Summary
Academic Background
PhD
(Artificial Intelligence) TU Kaiserslautern
May 30, 2005 - May 30, 2008
Honours and Awards
SEECS Best Innovator
SEECS Best Researcher
University Best Teacher
IAPR Young Scientist
School / College Best Researcher Awards-2021
December 26, 2022
Publications
Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation With Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architecture Using Skip Attention Mechanism
September 12, 2026
Signal Image and Video Processing - Volume 20, Article Number 638
DocDjinn: controllable synthetic document generation with VLMs and handwriting diffusion
August 25, 2026
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) - Pages 16
Leednet: a lightweight network for event detection in EEG signals
July 24, 2026
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Volume:2026, Issue:1, Article Number 64
Query-free universal black-box (QF-UBB) attacks against Siamese signature verification systems with Bayesian dictionary learning
June 11, 2026
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) - Pages 19
Multiscale-Hashing Network for 6-D Pose Estimation of Unseen Objects in the Wild
April 20, 2026
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics - Volume:31, Issue:2, Page:1653-1663
ERBMA-Net: Enhanced Random Binary Multilevel Attention Network for Facial Depression Recognition
February 01, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems - Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Page(s):409-427
A Graph-Augmented Multi-Stage Transformer Model for Document Layout Understanding
December 13, 2025
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Pages 1-14
SlimDoc: lightweight distillation of document transformer models
June 18, 2025
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Pages 1-17
Lightweight distilled transformer-based vision framework for detection of forest fire and smoke in real-world scenes
May 27, 2025
Journal of Electronic Imaging - Volume 34(3), Article Number 033035
DeepFins: Capturing dynamics in underwater videos for fish detection
May 01, 2025
Ecological Informatics - Volume 86, Article Number 103013
Segmentation of Wheat Rust Disease Using Co-Salient Feature Extraction
January 23, 2025
AgriEngineering - Volume 7(2), Article Number 23
NeuroAssist: Open-Source Automatic Event Detection in Scalp EEG
November 25, 2024
IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 170321-170334
Seagrass classification using unsupervised curriculum learning (UCL)
November 01, 2024
Ecological Informatics - Volume 83, Article Number 102804
Sparse Representations Optimization with Coupled Bayesian Dictionary and Dictionary Classifier for Efficient Classification
January 29, 2024
Applied Sciences - Volume 14, Issue 1, Article Number 306
Dictionary based Bayesian Classifier Learning
September 17, 2023
Journal of Computing and Biomedical Informatics - Volume 5, Issue 02, Pages 136-149
The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop
August 04, 2023
Sensors - Volume 23, Issue 15, Article Number 6942
Sparse adversarial image generation using dictionary learning
June 01, 2023
Journal of Electronic Imaging - Volume 32, Issue 3, Article Number 033006
Conv-transformer architecture for unconstrained off-line Urdu handwriting recognition
December 01, 2022
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 373-384
Adversarial Attack using Sparse Representation of Feature Maps
November 16, 2022
IEEE Access - Volume 10, Pages 120724-120734
A Multi–Step Approach for Optically Active and Inactive Water Quality Parameter Estimation Using Deep Learning and Remote Sensing
July 01, 2022
Water - Volume 14, Issue 13, Article Number 2112
Bacterial Prediction using Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning
January 28, 2022
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - Volume 194, Article Number 133
The NMT Scalp EEG Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Dataset of Healthy and Pathological EEG Recordings for Predictive Modeling
January 05, 2022
Frontiers in Neuroscience - Volume 15, Article Number 755817
A convolutional recursive deep architecture for unconstrained Urdu handwriting recognition
January 01, 2022
Neural Computing and Applications - Volume 34, Pages1635-1648
UCL: Unsupervised Curriculum Learning for water body classification from remote sensing imagery
December 25, 2021
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation - Volume 105, Article Number 102568
Multi-view gait recognition system using spatio-temporal features and deep learning
October 01, 2021
Expert Systems with Applications - Volume 179, Article Number 115057
Analyzing LDA and NMF Topic Models for Urdu Tweets via Automatic Labeling
September 21, 2021
IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 127531-127547
A Novel Technique for Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Sequential Models and Feature Engineering
July 13, 2021
IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 96221-96232
Sense the pen: Classification of online handwritten sequences (text, mathematical expression, plot/graph)
June 15, 2021
Expert Systems with Applications - Volume 172, Article Number 114588
AI-ForestWatch: semantic segmentation based end-to-end framework for forest estimation and change detection using multi-spectral remote sensing imagery
May 31, 2021
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing - Volume 15(2), Article Number 024518
Surface water pollution monitoring using the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning
December 01, 2020
Book on AI for Emerging Verticals Human-Robot Computing, Sensing and Networking - Chapter 17, Pages 337-351
Fi-fo detector: Figure and formula detection using deformable networks
September 16, 2020
Applied Sciences - Volume 10(18), Article Number 6460
Steganographic universal adversarial perturbations
July 01, 2020
Pattern Recognition Letters - Volume 135, Pages 146-152
Fish detection and species classification in underwater environments using deep learning with temporal information
May 15, 2020
Ecological Informatics - Volume 57, Article Number 101088
Converting a Common Low-Cost Document Scanner into a Multispectral Scanner
July 20, 2019
Sensors - Volume 19, Issue 14, Article Number 3199
Two-stage framework for optic disc localization and glaucoma classification in retinal fundus images using deep learning
June 17, 2019
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making - Volume 19, Article Number 136
Real-time fish detection in complex backgrounds using probabilistic background modelling
May 01, 2019
Ecological Informatics - Volume 51, Pages 44-51
