Dr. Aniqa D. (Ph.D. in Computer Science) has 10+ years of research experience and notable publications in top journals and conferences. Her area of research includes image/video processing, natural language processing, video retrieval, and artificial intelligence.

She has been actively involved in several significant research projects throughout her career. She has worked at the leading National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Intelligent Criminology Lab, under KICS, UET, Lahore. In her role as a researcher, she has led a team of talented researchers, working towards developing AI systems using multimodal data (audio, video, text) to identify crimes, suspects, crowd analytics, and model criminal behavior. Additionally, she has worked on the Automatic Surveillance System for Video Streams (ASSVS) project funded by the National ICT R&D Fund. This project aimed to enhance video surveillance systems using advanced AI algorithms and technologies to detect and analyze suspicious activities in real-time video streams.

With a background in teaching, she has imparted knowledge at FAST-NU, UET-Lahore, and the University of Education.

Education

• PhD CS, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (2020)
• MS CS, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore (2008)
• BS CS, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore (2004)

Publications

Journals

1. Aniqa Dilawari, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Summra Saleem, and Fatema Sabeen Shaikh. “Neural Attention Model for Abstractive Text Summarization Using Linguistic Feature Space.” IEEE Access 11, pp. 23557-23564, 2023.
2. Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan, Yasser D. Al-Otaibi, Zahoor-ur Rehman, Atta-ur Rahman, and Yunyoung Nam. “Natural Language Description of Videos for Smart Surveillance.” Applied Sciences11, no. 9, 2021.
3. Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan, Zahoor-ur-Rehman, Khalid Mahmood Awan, Irfan Mehmood and Seungmin Rho. “Toward Generating Human-Centered Video Annotations.” Springer Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 39(2), pp. 857-883, 2020.
4. Aniqa Dilawari and M. Usman Ghani Khan. “ASoVS: Abstractive Summarization of Video Sequences.” IEEE Access 7,  29253-29263, 2019.
5. Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan, Razi Iqbal, Shaohua Wan, and Tariq Umer. “Stateful human-centered visual captioning system to aid video surveillance.” Computers & Electrical Engineering, pp. 108-119, 2019.
6. Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan, Ammrah Farooq, Zahoor-ur-Rehman, Seungmin Rho and Irfan Mehmood. “Natural language description of video streams using task-specific feature encoding.” IEEE Access6, pp. 16639-16645, 2018.
7. Junaid Arshad, Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, Farah Adeeba, Aniqa Dilawari and Yasir Saleem, “MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN): A Comparative Study”, The Nucleus, 51 No. 2, April 2014, Pakistan.

Conferences

1. Hamza Javaid, Aniqa Dilawari, Usman Ghani Khan, Bilal Wajid. “EEG Guided Multimodal Lie Detection with Audio-Visual Cues”, In 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 2022, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2. Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari, and Usman Ghani Khan. “Spoofed Voice Detection using Dense Features of STFT and MDCT Spectrograms.” In IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), pp. 56-61, 2021, Islamabad, Pakistan.
3. Mohammad Agha Saad, Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari and M. Usman Ghani Khan, “Cross Input Neighbourhood Difference for Re-identification of Occupational Humans”. In IEEE 22^nd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) 2019, pp. 1-6, Islamabad, Pakistan.
4. Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari and M. Usman Ghani Khan. “Multimedia Forensic: An Approach for Splicing Detection and Segmentation based on Deep Visual Features and Mask R-CNN.” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) 2019, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
5. Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan and M. Husnain. “Voice Conversion from Parallel English and Urdu Corpus using Cyclic GANs.” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI) 2019, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
6. Maida Shahid, Summra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari, M. Usman Ghani Khan. “Telegenic Data Analysis for Compact Description and Genre Classification based on Re-ranking.” In IEEE International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech), pp. 102-107, 2019.
7. Maida Shahid, Sumra Saleem, Aniqa Dilawari and M. Usman Ghani Khan. “A rewriter model for Urdu Document Concision with Neural Word Embeddings.” International Conference on Data Science 2019, pp. 39-46, Karachi, Pakistan.
8. Huda Sarfraz, Aniqa Dilawari and Sarmad Hussain, “Assessing Urdu Language Support on the Multilingual Web”, Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), May 2011, Egypt.
9. Huda Sarfraz, Sarmad Hussain, Mahwish Bano and Aniqa Dilawari, “Technology preparedness for disseminating flood relief and rehabilitation information to local stakeholders online: Lessons learnt while developing Punjab flood relief website in Urdu”, Thirteenth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC), December 2010, Islamabad, Pakistan.