Ali Zakir

Dr. Ali Zakir


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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

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

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25 January 2023 in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
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Ali Zakir
Fahad AlturiseFahad Alturise
Fahad Alturise
TATamim Alkhalifah
Tamim Alkhalifah
YKYaser Daanial Khan
Yaser Daanial Khan
Motivation. Immunoglobulin proteins (IGP) (also called antibodies) are glycoproteins that act as B‐cell receptors against external or internal antigens like viruses and bacteria. IGPs play a significant role in diverse cellular processes ranging from adhesion to cell recognition. IGP identifications via the in‐silico approach are faster and more cost‐effective than wet‐lab technological methods. Methods. In this study, we developed an intelligent theoretical deep learning framework, “IGPred‐HDnet” for the discrimination of IGPs and non‐IGPs. Three types of promising descriptors are feature extraction based on graphical and statistical features (FEGS), amphiphilic pseudo‐amino acid composition (Amp‐PseAAC), and dipeptide composition (DPC) to extract the graphical, physicochemical, and sequential features. Next, the extracted attributes are evaluated through machine learning, i.e., decision tree (DT), support vector machine (SVM), k‐nearest neighbour (KNN), and hierarchical deep network (HDnet) classifiers. The proposed predictor IGPred‐HDnet was trained and tested using a 10‐fold cross‐validation and independent test. Results and Conclusion. The success rates in terms of accuracy (ACC) and Matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC) of IGPred‐HDnet on training and independent dataset (Dtrain Dtest) are ACC = 98.00%, 99.10%, and MCC = 0.958, and 0.980 points, respectively. The empirical outcomes demonstrate that the IGPred‐HDnet model efficacy on both datasets using the novel FEGS feature and HDnet algorithm achieved superior predictions to other existing computational models. We hope this research will provide great insights into the large‐scale identification of IGPs and pharmaceutical companies in new drug design.

25 December 2023 in Sensors
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Ali Zakir
SSSartaj Ahmed Salman
Sartaj Ahmed Salman
HTHiroki Takahashi
Hiroki Takahashi
In the recent era, 2D human pose estimation (HPE) has become an integral part of advanced computer vision (CV) applications, particularly in understanding human behaviors. Despite challenges such as occlusion, unfavorable lighting, and motion blur, advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the performance of 2D HPE by enabling automatic feature learning from data and improving model generalization. Given the crucial role of 2D HPE in accurately identifying and classifying human body joints, optimization is imperative. In response, we introduce the Spatially Oriented Attention-Infused Structured-Feature-enabled PoseResNet (SOCA-PRNet) for enhanced 2D HPE. This model incorporates a novel element, Spatially Oriented Attention (SOCA), designed to enhance accuracy without significantly increasing the parameter count. Leveraging the strength of ResNet34 and integrating Global Context Blocks (GCBs), SOCA-PRNet precisely captures detailed human poses. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our model outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches, achieving a Percentage of Correct Keypoints at 0.5 (PCKh@0.5) of 90.877 at a 50% threshold and a Mean Precision (Mean@0.1) score of 41.137. These results underscore the potential of SOCA-PRNet in real-world applications such as robotics, gaming, and human–computer interaction, where precise and efficient 2D HPE is paramount.

10 November 2023 in Sensors
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SSSartaj Ahmed Salman
Sartaj Ahmed Salman
AZAli Zakir
Ali Zakir
HTHiroki Takahashi
Hiroki Takahashi
In the field of computer vision, hand pose estimation (HPE) has attracted significant attention from researchers, especially in the fields of human–computer interaction (HCI) and virtual reality (VR). Despite advancements in 2D HPE, challenges persist due to hand dynamics and occlusions. Accurate extraction of hand features, such as edges, textures, and unique patterns, is crucial for enhancing HPE. To address these challenges, we propose SDFPoseGraphNet, a novel framework that combines the strengths of the VGG-19 architecture with spatial attention (SA), enabling a more refined extraction of deep feature maps from hand images. By incorporating the Pose Graph Model (PGM), the network adaptively processes these feature maps to provide tailored pose estimations. First Inference Module (FIM) potentials, alongside adaptively learned parameters, contribute to the PGM’s final pose estimation. The SDFPoseGraphNet, with its end-to-end trainable design, optimizes across all components, ensuring enhanced precision in hand pose estimation. Our proposed model outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, achieving an average precision of 7.49% against the Convolution Pose Machine (CPM) and 3.84% in comparison to the Adaptive Graphical Model Network (AGMN).

22 May 2025 in Electronics
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Ali Zakir
SSSartaj Ahmed Salman
Sartaj Ahmed Salman
GBGibran Benitez-Garcia
Gibran Benitez-Garcia
HTHiroki Takahashi
Hiroki Takahashi
Human Pose Estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to scale variation, occlusion, and high computational costs. Standard methods often struggle to capture detailed spatial information when keypoints are obscured, and they typically rely on computationally expensive deconvolution layers for upsampling, making them inefficient for real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. We propose AMFACPose (Attentive Multi-scale Features with Adaptive Context PoseResNet) to address these limitations. Specifically, our architecture incorporates Coordinate Convolution 2D (CoordConv2d) to retain explicit spatial context, alleviating the loss of coordinate information in conventional convolutions. To reduce computational overhead while maintaining accuracy, we utilize Depthwise Separable Convolutions (DSCs), separating spatial and pointwise operations. At the core of our approach is an Adaptive Feature Pyramid Network (AFPN), which replaces costly deconvolution-based upsampling by efficiently aggregating multi-scale features to handle diverse human poses and body sizes. We further introduce Dual-Gate Context Blocks (DGCBs) that refine global context to manage partial occlusions and cluttered backgrounds. The model integrates Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks and the Spatial–Channel Refinement Module (SCRM) to emphasize the most informative feature channels and spatial regions, which is particularly beneficial for occluded or overlapping keypoints. For precise keypoint localization, we replace dense heatmap predictions with coordinate classification using Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) heads. Experiments on the COCO and CrowdPose datasets demonstrate that AMFACPose surpasses the existing 2D HPE methods in both accuracy and computational efficiency. Moreover, our implementation on edge devices achieves real-time performance while preserving high accuracy, confirming the suitability of AMFACPose for resource-constrained pose estimation in both benchmark and real-world environments.


1 December 2014
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AWArbab Waseem
Arbab Waseem
AZAli Zakir
Ali Zakir
BUBurhan Uddin
Burhan Uddin
This paper revealed the analysis of speaker independent isolated Pashto spoken numbers for determination of automatic speech recognition. Initially the database was developed, the database encompasses isolated Pashto numbers from sefer (0) to sul (100). Fifty speakers (25 male, 25 females with different ages) that can frequently speak yousafzai dialect were selected for recording. The recording has been done under acoustically controlled environment by the use of Sony PCM-M 10 Linear Recorder and saves in. Wav format. Then, by exploiting Adobe Audition ver. 1.0 the recorded audio files of Pashto numbers were splitted to get isolated Pashto numbers. The recognition experiment was accomplished for first 50 numbers of the database spoken by 50 speakers for the first time up to the author knowledge. Speech signal were analyzed to extract feature vector through MFCC, while LDA were used to probe the difference between the groups to identify various kind of speech classes. The result had shown 83% recognition accuracy on training data and 80% on testing data. The analysis of results has also been discussed in detail.