✍️ Research & Publication

2022

• New Robot Navigation Obstacle Avoidance
  Muhammad Husnain Haider and Hub Ali and Abdullah Aman Khan and Hao Zheng and M. Usman Maqbool Bhutta and Shaban Usman and Pengpeng Zhi and Zhonglai Wang, Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System, 2022 International Conference On Innovations And Development Of Information Technologies And Robotics (IDITR), 2022. PDF BibTeX
  

• Place Recognition Image Retrieval Deep Learning
  M. Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Yuxiang Sun, Darwin Lau, Ming Liu, Why-So-Deep: Towards Boosting Previously Trained Models for Visual Place Recognition, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), ICRA, 2022. arXiv BibTeX
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2021

• Road Inspection Automonous Driving
  Wu, Rigen and Fan, Jiahe and Guo, Libo and Qiao, Lei and Bhutta, M. Usman Maqbool and Hosking, Brett and Vityazev, Sergey and Fan, Rui, Scale-Adaptive Pothole Detection and Tracking from 3-D Road Point Clouds, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/IST50367.2021.9651423. PDF BibTeX
  

2020

• Collaborative 3D Mapping SLAM Multiagent SLAM
  M Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Manohar Kuse, Rui Fan, Yanan Liu, Ming Liu, Loop-box: Multi-Agent Direct SLAM Triggered by Single Loop Closure for Large Scale Mapping, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.2020. (IF: 11+). arXiv BibTeX
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• Machine Learning Smart Phone Glass Inspection Automation
  M Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Shoaib Aslam, Peng Yun, Jianhao JIAO, Ming Liu, Smart-Inspect: Micro Scale Localization and Classification of Smart Phone Glass Defects for Industrial Automation, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). arXiv BibTeX
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2018

• Point Clouds Fusion Relative Scale Estimation SLAM Multiagent SLAM
  M Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Ming Liu, PCR-Pro - 3D Sparse and Different Scale Point Clouds Registration and Robust Estimation of Information Matrix For Pose Graph SLAM, IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), July 19-23, 2018, Tianjin, China. arXiv BibTeX
  Finalist for Best Student Paper Award
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• Automonous Driving Lane Detection
  Ma, Han, Yixin Ma, Jianhao Jiao, M. Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Mohammud Junaid Bocus, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu, and Rui Fan. Multiple lane detection algorithm based on optimised dense disparity map estimation. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2018. arXiv BibTeX
  

2015

• Digital Electronics Reset Design
  Zoha Qamar, Bushra Yaseen, and Usman Maqbool, Efficient reset design techniques, Science International, ISSN 1013-5316, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1671–1674, 2015.

2014

• Object Detection License Plate Detection and Recognition Multilayer Perceptron
  M Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Hasan Mahmood, Hafiz Malik, An intelligent approach for robust detection and recognition of multiple color and font styles automobiles license plates: A feature-based algorithm, IEEE International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), July 7-9, 2014,Shanghai, China. PDF BibTeX