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Uzair Aslam Bhatti
dblp:200/3139
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32ranked-venue papers
5as first author
29since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-8743-2783ORCID · verified
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 15 · 3 first-author · 15 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 7 · 1 first-author · 5 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 5 · 1 first-author · 5 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 5 · 1 first-author · 4 since 2021Computer networks · 2 · 2 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DG-Morph: dense convolutional and gated feature extraction network for multimodal 3D prostate MRI registration
Mengxing Huang, Zehao Ni, Yu Zhang 0071, Nana Liu, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Zhiming Bai |
Appl. Intell. | 6 |
| 2026 | Double-observer-based consensus of switched positive multiagent systems with switched topologies
Yahao Yang, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Ahmed Bakr |
Sci. China Inf. Sci. | 3 |
| 2026 | DiTFusion: Prostate magnetic resonance image fusion based on Scalable Diffusion Models with transformers
Mengxing Huang, Xiaoxiang Li, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Zhiming Bai |
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. | 7 |
| 2026 | Coconut germination precise prediction via multimodal fusion with Co-attention networks: A non-destructive precision agriculture and food engineering solution
Anum Mehmood, Zemin Wu, Yu Zhang 0071, Xinpeng Bai, Chengxu Sun, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Mengxing Huang, Shenghuang Lin, Hongxing Cao |
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. | 6 |
| 2026 | DADFENet: A dual-branch adaptive and dynamic feature enhancement network for hyperspectral change detection
Mingshuai Sheng, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Mengxing Huang, Yonis Gulzar |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 2 |
| 2026 | MTT-TKG: Multitime-Gate, Time-Aware, and Time-Guided Representation Learning for TKGsabstractTemporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) representation learning embeds entities and relations into a low-dimensional space while preserving relational structures across time steps. Existing methods often neglect the critical role of timestamps in capturing evolving relational patterns. To bridge this gap, we propose MTT-TKG, a novel framework integrating three synergistic modules: (1) a Multi-Time Gate module modeling Knowledge Graph (KG) evolution across historical timestamps via multilayer gating; (2) a Time-Aware module capturing timestampspecific relational characteristics; (3) a Time-Guided module handling cross-graph temporal dependencies. An embeddingtime decoder completes the representation learning. Experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate MTT-TKG’s superior performance in capturing temporal dynamics and relational structures. Qian Liu 0035, Siling Feng, Mengxing Huang, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Muhammad Khurram Khan |
IEEE Internet Things J. | 4 |
| 2026 | A transductive learning-based method for vehicle routing problems using off-policy proximal policy optimization and hyperparameter optimizationabstractThe Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a fundamental combinatorial optimization task that involves determining cost-effective routes subject to operational constraints. This study proposes a deep reinforcement learning framework that integrates Off-policy Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with a transductive LSTM (TLSTM), further enhanced by a differential evolution-based hyperparameter optimization (HO) procedure. The TLSTM module captures spatiotemporal dependencies more effectively than conventional LSTMs, while the off-policy PPO component enables robust policy updates under diverse VRP variants. The HO module ensures stable convergence by adaptively balancing exploration and exploitation. The proposed approach is evaluated on five VRP variants—including the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Capacitated VRP (CVRP), Split Delivery VRP (SDVRP), Orienteering Problem (OP), and Prize Collecting TSP (PCTSP)—demonstrating consistent improvements in both solution quality and computational efficiency. On average, the framework achieves a 4.12% reduction in route costs and a 94.34% improvement in computational speed, underscoring its potential for advancing VRP research and supporting practical applications in logistics and transportation. Chin Soon Ku, Jing Yang 0054, Roohallah Alizadehsani, Pawel Plawiak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Lip Yee Por |
Inf. Sci. | 8 |
