Firas Hazzaa

Dr. Firas Hazzaa

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

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

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18 October 2024 in Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science
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AQAkram Qashou
Akram Qashou
SYSufian Yousef
Sufian Yousef
Segment Anything (SA) is a state-of-the art method for universal object segmentation, which does not need task-specific training. Herein, we emphasize that SA can overcome the limitations of traditional segmentation frameworks based on requiring extensive manually annotated datasets and predefined architectures, as extensively documented in this review. SB supercharges performance and reduces cost by combining Mutual Information learning with an Efficient Transformer architecture, benefiting from a substantially larger pool of in-the-wild data. In this paper we review SA and its specific key innovations generality, resource boundedness, and scalability to large datasets. We also face obstacles such as data biases, computational complexity, real-world application issues and consider security as well as privacy in federated learning scenarios. It discusses areas for future research, such as increasing precision and robustness, incorporating the federated learning aspect and concerns regarding its ethical use in high risk domains of application. In this review, we highlight the transformative capacity that SA may bring to volume-wise object segmentation and urge the community to leverage on top of these new venues for a breakthrough in AI-vision systems.

22 August 2024 in International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management
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AQAkram Qashou
Akram Qashou
SYSufian Yousef
Sufian Yousef
FHFiras Hazzaa
Firas Hazzaa
KAKahtan Aziz
Kahtan Aziz
The malfunction variables of power stations are related to the areas of weather, physical structure, control, and load behavior. To predict temporal power failure is difficult due to their unpredictable characteristics. As high accuracy is normally required, the estimation of failures of short-term temporal prediction is highly difficult. This study presents a method for converting stochastic behavior into a stable pattern, which can subsequently be used in a short-term estimator. For this conversion, K-means clustering is employed, followed by long-short-term memory and gated recurrent unit algorithms are used to perform the short-term estimation. The environment, the operation, and the generated signal factors are all simulated using mathematical models. Weather parameters and load samples have been collected as part of a dataset. Monte-Carlo simulation using MATLAB programming has been used to conduct experimental estimation of failures. The estimated failures of the experiment are then compared with the actual system temporal failures and found to be in good match. Therefore, to address the gap in knowledge for any future power grid estimated failures, the achieved results in this paper form good basis for a testbed to estimate any grid future failures.