Classroom-Inspired Multi-Mentor Distillation with Adaptive Learning Strategies
Shalini Sarode, Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Tahira Shehzadi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: Intelligent Systems and Applications. Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys-2025), 11th Intelligent Systems Conference 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Springer Nature Switzerland, 8/2025.
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SituationalLLM: Proactive Language Models with Scene Awareness for Dynamic, Contextual Task Guidance [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker
In: Open Research Europe, Vol. 5, No. 61, Pages 1-14, Open Research Europe, 3/2025.
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MARVEL-40M+: Multi-Level Visual Elaboration for High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Content Creation
Sankalp Sinha, Mohammad Sadil Khan, Muhammad Usama, Shino Sam, Didier Stricker, Sk Aziz Ali, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: In Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-25). International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2025), June 11-15, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, IEEE/CVF, 2025.
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Text2CAD: Generating Sequential CAD Models from Beginner-to-Expert Level Text Prompts
Mohammad Sadil Khan, Sankalp Sinha, Talha Uddin Sheikh, Didier Stricker, Sk Aziz Ali, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-2024), December 10-15, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Pages 7552-7579, Vol. 37, Neural Information Processing Systems, 1/2025.
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Shape2.5D: A Dataset of Texture-less Surfaces for Depth and Normals Estimation
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Sankalp Sinha, Didier Stricker, Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: IEEE Access (IEEE), Vol. 12, Pages 1-1, IEEE, 11/2024.
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UnSupDLA: Towards Unsupervised Document Layout Analysis
Talha Uddin Sheikh, Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS-2024), August 29 - September 4, Springer, Athens, Greece, 8/2024.
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Enhanced Bank Check Security: Introducing a Novel Dataset and Transformer-Based Approach for Detection and Verification
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Tahira Shehzadi, Rabeya Noor, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS-2024), August 29 - September 4, Greece, Springer, 8/2024.
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End-to-End Semi-Supervised approach with Modulated Object Queries for Table Detection in Documents
Iqraa Ehsan, Tahira Shehzadi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Vol. 1, Pages 1-15, Springer, 2024, Athens, Greece, 9/2024.
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Towards End-to-End Semi-Supervised Table Detection with Semantic Aligned Matching Transformer
Tahira Shehzadi, Shalini Sarode, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2024). International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2024), Athens, Greece, No. 1-15, Springer, 2024, 2024.
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CICA: Content-Injected Contrastive Alignment for Zero-Shot Document Image Classification
Sankalp Sinha, Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Talha Uddin Sheikh, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: ICDAR 2024 Main Conference Proceedings. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2024), 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, located at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, August 30 - September 4, Athens, Greece, Springer, 2024.
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A Hybrid Approach for Document Layout Analysis in Document images
Tahira Shehzadi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2024). International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2024), 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, August 30 - September 4, Athen, Greece, Pages 1-15, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Nature, Switzerland, 9/2024.
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Sparse Semi-DETR: Sparse Learnable Queries for Semi-Supervised Object Detection
Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2024), June 17-21, Seattle, WA, USA, IEEE/CVF, USA, 6/2024.
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Introducing Language Guidance in Prompt-based Continual Learning
Muhammad Gulzain Ali Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Conference on Computer Vision 2023. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-2023), October 2-6, Paris, France, IEEE, 10/2023.
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FeatEnHancer: Enhancing Hierarchical Features for Object Detection and Beyond Under Low-Light Vision
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Goutham Kallempudi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Conference on Computer Vision. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-2023), October 2-6, Paris, France, IEEE, 10/2023.
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Towards end-to-end semi-supervised table detection with deformable transformer
Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2023). International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2023), Pages 51-76, Springer Nature Switzerland, San Jose, USA, 8/2023.
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Learning Attention Propagation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
Muhammad Gulzain Ali Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: Proceedings of. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2023), IEEE Xplore, 2023.
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Rethinking Learnable Proposals for Graphical Object Detection in Scanned Document Images
Sankalp Sinha, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 12 20 Seiten 1-22 MDPI Switzerland 10/2022 .
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Attention-Guided Disentangled Feature Aggregation for Video Object Detection
Shishir Muralidhara, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Sensors - Open Access Journal (Sensors) 22 21 Seiten 1-17 MDPI Switzerland 11/2022 .
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Spatio-Temporal Learnable Proposals for End-to-End Video Object Detection
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
British Machine Vision Conference. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-2022) 33rd British Machine Vision Conference British Machine Vision Association England 11/2022 .
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BoxMask: Revisiting Bounding Box Supervision for Video Object Detection
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2023. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2023), January 3-8, Waikoloa, HI, USA, CVF, 2023.
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Continual Learning for Table Detection in Document Images
Mohammad Minouei, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Mohammad Reza Soheili, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker
Jan Egger (Hrsg.). Applied Sciences (MDPI) 12 18 Seiten 01-16 MDPI Switzerland 9/2022 .
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Mask-Aware Semi-Supervised Object Detection in Floor Plans
Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (Hrsg.). Applied Sciences (MDPI) 12 9 Seiten 1-18 MDPI Switzerland 9/2022 .
