My Research

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Publications

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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
Classroom-Inspired Multi-mentor Distillation with Adaptive Learning Strategies Shalini Sarode*, Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan*, Tahira Shehzadi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal Intelligent Systems Conference 2025 · Conference paper [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Slides] [Page]	2025
SituationalLLM: Proactive Language Models with Scene Awareness for Dynamic, Contextual Task Guidance Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker Open Research Europe · Journal paper [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset] [Page]	2025
Shape2.5D: A Dataset of Texture-less Surfaces for Depth and Normals Estimation Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Sankalp Sinha, Didier Stricker, Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal IEEE Access · Journal paper [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset] [Page]	2024
Enhanced Bank Check Security: Introducing a Novel Dataset and Transformer-Based Approach for Detection and Verification Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan*, Tahira Shehzadi*, Rabeya Noor, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal DAS Workshop at ICDAR 2024 · Workshop paper [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset] [Page]	2024
CICA: Content-Injected Contrastive Alignment for Zero-Shot Document Image Classification Sankalp Sinha, Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Talha Uddin Sheikh, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal ICDAR 2024 · Conference paper [Paper] [Code] [Page]	2024
Estimating Human Poses Across Datasets: A Unified Skeleton and Multi-Teacher Distillation Approach Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Dhavalkumar Limbachiya, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal arXiv · Preprint [arXiv] [Page]	2024
Human Pose Descriptions and Subject-Focused Attention for Improved Zero-Shot Transfer in Human-Centric Classification Tasks Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari, Luc Van Gool, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal arXiv · Preprint [arXiv] [Dataset] [Page]	2024
Learning to Reconstruct Textureless and Transparent Surfaces in 3D Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau · Master's thesis [Paper] [Slides] [Page]	2022
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image using Deep Learning: A Review Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal Journal of Imaging · Journal paper [Paper] [Page]	2022
BCSD: A novel segmentation dataset for signatures on bank checks Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan arXiv · Preprint [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset] [Page]	2021
Signature Verification Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Mahad Tariq, Bilal Ahmad National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) · Bachelor's thesis [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Page]	2018

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