AIMS Research Lab

Artificial Intelligence & Multimodal Systems

Lab @ USM · CSCE · TEC 340

A research group at the University of Southern Mississippi building AI systems that learn from images, video, text, speech, and sensor data, and stay reliable under uncertainty.

#ComputerVision#VisionLanguageModels#RAG#ConversationalMemory#AIAgents#TrustworthyAI#HumanCenteredAI

Projects

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SEAM

Measuring how much typed user speech gets absorbed into edited artifacts at unmarked within-turn seams.

#HumanCenteredAI#LLMEditing

Demo GitHub

4D Gaussian Streaming

Which Gaussians you pick as anchors barely matters: cheap samplers match the default strategy at deployment budgets, so the standard 8,192-anchor choice over-spends compute.

#ComputerVision#GaussianSplatting

arXiv

People

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Faculty

  • Dr. Rabab Abdelfattah Dr. Rabab Abdelfattah AIMS Lab Director

PhD Students

  • Olanrewaju Muili Olanrewaju Muili Trustworthy AI
  • Siyan Luo Siyan Luo Ph.D. student
  • Stone Barnard Stone Barnard Computer vision
  • Ticauris Stokes Ticauris Stokes Computer vision

Undergraduates

  • Sugam Panthi Sugam Panthi LLM evaluation validity
  • Muhaiminul Yeamin Muhaiminul Yeamin NLP
  • Sakshyam Sigdel Sakshyam Sigdel Applied computer vision
  • Shrabya Bhattarai Shrabya Bhattarai Applied computer vision
  • Joshua Johnston Joshua Johnston Computer vision
  • Nhoojah Maharjan Nhoojah Maharjan Trustworthy AI
  • Bibas Kandel Bibas Kandel Trustworthy AI
  • Bishesta Bohara Bishesta Bohara Computer vision
  • Jahandad Irfan Jahandad Irfan Computer vision

Collaborating Students

  • Ashim Dahal Ashim Dahal Computer vision
  • Rashika Karmacharya Rashika Karmacharya Computer vision

Recent

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From Classical Pipelines to Promptable Foundation Models: A Cross-Domain Survey of Thin-Object Segmentation for Power Lines, Cracks, and Retinal Vessels A. Hossain, N. Maharjan, M. Hasan, R. Abdelfattah, M. Ezz-Eldin, X. Wang, M. M. Fouda, K. Abdelfattah · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2026 [LINK] Same Ranking, Different Winner: How Scoring Targets Shape LLM Memory Benchmarks S. Panthi, R. Abdelfattah · Findings of EMNLP 2026 · 2026 [LINK]
Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Scene Reconstruction: Methods, Systems, and Trade-offs A. Dahal, R. Abdelfattah, N. Rahimi · Pattern Recognition (under major revision) · 2026

Plain-language write-ups of the lab's papers are on the Writing page.