Dawar Khan

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I am working as a Postdoctoral researcher with Professor Ivan Viola in the Nanovisualization Research Group, at Visual Computing Center, KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

Previously, I worked an Assistant Professor at Department of Infromation Technology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Sep-2020 to March 2022) . Before that, I worked as an Assistant Professor with Professor Hirokazu Kato (the inventor of ARToolKit), at IMD-Interactive Media Design Lab, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan, [Dec 2018--Aug 2022] .

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition(NLPR), Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing China, in 2018. During my PhD, I worked under the guidance of Professor Xiaopeng Zhang and Professor Dong-Ming Yan. I was awarded with the 2018-Excellent International Graduates Award of UCAS. Prior to that, I received my BS and MS degrees from University of Malakand Pakistan, in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

My research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including Computer Graphics, Visualization, HCI, Virtual Reality, Metaverse, and Technology-Enhanced Learning. My current focus also includes 3D Deep Learning, as well as LLMs and VLMs for Human-AI interactions.

** I am actively seeking a faculty or research scientist position.

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Publications (selected) (# Joint first authors, * Corresponding author) For full list of publications visit my Google Scholar

A) Preprints/Submitted:

[30] Biomedical Image Segmentation: A Systematic Literature Review of Deep Learning Based Object Detection Methods

Fazli Wahid, Yingliang Ma, Dawar Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Syed U. K. Bukhari arXiv preprint (2024).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03393

[29] MidSurfer: A Parameter-Free Approach for Mid-Surface Extraction from Segmented Volumetric Data

Eva Boneš #, Dawar Khan#, Ciril Bohak, Benjamin A. Barad, Danielle A. Grotjahn, Ivan Viola, and Thomas Theußl, arXiv preprint (2024). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19339

Source Code Paper Supplementary Video Project

B) Peer Reviewed ARTICLES/Published/Accepted :

[28] LoXR : Performance Evaluation of Locally Executing LLMs on XR Devices

Dawar Khan, Xinyu Liu, Omar Mena, Donggang Jia, Alexandre Kouyoumdjian, Ivan Viola,

arXiv preprint 2025

Short Video (1 min) , Video (3min) , IEEE VR 2025 Poster , Project

[27] DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to Cryo-EM Map.

Deng Luo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, Dawar Khan, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, and Ivan Viola.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 31, no. 01, pp. 558-568, Jan. 2025,

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456404 . { IEEE VIS 2024} (IF: 5.2)

Source Code Paper Supplementary Video Project

[26] Dr. KID: Direct Remeshing and K-set Isometric Decomposition for Scalable Physicalization of Organic Shapes.

Dawar Khan, Ciril Bohak, Ivan Viola,

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), (IF: 5.2)

[Best Paper Honorable Mention Award @t IEEE VIS2023] Paper PDF Presentation Demo Project

[25] Recent advances in vision-based indoor navigation: A systematic literature review

Dawar Khan, Z. Cheng, H. Uchiyama, S. Ali, M. Asshad, and K. Kiyokawa

Computers & Graphics, 2022 (IF: 1.936)

[24] Surface Remeshing: A Systematic Literature Review of Methods and Research Directions

Dawar Khan, A. Plopski, Y. Fujimoto, M. Kanbara, G. Jabeen, Y. J. Zhang, X. Zhang and H. Kato,

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1680-1713, 1 March 2022,

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3016645. (IF: 5.2)

[23] Minimization of students cognitive load in a virtual chemistry laboratory via contents optimization and arrow-textual aids, Numan Ali, Sehat Ullah, and Dawar Khan

Education and Information Technologies 27, 7629–7652 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-10936-6

(IF: 5.5)

[22] Fusing surveillance videos and three‐dimensional scene: A mixed reality system

Xiaoliang Cui, Dawar Khan, Zhenbang He, Zhanglin Cheng

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2022; 34(1):e2129. https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.2129 (IF: 1.37)

[21] Valence Optimization and Angle Improvement for Molecular Surface Remeshing

Dawar Khan, Alexander Plopski, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Masayuki Kanbara, Zhanglin Cheng and Hirokazu Kato,

The Visual Computer, 36, 2355–2368 (2020) (Proceeding of the CGI 2020) (IF: 2.601)

[20] A Generic Approach toward Indoor Navigation and Pathfinding with Robust Marker Tracking

Dawar Khan, S. Ullah, S. Nabi,

Remote Sensing, 11(24), 3052:1-3052:21 , 2019 (IF: 4.848)

[19] A Low-Cost Interactive Writing Board for Primary Education using Distinct Augmented Reality Markers

Dawar Khan, I. Rehman, S. Ullah, W. Ahmad, Z. Cheng, G. Jabeen, and H. Kato

Sustainability 11 (20), pp. 5720:1-5720:14, 2019. (IF 3.251)

