Yasir Latif

Mr Yasir Latif

Senior Research Fellow

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Year Citation
2026 Latif, Y., & Yaseen, M. (2026). El Niño-Southern Oscillation-driven variability in drought severity across the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 157(2).
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2026 Bagchi, S., Anastasiou, P., Tetlow, M., Chin, T. -J., & Latif, Y. (2026). Event-based Star Tracking under Spacecraft Jitter:the e-STURT Dataset. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, abs/2505.12588, 1-18.
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2025 Latif, Y., Anastasiou, P., Ng, Y., Prime, Z., Lu, T. -F., Tetlow, M., . . . Chin, T. -J. (2025). High Frequency, High Accuracy Pointing Onboard Nanosats Using Neuromorphic Event Sensing and Piezoelectric Actuation. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 72(2), 23 pages.
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2025 Latif, Y., Pryor, S. C., Ateeq-Ur-Rehman, S., Muhammad, S., Yaseen, M., & Wazir, M. A. (2025). Transition of the Karakoram anomaly under emerging hydroclimatic trends. Science of the Total Environment, 1006, 180678.
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2024 Adnan, M., Liu, S., Saifullah, M., Iqbal, M., Saddique, Q., Ul Hussan, W., & Latif, Y. (2024). Estimation of changes in runoff and its sources in response to future climate change in a critical zone of the Karakoram mountainous region, Pakistan in the near and far future. Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk, 15(1).
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2023 Askari, H., Latif, Y., & Sun, H. (2023). MapFlow: latent transition via normalizing flow for unsupervised domain adaptation. Machine Learning, 112(8), 2953-2974.
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2023 Latif, Y., Anastasiou, P., Ng, Y., Prime, Z., Lu, T. -F., Tetlow, M., . . . Chin, T. -J. (2023). High Frequency, High Accuracy Pointing onboard Nanosats using
Neuromorphic Event Sensing and Piezoelectric Actuation.
2023 Abbas, S., Waseem, M., Yaseen, M., Latif, Y., Leta, M. K., Khan, T. H., & Muhammad, S. (2023). Spatial-Temporal Seasonal Variability of Extreme Precipitation under Warming Climate in Pakistan. Atmosphere, 14(2), 210.
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2023 Ma, C., Yu, C., & Latif, Y. (2023). CSR and Sustainable Growth in China’s Technology Firms between 2010 and 2021. Sustainability, 15(3), 2101.
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2023 Jawaid, M., Elms, E., Latif, Y., & Chin, T. J. (2023). Towards Bridging the Space Domain Gap for Satellite Pose Estimation using Event Sensing. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023-May, 11866-11873.
DOI Scopus32
2022 Khan, K. S., Latif, Y., Munir, A., & Hensel, O. (2022). Comparative thermal analyses of solar milk pasteurizers integrated with solar concentrator and evacuated tube collector. Energy Reports, 8, 7917-7930.
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2022 Yaseen, M., Latif, Y., Waseem, M., Leta, M. K., Abbas, S., & Bhatti, H. A. (2022). Contemporary Trends in High and Low River Flows in Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan. Water Switzerland, 14(3), 337.
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2022 Abbas, S., Yaseen, M., Latif, Y., Waseem, M., Muhammad, S., Leta, M. K., . . . Khan, T. H. (2022). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Climatic Extremes over the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan. Water Switzerland, 14(11), 1718.
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2022 Ma, C., & Latif, Y. (2022). How to Improve Employee Psychological Well-Being? CSR as a Sustainable Way. Sustainability Switzerland, 14(21), 13920.
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2021 Lassance, C., Latif, Y., Garg, R., Gripon, V., & Reid, I. (2021). Improved visual localization via graph filtering. Journal of Imaging, 7(2), 20.
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2021 Imran, M. A., Xu, J., Sultan, M., Shamshiri, R. R., Ahmed, N., Javed, Q., . . . Ahmad, R. (2021). Free discharge of subsurface drainage effluent: An alternate design of the surface drain system in Pakistan. Sustainability Switzerland, 13(7), 4080.
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2021 Latif, Y., Ma, Y., & Ma, W. (2021). Climatic trends variability and concerning flow regime of Upper Indus Basin, Jehlum, and Kabul river basins Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 144(1-2), 447-468.
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2021 Doan, A. -D., Latif, Y., Chin, T. -J., & Reid, I. (2021). HM⁴: hidden Markov model with memory management for visual place recognition. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(1), 167-174.
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2020 Doan, A. D., Latif, Y., Chin, T. J., Liu, Y., Ch ng, S. F., Do, T. T., & Reid, I. (2020). Visual localization under appearance change: filtering approaches. Neural Computing and Applications, 33(13), 254-261.
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2020 Chng, C. K., Parra, A., Chin, T. J., & Latif, Y. (2020). Monocular Rotational Odometry with Incremental Rotation Averaging and Loop Closure. 2020 Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications Dicta 2020, abs/2010.01872, 8 pages.
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2020 Latif, Y., Harrison, N., & Chu, H. E. (2020). Interpreting the Cultural and Academic Experiences of PhD Students from the Indian Sub-Continent and the Chinese Regions in Australian Universities. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 15(19), 171-186.
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2020 Yaseen, M., Ahmad, I., Guo, J., Azam, M. I., & Latif, Y. (2020). Spatiotemporal Variability in the Hydrometeorological Time-Series over Upper Indus River Basin of Pakistan. Advances in Meteorology, 2020, 1-18.
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2020 Latif, Y., Yaoming, M., Yaseen, M., Muhammad, S., & Wazir, M. A. (2020). Spatial analysis of temperature time series over the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 139(1-2), 741-758.
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2020 Muhammad, S., Tian, L., Ali, S., Latif, Y., Wazir, M. A., Goheer, M. A., . . . Shiyin, L. (2020). Thin debris layers do not enhance melting of the Karakoram glaciers. Science of the Total Environment, 746, 141119.
