BASE: Bridging AI, Systems, and Environment

Advancing AI frontiers through innovative research in agriculture and beyond

Our Research Focus

Computer Vision

Developing advanced techniques for visual data interpretation, including object detection, recognition, and image processing, to enhance automated visual understanding in diverse applications.

Deep Learning

Designing and optimizing state-of-the-art neural network architectures and algorithms to address complex problems across various domains, with a focus on improving performance and scalability.

AI for Agriculture

Applying artificial intelligence to agricultural challenges such as precision livestock management, crop health monitoring, and yield prediction, aiming to improve efficiency and sustainability in agriculture.

Federated Learning

Creating robust federated learning frameworks to handle non-iid data and resource constraints, ensuring effective and secure distributed learning across heterogeneous environments.

Generative Models

Advancing generative model techniques for data augmentation and realistic image synthesis, with a focus on improving the quality and diversity of synthetic data for various applications.

Real-time Systems

Implementing real-time AI solutions to enable immediate and accurate decision-making in critical applications, ensuring timely responses and actions in dynamic and high-stakes environments.

Lab Highlights

69+

Publications

5+

Research Projects

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Team Members

19+

Years of Experience

Latest Works and Activities

Poster Presentation at 5th Annual Hemp Cannabis Symposium 2024

Poster Presentation at 5th Annual Hemp Cannabis Symposium 2024

Our team presented research on detecting and classifying cannabis seeds using deep learning techniques.

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BASE Lab at the Graduate School Fair 2024

BASE Lab at the Graduate School Fair 2024

PhD students Toqi and Taminul, along with Dr. Khaled, represented the BASE Lab and the School of Computing at the Graduate School Fair 2024 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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PhD students with supervisor at agricultural field

PhD students with supervisor at agricultural field

Our team is using drones to collect research samples from the field.

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Collecting data using drone

Collecting data using drone

Our team is using drones to collect research samples from the agricultural field.

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Research Sample at Greenhouse

Research Sample at Greenhouse

Our team prepared reseach sample in a greenhouse.

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Conference Presentation at CVPR 2024

Conference Presentation at CVPR 2024

Our team presented research on segmenting in vitro methane emissions in cattle using optical gas imaging and deep learning.

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Recent Publications

Detection and Classification of Cannabis Seeds Using RetinaNet and Faster R-CNN

Taminul Islam, Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Khaled R. Ahmed, Naoufal Lakhssassi

Porosity Prediction of 3D Printed Components Using U-Net and Its Variants

Aluri Manoj, Khaled R. Ahmed, Ghada Omar

2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence For Internet of Things (AIIoT)View Publication

Gasformer: A Transformer-based Architecture for Segmenting Methane Emissions from Livestock in Optical Gas Imaging

Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Mohamed G Embaby, Khaled R. Ahmed, Amer AbuGhazaleh

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionView Publication

Cannabis Seed Variant Detection using Faster R-CNN

Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Taminul Islam, Khaled R. Ahmed

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10722View Publication

Latest News and Achievements

New Illinois Soybean Center Grant Awarded

August 2024

Awarded a one-year research grant from Illinois Soybean Center for "Smart Farming Soybean: The use of AI to detect and estimate early insect infections in Soybean"

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New USDA-NIFA Grant Awarded

October 2023

Awarded a two-year research federal grant from USDA-NIFA for "Detecting Subacute Ruminal Acidosis using a real-time Deep Learning Algorithm"

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PhD Student Defense Success

September 2023

PhD student Memari Majid successfully defended his dissertation and will graduate in Fall 2023

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Illinois Innovation Network Grant

July 2023

Granted a one-year seed research grant from ILLINOIS INNOVATION NETWORK.

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Join Our Lab

Interested in pushing the boundaries of AI? We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team.

PhD Students

Conduct cutting-edge research in AI and Computer Vision.

Masters Students

Gain hands-on experience in advanced AI projects.