Faculty Proflle

Biography:

I have more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in engineering. I have more than 5 years of research and development experience during various research positions. My main research interests are in the area of computer vision with an emphasis on machine vision. My research focuses on object detection, recognition and intelligent vision systems targeted to medical image analysis and industrial applications. I have been serving as a reviewer for international journals and conferences, supervising graduate and undergraduate students. To date I have authored/co-authored more than 30 international publications, including top journal publications in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (ARC/ERA Tier A*, IF = 5.072), Pattern Recognition (ARC/ERA Tier A*, IF = 4.582), Expert Systems with Applications (Q1, IF = 3.768), Neurocomputing (Q1, IF = 3.241) and two best paper awards at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ARC/ERA Tier A) and NZCSRSC in 2014 and 2013, respectively. I have experience of funded grant projects and graduate student supervision. I am also actively involved in Final Year Project supervision and departmental administration activities.
For information regarding publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f2joynEAAAAJ&hl=en

Educational Information

Year	Degree	Board / University

2016	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
2007	Master of Science in Engineering	University of Sheffield United Kingdom
2005	BSc Computer Engineering	CIIT Islamabad

Academic Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization

2016	continuing	Assistant Professor	COMSATS University Islamabad
2015	2016	Research Assistant	Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
2010	2016	Assistant Professor	COMSATS University Islamabad
2007	2010	Lecturer	CIIT Islamabad
2005	2006	Research Associate	CIIT Islamabad

Publications

Key Publications

M Arsalan,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Prompt Deep Light-weight Vessel Segmentation Network (PLVS-Net)'',IEEE/ACM,2022.
M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''An Ensemble of Fine-Tuned Deep Learning Networks for Wet-Blue Leather Segmentation'',JALCA,2022.
T M Khan, ,''Width-wise vessel bifurcation for improved retinal vessel segmentation'',Elsevier,2022.
T M Khan,Antonio Robles-Kelly,Syed Saud Naqvi''T-Net: A resource-constrained tiny convolutional neural network for medical image segmentation'',IEEE/CVF,2022.
Afshan Shah,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Automated diagnosis of leukemia: a comprehensive review'',IEEE,2021.
M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Learning to recognize irregular features on leather surfaces'',JALCA,2021.
Rakhshanda Imtiaz,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Screening of Glaucoma disease from retinal vessel images using semantic segmentation'',Elsevier,2021.
Faizan Abdullah,,''A review on glaucoma disease detection using computerized techniques'',IEEE,2021.
Khuram Naveed,,''Towards automated eye diagnosis: an improved retinal vessel segmentation framework using ensemble block matching 3D filter'',MDPI,2021.
M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Ensemble convolutional neural networks with knowledge transfer for leather defect classification in industrial settings'',IEEE,2020.
Komal Minhas,,''Accurate pixel-wise skin segmentation using shallow fully convolutional neural network'',IEEE,2020.
T M Khan,,''Residual connection-based encoder decoder network (RCED-Net) for retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
Munazza Tabassum,,''CDED-Net: Joint segmentation of optic disc and optic cup for glaucoma screening'',IEEE,2020.
T M Khan,,Syed Saud Naqvi''A region growing and local adaptive thresholding-based optic disc detection'',PLOS,2020.
T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Exploiting residual edge information in deep fully convolutional neural networks for retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
T M Khan,,Syed Saud Naqvi''Shallow vessel segmentation network for automatic retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''On the application of automated machine vision for leather defect inspection and grading: a survey'',IEEE,2019.
Ahsan Khawaja,,''An improved retinal vessel segmentation framework using frangi filter coupled with the probabilistic patch based denoiser'',IEEE,2019.
Mohammad AU Khan,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Ggm classifier with multi-scale line detectors for retinal vessel segmentation'',Springer,2019.
S R Naqvi,,'' Syed Saud Naqvi An optimization framework for dynamic pipeline management in computing systems'',Elsevier,2019.
Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Automatic optic disk detection and segmentation by variational active contour estimation in retinal fundus images'',Springer,2019.
Zaka Ur Rehman,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Multi-parametric optic disc segmentation using superpixel based feature classification'',Elsevier,2019.
Saqib Saleem,Syed Saud Naqvi,''A strategy for classification of “vaginal vs. cesarean section” delivery: bivariate empirical mode decomposition of cardiotocographic recordings'',Frontiers Media SA,2019.
Zaka Ur Rehman,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Fully automated multi-parametric brain tumour segmentation using superpixel based classification'',Elsevier,2019.
Syed S Naqvi,,'' A unified framework for exploiting color coefficients for salient object detection'',Elsevier,2018.
Muhammad Iqbal,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Learning feature fusion strategies for various image types to detect salient objects'',Elsevier,2016.
Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Feature quality-based dynamic feature selection for improving salient object detection'',IEEE,2016.
Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Salient object detection via spectral matting'',Elsevier,2016.

