Publications and Fundings

Publications

Journal Publications

[J1] Salma Aftab, Syed Farooq Ali, Arif Mehmood, and Dr. Umar Suleman, "A Boosting Framework for Human Posture Recognition using Spatio-Temporal Features along with Radon Transform," Multimedia Tools and Applications, (2022). [Impact Factor (IF)= 3.6, W Bronze] Publication Date: August 05, 2022. [Pdf]

[J2] Gulnaz Parveen, Syed Farooq Ali, Jameel Ahmad, Sana Shahab, Muhammad Adnan, Mohd Anjum, and Ikramullah Khosa, "Multi-stream Deep Convolution Neural Network with Ensemble Learning for Facial Micro-expression Recognition." IEEE Access (2023).  [Impact Factor (IF) = 3.367,  W Silver, URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10286498] Publication Date: Oct 16, 2023. [Pdf]

[J3] Akram, Mohsin, Muhammad Adnan, Syed Farooq Ali, Jameel Ahmad, Amr Yousef, Tagrid Abdullah N. Alshalali, and Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh. "Uncertainty-aware diabetic retinopathy detection using deep learning enhanced by Bayesian approaches." Scientific Reports 15,  no. 1 (2025): 1342. [Impact Factor (IF)= 3.8, W Platinum], Publication Date: January 08, 2025. [Pdf]

[J4] Mustafa, Hamza, Syed Farooq Ali, Muhammad Bilal, and Muhammad Shehzad Hanif. "Multi-stream deep neural network for diabetic retinopathy severity classification under a boosting framework." IEEE Access (2022).  [Impact Factor (IF) = 3.367,  W Silver, URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9930337] Publication Date: Oct 26, 2022. [Pdf]

[J5] Irfan Kareem, Syed Farooq Ali, Muhammad Bilal, and Muhammad Shehzad Hanif. "Exploiting the features of deep residual network with SVM classifier for human posture recognition." PloS one 19, no. 12 (2024): e0314959. [Impact Factor (IF) = 2.9,  W Platinum, URL:] Publication Date: Dec 05, 2024. [Pdf]

[J6] Abbas, Tahir, Syed Farooq Ali, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Aadil Zia Khan, Mazhar Javed Awan, Arnab Majumdar, and Orawit Thinnukool. "Deep Learning Approach Based on Residual Neural Network and SVM Classifier for Driver’s Distraction Detection." Applied Sciences 12, no. 13 (2022): 6626.  [Impact Factor (IF) = 2.838, W Bronze URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/13/6626] Publication Date: June 30, 2022. [Pdf]

[J7] Yaqoob, Muhammad Kashif, Syed Farooq Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Shehzad Hanif, and Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf. "ResNet Based Deep Features and Random Forest Classifier for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection." Sensors 21, no. 11 (2021): 3883. [Impact Factor (IF) = 3.576, W Silver, URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/11/3883/htm] Publication Date: June 04, 2021. [Pdf]

[J8] Syed Farooq Ali, Reamsha Khan, Arif Mahmood, M. T. Hassan, and A. M. Jeon. "Using Temporal Covariance of Motion and Geometric Features via Boosting for Human Fall Detection." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 18, no. 6 (2018). [Impact Factor (IF)= 3.576, W Silver, URL: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/6/1918] [Pdf]

[J9] Syed Farooq Ali, Ahmad Sohail Aslam, Mazhar Javed Awan, Awais Yasin and Robertas Damaševičius. " Pose Estimation of Driver’s Head Panning Based on Interpolation and Motion Vectors under a Boosting Framework" MDPI Appl. Sci. (2021). [Impact Factor (IF) = 2.679, W Bronze, URL:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/24/11600] (Publication Date: Dec 7, 2021.) [Pdf]

 [J10] Ijaz, Khalid, Ikramullah Khosa, Ejaz A. Ansari, Syed Farooq Ali, Asif Hussain, and Faran Awais Butt. "BWFER-YOLOv8: An Enhanced       Cascaded Framework for Concealed Object Detection." Applied Sciences (2076-3417) 15, no. 2 (2025). [Impact Factor (IF)= 2.838, W            Bronze], Publication Date: January 12, 2025 [Pdf]

[J11] Syed Farooq Ali, and M. T. Hassan, “Feature Based Techniques for a Driver's Distraction Detection using Supervised Learning Algorithms based on Fixed Monocular Video Camera”. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, (2018). [Impact Factor (IF)=0.858, X URL: http://itiis.org/digital-library/manuscript/2094] [Pdf]

[J12] Alvi, Quratulain, Syed Farooq Ali, Sheikh Bilal Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmad Khan, Mazhar Javed, and Haitham Nobanee. "On the frontiers of Twitter data and sentiment analysis in election prediction: a review." PeerJ Computer Science 9 (2023): e1517. [Impact Factor (IF) = 2.411, W Bronze, URL:  https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1517/ ], Publication Date: August 21, 2023.  [Pdf]

