Muhammad Shahid Farid

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science,

University of the Punjab, Lahore - 54590, Pakistan

Email: shahid@pucit.edu.pk

Muhammad Shahid Farid

Projects & Grants

Competitive National / International Research Projects

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
Duration: 2022 – 2025 · Status: Completed

Development and Optimization of an Android Smartphone Imaging Application for Real-Time Nitrogen Management in Wheat, Rice and Maize Crops

Role: Team Leader-I
Funding Agency: Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB), Government of the Punjab, Pakistan
Project No.: PARB-21-140
Grant Amount: Rs. 14 Million
Duration: 2022 – 2025 · Status: Completed

3DViCoQa: Advanced Techniques for 3D Video Coding and Quality Assessment

Funding Agency: HEC National Research Program for Universities (NRPU)
Project No.: NRPU-7389
Grant Amount: Rs. 3.1 Million
Duration: 2019 – 2022 · Status: Completed

A Computer Vision Based System to Monitor Crop Health

Funding Agency: National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI), IGNITE National Technology Fund
Project No.: NGIRI-2021-6555
Grant Amount: Rs. 78,000
Duration: 2020 – 2021 · Status: Completed

Intra-University Research Projects

Human Activity Recognition using Smartwatch Sensory Data

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 250,000
Duration: 2024 – 2025 · Status: Completed

Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-ray Image

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 200,000
Duration: 2022 – 2023 · Status: Completed

Efficient Disocclusions Handling in 3D Video

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 200,000
Duration: 2021 – 2022 · Status: Completed

Person Identification using Gait Biometric

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 150,000
Duration: 2019 – 2020 · Status: Completed

Compression Distortion Estimation of Depth Maps

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 150,000
Duration: 2017 – 2018 · Status: Completed

Perceptual Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Images

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 150,000
Duration: 2016 – 2017 · Status: Completed

An Image Composition Technique to Handle Global Effects of Local Content Manipulations

Funding Agency: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Grant Amount: Rs. 125,000
Duration: 2011 – 2012 · Status: Completed