Syed Talal Wasim | University of Bonn

About Me

I am a PhD student, currently affiliated with the Computer Vision Group at the University of Bonn, Germany. I am supervised by Professor Dr. Jürgen Gall, and am working in the domain of Long-Term Video Recognition and Anticipation.

Previously I was a researcher in computer vision, affiliated with the Intelligent Visual Analytics Lab (IVAL) at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). I was supervised by Dr. Salman Khan.

I completed my master’s degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) funded by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) scholarship program. During the master’s program, I was fortunate to have interned at the Empathic Computing Lab supervised by Dr. Mark Billinghurst. I completed my master’s thesis in the CVLAB at EPFL supervised by Dr. Mathieu Salzmann.

I hold an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in computer science, from Habib University in Karachi, Paksitan.

My previous website listing high-school, undrgraduate and graduate courses and projects can be found at talalwasim.weebly.com.

Research Interests

Computer Vision: image and video understanding, action anticipation, multimodal learning
Machine Learning: self-supervised learning, out-of-distribution generalization

News

[Jan. 2024] I started working as a PhD student at the University of Bonn, Germany working on Video Action Anticipation.
[Oct. 2023] Our paper titled “Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers” is accepted in NeurIPS 2023.
[Aug. 2023] Our paper titled “Video-FocalNets: Spatio-Temporal Focal Modulation for Video Action Recognition” is accepted in ICCV 2023.
[Aug. 2023] Our paper titled “Self-regulating Prompts: Foundational Model Adaptation without Forgetting” is accepted in ICCV 2023.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper titled “Toward Automatic Typography Analysis: Serif Classification and Font Similarities” is accepted in the Journal of Data Mining in Digital Humanities (JDMDH).
[Mar. 2023] Our paper titled “Vita-CLIP: Video and text adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting” is accepted in CVPR 2023.
[Jun. 2022] Our paper titled “Using Facial Micro-Expressions in Combination With EEG and Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition” is accepted in the Frontiers in Psychology.
[Apr. 2022] I started working as a researcher at MBZUAI. I was supervised by Dr. Salman Khan, working on multimodal video understanding.
[Jul. 2021] I was accepted in the ETH Robotics Summer School and Symposium.
[Jun. 2021] I defended my master’s thesis and graduated from the IPCV master’s program.
[May. 2021] Our paper on synthetic data for object detection is accepted to CVPR 2021 CV4Animals workshop.
[Feb. 2021] I started my master’s thesis in the CVLAB at EPFL supervised by Dr. Mathieu Salzmann. I worked on automated typography analysis on figurative content.
[Jul. 2020] I started a remote research internship at the Empathic Computing Lab supervised by Dr. Mark Billinghurst.
[Sep. 2019] I started my master’s degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) funded by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) scholarship program.
[Jun. 2019] I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in computer science. Graduated first in class with the Dean’s Medal.

Publications

Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers

Syed Talal Wasim, Kabila Haile Soboka, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Salman Khan, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei

NeurIPS, 2023.

PAPER CODE

Video-FocalNets: Spatio-Temporal Focal Modulation for Video Action Recognition

Syed Talal Wasim*, Muhammad Uzair Khattak*, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

ICCV, 2023.

PAPER CODE

Self-regulating Prompts: Foundational Model Adaptation without Forgetting

Muhammad Uzair Khattak*, Syed Talal Wasim*, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

ICCV, 2023.

PAPER CODE

Vita-CLIP: Video and text adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting

Syed Talal Wasim, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mubarak Shah

CVPR, 2023.

PAPER CODE

Toward Automatic Typography Analysis: Serif Classification and Font Similarities

Syed Talal Wasim, Romain Collaud, Lara Défayes, Nicolas Henchoz, Mathieu Salzmann, Delphine Ribes

Journal of Data Mining in Digital Humanities (JDMDH), 2023.

PAPER CODE

Using Facial Micro-Expressions in Combination With EEG and Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition

Nastaran Saffaryazdi, Syed Talal Wasim, Kuldeep Dileep, Alireza Farrokhi Nia, Suranga Nanayakkara, Elizabeth Broadbent, Mark Billinghurst

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022.

PAPER
Sim-to-Real Transfer for Object Detection and Localization on Animals

Syed Talal Wasim, Syed Nouman Hasany, Kainat Abbasi, Huda Feroz, Anisa Aisha Ahmed, Mudasir Hanif Shaikh, Muhammad Farhan

CVPR 2021, CV4Animals Workshop

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Services

Journal Reviewers

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

Conference Reviewers

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Project Supervision

Co-supervise undergraduate projects in computer vision at Habib University
Co-supervise high-school students in Pakistan for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)