Publications

2026

1. 

   TeD-Loc: Text Distillation for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, and 1 more author

   Under revision at Pattern Recognition, 2026

   Bib

   @article{murtaza2026tedloc,
     title = {TeD-Loc: Text Distillation for Weakly Supervised Object Localization},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Belharbi, Soufiane and Pedersoli, Marco and Granger, Eric},
     journal = {Under revision at Pattern Recognition},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. 

   CoLo-CAM: Class Activation Mapping for Object Co-Localization in Weakly-Labeled Unconstrained Videos

   Soufiane Belharbi, Shakeeb Murtaza, Marco Pedersoli, and 3 more authors

   Pattern Recognition, 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{belharbi2025colo,
     title = {CoLo-CAM: Class Activation Mapping for Object Co-Localization in Weakly-Labeled Unconstrained Videos},
     author = {Belharbi, Soufiane and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Pedersoli, Marco and Ayed, Ismail Ben and McCaffrey, Luke and Granger, Eric},
     journal = {Pattern Recognition},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2. 

   A Realistic Protocol for Evaluation of Weakly Supervised Object Localization

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, and 1 more author

   In WACV 2025: IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision, Arizona, USA, 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{murtaza2025realistic,
     title = {A Realistic Protocol for Evaluation of Weakly Supervised Object Localization},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Belharbi, Soufiane and Pedersoli, Marco and Granger, Eric},
     booktitle = {WACV 2025: IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision, Arizona, USA},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. 

   SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution

   Soufiane Belharbi, Mara KM Whitford, Phuong Hoang, and 3 more authors

   In NeurIPS 2024: Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{belharbi2024srcaco2,
     title = {SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution},
     author = {Belharbi, Soufiane and Whitford, Mara KM and Hoang, Phuong and Murtaza, Shakeeb and McCaffrey, Luke and Granger, Eric},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2024: Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. 

   Leveraging Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization in Unconstrained Videos

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Marco Pedersoli, Aydin Sarraf, and 1 more author

   In ANNPR 2024: IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{murtaza2024leveraging,
     title = {Leveraging Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization in Unconstrained Videos},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Pedersoli, Marco and Sarraf, Aydin and Granger, Eric},
     booktitle = {ANNPR 2024: IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. 

   Source-Free Domain Adaptation of Weakly-Supervised Object Localization Models for Histology

   Alexis Guichemerre, Soufiane Belharbi, Tsiry Mayet, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{guichemerre2024source,
     title = {Source-Free Domain Adaptation of Weakly-Supervised Object Localization Models for Histology},
     author = {Guichemerre, Alexis and Belharbi, Soufiane and Mayet, Tsiry and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Shamsolmoali, Pourya and McCaffrey, Luke and Granger, Eric},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. 

   DiPS: Discriminative Pseudo-Label Sampling with Self-Supervised Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, and 2 more authors

   Image and Vision Computing, 2023

   Bib

   @article{murtaza2023dips,
     title = {DiPS: Discriminative Pseudo-Label Sampling with Self-Supervised Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Belharbi, Soufiane and Pedersoli, Marco and Sarraf, Aydin and Granger, Eric},
     journal = {Image and Vision Computing},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2. 

   Discriminative Sampling of Proposals in Self-Supervised Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, 2023

   Bib Code

   @inproceedings{murtaza2023discriminative,
     title = {Discriminative Sampling of Proposals in Self-Supervised Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Belharbi, Soufiane and Pedersoli, Marco and Sarraf, Aydin and Granger, Eric},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops},
     pages = {155--165},
     year = {2023},
   }

3. 

   Counterfactual Explanation and Instance-Generation using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks

   Tehseen Zia, Zeeshan Nisar, and Shakeeb Murtaza

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08939, 2023

   DOI Bib PDF

   @article{zia2023counterfactual,
     title = {Counterfactual Explanation and Instance-Generation using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks},
     author = {Zia, Tehseen and Nisar, Zeeshan and Murtaza, Shakeeb},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08939},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2301.08939},
   }

2022

1. 

