College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Tahir Habib Nawaz

Tahir Habib Nawaz

HoD Research
Summary

Employed at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (NUST) since 1st October 2021, Dr. Tahir Habib Nawaz is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of Department (Research), where his core interests focus on computer vision and Artificial Intelligence, particularly investigating cutting-edge technologies pertaining to automated video surveillance and autonomous vehicles. Altogether, he has more than 15 years of teaching, research, and industry experience across UK, Europe, and Asia, in diverse cross-functional teams in prestigious international organizations. He completed a PhD with specialization in computer vision and AI, which was a joint Doctorate program under the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London (UK) and Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria). He also received an MSc in Computer Vision and Robotics under the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, a joint Master's program at Heriot-Watt University (UK), University of Girona (Spain), and University of Burgundy (France). Moreover, he completed a Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2005.

Academic Background
PhD (Electronic Engineering) Queen Mary University of London January 10, 2011 - October 31, 2014
Honours and Awards
Publications
Transforming Mechatronics Systems with Machine Learning and Computer Vision July 02, 2026 Mechatronics and Data Acquisition Systems - Accepted
Embedded/Digital control systems July 02, 2026 Mechatronics and Data Acquisition Systems - Accepted - Chapter 13
Use of Internet of Things and Edge Computing in Mechatronics Systems July 02, 2026 Mechatronics and Data Acquisition Systems - Accepted
Frost Detection and Thickness Estimation using a Transformer-based Semantic Segmentation Model June 01, 2026 International Journal of Refrigeration - Volume 186, Article Number 106899
Smart Steering Wheel: Design of IoMT-Based Non-Invasive Driver Health Monitoring System to Enhance Road Safety December 01, 2025 IET Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume:19, Issue:1, Article Number e70012
Frost detection and defrost control: Emerging trends, methods, and experimental evaluations November 01, 2025 International Journal of Refrigeration - Volume:179, Page:121-141
Negative selection-based artificial immune system (NegSl-AIS) - A hybrid multimodal emotional effect classification model September 01, 2025 Results in Engineering - Volume:27, Article Number;106601
SmartPV-AIoT: an AIoT-integrated framework for fault diagnosis and remote monitoring in photovoltaic systems July 01, 2025 Energy Conversion and Management: X - Volume:27, Article Number 101117
Lightweight distilled transformer-based vision framework for detection of forest fire and smoke in real-world scenes May 27, 2025 Journal of Electronic Imaging - Volume 34(3), Article Number 033035
InterAcT: A Generic Keypoints-Based Lightweight Transformer Model for Recognition of Human Solo Actions and Interactions in Aerial Videos May 14, 2025 PLOS ONE - Volume 20(5), Article Number e0323314
An optimized Impulse Factor-based VMD-EMD approach to improve SSVEP accuracy for BCI Systems March 01, 2025 Results in Engineering - Volume:25, Article Number:104203, Pages:14
Using SegFormer for Effective Semantic Cell Segmentation for Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Arrays March 01, 2025 IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics - Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 320-331
Improved Accuracy for Subject-Dependent and Subject-Independent Deep Learning-based SSVEP BCI Classification: A User-Friendly Approach August 29, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 115935-115950
Effective image processing-based technique for frost detection and quantification in domestic refrigerators April 01, 2024 International Journal of Refrigeration - Volume:160, Pages 217-228
Skeletal Keypoint-Based Transformer Model for Human Action Recognition in Aerial Videos January 15, 2024 IEEE Access - Volume: 12, Page(s): 11095-11103
Body-Pose-Guided Action Recognition with Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) in Aerial Videos August 18, 2023 Applied Sciences - Volume 13, Issue 16, Article Number 9384
Towards automated weed detection through two-stage semantic segmentation of tobacco and weed pixels in aerial Imagery August 01, 2023 Smart Agricultural Technology - Volume 4, Article Number 100142
A W-shaped convolutional network for robust crop and weed classification in agriculture May 11, 2023 Precision Agriculture - Pages 1-17
Deep Learning Based Multiresponse Optimization Methodology for Dual-Axis MEMS Accelerometer April 04, 2023 Micromachines - Volume 14, Issue 4, Article Number 817
IoT-Based Non-Intrusive Automated Driver Drowsiness Monitoring Framework for Logistics and Public Transport Applications to Enhance Road Safety February 15, 2023 IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 14385-14397
Patch-wise weed coarse segmentation mask from aerial imagery of sesame crop December 01, 2022 Computers and electronics in agriculture - Volume 203, Article Number 107458
Using Deep Siamese networks for trajectory analysis to extract motion patterns in videos April 01, 2022 Electronics Letters - Volume 58, Issue 9, Pages 356-359
Performance analysis and formative assessment of visual trackers using PETS critical infrastructure surveillance datasets July 10, 2019 Journal of Electronic Imaging - Volume 28, Issue 4, Article Number 043004
A method for performance diagnosis and evaluation of video trackers October 01, 2017 Signal Image and Video Processing - Volume 11, Pages1287–1295
