Publications

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Recent Publication:

Journal Paper:

1.  RK Rogannagari, KA Islam, “MTFM: Multi-Teacher Feature Matching for Cross-Dataset and Cross-Architecture Adversarial Robustness Transfer in Remote Sensing Applications”,(2025) Remote Sensing 18 (1), 8. (Impact factor 4.1)

2. KA Islam, O Abul-Hassan, H Zhang, V Hill, B Schaeffer, R Zimmerman, & J Li. (2025). “Ensemble Machine Learning Approaches for Bathymetry Estimation in Multi-Spectral Images”. Geomatics, 5(3), 34. (Impact factor 2.8)

3. C Kwan, A Bulent, A Stavola, KA Islam, H Zhang, and J Li. “A Fast Framework for Generating Radioactive Mixture Spectra and Its Application to Remote High-Performance Mixture Identification,” in Electronics 14 (8), 1688 (2025). (Impact factor 2.6)4. S Tasneem, KA Islam. “Improve Adversarial Robustness of AI Models in Remote Sensing via Data-Augmentation and Explainable-AI Methods.” Remote Sensing 16, no. 17 (2024): 3210. (Impact factor 4.1)

4.  S Lee, KA Islam, SC Koganti, V Yaganti, SR Mamillapalli, H Vitalos, and DF Williamson. “SN-FPN: Self-attention Nested Feature Pyramid Network for Digital Pathology Image Segmentation.” IEEE Access (2024).(Impact factor 3.6)

5. KA Islam, H Wu, C Xin, R Ning, L Zhu, and J Li. “Sub-Band Backdoor Attack in Remote Sensing Imagery.” Algorithms 17, no. 5 (2024): 182. (Impact factor 2.1)

Conference Paper:

1. S Ravikumar, RK Rogannagari, MDJ Islam, and KA Islam “Comparative Analysis of Defense Approaches against Adversarial Attacks on Remote Sensing Applications.” In 2025, the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) [Accepted], [Acceptance Rate 25%].

2. MDJ Islam and KA Islam. “Robust Physically Realizable Backdoor Attack.” In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS), [Accepted], [acceptance rate 25%].

3.  RK Rogannagari and KA Islam, “Adversarial Robustness using Transfer Learning Method: A Cost-Effective Approach”, in 2025 Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Control (AIRC).

4.  S Ravikumar, S Tasneem, N Sakib, and KA Islam “Securing AI of Healthcare: A Selective Review on Identifying and Preventing Adversarial Attacks.” In 2024 IEEE Opportunity Research Scholars Symposium (ORSS), pp. 75-78. IEEE, 2024.

5. SF Ahamed, KA Islam, and S Shetty. “Targeted Transfer Learning: Leveraging Optimal Transport for Enhanced Knowledge Transfer.” International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2024) 2024, Hawaii, USA.

6.  S Tasneem, KA Islam. “Development of Trustable Deep Learning Model in Remote Sensing Through Explainable-AI Method Selection” In IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) Conference 2023, New York

Past Research:

JOURNALS:

[12] VJ Hill, RC Zimmerman, P Bissett, D Kohler, B Schaeffer, M Coffer, J Li, KA Islam. “Impact of Atmospheric Correction on Classification and Quantification of Seagrass Density from WorldView-2 Imagery”. Remote Sensing, Vol. 15 I 19 P. 4715 (2023). (Impact factor 4.1)

[11] MC Lebrasse, BA Schaeffer, MM Coffer, PJ Whitman, RC Zimmerman, VJ Hill, KA Islam, J Li & CL Osburn. “Temporal Stability of Seagrass Extent, Leaf Area, and Carbon Storage in St. Joseph Bay, Florida: a Semi-automated Remote Sensing Analysis”. Estuaries and Coasts (2022). (Impact factor 2.3)

[10]A Bulent, C Kwan, KA Islam, A Stavola, S Hendry, and J Li. “High Performance Remote Radioactive Material Identification of Mixtures.” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 86-97, (2022). (Impact factor 1.9)

[9] MS Uddin, R Hoque, KA Islam, C Kwan, D Gribben, and J Li. “Converting Optical Videos to Infrared Videos Using Attention GAN and Its Impact on Target Detection and Classification Performance.” Remote Sensing 13, no. 16 (2021): 3257. (Impact factor 4.1)

[8]MR First, SC Riley, KA Islam,V. Hill, J Li, RC Zimmerman, and LA Drake,”Rapid Quantification of Biofouling with an Inexpensive, Underwater Camera and Image Analysis”, Management of Biological Invasions, 12 (2021) 

[7] Islam, Kazi Aminul, Mohammad Shahab Uddin, Chiman Kwan, and Jiang Li. "Flood Detection Using Multi-Modal and Multi-Temporal Images: A Comparative Study." Remote Sensing 12, no. 15 (2020): 2455. 

