Swarm Robotics Lab

Publications

SCI-INDEXED Journals  – [13]

  1. Waqas Ahmed, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Amanullah Yasin “Robust Suspicious Action Recognition Approach using Pose Descriptor” Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering. (IF: 1.305)
  2. Abdul Nasir, Muhammad Obaid Ullah, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Muhammad Asif Aziz “Acquisition of 3-D trajectories with labeling support for multi-species insects under unconstrained flying conditions” Published in Ecological Informatics. (IF: 3.142)
  3. Hajra Bint-e-Naeem, Fiza Murtaza, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Sergio A. Velastin “T-VLAD: Temporal Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptor for Multiview Human Action Recognition” Published in Pattern Recognition Letters. (IF: 3.55)
  4. Yusra Khalid Bhatti, Afshan Jamil, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Serestina Viriri, Sergio A. Velastin “Facial Expression Recognition of Instructor Using Deep Features and Extreme Learning Machine” Published in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. (IF: 2.284)
  5. Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin “A video augmentation technique for human action recognition based on genetic algorithm” Published in ETRI Journal. (IF: 1.094)
  6. Saqib Umer, Hassan Dawood, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Hussain Dawood, Haseeb Ahmed “Efficient foreground object segmentation from video by Probability Weighted Moments” Published in OptiK, Volume 229, March 2021, 166251. (IF: 2.187)
  7. Malik Ali Gul, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Shah Nawaz, Zaka Ur Rehman, HyungWon Kim “Patient Monitoring by Abnormal Human Activity Recognition Based on CNN Architecture” Published in Electronics, 2020, 9, 1993. (IF: 2.412)
  8. Adeeba Kausar, Afshan Jamil, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf “Two-Wheeled Vehicle Detection using Two-Step and Single-Step Deep Learning Models” Published in Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering 2020. (IF: 1.518)
  9. Ammar Mohsin Butt, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Fiza Murtaza, Saima Nazir, Serestina Viriri, Sergio A. Velastin, “Agglomerative Clustering and Residual-VLAD Encoding for Human Action Recognition” Published in Applied Sciences, Vol 10, 04412, June 2020 (IF: 2.217).
  10. Fiza Murtaza, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Sergio A. Velastin, Yu Qian “Vectors of Temporally Correlated Snippets for Temporal Action Detection” Published in Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 85, May 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2020.106654 (IF: 2.189).
  11. Hajra Bint-e-Naeem, Fiza Murtaza, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Sergio A. Velastin “Multiple batches of motion history images (MB-MHIs) for multiview human action recognition” Published in Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s13369-020-04481-y 2020. (IF: 1.518)
  12. Adeel Ahmed Jamil, Fawad Hussain, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Ammar Mohsin Butt, Sergio A. Velastin “Vehicle Make and Model Recognition Using Bag of Expressions” Published in Sensors, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1033, (2019) (IF: 3.0).
  13. Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin “Deep temporal motion descriptor (DTMD) for human action recognition” Published in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DOI:10.3906/elk-1907-214 2019. (IF: 0.625)

International Conferences / Journals – [08]

  1. Muhammad Saad Saeed, Muhammad Haris Khan, Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Alessio Del Bue “Fusion And Orthogonal Projection for Improved Face-Voice Association” Accepted in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
  2. Muhammad Ahmed Raza, Hajra Binte-Naeem, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Amanullah Yasin “BirdView Retina-Net: Small-Scale Object Detector for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)” Presented Presentation in 16th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad Pakistan 2021. (BEST PAPER AWARD in the Professional Category)
  3. Zubair Saeed, Ali Raza, Ans Hussain Qureshi, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf “A Generic Multi-Crop Disease Detection and Classification Approach using CNN” Published in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Islamabad Pakistan 2021.
  4. Arslan Ali, Muhammad Muzamal Shahzad, Ans Hussain Qureshi, Mansoor Shaukat, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf “A Decentralized Pattern Formation and Navigation Approach For Swarms: Multi-UAV Perspective” Published in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Islamabad Pakistan 2021.
  5. Mishal Fatima, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Amanullah Yasin, Sergio Velastin “Unsupervised Fall Detection Approach Using Human Skeletons” Published in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Islamabad Pakistan 2021.
  6. Shahzeb Ahsan, Saran Khaliq, M. Danish Nisar “Multi-Platform Hardware In The Loop (HIL) Simulation for Decentralized Swarm Communication Using ROS and GAZEBO” Published in IEEE SwarmNet 2021.
  7. Hajra Binte Naeem, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Farhan Hassan Khan, Amanullah Yasin “Vision-Based Real-time Human Malicious Behavior Detection” Accepted in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021, Pakistan.
  8. Umber Saba, Fiza Murtaza, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Serestina Viriri “Plant Species Identification using Discriminant Bag of Words (DBoW)” Published in VISAPP - 15th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Valletta, Malta (2020).

RESEARCH GRANTS

  1. Finalist OPENCV AI Competition 2021 by Intel/OPENCV. Worth 3498 US$.
  2. Winner, Robotics and Automation Startup Challenge 2021, worth 0.3 Mn. PKR.
  3. Joint Project “IntelliSurv” funded by SinoPak Centre for Artificial Intelligence (SPCAI), PAF-IAST 2021.
  4. Research grant of 2,00,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2021 by NESCOM Pakistan.
  5. Research grant of 2,50,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2021 by NESCOM Pakistan.
  6. Research grant of 2,00,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2020 by NESCOM Pakistan.
  7. Research grant of 1,50,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2020 by NESCOM Pakistan.
  8. Research grant of 1,00,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2019 by NESCOM Pakistan.
  9. Research grant of 1,00,000 Rs. for Research Academia Collaboration for year 2019 by NESCOM Pakistan.