Conference Programme


"Due to the third wave of COVID-19 and in the interest of the research community, it is decided to move the conference online while trying to preserve as much of the real-life experience as possible. Participants and Presenters will be able to attend the presentations, have live Q&A, and attend other live events associated with the conference online. We will be sharing the information on attending the conference system soon. Stay tuned, stay safe!"

"Time given in the program is Pakistan Standard Time (PKT), UTC+05:00"

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Day 1 - 20th May 2021
Time Room A Room B Room C Room D
9:30 - 10:30 AM Opening Ceremony
Chief Host and Steering Committee Chair: Pro-Rector RIC
Chief Guest: Dr. Rizwan Younis (CTO Zong)
Chair IEEE Islamabad Chapter Dr. Uzair Khan
General Chair: Dr. Osman Hasan (Principal SEECS)

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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Session 1: Medical Image Processing and Health Care
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Session 2: Neural Networks and Applications
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Session 3: Power Electronics and Control
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Huawei Poster Competetion

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11:00 - 11:30 AM INVITED TALK
Speaker: Dr. Floriano Scioscia
Topic: "Towards a Semantic Web of Everything"
INVITED TALK
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Junaid Qadir
Topic: "AI's Governance and Ethical Dilemmas"
INVITED TALK
Speaker: Dr. Ammar Hassan
Topic: "Model Predictive Control of Power Electronic Converters"
11:35 - 11:50 AM Paper ID: 67 "A Deep Convolutional Neural Network based Framework for Pneumonia Detection" Paper ID: 116 "Feature Attention Network for Simultaneous Nuclei Instance Segmentation and Classification in Histology Images" Paper ID: 171 "Tuning of PID Controller using Whale Optimization Algorithm for Different Systems"
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM Paper ID: 208 "Attention Based Residual Network for Effective Detection of COVID-19 and Viral Pneumonia" Paper ID: 90 "A Novel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Using The Mayfly Algorithm for Classification" Paper ID: 203 "CSOA-based residential energy management system in smart grid considering DGS for demand response"
12:15 - 12:30 PM Paper ID: 104 "Multiscale Unified Network for Simultaneous Segmentation of Nerves and Micro-vessels in Histology Images" Paper ID: 113 "Large Scale Face Recognition In the Wild: Technical Challenges and Research Directions" Paper ID: 218 "PV Fed Battery + Ultra-Capacitor Based Hybrid Energy Storage for Powering Marine Loads"
12:35 - 12:50 PM   Paper ID: 115 "Leveraging Supervised Machine Learning Techniques for Identification of Malaria Cells using Blood Smears" Paper ID: 136 "Motor Speed Synchronization of Mobile Robot using PID Controller"
1:00- 2:00 PM Lunch and Prayer Break
2:00 - 5:00 PM Session 4: Audio/Speech and Natural Language Processing 
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Session 5: Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
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Session 6: Applications of Machine Learning
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2:00 - 2:30 PM INVITED TALK
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Adrian Ulges
Topic: "AMIGO - Automatic Indexing of Lecture Footage"
INDUSTRY SESSION
Acet Solutions
Speaker: Mubarik Mustafa
Senior OT Cybersecurity Consultant
Acet Solutions
Topic: "Industrial Cybersecurity - Challenges & Opportunities"
INDUSTRY SESSION
KeepTruckin
Speaker: Ali Rehan
Engineering Manager, AI/Vision Products
Speaker: Ali Hassan
Tech Lead and Manager (Computer Vision and Machine Learning)
2:35 - 2:50 PM Paper ID: 165 "Speech Quality Assessment using Mel Frequency Spectrograms of Speech Signals"
2:55 - 3:10 PM Paper ID: 181 "Fine Tuning BERT for Unethical Behavior Classification"
3:15  - 3:30 PM Paper ID: 161 "Smart Wheel Chair- An Implementation of Voice and Android Controlled System" Paper ID: 27 "A Novel Fog-based Framework for Preventing Cloud Lock-in while Enabling Searchable Encryption" Paper ID: 175 "Sentiment Analysis on COVID Tweets: An experimental analysis on impact of Count Vectorizer and TF-IDF on sentiment predictions using Deep Learning Models"
3:35 - 3:50 PM Paper ID: 133 "Transfer Learning Grammar for Multilingual Surface Realisation" Paper ID: 126 "Towards a distributed ledger based verifiable trusted protocol for VANET" Paper ID: 114 "Diagnose A Disease: A Deep Learning based eHealth Framework for Disease Diagnosis and Prognosis in Integrated Fog Computing Environments"