   Constrained Sampling for Class-Agnostic Weakly Supervised Object Localization

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, and 2 more authors

   Montreal AI Symposium (arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09195), 2022

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{murtaza2022constrained,
     title = {Constrained Sampling for Class-{A}gnostic Weakly Supervised Object Localization},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Belharbi, Soufiane and Pedersoli, Marco and Sarraf, Aydin and Granger, Eric},
     journal = {Montreal AI Symposium (arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09195)},
     year = {2022},
   }

2. 

   VANT-GAN: Adversarial Learning for Discrepancy-Based Visual Attribution in Medical Imaging

   Tehseen Zia, Shakeeb Murtaza, Nauman Bashir, and 2 more authors

   Pattern Recognition Letters, 2022

   Bib

   @article{zia2022vant,
     title = {VANT-GAN: Adversarial Learning for Discrepancy-Based Visual Attribution in Medical Imaging},
     author = {Zia, Tehseen and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Bashir, Nauman and Windridge, David and Nisar, Zeeshan},
     journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
     volume = {156},
     pages = {112--118},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

3. 

   SoFTNet: A Concept-Controlled Deep Learning Architecture for Interpretable Image Classification

   Tehseen Zia, Nauman Bashir, Mirza Ahsan Ullah, and 1 more author

   Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022

   Bib

   @article{zia2022softnet,
     title = {SoFTNet: A Concept-Controlled Deep Learning Architecture for Interpretable Image Classification},
     author = {Zia, Tehseen and Bashir, Nauman and Ullah, Mirza Ahsan and Murtaza, Shakeeb},
     journal = {Knowledge-Based Systems},
     volume = {240},
     pages = {108066},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2020

1. 

   Text-to-image Generation with Attention Based Recurrent Neural Networks

   Tehseen Zia, Shahan Arif, Shakeeb Murtaza, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06658, 2020

   Bib

   @article{zia2020text,
     title = {Text-to-image Generation with Attention Based Recurrent Neural Networks},
     author = {Zia, Tehseen and Arif, Shahan and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Ullah, Mirza Ahsan},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06658},
     year = {2020},
   }

2018

1. Efficient Energy Management Assisted by Fog Computing

   Shakeeb Murtaza, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad KaleemUllah Khan, and 3 more authors

   In BWCCA 2018: International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{murtaza2018efficient,
     title = {Efficient Energy Management Assisted by Fog Computing},
     author = {Murtaza, Shakeeb and Javaid, Nadeem and Khan, Muhammad KaleemUllah and Zafar, Farkhanda and Iqbal, Rameez and Hamid, Muhammad Abubaker},
     booktitle = {BWCCA 2018: International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications},
     year = {2018}
   }

2. Efficient Energy Management Using Fog Computing

   Muhammad KaleemUllah Khan, Nadeem Javaid, Shakeeb Murtaza, and 3 more authors

   In NBiS 2018: International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{khan2018efficient,
     title = {Efficient Energy Management Using Fog Computing},
     author = {Khan, Muhammad KaleemUllah and Javaid, Nadeem and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Zahid, Maheen and Gilani, Wajahat Ali and Ali, Muhammad Junaid},
     booktitle = {NBiS 2018: International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems},
     year = {2018}
   }

3. Resource Allocation over Cloud-Fog Framework Using BA

   Farkhanda Zafar, Nadeem Javaid, Kanza Hassan, and 3 more authors

   In NBiS 2018: International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{zafar2018resource,
     title = {Resource Allocation over Cloud-Fog Framework Using BA},
     author = {Zafar, Farkhanda and Javaid, Nadeem and Hassan, Kanza and Murtaza, Shakeeb and Rehman, Saniah and Rasheed, Sadia},
     booktitle = {NBiS 2018: International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems},
     year = {2018}
   }