Amirul Islam

Amirul Islam

Toronto, May 2020

I am a machine learning researcher with primary interests in generative AI, multi-modal learning, and human-centric AI (e.g., explainability, interpretability, generalization, fairness, and bias). Previously, I was a senior researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab in Toronto. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ryerson University in 2022, advised by Neil Bruce and Kosta Derpanis. Prior to that, I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, advised by Yang Wang and Neil Bruce. I am also a recipient of the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate award.

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Email: amirul507 [at] gmail.com


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Publications & Preprints

Visually Guided Audio Source Separation with Meta Consistency Learning
Md Amirul Islam, Shahab Nabavi, Irina Kezele, Yang Wang, Yuanhao Yu and Jin Tang
WACV 2024 Oral [PDF]
Quantifying and Learning Static vs. Dynamic Information in Deep Spatiotemporal Networks
Matthew Kowal, Mennatullah Siam, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Richard P. Wildes, Konstantinos G. Derpanis
Position, Padding and Predictions: A Deeper Look at Position Information in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
IJCV 2024 [PDF]
SegMix: Co-occurrence Driven Mixup for Semantic Segmentation and Adversarial Robustness
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil D. B. Bruce
IJCV 2023 [PDF]
Maximizing Mutual Shape Information
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2022 [PDF]
A Deeper Dive Into What Deep Spatiotemporal Networks Encode: Quantifying Static vs. Dynamic Information
Matthew Kowal, Mennatullah Siam, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Richard P. Wildes, Konstantinos G. Derpanis
Global Pooling, More than Meets the Eye: Position Information is Encoded Channel-Wise in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
ICCV 2021 [PDF] [Code]
Simpler Does It: Generating Semantic Labels with Objectness Guidance
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil D. B. Bruce
BMVC 2021 [PDF]
Shape or Texture: Understanding Discriminative Features in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Patrick Esser, Sen Jia, Björn Ommer, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
Bidirectional Attention Network for Monocular Depth Estimation
Shubhra Aich, Jean Vianney, Md Amirul Islam, Mannat Kaur, Bingbing Liu
ICRA 2021 [PDF]
Fibro-CoSANet: Pulmonary Fibrosis Prognosis Prediction using a Convolutional Self Attention Network
Zabir Al Nazi, Fazla Rabbi Mashrur, Md Amirul Islam, Shumit Saha
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2021 [PDF] [Code]
Feature Binding with Category-Dependant MixUp for Semantic Segmentation and Adversarial Robustness
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2020 Oral [PDF]
How much Position Information Do Convolutional Neural Networks Encode?
Md Amirul Islam, Sen Jia, Neil Bruce
ICLR 2020 Spotlight [PDF] [Code]
Distributed Iterative Gating Networks for Semantic Segmentation
Rezaul Karim, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce
WACV 2020 [PDF]
Relative Saliency and Ranking: Models, Metrics, Data and Benchmarks
Mahmoud Kalash*, Md Amirul Islam*, Neil Bruce
TPAMI 2019 [PDF]
Recurrent Iterative Gating Networks for Semantic Segmentation
Rezaul Karim, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce
WACV 2019 [PDF]
Revisiting Salient Object Detection: Simultaneous Detection, Ranking, and Subitizing of Multiple Salient Objects
Md Amirul Islam, Mahmoud Kalash, Neil Bruce
Semantics Meet Saliency: Exploring Domain Affinity and Models for Dual-Task Prediction
Md Amirul Islam, Mahmoud Kalash, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2018 [Paper]
Gated Feedback Refinement Network for Coarse-to-Fine Dense Semantic Image Labeling
Md Amirul Islam, M Rochan, S Naha, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
arXiv 2018 [PDF]
Gated Feedback Refinement Network for Dense Image Labeling
Md Amirul Islam, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
On the Robustness of Deep Learning Models to Universal Adversarial Attack
Rezaul Karim*, Md Amirul Islam*, Noman Mohammed, Neil Bruce
CRV 2018 Oral [Paper]
Salient Object Detection using a Context-Aware Refinement Network
Md Amirul Islam, M Kalash, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
Label Refinement Network for Coarse-to-Fine Semantic Segmentation
Md Amirul Islam, S Naha, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
arXiv 2017 [pdf]
Dense Image Labeling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
CRV 2016 Oral [pdf]