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IK-GAT predicts animation-ready joint orientations from 3D joint positions using a lightweight graph-attention network.

SIMSPINE uses biomechanics-aware simulation to provide vertebra-level 3D annotations and reference benchmarks for spine motion from RGB.

PoseAdapt provides benchmarks and a toolkit for adapting 2D human pose estimators across domain shifts and evolving skeletons.

SpinePose introduces SpineTrack and a biomechanics-aware approach to 2D spine pose estimation in unconstrained images and videos.

ClassroomKD adapts mentor selection and teaching intensity for each sample in image classification knowledge distillation.

SituationalLLM combines scene-graph representations and dialogue to support context-aware guidance for tasks in physical environments.

Shape2.5D combines synthetic and real textureless-object images with depth and surface-normal labels for estimation research.

Research on the SSBI bank-check signature dataset and a transformer-based method for detecting and verifying signatures.

CICA uses content-injected contrastive alignment to adapt CLIP for zero-shot and generalized zero-shot document image classification.

A unified skeleton and multi-teacher distillation approach to human pose estimation across datasets with different joint definitions.

Preliminary work on language-model-generated pose descriptions and FocusCLIP for zero-shot human-centric image classification.

Master’s thesis on learning 3D reconstruction from images of textureless and transparent surfaces at TU Kaiserslautern.

A review of deep-learning methods for reconstructing 3D shape from a single RGB image, including textured and textureless surfaces.

BCSD provides 158 bank check images with pixel-level signature masks for training and evaluating signature segmentation.

Bachelor’s thesis at NUST on automatically verifying handwritten offline signatures using image-based methods.

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Open-source SpinePose CLI and Python API for spine-aware human pose estimation in images and video, with 2D and 3D model support.

An open-source Android port of OpenSim 4.6 with reusable Java and Kotlin APIs, GUI components, and a workbench app.

OpenDetect offers one Python interface for RF-DETR and YOLOX object detectors across ONNX Runtime backends, including person detection.

A look back at Hangman and Poppit!, two mobile games built around word guessing and timed balloon-popping play.

Earlier Android projects by Saif Khan: Doodle, RECatalyst, IPRD Geotag, Acacia Joinery, Scribe, and Tiled.

Interactive pose inference with WebAssembly and WebGPU.

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