1. KDC: Keypoints as Dynamic Centroids for Unified Human Pose and Segmentation [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Kang G. Shin, Youngmoon Lee, Guanghui Wang

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 2025 (IJCAI 2025)

2. VisualCent: Visual Human Analysis using Dynamic Centroid Representation [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Youngmoon Lee, Guanghui Wang 

IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Florida, USA 2025 (FG 2025) 

3. HAPtics: Human Action Prediction in Live via Pose Kinematics [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Saif Ullah, Jawad Khan, Chanyeok Choi, Youngmoon Lee

International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, 2024 (ICPR 2024)

4. Real-time Human Action Prediction via Pose Kinematics [code] [Best Paper Award] [News Coverage] 

Niaz Ahmad, Saif Ullah, Jawad Khan, Youngmoon Lee

Workshop Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition, Jeju, Korea, 2024 (IJCAI 2024)

5. SSK-DNN: Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for Incremental Text Sentiment Classification [code]

      Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Chanyeok Choi, Saif Ullah, Gyurin Kim, Youngmoon Lee

      Workshop Incrlearn, Shanghai, China, 2023 (IEEE ICDM 2023)

6. Keypoints as Dynamic Centroids: Human Semantic Segmentation using Centroid Representations [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Youngmoon Lee

Workshop Robot Representations, Daegu, Korea, 2023 (RSS 2023)

7. MultiPoseSeg: Feedback Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Jeremy Yuhyun Kim, Youngmoon Lee

IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada, 2022 (ICPR 2022)

8. Joint Human Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation with PosePlusSeg [code] [News Coverage]

Niaz Ahmad, Jawad Khan, Jeremy Yuhyun Kim, Youngmoon Lee

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, 2022 (AAAI 2022)

9. Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification [code]

      Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Aftab Alam and Youngmoon Lee

 Workshop Noisy User-generated Text, Gyeongju, Korea, 2022 (COLING 2022)

10. StrongPose: Bottom-up and Strong Keypoint Heat Map-based Pose Estimation [code]

Niaz Ahmad, Jongwon Yoon

IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, 2021 (ICPR 2021)

1. Hybrid Deep Neural Network with Domain Knowledge for Text Sentiment Analysis 

Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Youngmoon Lee, Shah Khalid, and Dildar Hussain

Mathematics, Published: 29 April 2025.

2. Sentiment and Context-Aware Hybrid DNN with Attention for Text Sentiment Classification 

Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Shah Khalid, Farman Ali, Youngmoon Lee

IEEE Access, Published: 20 March 2023

Unified Representation for Instance-level Visual Human Analysis

Committee members: 

1. Lee Youngmoon "Advisor" (Assistant professor, at the Robotics Department)

2. Park Taejoon (Assistant Professor, Head of the Robotics Department)

3. Jung Woohwan (Assistant Professor, AI Department)

4. Yoo Youngjae (Assistant Professor, AI Department)

5. Cho Youngeun (Assistant Professor, AI Department)

Master's Dissertation (Hanyang University ERICA)

StrongPose: Bottom-up and Strong Keypoint Heat Map based Pose Estimation

Committee members: 

1. Jongwon Yoon "Advisor" (Assistant professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department)

2. Yeongjoo Lee (Assistant Professor  at Computer Science and Engineering Department)

3. Sunghyun Cho (Assistant Professor  at Computer Science and Engineering Department)

1. Multi-task model/Multi-task learning. (slides) [Spring semester 2024]

2. HMI: AI, ML, Deep learning. (slides)  [Spring semester 2024]

Ph.D. Candidate (2021 - 2024): Applied Artificial Intelligence Department, Hanyang University, South Korea. 

Research Assistant (2020 - 2021): RAISE LAB, Hanyang University, South Korea.

• AI and Computer Vision Researcher

Master's Degree (2018 - 2020): Computer Science & Engineering Department, Hanyang University, South Korea.

Research Assistant (2018 - 2020): Intelligent Machines Lab, Hanyang University, South Korea.

•  Establishing GPU environment for high-level research purposes. 

• Using machine learning libraries. 

• High-level understanding of Python API.

  •  OpenCV 

  • TensorFlow 

  •  PyTorch 

  •  Keras 

Network, Lab Assistant & ICT Teacher (2016 – 2018): The Smart School, Kanju Campus, Swat, Pakistan.

Networks & System Engineer (2016 – 2017): IT Excellence Center (ITEC), Project of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Networks & System Engineer (2015 – 2016): Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (Internee), Islamabad, Pakistan.

• HAPtics

• MultiPoseSeg

• PosePlusSeg

• StrongPose

• Pose-based Action Recognition

• Korean Traffic Light Detection by using Darknet Framework

• ProGAN Train on Colposcopy Images

• Best Paper Award at DL-HAR IJCAI 2024.

• Volunteer Position at IJCAI 2024.

• Department Grant Awarded for Outstanding Conference Publication, in AAAI 2022.

• Hanyang International Excellence Awards 2021. PhD Scholarship

• Hanyang International Excellence Awards 2018. Master's Scholarship

• Richard Wang (Prof. Toronto Metropolitan University)

• Youngmoon Lee (Prof. Hanyang University)

• Kang G. Shin (Prof. University of Michigan)

• Jawad Khan (Ass. Prof.  Gachon University)

• Chanyeok Choi (Hanyang University ERICA)

• Saif Ullah (Hanyang University ERICA)

• Jeremy Yuhyun Kim (Hanyang University ERICA) 

• Gyurin Kim (Hanyang University ERICA)

• Saif Ullah (Hanyang University ERICA)

• Jeremy Yuhyun Kim (Hanyang University ERICA)