| 2026 | Non-Singular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Controller Design for USV Based on the Predefined-Time Observer and Neural NetworkabstractThis paper presents a control framework integrated with a predefined-time observer and a neural network for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) trajectory-tracking. To achieve rapid estimation of the system state, a predefined-time observer (PTO) has been designed to efficiently estimate and compensate for trajectory errors. Subsequent, a neural network estimator is designed to estimate the uncertainty and disturbance set of the USV. Then, a control law is constructed using the non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC) method by integrating the predefined-time observer and the neural network (NN). This approach overcomes the singularity issue and accelerates the state convergence speed of the system at different stages. Finally, the stability of the system is proved using Lyapunov stability theory, and the effectiveness of the method is verified by a simulation example. The results show that the control scheme ensures that the tracking error converges to zero in a predefined-time and to have improved tracking accuracy and control performance. Yibo Zhang 0001, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Di Wu 0058 |
IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng. | 4 |
| 2026 | Global-local feature fusion in MRI brain tumor segmentation via enhanced U-Net-ViT architecture and adaptive contrast preprocessing
Xinxin Sun, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Yu Zhang 0071, Yonis Gulzar, Muhammad Aamir 0002, Hayitov Abdulla Nurmatovich, Khudoynazarov Egambergan Madrakhimovich |
Vis. Comput. | 2 |
| 2025 | REFD:recurrent encoder and fusion decoder for temporal knowledge graph reasoning
Qian Liu 0035, Siling Feng, Mengxing Huang, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
Appl. Intell. | 4 |
| 2025 | Explainability analysis based on attribution features for optimizing automatic modulation classification
Bo Xu 0030, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Hao Tang 0004 |
Comput. Networks | 3 |
| 2025 | Digital twin-driven reinforcement learning-based operational management for customized manufacturing
Hao Tang 0004, Minghao Cheng, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Bo Xu 0030, Nan Zhou 0004 |
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. | 3 |
| 2025 | FF-UNet: Feature fusion based deep learning-powered enhanced framework for accurate brain tumor segmentation in MRI images
Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Jinru Liu, Mengxing Huang, Yu Zhang 0071 |
Image Vis. Comput. | 1 |
| 2025 | Optimized Sustainable Manufacturing Through Fuzzy Control in Image-Based Visual Servoing With Velocity and Field-of-View ConstraintsabstractThe performance of image-based visual servoing (IBVS) in dynamic, high-speed, and high-precision applications is a major issue in sustainable and smart manufacturing systems. The proposed solution addresses the need for systematic optimization of control laws and constraint treatments in IBVS processes. Limited exploration of this topic is evident in the literature. Central to our approach is a smart fuzzy control-based scheme optimized for the sustainable and intelligent operation of robotic arms in manufacturing environments. The scheme incorporates a Mamdani fuzzy inference method for the adaptive adjustment of servoing gain, improving convergence and aligning with smart manufacturing principles. This method ensures precision and responsiveness, which are essential for high-speed and high-precision tasks. We address field-of-view constraints through an innovative online generation method of virtual features with a variable radius in the image space. The effectiveness of this approach, which synergizes sustainable manufacturing with smart, technology-driven solutions, is demonstrated through various comparative experiments. The experimental results show that the number of convergence iterations and the average initial velocity of the proposed method are reduced to 59% and 12%, respectively, of those of the existing methods on average; the optimization of the convergence efficiency and the continuity of the initial speed are obvious. Additionally, the maximum value of the vertical coordinate of the image is 1011 pixel, and has the best security performance. Minghao Cheng, Hao Tang 0004, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Di Li 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. | 3 |
| 2025 | Efficient Click-Based Interactive Segmentation for Medical Image With Improved Plain-ViTabstractThe primary objective of interactive medical image segmentation systems is to achieve more precise segmentation outcomes with reduced human intervention. This endeavor holds significant clinical importance for both pre-diagnostic pathological assessments and prognostic recovery. Among the various interaction methods available, click-based interactions stand out as an intuitive and straightforward approach compared to alternatives such as graffiti, bounding boxes, and extreme points. To improve the model's ability to interpret click-based interactions, we propose a comprehensive interactive segmentation framework that leverages an iterative weighted loss function based on user clicks. To enhance the segmentation capabilities of the Plain-ViT backbone, we introduce a Residual Multi-Headed Self-Attention encoder with hierarchical inputs and residual connections, offering multiple perspectives on the data. This innovative architecture leads to a remarkable improvement in segmentation model performance. In this research paper, we assess the robustness of our proposed framework using a self-compiled T2-MRI image dataset of the prostate and three publicly available datasets containing images of other organs. Our experimental results convincingly demonstrate that our segmentation model surpasses existing state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, the incorporation of an iterative loss function training strategy significantly accelerates the model's convergence rate during interactions. In the prostate dataset, we achieved an impressive Intersection over Union (IoU) score of 88.11% and Number of Clicks(NoC) at 80% are 7.03 clicks. Mengxing Huang, Yu Zhang 0071, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics | 4 |
