Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan
Logo Researcher at Augmented Vision Group, DFKI

Ph.D. student at RPTU Kaiserslautern, dedicated to democratizing human motion understanding by optimizing neural networks for real-time deployment on consumer devices. Research focuses on markerless motion tracking, multimodal learning, and generative models to push the boundaries of human-centric AI. Previous work involved 3D reconstruction and signature verification.

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Recent Publications

Title Cited by Year
SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier Stricker
CVPR 2026 · Conference paper
[Paper] [arXiv] [Dataset] [Code] [Inference] [Page]
- 2026
PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and Toolkit
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier Stricker
WACV 2026 · Conference paper
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Benchmarks] [Docs] [Page]
- 2025
Towards Unconstrained 2D Pose Estimation of the Human Spine
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Stephan Krauß, Didier Stricker
CVSports at CVPR 2025 · Workshop paper
[Paper] [arXiv] [Dataset] [Code] [Inference] [Page]
- 2025

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2026
SIMSPINE accepted at CVPR 2026 for 3D spine motion annotation and benchmarking Read more
Feb 23
2025
PoseAdapt accepted at WACV 2026 for continual learning in human pose estimation Read more
Nov 28
SpinePose accepted at CVSports, CVPR 2025 for unconstrained 2D human spine pose estimation Read more
Apr 07
Classroom-Inspired Multi-mentor Distillation accepted at Intelligent Systems Conference 2025 Read more
Mar 15
SituationalLLM published in Open Research Europe for scene-aware proactive language models Read more
Mar 03
2024
Shape2.5D dataset paper published in IEEE Access for depth and normals estimation Read more
Nov 30
Student project opportunity in human image generation for Winter Semester 2024/25 Read more
Oct 29
Enhanced Bank Check Security published at DAS Workshop, ICDAR 2024 Read more
Sep 15
CICA accepted at ICDAR 2024 for zero-shot document image classification Read more
Apr 12
Student seminar and project opportunities in gait recognition and controllable human image generation Read more
Apr 11
Education
  • Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU)
    Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU)
    Kaiserlautern, Germany
    Department of Computer Science
    Ph.D. Student
    2023 - present
  • Technical University of Kaiserslautern
    Technical University of Kaiserslautern
    Kaiserlautern, Germany
    Department of Computer Science
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    2019 - 2022
  • National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
    National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
    Islamabad, Pakistan
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)
    B.E. in Software Engineering
    2014 - 2018

Open-Source Contributions

Research is my primary focus. I maintain open-source software where it improves reproducibility, enables practical inference workflows, and keeps useful developer tools available.

GitHub Profile SpinePose Inference OpenDetect Project Archive

Popular GitHub Repositories

Sorted by stars.

  • opendetect Open-source object detection for Python developers. Frictionless installation. Free for commercial use.
    19 0 Python
  • signature-extraction Program to extract signatures from documents.
    18 7 Python
  • paint A minimalistic paint application for Android.
    14 8 Kotlin
  • camerakit CLI and Python toolkit for camera calibration and synchronized capture
    7 0 Python

Maintained Open-Source Projects

Selected open-source projects that remain actively relevant.

  • SpinePose Inference icon SpinePose Inference Lightweight CLI and Python API for running SpinePose models today, with SimSpine inference support coming next.
    Python Library Api Repo
  • Tiled icon Tiled Tiled is a powerful API that simplifies the process of creating tilemaps for Android applications and games.
    Library Api Repo
  • Scribe icon Scribe Scribe is a Kotlin library for PDF generation in Android apps that makes it easy to programatically create PDF documents with complex layouts and custom fonts.
    Library Api Repo
  • Doodle icon Doodle Doodle is a simple paint application for Android, written in Java and Kotlin programming languages.
    Mobile App App Repo
  • RECatalyst icon RECatalyst A collaborative tool for software project management and requirements specification.
    Mobile App App
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