Viewpoint invariant semantic object and scene categorization with RGB-D sensors
April 04, 2019
Autonomous Robots - Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 1005-1022
Automatic fish detection in underwater videos by a deep neural network-based hybrid motion learning system
February 05, 2019
ICES Journal of Marine Science - Volume 76, Issue 4
3DAirSig: A Framework for Enabling In-Air Signatures Using a Multi-Modal Depth Sensor
November 10, 2018
Sensors - Volume: 18, Issue: 11, Article Number: 3872
Representation learning with deep extreme learning machines for efficient image set classification
August 18, 2018
Neural Computing and Applications - 30, pages 1211–1223(2018)
Dense 3D Face Correspondence
July 05, 2018
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Volume: 40, Issue: 7, Pages: 1584-1598
Automatic fish species classification in underwater videos: Exploiting pre-trained deep neural network models to compensate for limited labelled data
February 28, 2018
ICES Journal of Marine Science - NULL
Towards automating underwater measurement of fish length: a comparison of semi-automatic and manual stereo– video measurements
August 01, 2017
ICES Journal of Marine Science - Volume 74, Issue 6, Pages 1690-1701
Urdu Nastaliq recognition using convolutional-recursive deep learning
June 21, 2017
Neurocomputing - Volume: 243, Pages: 80-87
Learning a deeply supervised multi-modal RGB-D embedding for semantic scene and object category recognition
June 01, 2017
Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Volume: 92, Pages: 41-52
Efficient classification with sparsity augmented collaborative representation
May 03, 2017
Pattern Recognition - Volume: 65, Pages: 136-145
Discriminative Bayesian Dictionary Learning for Classification
December 01, 2016
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Volume 38, Issue 12, Article number 7404063
Urdu Nasta’liq text recognition using implicit segmentation based on multi‑dimensional long short term memory neural networks
November 25, 2016
SpringerPlus - Volume 5, Article Number 2010
Fish identification from videos captured in uncontrolled underwater environments
November 01, 2016
ICES Journal of Marine Science - Volume 73, Issue 10, Pages 2737-2746
Fish species classification in unconstrained underwater environments based on deep learning
May 31, 2016
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods - NULL
Progress in the Automated Identification, Measurement, and Counting of Fish in Underwater Image Sequences
February 01, 2016
Marine Technology Society Journal - Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 4-16
Joint Group Sparse PCA for Compressed Hyperspectral Imaging
December 01, 2015
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - Volume: 24, Issue: 12, Pages: 4934-4942
Automatic Ink Mismatch Detection For Forensic Document Analysis
November 02, 2015
Pattern Recognition - Volume 48 , No. 11, Papges 3615-3626
Prenatal testosterone exposure is related to sexually dimorphic facial morphology in adulthood
October 07, 2015
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - Volume:282, Issue:1816, Article Number: 20151351
Is Spectral Reflectance Of The Face A Reliable Biometric ?
June 15, 2015
Optics express - Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 15088-16499
Special Issue: Robust Reading Preface
June 01, 2015
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 109-110, Special Issue SI
Sexually Dimorphic Facial Features Vary According To Level Of Autistic-Like Traits In The General Population
April 15, 2015
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Vol. 7 , No. 1, Article Number 14
Futuristic Greedy Approach To Sparse Unmixing Of Hyperspectral Data
April 01, 2015
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing - Volume 53, No. 4, Pages 2157-2174
Automated Fish Detection In Underwater Images Using Shape-Based Level Sets
March 13, 2015
Photogrammetric Record - Volume 30(149), Pages 46-62
Visual Saliency Models For Text Detection In Real World
December 10, 2014
PLoS ONE - Volume 9, Number 12, Article Number e114539
Geometric Facial Gender Scoring: Objectivity of Perception
June 12, 2014
PLoS ONE - Volume 9(6), Article Number e99483
Efficient feature size reduction via predictive forward selection
April 01, 2014
Pattern Recognition - Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 1664-1673
Automatic Classifier Selection for Non-Experts
February 01, 2014
Pattern Analysis and Applications - Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-96
Contextual object category recognition for RGB-D scene labeling
February 01, 2014
Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-256
Automatic Authentication of Color Laser Print-Outs Using Machine Identification Codes
November 01, 2013
Pattern Analysis and Applications - Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 663-678
Text-line examination for document forgery detection
June 01, 2013
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-207
Coupled snakelets for curled text-line segmentation from warped document images
March 01, 2013
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-53
Meta-learning for evolutionary parameter optimization of classifiers
June 01, 2012
Machine Learning - Volume: 87, Issue: 3, Pages: 357-380
A Bayes-True Data Generator for Evaluation of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Methods
August 01, 2011
Pattern Recognition Letters - Volume: 32, Issue: 11, Pages: 1523-1531
The Effect of Border Noise on the Performance of Projection Based Page Segmentation Methods
April 01, 2011
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 846-851
Combined Orientation And Skew Detection Using Geometric Text-Line Modeling
January 16, 2010
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 13, Pages 79–92
Adaptive Binarization of Unconstrained Hand-Held Camera-Captured Document Images
November 28, 2009
Journal of Universal Computer Science - Volume: 15, Issue: 18, Pages: 3343-3363
Response to Projection Methods Require Black Border Removal
April 01, 2009
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 763-764
Document cleanup using page frame detection
November 01, 2008
International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 81-96
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Six Page Segmentation Algorithms
June 01, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Volume: 30, Issue: 6, Pages: 941-954
Conferences
Assistant Research Professor
The University of Western Australia
December 31, 2012 - December 31, 2014
Senior Researcher
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)
June 01, 2008 - December 31, 2012