Touseef Sadiq

Mr. Touseef Sadiq

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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24 January 2025 in PLOS ONE
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MKMuhammad Rizwan Khurshid
Muhammad Rizwan Khurshid
SMSadaf Manzoor
Sadaf Manzoor
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
LHLal Hussain
Lal Hussain
MKMohammed Shahbaz Khan
Mohammed Shahbaz Khan
ADAshit Kumar Dutta
Ashit Kumar Dutta
Diabetes, a chronic condition affecting millions worldwide, necessitates early intervention to prevent severe complications. While accurately predicting diabetes onset or progression remains challenging due to complex and imbalanced datasets, recent advancements in machine learning offer potential solutions. Traditional prediction models, often limited by default parameters, have been superseded by more sophisticated approaches. Leveraging Bayesian optimization to fine-tune XGBoost, researchers can harness the power of complex data analysis to improve predictive accuracy. By identifying key factors influencing diabetes risk, personalized prevention strategies can be developed, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes. Successful implementation requires meticulous data management, stringent ethical considerations, and seamless integration into healthcare systems. This study focused on optimizing the hyperparameters of an XGBoost ensemble machine learning model using Bayesian optimization. Compared to grid search XGBoost (accuracy: 97.24%, F1-score: 95.72%, MCC: 81.02%), the XGBoost with Bayesian optimization achieved slightly improved performance (accuracy: 97.26%, F1-score: 95.72%, MCC:81.18%). Although the improvements observed in this study are modest, the optimized XGBoost model with Bayesian optimization represents a promising step towards revolutionizing diabetes prevention and treatment. This approach holds significant potential to improve outcomes for individuals at risk of developing diabetes.

26 December 2023 in Sensors
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Ashfaq Hussain FarooqiAshfaq Hussain Farooqi
Ashfaq Hussain Farooqi
SAShahzaib Akhtar
Shahzaib Akhtar
HRHameedur Rahman
Hameedur Rahman
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
Waseem AbbassWaseem Abbass
Waseem Abbass
In the context of 6G technology, the Internet of Everything aims to create a vast network that connects both humans and devices across multiple dimensions. The integration of smart healthcare, agriculture, transportation, and homes is incredibly appealing, as it allows people to effortlessly control their environment through touch or voice commands. Consequently, with the increase in Internet connectivity, the security risk also rises. However, the future is centered on a six-fold increase in connectivity, necessitating the development of stronger security measures to handle the rapidly expanding concept of IoT-enabled metaverse connections. Various types of attacks, often orchestrated using botnets, pose a threat to the performance of IoT-enabled networks. Detecting anomalies within these networks is crucial for safeguarding applications from potentially disastrous consequences. The voting classifier is a machine learning (ML) model known for its effectiveness as it capitalizes on the strengths of individual ML models and has the potential to improve overall predictive performance. In this research, we proposed a novel classification technique based on the DRX approach that combines the advantages of the Decision tree, Random forest, and XGBoost algorithms. This ensemble voting classifier significantly enhances the accuracy and precision of network intrusion detection systems. Our experiments were conducted using the NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, and CIC-IDS2017 datasets. The findings of our study show that the DRX-based technique works better than the others. It achieved a higher accuracy of 99.88% on the NSL-KDD dataset, 99.93% on the UNSW-NB15 dataset, and 99.98% on the CIC-IDS2017 dataset, outperforming the other methods. Additionally, there is a notable reduction in the false positive rates to 0.003, 0.001, and 0.00012 for the NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, and CIC-IDS2017 datasets.

4 December 2024 in Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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YAYawar Abbas
Yawar Abbas
NMNaif Al Mudawi
Naif Al Mudawi
BABayan Alabdullah
Bayan Alabdullah
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
AAAsaad Algarni
Asaad Algarni
AJAHMAD JALAL
AHMAD JALAL
Introduction: Recognizing human actions is crucial for allowing machines to understand and recognize human behavior, with applications spanning video based surveillance systems, human-robot collaboration, sports analysis systems, and entertainment. The immense diversity in human movement and appearance poses a significant challenge in this field, especially when dealing with drone-recorded (RGB) videos. Factors such as dynamic backgrounds, motion blur, occlusions, varying video capture angles, and exposure issues greatly complicate recognition tasks.Methods: In this study, we suggest a method that addresses these challenges in RGB videos captured by drones. Our approach begins by segmenting the video into individual frames, followed by preprocessing steps applied to these RGB frames. The preprocessing aims to reduce computational costs, optimize image quality, and enhance foreground objects while removing the background.Result: This results in improved visibility of foreground objects while eliminating background noise. Next, we employ the YOLOv9 detection algorithm to identify human bodies within the images. From the grayscale silhouette, we extract the human skeleton and identify 15 important locations, such as the head, neck, shoulders (left and right), elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and hips (left and right), and belly button. By using all these points, we extract specific positions, angular and distance relationships between them, as well as 3D point clouds and fiducial points. Subsequently, we optimize this data using the kernel discriminant analysis (KDA) optimizer, followed by classification using a deep neural network (CNN). To validate our system, we conducted experiments on three benchmark datasets: UAV-Human, UCF, and Drone-Action.Discussion: On these datasets, our suggested model produced corresponding action recognition accuracies of 0.68, 0.75, and 0.83.

