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Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan
Logo Researcher at Augmented Vision Group, DFKI

Ph.D. student at RPTU Kaiserslautern, dedicated to democratizing human motion understanding by optimizing neural networks for real-time deployment on consumer devices. Research focuses on markerless motion tracking, multimodal learning, and generative models to push the boundaries of human-centric AI. Previous work involved 3D reconstruction and signature verification.

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News
2025
Paper accepted in the CVSports workshop at CVPR 2025: SpinePose Read more
Apr 07
Paper accepted at the 11th Intelligent Systems Conference 2025: ClassroomKD Read more
Mar 15
Paper published in Open Research Europe: Situational Awareness in LLMs Read more
Mar 03
2024
Paper published in IEEE Access: Shape2.5D Dataset Read more
Nov 30
Looking for a student to work on a human image generation project in Winter Semester 2024/25. Read more
Oct 29
Paper published in DAS Workshop, ICDAR 2024: Enhanced Bank Check Security Read more
Sep 15
Paper accepted at ICDAR 2024: Zero-Shot Document Image Classification Read more
Apr 12
Looking for three students in Winter Semester 2024/25. Two seminars and one project available. Topics include gait recognition and controllable human image generation. Read more
Apr 11
2023
Looking for two students in Winter Semester 2023/24 for projects involving active learning and skeleton-agnostic pose estimation. Read more
Oct 23
Looking for four students in Summer Semester 2023. Topics include mobile-optimized neural networks, NAS, and KD for human pose estimation. 2 seminars and 2 projects available. Read more
Apr 03

Recent Publications

Workshop Paper CVPRW Pose Estimation Spine Tracking Biomechanics

Khan, M. S. U., Krauß, S., Stricker D. (2025). Towards Unconstrained 2D Pose Estimation of the Human Spine.

Conference Paper IntelliSys Knowledge Distillation Peer Ranking Adaptive Teaching Image Classification

Sarode, S.*, Khan, M. S. U.*, Shehzadi, T., Stricker, D., Afzal M. Z. (2025). Classroom-Inspired Multi-Mentor Distillation with Adaptive Learning Strategies. (* Equal contribution.)

Journal Paper Open Research Europe Large Language Models Scene Graphs Context-Aware Assistance Situational Awareness

Khan, M. S. U., Afzal, M. Z., Stricker D. (2025). SituationalLLM: Proactive Language Models with Scene Awareness for Dynamic, Contextual Task Guidance [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].

Journal Paper IEEE Access Texture-less Surfaces Depth Estimation Normal Estimation

Khan, M. S. U., Sinha, S., Stricker, D., Liwicki, M., Afzal M. Z. (2024). Shape2.5D: A Dataset of Texture-less Surfaces for Depth and Normals Estimation.

Workshop Paper ICDAR Workshops Bank Checks Object Detection Signature Verification Security Dataset

Khan, M. S. U.*, Shehzadi, T.*, Noor, R., Stricker, D., Afzal M. Z. (2024). Enhanced Bank Check Security: Introducing a Novel Dataset and Transformer-Based Approach for Detection and Verification. (* Equal contribution.)

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Education
  • Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU)
    Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU)
    Kaiserlautern, Germany
    Department of Computer Science
    Ph.D. Student
    2023 - present
  • Technical University of Kaiserslautern
    Technical University of Kaiserslautern
    Kaiserlautern, Germany
    Department of Computer Science
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    2019 - 2022
  • National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
    National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
    Islamabad, Pakistan
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)
    B.E. in Software Engineering
    2014 - 2018

Developer Profile

I love building software and AI systems to solve real-world problems. Experienced in web/mobile apps, machine learning, and cloud services. Open-source advocate.

Open Source Contribution

Here are some of my most popular GitHub repositories:

  • signature-extraction Program to extract signatures from documents.
    15 6 Python
  • paint A minimalistic paint application for Android.
    13 8 Kotlin
  • shape25d A Dataset of Texture-less Surfaces for Depth and Normals Estimation
    7 0 Python
  • ssbi-dataset Synthetic Signature Bank Check Images Dataset
    3 1 Python
  • sad-instruct Situational Awareness Database for Instruct-Tuning (SAD-Instruct)
    2 0 Python

Personal Projects | Blog

A couple of other side projects that I worked on in my free time. These are mostly small projects that I created to learn new technologies or solve a specific problem. Some of them are open-source and available on GitHub.

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Authentica: Signature Verification System

Authentica is a signature verification system designed to help banks and financial institutions to verify signatures on bank checks.
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Eduistein: Smart School App

Eduistein is an online learning management system for smart schools, in shape of a mobile app, developed for a client in India.
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Doodle: A Simple Paint App

Doodle is a simple paint application for Android, written in Java and Kotlin programming languages.
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RECatalyst: Better Project Management

A collaborative tool for software project management and requirements specification.
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Tiled: Tilemaps on Android

Tiled is a powerful API that simplifies the process of creating tilemaps for Android applications and games.
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