit during storage through accurate prediction of the present condition of fruits. In Pakistan, banana production faces different difficulties from production, post-harvest management, and trade marketing due to atmosphere and mismanagement in storage containers. In recent research development, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are progressively under investigation in the field of fruit ripening due to their remote monitoring capability. Focused on fruit ripening monitoring, this paper demonstrates an Xbee-based wireless sensor nodes network. The role of the network architecture of the Xbee sensor node and sink end-node is discussed in detail regarding their ability to monitor the condition of all the required diagnosis parameters and stages of banana ripening. Furthermore, different features are extracted using the gas sensor, which is based on diverse values. These features are utilized for training in the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) through the Back Propagation (BP) algorithm for further data validation. The experimental results demonstrate that the projected WSN architecture can identify the banana condition in the storage area. The proposed Neural Network (NN) architectural design works well with selecting the feature data sets. It seems that the experimental and simulation outcomes and accuracy in banana ripening condition monitoring in the given feature vectors is attained and acceptable, through the classification performance, to make a better decision for effective monitoring of current fruit condition.

19 March 2023 in Sustainability
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RARimsha Asad
Rimsha Asad
Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
Shafiq AhmadShafiq Ahmad
Shafiq Ahmad
HMHaitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
Haitham Abbas Ahmed Mahmoud
Shamsul HudaShamsul Huda
Shamsul Huda
SISofia Iqbal
Sofia Iqbal
Institutions of higher learning have made persistent efforts to provide students with a high-quality education. Educational data mining (EDM) enables academic institutions to gain insight into student data in order to extract information for making predictions. COVID-19 represents the most catastrophic pandemic in human history. As a result of the global pandemic, all educational systems were shifted to online learning (OL). Due to issues with accessing the internet, disinterest, and a lack of available tools, online education has proven challenging for many students. Acquiring accurate education has emerged as a major goal for the future of this popular medium of education. Therefore, the focus of this research was to identifying attributes that could help in students’ performance prediction through a generalizable model achieving precision education in online education. The dataset used in this research was compiled from a survey taken primarily during the academic year of COVID-19, which was taken from the perspective of Pakistani university students. Five machine learning (ML) regressors were used in order to train the model, and its results were then analyzed. Comparatively, SVM has outperformed the other methods, yielding 87.5% accuracy, which was the highest of all the models tested. After that, an efficient hybrid ensemble model of machine learning was used to predict student performance using NB, KNN, SVM, decision tree, and logical regression during the COVID-19 period, yielding outclass results. Finally, the accuracy obtained through the hybrid ensemble model was obtained as 98.6%, which demonstrated that the hybrid ensemble learning model has performed better than any other model for predicting the performance of students.

2 February 2023 in Sustainability
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RARimsha Asad
Rimsha Asad
Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
Shafiq AhmadShafiq Ahmad
Shafiq Ahmad
AMADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED
ADAMALI SHAH NOOR MOHAMED
Shamsul HudaShamsul Huda
Shamsul Huda
SISofia Iqbal
Sofia Iqbal
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to physical education on campus became difficult for everyone. Therefore, students and universities have been compelled to transition from in-person to online education. During this pandemic, online education, the use of unfamiliar digital learning tools, the lack of internet access, and the communication barriers between teachers and students made precision education more difficult. Customizing models from previous studies that only consider a single course in order to make a prediction reduces the predictive power of the model because it only considers a small subset of the attributes of each possible course. Due to a lack of data for each course, overfitting often occurs. It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the student’s participation during the semester system or in a broader context. In this paper, a model that is flexible and more generalizable is developed to address these issues. This model resolves the problem of generalized models and overfitting by using a large number of responses from college and university students as a dataset that considered a broader range of attributes, regardless of course differences. CatBoost, an advanced type of gradient boosting algorithm, was used to conduct this research, and enabled the developed model to perform effectively and produce accurate results. The model achieved a 96.8% degree of accuracy. Finally, a comparison was made with other related work to demonstrate the concept, and the experimental results proved that the Catboost model is a viable, accurate predictor of students’ performance.

1 January 2017 in Modelling and Simulation in Engineering
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Saud AltafSaud Altaf
Saud Altaf
MSMuhammad Waseem Soomro
Muhammad Waseem Soomro
MMMirza Sajid Mehmood
Mirza Sajid Mehmood
In this paper, broken rotor bar (BRB) fault is investigated by utilizing the Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) method. In industrial environment, induction motor is very symmetrical, and it may have obvious electrical signal components at different fault frequencies due to their manufacturing errors, inappropriate motor installation, and other influencing factors. The misalignment experiments revealed that improper motor installation could lead to an unexpected frequency peak, which will affect the motor fault diagnosis process. Furthermore, manufacturing and operating noisy environment could also disturb the motor fault diagnosis process. This paper presents efficient supervised Artificial Neural Network (ANN) learning technique that is able to identify fault type when situation of diagnosis is uncertain. Significant features are taken out from the electric current which are based on the different frequency points and associated amplitude values with fault type. The simulation results showed that the proposed technique was able to diagnose the target fault type. The ANN architecture worked well with selecting of significant number of feature data sets. It seemed that, to the results, accuracy in fault detection with features vector has been achieved through classification performance and confusion error percentage is acceptable between healthy and faulty condition of motor.