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2026

  1. NeurIPS ★ A* conference

    Do Robust LVLMs Hallucinate More? Uncovering Robustness-Induced Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. A. Fime, A. Imteaj

    The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Main Track, 2026

  2. EMNLP ★ A* conference

    Do LVLMs Know When They Are Wrong? Trajectory-Based Correctness Estimation from a Single Forward Pass

    A. A. Fime, Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Track, 2026

  3. EMNLP ★ A* conference

    From Benchmarks to Real-World Use: Evaluating the Robustness of Vision-Language Models for Chart Understanding

    A. A. Fime, M. S. Islam, M. T. R. Laskar, Md Zarif Hossain, R. Mahbub, M. T. Nayeem, M. Rahman, A. Imteaj, E. Hoque

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Industry Track, 2026

  4. CVPR ★ A* conference

    When Data is Scarce, Learn to Adapt: Robust Federated Learning via Adversarial Meta-Optimization

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. A. Fime, A. Imteaj

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Findings Track, 2026

    Project

  5. IJCNN

    Sim-CLIP: Unsupervised Siamese Adversarial Fine-Tuning for Robust and Semantically-Rich Vision-Language Models

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2026

    arXiv

2025

  1. CVPR ★ A* conference

    SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 22.1% acceptance

  2. TAI

    Blockchain-Empowered Cyber-Secure Federated Learning for Trustworthy Edge Computing

    E. Moore, A. Imteaj, Md Zarif Hossain, S. Rezapour, M. H. Amini

    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Q1 journal

  3. ICCVW

    Pose to Protect: Federated Skeleton-Based Anomaly Detection for Privacy-Conscious Video Surveillance

    D. Famouri, Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2025

  4. CVPRW

    Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicles with Vision-Language Models Under Targeted and Untargeted Adversarial Attacks

    A. A. Fime, Md Zarif Hossain, S. Zaman, A. R. Shahid, A. Imteaj

    IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshops, 2025

  5. AAAI-SS

    Benchmarking Large Language Models for Resource-Efficient Medical AI at the Edge

    A. A. Fime, Md Zarif Hossain, S. Zaman, A. R. Shahid, A. Imteaj

    AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium

2024

  1. BigData

    Securing Vision-Language Models with a Robust Encoder Against Jailbreak and Adversarial Attacks

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pp. 6250–6259, 2024

  2. ICMLA

    TriplePlay: Enhancing Federated Learning with CLIP for Non-IID Data and Resource Efficiency

    A. Imteaj, Md Zarif Hossain, S. Zaman, A. R. Shahid

    23rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2024

  3. ICDCSW

    Flamingo: Adaptive and Resilient Federated Meta-Learning Against Adversarial Attacks

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj, A. R. Shahid

    IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 2024

  4. SusTech

    Generative AI-based Land Cover Classification via Federated Learning CNNs: Sustainable Insights from UAV Imagery

    Md Zarif Hossain, O. Jockusch, A. Imteaj, A. R. Shahid

    IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), pp. 356–361, 2024

  5. COMPSAC

    FedAVO: Improving Communication Efficiency in Federated Learning with African Vultures Optimizer

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj, A. R. Shahid

    IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2024

  6. COMPSAC

    Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Through Particle Swarm Optimization and Knowledge Distillation

    S. Zaman, S. Talukder, Md Zarif Hossain, S. M. Puppala, A. Imteaj

    IEEE COMPSAC, pp. 510–518, 2024

  7. COMPSAC

    Enhancing Road Safety Through Cost-Effective, Real-Time Monitoring of Driver Awareness with Resource-Constrained IoT Devices

    A. Imteaj, T. Rahman, S. Zaman, Md Zarif Hossain, A. R. Shahid

    IEEE COMPSAC, pp. 1711–1720, 2024

  8. COMPSAC

    WatchOverGPT: A Framework for Real-Time Crime Detection and Response Using Wearable Camera and Large Language Model

    A. R. Shahid, S. M. Hasan, M. W. Kankanamge, Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj

    IEEE COMPSAC, pp. 2189–2194, 2024

2023

  1. DSC

    FLID: Intrusion Attack and Defense Mechanism for Federated Learning-Empowered Connected Autonomous Vehicles

    Md Zarif Hossain, A. Imteaj, A. R. Shahid, S. Zaman, S. Talukder, M. H. Amini

    6th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC), 2023

  2. SMARTCOMP

    Assessing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Differentially-Private Federated Learning

    A. R. Shahid, A. Imteaj, S. Badsha, Md Zarif Hossain

    IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), pp. 355–360, 2023