Dr Khaled Saleh

Dr Khaled Saleh

Lecturer - Computing and Information Technology

School of Information and Physical Sciences (Computing and Information Technology)

Career Summary

Biography

Dr Khaled is an experienced researcher in the field of AI and Machine Learning with more than 10 years of experience across academia and industry. 

Dr Khaled received his PhD in computer science from Deakin University/Australia in 2019. Before joining the University of Newcastle, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he was working on the research of human behaviour understanding using multimodal sensing via AI and deep learning techniques across versatile domain applications ranging from the transportation to the education field.

At the University of Newcastle, Dr Khaled works on the broader research field of AI and Machine Learning with a focus on automated decision-making/supporting systems. He is also the Program Convenor for the Bachelor of IT.

Dr Khaled's research interests lie at the intersection of autonomous systems, machine learning and computer vision, with a focus on developing intelligent autonomous systems. He has published over 30 papers in high-quality journals and conferences. He also serves as a topic editor at MDPI Sensors journal and a reviewer for top journals and conferences such as IEEE T-ITS, Transportation Research Part C, Neurocomputing, IEEE ICRA and IEEE IROS.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University

Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Science
  • Deep Learning
  • Deep Neural Networks
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Machine Perception

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
461103 Deep learning 50
460202 Autonomous agents and multiagent systems 40
350902 Intelligent mobility 10

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Lecturer - Computing and Information Technology University of Newcastle
School of Information and Physical Sciences
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
3/2/2020 - 19/8/2022 Postdoc Research Fellow University of Technology Sydney
Australia
1/11/2018 - 31/10/2019 Research Fellow Deakin University
Australia

Teaching

Code Course Role Duration
SENG2200 Programming Languages and Paradigms
School of Information and Physical Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia 		Course Coordinator and Lecturer 20/2/2023 - 30/6/2023
INFO6090 Business Intelligence for the Enterprise
School of Information and Physical Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia 		Course Coordinator and Lecturer 22/8/2022 - 30/11/2023
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Chapter (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Saleh K, Yu K, Chen F, 'Video-Based Student Engagement Estimation via Time Convolution Neural Networks for Remote Learning', AI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 658-667 (2022) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-97546-3_53
2018 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Cyclist Trajectory Prediction Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks', , SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG 284-295 (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_28
Citations Web of Science - 6