[J13] Ahmed Sheikh Bilal, Syed Farooq Ali, Jameel Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan, and Muhammad Moazam Fraz. "On the frontiers of pose invariant face recognition: a review." Artificial Intelligence Review, Journal (2019), vol. 53: 1-64.  [Online].  Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09742-3 [Impact Factor (IF) = 9.588, W Gold], (Publication Date: July 27, 2019, Issue Date: April 2020) [Pdf]

[J14] Ahmed, Sheikh Bilal, Syed Farooq Ali, and Aadil Zia Khan. "On the Frontiers Of Rice Grain Analysis, Classification and Quality Grading: A Review." IEEE Access (2021). [Impact Factor (IF) = 3.367,  W Silver, URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9625985] Publication Date: Nov 23, 2021. [Pdf]

[J15]  Syed Farooq Ali, M. Aamir. Khan, and Ahmed Sohail Aslam, "Fingerprint Matching, Spoof and Liveness Detection: Classification and Literature Review". Frontiers of Computer Science, Journal, Springer, 15, (2020). [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1007/s11704-020-9236-4. [Online]. Available: https://rdcu.be/b7SLb [Impact Factor (IF) = 2.061, X Honorable Mention], (Publication Date: September 29, 2020) .  [Pdf]

[J16]  Ijaz, Khalid, Zawar Hussain, Jameel Ahmad, Syed Farooq Ali, Muhammad Adnan, and Ikramullah Khosa. "A Novel Temporal Feature Selection Based LSTM Model for Electrical Short-term Load Forecasting." IEEE Access (2022).  [Impact Factor (IF) = 3.367,  W Silver, URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9849665] Publication Date: Aug 04, 2022. [Pdf]

[J17] Ahmad, Jameel, Muhammad Rizwan, Syed Farooq Ali, Usman Inayat, Hafiz Abdul Muqeet, Muhammad Imran, and Tabbi Awotwe. "Cybersecurity in smart microgrids using blockchain-federated learning and quantum-safe approaches: A comprehensive review." Applied Energy 393 (2025): 126118. [Impact Factor (IF)= 11.0, Wos Ranking: 93.1%, Paper Published in a Top 7% Journal (Web of Science)] Publication Date: Sept 01, 2025. [Pdf]

[J18] Ahmad, J., Imran, M., Khalid, A., Iqbal, W., Ashraf, S.R., Adnan, M., Syed Farooq Ali and Khokhar, K.S. "Techno economic analysis of a wind-photovoltaic-biomass hybrid renewable energy system for rural electrification: A case study of Kallar Kahar". The International Journal, Energy, Elsevier. (2018). [Impact Factor (IF)= 7.147, W Platinum, URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544218301610]  [Pdf]

[J19] Adnan, Muhammad, Jameel Ahmad, Syed Farooq Ali, and Muhammad Imran. "A techno-economic analysis for power generation through wind energy:A case study of Pakistan." Energy Reports, Elsevier, 7 (2021): 1424-1443. [Impact Factor (IF)= 7.37,  W Silver, URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721001669], Publication Date: Nov 01, 2021. [Pdf]

[J20] Ahmad, Jameel, Muhammad Imran, Syed Farooq Ali, Muhammad Adnan, Syed Rehan Ashraf, Zawar Hussain, and Muhammad Shoaib. "Wind-to-hydrogen production potential for selected sites in Pakistan." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 134874-134898.  [Impact Factor (IF)= 3.367, W Silver, URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9552387] Publication Date: Sept 29, 2021. [Pdf]

[J21] Anwar, Isra, Syed Farooq Ali, Jameel Ahmad, Sumaira Zafar, and Malik Tahir Hassan. "Feature Based Techniques for a Face Recognition using Supervised Learning Algorithms based on Fixed Monocular Video Camera." Innovative Computing Review 2, no. 2 (2022). 

[J22] Bashir, Hina, Kanwal Majeed, Sumaira Zafar, Ghulam Zohra, Syed Farooq Ali, and Aadil Zia Khan. "Exploiting Deep Visual Geometry Group Architecture for Fall Detection in the Elderly People." UMT Artificial Intelligence Review 3, no. 1 (June 23, 2023). 

[J23] Syed Farooq Ali, Ijaz. K, Feroz. F, Fiazi. J. J, Ali. H, Arif. N, Khan. A. Z, Hafeez. R, “Using Spatial Covariance of Geometric and Shape Based       Features for Recognition of Basic and Compound Emotions”, IJIST 6, no. 2 (2024): 754-771. Publication Date: June 20, 2024

Book Chapter and Thesis

[B1] A. Ali, N. Khan, S. Masud and Syed Farooq Ali. "Survey of Dirac: A Wavelet Based Video Codec for Multiparty Video Conferencing and Broadcasting," in Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding, 1st edition, vol. 332. J. Zhang, L. Shao, L. Zhang and G. A. Jones, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 211-247. [URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-17554-1_10]  [Pdf]

[Thesis] Syed Farooq Ali. "Comparative Studies of Contouring Algorithms for Cardiac Image Segmentation," M.S. thesis, Dept. Computer Sci., Ohio State University, Col., USA, 2011. [Pdf]

