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Plenary Session
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Auditorium
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0900 Hrs
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Guests to be seated
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| 0910 Hrs
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National Anthem
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| 0915 Hrs
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Recitation of the Holy Quran
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| 0920 Hrs
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Welcome Address by General Chair
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| 0930 Hrs
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Keynote Address: AI to Agentic AI – How to Be Future Ready by
Shoab A. Khan, Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Pakistan
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| 1015 Hrs
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Address by Guest of Honour
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| 1025 Hrs
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Address by Chief Guest
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| 1040 Hrs
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Presentation of the Conference Shields
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| 1045 Hrs
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Refreshments
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FIT 2025-Technical Sessions
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Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
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Session 1: Machine Learning and its Applications
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Session Chair: Ashiq Anjum
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Track Chair: Usman Yaseen
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Jinnah Hall
(1st floor)
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1110 – 1150
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Invited Talk: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Cities: Challenges and Opportunities by Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University, USA
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| 1150 – 1210
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Learning from the Haze: Comparative Analysis of LSTM and Transformer Models for Predicting Smog-Forming Pollutants in Pakistan’s Urban Centers by Abduhu Khan, Hajra Mohsin, Qaiser Riaz
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| 1210 – 1230
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Optimizing Emotion Detection with Attention-Enhanced Convolutional Neural Networks by Israr Rehman, Zulfiqar Ali, Zahoor Jan
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| 1230 – 1250
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ConvSE for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation by Abdul Wahab, Hafiz Muhammad Talha Ijaz, Basma Nasir, Zawar Hussain, Muhammad Nawaz
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| 1250 – 1310
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Forecasting Stock Market Fluctuations in Pakistan Using PyTorch TabNet by Muhammad Irfan Khan
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Session 2: Natural Language Processing & Generative AI
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Session Chair Ali Yavari
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Track Chair: Zoobia Rehman
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Iqbal Hall
(1st floor)
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1110 – 1130
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Towards Intelligent Tax Systems: Evaluating NLP Approaches for Pakistan’s Fiscal Needs by Muhammad Arsal, Hassan Ashfaq, Muhammad Ali Mahmood, Anas Ashfaq
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| 1130 – 1150
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CARGO: Citation-Aware Routing and Grounded Optimization for Faithful and Trustworthy Language Generation by Faiza Qamar, Seemab Latif, Mehwish Fatima
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| 1150 – 1210
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Safify: Knowledge-Graph Driven Gap Analysis for Compliance Intelligence by Faris Ejaz, Imran Khan, Sameed Khatri
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| 1210 – 1230
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Robust Parkinson’s Disease Screening from Speech via Self-Supervised Learning Models and Task-Wise Analysis by Maria Ahmad, Naima Iltaf
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| 1230 – 1250
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Detecting Human vs AI-Generated Text in Urdu: A Comparative Study of Deep Learning and Transformer Models by Shamyla Firdoos, Muhammad Sheraz Ul Hassan
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| 1250 – 1310
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Predictive Modeling of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Using Multiomics and Neuroimaging Data with Transformer Architectures on the ADNI Dataset by Muhammad Azhar, Adeen Amjad, Mohammad Sultan Mahmud, Muhammad Sadiq, Zeshan Ali, Shafiq Hussain
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Session 3: Deep Learning and Explainable AI
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Session Chair: Azhar Imran
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Track Chair: Tehseen Zia
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Liaqat Hall
(3rd floor)
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1110 – 1130
