ICVRL International Computer Vision Research Laboratory
Shams Rehman

Shams Rehman

Director & Senior Lecturer · Faculty

Senior Lecturer at HITEC University & Director of ICVRL. Specializing in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Drowning Detection Systems, and Remote Sensing.

Biography

Shams Rehman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at HITEC University Taxila and the Director of the International Computer Vision Research Laboratory (ICVRL).

With extensive academic experience in Artificial Intelligence and Visual Computing, his research interests encompass Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Medical Image Analysis (including early drowning detection, COVID-19 screening, and breast cancer classification), Human Action & Gait Recognition, and Remote Sensing Land Scene Classification.

He actively mentors undergraduate and graduate research scholars and collaborates on global AI research initiatives.

Research Interests

Computer Vision Deep Learning Medical Image Analysis Drowning Detection Gait Recognition Remote Sensing Explainable AI

Education

Senior Lecturer - Department of Computer Science, HITEC University Taxila

Publications (11)

Journal Article

A Deep Learning Approach to Early Drowning Detection for Child Safety using ResNet and Flower Pollination Algorithm

Shams Rehman, et al.

IEEE Transactions / Applied Computer Vision, 2026

Journal Article

Modelling of Innovative Approaches for Drowning Prevention: Customized CNNs and Optimization of Binary Chimps for Early Detection

Shams Rehman, et al.

Springer Visual Computing Journal, 2026

Journal Article

Deep Attention-Guided Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Shams ur Rehman, Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Hamza

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2025

Conference Paper

Real-Time Object Detection in Aerial Imagery Using Lightweight Transformers

Ahmad Khan, Ali Raza, Shams ur Rehman

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

Journal Article

A Comprehensive Survey of Vision Transformers in Medical Imaging

Shams ur Rehman, Muhammad Hamza, Ayesha Malik, Ahmad Khan

ACM Computing Surveys, 2025

Conference Paper

Efficient Panoptic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving Scenes

Ahmad Khan, Hassan Ahmed, Ali Raza, Shams ur Rehman

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

Journal Article

Deep Neural Networks for Medical Image Classification: Automated Breast Cancer and COVID-19 Diagnosis

Shams Rehman, et al.

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025

Journal Article

GAN-Based Synthetic Data Augmentation for Rare Disease Classification

Muhammad Hamza, Shams ur Rehman, Ayesha Malik

Medical Image Analysis, 2024

Journal Article

Robust Face Recognition Under Occlusion Using Part-Based Feature Fusion

Ayesha Malik, Ahmad Khan, Shams ur Rehman

Pattern Recognition, 2024

Journal Article

Multi-Spectral Satellite Image Classification Using Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architecture

Ali Raza, Shams ur Rehman, Ahmad Khan

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024

Conference Paper

Temporal Action Detection in Surveillance Videos Using Graph Neural Networks

Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Hamza, Shams ur Rehman

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

Projects

MedSeg-AI: Intelligent Medical Image Segmentation Platform

Active

An AI-powered platform for automated segmentation of medical images including CT, MRI, and X-ray scans with clinical-grade accuracy.

TerraVision: Satellite Image Analysis for Environmental Monitoring

Active

Deep learning-based satellite image analysis platform for land use classification and environmental change detection.

ActionNet: Video Understanding for Smart Surveillance

Active

Intelligent video analytics system for automated activity detection and anomaly recognition in surveillance footage.

SynMed: Synthetic Medical Data Generation Framework

Completed

A GAN-based framework for generating high-fidelity synthetic medical images to address data scarcity in healthcare AI.