3:55 - 4:10 PM Paper ID: 176 "A Survey of Sentiment Analysis of Internet Textual Data, and Application to Pakistani YouTube User Comments" Paper ID: 64 "Performance Analysis of Blackhole and Wormhole  Attack in MANET Based IoT" Paper ID: 128 "Applications of Machine Learning in Digital Forensics"
3:55 - 4:10 PM      
Day 2 - 21st May 2021
Time Room A Room B Room C Room D
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Session 7: Computer Vision and Applications - I
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Session 8: Deep Learning and Applications
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Session 9: Knowledge Discovery & Predictive Data Analytics
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10:00 - 10:30 AM INVITED TALK
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Shahzad
INVITED TALK
Speaker: Rasheed Hussain
Topic: Rethinking Application Programming Interface (API) Security"
INVITED TALK
Speaker: Prof. Xiangjie Kong
Topic: "Mobile Crowdsourcing: Towards Smart Cities"
10:35 - 10:50 AM Paper ID: 204 "NLP meets Vision for Visual Interpretation - A Retrospective Insight and Future directions" Paper ID: 100 "Plant Disease Identification Using Transfer Learning" Paper ID: 103 "Predicting Most Influential Paper Award Using Citation Count"
10:55 - 11:10 AM Paper ID: 66 "A Refined Approach for Classification and Detection of Melanoma Skin Cancer using Deep Neural Network" Paper ID: 149 "Performance analysis of deep learning frameworks for Covid 19 detection" Paper ID: 193 "CURE: Collection for Urdu Information Retrieval Evaluation and Ranking"
11:15 - 11:30 AM Paper ID: 185 "Deep Learning Based Land Cover and Crop Type Classification: A Comparative Study" Paper ID: 219 "A Survey of Deep Neural Network in Acoustic Direction Finding" Paper ID: 167 "COVID-19: Future Preference of University Students to Promote Online Education in Pakistan"
11:35 - 11:50 AM Paper ID: 123 "Deep Learning for Face Detection: Recent Advancements" Paper ID: 177 "From Transformers to Reformers" Paper ID: 95 "Affinity based scheduling Using Bayesian Model and Load Balancing in Multicore Systems"
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM Paper ID: 212 "Group Activity Recognition in Visual Data: A Retrospective Analysis of Recent Advancements" Paper ID: 117 "High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification through Deep Neural Network" Paper ID: 63 "Space Air Ground Integrated Network: Coverage for Accident Monitoring"
12:15 - 12:30 PM      
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch and Prayer Break
2:00 - 4:00 PM Session 10: Machine Learning
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Session 11: Computer Vision and Applications - II
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Session 12: Automated Problem Solving
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2:00 - 2:30 PM INVITED TALK
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marcus Liwicki 
INVITED TALK
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Schwanecke
Topic: "Aerial Photography with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
INDUSTRY SESSION
Huawei
Speaker: Mr. Mursleen Hyder
Senior Solution Architect
Topic: "Autonomous Driving Network"
2:35 - 2:50 PM Paper ID: 97 "Multiple Solutions Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Cluster Head Selection in  Wireless Sensor Network" Paper ID: 168 "Feature Learning Capacity Assessment of DCGAN Discriminator for Action Recognition in a Self Supervised Framework" Paper ID: 31 "Classy AA-NECTAR: Personalized Ubiquitous E-Learning Recommender System with Ontology and Data Science Techniques"
2:55 - 3:10 PM Paper ID: 220 "Machine Learning for Performance Enhancement in Fronthaul Links for IOT Applications" Paper ID: 118 "Application of deep learning for weapons detection in surveillance videos" Paper ID: 146 "Formal Modeling and Automation of E-Payment Smart Parking System"
3:15  - 3:30 PM Paper ID: 92 "Classification of Deepfake videos using pre-trained convolutional neural networks" Paper ID: 119 "Rotation aware object detection model with applications to weapons spotting in surveillance videos" Paper ID: 148 "Blockchain-based Formal Modeling of Patient Management in Hospital Emergency System"
3:35 - 3:50 PM   Paper ID: 120 "IAB-Net Informative and Attention Based Person Re-Identification"  
4:00 - 5:00 PM Closing Ceremoy
General Chair: Dr. Osman Hasan (Principal SEECS)
Chief Guest: Mr. Shahzad CTO Huawei
Keynote Talk: Mr. Adnan Zafar, Director Network Solutions (Huawei)
"Intelligent Network Operations using AI"
Huawei Poster Competetion Results Announcement
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