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Small Object Detection with Super-Resolution Cascaded YOLOv4: An Average Precision Analysis by Sharaz Javed, Muhammad U.S. Khan, Irtiza Ali Khan, Maqsood Mahmud, Muhammad Tariq Saeed
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| 1130 – 1150
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PAUnet: Pyramidal Attention based Efficient Unet for RGB Skin Dermatoscopic Image Enhancement by Javaria Tahir, Tahir Mustafa Madni, Uzair Iqbal Janjua
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| 1150 – 1210
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KD-PointNest4: A Knowledge Distillation Framework for Tomato Disease Classification Using Real and Synthetic Images Generated by DALL E 3 by Hafiz Ali Hamza Gondal, Rehan Akram, Quratulain Zahid
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| 1210 – 1230
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Attention-Driven Multimodal Deep Learning Architecture for Violence Detection in Ride-Sharing Safety Systems by Ayesha Arshad, Muhammad Sohail, Muhammad Danish, Qazi Mazar Ul Haq, Noor Ul Wara
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| 1230 – 1250
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DermaSpectraNet: An EfficientNet-B1 CNN for Precise Multiclass Skin-Disease Detection by Yáred Iessé Bustillo Medina, Ali Gohar, Talha Ali Khan, Raja Hashim Ali, Shan Faiz
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| 1250 – 1310
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Effcient Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Indoor Environment Using VLP-16 LiDAR and Sensor Fusion with Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient by Seher Seher, Sibghat Ullah Bazai, Muhammad Imran Ghafoor, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Muhammad Aadil Siddiqui
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Session 4: Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Technology
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Session Chair: Javed iqbal
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Track Chair: Farooq Iqbal Buzdar
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Nishtar Hall
(3rd floor)
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1110 – 1150
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Invited Talk: From a Simple Disc to the Digital Cosmos: A Journey in Environmental Sensing by Majid Nazeer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong
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| 1150 – 1210
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Generation of Optimized Digital Surface Model through Deep Learning Technique with High-Resolution UAV Data by Umaid Rafaqat, Muhammad Hamid Ch, Muhammad Hassan Khan, Sami Ullah Khan, Qudsia Gulzar, Urooj Saeed
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| 1210 – 1230
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Linking Coastal Water Quality to Blue Carbon Ecosystems Health: A Case Study from Hong Kong by Majid Nazeer, Chung Ching Ho, Man Sing Wong, Tahir Sattar
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| 1230 – 1250
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Optimized Grid Routing via Satellite-Derived Road Networks in GPS-Denied Environments by Khizer Tariq, Ali Awais Safdar, Syed Usman Ali Shah, Momina Moetesum
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| 1250 – 1310
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Deep Feature Extraction with Pretrained CNNs for Sorghum Leaf Disease Classification Using SVM by Muhammad Saood Sarwar, Shahzaib Ur Rehman
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Session 5: Computer Vision and Image processing
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Session Chair: Andrew Ware
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Track Chair: Basit Raza
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Sir Syed Hall
(3rd floor)
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1110 – 1150
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Invited Talk: Upskilling medical professionals in developing economies through Virtual Reality (VR) by Andrew Ware, University of South Wales, UK
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| 1150 – 1210
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Exploring Convolutional Neural Networks for Rice Grain Classification: An Explainable AI Approach by Muhammad Junaid Asif, Hamza Khan, Rabia Tehseen, Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi, Mujtaba Asad, Shazia Saqib, Rana Fayyaz Ahmad
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| 1210 – 1230
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Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Burn Severity Analysis using Android-Based Deployment by Aaiza Nadeem, Bushra Bashir, Irum Matloob
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| 1230 – 1250
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Beyond the Naked Eye: Automated Delivery Analysis in Cricket with Computer Vision by Muhammad Shoaib Ahmad, Muhammad Shoaib Ahmad
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| 1250 – 1310
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Automated Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images Using Deep Learning by Umair Makhdoom, Usman Ali Shams, Sadia Noureen, Jichuan Xiong, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Session 6: Tutorial
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Johar Hall
(3rd floor)
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1110 – 1310
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Introduction to Agentic AI and Blockchain Fundamentals by Muhammad Farrukh Shahid, Shahbaz Siddiqui, Sameer Misbah
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| 1310 – 1410