| 2025 | RSF-Net: a robust multi-scale feature fusion network for vehicle detection in challenging traffic environments
Lisi Dai, Hao Tang 0004, Bo Xu 0030, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Jinxiong Gao |
J. Supercomput. | 5 |
| 2024 | PE-Transformer: Path enhanced transformer for improving underwater object detection
Jinxiong Gao, Xu Geng, Hao Tang 0004, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 5 |
| 2024 | Interactive medical image annotation using improved Attention U-net with compound geodesic distance
Yu Zhang 0071, Xiangxun Ma, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Mengxing Huang |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 5 |
| 2024 | Hybrid watermarking algorithm for medical images based on digital transformation and MobileNetV2
Saqib Ali Nawaz, Jingbing Li, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Muhammad Usman Shoukat, Raza Muhammad Ahmad |
Inf. Sci. | 3 |
| 2023 | MFFCG - Multi feature fusion for hyperspectral image classification using graph attention network
Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Mengxing Huang, Harold Neira-Molina, Shah Marjan, Mehmood Baryalai, Hao Tang 0004, Guilu Wu, Sibghat Ullah Bazai |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 1 |
| 2023 | Deep Learning with Graph Convolutional Networks: An Overview and Latest Applications in Computational IntelligenceabstractConvolutional neural networks (CNNs) have received widespread attention due to their powerful modeling capabilities and have been successfully applied in natural language processing, image recognition, and other fields. On the other hand, traditional CNN can only deal with Euclidean spatial data. In contrast, many real‐life scenarios, such as transportation networks, social networks, reference networks, and so on, exist in graph data. The creation of graph convolution operators and graph pooling is at the heart of migrating CNN to graph data analysis and processing. With the advancement of the Internet and technology, graph convolution network (GCN), as an innovative technology in artificial intelligence (AI), has received more and more attention. GCN has been widely used in different fields such as image processing, intelligent recommender system, knowledge‐based graph, and other areas due to their excellent characteristics in processing non‐European spatial data. At the same time, communication networks have also embraced AI technology in recent years, and AI serves as the brain of the future network and realizes the comprehensive intelligence of the future grid. Many complex communication network problems can be abstracted as graph‐based optimization problems and solved by GCN, thus overcoming the limitations of traditional methods. This survey briefly describes the definition of graph‐based machine learning, introduces different types of graph networks, summarizes the application of GCN in various research fields, analyzes the research status, and gives the future research direction. Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Hao Tang 0004, Guilu Wu, Shah Marjan, Aamir Hussain |
Int. J. Intell. Syst. | 1 |
| 2023 | A Digital Twin-Based Visual Servoing with Extreme Learning Machine and Differential EvolutionabstractThe technology of visual servoing, with the digital twin as its driving force, holds great promise and advantages for enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of smart manufacturing assembly and dispensing applications. The effective deployment of visual servoing is contingent upon the robust and accurate estimation of the vision‐motion correlation. Network‐based methodologies are frequently employed in visual servoing to approximate the mapping between 2D image feature errors and 3D velocities, offering promising avenues for improving the accuracy and reliability of visual servoing systems. These developments have the potential to fully leverage the capabilities of digital twin technology in the realm of smart manufacturing. However, obtaining sufficient training data for these methods is challenging, and thus improving model generalization to reduce data requirements is imperative. To address this issue, we offer a learning‐based approach for estimating Jacobian matrices of visual servoing that organically combines an extreme learning machine (ELM) and a differential evolutionary algorithm (DE). In the first stage, the pseudoinverse of the image Jacobian matrix is approximated using the ELM, which solves the problems associated with traditional visual servoing and is resistant to outside influences such as image noise and mistakes in camera calibration. In the second stage, differential evolution is utilized to select input weights and hidden layer bias and to determine ELM’s output weights. Experimental results conducted on a digital twin operating platform for 4‐DOF robot with an eye‐in‐hand configuration demonstrate better performance than classical visual servoing and traditional ELM‐based visual servoing in various cases. Minghao Cheng, Hao Tang 0004, Syam Melethil Sethumadhavan, Muhammad Assam, Di Li 0001, Yazeed Ghadi, Heba G. Mohamed, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
