Adaptive LiDAR Scanning: Harnessing Temporal Cues for Efficient 3D Object Detection via Multi-Modal Fusion
Sara Shoouri, Morteza Tavakoli Taba Hun-Seok Kim
arXiv 2025. (Under Submission)
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This paper proposes a predictive, history-aware adaptive scanning framework that anticipates informative regions of interest (ROI) based on past observations. Our approach introduces a lightweight predictor network that distills historical spatial and temporal contexts into refined query embeddings. These embeddings guide a differentiable Mask Generator network, which leverages Gumbel-Softmax sampling to produce binary masks identifying critical ROIs for the upcoming frame.

A 22nm 25.08TOPS/W Multi-Task Transformer Accelerator with Mixed Precision Structured Sparsity and Two-Stage Task-Adaptive Power Management
Zichen Fan, Qirui Zhang, Pierre Abillama Sara Shoouri, Jungho Lee, Chien-Wei Tseng, Wei Meng, Hun-Seok Kim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester
Published in 2025 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits.)
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This paper presents the first silicon implementation of a transformer accelerator that executes multiple tasks simultaneously, improving per-task efficiency. It applies structured sparsity, multi-precision computation, and a two stage DVFS mechanism yielding highest reported efficiency per task.

Efficient Computation Sharing for Multi-Task Visual Scene Understanding
Sara Shoouri, Mingyu Yang, Zichen Fan, Hun-Seok Kim
Accepted to ICCV, 2023
project page / arXiv / Presentation

We propose a novel framework that efficiently addresses multiple visual tasks by sharing knowledge through computation and parameter sharing among individually trained single-task transformers, outperforming SOTA in accuracy and resource utilization across image and video data.

TaskFusion: An Efficient Transfer Learning Architecture with Dual Delta Sparsity for Multi-Task Natural Language Processing
Zichen Fan, Qirui Zhang, Pierre Abillama, Sara Shoouri, Changwoo Lee, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim, Dennis Sylvester
Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2023
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TaskFusion is an efficient software-hardware co-design for multi-task natural language processing (NLP), utilizing delta sparsity in weights and activations to reduce computation costs, achieving substantial performance and energy efficiency gains.

A 53-62 GHz Two-channel Differential 6-bit Active Phase Shifter in 55-nm SiGe Technology
Morteza Tavakoli Taba, S. M. Hossein Naghavi, Sara Shoouri, Andreia Cathelin, Ehsan Afshari
Proceedings of IEEE 49th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2023

This paper introduces a novel technique for a 6-bit active differential phase shifter with accurate I/Q signals and minimal gain/phase errors.

Siamese Learning-Based Monarch Butterfly Localization
Sara Shoouri, Mingyu Yang, Gordy Carichner, Yuyang Li, Ehab A Hamed, Angela Deng, Delbert A Green, Inhee Lee, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim
IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW), 2022
project page / arXiv / Presentation

Proposed GPS-less method using deep learning sensor fusion improves daily Monarch butterfly tracking accuracy by utilizing daylight intensity and temperature data, achieving superior results compared to previous approaches.

mSAIL: milligram-scale multi-modal sensor platform for monarch butterfly migration tracking
Inhee Lee, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Chin-Wei Hsu, Mingyu Yang, Sara Shoouri, Delbert A Green, Hun-Seok Kim, David Blaauw
Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2021
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MSAIL proposes a compact embedded system that harnesses solar energy and wireless transmission to track monarch butterfly migration, enabling daily location estimation through deep learning-based localization algorithms, validated in an outdoor experiment.

Falsification of a Vision-based Automatic Landing System
Sara Shoouri, Shayan Jalili, Jiahong Xu, Isabelle Gallagher, Yuhao Zhang, Joshua Wilhelm, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Necmiye Ozay
AIAA Scitech Forum, 2021
Presentation / Arxiv

We investigate camera-based automatic landing systems for smaller airports, proposing an architecture, validating specifications with flight data, and using the Breach tool to find counterexamples for falsification.

Estimating heart rate and detecting feeding events of fish using an implantable biologger
Yiran Shen, Reza Arablouei, Frank de Hoog, Jaques Malan, James Sharp, Sara Shoouri, Timothy D Clark, Carine Lefevre, Frederieke Kroon, Andrea Severati, Brano Kusy
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2021
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This study utilizes biologgers and a novel processing pipeline to detect fish feeding behavior via ECG signals, introducing an efficient change-detection algorithm for potential long-term monitoring of marine animal health in their natural habitats.

In-situ fish heart rate estimation and feeding event detection using an implantable biologger
Yiran Shen, Reza Arablouei, Frank De Hoog, Xing Hao, Jacques Malan, James Sharp, Sara Shoouri, Timothy D Clark, Carine Lefevre, Frederieke Kroon, Andrea Severati, Branislav Kusy
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021
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The study focuses on using implantable biologgers and a novel processing pipeline to detect feeding behavior in predatory fish via ECG signals, achieving accurate heart-rate estimation and feeding event detection.