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Lunch & Prayers
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Parallel Sessions 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
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Session 7: Cyber Security and Privacy
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Session Chair: Arif ur Rahman
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Track Chair: Nadir Shah
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Sir Syed Hall
(3rd floor)
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1420 – 1440
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Machine Learning-Based Malware Classification in Real-Time IoT Scenarios by Arslan Rafi, Attaullah Buriro, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Antonio Liotta
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| 1440 – 1500
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A Multi-Level Software Supply Chain Security Defense System for Cloud-Native and High-Performance Computing Environments by Yuping Wu
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| 1500 – 1520
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Forensic Recovery of Disconnected USB-Sourced Images from Volatile Memory by Syed Shayan Hussain
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| 1520 – 1540
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Android Malware Detection Against Adversarial Attacks Using Machine Learning by Anmol Tanveer, Arshad Ali
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| 1540 – 1600
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Cloud–Edge Deep Ensemble Framework for Malware Detection Using Grayscale Binary Images in Smart City Endpoint Systems by Maram Fahaad Almufareh, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Mamoona Humayun, Aisha Pervez, Tariq Umer, Momina Shaheen
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| 1600 – 1620
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Leveraging Blockchain for Transparent and Trustworthy E-Certificate Verification System by Munazza Bibi, Shahid Mehmood, Abdullah Khan, Faseeh Ur-Rehman, Muhammad Danish
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| 1620 – 1640
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Agentic AI for Cybersecurity: Explainable Graph Neural Networks with Federated and Reinforcement Learning for Threat Prediction and Mitigation by Muhammad Saeed, Hina Shafique, Haseena Manzoor, Muhammad Ibrar, Muhammad Javed, Arbab Kanwal
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| 1640 – 1700
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Ransomware detection using machine learning approaches by Ayesha Bashir, Nargis Bibi, Muhammad Nazeer
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| 1700 – 1720
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Refreshments
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Session 8: Data Science & Advance Analytics
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Session Chair: Mehwish Waheed
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Track Chair: Gulmina Rextina
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Nishtar Hall
(3rd floor)
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1415 – 1500
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Invited Talk: Metasurfaces for Next-Gen Applications: A Platform for Communication, Sensing, Imaging, and Sustainable Energy Innovations by Muhammad Zubair, University of Leicester, UK
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| 1500 – 1520
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The Impact of Late-Night Phone Use on Sleep and Mental Health: The Role of Behavioral Adaptation Strategies by Abdullah Musharaf, Nafil Yasir, Faisal Bukhari
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| 1520 – 1540
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Mitigating Multicollinearity in Player Churn Prediction Using Supervised Learning and Independent Component Analysis by Syeda Seerat Zahra Naqvi, Hameedur Rahman Rahman, Laiba Maqsood
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| 1540 – 1600
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ShadeGAN: Conditional GAN-Based Synthetic Shade Generation in Aerial Imagery by Jawaria Azam, Raja Sarmad Ishtiaq, Nusrat Shaheen and Umar Nauman
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| 1600 – 1620
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Process Mining in Healthcare: Data Standards, KPIs, and Expert Involvement in Emergency Care Across Developed and Developing Countries by Krupa Srinivas, Faiza Bukhsh, Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige
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| 1620 – 1640
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LLM-Powered Protein Classification: A Deep Learning Framework for Kinases, Phosphatases, and Transmembrane Proteins by Syed Salman Ali Zaidi, Muhammad Hassan Shahbaz, Ali Zain Sharif, Sania Urooj
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| 1700 – 1720
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Refreshments
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Session 9: Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Technology
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Session Chair: Javed iqbal
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Track Chair: Farooq Iqbal Buzdar
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Liaqat Hall
(3rd floor)
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1415 – 1500
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Invited Talk: Remote Sensing: A Powerful Technique for Understanding Qadrat ka Nazaam Imran Mehdi, California Institute of Technology / Microwave Theory and Technology Socieity (MTT-S)
