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Iranian Vehicle Images Dataset for Object Detection Algorithm — research by Pouria Maleki
Peer-reviewed publicationComputer Vision
20248 min readGitHub

Iranian Vehicle Images Dataset for Object Detection Algorithm

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (JAIDM)

A domain-specific dataset of 3,000 Iranian vehicle images and 5,765 manually labeled bounding boxes improved YOLOv8s performance over a COCO-trained baseline.

3,000 Iranian vehicle images with 5,765 manually labeled bounding boxes
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Iranian Vehicle Images Dataset for Object Detection Algorithm — research by Pouria Maleki
Peer-reviewed publicationComputer Vision
20248 min readGitHub

Iranian Vehicle Images Dataset for Object Detection Algorithm

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (JAIDM)

A domain-specific dataset of 3,000 Iranian vehicle images and 5,765 manually labeled bounding boxes improved YOLOv8s performance over a COCO-trained baseline.

3,000 Iranian vehicle images with 5,765 manually labeled bounding boxes
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Object Detection for Vehicles with Yolo — research by Pouria Maleki
IEEE conference paperDeep Learning
Jan 25, 20249 min readGitHub

Object Detection for Vehicles with Yolo

IEEE SAMI 2024

A seven-class, 29,759-image vehicle benchmark that treats ambulances and fire trucks as dedicated object-detection classes and evaluates real-time detector performance.

29,759 images and 55,925 annotations across seven vehicle classes
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Flood Risk Analysis with Deep Learning — research by Pouria Maleki
IEEE conference paperPredictive AI
Sep 19, 20247 min read

Flood Risk Analysis with Deep Learning

IEEE SISY 2024

A comparison of three machine-learning approaches for predicting exposure, criticality and flood-risk scores using 2,634 bridge records.

2,634 bridge records were modeled through exposure, criticality and overall risk scores
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Offline voice detection in smart homes — research by Pouria Maleki
Conference paperIoT & Edge AI
20236 min read

Offline voice detection in smart homes

4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer, Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence

A multi-purpose smart-home automation concept that processes voice commands locally, combining offline interaction, Raspberry Pi-class edge computing and environmental control.

Voice commands are processed locally on Raspberry Pi-class hardware
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An Intelligent Traffic Light Control System Using Deep Neural Networks — research by Pouria Maleki
M.S. thesis noteReinforcement Learning
20217 min read

An Intelligent Traffic Light Control System Using Deep Neural Networks

Bu-Ali Sina University · M.S. Thesis

My 2021 M.S. thesis used Reinforcement Learning with Deep Q-Learning, SUMO simulation and YOLO-based traffic estimation for adaptive traffic-signal control.

SUMO provides the traffic environment while Deep Q-Learning drives sequential signal decisions
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