Ranjan Sapkota

50 papers Journal 50

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual taxonomy, applications and challenges. Inf. Fusion Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2026	J	`jnl`	Agentic AI With Orchestrator-Agent Trust: A Modular Visual Classification Framework With Trust-Aware Orchestration and RAG-Based Reasoning. IEEE Access Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee, Nikolaos D. Tselikas
2026	J	`jnl`	Artificial intelligence in agricultural machinery & robotics: A systematic review and future outlook. Appl. Soft Comput. Afsaneh Soleimani, Mohammad Hossein Abbaspour-Fard, Ranjan Sapkota, Alireza Sanaeifar
2026	J	`jnl`	Object detection with multimodal large vision-language models: An in-depth review. Inf. Fusion Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2026	J	`jnl`	TRiSM for Agentic AI: A review of Trust, Risk, and Security Management in LLM-based Agentic Multi-Agent Systems. AI Open Shaina Raza, Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee, Christos Emmanouilidis
2026	J	`jnl`	YOLOE-26: Integrating YOLO26 with YOLOE for Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	3D Reconstruction and Information Fusion between Dormant and Canopy Seasons in Commercial Orchards Using Deep Learning and Fast GICP. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Zhichao Meng, Martin Churuvija, Xiaoqiang Du, Zenghong Ma, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	A Review of 3D Object Detection with Vision-Language Models. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Rahul Harsha Cheppally, Marco Flores-Calero, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	A pose-versatile imaging system for comprehensive 3D modeling of planar-canopy fruit trees for automated orchard operations. Comput. Electron. Agric. Martin Churuvija, Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	A vision-based robotic system for precision pollination of apples. Comput. Electron. Agric. Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Safal Kshetri, Changki Mo, Matthew D. Whiting, Qin Zhang, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Applications and Challenges. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Comprehensive Analysis of Transparency and Accessibility of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, And other SoTA Large Language Models. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Shaina Raza, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Estimating optimal crop-load for individual branches in apple tree canopies using YOLOv8. Comput. Electron. Agric. Dawood Ahmed, Ranjan Sapkota, Martin Churuvija, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Generalization vs. Specialization: Evaluating Segment Anything Model (SAM3) Zero-Shot Segmentation Against Fine-Tuned YOLO Detectors. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee, Nikolaos D. Tselikas
2025	J	`jnl`	Image, Text, and Speech Data Augmentation using Multimodal LLMs for Deep Learning: A Survey. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Shaina Raza, Maged Shoman, Paudel Achyut, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Improved YOLOv12 with LLM-Generated Synthetic Data for Enhanced Apple Detection and Benchmarking Against YOLOv11 and YOLOv10. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Multi-Modal LLMs in Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review. IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng. Ranjan Sapkota, Rizwan Qureshi, Muhammad Usman Hadi, Syed Zohaib Hassan, Ferhat Sadak, Maged Shoman, Muhammad Sajjad, Fayaz Ali Dharejo, Paudel Achyut, Jiajia Li, Zhichao Meng, John M. Shutske, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Object Detection with Multimodal Large Vision-Language Models: An In-depth Review. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Orchestrator-Agent Trust: A Modular Agentic AI Visual Classification System with Trust-Aware Orchestration and RAG-Based Reasoning. CoRR Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee, Nikolaos D. Tselikas
2025	J	`jnl`	Plant Disease Detection through Multimodal Large Language Models and Convolutional Neural Networks. CoRR Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos
2025	J	`jnl`	PoultryTalk: A Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System for Intelligent Poultry Management and Decision Support. CoRR Kapalik Khanal, Biswash Khatiwada, Stephen Afrifa, Ranjan Sapkota, Sanjay Shah, Frank Bai, Ramesh Bahadur Bist
2025	J	`jnl`	RF-DETR Object Detection vs YOLOv12 : A Study of Transformer-based and CNN-based Architectures for Single-Class and Multi-Class Greenfruit Detection in Complex Orchard Environments Under Label Ambiguity. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Rahul Harsha Cheppally, Ajay Sharda, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	TRiSM for Agentic AI: A Review of Trust, Risk, and Security Management in LLM-based Agentic Multi-Agent Systems. CoRR Shaina Raza, Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee, Christos Emmanouilidis
2025	J	`jnl`	The SAM2-to-SAM3 Gap in the Segment Anything Model Family: Why Prompt-Based Expertise Fails in Concept-Driven Image Segmentation. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Thinking Beyond Tokens: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Cognitive Foundations for Artificial General Intelligence and its Societal Impact. CoRR Rizwan Qureshi, Ranjan Sapkota, Abbas Shah, Amgad Muneer, Anas Zafar, Ashmal Vayani, Maged Shoman, Abdelrahman B. M. Eldaly, Kai Zhang, Ferhat Sadak, Shaina Raza, Xinqi Fan, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Hong Yan, Vinjia Jain, Aman Chadha, Manoj Karkee, Jia Wu, Seyedali Mirjalili
