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πΊπΈ Aug 2023 | Joined University of Florida Computer Vision and Sensing Systems (COVISS) Lab as Postdoctoral Associate.
Iβm very pleased to start work with Prof. Henry Medeirosβs group at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
ππ° June 2023 | Fond Farewell to C3 Robotics Lab at CUHK! π
Two remarkable years have come to an end, leaving me with unforgettable memories and friendships.
π΅π° Feb 2023 | Invited as a panelist for the session on Navigating Academia Research & Industry at ITCN Asia 2023.
GISPP organized TechSec 2023 - Bridging the Gaps at ITCN Asia 2023.
ππ° Nov 2022 | Paper related to mobile robot navigation is accepted in Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences (IF: 8.8+).
Robust mobile robot navigation in cluttered environments based on hybrid adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference and sensor fusion.
ππ° Aug 2022 | Paper related to road potholes segmentation is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (IF: 5.3+).
MAFNet: Segmentation of Road Potholes with Multi-modal Attention Fusion Network for Autonomous Vehicles
π¨π³ May 2022 | Paper related to Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation is accepted at IDITR, 2022.
Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System.
πΊπΈ Jan 2022 | My work related to visual place recognition has been accepted in RA-L/ICRA 2022.
This work is also accepted to present at ICRA, 2022 in Philadelphia, USA.
ππ° Nov 2021 | PhD Graduation Day, Class of 2021, HKUST 29th Congregation.
The best feeling in the world is knowing my family and friends are smiling because of me.
ππ° July 2021 | Received Two Awards at CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo.
Our two poster presentations on Mixed-Reality for robotics and online robotics platform received awards by the judges panel.
ππ° May 2021 | Joined CUHK C3 Robotics Lab as Postdoctoral Fellow.
Iβm very pleased to start work with Prof. Darwin Lauβs group at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (#39 in QS Global World Rankings 2022), Hong Kong.
ππ° Feb 2021 | Successfully defended my PhD thesis.
Iβm very grateful to my supervisor Prof. Ming Liu and PEEF Pakistan for their PhD scholarship.
ππ° Sep 2020 | Paper has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IF-11+).
Loop-box: Multi-Agent Direct SLAM Triggered by Single Loop Closure for Large Scale Mapping
πΊπΈ Jun 2020 | Paper has been accepted in IROS 2020.
Will be presented on Oct 25-29, 2020 at Las Vegas, NV, USA InshaALLAH
π΅π° Mar 2020 | Launched Saviours Portal to help needy during Corona pandemic in Pakistan.
The initiative named Safar-e-Meharbani was taken in 2016 and till now it has been successfully involved in arranging Ramadan Dastarkhwan each year for the ne...
π¨π Mar 2020 | Farewell at ASL
I really had great time while working at ASL under the supervision of Dr. Caser and Prof Roland. I found ETH, a very heathly working enviornment with a lot o...
π¨π Mar 2020 | Met with Dennis Just, CEO of smallpdf at Startup Champions Event at ETH Zurich
Happy to meet Dennis Just, CEO of smallpdf. I really liked his thought towards successful startup building
π¨π Dec 2019 | Autonomous System Lab (ASL) - Open Lab Day 2019
More than 500 people visited ASL, RSL Lab at ETH Zurich to observe Robotics open lab day 2019.
π΅π° Dec 2019 | Featured in PEEF Pakistan Portalβs Newletter, 2019
Happy to see some glimpses of my ongoing Ph.D. journey at HKUST, on the second page of PEEF Portalβs newsletter this year :) Besides inspiration for others, ...
π¨π Oct 2019 | Started work at Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Happy to join Prof. Roland Siegwart, Director of Autonomous Systems Lab(ASL),ETH ZΓΌrich, Switzerland π¨π, one of the Worldβs top robotics lab. Iβll mainly wor...
ππ° Jan 2019 | Our starup company Lisee Technology got funding support from TSSSU, HK.
Lisee Technology is a low cost indoor navigation system with localization precision upto 10cm.