Conference Publications

[C1] Kareem, Irfan, Syed Farooq Ali, and Ali Sheharyar."Using Skeleton based Optimized Residual Neural Network Architecture of Deep Learning for Human Fall Detection." In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020. [URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9318061/] [Pdf]

[C2]  Yaqoob, M. Kashif, Syed Farooq Ali, Irfan Kareem, and Muhammad Moazam Fraz. "Feature-based optimized deep residual network architecture for diabetic retinopathy detection." In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2020. [URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9318096] [Pdf]

[C3] Abbas, Tahir, Syed Farooq Ali, Aadil Zia Khan and Irfan Kareem. "optNet-50: An Optimized Residual Neural Network Architecture of Deep Learning for Driver's Distraction." In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020.  [URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9318087] [Pdf]

[C4] Basit, M.S., Ahmad, U., Ahmad, J., Ijaz, K. and Syed Farooq Ali, 2022, December. Driver Drowsiness Detection with Region-of-Interest Selection Based Spatio-Temporal Deep Convolutional-LSTM. In 2022 16th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10016825] [Pdf]

[C5] Isra Anwar, S. Nawaz, Ghulam Kibria, Syed Farooq Ali, M. T. Hassan and J. B. Kim, "Feature Based Face Recognition Using Slopes," in Third Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2014), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), IEEE, Gwangju, South Kr.  Dec. 2014, 200-205.  [URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7020558/] [Pdf]

[C6] Syed Farooq Ali, H. Jamil, R. Jamil, I. Torij, S. Naz, "Low Cost Solution for Rice Quality Analysis using Morphological Parameters and its Comparison with Standard Measurements", 20th International Multi Topic Conf. (INMIC) IEEE, Lahore, 2017. [URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8289475/] [Pdf]

[C7] Syed Farooq Ali, M. Muaz, A. Fatima, F. Idress and N. Nazar, "Human Fall Detection", 16th International Multi Topic Conf. (INMIC) IEEE, Lahore, 2013, pp.101-105. [URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6731332/] [Pdf]

[C8] M. E. Anjum, Syed Farooq Ali, M. T. Hassan, and M. Adnan, "Video Summarization: Sports Highlights Generation", 16th International Multi Topic Conf. (INMIC) IEEE, Lahore, 2013, pp. 142-147. [URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6731340/] [Pdf]

[C9] A. Ali, Syed Farooq Ali, N. Khan and S. Masud. "Performance improvement in motion estimation of Dirac wavelet based video codec," in 9th  International Symposium Communications and Information Technology, IEEE, ISCIT, Incheon, KR, 2009, pp. 764-769. [URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5341140/] [Pdf]

[C10] Malik, Annas Wasim, Syed Junaid Ali, Syed Farooq Ali, and Ali Sheharyar. "How to Learn Dynamic Programming from Scratch?." In 2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021. [Pdf]

[C11] Syed Farooq Ali, A. Abid, M. A. Butt, A. Raza, A. Khan, A. Asghar and A. Kamal. “Development and implementation of Image Processing based Algorithms for Vehicle Velocity Estimation and their comparison,” in First International Conference on Innovative Computing (ICIC), Lahore, 2016. [URL: http://admin.umt.edu.pk/Media/Site/icic/FileManager/Proceedings/Papers/27%20ICIC_2016_paper_27.pdf]

[C12] Syed Farooq Ali, Zafar, F., Zafar, H., Naeem, D. and Pervaiz, I., 2018. Cartoonization, Caricature and Emotion Generation from A Single Intensity Frontal Facial Image. VAWKUM Transactions on Computer Sciences, 15(1), pp.22-33. [Available: DOI: 10.21015/vtcs.v15i1.486] [Pdf]

[C13] Syed Farooq Ali, Tahir, H. and Khan, Z., 2018. Virtual Classroom an Easy and Low Cost Solution to E-Learning System. VAWKUM Transactions on Computer Sciences, 15(1), pp.8-21. [Available: : DOI: 10.21015/vtcs.v15i1.485] [Pdf]

[C14] E. Farooq , A. Iftekhar , R. Shahzadi and Syed Farooq Ali, “Scrum Adaptation to Improve Software Quality in Software Engineering Semester Projects”, in Proceedings of 3rd International Multi-topic Conference15. 2016, 423-428. [URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shah_Nazir/publication/295296710_Evaluation_of_Software_Birthmarks_Using_Fuzzy_Analytic_Hierarchy_Process/links/56c933d808ae96cdd06bc416.pdf#page=430] [Pdf]

[C15] M. Usman, Syed Farooq Ali and A. Masood. "Re-syllabification of English words when spoken in Urdu," in Annual Report of Urdu Research Center ('Akbar-e-Urdu' of 'Muqtadra Qaumi Zaban'), Lahore, pk, 2004, pp. 49-53. [URL: http://www.cle.org.pk/Publication/Crulp_report/CR04_09E.pdf] [Pdf]

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