📝 Selected Publications
(* indicates equal contribution; # indicates corresponding authorship.)
CHI-W 2026 Multimodal Interaction through Embodied Agents: An Intelligent Assistant for Immersive Virtual Environments
Muhammad Saad, Mahdi Saeed, Faouzi Laamarti, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik.
(ACM CHI 2026 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain)
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TLDR;
We present an intelligent embodied agent assistant that enables natural multimodal interaction within immersive virtual environments.
IEEE CEM 2026 NewsTwin: An Embodied Multi-Agent Digital Twin for Personalized News Consumption
Z. Wang, Muhammad Saad, Mahdi Saeed, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik.
(IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2026)
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TLDR;
We introduce an embodied multi-agent digital twin that personalizes how users consume and interact with news content.
ACM TOMM CP-Diffusion: Conditional Prompt-Based Diffusion Models for Video Generation
Mahdi Saeed, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Saad, Nasir Rahim, Wail Gueaieb, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik.
(ACM TOMM, 2025)
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TLDR;
We propose conditional prompt-based diffusion models for controllable and high-quality video generation.
CVPR 2025 All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
A. Vayani, D. Dissanayake, H. Watawana, N. Ahsan, et al. (incl. Muhammad Saad), F. Khan.
(CVPR 2025)
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TLDR;
A large-scale benchmark evaluating large multimodal models across 100 culturally diverse languages.
ICCE 2024 Action Knowledge Graph for Violence Detection Using Audiovisual Features
Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Saad, Abbas Khan, Wail Gueaieb, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Giulia De Masi, Fakhri Karray.
(IEEE ICCE 2024, Las Vegas, USA)
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TLDR;
We leverage action knowledge graphs over audiovisual features to improve violence detection in videos.
ISC2 2023 Combating Counterfeit Products in Smart Cities with Digital Twin Technology
Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Khan, Mahdi Saeed, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Wail Gueaieb.
(IEEE ISC2 2023, Bucharest, Romania)
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TLDR;
We use digital twin technology to detect and combat counterfeit products in smart city supply chains.
ISC2 2023 Gaming-Based Education System for Children on Road Safety in Metaverse Towards Smart Cities
Mahdi Saeed, Abbas Khan, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Saad, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Wail Gueaieb.
(IEEE ISC2 2023, Bucharest, Romania)
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TLDR;
A metaverse-based gaming system that teaches road safety to children in smart city environments.
SITIS 2022 BreastUS: Vision Transformer for Breast Cancer Classification Using Breast Ultrasound Images
Muhammad Saad, M. Ullah, H. Afridi, F. A. Cheikh, M. Sajjad.
(SITIS 2022, Dijon, France)
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TLDR;
We introduce a vision transformer model for breast cancer classification from ultrasound images.