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My broader research interests include 207 the generalization and robustness of neural networks, responsible data augmentation with 208 diffusion models, vision-language models, and consistent character generation. 209 </p> 210 <p> 211 Alongside my PhD, I work as a Senior Scientist – Autonomy AI at 212 <a href="https://www.neubility.ai/">Neubility</a>. Previously, I was Chief Technology Officer 213 (CTO) – Gen AI at <a href="https://upendi.app/">Upendi.app</a>
213, a Research Scientist – 214 CV/ML at <a href="http://www.coremaxtech.com/">CoreMax Technology</a>, and a Research Associate 215 at Sejong University, all in Seoul, South Korea. 216 </p> 217 <p> 218 I received my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Sejong University, Seoul, where I 219 worked on image understanding and reconstruction, including an image compression method 220 presented at CVPRw. I have attended several summer schools and served as a technical volunteer 221 at top AI/ML conferences. 222 </p> 223 224 <h2 id="news">News</h2> 225 <ul class="news"> 226 <li><span class="date">07/2026</span> Two papers (S²-FracMix, HSFM) accepted at <b>ECCV 2026</b>!</li> 227 <li><span class="date">06/2026</span> <b>US Patent 12,657,783 B1</b> granted.</li> 228 <li><span class="date">04/2026</span> GenMix accepted in <b>Expert Systems with Applications</b> (Elsevier).</li> 229 <li><span class="date">03/2025</span> One paper on responsible data augmentation accepted at the <b>ICLR 2025</b> workshop track.</li> 230 <li><span class="date">09/2024</span> Starting my Ph.D. at the <b>University of Melbourne</b>, Australia.</li> 231 </ul> 232 <details class="see-more"> 233 <summary>See older news</summary> 234 <ul class="news"> 235 <li><span class="date">02/2024</span> DiffuseMix accepted at <b>CVPR 2024</b>!</li> 236 <li><span class="date">10/2022</span> Face Pyramid Vision Transformer accepted at <b>BMVC 2022</b>.</li> 237 </ul> 238 </details> 239 240 <h2 id="current_service">Current Service Appointments</h2> 241 <ul class="service"> 242 <li> 243 <strong>Reviewer</strong> – 244 <span class="badge badge-journal">TPAMI</span> 245 <span class="badge badge-journal">IJCV</span> 246 <span class="badge badge-journal">CVIU</span> 247 </li> 248 <li> 249 <strong>Reviewer</strong> – 250 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">CVPR</span> 251 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">ICCV</span> 252 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">ECCV</span> 253 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">NeurIPS</span> 254 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">ICML</span> 255 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">ICLR</span> 256 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">AAAI</span> 257 <span class="badge badge-reviewer">WACV</span> 258 </li> 259 <li> 260 <strong>Volunteer</strong> – 261 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">NeurIPS</span> 262 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">ICML</span> 263 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">ICLR</span> 264 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">IJCAI</span> 265 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">AAAI</span> 266 <span class="badge badge-volunteer">CVPR</span> 267 </li> 268 </ul> 269 270 <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> 271 <ul class="pubs"> 272 <li> 273 <span class="title">S²-FracMix: Label-Preserving Self-Saliency Mixup Augmentation</span> 274 <ul class="meta"> 275 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Arif Mahmood, Xin Jin, Naveed Akhtar</li> 276 <li><span class="venue">ECCV 2026.</span> <span class="plinks">paper coming soon</span></li> 277 </ul> 278 </li> 279 <li> 280 <span class="title">HSFM: Hard-Set-Guided Feature-Space Meta-Learning for Robust Classification under Spurious Correlations</span> 281 <ul class="meta"> 282 <li class="authors">Aryan Yazdan Parast, <b>Khawar Islam</b>, Soyoun Won, Basim Azam, Naveed Akhtar</li> 283 <li><span class="venue">ECCV 2026.</span> <span class="plinks">paper coming soon</span></li> 284 </ul> 285 </li> 286 <li> 287 <span class="title">GenMix: Effective Data Augmentation with Generative Diffusion Model Image Editing</span> 288 <ul class="meta"> 289 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Arif Mahmood, Karthik Nandakumar, Naveed Akhtar</li> 290 <li> 291 <span class="venue">Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), 2026.</span> 292 <span class="plinks"> 293 <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417426011863">paper</a> | 294 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02366">arXiv</a> | 295 <a href="https://github.com/khawar-islam/GenMix">
295code</a> 296 </span> 297 </li> 298 </ul> 299 </li> 300 <li> 301 <span class="title">Context-Guided Responsible Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models</span> 302 <ul class="meta"> 303 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Naveed Akhtar</li> 304 <li><span class="venue">ICLR 2025 Workshop.</span> <span class="plinks"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10687">paper</a> | <a href="https://github.com/khawar-islam/DiffCoRe-Mix">code</a></span></li> 305 </ul> 306 </li> 307 <li> 308 <span class="title">DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models</span> 309 <ul class="meta"> 310 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Arif Mahmood, Karthik Nandakumar</li> 311 <li> 312 <span class="venue">CVPR 2024.</span> 313 <span class="plinks"> 314 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14881">paper</a> | 315 <a href="https://diffusemix.github.io/">project page</a> | 316 <a href="https://github.com/khawar-islam/diffuseMix">code</a> 317 </span> 318 </li> 319 </ul> 320 </li> 321 </ul> 322 323 <details class="see-more"> 324 <summary>See more publications</summary> 325 <ul class="pubs"> 326 <li> 327 <span class="title">Face Pyramid Vision Transformer</span> 328 <ul class="meta"> 329 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Arif Mahmood</li> 330 <li> 331 <span class="venue">BMVC 2022.</span> 332 <span class="plinks"> 333 <a href="https://khawar-islam.github.io/fpvt/">project page</a> | 334 <a href="https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0758_supp.pdf">supplementary</a> | 335 <a href="https://github.com/khawar-islam/FPVT_BMVC22">code</a> | 336 <a href="https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0758_poster.pdf">poster</a> | 337 <a href="https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0758_video.mp4">video</a> 338 </span> 339 </li> 340 </ul> 341 </li> 342 <li> 343 <span class="title">Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Network and Generalized Divisive Normalization</span> 344 <ul class="meta"> 345 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Dang Lien Minh, Sujin Lee, Hyeonjoon Moon</li> 346 <li> 347 <span class="venue">CVPR 2021 Workshop.</span> 348 <span class="plinks"> 349 <a href="https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021W/CLIC/papers/Islam_Image_Compression_With_Recurrent_Neural_Network_and_Generalized_Divisive_Normalization_CVPRW_2021_paper.pdf">paper</a> | 350 <a href="https://khawar-islam.github.io/cvpr/">project page</a> | 351 <a href="https://github.com/khawar-islam/ImageCompression">code</a> | 352 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9522707">IEEE Xplore</a> 353 </span> 354 </li> 355 </ul> 356 </li> 357 <li> 358 <span class="title">Face Recognition Using Shallow Age-Invariant Data</span> 359 <ul class="meta"> 360 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Sujin Lee, Dongil Han, Hyeonjoon Moon</li> 361 <li> 362 <span class="venue">IVCNZ 2021.</span> 363 <span class="plinks"><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9653432">IEEE Xplore</a></span> 364 </li> 365 </ul> 366 </li> 367 <li> 368 <span class="title">Person Search: New Paradigm of Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Outlook of Recent Works</span> 369 <ul class="meta"> 370 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b></li> 371 <li> 372 <span class="venue">Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS), 2020.</span> 373 <span class="plinks"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262885620301025">paper</a></span> 374 </li> 375 </ul> 376 </li> 377 </ul> 378 </details> 379 380 <h2 id="patents">Patents</h2> 381 <ul class="pubs"> 382 <li> 383 <span class="title">System and Method for Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models</span> 384 <ul class="meta"> 385 <li class="authors"><b>Khawar Islam</b>, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Arif Mahmood, Karthik Nandakumar</li> 386 <li>
387 <span class="venue">US Patent 12,657,783 B1, granted June 16, 2026.</span> 388 <span class="plinks"> 389 <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US12657783B1">Google Patents</a> | 390 <a href="assets/US-12657783-B1.pdf">PDF</a> 391 </span> 392 </li> 393 </ul> 394 </li> 395 </ul> 396 397 <h2 id="awards">Awards & Honors</h2> 398 <ul> 399 <li>NeurIPS Support, Sponsored by Naver Labs Europe, DeepMind, and Google AI, 2021</li> 400 <li>Full Tuition Fee Waiver, School of Computer Engineering, Sejong University, 2020</li> 401 <li>Prof. Stipend, CVPR Lab, Sejong University, 2020</li> 402 <li>Conference Travel Grant, Ministry of Planning Commission, Pakistan, 2020</li> 403 <li>Merit Scholarship for Bachelor Degree, Quaid-e-Azam Aligarh Society, Karachi, 2018</li> 404 <li>Most Valuable Professional