[6] Islam, Kazi Aminul, Victoria Hill, Blake Schaeffer, Richard Zimmerman, and Jiang Li. "Semi‑supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Seagrass Detection Using Multispectral Images in Coastal Areas." Data Sci. Eng. 5, 111–125 (2020).

[5] MM Coffer, BA Schaeffer, RC Zimmerman, V Hill, J Li, KA Islam, and PJ Whitman. ”Performance across WorldView-2 and RapidEye for reproducible seagrass mapping.” Remote Sensing of Environment 250 (2020): 112036. (IF 9.085)  

[4]Perez, Daniel, Kazi Islam, Victoria Hill, Richard Zimmerman, Blake Schaeffer, Yuzhong Shen, and Jiang Li. "Quantifying Seagrass Distribution in Coastal Water with Deep Learning Models." Remote Sensing 12, no. 10 (2020): 1581. 

[3] Oguslu, E., Kazi Islam, Daniel Perez, V. J. Hill, W. P. Bissett, R. C. Zimmerman, and J. Li. "Detection of seagrass scars using sparse coding and morphological filter." Remote Sensing of Environment 213 (2018): 92-103.

[2] Debrup Banerjee, Kazi Islam, Keyi Xue, Gang Mei, Lemin Xiao, Guangfan Zhang, Roger Xu, Shuiwang Ji, Jiang Li, ”A Deep Transfer Learning Approach for Improved Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis” Knowledge and Information Systems 2019

[1] Kazi Aminul Islam, Gleb V. Tcheslavski, ”On Use of Independent Component Analysis for Ocular Artifacts Reduction of Electroencephalogram and while Using Kurtosis as the Threshold” September 30, 2017, International Journal of Bio-Automation, vol. 21, issue. 3, pp. 251–260, Sep 2017.

CONFERENCES

[9] . E Wu, KA Islam, J Li, MC Lebrasse, V Hill, and RC Zimmerman. “An Active Learning Model for Seagrass Detection in Remote Senseing Imagery.” In 2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), pp. 0113-0118. IEEE, 2021.

[8]. KA Islam, V Hill, R Zimmerman, B Schaeffer, J Li , ”Semi-supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Seagrass Detection in Multispectral Images” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2019 Beijing China (acceptance rate: 18.5%)

[7]. R Burks, KA Islam , Y Lu, J Li, ”Data Augmentation with Generative Models for Improved Malware Detection: A Comparative Study” In IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics Mobile Communication Conference(UEMCON) 2019, New York

[6] Kazi Aminul Islam, Daniel Perez, and Jiang Li. "A Transfer Learning Approach for the 2018 FEMH Voice Data Challenge"IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), (2018).(Outstanding Paper Award) 

[5] Kazi Aminul Islam, Daniel Perez, Blake Schaeffer, Richard Zimmerman, Victoria Hill, and Jiang Li, ” Seagrass Detection in Coastal Water through Deep Capsule Networks,” The First Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2018. LNCS, vol. 11257, pp. xx–yy. Springer, Hei- AQ3 Delberg (2018)

[4] Daniel Perez, Kazi Aminul Islam, Blake Schaeffer, Richard Zimmerman, Victoria Hill, and Jiang Li , ” DeepCoast: Quantifying Seagrass Distribution in Coastal Water through Deep Capsule Networks,” The First Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2018. LNCS, vol. 11257, pp. xx–yy. Springer, Hei- AQ3 delberg (2018) (acceptance rate: 5%) 

[3] Md Reshad ul Hoque, Kazi Aminul Islam, Daniel Perez, Blake Schaeffer, Richard Zimmerman, Victoria Hill and Jiang Li , ”Seagrass Propeller Scar Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Network” IEEE UEMCON Accepted (2018)

[2] Debrup Banerjee, Kazi Islam, Gang Mei, Lemin Xiao, Guangfan Zhang, Roger, Xu,Shuiwang Ji, Jiang Li, ” Deep Transfer Learning Approach for Improved, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis” Accepted ICDM 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, Nov 2017. (acceptance rate: 9%) 

[1] Kazi Aminul Islam, Gleb V. Tcheslavski, Independent Component Analysis for EOG artifacts minimization of EEG signals using kurtosis as a threshold, .2015 2nd International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technologies (EICT), Khulna, Bangladesh D

Awards and Achievements

• ODU ECE 2019-2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2020

• IEEE international BigData conference: FEMH voice data challenge workshop’s Outstanding paper award 2018

• BCET and ODU Graduate Student Travel Award 2018 

• IEEE student travel grant on EICT 2015 conference 2015 

• Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund: Travel scholarship for higher studies 2014 

• Technical merit scholarship: Khulna University of Engineering Technology 2006 –2009

• District Stipend award:Due to outstanding result in Higher Secondary Examination. 2006