Publications

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Selected publications

1. Mahir Gulzar, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "A Survey on Motion Prediction of Pedestrians and Vehicles for Autonomous Driving",  in IEEE Access, 2021. doi 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3118224

2. Ardi Tampuu, Tambet Matiisen, Maksym Semikin, Dmytro Fishman, Naveed Muhammad, "A Survey of End-to-End Driving: Architectures and Training Methods," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, to appear in 2021. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3043505. [Pre-print available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06404]

3. Mahir Gulzar, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "Navigating Roundabouts and Unprotected Turns in Autonomous Driving," in IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, 2024. doi: 10.1109/TFR.2024.3421389.  

4. Naveed Muhammad, Gert Toming, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Mark Musall, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Underwater map-based localization using flow features", Autonomous Robots 41(2):417–436, 2017. [AuthorAcceptedManuscript - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Autonomous Robots. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9558-0]

5. Naveed Muhammad, Nataliya Strokina, Gert Toming, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Flow feature extraction for robot localization: preliminary results", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015. [Draft]

6. Naveed Muhammad, Simon Lacroix, "Calibration of a rotating multi-beam Lidar", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010. [Draft]

7. Naveed Muhammad, David Fofi, Samia Ainouz, "Current state of the art of vision based SLAM", IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging - Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications II, San José, USA, January 2009. [Draft]

Full list of publications

Journal Articles

1. 1. 1. 1. Mahir Gulzar, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "Navigating Roundabouts and Unprotected Turns in Autonomous Driving," in IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, 2024. doi: 10.1109/TFR.2024.3421389. 

         2. Mahir Gulzar, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "A Survey on Motion Prediction of Pedestrians and Vehicles for Autonomous Driving",  in IEEE Access, 2021. doi 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3118224

         3. Timothé Verstraete, Naveed Muhammad, "Pedestrian Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles: A Review", Computers 13(3), 2024. 

         4. Ardi Tampuu, Tambet Matiisen, Maksym Semikin, Dmytro Fishman, Naveed Muhammad, "A Survey of End-to-End Driving: Architectures and Training Methods," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, to appear in 2021. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3043505. [Pre-print available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06404]

         5. Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Nicole Mariah Sharon Belvisi, Kevin Hernandez-Diaz, Naveed Muhammad, Josef Bigun, "Writer Identification Using Microblogging Texts for Social Media Forensics", in IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TBIOM.2021.3078073 [pre-print availbale at https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01533]

         6. Assia Belbachir, Johvany Gustave, Naveed Muhammad, Ivan Zelinka, "Toward an exploration-based probabilistic reasoning for a quadrotor", in Intelligent Service Robotics 14, 563–570, 2021. doi https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-021-00378-3

         7. Kaido Värbu, Naveed Muhammad, Yar Muhammad, "Past, Present, and Future of EEG-Based BCI Applications", Sensors 22(9), 2022.

         8. Debasis Kumar, Naveed Muhammad, "Object Detection in Adverse Weather for Autonomous Driving through Data Merging and YOLOv8", Sensors 23(20), 2023.

         9. Debasis Kumar, Naveed Muhammad, "A Survey on Localization for Autonomous Vehicles", IEEE Access, 2023. 

         10. Muhammad Hamza Asif Nizami, Zaid Ahsan Shah, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Sara Ali, Naveed Muhammad, Khalid Akhtar, Darren Dancey, Raheel Nawaz, "Proximal Actuation of an Elastically Loaded Scissors Mechanism for the Leg Design of a Quadruped Robot", in IEEE Access, Volume 8, 2020. 

         11. Karel Roots, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "Fusion Convolutional Neural Network for Cross-Subject EEG Motor Imagery Classification", Computers, 9(3), 2020. 

         12. Markus-Oliver Tamm, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "Classification of Vowels from Imagined Speech with Convolutional Neural Networks", Computers, 9(2), 2020. 

         13. Naveed Muhammad, Björn Åstrand, "Predicting Agent Behaviour and State for Applications in a Roundabout-Scenario Autonomous Driving", Sensors, 19(19), 2019. 