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2020 Yaseen, M., Waseem, M., Latif, Y., Azam, M. I., Ahmad, I., Abbas, S., . . . Nabi, G. (2020). Statistical downscaling and hydrological modeling-based runoff simulation in trans-boundary mangla watershed pakistan. Water Switzerland, 12(11), 3254.
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2020 Latif, Y., Harrison, N., & Chu, H. E. (2020). Development and validation of cultural and academic experience questionnaire: A study of east Asian research students at Australian universities. Education Sciences, 10(6), 148.
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2018 Latif, Y., Yaoming, M., & Yaseen, M. (2018). Spatial analysis of precipitation time series over the Upper Indus Basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 131(1-2), 761-775.
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2017 Rehman, S. U., Qingren, C., Latif, Y., & Iqbal, P. (2017). Impact of psychological capital on occupational burnout and performance of faculty members. International Journal of Educational Management, 31(4), 455-469.
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2017 Latif, Y., Huang, G., Leonard, J., & Neira, J. (2017). Sparse optimization for robust and efficient loop closing. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 93, 13-26.
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2016 Cadena, C., Carlone, L., Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., Scaramuzza, D., Neira, J., . . . Leonard, J. (2016). Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: toward the robust-perception age. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 32(6), 1309-1332.
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2014 Latif, Y. (2014). Important TQM implementation contributors in Pakistani petrochemical sector. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 10(3), 331-348.
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2013 Latif, Y., Cadena Lerma, C., & Neira, J. (2013). Robust loop closing over time for pose graph SLAM. International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(14), 1611-1626.
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Year Citation
2020 Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., & Castillanos, J. A. (2020). Navigation, Environment Description, and Map Building. In M. Indri, & R. Oboe (Eds.), Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges (1 ed., pp. 105-132). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
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Year Citation
2025 Bagchi, S., Reed, H., Wotton, J., Stilwell, R., Hooper, G., Chin, T. J., & Latif, Y. (2025). ASTERISK: Space Protocol's quantum-resilient space and air safety framework for trusted operations. In Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress Iac (pp. 49-62). International Astronautical Federation (IAF).
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2024 Elms, E., Latif, Y., Park, T. H., & Chin, T. -J. (2024). Event-based Structure-from-Orbit. In 2024 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR) (pp. 19541-19550). WA, Seattle: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
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2024 Jawaid, M., Talak, R., Latif, Y., Carlone, L., & Chin, T. J. (2024). Test-Time Certifiable Self-Supervision to Bridge the Sim2Real Gap in Event-Based Satellite Pose Estimation. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 4534-4541). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: IEEE.
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2023 Ng, Y., Latif, Y., Chin, T. -J., & Mahony, R. (2023). Asynchronous Kalman Filter for Event-Based Star Tracking. In L. Karlinsky, T. Michaeli, & K. Nishino (Eds.), Proceedings of Computer Vision ECCV Vol. 13801 LNCS (pp. 66-79). Tel Aviv, Israel: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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2023 McLeod, S., Meoni, G., Izzo, D., Mergy, A., Liu, D., Latif, Y., . . . Chin, T. -J. (2023). Globally Optimal Event-Based Divergence Estimation for Ventral Landing. In L. Karlinsky, T. Michaeli, & K. Nishino (Eds.), Proceedings, Part I Workshops of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 13801 (pp. 3-20). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
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2022 Liu, D., Parra, A., Latif, Y., Chen, B., Chin, T. J., & Reid, I. (2022). Asynchronous Optimisation for Event-based Visual Odometry. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2022-January (pp. 9432-9438). United States: IEEE.
DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2021 Doan, D., Turmukhambetov, D., Latif, Y., Chin, T. J., & Bae, S. (2021). Learning to Predict Repeatability of Interest Points. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2021-May (pp. 10294-10301). online: IEEE.
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2020 Latif, Y., Doan, A. D., Chin, T. J., & Reid, I. (2020). SPRINT: Subgraph Place Recognition for INtelligent Transportation. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 5408-5414). online: IEEE.
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2020 Chng, C. K., Parra Bustos, A., Chin, T. J., & Latif, Y. (2020). Monocular Rotational Odometry with Incremental Rotation Averaging and Loop Closure.. In Proceedings of the 2020 Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA) (pp. 1-8). online: IEEE.
2019 Latif, Y., Ma, Y., Ma, W., Sher, M., & Muhammad, Y. (2019). Snowmelt Runoff Simulation During Early 21st Century Using Hydrological Modelling in the Snow-Fed Terrain of Gilgit River Basin (Pakistan). In Advances in Science Technology and Innovation (pp. 73-76). Springer International Publishing.
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2019 Hosseinzadeh, M., Latif, Y., Pham, T., Suenderhauf, N., & Reid, I. (2019). Structure aware SLAM using quadrics and planes. In Proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2018), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 11363 (pp. 410-426). Switzerlaned: Springer.
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2019 Hosseinzadeh, M., Li, K., Latif, Y., & Reid, I. (2019). Real-time monocular object-model aware sparse SLAM. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Vol. 2019-May (pp. 7123-7129). Piscataway, NJ.: IEEE.
