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Research

What we have done

Only real laboratory work — papers, systems and exhibitions from Nauman Irshad Lab. No placeholder programmes.

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Projects

Systems and studies we built

Each item below is work the laboratory has actually delivered or submitted.

CXG-DT · Confidence- and Explanation-Gated Digital Twin IoT Response project imagery

CXG-DT · Confidence- and Explanation-Gated Digital Twin IoT Response

CXG-DT addresses the gap between high IDS accuracy and safe operational response. The pipeline detects attacks with lightweight models, estimates calibrated confidence, runs selective SHAP only when a risk gate opens, validates alerts against virtual device twin states, and permits monitor, throttle, isolate or escalate actions only when uncertainty is acceptable. Evaluated on a locked multiclass IoT set (CICIoT-style flows) with CatBoost as the primary detector.

Publications

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Python
  • CatBoost
  • SHAP
  • Digital Twin
  • scikit-learn
  • CICIoT2023

Paper · download & cite

CARE-GATE · Cost-Aware Uncertainty Gating for DT Intrusion Response project imagery

CARE-GATE · Cost-Aware Uncertainty Gating for DT Intrusion Response

CARE-GATE focuses on the decision layer after detection: when should an IoT gateway isolate, throttle or only monitor? The framework uses an explicit cost matrix with uncertainty evidence from confidence scores, selective SHAP stability and twin-state residuals. Evaluated on a balanced eight-class CICIoT2023 subset with six detectors; CatBoost provides the best weighted F1 trade-off.

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Python
  • CatBoost
  • SHAP
  • Cost-sensitive learning
  • CICIoT2023

Paper · download & cite

PoseDepth-CMP · OpenPose COCO vs MPI for Person Depth Estimation project imagery

PoseDepth-CMP · OpenPose COCO vs MPI for Person Depth Estimation

PoseDepth-CMP gives practitioners evidence for choosing between OpenPose body-model variants for person-specific monocular depth. On 240 controlled samples, COCO reaches higher keypoint accuracy and lower depth error; MPI is faster and lighter. The project contributes paired statistics, cue ablations, uncertainty analysis and a learned adaptive selector.

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Python
  • OpenPose
  • COCO
  • MPI
  • Contour analysis
  • NumPy

Paper · download & cite

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Smart Fitao AI · Cloth Size Prediction, 3D Try-On & Seller Studio (FYP) project imagery

Smart Fitao AI · Cloth Size Prediction, 3D Try-On & Seller Studio (FYP)

Smart Fitao AI asks: what if getting the perfect fit required no guesswork — just AI? The Final Year Project delivers (1) cloth size prediction for tailors from body and garment measurements, (2) 3D virtual try-on for a more personalised shopping experience, (3) a 24/7 AI chatbot with 3D product recommendations, and (4) a 3D studio for sellers to convert 2D products into interactive 3D models (including PIFuHD Metaverse finetuning). Presented at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). FYP advisor: Asif Farooq. Team: Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Umer Amir, Ali Ahmad and Abdul Rehman.

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Technology stack

  • Python
  • PIFuHD
  • PyTorch
  • Flutter
  • Computer Vision
  • Metaverse
  • Chatbot
  • 3D Studio
Crop Disease Detection · ResNet50 + Explainable AI for Agricultural Intelligence project imagery

Crop Disease Detection · ResNet50 + Explainable AI for Agricultural Intelligence

This AgriTech project detects 15 plant diseases across tomato, potato and pepper bell using 20,638 images, transfer learning on ResNet50 (ImageNet) and Explainable AI via Grad-CAM for transparent predictions. Reported metrics: 90.09% accuracy, 88.41% precision, 89.18% recall and 88.73% F1, with sub-200ms FastAPI inference. Presented as an exhibitor at the 19th International Agri Asia & Green Pakistan Exhibition & Conference (09–11 May 2026, Expo Centre Lahore). Team: Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Ali Ahmad, Abdul Rehman, Danish Ali and Umer Amir.

Publications
In preparation

Technology stack

  • Python
  • ResNet50
  • PyTorch
  • Grad-CAM
  • FastAPI
  • Transfer Learning
  • Explainable AI
SAFE · Mining Software Features from App Store Artifacts project imagery

SAFE · Mining Software Features from App Store Artifacts

SAFE (published in Spectrum of Engineering and Management Sciences) manually builds POS and sentence patterns frequently used when text refers to app features, then extracts and matches features across developer pages and user reviews without large training corpora. Student–teacher work with Ameera Arif.