         14. Naveed Muhammad, Juan F. Fuentes-Pérez, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Gert Toming, Mark Musall, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Map-based localization and loop-closure detection from a moving underwater platform using flow features", Autonomous Robots, 43(6), 1419-1434, 2019. 

         15. Asim Zaheer Ud Din, Yasar Ayaz, Mian Ilyas Ahmad Ahmad, Momena Hasan, Salman Masaud, Naveed Muhammad, "Cost-effective telemetry for energy network of an electricity distribution company: part I", in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 2019. 

         16. Naveed Muhammad, Björn Åstrand, "Intention Estimation Using Set of Reference Trajectories as Behaviour Model", Sensors, 18(12), 2018.

         17. Ali Bin Wahid, Usama Siraj, Mohammad Affan, Habib Ahmed, Fahad Islam, Umar Ansari, Naveed Muhammad and Yasar Ayaz, "Development of Modular Framework for the Semi-Autonomous RISE Wheelchair with Multiple User Interfaces Using Robot Operating System (ROS)", International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 515-520, 2018.

         18. Naveed Muhammad, Gert Toming, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Mark Musall, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Underwater map-based localization using flow features", Autonomous Robots 41(2):417–436, 2017. [AuthorAcceptedManuscript - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Autonomous Robots. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9558-0]

         19. Zeeshan Asfar, Saad Nauman, Fahad Mumtaz Malik, Yasar Ayaz, Naveed Muhammad, "Development of flexible cotton-polystyrene sensor for application as strain gauge",  IEEE Sensors Journal 16(24):8944-8952, 2016.

         20. Juan Francisco Fuentes-Perez, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Ruth Carbonell-Baeza, Mark Musall, Gert Toming, Naveed Muhammad, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Current velocity estimation using a lateral line probe", Ecological Engineering 85(C):296-300, 2015. [Draft]

         21. Muhammad Zeeshan Baig, Yasar Ayaz, Syed Omer Gillani, Mohsin Jamil, Naveed Muhammad, "Motor imagery based EEG signal classification using self organizing maps", Science International 27(2):1165-1170, 2015.

         22. Badar Ali, Yasar Ayaz, Mohsin Jamil, Syed Omer Gillani, Naveed Muhammad, "Improved method for stereo vision-based human detection for a mobile robot following a target person", South African Journal of Industrial Engineering 26(1):102-119, 2015.

         23. Shehryar Ali Khan, Yasar Ayaz, Mohsin Jamil, Syed Omer Gillani, Naveed Muhammad, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, "Collaborative optimal reciprocal collision avoidance for mobile robots", International Journal of Control and Automation 8(8):203-212, 2015.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

1. Naveed Muhammad, David Fofi, Samia Ainouz, "Current state of the art of vision based SLAM", IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging - Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications II, San José, USA, January 2009.  [Draft]

2. Naveed Muhammad, Simon Lacroix, "Calibration of a rotating multi-beam Lidar", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010. [Draft]

3. Naveed Muhammad, Simon Lacroix, "Loop closure detection using small-sized signatures from 3D LIDAR data", IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Kyoto, Japan, November 2011. [Draft]

4. Badar Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Naveed Muhammad, "Human detection and following by a mobile robot using 3D features", IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), August 2013. [Draft]

5. Badar Ali, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, Naveed Muhammad, Faizan Ahmed, Mannan Saeed Muhammad, Whoi-Yul Kim, Moonsoo Ra, "Human tracking by a mobile robot using 3D features", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), December 2013. [Draft]

6. Syeda Madiha Qamar, Fahad Iqbal Khawaja, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Naveed Muhammad, Yasar Ayaz, Abdul Ghafoor Abbasi, "A solution to Perceptual Aliasing through Probabilistic Fuzzy Logic and SIFT", IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), July 2013.

7. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Syeda Madiha Qamar, Fahad Islam, Yasar Ayaz, Naveed Muhammad, "Potential guided directional-RRT* for accelerated motion planning in cluttered environments", IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), August 2013.

8. Shahwar Yaseen, Yasar Ayaz, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Naveed Muhammad, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, Syed Iritza Ali, "Centre of mass avoidance planner using radius of gyration for Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles", International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE), April 2014.