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2019 Doan, A. -D., Latif, Y., Chin, T., Liu, Y., Ch'ng, S., Do, T. -T., & Reid, I. D. (2019). Visual Localization under Appearance Change: A Filtering Approach.. In Proceedings of 2019 Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA) (pp. 254-261). online: IEEE.
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2019 Weerasekera, C. S., Garg, R., Latif, Y., & Reid, I. (2019). Learning deeply supervised good features to match for dense monocular reconstruction. In Proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2018), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 11365 (pp. 609-624). Switzerland: Springer.
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2019 Doan, D., Latif, Y., Chin, T. J., Liu, Y., Do, T. T., & Reid, I. (2019). Scalable place recognition under appearance change for autonomous driving. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Vol. 2019-October (pp. 9318-9327). online: IEEE.
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2018 Latif, Y., Garg, R., Milford, M., & Reid, I. (2018). Addressing challenging place recognition tasks using generative adversarial networks. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 2349-2355). Piscataway, NJ.: IEEE.
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2017 Hosseinzadeh, M., Latif, Y., & Reid, I. (2017). Sparse point-plane SLAM. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA Vol. 2017-December (pp. 148-155). online: ARAA.
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2017 Sünderhauf, N., Pham, T., Latif, Y., Milford, M., & Reid, I. (2017). Meaningful maps with object-oriented semantic mapping. In IEEE Vol. 2017-September (pp. 5079-5085). Vancouver, Canada: IEEE.
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2017 Weerasekera, C., Latif, Y., Garg, R., & Reid, I. (2017). Dense monocular reconstruction using surface normals. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 2524-2531). online: IEEE.
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2017 Kim, J., Latif, Y., & Reid, I. (2017). RRD-SLAM: Radial-distorted rolling-shutter direct SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2017) (pp. 5148-5154). Singapore: IEEE.
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2016 Cadena, C., Latif, Y., & Reid, I. (2016). Measuring the performance of single image depth estimation methods. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Vol. 2016-November (pp. 4150-4157). Daejeon, South Korea: IEEE.
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2015 Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., Rodriguez-Arevalo, M., Neira, J., & Castellanos, J. (2015). On the monotonicity of optimality criteria during exploration in active SLAM. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2015-June (pp. 1476-1483). Seattle, WA, USA: IEEE.
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2015 Salas, M., Latif, Y., Reid, I., & Montiel, J. (2015). Trajectory alignment and evaluation in SLAM: Horn’s method vs alignment on the manifold. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop: The problem of mobile sensors (pp. 1-3). Rome, Italy: Robotics: Science and Systems.
2015 Pham, T., Reid, I., Latif, Y., & Gould, S. (2015). Hierarchical higher-order regression forest fields: an application to 3D indoor scene labelling. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Vol. 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015 (pp. 2246-2254). Santiago, CHILE: IEEE.
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2014 Latif, Y., Huang, G., Leonard, J., & Neira, J. (2014). An Online Sparsity-Cognizant Loop-Closure Algorithm for Visual Navigation. In Robotics: Science and Systems (pp. 1-9). Online: MIT Press.
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2014 Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., Neira, J., & Castellanos, J. A. (2014). Towards measuring uncertainty in volumetric signed distance function representations for active SLAM. In Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Multiview Geometry in Robotics (MVGRO).
2014 Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., Neira, J., & Castellanos, J. (2014). Place categorization using sparse and redundant representations. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 4950-4957). Chicago, IL, USA: IEEE.
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2014 Latif, Y., Cadena, C., & Neira, J. (2014). Robust Graph SLAM Back-ends: A Comparative Analysis. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 2683-2690). online: IEEE.
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2013 Latif, Y., & Neira, J. (2013). Go straight, turn right: pose graph reduction through trajectory Segmentation using line segments. In 2013 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2013) (pp. 144-149). Barcelona, Spain: IEEE.
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2013 Schweiger, F., Schroth, G., Huitl, R., Latif, Y., & Steinbach, E. (2013). Speeded-up SURF: Design of an efficient multiscale feature detector. In Proceedings of the 2013 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (pp. 3475-3478). USA: IEEE.
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2013 Latif, Y., Cadena Lerma, C., & Neira, J. (2013). Detecting the correct graph structure in pose graph SLAM. In 1st Workshop on Robust and Multimodal Inference in Factor Graphs (pp. 1-7). Online: ICRA.
2012 Latif, Y., Cadena Lerma, C., & Neira, J. (2012). Robust loop closing over time. In N. Roy, P. Newman, & S. Srinivasa (Eds.), Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems VIII Vol. 8 (pp. 233-240). Online: MIT Press.
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2012 Latif, Y., Cadena Lerma, C., & Neira, J. (2012). Realizing, reversing, recovering: Incremental robust loop closing over time using the iRRR algorithm. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 (pp. 4211-4217). Online: IEEE.
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2012 Carrillo, H., Latif, Y., Neira, J., & Castellanos, J. (2012). Fast minimum uncertainty search on a graph map representation. In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 2504-2511). Vilamoura, Portugal: IEEE.
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Year Citation
2014 Latif, Y., Huang, G., Leonard, J. J., & Neira, J. (2014). Applying Sparse l1-optimization to problems in robotics. Poster session presented at the meeting of ICRA 2014 Workshop on Long Term Autonomy.