Published: 16 October 2019

[18] Molecular surface remeshing with local regions refinement

Dawar Khan, Dong-Ming Yan, Sheng Gui, Benzhuo Lu, and Xiaopeng Zhang

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19 (5), (IF= 5.923)

Published: 06 May 2018

[17] Frontiers in biomolecular mesh generation and molecular visualization systems

Sheng Gui, Dawar Khan, Qin Wang, Dong-Ming Yan, Ben-Zhuo Lu

Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art (VCIBA)

1, 7 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42492-018-0007-0 (IF =2.8)

[16] Surface Remeshing with Robust User-guided Segmentation

Dawar Khan, Dong-Ming Yan, Fan Ding, Yixin Zhuang, Xiaopeng Zhang

Computational Visual Media (Springer) 4(2), pp. 113—122, 2018.

(Conference talk with journal publication) Published: 16 March 2018 (IF =17.3)

[15] Robust Tracking Through the Design of High Quality Fiducial Markers: An Optimization Tool for ARToolKit

Dawar Khan, S. Ullah, D-M. Yan, I. Rabbi, P. Richard, T. Hoang, M. Billinghurst, X. ZHANG

IEEE Access 2018 , 6 (1), pp. 22421-22433. (IF =3.367)

Published: 8 February 2018

[14] High-Quality 2D Mesh Generation without Obtuse and Small Angles

Dawar Khan, Dong-Ming Yan, Yiqun Wang, Kaimo Hu, Juntao Ye, Xiaopeng Zhang

Computers & Mathematics with Applications,75(2), pp. 582-595, 2017. (IF: 3.476)

Published: 23 October 2017

[13] Factors affecting the design and tracking of ARToolKit markers

Dawar Khan, Sehat Ullah, Ihsan Rabbi

Computer Standards & Interfaces 41, 56-66, 2015. (IF = 2.487)

Published: 16 February 2015.

[12] Automatic generation of layered marker for long range augmented reality applications

Ihsan Rabbi, Sehat Ullah, Dawar Khan

Kuwait Journal of Science 44 (3), pp. 44–55, 2017. (IF = 0.948)

[11] Intelligent hepatitis diagnosis using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and information gain method

W. Ahmad, A. Ahmad, A. Iqbal, M. Hamayun, A. Hussain, G. Rehman, S. Khan, U. U. Khan, Dawar Khan, L. Huang, Soft Computing, 23 (21), pp. 10931–10938, November 2019. (IF=3.643)

Online First: 24 November 2018.

[10] Machine learning techniques for software vulnerability prediction: a comparative study

Gul Jabeen, Sabit Rahim, Wasif Afzal, Dawar Khan*, Aftab Ahmed Khan, Zahid Hussain, Tehmina Bibi

Applied Intelligence, 52, 17614–17635 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-03350-5 (IF=5.3)

[9] Marker based interactive writing board for primary level education

Sehat Ullah, Dawar Khan, S. U. Rahman, A. Alam

Pakistan Journal of Science 68 (3), 366-371, 2016.

[8] Molecular Surface Mesh Smoothing with Subdivision

Dawar Khan, S Gui, Z Cheng

Computer Graphics International, 2023, pages 236–248

[7] Obtuse triangle removal for 2D mesh generation

Dawar Khan, Dong-Ming Yan, Yiqun Wang, Juntao Ye, and Xiaopeng Zhang.

ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Posters, pages 31:1-31:2

[6] Sharp-Edged, De-noised, and Distinct (SDD) Marker Creation for ARToolKit

Dawar Khan, Sehat Ullah, Ihsan Rabbi

20th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, Druskininkai, Lithuania, pages 396-407, 2014.

[5] Optimality of black to white ratio and information complexity for robust marker recognition, Dawar Khan, Sehat Ullah, Ihsan Rabbi, In 4th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, France, 283-288, 2014.

[4] Classification of Markers in the ARTool Kit Library to Reduce Inter-Marker Confusion

Dawar Khan, Sehat Ullah, Ihsan Rabbi, In 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, .pp. 269—273, 2014.

[3] Deep deformable Q-Network: an extension of deep Q-Network

Beibei Jin, Jianing Yang, Xiangsheng Huang, and Dawar Khan

Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 963-966. (2017.)

[2] Improving Regularity of the Centoridal Voronoi Tessellation,

Yifan Men, Zeyu Shen, Dawar Khan, and Dong-Ming Yan, SIGGRAPH 2018, 66:1--66:2.

BOOKS

[1] Al Lily, A. E. (Ed.). 130 ideas with no history of application in the field of education and technology: A crowd-authored book. Retrieved from https://newideasforeducationblog.wordpress.com