Saeed Anwar
Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
Director, Visual Intelligence and Analytical Imaging Lab (VIAIL)
Welcome
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to US Associate Professor) at The University of Western Australia, where I lead the Visual Intelligence and Analytical Imaging Lab. I am also a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO and an Honorary Faculty Member at the Australian National University.
- Computer vision
- 3D vision
- Image restoration
- Generative AI
- Multimodal AI
- Underwater imaging
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Academia
Before joining The University of Western Australia in 2025, I was an Assistant Professor at KFUPM, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Earlier, I held academic posts at NUCES and GIKI in Pakistan.
Industry
I was a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO, previously a Research Scientist at Data61, and a Fellow at SDAIA's Joint Research Centre for AI. I also worked on research projects with National ICT Australia (NICTA), on a medical project with Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe in Scotland, and on simulating sonar sensors for transparent object detection at PAL Robotics in Barcelona.
Education
PhD
Australian National University, with doctoral research in the Computer Vision Research Group at Data61, CSIRO (formerly NICTA)
MSc in Computer Vision and Robotics
Heriot-Watt University, University of Girona and University of Burgundy
BSc in Computer Systems Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
Updates
Recent news
- 2026–27Service
Area Chair for CVPR 2027, WACV 2027, ACCV 2026, ECCV 2026, CVPR 2026 and WACV 2026, and Senior Program Committee for AAAI 2027, AAAI 2026 and IJCAI 2026.
- Sep 2026Paper
PGMS, on compressing 3D Gaussian splatting scenes, accepted at NeurIPS.
- Aug 2026Paper
TDiR, a diffusion transformer for image restoration, and FlashNet, for recognising flashing traffic lights, accepted at ACCV.
- Jul 2026Paper
Two papers accepted at ICONIP, on crowd counting with vision-language models and on image-grounded review assistance.
- Jul 2026Paper
NumGrad-Pull, for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds, accepted in IEEE TVCG (IF 6.5).
- Jun 2026Paper
SPEGNet, for camouflaged object detection, accepted in IEEE TIP (IF 13.7).
- Jun 2026Paper
ANUBIS, a survey and benchmark for skeleton-based action recognition, and ASIL, for text-based person retrieval, accepted in Pattern Recognition (IF 7.6).
- Jun 2026Paper
HVLFormer, on language-guided semi-supervised image segmentation, accepted at ECCV.
- May 2026Paper
PointCaM, for open-set point cloud analysis, accepted in CVIU (IF 3.5).
- Apr 2026Paper
DiffCom, on diffusion-based point cloud compression, published in IEEE TCSVT (IF 11.1).
- Mar 2026Paper
Our survey on animal action recognition accepted in Artificial Intelligence Review (IF 13.9).
- Mar 2026Paper
FLaTEC, for compressing LiDAR point clouds, accepted at ICME.
- Feb 2026Paper
RDD4D, for road damage detection, accepted in IEEE Access.
- Jan 2026Paper
DiffCom accepted in IEEE TCSVT.
- Nov 2025Award
Named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2025.
- Nov 2025Paper
ICISP, a lightweight model for perceptual image compression, accepted in Neural Networks.
- Oct 2025Paper
DefAn, a dataset for evaluating LLM hallucinations, accepted in Information, and CRTSC, for anomaly detection in chest images, accepted in Sensors.
- Oct 2025Paper
A paper accepted in a Springer Nature journal.
- Sep 2025Paper
Our survey on satellite-to-street-view synthesis accepted in Applied Intelligence.
- Aug 2025Paper
A paper on benchmarking crowd counting in drone images accepted at ICTDsC.
- Jul 2025Paper
A paper on recognising hazardous activities, with a new real-world dataset, accepted at ACM MM.
- Jun 2025Paper
MuStD, for LiDAR and camera 3D object detection, accepted as an oral at IROS.
- May 2025Paper
Our overview of large language models accepted in ACM TIST (IF 7.2).
- Apr 2025Paper
SEDNet, for vehicle re-identification, accepted in AEJ (IF 6.2).
- Mar 2025Paper
MaskAdapt accepted as an oral at the CVPR Vision for Agriculture (V4A) workshop.