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3D Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image using Deep Learning: A Review
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Journal of Imaging (MDPI J) 8 225 Seiten 1-23 MDPI 8/2022 .
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A Comprehensive Survey of Depth Completion Approaches
Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan, Danish Nazir, Alain Pagani, Hamam Mokayed, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
In: Sensors - Open Access Journal (Sensors), Vol. 22, No. 18, Pages 1-18, MDPI, 9/2022.
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Investigating Attention Mechanism for Page Object Detection in Document Images
Shivam Naik, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 12 15 Seiten 3390-3408 MDPI Switzerland 7/2022 .
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Toward Semi-Supervised Graphical Object Detection in Document Images
Goutham Kallempudi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Future Internet (MDPI) 14 6 Seiten 176-198 MDPI Switzerland 6/2022 .
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Exploiting Concepts of Instance Segmentation to Boost Detection in Challenging Environments
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Sensors - Open Access Journal (Sensors) 22 Seiten 3703-3722 MDPI Switzerland 5/2022 .
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EmmDocClassifier: Efficient Multimodal Document Image Classifier for Scarce Data
Shrinidhi Kanchi, Alain Pagani, Hamam Mokayed, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 12 3 Seiten 1-18 MDPI 1/2022 .
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CasTabDetectoRS: Cascade Network for Table Detection in Document Images with Recursive Feature Pyramid and Switchable Atrous Convolution
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Journal of Imaging (MDPI J) 7 10 Seiten 214-237 MDPI 10/2021 .
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Contrastive Learning for 3D Point Clouds Classification and Shape Completion
Danish Nazir, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker
Sensors - Open Access Journal (Sensors) 21 Seiten 1-17 MDPI Switzerland 11/2021 .
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HybridTabNet: Towards Better Table Detection in Scanned Document Images
Danish Nazir, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Antonio Fernández (Hrsg.). Applied Sciences (MDPI) 11 18 Seiten 8396-8418 MDPI Switzerland 9/2021 .
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Towards Robust Object detection in Floor Plan Images: A Data Augmentation Approach
Shashank Mishra, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 11 23 Seiten 1-22 MDPI 11/2021 .
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Current Status and Performance Analysis of Table Recognition in Document Images With Deep Neural Networks
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Adnan Afzal, Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
IEEE Access (IEEE) 9 Seiten 87663-87685 IEEE 6/2021 .
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A Survey of Graphical Page Object Detection with Deep Neural Networks
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Jwalin Bhatt, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 11 12 Seiten 1-21 MDPI Basel, Switzerland 6/2021 .
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Cascade Network with Deformable Composite Backbone for Formula Detection in Scanned Document Images
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Applied Sciences (MDPI) 11 16 Seite 7610 MDPI Switzerland 8/2021 .
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Guided Table Structure Recognition Through Anchor Optimization
Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Noman Afzal, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
IEEE Access (IEEE) 9 Seiten 113521-113534 IEEE 8/2021 .
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Survey and Performance Analysis of Deep Learning Based Object Detection in Challenging Environments
Muhammad Ahmed, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Radu Danescu (Hrsg.). Sensors - Open Access Journal (Sensors) 21 15 Seiten 1-30 MDPI 2021 .
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TAC-GAN-text conditioned auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network
Ayushman Dash, John Cristian Borges Gamboa, Sheraz Ahmed, Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
arxiv, 2017.
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Cutting the Error by Half: Investigation of Very Deep CNN and Advanced Training Strategies for Document Image Classification
Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Andreas Kölsch, Sheraz Ahmed, Marcus Liwicki
In: ICADR. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), IEEE, 2017.
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AirScript - Creating Documents in Air
Ayushman Dash, Amit Sahu, Rajveer Shringi, John Gamboa, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Muhammad Imran Malik, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed
In: ICDAR. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), IEEE, 2017.
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A Novel Skew Detection and Correction Approach for Scanned Documents
Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Marcus Liwicki, Thomas Breuel, Andreas Dengel
In: DAS. IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS-12), April 11-14, Santorini, Greece, DAS, 4/2016.
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Semi-Automated Transcription Generation for Pashto Cursive Script
Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Saeeda Naz
In: Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences . Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences , Pages 96-101, Vol. 6, No. 36, TextRoad Publication, 3/2016.
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Robust Optical Recognition of Cursive Pashto Script Using Scale, Rotation and Location Invariant Approach
Riaz Ahmad, Saeeda Naz, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sayed Hassan Amin
In: Public Library of Science (Hrsg.). PLoS ONE, Vol. 10, No. 9, Pages 1-16, PLoS, 9/2015.
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Recognizable Units in Pashto Language for OCR
Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Dengel, Thomas Breuel
In: IEEE Xplore (Hrsg.). MOCR. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-13), August 22-26, Nancy, France, other, 8/2015.
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Scale and Rotation Invariant OCR for Pashto Cursive Script using MDLSTM Network
Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Marcus Liwicki, Thomas Breuel
In: IEEE. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-13), August 22-26, Nancy, France, Other, 8/2015.
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