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most citedTracking Noisy Targets: A Review of Recent Object Tracking Approaches

35 citations · 72 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CV2026

Towards Effective Waste Segmentation for Automated Waste Recycling in Cluttered Background

Mamoona Javaid, Mubashir Noman, Abdul Hannan +3

Rapid expansion of urban areas and population growth is causing an immense increase in waste production, which demands the need for efficient and automated waste management. In thi…

cs.CV2026

EoCD: Encoder only Remote Sensing Change Detection

Mubashir Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, Hiyam Debary +4

Being a cornerstone of temporal analysis, change detection has been playing a pivotal role in modern earth observation. Existing change detection methods rely on the Siamese encode…

cs.CV2026

OpenEarthAgent: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Geospatial Agents

Akashah Shabbir, Muhammad Umer Sheikh, Muhammad Akhtar Munir +8

Recent progress in multimodal reasoning has enabled agents that interpret imagery, connect it with language, and execute structured analytical tasks. Extending these capabilities t…

cs.CV2025

GeoVLM-R1: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Improved Remote Sensing Reasoning

Mustansar Fiaz, Hiyam Debary, Paolo Fraccaro +4

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have delivered strong reasoning capabilities in natural image domains, yet their potential for Earth Observation (EO) remains largely…

cs.CV2025

PrediTree: A Multi-Temporal Sub-meter Dataset of Multi-Spectral Imagery Aligned With Canopy Height Maps

Hiyam Debary, Mustansar Fiaz, Levente Klein

We present PrediTree, the first comprehensive open-source dataset designed for training and evaluating tree height prediction models at sub-meter resolution. This dataset combines…

cs.CV2025

HyRet-Change: A hybrid retentive network for remote sensing change detection

Mustansar Fiaz, Mubashir Noman, Hiyam Debary +2

Recently convolution and transformer-based change detection (CD) methods provide promising performance. However, it remains unclear how the local and global dependencies interact t…

cs.CV2025

InceptionMamba: Efficient Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement with Selective State Space Model for Microscopic Medical Image Segmentation

Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Abdul Hannan, Mubashir Noman +3

Accurate microscopic medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosing various cancerous cells and identifying tumors. Driven by advancements in deep learning, convolut…

cs.CV2025

Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning for Long-Tailed Medical Datasets

Daniya Najiha A. Kareem, Jean Lahoud, Mustansar Fiaz +2

Many practical medical imaging scenarios include categories that are under-represented but still crucial. The relevance of image recognition models to real-world applications lies…

cs.CV2024

EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive Dialogues

Sagar Soni, Akshay Dudhane, Hiyam Debary +8

Automated analysis of vast Earth observation data via interactive Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can unlock new opportunities for environmental monitoring, disaster response, and {r…

cs.CV2024

CLIP meets DINO for Tuning Zero-Shot Classifier using Unlabeled Image Collections

Mohamed Fazli Imam, Rufael Fedaku Marew, Jameel Hassan +3

In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to t…

cs.CV2024

COSNet: A Novel Semantic Segmentation Network using Enhanced Boundaries in Cluttered Scenes

Muhammad Ali, Mamoona Javaid, Mubashir Noman +2

Automated waste recycling aims to efficiently separate the recyclable objects from the waste by employing vision-based systems. However, the presence of varying shaped objects havi…

eess.IV2024

Improving 3D Medical Image Segmentation at Boundary Regions using Local Self-attention and Global Volume Mixing

Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Mustansar Fiaz, Noa Novershtern +2

Volumetric medical image segmentation is a fundamental problem in medical image analysis where the objective is to accurately classify a given 3D volumetric medical image with voxe…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

A Survey of the Self Supervised Learning Mechanisms for Vision Transformers

Asifullah Khan, Anabia Sohail, Mustansar Fiaz +11

Advances in deep learning are re-defining how visual data is processed and understand by the machines. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated prominent performance i…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

FANet: Feature Amplification Network for Semantic Segmentation in Cluttered Background

Muhammad Ali, Mamoona Javaid, Mubashir Noman +2

Existing deep learning approaches leave out the semantic cues that are crucial in semantic segmentation present in complex scenarios including cluttered backgrounds and translucent…

eess.IV2024

Medical Image Segmentation Using Directional Window Attention

Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Mustansar Fiaz, Noa Novershtern +1

Accurate segmentation of medical images is crucial for diagnostic purposes, including cell segmentation, tumor identification, and organ localization. Traditional convolutional neu…

cs.CV2024

ChangeBind: A Hybrid Change Encoder for Remote Sensing Change Detection

Mubashir Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal

Change detection (CD) is a fundamental task in remote sensing (RS) which aims to detect the semantic changes between the same geographical regions at different time stamps. Existin…

cs.CV2024

ELGC-Net: Efficient Local-Global Context Aggregation for Remote Sensing Change Detection

Mubashir Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal +2

Deep learning has shown remarkable success in remote sensing change detection (CD), aiming to identify semantic change regions between co-registered satellite image pairs acquired…

cs.CV2023

DDAM-PS: Diligent Domain Adaptive Mixer for Person Search

Mohammed Khaleed Almansoori, Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal

Person search (PS) is a challenging computer vision problem where the objective is to achieve joint optimization for pedestrian detection and re-identification (ReID). Although pre…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

SA2-Net: Scale-aware Attention Network for Microscopic Image Segmentation

Mustansar Fiaz, Moein Heidari, Rao Muhammad Anwer +1

Microscopic image segmentation is a challenging task, wherein the objective is to assign semantic labels to each pixel in a given microscopic image. While convolutional neural netw…

cs.CV2023

Remote Sensing Change Detection With Transformers Trained from Scratch

Mubashir Noman, Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal +4

Current transformer-based change detection (CD) approaches either employ a pre-trained model trained on large-scale image classification ImageNet dataset or rely on first pre-train…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

PS-ARM: An End-to-End Attention-aware Relation Mixer Network for Person Search

Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal, Sanath Narayan +2

Person search is a challenging problem with various real-world applications, that aims at joint person detection and re-identification of a query person from uncropped gallery imag…

cs.CV2019★ 4 cited

Brain MRI Segmentation using Rule-Based Hybrid Approach

Mustansar Fiaz, Kamran Ali, Abdul Rehman +2

Medical image segmentation being a substantial component of image processing plays a significant role to analyze gross anatomy, to locate an infirmity and to plan the surgical proc…

cs.CV2018

Handcrafted and Deep Trackers: Recent Visual Object Tracking Approaches and Trends

Mustansar Fiaz, Arif Mahmood, Sajid Javed +1

In recent years visual object tracking has become a very active research area. An increasing number of tracking algorithms are being proposed each year. It is because tracking has…

cs.CV2018★ 35 cited

Tracking Noisy Targets: A Review of Recent Object Tracking Approaches

Mustansar Fiaz, Arif Mahmood, Soon Ki Jung

Visual object tracking is an important computer vision problem with numerous real-world applications including human-computer interaction, autonomous vehicles, robotics, motion-bas…