Effective evaluation of privacy protection techniques in visible and thermal imagery September 01, 2017 Journal of Electronic Imaging - Volume 26, Issue 5, Article Number 051408
Discrete Wavelet Transform-Based Whole-Spectral and Subspectral Analysis for Improved Brain Tumor Clustering Using Single Voxel MR Spectroscopy December 01, 2015 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering - Volume 62, Issue 12, Pages 2860-2866
Measures of Effective Video Tracking January 01, 2014 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 376-388
A Protocol for Evaluating Video Trackers Under Real-World Conditions April 01, 2013 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages1354-1361
Conferences
Multi-Degree of Freedom Prosthetic Hand with sEMG and Mode Based Control April 01, 2026 - April 03, 2026 Amir Hamza, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Syed Muhammad Faqeeh Shah, IEEE International Conference on Electrical/Electronics, Robotics, AI, and Informatics
Design and Development of Custom Multichannel EMG Armband, with Emphasis on Hardware and Signal Acquisition April 01, 2026 - April 03, 2026 Hamid Jabbar, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Muhammad Ibtehaj Ahmad, IEEE International Conference on Electrical/Electronics, Robotics, AI, and Informatics
Bare Printed Circuit Board Defects Localization and Detection Using YOLOv5 Models December 18, 2024 - December 19, 2024 Wajih Ahmed Khan, Amir Hamza, Muhammad Usman Akram, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Tahir Habib Nawaz, 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
Deep Learning-Based Approach for Frost Quantification in Domestic Refrigerators December 18, 2024 - December 19, 2024 Hassan Akbar, Huzzam Hassan, Anjum Naeem Malik, Tahir Habib Nawaz, 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI)
An Improved Method for Identifying SSVEP Single-Channel Target Frequency for BCI Systems November 26, 2024 - November 27, 2024 Umar Shahbaz Khan, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Syed Tayyab Hussain Shah, Adeel Wahab, Hassan Akbar, Zulfiqar Hasan Khan, 2024 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering, ETECTE 2024 - Proceedings
Enhancing the Accuracy of SSVEP Target Frequency Detection: A User- Friendly Approach October 17, 2024 - October 18, 2024 Adeel Wahab, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Syed Tayyab Hussain Shah, Naveed Anjum, First International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronics, and Energy Engineering (ICAME-24)
Deep Learning-based Feature Fusion for Action Recognition Using Skeleton Information March 03, 2023 - March 05, 2023 Fahad Ul Hassan Asif Mattoo, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Nasir Rashid, 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry, ICRAI 2023
Crop and Weeds Classification in Aerial Imagery of Sesame Crop Fields Using a Patch-Based Deep Learning Model-Ensembling Method May 24, 2022 - May 26, 2022 Syed Imran Moazzam, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Waqar Shahid Qureshi, IEEE International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
Deep trajectory representation-based clustering for motion pattern extraction in videos August 29, 2017 - September 01, 2017 Jonathan Boyle, Tahir Habib Nawaz, James Ferryman, 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
PETS 2017: Dataset and Challenge July 21, 2017 - July 26, 2017 Luis Patino, Tahir Habib Nawaz, Tom Cane, James Ferryman, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
User-centric, embedded vision-based human monitoring: A concept and a healthcare use case September 12, 2016 - September 15, 2016 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Bernhard Rinner, James Ferryman, ACM International Conference on Distributed Smart Camera (ICDSC)
ViTBAT: Video tracking and behavior annotation tool August 23, 2016 - August 26, 2016 Tewodros A. Biresaw, Tahir Habib Nawaz, James Ferryman, Anthony I. Dell, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Tracking performance evaluation on PETS 2015 Challenge datasets August 25, 2015 - August 28, 2015 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Jonathan Boyle, Longzhen Li, James Ferryman, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
PETS 2015: Datasets and challenge August 25, 2015 - August 28, 2015 Longzhen Li, Tahir Habib Nawaz, James Ferryman, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Temporally stable feature clusters for maritime object tracking in visible and thermal imagery August 25, 2015 - August 28, 2015 Christopher Osborne, Tom Cane, Tahir Habib Nawaz, James Ferryman, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Trajectory clustering for motion pattern extraction in aerial videos October 27, 2014 - October 30, 2014 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Andrea Cavallaro, Bernhard Rinner, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Assessing tracking assessment measures October 27, 2014 - October 30, 2014 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Fabio Poiesi, Andrea Cavallaro, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
PFT: A protocol for evaluating video trackers September 11, 2011 - September 14, 2011 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Andrea Cavallaro, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Global analysis of haustral fold ridges for the reduction of false positives in CTC-CAD July 14, 2011 - July 15, 2011 Tahir Habib Nawaz, Greg Slabaugh, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference (MIUA)
Research Engineer Jaguar Land Rover January 08, 2018 - September 30, 2021
Post-doctoral Research Assistant University of Reading October 20, 2014 - December 01, 2017