Publications

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Python
  • NLP
  • POS patterns
  • App store analytics

Paper · download & cite

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CodeVista · 3D Runner Learning Lab project imagery

CodeVista · 3D Runner Learning Lab

CodeVista 3D Runner is an educational coding lab led by teacher Asim Irshad. Students complete weekly programs, earn XP toward skill goals, and practise in a live 3D runner with Pause, Next, Replay and Run controls plus a source panel for the current exercise. Built for classroom and self-paced learning so beginners can see code behaviour while they write it. Live demo: https://codevista-3d-runner.vercel.app/

Publications
In preparation

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Flutter
  • 3D
  • Educational games
  • XP systems
  • Web
FIHPS Society · College History Society (FCCU) project imagery

FIHPS Society · College History Society (FCCU)

From May 2021 to May 2022, Nauman Irshad Ali Shah served as Project Manager with the FIHPS Society (College History Society) at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, under Associate Professor Nadia Khushi. The work covered society management and social-services volunteering. A highlight was organising and conducting an interview with Sir Dr. Jonathan S. Addleton, Rector of FCCU, for Iqbal Day — featured on the FCCU Official YouTube Channel as part of FIHPS Society’s Tribute to Allama Iqbal on his 144th birth anniversary, with Nauman’s name credited on the official FCCU YouTube page.

Publications
In preparation

Supervisor & research team

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Technology stack

  • Project management
  • Student society
  • Event production
  • Social services

Publications

Papers from the laboratory

First page of CARE-GATE: Cost-Aware Uncertainty Gating for Digital Twin based IoT Intrusion Response
Conference paperUnder review2026

CARE-GATE: Cost-Aware Uncertainty Gating for Digital Twin based IoT Intrusion Response

Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Syed Qarib Ali Naqvi, Muhammad Umer Amir, Ali Ahmad, Danish Ali, Ahmad Arsalan

Conference manuscript · Digital Twin IoT intrusion response

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Machine-learning intrusion detectors usually report predictive performance but do not specify how a detected IoT attack should be handled when response actions have different operational costs. This paper presents CARE-GATE, a cost-aware response policy that combines detector confidence, explanation stability, and a Digital Twin state residual in an uncertainty gate. The gate blocks automatic isolation when evidence is uncertain and uses an explicit cost matrix to calibrate its weights and threshold. Evaluated on a balanced eight-class subset of CICIoT2023, CatBoost gives the best weighted F1-score (76.09%). These results show how explicit operational costs and uncertainty evidence shape response behavior beyond detector accuracy alone.

Keywords: Internet of Things · intrusion detection · cost-sensitive response · uncertainty gating · Digital Twin · explainable AI · SHAP · CatBoost

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First page of CXG-DT: Confidence- and Explanation-Gated Digital Twin Response for IoT Intrusion Handling
Conference paperUnder review2026

CXG-DT: Confidence- and Explanation-Gated Digital Twin Response for IoT Intrusion Handling

Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Ahmad Arsalan, Muhammad Umer Amir, Ali Ahmad, Danish Ali, Syed Qarib Ali Naqvi

ICET / International Conference on Emerging Technologies (CMT submission)

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Internet of Things (IoT) intrusion detectors often report high accuracy yet still fail at the operational response stage, where uncertain predictions can cause false isolation or delayed mitigation. This paper presents CXG-DT, a confidence- and explanation-gated Digital Twin (DT) response framework for IoT intrusion handling. The pipeline detects attacks with lightweight models, estimates calibrated confidence, computes selective SHAP only when a risk gate opens, validates alerts against virtual device twin states, and permits monitor, throttle, isolate, or escalate actions only when an uncertainty score is acceptable. On a locked multiclass IoT evaluation, CatBoost attains the best detection trade-off with 81.94% accuracy and 82.01% weighted F1-score. CXG-DT therefore shifts IoT IDS evaluation from accuracy alone toward safe closed-loop response under uncertainty.

