https://www.saifkhichi.com/ PhD candidate and deep learning researcher with experience in AI, computer vision, and machine learning. en Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:30:34 +0000 https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/neural-inverse-kinematics/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/neural-inverse-kinematics/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0000 paper Amortized Inverse Kinematics via Graph Attention for Real-time Human Avatar Animation was published in Open Research Europe as an open-access paper on graph attention networks for inverse kinematics, extending our work presented at the Symposium on Computer Animation 2026. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/neural-inverse-kinematics/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/neural-inverse-kinematics/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0000 paper Presented our extended abstract on avatar animation from skeletal motion as a poster at the Symposium on Computer Animation 2026, held in Barcelona, Spain, from 8-10 July 2026. The symposium is supported by the Eurographics Association and the ACM SIGGRAPH organization, and the poster is available on the project page. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/simspine/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/simspine/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 paper SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking was presented at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 in Denver, Colorado, United States, from June 3 to June 7, 2026. The project page includes the paper, dataset, and code resources. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/simspine/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/simspine/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 paper SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking was accepted at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 and will be presented in Denver, Colorado, United States, from June 3 to June 7, 2026. The project page includes the paper, dataset, and code resources. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/poseadapt/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/poseadapt/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000 paper PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and Toolkit was accepted at WACV 2026 and will be presented in Tucson, Arizona, United States, from March 6 to March 10, 2026. The project page includes the paper, benchmark details, and code. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/spinepose/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/spinepose/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:50:00 +0000 paper Towards Unconstrained 2D Pose Estimation of the Human Spine was accepted to the CVSports workshop at CVPR 2025 and was presented in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, from June 11 to June 15, 2025. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/classroom-distillation/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/classroom-distillation/ Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:50:00 +0000 paper Classroom-Inspired Multi-mentor Distillation with Adaptive Learning Strategies was accepted at the 11th Intelligent Systems Conference 2025, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from August 28 to August 29, 2025. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/situational-llm/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/situational-llm/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:27:00 +0000 paper SituationalLLM: Proactive Language Models with Scene Awareness for Dynamic, Contextual Task Guidance was published in Open Research Europe as an open-access paper on proactive, scene-aware language models. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/shape25d/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/shape25d/ Sat, 30 Nov 2024 02:24:00 +0000 paper Shape2.5D: A Dataset of Texture-less Surfaces for Depth and Normals Estimation was published in IEEE Access and is available as an open-access paper on IEEE Xplore. https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:23:00 +0000 opportunity Open student project opportunity focused on human image generation for Winter Semester 2024/25, with collaboration details available on the collaboration page. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/bank-check-security/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/bank-check-security/ Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:01:00 +0000 paper Enhanced Bank Check Security: Introducing a Novel Dataset and Transformer-Based Approach for Detection and Verification was presented as a poster in the DAS workshop at ICDAR 2024. https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/cica-document-image-classification/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/research/cica-document-image-classification/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:27:00 +0000 paper CICA: Content-Injected Contrastive Alignment for Zero-Shot Document Image Classification was accepted for oral presentation at ICDAR 2024 in Athens, Greece, from August 30 to September 4, 2024. https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:23:00 +0000 opportunity Archived call for Winter Semester 2024/25 covering two seminar topics and one student project in gait recognition and controllable human image generation. https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:15:00 +0000 opportunity Archived call for Winter Semester 2023/24 with student project opportunities in active learning and skeleton-agnostic human pose estimation. https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ https://www.saifkhichi.com/collaborate/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:17:00 +0000 opportunity Archived call for Summer Semester 2023 featuring two seminars and two projects on mobile-optimized neural networks, neural architecture search, and knowledge distillation for human pose estimation.