Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: 

• Ahmed Khan, Hammad Ud Din, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Naeem Iqbal Ratyal, Fan Zhang, and Muhammad Waqas Anwar. "Deception detection in videos using the facial action coding system." Multimedia Tools and Applications (2024): 1-15. 

• Gulshan Saleem, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Rana Hammad Raza, and Fan Zhang. "Edge-Enhanced TempoFuseNet: A Two-Stream Framework for Intelligent Multiclass Video Anomaly Recognition in 5G and IoT Environments." Future Internet 16, no. 3 (2024): 83.

• Mehmood, Yasar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, and Muhammad Waqas Anwar. "Brain tumor grade classification using multi‐step pre‐training." International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (2024): e23008. 

• Anam, Rimsha, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Hasan Jamal, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Isabel de la Torre Diez, Eduardo Silva Alvarado, Emmanuel Soriano Flores, and Imran Ashraf. "A deep learning approach for Named Entity Recognition in Urdu language." Plos one 19, no. 3 (2024): e0300725. 

• Hafiz Abdul Rehman, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Rana Hammad Raza, Sultan Alfarhood, Mejdl Safran, and Fan Zhang. "Leveraging Coverless Image Steganography to Hide Secret Information by Generating Anime Characters Using GAN." Expert Systems with Applications (2024): 123420. 

• Amna Altaf, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Hasan Jamal, and Usama Ijaz Bajwa. "Exploiting linguistic features for effective sentence-level sentiment analysis in Urdu language." Multimedia Tools and Applications 82, no. 27 (2023): 41813-41839. 

• Romila Aziz, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Hasan Jamal, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Ángel Kuc Castilla, Carlos Uc Rios, Ernesto Bautista Thompson, and Imran Ashraf. "Real Word Spelling Error Detection and Correction for Urdu Language." IEEE Access (2023). 

• Fatima Zulfiqar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, and Rana Hammad Raza. "Multi-camera person re-identification using spatiotemporal context modeling." Neural Computing and Applications 35, no. 27 (2023): 20117-20142. 

• Muhammad Imran Zaman, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Gulshan Saleem, and Rana Hammad Raza. "A robust deep networks based multi-object multi-camera tracking system for city scale traffic." Multimedia Tools and Applications (2023): 1-19. 

• Fatima Zulfiqar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, and Yasar Mehmood. "Multi-class classification of brain tumor types from MR images using EfficientNets." Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 84 (2023): 104777. 

• Mughees Ahmad, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Yasar Mehmood, and Muhammad Waqas Anwar. "Lightweight ResGRU: a deep learning-based prediction of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and its severity classification using multimodal chest radiography images." Neural Computing and Applications 35, no. 13 (2023): 9637-9655. 

• Rafaqat Alam Khan, Ali Hussain, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Rana Hammad Raza, and Muhammad Waqas Anwar. "Fire and smoke detection using capsule network." Fire Technology 59, no. 2 (2023): 581-594. 

• Gulshan Saleem, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Rana Hammad Raza, Fayez Hussain Alqahtani, Amr Tolba, Feng Xia  (2022). "Efficient anomaly recognition using surveillance videos". PeerJ Computer Science, 8:e1117 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1117. 

• Gulshan Saleem, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Rana Hammad Raza, "Towards Human Activity Recognition: A Survey", in Neural Computing Applications, Oct 2022. 

• Rehan Raza, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Yasar Mehmood, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Hassan Jamal (2022), " dResU-Net: 3D Deep Residual U-Net based Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multimodal MRI", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, (Accepted) (IF = 5.076)

• Muhammad Javaid Iqbal, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Ghulam Gilanie, Muhammad Aksam Iftikhar, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2022), "Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images using Superpixel-Based Approach", Multimedia Tools and Applications, (Accepted) (IF = 2.757)

• Waqas Ahmed, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2022), “Reduced Complexity and Optimized Face Recognition Approach based on Facial Symmetry”, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, (Accepted) (IF = 2.358)

• Naheed Akhtar, Mubbashar Saddique, Khurshid Asghar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Muhammad Hussain, Zulfiqar Habib (2022), “Digital Video Tampering Detection and Localization: Review, Representations, Challenges and Algorithm”, Mathematics, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 168  (IF = 2.258 )

• Romila Aziz, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Hassan Jamal, Usama Ijaz Bajwa (2021), “A Hybrid Model for Spelling Error Detection and Correction for Urdu Language”, Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 33, pp. 14707-14721 (IF = 4.774)

