Human Motion Researcher
Saif Khan
Logo Researcher at DFKI AV

Currently working on spine-aware motion understanding, markerless human tracking, and efficient multimodal AI.

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Recent Publications

Title Year
Amortized inverse kinematics via graph attention for real-time human avatar animation
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Chen-Yu Wang, Tim Prokosch, Michael Lorenz, Bertram Taetz, Didier Stricker
Open Research Europe | SCA 2026 · Published
[Paper] [Poster Abstract] [Dataset] [arXiv] [Poster] [Page]
2026
SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier Stricker
CVPR 2026 · Conference paper
[Paper] [arXiv] [Dataset] [Code] [Inference] [Video] [Page]
2026
PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and Toolkit
Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier Stricker
WACV 2026 · Conference paper
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Benchmarks] [Docs] [Page]
2025

Showing 3 of 15 publications.

Updates

Latest updates about my research, projects, and other work.

2026
Extended work on IK-GAT published in Open Research Europe Read more
Aug 29
IK-GAT poster presented at Symposium on Computer Animation 2026 in Barcelona, Spain Read more
Jul 09
SIMSPINE poster presented at CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO, USA Read more
Jun 03
SIMSPINE accepted at CVPR 2026 for 3D spine motion annotation and benchmarking Read more
Feb 23
2025
PoseAdapt accepted at WACV 2026 for continual learning in human pose estimation Read more
Nov 28
SpinePose accepted at CVSports, CVPR 2025 for unconstrained 2D human spine pose estimation Read more
Apr 07
Classroom-Inspired Multi-mentor Distillation accepted at Intelligent Systems Conference 2025 Read more
Mar 15
SituationalLLM published in Open Research Europe for scene-aware proactive language models Read more
Mar 03
2024
Shape2.5D dataset paper published in IEEE Access for depth and normals estimation Read more
Nov 30
Student project opportunity in human image generation for Winter Semester 2024/25 Read more
Oct 29
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

Open-Source Contributions

Research is my primary focus. I maintain open-source software where it improves reproducibility, enables practical inference workflows, and keeps useful developer tools available.

GitHub Profile SpinePose Inference OpenDetect Project Archive

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