Award, C-SharpCorner, India, 2016 & 2017</li> 405 <li>Laptop Award, Prime Minister Pakistan Program, Karachi, Pakistan, 2016</li> 406 </ul> 407 408 <h2 id="activities">Academic Activities</h2> 409 410 <h3>Academic Services</h3> 411 <ul> 412 <li>Technical Volunteer – NeurIPS 2021, IJCAI 2021, ICML 2021, ICLR 2021, AAAI 2021</li> 413 <li>Student Volunteer – CVPR 2021</li> 414 </ul> 415 416 <h3>Reviewer – International Journals</h3> 417 <ul> 418 <li>IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)</li> 419 <li>International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)</li> 420 <li>Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)</li> 421 </ul> 422 423 <h3>Reviewer – International Conferences</h3> 424 <ul> 425 <li>CVPR 2019–
4252023, ICCV 2019–2023, ECCV 2020–2022</li> 426 <li>NeurIPS 2020–2022, ICML 2020–2023, ICLR 2021–2023</li> 427 <li>AAAI 2020–2023, WACV 2020</li> 428 </ul> 429 430 <h3>Moderator</h3> 431 <ul> 432 <li>AI Deep Group on Facebook, 23.1K members</li> 433 <li>Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning Group, 754.4K members</li> 434 <li>Deep Learning and Machine Learning, 109.5K members</li> 435 <li>Thailand Deep Learning, 19.8K members</li> 436 <li>Computer Vision, 129.6K members</li> 437 <li>Computer Vision and Machine Learning, 17.5K members</li> 438 </ul> 439 440 <h2 id="projects">Projects</h2> 441 <ul> 442 <li><b>High-Quality Video Generation from Diffusion Models (Text-2-Video), 2024–Present</b><br> 443 Designed identity-specific prompts and fine-tuned models for video generation.</li> 444 <li><b>Image Restoration and Enhancement with GANs and Diffusion Models, 2024–Present</b><br> 445 Worked on image super-resolution, deblurring, in-painting, and dehazing.</li> 446 <li><b>Image Editing Instructions with Diffusion Models (Image-to-Image), 2023</b><br> 447 Integrated Imagic, SINE, and LEDITS for high-resolution image editing.</li> 448 <li><b>Foundation Multimodal Vision Language Models, 2023</b><br> 449 Generated captions and evaluated models on various metrics.</li> 450 <li><b>Vision Language Models for Unseen Domains & Domain Shift, 2023</b><br> 451 Fine-tuned models to improve robustness and performed experiments on multiple datasets.</li> 452 <li><b>Reliable Lightweight Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection, 2023</b><br> 453 Investigated and fine-tuned models for state-of-the-art performance.</li> 454 <li><b>Online Continual Learning with Blurry Data and Incorrect Labels, 2022</b><br> 455 Developed a framework for diversity and purity in memory updates.</li> 456 <li><b>Vision Transformer for General and Age-Invariant Face Recognition, 2021</b><br> 457 Proposed a new ViT architecture and conducted experiments on face aging datasets.</li> 458 </ul> 459 460 <h2 id="skills">Technical Skills</h2> 461 <ul> 462 <li><b>IP Algorithms:</b> Segmentation, Filter Design, Noise Removal, Compression, Super Resolution</li> 463 <li><b>Object Detection:</b> SSD, YOLO-NAS, YOLOX, Faster R-CNN, DETR, GroundingDINO, YOLOv8</li> 464 <li><b>DL Techniques:</b> Tracking, Optical Flow, Particle Filtering, Pose Estimation</li> 465 <li><b>CV Algorithms:</b> Image Classification and Detection, Tracking, Siamese Networks</li> 466 <li><b>Software Control:</b> JIRA, Agile, Scrum, GIT, Subversion</li> 467 <li><b>Languages:</b> Python, Keras, JAVA, Unix Shell Scripting</li> 468 <li><b>Deployment:</b> Docker, Kubernetes</li> 469 <li><b>Editors:</b> Cursor AI, Windsurf, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, Jupyter Notebook</li> 470 <li><b>Operating Systems:</b> Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04, macOS</li> 471 <li><b>APIs:</b> PyTorch, TensorFlow, Caffe, OpenCV, Flask, Django</li> 472 </ul> 473 474 <h2 id="schools">Summer and Winter Schools</h2> 475 <ul> 476 <li>OxML School, Oxford Machine Learning Summer School, 2022</li> 477 <li>NYU AI School, New York Artificial Intelligence School, USA, 2022</li> 478 <li>MLSS, Machine Learning Summer School, Taipei, Taiwan, 2021</li> 479 <li>EEML, Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School, 2021</li> 480 </ul> 481 482 <h2 id="mentorship">Q/A Mentorship Sessions</h2> 483 <ul> 484 <li>Yingzhen Li, Mentor at ICML, Imperial College London</li> 485 <li>Evan Shelhamer, Mentor at ICML, DeepMind, Google</li> 486 <li>Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao, Mentor at ICLR, Ohio State University</li> 487 <li>Shakir Mohamed, Mentor at ICLR, DeepMind, Google</li> 488 <li>Emmanuel Kahembwe, Mentor at ICLR, VDE (UK & Ireland)</li> 489 </ul> 490 491 <footer> 492 Layout inspired by <a href="https://sanghyukchun.github.io/home/">Sanghyuk Chun's homepage</a>. 493 </footer> 494 495 </main> 496</div> 497</body> 498</html>
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