WAISS 2024
Euro-Mediterranean Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems 2024

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 16 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume, all of them are regular papers.

Session 1: Artificial intelligence

• Customized Convolutional Neural Networks for Plant Disease Detection on Leaf Images 12 pages
  Walid Ben Mesmia, Ghazala Hcini, Omar Mansouri, Kamel Barkaoui, Imen Jdey
• Deep Learning Methods for Arabic Sign Language Recognition and Translation 12 pages
  Zaid Saad Bilal, Amir Gargouri, Hanaa F Mahmood, Hassene Mnif

Session 2: Antenna Design

• A Filter-Antenna with Reflector Based on Metamaterials for Railway Applications 12 pages
  Wyssem Fathallah, Taoufik Aguili
• Development and Enhancement of a Four-Port MIMO Antenna Optimized for 5G with Increased Isolation 9 pages
  Linda Chouikhi, Chaker Essid, Bassem Ben Salah
• Design and Measurement Dug-Hex Antenna for V2V Communications 12 pages
  Ikram Troudi, Chokri Baccouch, Mohamed-Ali Boujemaa, Belgacem Chibani

Session 3: Image Processing

• Accurate Segmentation of Thyroid Regions in Ultrasound Images: an Innovative Approach Using Deep Learning Architectures 10 pages
  Wyssem Fathallah, Haifa Gharbi, Mohamed Hamroun, Hedia Bellali, Hedi Sakli
• XG-ViT: Explainable and Generalizable Vision Transformer for Benchmark Image classification 13 pages
  Sonia Bouzidi, Imen Jdey, Fadoua Drira
• Automated Classification of Fetal and Maternal Structures in Ultrasound Using a Deep Learning Approach 9 pages
  Haifa Ghabri, Mohamed Hamroun, Hedia Bellali, Hedi Sakli