Hi, I'm Muhammad Akhtar Munir

Research Associate (Computer Vision)
MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Contact Email:
its <dot> akhtar90 <at> gmail <dot> com
akhtar <dot> munir <at> mbzuai <dot> ac <dot> ae

Welcome! I am currently a Research Associate (Computer Vision) @MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. Simultaneously, I am pursuing my Ph.D. at ITU. My research focuses on a variety of areas, including Object Detection, Domain Adaptation, Uncertainty Estimation, and Model Calibration. My current research centering on Domain Adaptation & Generalization, Model Calibration, Weather Modeling, and Remote Sensing.

Selected Publications

Sohail Danish, Muhammad Haris Khan, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Saquib Sarfraz, and Mohsen Ali. "Improving Single Domain-Generalized Object Detection: A Focus on Diversification and Alignment". In CVPR (2024). [Paper & Code (coming soon)]
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Salman Khan, Muhammad Haris Khan, Mohsen Ali, and Fahad Shahbaz Khan. "Cal-DETR: Calibrated Detection Transformer". In NeurIPS (2023). [Paper] [Code]
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Haris Khan, Muhammad Saquib Sarfraz, and Mohsen Ali. "Domain Adaptive Object Detection via Balancing between Self-Training and Adversarial Learning". In IEEE TPAMI (2023). [Paper] [Project Page]
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Haris Khan, Salman Khan, and Fahad Shahbaz Khan. "Bridging Precision and Confidence: A Train-Time Loss for Calibrating Object Detection". In CVPR (2023). [Paper] [Code]
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Haris Khan, Muhammad Saquib Sarfraz, and Mohsen Ali. "Towards improving calibration in object detection under domain shift". In NeurIPS (2022). [Paper] [Code]
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Haris Khan, Muhammad Saquib Sarfraz, and Mohsen Ali. "SSAL: Synergizing between Self-Training and Adversarial Learning for Domain Adaptive Object Detection". In NeurIPS (2021). [Paper] [Project Page]
Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Arif Mahmood, Afsheen Rafaqat Ali, and Mohsen Ali. "Leveraging orientation for weakly supervised object detection with application to firearm localization". In Neurocomputing (2021). [Paper] [Code]

Experience

Research Associate at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Duration: July 2023 – Present
Association: Computer Vision Department
Advisors: Dr. Salman Khan, Dr. Fahad S Khan

Research Intern at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Duration: August 2022 – June 2023
Association: Computer Vision Department
Advisors: Dr. Salman Khan, Dr. Fahad S Khan

Research Associate at Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, Pakistan

Duration: January 2022 – July 2022
Association: Under Google Research Scholar Award, ITU
PI: Dr. Mohsen Ali

Ph.D. Fellow (Student) at Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, Pakistan.

Duration: September 2017 – Present
Association: Intelligent Machines Lab, ITU
Advisor: Dr. Mohsen Ali

Lab Engineer at School of EE and CS (SEECS), NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Duration: November 2013 – September 2017
Association: Department of Computing, SEECS, NUST

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science
Information Technology University, Lahore
Thesis (submitted): Domain Adaptation for Object Detection

September 2017 - Present
Major Courses: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Probability & Stats

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad
Thesis: Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation in MR Sequences Using MLP and SVM

February 2015 - June 2017
Major Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing, Algorithms Analysis

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad
Final Year Project: Digital Watermarking in Multimodal Biometrics Domain

February 2009 - January 2013
Major Courses: Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Numerical Computations

Services & Honors

Reviewer: CVPR 2024, ICLR 2024, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023, NeurIPS 2023, ACM MM 2021
Awardee: NeurIPS 2022 & 2023 Scholar Award, CVPR 2023 DEI Award
Scholarship: PhD Fellowship, from Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
Summer School: EEML Summer School, Virtual Budapest, Hungary, 2021

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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