28 September 2023 in Sensors
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ANAnjum Nazir
Anjum Nazir
ZMZulfiqar Ali Memon
Zulfiqar Ali Memon
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
HRHameedur Rahman
Hameedur Rahman
IKInam Ullah Khan
Inam Ullah Khan
The Internet of Things (IoT) and network-enabled smart devices are crucial to the digitally interconnected society of the present day. However, the increased reliance on IoT devices increases their susceptibility to malicious activities within network traffic, posing significant challenges to cybersecurity. As a result, both system administrators and end users are negatively affected by these malevolent behaviours. Intrusion-detection systems (IDSs) are commonly deployed as a cyber attack defence mechanism to mitigate such risks. IDS plays a crucial role in identifying and preventing cyber hazards within IoT networks. However, the development of an efficient and rapid IDS system for the detection of cyber attacks remains a challenging area of research. Moreover, IDS datasets contain multiple features, so the implementation of feature selection (FS) is required to design an effective and timely IDS. The FS procedure seeks to eliminate irrelevant and redundant features from large IDS datasets, thereby improving the intrusion-detection system’s overall performance. In this paper, we propose a hybrid wrapper-based feature-selection algorithm that is based on the concepts of the Cellular Automata (CA) engine and Tabu Search (TS)-based aspiration criteria. We used a Random Forest (RF) ensemble learning classifier to evaluate the fitness of the selected features. The proposed algorithm, CAT-S, was tested on the TON_IoT dataset. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm, CAT-S, enhances classification accuracy while simultaneously reducing the number of features and the false positive rate.

7 January 2025 in IEEE Access
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MAMuhammad Abrar Ashraf
Muhammad Abrar Ashraf
SNShaheryar Najam
Shaheryar Najam
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
SAShabbab Ali Algamdi
Shabbab Ali Algamdi
HAHanan Aljuaid
Hanan Aljuaid
AJAHMAD JALAL
AHMAD JALAL
The increasing demand for remote healthcare solutions has driven the need for effective telerehabilitation systems to support elderly individuals recovering from chronic conditions or post-operative impairments. Existing rehabilitation methods face limitations such as restricted access to specialized care, overburdened healthcare providers, and the need for consistent, real-time monitoring. To address these challenges, we propose a novel telerehabilitation system that processes depth video frames using a multi-stage methodology. The pipeline begins with noise and floor removal, followed by 3D connected component labeling (CCL) to identify the human subject and extract the human silhouette. Next, skeleton joint points are estimated, and features are extracted from both the joints and silhouette. These multimodal features are fused and input into a deep learning model for classification and correctness assessment. Advanced feature extraction techniques, including Synchrosqueezing Transform (SST) and Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), are employed to capture dynamic time-frequency characteristics of human actions. The proposed system classifies nine distinct exercises and assesses the correctness of movements. Experimental evaluation on the IRDS dataset demonstrates a classification accuracy of 91% for exercise recognition and 82% for movement correctness assessment. These results highlight the system’s potential to deliver scalable, cost-effective, real-time rehabilitation, reducing the need for in-person clinical visits and supporting healthcare services for elderly populations.

15 May 2024 in IEEE Access
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MYMuhammad Ovais Yusuf
Muhammad Ovais Yusuf
MHMuhammad Hanzla
Muhammad Hanzla
HRHameedur Rahman
Hameedur Rahman
TSTouseef Sadiq
Touseef Sadiq
NMNaif Al Mudawi
Naif Al Mudawi
AAAsaad Algarni
Asaad Algarni
Systems must be capable of detecting and tracking autonomous vehicles for intelligent management and control of transportation. Even though several methods are used to create intelligent systems for traffic monitoring, this article explains how to detect and track vehicles using pixel labeling and particle filter algorithms. We suggested a novel technique that segments the image using image segmentation to retrieve the foreground objects. We have divided our proposed model into the following steps: at first, geo-referencing is used to find the exact location; secondly, the images are denoised by using pre-processing; image segmentation is used to separate the background from the foreground; multiple objection detection is performed using the random forest to classify different objects; vehicles are detected through a method called template matching; after this, the vehicles are counted using histogram of oriented gradients (HOG); and after counting, the tracking of vehicles is obtained using particle filter; lastly, the trajectories are predicted by comparing the rectangular centroid of each car against the frame number and using it as a time stamp reference, the last match that the tracking algorithm obtained for each vehicle was recorded and used to estimate the trajectories. Our model outperforms current traffic monitoring approaches in terms of detection and tracking accuracy by 0.87 and 0.92, respectively using the Aerial Car dataset and 0.84 and 0.88, respectively, using the AU-AIR datasets. Vehicle recognition, traffic density detection, traffic flow analysis, and pedestrian route generation are all possible uses for the proposed system. It can transform traffic management and improve overall road safety due to its powerful algorithms and cutting-edge technologies. The system’s adaptability makes it a significant asset in modern transportation, from optimizing signal timing to improving pedestrian navigation.