Ali Safa

53 papers A* 1B 4C 1Journal 36Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
A Novel Monte-Carlo Compressed Sensing and Dictionary Learning Method for the Efficient Path Planning of Remote Sensing Robots.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Alghalya Al-Hajri, Ejmen Al-Ubejdij, Aiman Erbad, Ali Safa
2026 J jnl
IAML: Illumination-Aware Mirror Loss for Progressive Learning in Low-Light Image Enhancement Auto-encoders.
CoRR
Farida Mohsen, Tala Zaim, Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Samir Brahim Belhaouari
2026 J jnl
On training networks of monostable multivibrator timer neurons.
Neural Networks
Lars Keuninckx, Matthias Hartmann, Paul Detterer, Ali Safa, Wout Mommen, Ilja Ocket
2025 J jnl
A Novel Monte-Carlo Compressed Sensing and Dictionary Learning Method for the Efficient Path Planning of Remote Sensing Robots.
CoRR
Alghalya Al-Hajri, Ejmen Al-Ubejdij, Aiman Erbad, Ali Safa
2025 J jnl
Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Waqas Aman, Ali Al-Zawqari, Saif Al-Kuwari
2025 J jnl
Co-Design of a Robot Controller Board and Indoor Positioning System for IoT-Enabled Applications.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Ali Al-Zawqari
2025 J jnl
Deep Fusion of Ultra-Low-Resolution Thermal Camera and Gyroscope Data for Lighting-Robust and Compute-Efficient Rotational Odometry.
CoRR
Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa
2025 B conf
FMCW Radar for Human Detection in Collapsed Structures for Post-Disaster Search and Rescue.
IWCMC
Mostafa Abdelhamid, Ali Safa, Loay Ismail, Amr Mohamed
2025 J jnl
FREYA: A 0.023-mm²/Channel, 20.8- μW/Channel, Event-Driven 8-Channel SoC for Spiking End-to-End Sensing of Time-Sparse Biosignals.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Jonah Van Assche, Charlotte Frenkel, Ali Safa, Georges G. E. Gielen
2025 B conf
Federated Learning of Low-Rank One-Shot Image Detection Models in Edge Devices with Scalable Accuracy and Compute Complexity.
IWCMC
Abdul Hannaan, Zubair Shah, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Ali Safa
2025 J jnl
Federated Learning of Low-Rank One-Shot Image Detection Models in Edge Devices with Scalable Accuracy and Compute Complexity.
CoRR
Abdul Hannaan, Zubair Shah, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Ali Safa
2025 J jnl
Learning to Control Dynamical Agents via Spiking Neural Networks and Metropolis-Hastings Sampling.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Farida Mohsen, Ali Al-Zawqari
2025 J jnl
MINT-RVAE: Multi-Cues Intention Prediction of Human-Robot Interaction using Human Pose and Emotion Information from RGB-only Camera Data.
CoRR
Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa
2025 J jnl
Neural Classification of Argument Elements and Styles in Arabic Competitive Debates.
IEEE Access
Ali Al-Zawqari, Mohamed Ahmed, Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi, Mohammad Majed Khader, Ali Safa, Gerd Vandersteen
2025 J jnl
On the Importance of Neural Membrane Potential Leakage for LIDAR-based Robot Obstacle Avoidance using Spiking Neural Networks.
CoRR
Zainab Ali, Lujayn Al-Amir, Ali Safa
2025 J jnl
OpenMENA: An Open-Source Memristor Interfacing and Compute Board for Neuromorphic Edge-AI Applications.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Farida Mohsen, Zainab Ali, Bo Wang, Amine Bermak
2025 — conf
ROLLY: A Software-Controlled Multi-sensor Social Robot for Interventions Toward Children with Autism Extended Abstract.
BESC (3)
Ali Safa, Ejmen Al-Ubejdij, Farida Mohsen, Ali Al-Zawqari, Omar Al-Agha, Raian Ali
2025 J jnl
Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction Intent Detection Using RGB-based Pose and Emotion Cues with Cross-Camera Model Generalization.
CoRR
Farida Mohsen, Ali Safa
2024 J jnl
A Fingertip-Mimicking 12$\times$16 200 $\mu$m-Resolution e-Skin Taxel Readout Chip With Per-Taxel Spiking Readout and Embedded Receptive Field Processing.
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst.
Mark Daniel Alea, Ali Safa, Flavio Giacomozzi, Andrea Adami, Inci Rüya Temel, Maria Atalaia Rosa, Leandro Lorenzelli, Georges G. E. Gielen
2024 — conf
Automating the Design of Multi-Band Microstrip Antennas via Uniform Cross-Entropy Optimization.
ICM
Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Gerd Vandersteen
2024 — conf
Co-Design of a Robot Controller Board and Indoor Positioning System for IoT-Enabled Applications.
ICM
Ali Safa, Ali Al-Zawqari
2024 J jnl
Continual Learning in Bio-plausible Spiking Neural Networks with Hebbian and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity: A Survey and Perspective.
CoRR
Ali Safa
2024 J jnl
Continual learning with hebbian plasticity in sparse and predictive coding networks: a survey and perspective.
Neuromorph. Comput. Eng.
