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Spatio-Temporal driven Attention Graph Neural Network with Block Adjacency matrix (STAG-NN-BA) for Remote Land-use Change Detection – AAAI2023

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…

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ICONIP2023 – Stereoential Net: Deep Network for Learning Building Height Using Stereo Imagery

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…

ICPR2022 – Neural Network Pruning Through Constrained Reinforcement Learning
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ICPR2022 – Neural Network Pruning Through Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Shehryar Malik, Muhammad Umair Haider*, Omer Iqbal, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Network pruning reduces the size of neural networks by removing (pruning) neurons such that the performance drop is minimal. Traditional pruning approaches focus on designing metrics to quantify the usefulness of a neuron which is often quite tedious and sub-optimal. More recent approaches have instead…

ICASSP2022 -Camera Calibration through Camera Projection Loss
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ICASSP2022 -Camera Calibration through Camera Projection Loss

Talha Hanif Butt, Murtaza Taj Abstract: Camera calibration is a necessity in various tasks including 3D reconstruction, hand-eye coordination for a robotic interaction, autonomous driving, etc. In this work we propose a novel method to predict extrinsic (baseline, pitch, and translation), intrinsic (focal length and principal point offset) parameters using an image pair. Unlike existing…

BMVC2021 – Teacher-Class Network: A Neural Network Compression Mechanism
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BMVC2021 – Teacher-Class Network: A Neural Network Compression Mechanism

Shaiq Munir Malik, Fnu Mohbat, Muhammad Umair Haider, Muhammad Musab Rasheed and Murtaza Taj Abstract: To reduce the overwhelming size of Deep Neural Networks, teacher-student techniques aim to transfer knowledge from a complex teacher network to a simple student network. We instead propose a novel method called the teacher-class network consisting of a single teacher…

ICIP2021 – Spatio-Temporal Crop Classification On Volumetric Data
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ICIP2021 – Spatio-Temporal Crop Classification On Volumetric Data

M. U. Qadeer, S. Saeed, M. Taj and A. Muhammad Abstract: Large-area crop classification using multi-spectral imagery is a widely studied problem for several decades and is generally addressed using classical Random Forest classifier. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have been proposed. However, these methods only achieved results comparable with Random Forest. In this…

ICIP2021 – Comprehensive Online Network Pruning via Learnable Scaling Factors
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ICIP2021 – Comprehensive Online Network Pruning via Learnable Scaling Factors

Muhammad Umair Haider and Murtaza Taj Abstract: One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters or depth-wise by removing layers and blocks. Width wise pruning (filter pruning)…

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ICIAP 2019 – Dimensionality Reduction Using Discriminative Autoencoders for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Mohbat, Tooba Mukhtar, Numan Khurshid, and Murtaza Taj International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICAIP), Trento, Itlay, September 9-13, 2019 Abstract Advancements in deep learning techniques caused a paradigm shift in feature extraction for image perception from handcrafted methods to deep methods. However, these deep features if learned through unsupervised methods bear large memory…

CVPRW2019 – Tiny-Inception-ResNet-v2: Using Deep Learning for Eliminating Bonded Labors of Brick Kilns in  South Asia
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CVPRW2019 – Tiny-Inception-ResNet-v2: Using Deep Learning for Eliminating Bonded Labors of Brick Kilns in South Asia

Usman Nazir, Numan Khurshid, Muhammad Ahmed Bhimra, Murtaza Taj International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16-21, 2019 Abstract This paper proposes to employ a Inception-ResNet inspired deep learning architecture called Tiny-Inception-ResNet-v2 to eliminate bonded labor by identifying brick kilns within “Brick-Kiln-Belt” of South Asia. The framework is developed…

ICASSP 2019 – Using 3D Residual Network For Spatio-Temporal Analysis Of Remote Sensing Data
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ICASSP 2019 – Using 3D Residual Network For Spatio-Temporal Analysis Of Remote Sensing Data

Muhammad Ahmed Bhimra, Usman Nazir, Murtaza Taj International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 12-17, 2019 Abstract In this paper, we propose an approach to recognize spatio-temporal changes from remote sensing data. Instead of performing independent analysis on each instance of satellite imagery, we proposed a 3D Convolutional Neural Network…