Work place: Yanshan University/ School of Electrical Engineering, Qinhuangdao, China
E-mail: asd@ysu.edu.cn
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Biography
Ahmad Syed received his PhD degree from JNTU Hyderabad University, in 2018. He is currently working as Postdoc Researcher at Yanshan University, dept. of Electrical Engineering, China, since 2024. Dr. Ahmad Syed has extensive experience in renewable energy and power electronics, with a particular emphasis on the design and application of grid-connected PV inverters. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the CBIT campus, Osmania University. He has authored or co-authored over 20 technical papers. He holds 1 patent. He is currently working on DC-DC converters for H2, EV applications. His contributions to research include numerous publications in prestigious international journals and book chapters, such as those by IET and Taylor & Francis. He has also actively participated in international conferences organized by IEEE, IET, Springer, and Elsevier.
By Zia Ur Rehman Abdul Ghafar Ahmad Syed Abu Tayab Md. Golam Rabbi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2025.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2025
This research investigation utilizes deep learning object detection algorithms to achieve accurate recognition of birds near airports, thereby addressing the limitations of manual bird detection at airports, including low accuracy slow speed, and the high cost of radar detection. The ultimate goal is to ensure the safe operation of civil aviation. The following are the primary enhancements: First, an ECA (Efficient Channel Attention) attention mechanism was added to the Neck to enhance the network's emphasis on important characteristics. This resulted in a notable improvement in accuracy while only changing a few parameters. Second, by adding branches with various receptive fields, the MBC3 (Muti Branch C3) module was created to improve the expressiveness of the model. Thirdly, the model's right width and depth parameters will be chosen by investigating the effects of various network widths and depths on model performance. Fourth, to solve the problem of feature loss in recognizing tiny bird targets, the SF-PAN (Shallow Feature - Path Aggregation Network) structure was proposed. The model was evaluated using metrics such as mAP@50, FPS, precision, recall, and computational complexity on a test set derived from the dataset. Results show that the enhanced YOLOv8 achieves a mAP@50 of 83.1% and a speed of 31 FPS, a 2.5% improvement in accuracy and a 7 FPS increase over the baseline YOLOv8, while reducing parameters and weight size by approximately 48%. Comparative experiments further validate the model’s superiority over existing algorithms in terms of accuracy and resource efficiency. This upgraded YOLOv8 provides a novel, real-time solution for precise bird detection in challenging airport environments, ensuring safer civil aviation operations.
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