Publications

  • 2026
    AlShami, A.K., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “GATEPose: Graph Attention Transformer Enhanced by Pose for Real-Time Prediction of Pedestrian Crossing Intention,” (WACV26) Accepted
  • 2026
    AlShami, A.K., Rabinowitz, R., Kalita, A., Shoman, M., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “2COOOL: A Benchmark for Generating Incident Reports on Out of Distribution Hazards in Autonomous Driving,” Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV26). Accepted
  • 2025
    Delzer, L., Kroleski, R., AlShami, A.K. and Kalita, J., “Drug Repurposing Using Deep Embedded Clustering and Graph Neural Networks,” 24th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA25). Published
  • 2025
    Ghiya, A., AlShami, A.K. and Kalita, J., “SGNetPose+: Stepwise Goal-Driven Networks with Pose Information for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving,” (WACV25). Published
  • 2024
    AlShami, A.K., Kalita, A., Rabinowitz, R., Lam, K., Bezbarua, R., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “COOOL: Challenge Of Out-Of-Label A Novel Benchmark for Autonomous Driving,” (WACV25). Published
  • 2024
    AlShami, A.K., Rabinowitz, R., Lam, K., Shleibik, Y., Mersha, M., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “SMART-vision: survey of modern action recognition techniques in vision,” Multimedia Tools and Applications. Published
  • 2023
    AlShami, A.K., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “Pose2Trajectory: Using transformers on body pose to predict tennis player's trajectory,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2023). Published
  • 2022
    AlShami, A.K., “Generating Tennis Player by the Predicting Movement Using 2D Pose Estimation,” Master's thesis, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). Published
  • 2024
    Mersha, M., Lam, K., Wood, J., AlShami, A.K. and Kalita, J., “Explainable artificial intelligence: A survey of needs, techniques, applications, and future direction,” Neurocomputing. Published
  • 2023
    Shrivastava, A., Kumar, P., Anubhav, Vondrick, C., Scheirer, W., Prijatelj, D.S., Jafarzadeh, M., Ahmad, T., Cruz, S., Rabinowitz, R. and AlShami, A.K., “Novelty in image classification,” Springer Nature Switzerland. Published

  • 2025
    AlShami, A.K., Kamod, N., Rabinowitz, R. and Kalita, J., “Connecting the Dots: Graph-Based Discovery of Risky Objects in Autonomous Driving Scenarios,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Under Review
  • 2025
    AlShami, A.K., Rabinowitz, R., Mersha, M., Boult, T. and Kalita, J., “2COOOL-VQA: A VideoQA Benchmark for Out-of-Distribution Hazards in Autonomous Driving,” Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV26). Under Review
  • 2025
    Wood, J., AlShami, A.K. and Kalita, J., “Behavioral Trust-Aware FedAvg: A Novel Aggregation Strategy for Federated learning,” Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy. in preparation
  • 2025
    Mersha, M., AlShami, A.K. and Kalita, J., “Explainable AI: Context-Aware Layer-Wise Integrated Gradients for Explaining Transformer Models,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Paper under review