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Email

naveed.akhtar1@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Research Fellow, DECRA
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
Certificate
University of Melbourne
PhD
The University of Western Australia
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
National University of Sciences and Technology
ORCID

0000-0003-3406-673X

Dr Naveed Akhtar

Senior Research Fellow, DECRA
School of Computing and Information Systems

139 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    GenMix: Effective data augmentation with generative diffusion model image editing
    DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2026.132273
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design: A Survey
    DOI: 10.1145/3787499
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Prompt-guided selective frequency network for real-world scene text image super-Resolution
    DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112974
  • 2026

    Journal article

    SP-KAN: Sparse-sine perception Kolmogorov–Arnold networks for infrared small target detection
    DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.02.019
  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Glass-Box Deep Machine Perception for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
  • 2023

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Glass-Box Deep Machine Perception for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
  • 2023

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Enabling Glass-Box Deep Machine Perception
Naveed Akhtar

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2025
<p>Best paper award at Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV) workshop on Safe and Trustworthy Multimodal AI Systems. </p>
2023
<p>Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award</p>
2023
USERN Laureate in Formal Sciences 2023 Universal Scientific Education and Research Network
2023
Google Research Scholar Program Award

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Embodied intelligence for 3D understanding: A survey on 3D Scene question answering
    DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103624
  • 2026

    Journal article

    On the fairness, diversity and reliability of text-to-image generative models
    DOI: 10.1007/s10462-025-11424-2
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Efficient Point Cloud Processing with High-Dimensional Positional Encoding and Non-Local MLPs
    DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2026.3665872
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Attention-Guided Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder for Brain Tumor Segmentation
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04927-8_7
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Multi-modal Shape Encoding for 3D Object Detection
    DOI: 10.1109/tase.2026.3682784
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Monocular Multi-Object 3D Visual Language Tracking
    DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2026.3661407

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