π¨π³ July 2018 | Won Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IEEE-CYBER 2018
A memorable picture with Prof. Toshio Fukuda (President of IEEE). Iβve presented PCR-Pro at IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and I...
ππ° July 2018 | Introduced Lisee Technology at IET-YPEC 2018 in Hong Kong.
Lisee Technology is a low cost indoor navigation system with localization precision upto 10cm.
π¨π³ June 2018 | Attended CCF-GAIR 2018 in Shenzhen, China
Topics are covered related to computer vision, intelligent driving, learning, mems lidar by Robosense lidar company review, human-robot interaction - Pepper ...
π¨π³ May 2018 | Paper has been accepted in IEEE-Cyber 2018
Will be presented on July 20, 2018 InshaALLAH
ππ° May 2018 | Received Audience Award from HKUST President Wei Shyy in Campus Challenge @ HKUST Transportation
HKUST got 80+ proposals for this compeitions, and arranged a roadshow. My proposal got selected for the audiance award after getting maximum votes :)
ππ° Dec 2017 | Project Falkr - The Top Flying Car
Report on possiblity of flying cars
π¨π³ Nov 2017 | Received Best Mapper Award from Prof. Lujia Wang at Shangri-La Shenzhen, China
Presented by research work and received best mapper award :)
π¨π³ July 2017 | Attended International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS) 2017
Pleasure to meet Prof Roland Siegwart (PhD supervisor) of my PhD supervisor and Laurent Kneip at ICVS 2017
ππ° May 2017 | Successfully completed the graduate teaching assistant training at HKUST
Iβve already teaching experience of about 1 year. Its really interesting to learn about new tools that basically enhance the teaching quality.
ππ° April 2017 | Received Silver Medal at HKUST
I love to play cricket #HKUSTVSHKU #CRICKET
π¨π³ Dec 2016 | Received Best External Award from Prof. Ming
Here are some glimpses of my first visit to mainland China (Shenzhen) for annual dinner. #CITYU #HKUST #HK
ππ° Nov 2016 | Successfully completed Author Workshop by Elsevier Publishing Campus at HKUST
Very useful workshop by Elseview Publishing Campus, it mainly trained us how to become a good author for publishing scientific articles.
ππ° Oct 2016 | Attended Elevator World Tourβ’ Hong Kong
It was a great opportunity to meet with 500+ entrepreneurs, accelerators, incubators and investors at the tallest building in Hong Kong. I enjoyed a variety ...
ππ° Sep 2016 | Started PhD at Robotics and Multi-Perception Lab, Robotics Institute, HKUST
Finally, journey of my PhD life has started. There are a lot of aims and milestones in my heart. May ALLAH help me in acheiving. Iβm very glad to join Roboti...
π΅π° Aug 2016 | Won Chief Minister Marit Scholarship (CCMS) award by Punjab Government (PEEF), Pakistan for pursuing my PhD studies at HKUST, HK
More than 15 newspaper in Pakistan reported about the winners of this scholarship. Alhumdulillah, Iβm one of 33 students from all over the Pakistan who got s...
π΅π° Dec 2008 | Received Award of Honour at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan
Receiving Award of Honour from Prof. Dr. Qasir A Naqvi (Chairman of Deptment of Electronics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan) and Dr. Aqeel Ashraf...
Research
Loop-box: Multiagent Direct SLAM Triggered by Single Loop Closure for Large Scale Mapping
Published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 (IF: 11+). Authors: M. Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Manohar Kuse, RuiFan, Yanan Liu, Ming Liu
Smart-Inspect: Micro Scale Localization and Classification of Smartphone Glass Defects for Industrial Automation
Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, 2020. Authors: M Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Shoaib Aslam, Peng Yun, ...
Why-So-Deep: Towards Boosting Previously Trained Models for Visual Place Recognition
RAL and ICRA IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2022. Authors: M. Usman Maqbool Bhutta, Yuxiang Sun, Darwin Lau, Ming Liu
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π‘ Guide to add Tikz Plots in Latex
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