Hephaestus

Applied Artificial Intelligence Association

Featured Projects

Deep Learning for Satellite Building Change Detection

Deep Learning for Satellite Building Change Detection

A deep-learning project for detecting building changes in bitemporal satellite imagery using the LEVIR-CD dataset. It compares a shallow convolutional baseline, an early-fusion U-Net, and a Siamese Temporal Attention U-Net under a shared training and evaluation pipeline. The temporal-attention model achieves the strongest test F1-score of 0.9019, demonstrating the value of shared feature extraction and explicit cross-time comparison for robust change segmentation.

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AI for the Visually Impaired: A Constraint-First Assistive Vision Report

AI for the Visually Impaired: A Constraint-First Assistive Vision Report

A constraint-first AI assistive-vision project for blind/low-vision users that trains models under real deployment limits (offline, low latency/memory, noisy "blind photography", safety-critical operation) rather than optimizing clean-data accuracy first. This approach yields better calibration and smoother degradation than scale-first distillation, and proposes a modular offline-first system spec (OCR, object/currency recognition, motion cues) aligned with EU regulatory requirements.

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A Multiclass Learning and Inference System for Brain Tumor Detection

A Multiclass Learning and Inference System for Brain Tumor Detection

An investigation into brain tumor detection from MRI scans, comparing hyperdimensional computing with conventional computer-vision models such as convolutional neural networks. Performance and computational efficiency are evaluated to characterize accuracy–efficiency trade-offs relevant to practical biomedical image analysis.

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