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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 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

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.)

Conference Paper ICDAR Image Classification Zero-Shot Learning Document Analysis

Sinha, S., Khan, M. S. U., Sheikh, T. U., Stricker, D., Afzal M. Z. (2024). CICA: Content-Injected Contrastive Alignment for Zero-Shot Document Image Classification.

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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 5 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
    2 1 Python
  • sad-instruct Situational Awareness Database for Instruct-Tuning (SAD-Instruct)
    1 0 Python

Personal Projects

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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