Keywords: IoT intrusion detection · Digital Twin · explainable AI · SHAP · edge AI · uncertainty gating · CatBoost

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First page of PoseDepth-CMP: A Comparative Analysis of OpenPose COCO and MPI Keypoint Models for Contour-Guided Monocular Person Depth Estimation with Adaptive Selection
Journal paperUnder review2026

PoseDepth-CMP: A Comparative Analysis of OpenPose COCO and MPI Keypoint Models for Contour-Guided Monocular Person Depth Estimation with Adaptive Selection

Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Sammra Habib, Muhammad Umer Amir, Ali Ahmad, Danish Ali

Journal manuscript · Computer Vision / Pose & Depth

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Monocular depth estimation from human imagery supports clinical gait analysis, sports biomechanics, surveillance, and human–computer interaction, yet practitioners lack direct evidence for selecting between OpenPose body-model variants. PoseDepth-CMP provides a locked-seed comparison of COCO (18 keypoints) and MPI (15 keypoints) within the same contour-guided geometric depth pipeline. On 240 controlled samples (seed 42), COCO achieves 94.4% keypoint accuracy with 13.0 cm depth error, whereas MPI achieves 87.3% accuracy with 15.4 cm error while reducing runtime by 13.3% and memory by 16.7%. The learned selector attains 93.6% accuracy and 12.4 cm depth error at intermediate computational cost.

Keywords: OpenPose · COCO keypoints · MPI keypoints · monocular depth estimation · human pose estimation · adaptive model selection

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First page of Hybrid Approaches to Semantic Text Understanding: Bridging Traditional NLP and Deep Learning
Conference paperUnder review2025

Hybrid Approaches to Semantic Text Understanding: Bridging Traditional NLP and Deep Learning

Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Abdul Kabeer, Sharjeel Ayub

Conference manuscript · Semantic NLP

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This research paper presents a novel integrated framework for semantic text understanding that bridges traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques with modern deep learning approaches. We address semantic ambiguity by proposing a hybrid methodology that leverages statistical methods and neural architectures. Through experimentation on multiple datasets, the approach achieves a 15% improvement in semantic similarity tasks and a 12% enhancement in named entity recognition accuracy compared to baselines.

Keywords: semantic understanding · hybrid NLP · deep learning · statistical methods · natural language processing

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First page of Mining Software Features from App Store Artifacts: A Pattern-Based Approach to Feature Extraction and Matching
Journal paperPublished2025

Mining Software Features from App Store Artifacts: A Pattern-Based Approach to Feature Extraction and Matching

Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Ali Ahmad, Muhammad Umer Amir

Spectrum of Engineering and Management Sciences · Spectrum of Engineering and Management Sciences

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This paper presents SAFE, a novel uniform approach to extract app features from single app pages, single reviews and to match them. We manually build 18 part-of-speech patterns and 5 sentence patterns that are frequently used in text referring to app features, then apply these patterns with several text pre- and post-processing steps. A major advantage is that it does not require large training and configuration data. For well-maintained app pages such as Google Drive the approach has a precision of 87% and on average 56% for 10 evaluated apps. SAFE also matches 87% of the features extracted from user reviews to those extracted from the app descriptions.

Keywords: User Reviews · App Store Analytics · Software Feature · Data Mining · NLP · Pattern Recognition

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Themes

Where that work sits

Themes below are derived from the projects and papers above — not empty research programmes.

Digital Twin research imagery

Digital Twin

Digital Twin replicas used to validate IoT intrusion alerts before costly response actions ? the core of CXG-DT and CARE-GATE.

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Intrusion Detection research imagery

Intrusion Detection

Machine-learning intrusion detection for IoT traffic, with emphasis on uncertainty, cost-aware response and explainability ? CARE-GATE and CXG-DT.

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Computer Vision research imagery

Computer Vision

PoseDepth-CMP (OpenPose COCO vs MPI), Smart Fitao AI 3D try-on / size prediction, and crop-disease vision systems.

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Deep Learning research imagery

Deep Learning

Deep models for agricultural disease detection (ResNet50 + XAI) and supporting vision pipelines used in PoseDepth and Smart Fitao AI.

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Natural Language Processing research imagery

Natural Language Processing

SAFE ? pattern-based mining of software features from app store artifacts (published in SEMS) ? and hybrid semantic NLP research with collaborators.

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Explainable AI research imagery

Explainable AI

Selective SHAP for IoT intrusion response gates and Grad-CAM for transparent crop-disease predictions.

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