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| 1500 – 1520
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From Pixels to Policy: Data-Driven Framework for Quantifying Environmental Risk through Multi-Criteria GIS Modeling and Validation using ANNOVA and Post Tukey’s HSD Test in Gujranwala District, Pakistan by Sehrish Quddoos, Ayesha Naz |
| 1520 – 1540
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Enhancing Methane Plume Quantification via Anisotropic Diffusion by Bilal Ahmad, Asad Munir, Giacomo Benini
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| 1540 – 1600
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A Composite Remote Sensing based Agricultural Drought Monitoring Index using Stacked Machine Learning by Sana Arshad, Safwan Mohammed
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| 1600 – 1620
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AFM-Transformer: Adaptive CNN-Transformer for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Classification by Weiyi Li, Ghulam Farooque, Muhammad Majid Hussain, Fazeel Abid, Luo Yunqing, Waqar Ali
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| 1700 – 1720
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Refreshments
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Session 10: Next generation communication systems, High-Performance and Cloud Computing
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Session Chair: Nosherwan Shoaib
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Track Chair: Syed Junaid Nawaz
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Jinnah Hall
(1st floor)
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1415 – 1500
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Invited Talk: How 6G will be Enabled? by Qammer H. Abbasi, University of Glasgow, UK
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| 1500 – 1520
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TeraRIS NOMA-MIMO Communications for 6G and Beyond Industrial Networks by Ali Raza, Muhammad Farhan Khan, Zeeshan Alam, Muhammad Saad, Ilyas Saleem, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Ali Jamshed
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| 1520 – 1540
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Text-Independent Speaker Recognition and Audio Integrity Verification in Next-Generation Communication Networks using MFCCs and Machine Learning by Mehak Arshid, Muhammad Raees Azam, Muhammad Danyal, Sardar Muhammad Gulfam
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| 1540 – 1600
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Quantum-Inspired Ant Colony Optimization for Task Scheduling in Edge Environment by Zartasha Rafique, Nargis Bibi, Nazeer Muhammad
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| 1600 – 1620
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Delay-Doppler Domain Hopping-Assisted OTFS for Secure 6G Communication by Kashif Latif, Adnan Hanif, Syed Khurram Mahmud
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| 1620 – 1640
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Solving the N-Queens Puzzle: A Performance Study of Classical and Metaheuristic Algorithms by Liana Mikhailova, Syed Ghazi Abbas, Raja Hashim Ali, Muhammad Imad
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| 1640 – 1700
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Phase Noise Modeling and Performance Impact Analysis in Sub-THz Bands by Muhammad Adil, De Sanctis Mauro, Rossi Tommaso, Syed Junaid Nawaz, Cianca Ernestina |
| 1700 – 1720
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Refreshments
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Session 11: Water Informatics and Communication Technology
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Session Chair: Niaz Ahmed, Summera Fehmi
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Track Chair: Muhammad Abid
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Iqbal Hall
(1st floor)
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1415 – 1500
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Invited Talk: Dynamic underwater acoustic channel analysis and modelling by Liu Songzuo
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| 1500 – 1520
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Dam break analysis using HEC-RAS A case study of Chahan Dam by M. Farhan Ahsan, Usman Ali Naeem, Saad Alam Shah, Muhammad Usman Ashraf
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| 1520 – 1540
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From Hazard to Resource: GeoAI and VES-Based Analysis for Flood-Driven Aquifer Recharge in Dera Ghazi Khan Division, Pakistan by Sehrish Quddoos, Muhammad Hamad Zahoor, Umair Bin Nisar, Siddique Akhtar Ehsan
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| 1540 – 1600
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Performance of RCA4 and REMO in downscaling temperature and precipitation for future climate projections over Pakistan under CORDEX framework by Shahbaz Mehmood, Qudsia Zafar
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| 1600 – 1620
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Design and Implementation of ROV in real environments by Muhammad Wafa Haider, Niaz Ahmed, Irfan Ullah, Muzzammil Khattak
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| 1620 – 1640
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A Deep Learning Framework for Imbalanced Bioacoustic Call-Type Classification Using Focal Loss and SMOTE by Ali Raza, Gang Qiao, Lei Li, Mubeen Javed, Muhammad Allah Rakha, Muhammad Bilal, Albert Patrick Sankoh, Shabnam Javed
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| 1700 – 1720
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Refreshments
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