• Haseeb Younis, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Muhammad Usman Ghani, Aisha Sikandar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa (2021), “A New Sequential Forward Feature Selection (SFFS) Algorithm for Mining Best Topological and Biological Features to Predict Protein Complexes from Protein Protein Interaction Networks (PPINs)”, Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 371-388 (IF = 1.512)

• Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Waraich, Mutyyba Asghar, Rehana Kousar, Adnan Kashif, Rabab Aslam, Muhammad Qasim, Hamza Rafique (2021), “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Detection from Chest Radiology Images using Convolutional Neural Networks”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 66, pp. 102490 (IF = 3.137)

• Ghulam Gilanie, Nimra Nasir, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Hafeez Ullah (2021), “RiceNet: Convolutional Neural Networks Based Model to Classify Pakistani Grown Rice Seeds Types”, Multimedia Systems, Volume 27, pp. 867-875 (IF = 1.935)

• Ramna Maqsood, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Gulshan Saleem, Rana Hammad Raza, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2021), “Anomaly recognition from surveillance videos using 3D convolution neural network”, Multimedia Tools and Applications

• Maimoona Rafiq, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Ghulam Gilanie, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2021), “Reconstruction of Scene Using Corneal Reflection”, Multimedia Tools and Applications

•  Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Muhammad Waqas Anwar (2021), “Riskfree WHO grading of Astrocytoma using Convolutional Neural Networks from MRI Images”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 80, Issue: 3, pp. 4295-4306

•  Khurram Ejaz, Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Huma Chaudhry, Amjad Rehman, Farhan Ejaz (2021), “Hybrid Segmentation Method With Confidence Region Detection For Tumor Identification”, IEEE Access

•  Mubbashar Sadddique, Khurshid Asghar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Muhammad Hussain, Hatim A. Aboalsamh, Zulfiqar Habib (2020), " Classification of Authentic and Tampered Video Using Motion Residual and Parasitic Layers", IEEE Access, Vol: 8, Issue: 1, pp. 56782-56797, (IF = 4.098) 

• Mubbashar Sadddique, Khurshid Asghar, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Muhammad Hussain, Zulfiqar Habib (2019), "Spatial Video Forgery Detection and Localization using Texture Analysis of Consecutive Frames", Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp: xxx-xxx, Vol: xx, Issue: xx, Standard: 1844-7600 (Online), 1582-7445 (Print), Impact Factor: 0.65

• Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Zulfiqar Habib (2019), “Automated and Reliable Brain Radiology with Texture Analysis of MRI and Cross dataset Validation”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

• Ghulam Gilanie, Usama Ijaz Bajwa*, Mustansar Mahmood Waraich, Zulfiqar Habib (2019), “Computer Aided Diagnosis of Brain Abnormalities Using Texture Analysis of MRI Images”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 260-271

• S Alam, U I Bajwa*, N Haq, N I Ratyal, M W Anwar (2019),“Skin Disease Classification using Neural Network”, Current Medical Imaging

• N Khan, W Anwar, U I Bajwa, F Ahmad (2019), “Statistical Machine Translation of Indian Languages: A Survey”, Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp. 2455-2467 

• N I Ratyal, I A Taj, U I Bajwa, M Sajid (2018), “Pose and Expression Invariant Alignment based Multi-View 3D Face Recognition”, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Volume 12, No.10, pp. 4903-4929 (IF = 0.452)

• M Sajid, I A Taj, U I Bajwa*, N I Ratyal (2018), “Facial Asymmetry-Based Age Group Estimation: Role in Recognizing Age-Separated Face Images”, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Volume 63, No.6, pp. 1727-1749 (IF= 1.127)

• A. Sikandar, W. Anwar, U. I. Bajwa, X. Wang, M. Sikandar, L. Yao, Z. L. Jiang, Z. Chunkai (2018), “Decision Tree Based Approaches for Detecting Protein Complex in Protein Protein Interaction Network (PPI) via Link and Sequence Analysis”., IEEE Access, 6(1), 2018, pp.22108-22120 (IF= 3.244)

• A Hannan, A E Bajwa, S Riaz, U Arshad, S Saleem, U I Bajwa (2018), “In vitro Salmonella Typhi Biofilm Formation on Gallstones and its Disruption by Manuka Honey”, Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 31(1), 2018, pp.129-135  (IF= 0.682)

• U I Bajwa*, A A Shah, M W Anwar, G Gilanie, A E Bajwa  (2018), “Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System for Detection of Malignant Lung Nodules in CT Slices – A key for Early Lung Cancer Detection ”, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Volume 14, No. 3, 422 - 429(8), 2018 (IF = 0.613)