- Jan 2025Career
Joined The University of Western Australia as a Senior Lecturer.
- Nov 2024Award
Best Paper Award at ICPR 2024 for AllWeather-Net.
- 2024–25Service
Area Chair for ACCV 2024 and ICCV 2025, and Senior Program Committee for IJCAI 2025.
Open source
Code and datasets
- May 2026Dataset
GenSyn10Synthetic image dataset and benchmarking code
- Dec 2025Dataset
PENDULUMBenchmark for sycophancy in multimodal LLMs
- Dec 2025Code
SwinIFSIdentity-preserving face super-resolution
- Oct 2025Code
C3NetCamouflaged object detection
- Oct 2025Code
SPEGNetCamouflaged object detection
- Jul 2025Code
MSRNetCamouflaged object detection
- Jun 2025Dataset
DRDDRoad damage dataset with RDD4D code
- May 2025Code
ICISPPerceptual image compression
- May 2025Dataset
HazeSpace2MDataset for haze-aware image dehazing
- Nov 2024Code
NumGrad-PullSurface reconstruction from point clouds
- Oct 2024Dataset
UAV-AWIDAdverse-weather test sets for UAV detection
- Sep 2024Dataset
LoLI-StreetLow-light street image enhancement benchmark
- Sep 2024Dataset
DefAnDataset for testing large language models
- Sep 2024Code
AllWeatherNetImage enhancement for driving in bad weather and low light
- Sep 2024Code
MuStDLiDAR and camera 3D object detection
- Apr 2024Code
ADTRSBlind image quality assessment
- Mar 2024Code
SelectiveMVCode and project details
- Mar 2024Code
CefdetAction detection
- Mar 2024Code
SelectiveMV-Multiview3D object classification
- Feb 2024Code
FSBIDeepfake detection
- Feb 2024Code
UnLocLocalisation from LiDAR, radar or camera
- Nov 2023Dataset
CBDUAV detection dataset and code
- Sep 2023Code
Partial2CompleteCode, models and results
- Apr 2023Dataset
SSIDSequential storytelling image dataset
- Feb 2023Code
PointCaMCode, models and results
- Dec 2022Code
Latent-Transport-UPCNCode and models
- Sep 2022Dataset
FGBRLow-cost fine-grained classification
- Apr 2022Code
DRTSingle image deraining
- Mar 2022Code
Angular Skeleton EncodingCode and models
- Jan 2022Code
PnP-3DPlug-and-play module for 3D point clouds
- Oct 2021Code
Attentional 3D Object DetectionCode and models
- Oct 2021Code
Light-DehazeNetLightweight single image dehazing
- Sep 2021Dataset
DVLPDVehicle and licence plate dataset with VT-LPR code
- May 2021Code
UColorCode, trained models and results
- May 2021Dataset
InvDNCode and dataset
- May 2021Code
BAAF-NetPoint cloud semantic segmentation
- Apr 2021Code
GBNetCode and trained models
- Apr 2021Code
PSGNNPosition-sensing graph neural networks
- Mar 2021Code
CWRUnderwater image restoration
- Mar 2021Code
DRNetPoint cloud classification and segmentation
- Feb 2021Dataset
DDNetCode, results and dataset
- Jan 2021Code
EfficientSOD2Pyramidal attention for saliency detection
- Nov 2020Code
R2NetReal image restoration: code, models and results
- Nov 2020Dataset
Natural-Color Dataset (NCD)Dataset, from our colourization survey
- Nov 2020Code
IERDCode and results
- Nov 2020Code
IRAEInvertible networks for image restoration
- Oct 2020Code
GradNetImage denoising
- Sep 2020Code
FGSECode and trained networks
- Jul 2020Code
COVID19 BaselineCode and trained models
- Jun 2020Code
UC-NetRGB-D saliency detection
- May 2020Dataset
CoinNetCode and dataset
- Nov 2019Code
UWCNNUnderwater image and video enhancement
- Sep 2019Code
DRLNCode and results
- Sep 2019Code
RIDNetCode and results
- Jul 2018Code
All papersCode released for all papers to date