Intelligent Machines Lab at ITU

06/02/2026

🪁 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐔𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 — 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐈 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭

Kite flying carries childhood memories, Basant celebrations, street energy, teamwork, and intense sky battles. Yet, this rich cultural tradition remains largely invisible in modern AI and visual datasets.

At the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐛 (𝐈𝐌𝐋𝐚𝐛), we are building a public AI dataset to preserve and study kite flying and kite fighting. We invite you to contribute real moments captured by real people. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐨𝐟

🔹 Kite flying and control (pina, string handling) — videos
🔸 Kite fighting actions — pulling, cutting, and Bo Kata moments — photos and videos
🔹 Preparing and handling kites — helping launch, putting tanawan, fixing kites, kanni — photos and videos
🔸 Flying locations — rooftops, streets, and open grounds
🔹 Festival skies filled with kites
🔸 Kites in the sky or resting on the ground
🔹 Kite images showing different types, colors, shapes, and environments

‼️ Phone photos and short videos are perfect. Please share public content or content you own and have the rights to share. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝.
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Please send us a shareable link to your public posts or a cloud drive with access, or email them directly.

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By contributing, you help preserve an important cultural heritage and support future AI research.
~ 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐛 (𝐈𝐌𝐋𝐚𝐛)

23/10/2024

Venue has been changed to auditorium

Join us for an insightful talk on Building a RAG-based Chatbot: Challenges and Pitfalls by Maria Sohail, Machine Learning Engineer at Royal Bank of Canada.

Discover the latest developments in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and learn how to overcome common pitfalls in large language models.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟳:𝟭𝟱 𝗣𝗠, 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗟𝘁-𝟰, 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗜𝗧𝗨)

22/10/2024

Join us for an insightful talk on Building a RAG-based Chatbot: Challenges and Pitfalls by Maria Sohail, Machine Learning Engineer at Royal Bank of Canada.

Discover the latest developments in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and learn how to overcome common pitfalls in large language models.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟳:𝟭𝟱 𝗣𝗠, 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗟𝘁-𝟰, 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗜𝗧𝗨)

22/08/2024

Iqbal successfully defended his thesis titled " Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation." Dr. Javed Iqbal, is first PhD student to graduate from. Intelligent Machines Lab at ITU .
We congratulate Javed and wish him more success.

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02/07/2024

Dr. Faisal will present his work on ""𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀" at Information Technology University
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝗻𝗱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬𝗮𝗺

Faculty of Sciences in collaboration with Intelligent Machines Lab at ITU is organizing a talk titled:

"𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀"

By Dr. Faisal Qureshi, Professor of Computer Science at Ontario Tech, Canada. Dr.Qureshi is Director of Visual Computing Lab and Guest Professor at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Toronto, Canada

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝗻𝗱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬𝗮𝗺
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗗𝗿.𝗦𝗮𝗲𝗲𝗱-𝗨𝗹-𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺, 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿, 𝗜𝗧𝗨.
Join us to explore the latest advancements in hyperspectral imaging and machine learning.

17/05/2024

Dr. Zahra Atiq from The Ohio State University will share her insights on "Why are Students Afraid of Programming?" Discover the emotional challenges students face when learning programming and how we can support their success!

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Department of Computer Science at Information Technology University is arranging an interesting session.
Join us this Friday at 4 pm in LT-1, Level 4, as Dr. Zahra Atiq from The Ohio State University shares her insights on "Why are Students Afraid of Programming?" Discover the emotional challenges students face when learning programming and how we can support their success!

24/10/2023

Here are the key moments from Last Friday's Reading Group Session. Led by Mr. Usama Hassan, lab members participated in insightful discussions and concluded the session with a demonstration. The focus of the week was '3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering', highlighting cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking research.

Topic: NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields
Paper Webpage: https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
Journal: SIGGRAPH 2023 (ACM Transactions on Graphics)
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Stay tuned for updates and insights from our lab.
🌐 https://im.itu.edu.pk/

13/10/2023

Discover the key moments from our weekly Reading Group Session, conducted earlier at the Intelligent Machines Lab. The session was led by Mr. Abdul Basit. Lab members engaged in an insightful discussion about the Marching Cubes algorithm and its applications.

Stay tuned for updates and insights from our lab.
🌐 https://im.itu.edu.pk/imrg/

09/08/2023

Open Research Assistant and Research Associate positions for Medical Image analysis using Deep Learning

JOB Opportunity 2023

Intelligent Machines Lab at ITU is seeking RAs interested in Medical Image Analysis using Computer Vision and Deep Learning. The selected RA would get the opportunity to work on a US-funded project to solve real-world local medical-related challenges.
The selected candidate will get the opportunity to work under the supervision of Dr. Waqas Sultani and Dr. Mohsen Ali.

Visit: https://forms.gle/Z5njrp8ycUGz32bM6
The last day of submission of applications is 19 August, 2023.

02/06/2023

Dr. Waqas Sultani, from Intelligent Machines Lab at Information Technology University, was interviewed by City42 News Channel. Dr. Sultani recently won the highly competitive Google Research Scholar Award 2023. This makes, Intelligent Machines Lab the first computer vision research lab in Pakistan to secure two Google Research Scholar Awards, the first in 2021 by Dr. Mohsen Ali (pi) & Dr. Izza (co-pi) and then in 2023 by Dr. Waqas Sultani. Congratulations to Dr. Waqas Sultani.

https://youtu.be/sy3CgdB1gk8?t=3200

29/09/2022

📣 Hi everyone! You all are invited.
Computer Vision Lab and Intelligent Machines Lab are organizing a Seminar Series - Advanced Topics in Computer Vision and Discussion Session every week.

Details of today's Seminar are here
🗓️ Date: Thursday, 29th Sep, 2022
⏰ Time: 2:15 - 3:45 pm
📍 Venue: LT-3 (Level-6)
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Paper Title: Review - Deep learning (Lead by Nimra Dilawar)
Paper Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14539
Conference/Journal: Nature (2015)

Paper Title: What is an object? (Lead by Maria Marrium)
Paper Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5540226
Conference/Journal: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2010)
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Hope to see you all in the session.
for updates, visit: http://im.itu.edu.pk/imrg/

Intelligent Machines Lab Reading Group The Intelligent Machines Lab Reading Group meets every Friday at 4:00 P.M. (tentative) in LT-2, Level 4 (tentative) at Information Technology University, Lahore. We present and discuss publications, tools and experiments from variety of areas like Computer Visi...