Ali Safa
2024 B conf
Resource-Efficient Gesture Recognition Using Low-Resolution Thermal Camera via Spiking Neural Networks and Sparse Segmentation.
FG
Ali Safa, Wout Mommen, Piet Wambacq, Lars Keuninckx
2024 J jnl
Resource-Efficient Gesture Recognition using Low-Resolution Thermal Camera via Spiking Neural Networks and Sparse Segmentation.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Wout Mommen, Lars Keuninckx
2024 J jnl
Rotational Odometry using Ultra Low Resolution Thermal Cameras.
CoRR
Ali Safa
2024 J jnl
STDP-Driven Development of Attention-Based People Detection in Spiking Neural Networks.
IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.
Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2024 — conf
Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling.
NICE
Ali Safa, Vikrant Jaltare, Samira Sebt, Kameron Gano, Johannes Leugering, Georges G. E. Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
2024 J jnl
Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Vikrant Jaltare, Samira Sebt, Kameron Gano, Johannes Leugering, Georges G. E. Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
2023 — conf
A Fingertip-Mimicking 12×16 200μm-Resolution e-skin Taxel Readout Chip with per-Taxel Spiking Readout and Embedded Receptive Field Processing.
VLSI Technology and Circuits
Mark Daniel Alea, Ali Safa, Flavio Giacomozzi, Andrea Adami, Inci Rüya Temel, Leandro Lorenzelli, Georges G. E. Gielen
2023 — conf
Active Inference in Hebbian Learning Networks.
IWAI
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
2023 J jnl
Active Inference in Hebbian Learning Networks.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
2023 — conf
Exploring Information-Theoretic Criteria to Accelerate the Tuning of Neuromorphic Level-Crossing ADCs.
NICE
Ali Safa, Jonah Van Assche, Charlotte Frenkel, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2023 J jnl
FMCW Radar Sensing for Indoor Drones Using Learned Representations.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ozan Çatal, Toon Van de Maele, Matthias Hartmann, Bart Dhoedt, André Bourdoux
2023 A* conf
Fusing Event-based Camera and Radar for SLAM Using Spiking Neural Networks with Continual STDP Learning.
ICRA
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2023 J jnl
Improving the Accuracy of Spiking Neural Networks for Radar Gesture Recognition Through Preprocessing.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
Ali Safa, Federico Corradi, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2023 C conf
Open the box of digital neuromorphic processor: Towards effective algorithm-hardware co-design.
ISCAS
Guangzhi Tang, Ali Safa, Kevin Shidqi, Paul Detterer, Stefano Traferro, Mario Konijnenburg, Manolis Sifalakis, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Amirreza Yousefzadeh
2023 J jnl
Open the box of digital neuromorphic processor: Towards effective algorithm-hardware co-design.
CoRR
Guangzhi Tang, Ali Safa, Kevin Shidqi, Paul Detterer, Stefano Traferro, Mario Konijnenburg, Manolis Sifalakis, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Amirreza Yousefzadeh
2023 — conf
SupportHDC: Hyperdimensional Computing with Scalable Hypervector Sparsity.
NICE
Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 J jnl
Continuously Learning to Detect People on the Fly: A Bio-inspired Visual System for Drones.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 B conf
Event Camera Data Classification Using Spiking Networks with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity.
IJCNN
Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 — conf
Exploring Cross-fusion and Curriculum Learning for Multi-modal Human Detection on Drones.
DroneSE/RAPIDO@HiPEAC
Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 J jnl
Fail-Safe Human Detection for Drones Using a Multi-Modal Curriculum Learning Approach.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 J jnl
Fusing Event-based Camera and Radar for SLAM Using Spiking Neural Networks with Continual STDP Learning.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 — conf
Learning to Encode Vision on the Fly in Unknown Environments: A Continual Learning SLAM Approach for Drones.
SSRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 J jnl
Learning to SLAM on the Fly in Unknown Environments: A Continual Learning Approach for Drones in Visually Ambiguous Scenes.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 J jnl
Neuromorphic Near-Sensor Computing: From Event-Based Sensing to Edge Learning.
IEEE Micro
Ali Safa, Jonah Van Assche, Mark Daniel Alea, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2022 — conf
Power-Efficient and Accurate Texture Sensing Using Spiking Readouts for High-Density e-Skins.
BioCAS
Mark Daniel Alea, Ali Safa, Jonah Van Assche, Georges G. E. Gielen
2021 J jnl
A Low-Complexity Radar Detector Outperforming OS-CFAR for Indoor Drone Obstacle Avoidance.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, Matthias Hartmann, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2021 J jnl
A Low-Complexity Radar Detector Outperforming OS-CFAR for Indoor Drone Obstacle Avoidance.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, Matthias Hartmann, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2021 J jnl
ConvSNN: A surrogate gradient spiking neural framework for radar gesture recognition.
Softw. Impacts
Ali Safa, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2021 J jnl
Fail-Safe Human Detection for Drones Using a Multi-Modal Curriculum Learning Approach.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen
2021 J jnl
Learning Event-based Spatio-Temporal Feature Descriptors via Local Synaptic Plasticity: A Biologically-realistic Perspective of Computer Vision.
CoRR
Ali Safa, Hichem Sahli, André Bourdoux, Ilja Ocket, Francky Catthoor, Georges G. E. Gielen