• G Gilanie, H Ullah, M Mehmood, U I Bajwa*, Z Habib (2018), “Colored Representation of Brain Gray Scale MRI Images to potentially underscore the variability and sensitivity of images”, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Volume 14, No. 4, 555 - 560, 2018 (IF = 0.613)

• G Gilanie, U I Bajwa*, M M Waraich, Z H, H Ullah, M Nasir  (2018), “Classification of normal and abnormal brain MRI slices using Gabor texture and support vector machines”, Signal Image and Video Processing, 12(3), 2018, 479-487 (IF = 1.102)

• Ubaid Ur Rahman, Allah Bux Sargano, Usama Ijaz Bajwa (2017), “Android-Based Verification System for Banknotes”, Journal of Imaging, 3(4), 54 (ESCI) 

• M Sajid, I A Taj, U I Bajwa*, N I Ratyal (2016), “The Role of Facial Asymmetry in Recognizing Age-Separated Face Images”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 54, 2016, pp. 255-270 (IF = 0.992)

• S Ayubi, U I Bajwa*, M W Anwar (2015), “Super-Resolution Based Enhancement of Cardiac MR Images”, Current Medical Imaging 11(2), 105-113. (IF = 1.059)

• N I Ratyal, I A Taj, U I Bajwa*, M Sajid (2015), “3D Face Recognition Based on Pose and Expression Invariant Alignment”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 46, 2015, pp. 241-255 (IF = 0.992)

• S.A.Khan, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa, X. Wang (2015), “Template Based Affix Stemmer for a Morphologically Rich Language”, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology 12(2), 146-154. (IF = 0.39)

• M S Sarfraz,  N K Tripathi,  F S Faruque,  U I Bajwa,  A Kitamoto,  M Souris (2014) “Mapping urban and peri-urban breeding habitats of Aedes mosquitoes using a fuzzy analytical hierarchical process based on climatic and physical parameters”, Geospatial Health 8(3), pp. 685-697, (IF = 1.00)

• Akbar H, Hayat K, Haq Nu, Bajwa UI (2014), “Bilateral Symmetry Detection on the Basis of Scale Invariant Feature Transform”, PLoS ONE 9(8): e103561. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103561. (IF = 3.73)

• Rehman Z, Anwar W, Bajwa UI*, Xuan W, Chaoying Z (2013), “Morpheme Matching Based Text Tokenization for a Scarce Resourced Language”, PLoS ONE 8(8): e68178. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068178. (IF = 4.092)

• U.I.Bajwa* , I.A.Taj, M.W.Anwar, X. Wang (2013), “A Multifaceted Independent Performance Analysis of Facial Subspace Recognition Algorithms”, PLoS ONE 8(2): e56510. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056510. (IF = 4.092)

• U.I.Bajwa* , I.A.Taj, M.W.Anwar, “A unified classifier for robust face recognition based on combining multiple subspace algorithms”, Optic Communications, Volume 285, Issues 21-22, 2012 , pp. 4324-4332. (IF = 1.486)

• U.I.Bajwa* , I.A.Taj, Z.E.Bhatti, “A Comprehensive Comparative Performance Analysis of Laplacianfaces and Eigenfaces for Face Recognition ”, The Imaging Science Journal, Volume 59, Number 1, February 2011 , pp. 32-40. (IF = 0.575)

• U.Bajwa*, R.Vardasca, F Ring, P Plassmann “A comparison of Boundary Detection Techniques to Improve Image Analysis in Medical Thermography”, The Imaging Science Journal, Volume 58, Number 1, February 2010 , pages 12-19. (IF = 0.575)

• Vardasca R., Bajwa U., "Segmentation and Noise Removal on Thermographic Images of Hands", Thermology International, vol 18, no.2, 2008, p.99-104. 

