Muhammad Zeeshan, Lorenzo Bina, Laurens WJ Bosman, Chris I De Zeeuw, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Decoding cerebellar activity is crucial for understanding the neural basis of motor control and for advancing brain–computer interface (BCI) research. In this work, we investigate whether spike activity from Purkinje cells can be used to classify targeted licking…
Minahil Fatima, Musaib Ahmed, Fezan Rasool, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Accurate plant phenotyping is critical for precision agriculture, supporting robust weed management, crop monitoring, and sustainable yield optimization. However, crop–weed semantic segmentation in field environments remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, overlapping plant structures, ambiguous boundaries, and the small, camouflaged nature of weeds. We propose…
Taha Razzaq, Murtaza Taj, Asim Iqbal Abstract: \initial{T}\textbf{he emergence of foundation models has marked a transformative shift in AI, enabling robust generalization across diverse downstream tasks through putative zero-shot learning. Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models have demonstrated strong capabilities in tasks such as image interpretation, report generation, and question answering by effectively learning from…
Muhammad Haad Zaid, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) aims to align images from different perspectives (e.g., satellite and street views) to a shared geographic location—a complex task due to variations in viewpoint, intricate scene geometry, and visual discrepancies across views. Current methods commonly employ contrastive loss, which requires matching and non-matching (negative) pairs and…
Hasan Farooq, Murtaza Taj, Mehwish Nasim, Arif Mahmood Abstract: Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in clinical tasks. However, they often struggle to understand anatomical structures and spatial positioning, which are crucial for medical reasoning. To address this, we propose a localization-aware enhancement to the Med-VLM pipeline, introducing improvements at three levels: data,…
Tariq Mehmood*, Hamza Ahmad*, Muhammad Haroon Shakeel, Murtaza Taj (* contributed equally) Abstract: EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have shown promise in various applications, such as motor imagery and cognitive state monitoring. However, decoding visual representations from EEG signals remains a significant challenge due to their complex and noisy nature. We thus propose a novel 5-stage…
Faisal Yaseen, Murtaza Taj, Resmi Ravindran, Fareed Zaffar, Paul A. Luciw, Aamer Ikram, Saerah Iffat Zafar, Tariq Gill, Michael Hogarth and Imran H. Khan Abstract: Background Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 1.6 million people yearly despite the fact anti-TB drugs are generally curative. Therefore, TB-case detection and monitoring of therapy, need a comprehensive approach. Automated radiological…
Sana Jabbar and Murtaza Taj Abstract: Accurate estimation of building heights is crucial for effective urban planning and resource management as it provides essential geometric information about the urban landscape. Many end-to-end deep learning-based networks have been proposed for image-to-height mapping using high-resolution nonoptical and optical remote sensing imagery. In this study, we develop a…
Usman Nazir, Wadood Islam, Sara Khalid, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Land-use monitoring is fundamental for spatial planning, particularly in view of compound impacts of growing global populations and climate change. Despite existing applications of deep learning in land use monitoring, standard convolutional kernels in deep neural networks limit the applications of these networks to the Euclidean…
Sana Jabbar, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Height estimation plays a crucial role in the planning and assessment of urban development, enabling effective decision-making and evaluation of urban built areas. Accurate estimation of building heights from remote sensing optical imagery poses significant challenges in preserving both the overall structure of complex scenes and the elevation details of…
