I am currently working as a staff research scientist at IBM Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) located in Abu Dhabi, UAE with Prof. Fahad Khan and Hisham Cholakkal at the Intelligent Visual Analytics Lab. Before joining MBZUAI, I gained valuable experience working in the IT industry.

I received my Ph.D. from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea in 2021, where I contributed as a researcher in the Virtual Reality laboratory, supervised by Prof. Soon Ki Jung. Prior to that, I pursued my Master's degree from Sejong University in 2016, supervised by Prof. Sung Wook Baik. I earned my undergraduate degree from the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science in 2011, providing me with a strong foundation in my field of study.

Interests:

I am actively involved in research focused on diverse areas of computer vision and deep learning, particularly in the fields of remote sensing, medical imaging, and visual language models. 

Highlights:

• 07/2025, 1 paper accepted in BMVC 2025

• 03/2025, 1 paper accepted in IEEE IGARSS 2025--Oral presentation

• 02/2025, 1 paper accepted in CVPR 2025

• 01/2025, 1 paper accepted in IEEE ISBI 2025

• 11/2024, 1  paper accepted in WACV 2025--Oral presentation

• 07/2024, 1 paper accepted in Pattern Recognition

• 05/2024, 1 US patent is published

• 04/2024, 2 papers are accepted in IEEE IGARSS 2024, both oral presentations.

• 01/2024, 1 paper accepted in ISBI 2024

• 01/2024, 2 papers accepted in IEEE TGRS

• 12/2023, 1 paper accepted in IEEE TAI

• 10/2023, Joined IBM Research

• 10/2023, 1 paper accepted in WACV 2024

• 08/2023, 1 paper accepted in BMVC 2023--Oral presentation.

• 07/2023, 1  paper accepted in CAIP 2023

• 04/2023, 1 paper accepted in SCIA 2023

• 10/2022, 1 paper accepted in WACV 2023

• 09/2022, 1 paper accepted in ACCV 2022

Selected Papers:

• S. Soni*, A. Dudhane*, H. Debary*, Mustansar Fiaz*, M. A. Munir, M. S. Danisho, P. Fraccaro, C. Watson, L. J. Klein, S. Khan and FS Khan, "EarthDial : Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues", CVPR, 2025. [paper][code].

• M. Ali, M. Javaid, M. Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, S. Khan, "COSNet: A Novel Semantic Segmentation Network using Enhanced Boundaries in Cluttered Scenes", WACV, 2025. [paper][code].

• Mustansar Fiaz, M. Noman, H. Cholakkal, RM Anwer, J. Hanna, F.S. Khan, "Guided-attention and gated-aggregation network for medical image segmentation", Pattern Recognition, 2024. [paper][code].

• M. Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, H. Cholakkal, S. Khan, F.S. Khan, "ELGC-Net: Efficient Local–Global Context Aggregation for Remote Sensing Change Detection", IEEE TGRS, 2023. [paper][code].

• M. Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, H. Cholakkal, S. Narayan, RM Anwer, S. Khan, F.S. Khan, "Remote Sensing Change Detection With Transformers Trained from Scratch", IEEE TGRS, 2023. [paper][code].

• D. Kareem, Mustansar Fiaz,  N. Novershtern,  J. Hanna, H. Cholakkal, "Improving 3D Medical Image Segmentation at Boundary Regions using Local Self-attention and Global Volume Mixing", IEEE TAI, 2023. [paper][code].

• M. Almansoori*, Mustansar Fiaz*, and H. Cholakkal, "DDAM-PS: Diligent Domain Adaptive Mixer for Person Search", WACV, 2024. [paper][code].

• Mustansar Fiaz, M. Heidari,  RM Anwer, and H. Cholakkal, "SA2-Net: Scale-aware Attention Network for Microscopic Image Segmentation", BMVC--Oral, 2023. [paper][code].

• Mustasnar Fiaz, H. Cholakkal, R.M. Anwer, & Fahad Khan, "SAT: Scale-Augmented Transformer for Person Search", In WACV, 2023. [paper][code].

• M. Almansoori, Mustansar Fiaz, and H. Cholakkal, "Anchor-ReID: A Test Time Adaptation for Person Re-identification", In SCIA, 2023. [paper].

• Mustasnar Fiaz, H. Cholakkal, S. Narayan, R.M. Anwer, & Fahad Khan, "PS-ARM: An End-to-End Attention-aware Relation Mixer Network for Person Search", In ACCV, 2022. [paper][code].

• Mustansar Fiaz, M. Z. Zaheer, A. Mahmood, S. Lee, and S. K. Jung, 4G-VOS: Video Object Segmentation using Guided Context Embedding. Knowledge-Based Systems. [Paper]

• Md. M. Rahman, Mustansar Fiaz, S. Ki Jung, Efficient Visual Tracking with Stacked Channel-Spatial Attention Learning. IEEE-Access (2020). [link][Project Page]

• Mustansar Fiaz, A. Mahmood, S. Javed, S. Ki Jung, Handcrafted and Deep Trackers: Recent Visual Object Tracking Approaches and Trends. ACM Computing Survey, Volume 52, Issue 2 (2019), Article No. 43, ISSN 0360-0300. [pdf][Project Page]

Volunteers:

• ICCV 2023 Workshop on New Ideas in Vision Transformers, Paris, France, October 02, 2023.

• NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Vision Transformers: Theory and Applications, in conjunction with Neurips 2022, New Orleans, USA, Dec 9, 2022.

• ACCV workshop on Vision Transformers: Theory and Applications, in conjunction with ACCV 2022, MACAU SAR, CHINA, DEC. 5, 2022.

• The 27th International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, Daegu, South Korea, Feb. 22-23, 2021.

MENTORSHIP:

• Mubashir Noman (PhD @ MBZUAI, 2022-2025)

• Muhammad Ali (PhD @ MBZUAI, 2022-2025)

• Daniya Abdul Kareem (PhD @ MBZUAI, 2022-2025)

• Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam (MS @MBZUAI. 2022-2024)

• Imane Hilal  (MS @ MBZUAI, 2021-2023)

• Mohammed Almansoori (MS @ MBZUAI, 2021-2023)

• Reem Alameeri  (MS @ MBZUAI, 2021-2023)

• Md Maklachur Rahman (MS @ KNU, 2018-2020)

Book Chapters:

• Mustansar Fiaz, Arif Mahmood and Soon Ki Jung. Deep Siamese Networks toward Robust Visual Tracking, ISBN 978-1-78985-158-8,  [Online First], IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86235. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/deep-siamese-networks-toward-robust-visual-tracking [online][pdf]

Patent:

• Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal, Sanath Narayan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, and Fahad Shahbaz Khan. System and Method for Attention-aware Relation Mixer for Person Search, United States patent application US 17/983,741. 2024 May 9.

Honors & Awards:

• Oral Paper Presentation in BMVC 2023.

• Best Paper Award in IW-FCV 2022.

• Best Presentation Award in IW-FCV 2022.

• Outstanding research CSE Thesis Award, 2021

• Best Student Paper Award in IW-FCV 2020.

• Joint Secretary, PSAK, 2018-2019.

• Secretary Information, PSAK, 2017-2018.

• KNU International Graduate Scholarship (KINGS)  for Ph.D. studies, 03.2016-02.2021.

• Fully funded scholarship by Sejong University for MS studies, 03.2014-02.2016.

• Fellowship by Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) for BS (Computer and Information Science) studies, 2007-2011.