Muhammad Shahid Farid obtained the B.S., M.Sc., and M.Phil.
degrees with distinction in Computer Science from the
University of the Punjab, Lahore. He worked as Software
Engineer for short time before joining Punjab
University College of Information Technology, Lahore as
a Lecturer of Computer Science in 2008. He was a visiting
researcher for a short term in 2017 at the Computer
Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University,
Doha, Qatar.
Dr. Farid obtained his Ph.D. degree from Dipartimento di
Informatica, Università degli
Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy in 2015. He was with the
EIDOSLAB Research Group
under the supervision of Prof.
Marco Grangetto. In his Ph.D., he worked on 3D
television technology particularly on efficient representation
& coding of multiview videos, novel view synthesis
techniques, and quality assessment of 3D videos. His research
interests also include image segmentation, image fusion, gait
recognition, image composition, and image retrieval.
Currently, Dr. Farid is an Assistant Professor with the Punjab
University College of Information Technology, University
of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
News:
- [2024] Area Chair (AC), ACM International
Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX 2024)
- [2024] Session Chair, International
Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS
2024)
- [2024] Technical Program Committee (TPC)
Member, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI
2024)
- [2024] TPC Member, International Conference
on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and
Applications (VISIGRAPP 2024)
- [2023] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM
SIGMM)
- [2023] Appointed as Associate Editor of the IAES International
Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
- [2023] Appointed as Academic Editor of the
PLOSE ONE journal
- [2023] TPC Member, International Conference
on Frontiers of Information Technology (IEEE FIT 2023)
- [2022] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM
SIGMM)
- [2022] TPC Member, IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022)
- [2022] TPC Member, International Conference
on Frontiers of Information Technology (IEEE FIT 2023)
- [2022] Won competitive research grant.
Title: Development and optimization of android smartphone
imaginary application for real-time nitrogen management in
wheat, rice and maize crops, Role: Team Leader-I
(Co-Principal Investigator), Funding Agency: Punjab
Agriculture Research Board (PARB), Project No.: 21-140,
Grant Amount: Rs. 14.004 million
- [2022] Won competitive research grant
Title: HumCare: Human Activity Analysis in Healthcare, Role:
Co-Principal Investigator, Funding Agency: HEC National
Research Program for Universities (NRPU), Project No.:
NRPU-15041, Grant Amount: Rs. 11.32 million
- [2021] Area Chair (AC), ACM Multimedia (ACM
SIGMM)
- [2020] Appointed as Area Editor of the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal
- [2019] Won competitive research grant,
NRPU-7389, Title: "3DViCoQa: Advanced Techniques for 3D
Video Coding and Quality Assessment", Funding agency: HEC
National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) [Rs. 3.1
Million]
- [2017] Won Intra-university research grant.
Title: Compression Distortion Estimation of Depth Maps,
Funding agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
- [2016] Won Intra-university research grant.
Title: Perceptual Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized
Images, Funding agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore,
Pakistan
- [2012] Won Intra-university research grant.
Title: An Image Composition Technique to Handle Global
Effects of Local Content Manipulations, Funding agency:
University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan