Yasir Niaz Khan

Background

  • Since May 2009 research assistant at the Department of Cognitive Systems of the University of Tübingen
  • 2006-2009 Part-time researcher in IUPR group at DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern.
  • 2006-2009 student and researcher at TU Kaiserslautern.
  • 2002-2004 Part-time Faculty position in department of Computer Science at FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • 2001-2003 Masters in Computer Science from FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • 1998-2001 Bachelors in Computer Science from FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

Research Interests

  • Mobile Outdoor Robots
  • Computer Vision
  • Localization and Mapping

Current Projects

Publications

[1] Yasir Niaz Khan, Andreas Masselli, and Andreas Zell. Visual terrain classification by flying robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2012. Accepted for publication.
[2] Yasir Niaz Khan, Philippe Komma, Karsten Bohlmann, and Andreas Zell. Grid-based visual terrain classification for outdoor robots using local features. In IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems (CIVTS 2011), pages 16 - 22, Paris, France, apr 2011. [ DOI | pdf ]
[3] Yasir Niaz Khan, Philippe Komma, and Andreas Zell. High resolution visual terrain classification for outdoor robots. In Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, pages 1014 -1021, Barcelona, Spain, nov 2011. [ DOI | pdf ]
[4] Yasir Niaz Khan and Syed Atif Mehdi. Sign language recognition using sensor gloves. In 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, volume 5, pages 2204 - 2206, 2002. [ DOI | link ]

Theses

  1. Using Soft Computing Techniques for Gesture Recognition
    Yasir Niaz Khan
    Masters Thesis - FAST - National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, September 2004
  2. Talking Hands
    Adeeb Ashraf, Syed Atif Mehdi, Yasir Niaz Khan
    Bachelors Thesis - FAST - National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, December 2000

Address, Phone, Fax, Email

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl Kognitive Systeme
Sand 1
D - 72076 Tübingen
 
Germany

Tel: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 78983
Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091
Email: yasir.khan at uni-tuebingen.de