9. Muhammad Zeeshan Baig, Ehtasham Javed, Yasar Ayaz, Waseem Afzal, Syed Omer Gillani, Naveed Muhammad, Mohsin Jamil, "Classification of left/right hand movement from EEG signal by intelligent algorithms", IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE), April 2014.

10. Naveed Muhammad, Nataliya Strokina, Gert Toming, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Maarja Kruusmaa, "Flow feature extraction for robot localization: preliminary results", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015. [Draft]

11. Jeffrey Tuhtan, Nataliya Strokina, Gert Toming, Naveed Muhammad, Maarja Kruusmaa, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, "Hydrodynamic classification of natural flows using an artificial lateral line and frequency domain features", 36th IAHR World Congress, June-July 2015.

12. Muhammad Sami, Yasar Ayaz, Mohsin Jamil, Syed Omer Gillani, Naveed Muhammad, "Text detection and recognition for semantic mapping in indoor navigation", International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS), August 2015.

13. Jeffrey A. Tuhtan;  Juan Francisco Fuentes-Perez, Gert Toming, Maarja Kruusmaa, Naveed Muhammad, Nataliya Strokina, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Mark Musall, Ruth Carbonell-Baeza; Markus Noack, Martin Schletterer, "Ecohydraulic flow sensing and classification using a lateral line probe", 11th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

14. Saima Tariq, Sara Baber, Asbah Ashfaq, Yasar Ayaz, Naveed Muhammad, Saba Iqbal, "Interactive therapy approach through collaborative physical play between a socially assistive humanoid robot and children with autism spectrum disorder", International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Kansas City, USA, 2016.

15. Sara Baber, Husnain Ahmad, Osama Farooq, Naveed Muhammad, Yasar Ayaz, "Oizzu: A Bipedal Humanoid Robot Development Kit", 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, Singapore, 2017.

16. Ali Bin Wahid, Usama Siraj, Muhammad Affan, Habib Ahmed, Fahad Islam, Umar Ansari, Muhammad Naveed, Yasar Ayaz, "Development of ROS-based Modular Framework for Semi-Autonomous RISE Wheelchair with Multiple User Interfaces", International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, France, 2017.

17. Juan F. Fuentes-Pérez, Jeffrey A. Tuhtan, Gert Toming, Maarja Kruusmaa, Naveed Muhammad, Ruth Carbonell-Baeza, Mark Mussal, "Map-based localization in structured underwater environment using simulated hydrodynamic maps and an artificial lateral line", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Macau, 2017. [Draft]

18. Nicole Belvisi, Naveed Muhammad and Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, "Forensic Authorship Analysis of Microblogging Texts Using N-Grams and Stylometric Features," International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), Porto, Portugal, 2020, doi: 10.1109/IWBF49977.2020.9107953. [Pre-print available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11545]

19. Naveed Muhammad, Klas Hedenberg, Björn Åstrand, "Adaptive warning fields for warehouse AGVs", International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Sweden, 2021. [Draft]

20. Roman Matvejev, Yar Muhammad, Naveed Muhammad, "Air-flow sensing for vehicle length estimation in autonomous driving applications", International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Sweden, 2021. [Draft]

21. Matis Ottan, Naveed Muhammad, "Leading Vehicle Length Estimation Using Pressure Data for Use in Autonomous Driving", International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Germany, 2022.

22. Mahir Gulzar, Tambet Matiisen, Naveed Muhammad, "Scenario Driven Development for Open Source Autonomous Driving Stack", International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Italy, 2024. 

Theses

1. PhD Thesis: "Contributions to the use of 3D lidars for autonomous navigation: calibration and qualitative localization", INSA, Université de Toulouse, France, February 2012.

2. Masters Thesis: "Vision Based Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping for Mobile Robots", Université de Bourgogne, France, June 2008.

Reports

1. Naveed Muhammad, Simon Lacroix, "Technical note on the Velodyne Lidar", LAAS/CNRS, 7 Ave du Colonel Roche, Toulouse, France, May 2009.