🎓 Education / Experience

• • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GIST, Republic of Korea

  • M.S, Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan

  • B.S, Engineering Sciences,  Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI), Pakistan

👨‍💻 Research Interests

• • Computer Vision

  • Autonomous Driving

  • Sensor Fusion

  • Representation Learning

📔 Publications / Patents

Conferences

• Zafran Khan, Ishfaq Hussain, Farzeen Munir, Unse Fatima, Shoaib Azam, and Moongu Jeon, "Modified RC Car for uni-modal Autonomous Parking", Korea Software Congress 2021, 2021.12.20 - 12.22.

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Unse Fatima, and Moongu Jeon, "ARTSeg: Employing Attention for Thermal images Semantic Segmentation", Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Jeju, Korea, Nov. 2021.

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam and Moongu Jeon, "SSTN: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Thermal Object Detection for Autonomous Driving", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Prague, Czech Republic. Sept.27-Oct.1, 2021.

• Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Unse Fatima and Moongu Jeon "EMGNet: Driver’s Intent Prediction using Neurosignals", 36th ICROS, 여수, 2021.06.23-06.25.

• Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir and Moongu Jeon, "Channel Boosting Feature Ensemble for Radar-based Object Detection", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan , July 11-15, 2021.

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, and Moongu Jeon. "  Visuomotor Steering angle Prediction in Dynamic Perception Environment for Autonomous Vehicle", IEEE International Conference On Consumer Electronics (ICCE) Asia, 2020.

• Muhamamd Ishfaq Hussain, Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Zafran Khan, and Moongu Jeon, "Multiple Objects Tracking using Radar for Autonomous Driving", IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS), Online, September 9-12, 2020.

• Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir and Moongu Jeon, "Dynamic Control System Design for Autonomous Car", 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems,  Prague, Czech, May 2-4, 2020

• Linh Van Ma, Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Jinho Choi and, Moongu Jeon, "Automated Taxi Booking Operations for Autonomous Vehicles",  IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, 2019.

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, 고영민, 전지효, 전문구. "Motion Prediction and Obstacle Avoidance for Self-driving Car", 한국정보과학회 KSC, 2019

• Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Ahmad Muqeem Sheri, Ishfaq Hussain, YeongMin Ko and Moongu Jeon, "Data fusion of Lidar and Thermal Camera for Autonomous driving", Applied Industrial Optics Meeting, Washinton DC, USA, July 8-10, 2019. 

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Ahmad Muqeem Sheri, YeongMin Ko and Moongu Jeon, "Where Am I: Localization and 3D Maps for Autonomous Vehicles", VEHITS, Crete, Greece, May 2-5, 2019.

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Ishfaq Hussain, Ahmad Muqeem Sheri, and Moongu Jeon, "Autonomous Vehicle: The Architectural Aspect of Self Driving Car", Sensors, Signal and Image Processing(SSIP), 2018, Prague, Czech

• Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Aasim Rafique, YeongMin Ko, Ahmad Muqeem Sheri and Moongu Jeon, "Object Modeling from 3D Point Cloud Data for Self-Driving Vehicles", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium(IV) 2018, June 25-30, China

• Munir, F., Azam, S., Rafique, A., & Jeon, M. (2017). Automated Labelling of 3D Point Cloud Data. 한국정보과학회 KSC, 769-771, 2017 

• Shoaib Azam, Aasim Rafique, Moongu Jeon, "Vehicle Pose Detection Using Region Based Convolutional Neural Network", The International Conference on Control Automation & Information Science(ICCAIS 2016), October 27-29, 2016, Ansan, Korea.

• Azam, Shoaib, Syed Omer Gilani, Moongu Jeon, Rehan Yousaf, and Jeong-Bae Kim. "A Benchmark of Computational Models of Saliency to Predict Human Fixations in Videos." In VISIGRAPP (4: VISAPP), pp. 134-142. 2016.

• Rafique, M. Aasim, M. Shoaib Azam, Moongu Jeon, and Sangwook Lee. "Face-deidentification in images using restricted boltzmann machines." In 2016 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), pp. 69-73. IEEE, 2016.

• Tahir, Abdullah, Shoaib Azam, Sujani Sagabala, Moongu Jeon, and Ryu Jeha. "Single object tracking system using fast compressive tracking." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia), pp. 1-3. IEEE, 2016.

• A. Rafique, S. Azam, J. Gwak and M. Jeon, "Character Segmentation of Korean Vehicle License Plate", the 4th SMA, Jan. 10-13, 2016, Danang, Vietnam. 

Journal

• Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, M.A. Rafique, A.M. Sheri, M. Jeon and W. Pedrycz, "Exploring Thermal Images for Object Detection in Underexposure Regions for Autonomous Driving", Applied Soft Computing (IF: 6.725), Accepted, March 2022

• MI. Hussain, S. Azam, A. Rafiq, AM. Sheri and M. Jeon, "Drivable Region Estimation for Self-Driving Vehicles Using Radar", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 5.978), Accepted, March 2022

• F. Munir, S. Azam, M. Jeon, B. Lee and W. Pedrycz, "LDNet: End-to-End Lane Marking Detection Approach using a Dynamic Vision Sensor",  IEEE T. Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 6.319), accepted, June, 2021

• Y. Ko,  Y. Lee,  S. Azam, F. Munir, M. Jeon and W. Pedrycz. "Key Points Estimation and Point Instance Segmentation Approach for Lane Detection",  IEEE T.  Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 6.319),  accepted, May 2021

• S. Azam, F. Munir,M. A. Rafique, AM. Sheri, MI Hussain and M. Jeon, "N2C: Neural Network Controller Design Using Behavioral Cloning", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 6.319), accepted, Dec, 2020

• S. Azam, F. Munir, A.M. Sheri, J. Kim and M. Jeon, "System, Design and Experimental Validation of Autonomous Vehicle in an Unconstrained Environment", Sensors (IF: 3.275), accepted, Oct. 19, 2020.

• V. Dinh, , F. Munir , S. Azam , K. Yow  and  M. Jeon, "Transfer Learning for Vehicle Detection Using Two Cameras with Different Focal Lengths" , Information Sciences (IF: 5.910),  Vol. 514, April 2020, Pages 71-87.

• Azam, Muhammad Shoaib, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Naveed, and Muhammad Nasir Khan. "Saliency Based Object Detection and Enhancements Using Spectral Residual Approach in Static Images and Videos." Advanced Science Letters 21, no. 12 (2015): 3677-3679.

Patent

• Rafique Muhammad Aasim, Azam Muhammad Shoaib, 최인문, 전문구 "얼굴 비식별화 방법 (Translated:"Face de-identification method"),", 국내 출원 번호 : 2017-0032265, 출원일자 : 2017.03.15, 등록번호 : 10-1861520