Int. J. Intell. Syst. | 9 |
| 2023 | A New Hybrid Forecasting Model Based on Dual Series Decomposition with Long-Term Short-Term MemoryabstractIn recent years, ozone (O3) has gradually become the primary pollutant plaguing urban air quality. Accurate and efficient ozone prediction is of great significance to the prevention and control of ozone pollution. The air quality monitoring network provides multisource pollutant concentration monitoring data for ozone prediction, but ozone prediction based on multisource monitoring data still faces the challenges of each station’s series of data. Aiming at the problems of low prediction accuracy and low computational efficiency in traditional atmospheric ozone concentration prediction, ozone concentration prediction using dual series decomposition was proposed by variational mode decomposition (VMD), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), and long short‐term memory (LSTM). First, the historical data series of Nanjing air quality monitoring stations is decomposed by VMD, and then the EEMD algorithm is applied to the residual of VMD to obtain several characteristic intrinsic mode function (IMF) components; each characteristic IMF component is trained by LSTM to obtain the prediction result of each component, and then the final result can be obtained by linear superposition. The proposed method achieved the best results with R2 = 99%, MSE = 5.38, MAE = 4.54, and MAPE = 3.12. Because LSTM has strong adaptive learning ability and good memory function, it has the learning advantage of long‐term memory for long‐term data, and the prediction results are more accurate. According to the data, the proposed method is superior to the baseline models in terms of statistical metrics. As a result, the proposed hybrid method can serve as a reliable model for ozone forecasting. Hao Tang 0004, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Jingbing Li, Shah Marjan, Mehmood Baryalai, Muhammad Assam, Yazeed Ghadi, Heba G. Mohamed |
Int. J. Intell. Syst. | 2 |
| 2023 | The nexus between higher education and economic growth in Morocco: an empirical investigation using VaR model and VECM
Asmaa Fahim, Qingmei Tan, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Saqib Ali Nawaz |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 3 |
| 2023 | Evaluation of the one belt and one road (OBOR) in economic development and suggestions analysis based on SWOT analysis with weighted AHP and entropy methods
Muhammad Qayyum, Yuyuan Yu, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 3 |
| 2022 | Robust zero-watermarking algorithm for medical images based on SIFT and Bandelet-DCT
Yangxiu Fang, Jing Liu 0041, Jingbing Li, Jieren Cheng, Jiabin Hu, Dan Yi, Xiliang Xiao, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 8 |
| 2022 | Local Similarity-Based Spatial-Spectral Fusion Hyperspectral Image Classification With Deep CNN and Gabor FilteringabstractCurrently, the different deep neural network (DNN) learning approaches have done much for the classification of hyperspectral images (HSIs), especially most of them use the convolutional neural network (CNN). HSI data have the characteristics of multidimensionality, correlation, nonlinearity, and a large amount of data. Therefore, it is particularly important to extract deeper features in HSIs by reducing dimensionalities which help improve the classification in both spectral and spatial domains. In this article, we present a spatial–spectral HSI classification algorithm, local similarity projection Gabor filtering (LSPGF), which uses local similarity projection (LSP)-based reduced dimensional CNN with a 2-D Gabor filtering algorithm. First, use the local similarity analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the hyperspectral data, and then we use the 2-D Gabor filter to filter the reduced hyperspectral data to generate spatial tunnel information. Second, use the CNN to extract features from the original hyperspectral data to generate spectral tunnel information. Third, the spatial tunnel information and the spectral tunnel information are fused to form the spatial–spectral feature information, which is input into the deep CNN to extract more effective features; and finally, a dual optimization classifier is used to classify the final extracted features. This article compares the performance of the proposed method with other algorithms in three public HSI databases and shows that the overall accuracy of the classification of LSPGF outperforms all datasets. Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Zhaoyuan Yu, Jocelyn Chanussot, Zeeshan Zeeshan, Linwang Yuan, Wen Luo 0004, Saqib Ali Nawaz, Mughair Aslam Bhatti, Anum Mehmood |
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. | 1 |
