Research projects and publications
A selection of research projects and publications I have worked on over the years.
- Marcel Lamott and Saifullah Saifullah and Nauman Riaz and Yves-Noel Weweler and Tobias Alt-Veit and Ahmad Sarmad Ali and Muhammad Armaghan Shakir and Adrian Kalwa and Momina Moetesum and Andreas Dengel and Sheraz Ahmed and Faisal Shafait and Ulrich Schwanecke and Adrian UlgesarXiv, 2026
DocDjinn generates controllable synthetic documents by combining vision-language models with handwriting diffusion.
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazarXiv, 2025
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2025
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2024
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Mercier, Dominique and Lucieri, Adriano and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2024
Examines the trade-off between privacy and explainability, measuring how differential privacy and federated learning affect attribution-based explanation methods.
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Mercier, Dominique and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2024
A comprehensive benchmark for privacy-preserving document image classification, evaluating differentially private training across models and datasets.
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, Sheraz and othersIEEE Access, 2024
- Riaz, Nauman and Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024
StylusAI adapts handwriting style for robust German handwritten text generation using generative models.
- Hamdani, Syed Jawwad Haider and Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024
Uses latent diffusion models for guided generation of realistic document tables.
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024
DocXplain is a model-agnostic explainability method that produces feature-importance explanations for document image classifiers.
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2023
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2023
- Saifullah, Saifullah and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazarXiv, 2023
PrIeD-KIE studies privacy-preserving key information extraction from documents using differential privacy and federated learning.
- Saifullah and Siddiqui, Shoaib Ahmed and Agne, Stefan and Dengel, Andreas and Ahmed, SherazInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022