Publications (34 publications, H-index 6, 342 citations ): 

Peer reviewed journal papers:

• Kabir Hossain, Stephanie Slinski, Alexander Bucksch, LeafyResNet: Fusarium wilt detection in lettuce using UAV RGB imaging and advanced deep learning model, Smart Agricultural Technology, Volume 12, 2025, 101612, ISSN 2772-3755, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375525008433.

• Steven Binder, Kabir Hossain, Alexander Bucksch, Mable Fok, Fiber Bragg Grating based sensing system for non-destructive root phenotyping using ResNet prediciton, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2025. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Frederik  Villebro and Søren Forchhammer, "UAV Images Analysis for Leakage Detection in District Heating Systems using Machine Learning", Elsevier Journal of Pattern Recognition Letter, Volume 140, December 2020, Pages 158-164. [Link]  

• Kabir Hossain, Claire Mantel, Søren Forchhammer, "No reference prediction of quality metrics for H.264 compressed infrared sequences for unmanned aerial vehicle applications", SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging 28(4), 043012 (2019). [Link] 

• Alexander Bucksch, Yong S. Chung, Jennifer L. Clarke, Stephan Gerth, Philipp von Gillhaussen, Wei GUO, Jana Kholová, Shree Pariyar, Ethan Pickering, Sindhuja Sankaran, Sahameh Shafiee, Sergio Alan Cervantes-Perez, Stijn Dhondt, Zhiguo Han, Kabir Hossain, William LaVoy, Jonathan P. Lynch, Sónia Negrão, Tony Pridmore, Hannah Schneider, Stefan Schwartz, Ian Stavness, Shangpeng Sun, Vincent Vadez, Lee West, Rick van de Zedde, Plant Phenomics—the unrecognized rise of a scientific discipline,Trends in Plant Science, 2026, ISSN 1360-1385, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.08.001.

• Kabir Hossain., Steven Binder, Mable Fok, & Alexander Bucksch (2026). DIRTNet: Enabling root phenotyping with fiber Bragg grating sensors. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (under review), 2026. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.22.753535 

• Kabir Hossain, Aniruddha Maiti, Karthik Chinnannan, Padma Nimmakayala, Eddie Sweeney, Zichun Wang, Natwange Chiwele, Luice Khamboo, Lakshmi Meghana Nallagari, and Alexander Bucksch, “Drought-Spec-Net: Early Tomato Drought Detection and Potential Yield-Impact Assessment Using Vis–NIR Data,” Scientific Reports (under review), 2026.                                             bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.24.754113v2   

Preprints & Works in Preparation:

• Kabir Hossain, Ou Tan, Po-Han Yeh, Jie Wang, Elizabeth White, Dongseok Choi, David Huang. (2024). Reliability for Nerve Fiber Layer Reflectance Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. arXiv. [Link] 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings (Full-length paper):

• N. Chiwele, E. Sweeney, and K. Hossain, “LeafyVGG-16: Transfer Learning for Plant Disease Detection with Cyber Risk Analysis,” submitted to the 2026 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Accepted, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.724946v1.full.pdf  

• Steven Binder, Kabir Hossain, Alexander Bucksch, and Mable Fok, "Non-destructive underground fiber Bragg grating sensing system with ResNet prediction for root phenotyping", SPIE Photonics Europe, 2024. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Tonmoy Ghosh, Edward Sazonov , "Development of Cloud-Based Infrastructure for Real Time Analysis of Wearable Sensor Signal", IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT), June 2022, Pages 578-583. [Link]

• M. R. Karim Karim, S. K. Dey, T. Islam; S. Sarker, M. H. Menon, Kabir Hossain, M.A Hossain, S.Decker, "DeepHateExplainer: Explainable Hate Speech Detection in Under-resourced Bengali Language," 2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2021, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/DSAA53316.2021.9564230. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Frederik Villebro and Søren Forchhammer, "Leakage Detection in District Heating Systems Using UAV IR Images: Comparing Convolutional Neural Network and ML Classifiers",  27th EUSIPCO 2019 satellite workshop on "Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Autonomous Systems". [Link] 

•  Claire Mantel, DTU Fotonik (Denmark); Frederik Villebro, Drone Systems ApS (Denmark); Gisele Alves dos Reis Benatto, DTU Fotonik (Denmark); Harsh Rajesh Parikh, Aalborg Univ. (Denmark); Kabir Hossain, DTU Fotonik (Denmark); Stefan Wendlandt, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin AG (Germany); Peter Behrensdorff Poulsen, DTU Fotonik (Denmark); Sergiu Spataru, Dezso Séra, Aalborg Univ. (Denmark); Søren Forchhammer, DTU Fotonik (Denmark), 'Machine learning prediction of defect types for electroluminescence images of photovoltaic panels ', Applications of Machine Learning, SPIE 2019.   [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Claire Mantel and Søren Forchhammer, No-Reference Prediction of Quality Metrics for H.264 Compressed Infrared Image Sequences for UAV Applications, Electronic Imaging, Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 108-1, 2018, USA. [Link]

• Jacob Søgaard,Ruo Zhang, Søren Forchhammer and Kabir Hossain, " Low Complexity Video Encoding for UAV Inspection", Picture Coding Symposium, December 2016, Germany. [Link] 

• Kabir Hossain, Chi Min Oh, Dae Young Kim, Chil-Woo Lee, "Dual Layer Based Framework For Improved Visual Tracking Using Particle Filter", International Conference on Embedded Systems and Intelligent Technology (ICESIT 2013), Thailand, January 2013, Page 108-113.

