6 accepted papers
Even after decades of advances in neural network training, the inherent robustness challenge remains open. While the sensitivity to adversarial perturbations is understandable given their intentional learning, the most surprising fact is the vulnerability to natural corruptions. Moreover, the reason…
Automated mosquito species identification is critical for combating vector-borne diseases. We introduce Q-MoFusion, a novel hybrid quantum-classical framework that fuses deep features from pre-trained Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) and Whisper models using a Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC). O
AI technologies have long-term societal implications that impact youth, prompting a need for critical AI literacy for students. While current K-12 AI curricula have increasingly integrated societal impact and ethics concepts in AI curricula, there is a need to center youth’s agency in decision-makin
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), backbone architecture in `almost' every computer vision task, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, particularly physical out-of-distribution (OOD) adversarial patches. Existing defense models often struggle with interpreting these attacks in ways that align with human…
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in AI ethics literacy have developed curriculum and classroom activities that engage learners in reflecting on the ethical implications of AI systems and developing…
Culturally relevant and sustaining implementations of computing education are increasingly leveraging young learners' passion for sports as a platform for building interest in different STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) concepts. Numerous disciplines spanning physics, engineering, da…