2025	J	`jnl`	UAVs Meet Agentic AI: A Multidomain Survey of Autonomous Aerial Intelligence and Agentic UAVs. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Coding: Fundamentals and Practical Implications of Agentic AI. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Vision-Language-Action Models: Concepts, Progress, Applications and Challenges. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Yang Cao, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	Who is Responsible? The Data, Models, Users or Regulations? Responsible Generative AI for a Sustainable Future. CoRR Shaina Raza, Rizwan Qureshi, Anam Zahid, Joseph Fioresi, Ferhat Sadak, Muhammad Saeed, Ranjan Sapkota, Aditya Jain, Anas Zafar, Muneeb Ul Hassan, Aizan Zafar, Hasan Maqbool, Ashmal Vayani, Jia Wu, Maged Shoman
2025	J	`jnl`	YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series. Artif. Intell. Rev. Ranjan Sapkota, Marco Flores-Calero, Rizwan Qureshi, Chetan Badgujar, Upesh Nepal, Alwin Poulose, Peter Zeno, Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu, Sheheryar Khan, Maged Shoman, Hong Yan, Manoj Karkee
2025	J	`jnl`	YOLO26: Key Architectural Enhancements and Performance Benchmarking for Real-Time Object Detection. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Rahul Harsha Cheppally, Ajay Sharda, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	A Robotic System for Precision Pollination in Apples: Design, Development and Field Evaluation. CoRR Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Safal Kshetri, Changki Mo, Matthew D. Whiting, Qin Zhang, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Comparing YOLO11 and YOLOv8 for instance segmentation of occluded and non-occluded immature green fruits in complex orchard environment. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of YOLOv10, YOLOv9 and YOLOv8 on Detecting and Counting Fruitlet in Complex Orchard Environments. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Zhichao Meng, Dawood Ahmed, Martin Churuvija, Xiaoqiang Du, Zenghong Ma, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Immature Green Apple Detection and Sizing in Commercial Orchards Using YOLOv8 and Shape Fitting Techniques. IEEE Access Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Martin Churuvija, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Immature Green Apple Detection and Sizing in Commercial Orchards using YOLOv8 and Shape Fitting Techniques. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Martin Churuvija, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Integrating YOLO11 and Convolution Block Attention Module for Multi-Season Segmentation of Tree Trunks and Branches in Commercial Apple Orchards. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	YOLO11 and Vision Transformers based 3D Pose Estimation of Immature Green Fruits in Commercial Apple Orchards for Robotic Thinning. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	YOLOv10 to Its Genesis: A Decadal and Comprehensive Review of The You Only Look Once Series. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Rizwan Qureshi, Marco Flores-Calero, Chetan Badjugar, Upesh Nepal, Alwin Poulose, Peter Zeno, Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu, Hong Yan, Manoj Karkee
2024	J	`jnl`	Zero-Shot Automatic Annotation and Instance Segmentation using LLM-Generated Datasets: Eliminating Field Imaging and Manual Annotation for Deep Learning Model Development. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Paudel Achyut, Manoj Karkee
2023	J	`jnl`	Comparing YOLOv8 and Mask RCNN for object segmentation in complex orchard environments. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee
2023	J	`jnl`	Harnessing the Power of AI based Image Generation Model DALLE 2 in Agricultural Settings. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota
2023	J	`jnl`	Machine Vision System for Early-stage Apple Flowers and Flower Clusters Detection for Precision Thinning and Pollination. CoRR Salik Ram Khanal, Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Uddhav Bhattarai, Manoj Karkee
2023	J	`jnl`	Machine Vision-Based Crop-Load Estimation Using YOLOv8. CoRR Dawood Ahmed, Ranjan Sapkota, Martin Churuvija, Manoj Karkee
2023	J	`jnl`	Robotic Pollination of Apples in Commercial Orchards. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Salik Ram Khanal, Uddhav Bhattarai, Changki Mo, Matthew D. Whiting, Manoj Karkee
2023	J	`jnl`	Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. Alexander You, Nidhi Parayil, Josyula Gopala Krishna, Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Matthew D. Whiting, Manoj Karkee, Cindy M. Grimm, Joseph R. Davidson
2023	J	`jnl`	Site-specific weed management in corn using UAS imagery analysis and computer vision techniques. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, John Stenger, Michael Ostlie, Paulo Flores
2022	J	`jnl`	An autonomous robot for pruning modern, planar fruit trees. CoRR Alexander You, Nidhi Parayil, Josyula Gopala Krishna, Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Matthew D. Whiting, Manoj Karkee, Cindy M. Grimm, Joseph R. Davidson
2022	J	`jnl`	Using UAS Imagery and Computer Vision to Support Site-Specific Weed Control in Corn. CoRR Ranjan Sapkota, Paulo Flores

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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