• Dae-Young Kim, Chi-Min Oh, Kabir Hossain, Chil-Woo Lee, "Interactional promotion content using augmented reality technology". FCV 2013: 42-45. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain and Chil woo Lee, "Multiple Cues Based Particle Filter for Robust Tracking", Korean information processing conference, South Korea, November 2012, Page 552-555. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain and Chil woo Lee, "Visual Tracking Using Particle Filter", The 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligent (URAI), Korea, November 2012, Page 98-102. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Chimin Oh, Chil woo Lee and Guee-Sang Lee, "Multi-Part SIFT Feature Based Particle Filter for Rotating Object Tracking", IEEE, ICIEV 2012 conference, Bangladesh, May 2012, Page 1016-1020. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Chimin Oh and Chil woo Lee, “Phase Correlation Based Particle Filter for Tracking Occluded Objects”, 2012 International Exposition Yeosu Korea, International Conference on Information Technology, Korea, April 2012, Page 31-35. 

• Kabir Hossain and Chil woo Lee, “An Adaptive Multi-Part SIFT Feature Based Particle Filter for Automatic Target Tracking”, FCV2012 conference, Japan, February 2012, Page 213-217. 

• Kabir Hossain, Chimin Oh and Chil woo Lee, “Computationally Efficient Moving Object Tracking with CAMSHIFT Embedded Kalman Filter Theory”, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conference, Korea, January 2012, Page 255-258. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain and Chil woo Lee, “Real-time Hand Detection and Tracking with Combination of Mean-Shift and Kalman Filter” Korean Signal Processing Conference (KSPC), Korea, September 2011, Page 124-127. 

• Kabir Hossain, Chil-Woo Lee, Md. Zahidul Islam, YounKy Chung, "Robust Face tracking Algorithm with Kalman filter Embedded CAMSHIFT Technique" Multimedia Conference, Korea, May 2011, Page 191-194. 

• Kabir Hossain, Chimin Oh, Md. Zahidul Islam, Chil woo Lee, “Object detection and Tracking with CAMSHIFT embedded Kalman Filter theory”, Korean Signal Processing Conference (KSPC), Korea, September 2010, Page 361-364. 

• Kabir Hossain, 최윤지, Chil woo Lee, “Real-time hand detection and tracking with mean shift and contour detection technique” Institute of Control, Robotics and System (ICROS) conference, Korea, May 2010, Page 52. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Md. Zahidul Islam, 박유신, 박재완, Chil woo Lee, “Auto initialized CAMSHIFT tracker with Skin Color Segmentation” Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conference, Korea, February 2010, Page 218-221. [Link]

Conference Abstracts: 

• Kabir Hossain, Bevington Rosa, Stephanie Slinski, and Alexander Bucksch, Drone-based Fusarium Detection in Lettuce Using Customized ResNet, North American Plant Phenotyping Network, 2025.

• Kabir Hossain, Steven Binder, Mable P. Fok, Alexander Bucksch, "RootMonitorNet: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Monitoring Root Growth Development",  International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, 2024. 

• Kabir Hossain, Bevington Rosa, Stephanie Slinski, and Alexander Bucksch, et al., Drone-Based Fusarium Wilt Detection in Lettuce Using RGB Imagery: A Precision Assessment and Future Directions, International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, 2024.

• Kabir Hossain, Steven Binder, Mable P. Fok, Alexander Bucksch, "Non-Destructive Monitoring of Underground Root Development with Deep Learning-Based ResNet and In-Soil Fiber Optic Sensors",  North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN) Annual Conference, 2024,  West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. [Link]

• William LaVoy, Suxing Liu, Kabir Hossain, Alexander Bucksch, "A low-cost system to quantify root phenotypes resulting from root-root interactions",  North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN) Annual Conference, 2024,  West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Elizabeth Sarah White, Dongseok Choi, Aiyin Chen, Eliesa Ing, David Huang, Ou Tan; Evaluations of Nerve Fiber Layer Reflectance for within-visit Repeatability and between-visit Reproducibility. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2023;64(8):3438. [Link]

• Kabir Hossain, Claire Mantel and Søren Forchhammer, "Evaluation of Prediction of Quality Metrics for IR Images for UAV Applications", Data compression conference, Mar 19, USA. (Peer-Reviewed Paper) [Link]