Year Citation
2025 Bagchi, S., Anastasiou, P., Tetlow, M., Chin, T. -J., & Latif, Y. (2025). Event-based Star Tracking under Spacecraft Jitter: the e-STURT Dataset.
2025 Pratti, L., Bagchi, S., & Latif, Y. (2025). Data and Decision Traceability for SDA TAP Lab's Prototype Battle
Management System.
2024 Latif, Y., Chowdhury, A., & Bagchi, S. (2024). On-chain Validation of Tracking Data Messages (TDM) Using Distributed
Deep Learning on a Proof of Stake (PoS) Blockchain.
2024 Chowdhury, A., Latif, Y., Jah, M. K., & Bagchi, S. (2024). L-DIT: A dApp for Live Detectability, Identifiability and Trackability
for ASOs on the Behavioral Dynamics Blockchain.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Satellite precision attitude control and confluence-avoiding trajectory optimisation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ashwin Subramaniam
2025 Co-Supervisor Satellite precision attitude control and confluence-avoiding trajectory optimisation - Doctorate Full Time Mr Ashwin Subramaniam
2024 Co-Supervisor Close Proximity space domain awareness onboard satellite systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ethan Elms
2024 Co-Supervisor Close Proximity space domain awareness onboard satellite systems - Doctorate Full Time Mr Ethan Elms
2023 Co-Supervisor Neuromorphic Algorithms for Robust Fitting Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Tam nb Nguyen
2023 Co-Supervisor Domain Adaptation for Monocular Spacecraft Pose Estimation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mohsi Jawaid
2023 Co-Supervisor Neuromorphic Algorithms for Robust Fitting - Doctorate Full Time Ms Tam nb Nguyen
2023 Co-Supervisor Domain Adaptation for Monocular Spacecraft Pose Estimation - Doctorate Full Time Mr Mohsi Jawaid
2022 Co-Supervisor Event Based Cameras for Space Surveillance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Samya Bagchi
2022 Co-Supervisor Event Based Cameras for Space Surveillance - Doctorate Part Time Mr Samya Bagchi

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Manifold Optimization for Robotic Perception Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Shin Fang Ch'ng
2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Scalable Life-long Visual Place Recognition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Dzung Anh Doan

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2020 - ongoing Associate Editor IROS 2020 Conference Review University of Adelaide -

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