Research
I'm interested in computer vision, machine learning, optimization, image processing, and deep learning. Much of my research is about image restoration tasks such as single image super-resolution, image deblurring, and image denoising. Representative papers are highlighted here. Go to my Google Scholar profile for the full list.
Conference Publications
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Armin Gruber, Sayedali Shetab Boushehri, Christian Matek, Carsten Marr ICLR, 2023   (Spotlight presentation) Paper Poster Presentation We train a robust CNN for White Blood Cell (WBC) classification by addressing cross-domain data imbalance and domain shifts. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Matek, Carsten Marr Helmholtz Imaging Conference, 2022   (Appeared as a poster display) Poster We rethink the CNN classifier training in Raw image space instead of traditional RGB color space, diminish the illumination and coloring effects due to translate into the raw linear color space, and thus improve the classifiation performance. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni AVSS, 2022   (Oral Presentation) Paper Video Training the GAN-based SRResCSinGAN with learnable adaptive sinusoidal nonlinearities incorporated in LR and SR models by directly learn degradation distributions and then synthesize paired LR/HR training data to train the generalized SR model to real image degradations. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni NeurIPS, 2021   (Appeared in the Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop) Paper Poster code Video Star Fork Training the RBSRICNN for Raw Burst Super-Resolution task that restore the clean RGB SR image by following the burst photography pipeline as a whole by a forward (physical) model. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Asad Munir, Christian Micheloni SPLITECH, 2021   (Oral Presentation) Paper Video Training the SR2*GAN in a StarGAN like network topology with a single model to super-resolves the LR images for the multiple LR domains. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni CVPR, 2021   (Participated in the NTIRE 2021 Burst SR challenge) Factsheet Burst-SR-Report Training the BSRICNN for Burst Super-Resolution that solves the Burst SR task by iterative refinement of the intermediate SR estimates. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni ECCV, 2020   (Participated in the AIM 2020 Efficient SR challenge) Factsheet Efficient-SR-Report Training the ISRResDNet for Efficient Super-Resolution that solves the SR task as a sub-solver of the image denoising by the residual denoiser networks. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni ECCV, 2020   (Participated in the AIM 2020 Real-Image SR challenge) Paper RISR-Report code Video Project Star Fork Training the SRResCycGAN network for Real-Image Super-Resolution with a generative adversarial network (GAN) framework for the LR to HR domain translation in an end-to-end manner. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Gian Luca Foresti, Christian Micheloni ICPR, 2020   (Oral Presentation) Paper code Video Project Star Fork Training the ISRResCNet network in an iterative manner with a residual learning approach for super-resolution to follow the image observation (physical) model. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Gian Luca Foresti, Christian Micheloni CVPR, 2020   (Participated in the Ntire2020 RWSR challenge) Paper RWSR-Report code Video Project Star Fork Training the SRResCGAN network for super-resolution to follow the real-world degradation settings by adversarial training the model with pixel-wise supervision in the HR domain from its generated LR counterpart. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer, Gian Luca Foresti, Christian Micheloni ICDSC, 2019   (Oral Presentation, Best Runner-up Paper Award) Paper Presentation Training the SRWDNet for super-resolution that works for blur kernels of different sizes and different noise levels in an unified residual CNN-based denoiser network. |
Journal Publications
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Hussain Ahmad Madni, Rao Muhammad Umer, Gian Luca Foresti IEEE Access, 2023 Paper In this work, we proposed the method for Blockchain-Based Swarm Learning for the mitigation of gradient leakage in federated learning. |
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Hussain Ahmad Madni, Rao Muhammad Umer, Gian Luca Foresti International Journal of Neural Systems, 2023 Paper In this work, we proposed the method Swarm-FHE for Fully Homomorphic Encryption based Swarm Learning for Malicious Clients. |
Theses and Dissertation
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Rao Muhammad Umer Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Udine (UNIUD), Udine, Italy, 2021 Dissertation Presentation Project In this work, we describe the algorithmic advances and results obtained by the proposed methods in the image Super-Resolution field. |
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Rao Muhammad Umer DCIS,PIEAS, 2016   (Best Thesis Award) Thesis code Project Deep Web Extractor system is a cloud-based web application that uses machine learning techniques for crawling and data discovery from the Deep Web (i.e., massive and quality portion of World Wide Web) to build knowledge based databases. |