Journal article (10 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Grigorev A, Mihaita A-S, Saleh K, Chen F, 'Automatic Accident Detection, Segmentation and Duration Prediction Using Machine Learning', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25 1547-1568 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1109/tits.2023.3323636
2023 Saleh K, Hossny M, Abobakr A, Attia M, Iskander J, 'VoxelScape: Large Scale Simulated 3D Point Cloud Dataset of Urban Traffic Environments', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 24 9435-9448 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1109/TITS.2023.3271414
2022 Saleh K, 'Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction for Real-Time Autonomous Systems via Context-Augmented Transformer Networks', SENSORS, 22 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/s22197495
Citations Scopus - 4
2021 Hossny M, Iskander J, Attia M, Saleh K, Abobakr A, 'Refined Continuous Control of DDPG Actors via Parametrised Activation', AI, 2 464-476 [C1]
DOI 10.3390/ai2040029
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
2021 Saleh K, Abobakr A, Hossny M, Nahavandi D, Iskander J, Attia M, Nahavandi S, 'Fast intent prediction of multi-cyclists in 3D point cloud data using deep neural networks', NEUROCOMPUTING, 465 205-214 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.09.008
2020 Khaled S, Mohammed H, Saeid N, 'Spatio-temporal DenseNet for real-time intent prediction of pedestrians in urban traffic environments', NEUROCOMPUTING, 386 317-324 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.1016/j.neucom.2019.12.091
Citations Scopus - 12Web of Science - 8
2020 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Contextual Recurrent Predictive Model for Long-Term Intent Prediction of Vulnerable Road Users', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 21 3398-3408 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.1109/TITS.2019.2927770
Citations Scopus - 17Web of Science - 14
2019 Iskander J, Attia M, Saleh K, Nahavandi D, Abobakr A, Mohamed S, et al., 'From car sickness to autonomous car sickness: A review', TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR, 62 716-726 (2019) [C1]
DOI 10.1016/j.trf.2019.02.020
Citations Web of Science - 39
2018 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Intent Prediction of Pedestrians via Motion Trajectories Using Stacked Recurrent Neural Networks', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT VEHICLES, 3 414-424 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1109/TIV.2018.2873901
Citations Scopus - 69Web of Science - 44
2018 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Effective Vehicle-Based Kangaroo Detection for Collision Warning Systems Using Region-Based Convolutional Networks', SENSORS, 18 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/s18061913
Citations Web of Science - 11
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Conference (28 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Saleh K, 'Hybrid Seq2Seq Architecture for 3D Co-Speech Gesture Generation', INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, Bengaluru, India (2022) [E1]
DOI 10.1145/3536221.3558064
2022 Saleh K, Mihaita A-S, Yu K, Chen F, 'Real-time Attention-Augmented Spatio-Temporal Networks for Video-based Driver Activity Recognition', 2022 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC), PEOPLES R CHINA, Macau (2022) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9922417
2022 Grigorev A, Mihaita A-S, Saleh K, Piccardi M, 'Traffic incident duration prediction via a deep learning framework for text description encoding', 2022 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC), PEOPLES R CHINA, Macau (2022) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9921768
2022 Saleh K, Grigorev A, Mihaita A-S, 'Traffic Accident Risk Forecasting using Contextual Vision Transformers', 2022 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC), PEOPLES R CHINA, Macau (2022) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9921978
2021 Saleh K, Yu K, Chen F, 'Improving Users Engagement Detection using End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks', HRI '21: COMPANION OF THE 2021 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, ELECTR NETWORK (2021) [E1]
DOI 10.1145/3434074.3447157
Citations Web of Science - 3
2019 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Real-time Intent Prediction of Pedestrians for Autonomous Ground Vehicles via Spatio-Temporal DenseNet', 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), Montreal, CANADA (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/icra.2019.8793991
Citations Web of Science - 30
2019 Iskander J, Abobakr A, Attia M, Saleh K, Nahavandi D, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'A k-NN Classification based VR User Verification using Eye Movement and Ocular Biomechanics', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914577
Citations Web of Science - 4
2019 Attia M, Attia MH, Iskander J, Saleh K, Nahavandi D, Abobakr A, et al., 'Fingerprint Synthesis Via Latent Space Representation', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8914499
Citations Web of Science - 5
2019 Abobakr A, Abdelkader H, Iskander J, Nahavandi D, Saleh K, Attia M, et al., 'SSDPose: A Single Shot Deep Pose Estimation and Analysis', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8913964
2019 Attia M, Abobakr A, Wei L, Saleh K, Iskander J, Zhou H, et al., 'High Frame Rate Photorealistic Flame Rendering via Generative Adversarial Networks', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), ITALY, Bari (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8914043
2019 Jalali SMJ, Kebria PM, Khosravi A, Saleh K, Nahavandi D, Nahavandi S, 'Optimal Autonomous Driving Through Deep Imitation Learning and Neuroevolution', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8914582
Citations Web of Science - 28
2019 Iskander J, Attia M, Saleh K, Abobakr A, Nahavandi D, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Exploring the Effect of Virtual Depth on Pupil Diameter', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8913975
Citations Web of Science - 4
2019 Ahmed M, Saleh K, Abobakr A, Nahavandi S, 'SCENARIO GENERATION-BASED TRAINING IN SIMULATION: PILOT STUDY', 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Bari, ITALY (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2019.8913985
2019 Saleh K, Abobakr A, Nahavandi D, Iskander J, Attia M, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Cyclist Intent Prediction using 3D LIDAR Sensors for Fully Automated Vehicles', 2019 IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (ITSC), Auckland, NEW ZEALAND (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/itsc.2019.8917291
Citations Web of Science - 6
2019 Saleh K, Abobakr A, Attia M, Iskander J, Nahavandi D, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Domain Adaptation for Vehicle Detection from Bird's Eye View LiDAR Point Cloud Data', 2019 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW), SOUTH KOREA, Seoul (2019) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00404
Citations Web of Science - 25
2018 Iskander J, Hanoun S, Hettiarachchi I, Hossny M, Saleh K, Zhou H, et al., 'Eye Behaviour as a Hazard Perception Measure', 12TH ANNUAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (SYSCON2018), Vancouver, CANADA (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/syscon.2018.8369509
Citations Web of Science - 12
2018 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Long-Term Recurrent Predictive Model for Intent Prediction of Pedestrians via Inverse Reinforcement Learning', 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL IMAGE COMPUTING: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (DICTA), AUSTRALIA, Canberra (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/dicta.2018.8615854
Citations Web of Science - 7
2018 Iskander J, Jia D, Hettiarachchi I, Hossny M, Saleh K, Nahavandi S, et al., 'Age-Related Effects of Multi-Screen Setup on Task Performance and Eye Movement Characteristics', 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), IEEE Syst Man & Cybernet Soc, Miyazaki, JAPAN (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/SMC.2018.00589
Citations Web of Science - 10
2018 Saleh K, Iskander J, Jia D, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, Best C, et al., 'Reliable Switching Mechanism for Low Cost Multi-screen Eye Tracking Devices via Deep Recurrent Neural Networks', 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), JAPAN, IEEE Syst Man & Cybernet Soc, Miyazaki (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/SMC.2018.00591
2018 Saleh K, Zeineldin RA, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, El-Fishawy NA, 'End-to-End Indoor Navigation Assistance for the Visually Impaired using Monocular Camera', 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), JAPAN, IEEE Syst Man & Cybernet Soc, Miyazaki (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/SMC.2018.00593
Citations Web of Science - 3
2018 Saleh K, Attia M, Hossny M, Hanoun S, Salaken S, Nahavandi S, 'Local Motion Planning for Ground Mobile Robots via Deep Imitation Learning', 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), JAPAN, IEEE Syst Man & Cybernet Soc, Miyazaki (2018) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/SMC.2018.00691
Citations Web of Science - 3
2017 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Early Intent Prediction of Vulnerable Road Users from Visual Attributes using Multi-Task Learning Network', 2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Banff, CANADA (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2017.8123150
Citations Web of Science - 12
2017 Saleh K, Zeineldin RA, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, El-Fishawy NA, 'Navigational Path Detection for the Visually Impaired using Fully Convolutional Networks', 2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC), Banff, CANADA (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/smc.2017.8122809
Citations Web of Science - 5
2017 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Towards Trusted Autonomous Vehicles from Vulnerable Road Users Perspective', 2017 11TH ANNUAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (SYSCON), Montreal, CANADA (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/syscon.2017.7934782
Citations Web of Science - 19
2017 Saleh K, Hossny M, Hossny A, Nahavandi S, 'Cyclist Detection in LIDAR Scans Using Faster R-CNN and Synthetic Depth Images', 2017 IEEE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC), Yokohama, JAPAN (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/itsc.2017.8317599
Citations Web of Science - 31
2017 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Intent Prediction of Vulnerable Road Users from Motion Trajectories Using Stacked LSTM Network', 2017 IEEE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC), Yokohama, JAPAN (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/itsc.2017.8317941
Citations Web of Science - 21
2017 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Driving behavior classification based on sensor data fusion using LSTM recurrent neural networks', 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Yokohama, Japan (2017) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/itsc.2017.8317835
2016 Saleh K, Hossny M, Nahavandi S, 'Kangaroo Vehicle Collision Detection Using Deep Semantic Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network', 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL IMAGE COMPUTING: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (DICTA), Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA (2016) [E1]
DOI 10.1109/dicta.2016.7797057
Citations Web of Science - 12
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 2
Total funding $283,513

Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.

20211 grants / $20,000

Agent Behaviour Modelling via Deep Reward Learning: An Urban Traffic Environment Use Case$20,000

Funding body: DSTO

Funding body DSTO
Project Team

Khaled Saleh and Kun Yu
Scheme Direct Funding
Role Lead
Funding Start 2021
Funding Finish 2022
GNo
Type Of Funding Other Public Sector - Commonwealth
Category 2OPC
UON N

20171 grants / $263,513

Autonomous Electric Vehicle - URP2016 -3003R$263,513

Funding body: Ford Motor Company

Funding body Ford Motor Company
Project Team

Prof Saeid Nahavandi, Dr Mohammed Hossny, A/Prof Shady Mohamed, Dr Navid Mohajer, Dr Darius Nahavandi, Dr Ahmed Abobakr, Dr Khaled Saleh, A/Prof Zoran Najdovski
Scheme Direct Funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2017
Funding Finish 2019
GNo
Type Of Funding International - Competitive
Category 3IFA
UON N
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Dr Khaled Saleh

Position

Lecturer - Computing and Information Technology
School of Information and Physical Sciences
College of Engineering, Science and Environment

Focus area

Computing and Information Technology

Contact Details

Email khaled.saleh@newcastle.edu.au

Office

Room ES214
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