• Fareena Naz, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa, E.U.Munir “Urdu Part of Speech Tagging using Transformation Based Error Driven Learning “ World Applied Sciences Journal, Vol.16, No.03, PP: 437-448, 2012, (Indexed by: ISI)

• Rakhshanda Yousaf, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa, A.N.Khan “Percentage Discounting: A New Good Turing Smoothing Technique” Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Vol.04, No.08, PP: 902-905, 2012, (Indexed by: ISI)

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

·         Khurram Ejaz, Mohd Shafy Mohd Rahim, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, Nadim Rana and Amjad Rehman, “An Unsupervised Learning With Feature Approach for Brain Tumor Identification and Segmentation Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (ICBBB 2019), Singapore

·          F Ahmad, A Sadiq, M Enriquez A.M., W Anwar, U I Bajwa, M Naseer, S A Khan, “Component based Architecture for the Control of Crossing Regions in Railway Networks”, in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning And Applications IEEE ICMLA 2017, PP:540-545, December 18-21, 2017, Cancun, Mexico

·         H. Ahmed, M. Umair, A. Murtaza, U. I. Bajwa, R. Vardasca, “Multi Spectral Face Recognition System”, in Proceedings of the VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: VipIMAGE 2017 conference, PP:983-997, October 18-20, 2017, Porto, Portugal

·         Naeem I. Ratyal, Imtiaz Ahmad Taj, Usama Ijaz Bajwa, M.Sajid, Mirza Jabbar A. Baig and  Faisal M. Butt, " 3D Face Recognition based on Region Ensemble and Hybrid Features", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (ICE Cube), PP: 293-300, April 11-12,2016, Quetta, Pakistan

·         N Khan, Waqas Anwar, U.I Bajwa, N. Durrani “English to Urdu Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation” Proceedings of the IJCNLP-13 Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), 2013, PP: 72-76, Nagoya, Japan

·         S. Iqbal, Waqas Anwar, U.I. Bajwa, Z. Rehman” Urdu Spell Checking: Reverse Edit Distance Approach” Proceedings of the IJCNLP-13 Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), 2013, PP: 58-65, Nagoya, Japan

·         S.A.Khan, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa, X. Wang “A Light Weight Stemmer for Urdu Language: A Scarce Resourced Language” Proceedings of the COLING-12, 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), PP: 69-78, 2012, Mumbai, India

·         F. Jahangir, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa, X. Wang “N-gram and Gazetteer List Based Named Entity Recognition for Urdu: A Scarce Resourced Language” Proceedings of the COLING-12, 10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR), PP: 95-104, 2012, Mumbai, India

·         Z. Zhang, X. Wang, Waqas Anwar, U.I,Bajwa “Two Problems of Circle in Image”, 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, PP: 91-95, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan

·         M Ghafoor, U Bajwa, I A Taj, “Fuel Nozzle Spray Pattern Classifier”, 9th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2011), PP: 303-307, 2011, Islamabad

·         Sajjad A.Khan, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa “Challenges in Developing a Rule based Urdu Stemmer” Proceedings of the IJCNLP-11   Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), PP: 46-51, 2011,Thailand

·         Zobia Rehman, Waqas Anwar, U.I.Bajwa “Challenges in Urdu Text Tokenization and Sentence Boundary Disambiguation” Proceedings of the IJCNLP-11  Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), PP: 40-45, 2011, Thailand

·         Z.E.Bhatti, U.I.Bajwa, I.A.Taj, “Introducing Set of Internal parameters for Laplacian Faces to Enhance performance under Varying Conditions”, Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) , December 14-15, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan, p279-283

·         R. Vardasca, U.Bajwa, "Extracting outlines of Hands from Thermal Images", Proceedings of the 2nd Research Student Workshop, University of Glamorgan Business Centre. P.12-16, 1 November 2007, ISBN 978-1-84054-179-3

·         E.F.J. Ring, A.Jung, J.Zuber, P.Rutowski, B.Kalicki, U.Bajwa, "Detecting Fever in Polish Children by Infrared Thermography", Proceedings of 9th International conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography, July 2-5, 2008, Krakow-Poland, p125-128.

·         E.F.J. Ring, R. Vardasca, U.Bajwa, "Monitoring Cooling Agents Applied to the skin of Normal Subjects by Quantitative Thermal Imaging", Proceedings of 9th International conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography, July 2-5, 2008, Krakow-Poland, p129-134.

·         Research work “The Cyber Imago” by Doug Hampson & Usama Ijaz Bajwa, presented at Institute of Developmental Transactional Analysis (IDTA) conference 9th/10th November 2007, Glasgow, UK.

 BOOK CHAPTERS:

·         Ring EFJ, Jones CD, Ammer K, Plassmann P, Vardasca R, Bajwa UI (2017), “Cooling agents’ effect monitoring when applied to skin of healthy human subjects”, Innovative Research in Thermal Imaging for Biology and Medicine, Ricardo Vardasca, Joaquim Gabriel (Eds.), IGI-Global, USA 2017, 79-92. ISBN: 978-152-252-072-6. Chapter 4. (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2072-6.ch004).