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Saif Khan
Saif Khan

Curriculum Vitae

Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan

Researcher at DFKI AV · Doctoral candidate at RPTU Kaiserslautern

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Currently pursuing a Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) at RPTU. Particularly interested in spine biomechanics. Author of pioneering research on spine-aware human pose estimation in-the-wild.

Work Experience

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
AG Erweiterte Realität
Kaiserlautern, DE
Studentische Hilfskraft
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
AG Erweiterte Realität
Kaiserlautern, DE

Education

Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU)
Fachbereich Informatik
Kaiserlautern, DE
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK)
Fachbereich Informatik
Kaiserlautern, DE
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Software Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)
Islamabad, PK

Selected Publications

Human pose and motion estimation · Spine biomechanics · Markerless tracking · Efficient multimodal AI · 3D reconstruction · See complete archive →

  1. Amortized inverse kinematics via graph attention for real-time human avatar animationOpen Research Europe | SCA 2026
  2. SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and BenchmarkingCVPR 2026
  3. PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and ToolkitWACV 2026
  4. Towards Unconstrained 2D Pose Estimation of the Human SpineCVSports at CVPR 2025
  5. Classroom-Inspired Multi-mentor Distillation with Adaptive Learning StrategiesIntelligent Systems Conference 2025