Conferences

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Awards

Year	Awarding Organization	Description

2015	Victoria University of Wellington	University Research Fund
2014	GECCO ACM	Best Paper Award (EML Track) at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
2013	Victoria University of Wellington	Faculty Strategic Research Grant
2013	University of Waikato Hamilton	(Best paper Award; prize money 1500 NZD, NZCSRSC 2013 Hamilton New Zealand
2012	Victoria University of Wellington	Victoria Doctoral Scholarship
2006	CIIT Islamabad	Faculty Development Scholarship for MS Studies at University of Sheffield United Kingdom

Memberships

From	To	Title	Organization

2005	Continuing	PEC Registered Engineer	Pakistan Engineering Council
2013	Continuing	IEEE Member	IEEE

Courses Taught

Course Code	Type	Title	University	Semester

CPE343	Under Graduate	Computer Organization and Architecture	COMSATS University Islamabad	5th
ECI650	Graduate	Image, Video and Multimedia	COMSATS University Islamabad
CPE343	Under Graduate	Computer Organization and Architecture	COMSATS University Islamabad	5th
ECI614	Graduate	Advance Computer Architecture	COMSATS University Islamabad
CPE241	Under Graduate	Digital Logic Design	COMSATS University Islamabad	2nd
ECI674	Graduate	Pattern Recognition	COMSATS University Islamabad
EEE231	Under Graduate	Electronics-I	COMSATS University Islamabad	3rd

Supervisions

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Books

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Fundings

From	To	Type	Title	Source	Amount

2019	continuing	Research Grant	Machine learning based state-ofthe- art Eye Diseases Classification System (MEDiCS)	KSA International Collaboration Grant	0.00
2018	2019	Research Grant	Analysis of Retinal Fundus Images for Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy	HEC	0.00
2015	2016	Research Grant	Learning Classifier System for Visual Prediction and Symbolic Regression	Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand	0.00

Active Collaborations

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Industrial / Consulting Experience

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Publication Year	Key Publications

1 2022	1 M Arsalan,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Prompt Deep Light-weight Vessel Segmentation Network (PLVS-Net)'',IEEE/ACM,2022.
2 2022	2 M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''An Ensemble of Fine-Tuned Deep Learning Networks for Wet-Blue Leather Segmentation'',JALCA,2022.
3 2022	3 T M Khan, ,''Width-wise vessel bifurcation for improved retinal vessel segmentation'',Elsevier,2022.
4 2022	4 T M Khan,Antonio Robles-Kelly,Syed Saud Naqvi''T-Net: A resource-constrained tiny convolutional neural network for medical image segmentation'',IEEE/CVF,2022.
5 2021	5 Afshan Shah,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Automated diagnosis of leukemia: a comprehensive review'',IEEE,2021.
6 2021	6 M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Learning to recognize irregular features on leather surfaces'',JALCA,2021.
7 2021	7 Rakhshanda Imtiaz,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Screening of Glaucoma disease from retinal vessel images using semantic segmentation'',Elsevier,2021.
8 2021	8 Faizan Abdullah,,''A review on glaucoma disease detection using computerized techniques'',IEEE,2021.
9 2021	9 Khuram Naveed,,''Towards automated eye diagnosis: an improved retinal vessel segmentation framework using ensemble block matching 3D filter'',MDPI,2021.
10 2020	10 M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Ensemble convolutional neural networks with knowledge transfer for leather defect classification in industrial settings'',IEEE,2020.
11 2020	11 Komal Minhas,,''Accurate pixel-wise skin segmentation using shallow fully convolutional neural network'',IEEE,2020.
12 2020	12 T M Khan,,''Residual connection-based encoder decoder network (RCED-Net) for retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
13 2020	13 Munazza Tabassum,,''CDED-Net: Joint segmentation of optic disc and optic cup for glaucoma screening'',IEEE,2020.
14 2020	14 T M Khan,,Syed Saud Naqvi''A region growing and local adaptive thresholding-based optic disc detection'',PLOS,2020.
15 2020	15 T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Exploiting residual edge information in deep fully convolutional neural networks for retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
16 2020	16 T M Khan,,Syed Saud Naqvi''Shallow vessel segmentation network for automatic retinal vessel segmentation'',IEEE,2020.
17 2019	17 M Aslam,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''On the application of automated machine vision for leather defect inspection and grading: a survey'',IEEE,2019.
18 2019	18 Ahsan Khawaja,,''An improved retinal vessel segmentation framework using frangi filter coupled with the probabilistic patch based denoiser'',IEEE,2019.
19 2019	19 Mohammad AU Khan,T M Khan,Syed Saud Naqvi''Ggm classifier with multi-scale line detectors for retinal vessel segmentation'',Springer,2019.
20 2019	20 S R Naqvi,,'' Syed Saud Naqvi An optimization framework for dynamic pipeline management in computing systems'',Elsevier,2019.
21 2019	21 Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Automatic optic disk detection and segmentation by variational active contour estimation in retinal fundus images'',Springer,2019.
22 2019	22 Zaka Ur Rehman,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Multi-parametric optic disc segmentation using superpixel based feature classification'',Elsevier,2019.
23 2019	23 Saqib Saleem,Syed Saud Naqvi,''A strategy for classification of “vaginal vs. cesarean section” delivery: bivariate empirical mode decomposition of cardiotocographic recordings'',Frontiers Media SA,2019.
24 2019	24 Zaka Ur Rehman,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Fully automated multi-parametric brain tumour segmentation using superpixel based classification'',Elsevier,2019.
25 2018	25 Syed S Naqvi,,'' A unified framework for exploiting color coefficients for salient object detection'',Elsevier,2018.
26 2016	26 Muhammad Iqbal,Syed Saud Naqvi,''Learning feature fusion strategies for various image types to detect salient objects'',Elsevier,2016.
27 2016	27 Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Feature quality-based dynamic feature selection for improving salient object detection'',IEEE,2016.
28 2016	28 Syed Saud Naqvi,,''Salient object detection via spectral matting'',Elsevier,2016.

Dr. Syed Saud Naqvi

Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CUI Islamabad Campus