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Estimating Snow Coverage Percentage on Solar Panels Using Drone Imagery
This work was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2244403.
Sep 2024-Sep 2029
Publications:
Mazen, Amna, Ashraf Saleem, Kamyab Yazdipaz, and Ana Dyreson. "Overcoming Variable Illumination in Photovoltaic Snow Monitoring: A Real-Time Robust Drone-Based Deep Learning Approach." Energies 18, no. 19 (2025): 5092.
Mazen, Amna, Ashraf Saleem, Kamyab Yazdipaz, and Ana Dyreson. "Real-Time Drone-Based Snow Detection for PV Systems Using Robust Lightweight Deep Learning Models." In 2025 IEEE 53rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 1636-1638. IEEE, 2025.
Saleem, Ashraf, Ali Awad, Amna Mazen, Zoe Mazurkiewicz, and Ana Dyreson. "Estimating Snow Coverage Percentage on Solar Panels Using Drone Imagery and Machine Learning for Enhanced Energy Efficiency." Energies 18, no. 7 (2025): 1729.
Enhancement as Augmentation: Improving Detection in Highly Degraded Underwater Images
This work was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2244403.
Sep 2024-Sep 2029
Publications:
Saleem, Ashraf, Alex Hromada, Ali Awad, Amna Mazen, Evan Lucas, and Timothy C. Havens. "Enhancement as Augmentation: Improving Detection in Highly Degraded Underwater Images Through Mixed-Domain Training." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 1096-1105. 2026.
Funded by His Majesty (HM) Grant, BP Oman. (Total $240,000).
Sep 2018-Sep 2022
Publications:
Eldirdiry, Omer, Navid Nasiri, Ahmed Al Maashari, Hadj Bourdoucen, Jawhar Ghommam, Ashraf Saleem, Ghazi Al Rawas, Amran Al-Kamzari, and Ahmed Ammari. "Using ai-enhanced uavs to detect and size marine contaminations." In 2024 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Vehicle Systems-Oman (UVS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2024.
Al Maashri, A., J. Ghommam, A. Saleem, N. Nasiri, O. Eldirdiry, H. Bourdoucen, G. Al Rawas, A. Al-Kamzari, and A. Ammari. "A multi-drone system for oil spill detection: A simulation and emulation platform." In 2022 22nd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), pp. 397-402. IEEE, 2022.
Saleem, Ashraf, Ahmed Al Maashri, Omer Eldirdiry, Jawhar Ghommam, Hadj Bourdoucen, Amran Al-Kamzari, Ghazi Al Rawas, and Ahmed Ammari. "Detection of oil spill pollution in seawater using drones: Simulation & lab-based experimental study." In 2021 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2021.
Research Team: Ashraf Saleem, Ahmed Al Maashri, Jawhar Ghommam, Hadj Bourdoucen, Omer El Dirdiry, Embedded & Interconnected Vision Systems (EIVS), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
Funded by The Research Council (TRC), $50,000
Sep 2019-Sep 2022
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