| 2021 | Feature-based multi-criteria recommendation system using a weighted approach with ranking correlationabstractWith the increase of online businesses, recommendation algorithms are being researched a lot to facilitate the process of using the existing information. Such multi-criteria recommendation (MCRS) helps a lot the end-users to attain the required results of interest having different selective criteria – such as combinations of implicit and explicit interest indicators in the form of ranking or rankings on different matched dimensions. Current approaches typically use label correlation, by assuming that the label correlations are shared by all objects. In real-world tasks, however, different sources of information have different features. Recommendation systems are more effective if being used for making a recommendation using multiple criteria of decisions by using the correlation between the features and items content (content-based approach) or finding a similar user rating to get targeted results (Collaborative filtering). To combine these two filterings in the multicriteria model, we proposed a features-based fb-knn multi-criteria hybrid recommendation algorithm approach for getting the recommendation of the items by using multicriteria features of items and integrating those with the correlated items found in similar datasets. Ranks were assigned to each decision and then weights were computed for each decision by using the standard deviation of items to get the nearest result. For evaluation, we tested the proposed algorithm on different datasets having multiple features of information. The results demonstrate that proposed fb-knn is efficient in different types of datasets. Zeeshan Zeeshan, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Waqar Hussain Memon, Sajid Ali 0001, Saqib Ali Nawaz, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Anum Mehmood, Mughair Aslam Bhatti, Muhammad Usman Shoukat |
Intell. Data Anal. | 3 |
| 2021 | New watermarking algorithm utilizing quaternion Fourier transform with advanced scrambling and secure encryption
Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Linwang Yuan, Zhaoyuan Yu, Jingbing Li, Saqib Ali Nawaz, Anum Mehmood, Kun Zhang 0011 |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 1 |
| 2020 | Medical image segmentation using deep learning with feature enhancementabstractPre‐segmentation is known as a crucial step in medical image analysis. Many approaches have been proposed to make improvement to both the quality and efficiency of segmentation. However, existing methods are lacking in robustness to the variation in the edges and textures of the target. In order to address these drawbacks, a novel attention Gabor network (AGnet) based on deep learning for medical image segmentation that is capable of automatically paying more attention to the edge and consistently for improvement to the segmentation performance is proposed. The proposed model consists of two components. The first one is to determine the approximate location of the organs of interest in the image using convolution filters, and the other one is to highlight salient edge features intended for a specific segmentation task using Gabor filters. In order to facilitate collaboration in between the two parts, a region attention mechanism based on Gabor maps is suggested. The mechanism improved performance by learning to focus on the salient regions of the image that are useful for the authors' tasks. As indicated by the experimental results, the AGnet is capable of enhancing the prediction performance while maintaining the computational efficiency, which makes it comparable with other state‐of‐the‐art approaches. Shaoqiong Huang, Mengxing Huang, Yu Zhang 0071, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
IET Image Process. | 5 |
| 2019 | Contourlet-DCT based multiple robust watermarkings for medical images
Xiaoqi Wu, Jingbing Li, Rong Tu, Jieren Cheng, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Jixin Ma 0001 |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 5 |
| 2018 | A Clinical Decision Support Framework for Heterogeneous Data SourcesabstractTo keep pace with the developments in medical informatics, health medical data is being collected continually. But, owing to the diversity of its categories and sources, medical data has become so complicated in many hospitals that it now needs a clinical decision support (CDS) system for its management. To effectively utilize the accumulating health data, we propose a CDS framework that can integrate heterogeneous health data from different sources such as laboratory test results, basic information of patients, and health records into a consolidated representation of features of all patients. Using the electronic health medical data so created, multilabel classification was employed to recommend a list of diseases and thus assist physicians in diagnosing or treating their patients' health issues more efficiently. Once the physician diagnoses the disease of a patient, the next step is to consider the likely complications of that disease, which can lead to more diseases. Previous studies reveal that correlations do exist among some diseases. Considering these correlations, a k-nearest neighbors algorithm is improved for multilabel learning by using correlations among labels (CML-kNN). The CML- kNN algorithm first exploits the dependence between every two labels to update the origin label matrix and then performs multilabel learning to estimate the probabilities of labels by using the integrated features. Finally, it recommends the top N diseases to the physicians. Experimental results on real health medical data establish the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed CDS framework. Mengxing Huang, Huirui Han 0001, Hao Wang 0003, Lefei Li, Yu Zhang 0071, Uzair Aslam Bhatti |
IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics | 6 |