Publications

[International Conference Papers]

[SR#14]

[Title] MedCAGD: Context-Aware Gated Decoder for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation.

[Publisher] 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026).

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Patrick Vibild, Phu Tran, Songha Kim, Daeyoung Kim.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00409

[Code] https://github.com/saadwazir/MedCAGD

[Dataset] https://huggingface.co/datasets/saadwazir/MedCAGD-Dataset-Collection

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[SR#13]

[Title] SAT: Selective Aggregation Transformer for Image Super-Resolution.

[Publisher] IEEE / CVF 45th Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR Findings 2026).

[Authors] Dinh Phu Tran, Thao Do, Saad Wazir, Seongah Kim, Seon Kwon Kim, Daeyoung Kim.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07994

[Code] https://github.com/PhuTran1005/SAT

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[SR#12]

[Title] Evaluating Video LLMs’ Understanding of Corner Cases in Autonomous Driving.

[Publisher] 37th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2026).

[Authors] Gabriel Manalu, Minh Son Hoang, Hyeontaek Hwang, Jaesung Lee, Hyojin Choi, Tran Tuan Phong, Seon Kwon Kim, Saad Wazir, Daeyoung Kim.

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[SR#11]

[Title] Threat Track AI: A Scalable Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Cybersecurity Log Analysis and Threat Detection.

[Publisher] 6th International Conference Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2 2026).

[Authors] Muhammad Javaid, Saad Wazir.

[Code] https://github.com/javaidgithub/Threat-Track-AI

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[SR#10]

[Title] Rethinking Decoder Design: Improving Biomarker Segmentation Using Depth-to-Space Restoration and Residual Linear Attention.

[Publisher] IEEE / CVF 44th Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2025).

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Daeyoung Kim.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18335

[Code] https://github.com/saadwazir/MCADS-Decoder

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[SR#9]

[Title] HistoSeg++: Delving deeper with attention and multiscale feature fusion for biomarker segmentation.

[Publisher] 12th International Conference on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Engineering (ICBBE 2025).

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Rao Faizan, Daeyoung Kim.

[Link] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3794209.3794211

[Code] https://github.com/saadwazir/histosegplusplus

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[SR#8]

[Title] Rethinking the Nested U-Net Approach: Enhancing Biomarker Segmentation with Attention Mechanisms and Multiscale Feature Fusion.

[Publisher] 5th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (MICAD 2024) - MICCAI Society Endorsed Event.

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Daeyoung Kim.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06158

[Code] https://github.com/saadwazir/ReN-UNet

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[SR#7]

[Title] Mukhtasir-Khail-Net: An Ultra-Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Sports Activity Recognition with Wearable Inertial Sensors.

[Publisher] IEEE 4th International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2 2024).

[Authors] Hamza Ali Imran, Shaida Muhammad, Saad Wazir, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Obaidullah Arshad.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoDT262145.2024.10740217

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[SR#6]

[Title] Enhanced Human Activity Recognition Using Inertial Sensor Data from Smart Wearables: A Neural Network Approach with Residual Connections.

[Publisher] IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Computing Technologies (ICECT 2024).

[Authors] Shaida Muhammad, Kiran Hamza, Hamza Ali Imran, Saad Wazir.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECT61618.2024.10581358

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[SR#5]

[Title] Paying Attention to Human Activities: Recognizing Daily Activities with an Attention-based Neural Network and Inertial Sensors.

[Publisher] IEEE 5th International Conference on Innovative Computing (ICIC 2024).

[Authors] Shaida Muhammad, Hamza Ali Imran, Kiran Hamza, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Saad Wazir.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIC63915.2024.11116432

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[SR#4]

[Title] EdgeHARNet: An Edge-Friendly Shallow Convolutional Neural Network for Recognizing Human Activities Using Embedded Inertial Sensors of Smart-Wearables.

[Publisher] IEEE 3rd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE 2023).

[Authors] Hamza Ali Imran, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Saad Wazir, Kiran Hamza.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/C-CODE58145.2023.10139860

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[SR#3]

[Title] HistoSeg: Quick attention with multi-loss function for multi-structure segmentation in digital histology images.

[Publisher] IEEE 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS 2022).

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Muhammad Moazam Fraz.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00729

[Code] https://github.com/saadwazir/HistoSeg

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[SR#2]

[Title] Multi-Cloud: A Comprehensive Review.

[Publisher] IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC 2020).

[Authors] Hamza Ali Imran, Usama Latif, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Maryam Ehsan, Ahmed Jamal Ikram, Waleed Ahmad Khan, Saad Wazir.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC50486.2020.9318176

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[SR#1]

[Title] HPC as a Service A naive model.

[Publisher] IEEE 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2019).

[Authors] Hamza Ali Imran, Saad Wazir, Ahmed Jamal Ikram, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Hanif Ullah, Maryam Ehsan.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICT47744.2019.9001912

[International Journal Papers]

[SR#2]

[Title] Artificial Intelligence of Things–Enabled Sleep Monitoring Using Wearable Inertial Sensors and a Transformer–CNN Model.

[Publisher] IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. 2026/5/19.

[Authors] Hamza Ali Imran, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Saad Wazir.

[Link] https://doi.org/10.1109/LES.2026.3694991

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[SR#1]

[Title] Performance Comparison of Mpich and Mpi4py on Raspberry Pi-3B Beowulf Cluster.

[Publisher] Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamic and Control Systems. Volume: 11 | Special Issue 03 | 2019.

[Authors] Saad Wazir, Ataul Aziz Ikram, Hamza Ali Imran, Hanif Ullah, Ahmed Jamal Ikram, Maryam Ehsan.

[Link] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03709

[Upcoming/Under Review]

[SR#9]

[Title] Learning to Abstain: Adaptive Confidence Refinement for Reliable Audio-Visual Question Answering. (Under Review 2026).