ZebraPose: Zebra Detection and Pose Estimation using only Synthetic Data, Elia Bonetto and Aamir Ahmad, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026 (WACV 2026), March 2026 (Acceptance Notification Received).
(Preprint Available: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.10831).

[Award Paper] A Multi-Simulation Approach with Model Predictive Control for Anafi Drones, Pascal Goldschmid and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2025), September 2025.
(Preprint Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10218).
→ Among the top-3 Best Paper Finalists.

Multitask Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Attitude Stabilization and Tracking using Graph Policy, Yu Tang Liu, Alberto Vale, Aamir Ahmad, Rodrigo Ventura and Meysam Basiri, In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), October 2025.
(Preprint Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08259).

BirdRecorder’s AI on Sky: Safeguarding birds of prey by detection and classification of tiny objects around wind turbines, Nico Klar, Nizam Gifary, Felix P.G. Ziegler, Frank Sehnke, Anton Kaifel, Eric Price, and Aamir Ahmad, In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 2025), Genoa, Italy, July 2025.

DynaPix SLAM: A Pixel-Based Dynamic Visual SLAM Approach, Elia Bonetto, Chenghao Xu and Aamir Ahmad, In The German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2024 (GCPR 2024) Pattern Recognition DAGM GCPR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15298. Springer, Cham., September 2024
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85187-2_11).

Task and Domain Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control, Yu Tang Liu, Nilaksh Singh and Aamir Ahmad, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024, pp. 656-663. October 2024.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801963).

Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control with Successor Feature-Based Concurrent Composition, Yu-Tang Liu and Aamir Ahmad, In European Control Conference (ECC 2024), Stockholm, Sweden, 2024, pp. 3860-3867 2024.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC64448.2024.10591301).

End-to-End Thermal Updraft Detection and Estimation for Autonomous Soaring Using Temporal Convolutional Networks, Christian Gall, Walter Fichter and Aamir Ahmad, In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, pp. 17875-17881. May 2024.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611479).

[Award Paper] Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis, Eric Price and Aamir Ahmad, In 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAs 2024), Mumbai, India, 2024.
→ Best Paper Award for the best paper presented on the second conference day (Preprint Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8101-3_11).

Autonomous Blimp Control via H-infinity Robust Deep Residual Reinforcement Learning , Yang Zuo, Yu Tang Liu and Aamir Ahmad, In 19th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2023), Auckland, New Zealand, 2023.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260561).

Accelerated Video Annotation Driven by Deep Detector and Tracker, Eric Price and Aamir Ahmad, In: Lee, SG., An, J., Chong, N.Y., Strand, M., Kim, J.H. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 18. IAS 2023, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 794. Springer, Cham. 2023.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_12)

Synthetic Data-based Detection of Zebras in Drone Imagery, Elia Bonetto and Aamir Ahmad, In 2023 IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2023), Coimbra, Portugal, 2023.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR59166.2023.10256293).

Deep Residual Reinforcement Learning based Autonomous Blimp Control, Yu Tang Liu, Eric Price, Michael Black, and Aamir Ahmad, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 12566-12573, October 2022.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981182).

Active Visual SLAM with Independently Rotating Camera, Elia Bonetto, Pascal Goldschmid, Michael J. Black, and Aamir Ahmad, In 2021 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2021), pages: 1-8, IEEE, 2021.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR50962.2021.9568791).

Simulation and Control of Deformable Autonomous Airships in Turbulent Wind, Eric Price, Yu Tang Liu, Michael J. Black, and Aamir Ahmad, In: Ang Jr, M.H., Asama, H., Lin, W., Foong, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 16. IAS 2021, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 412, pages: 608–626, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95892-3_46)

Collaborative Mapping of Archaeological Sites Using Multiple UAVs, Manthan patel, Aditya Bandopadhyay, and Aamir Ahmad, In: Ang Jr, M.H., Asama, H., Lin, W., Foong, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 16. IAS 2021, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 412, pages: 54-70, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95892-3_5)

Markerless Outdoor Human Motion Capture Using Multiple Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles, Nitin Saini, Eric Price, Rahul Tallamraju, Raffi Enficiaud, Roman Ludwig, Igor Martinovic, Aamir Ahmad and Michael Black, Proc. of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019), Seoul, South Korea, 2019.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2019.00091).

Motion Planning for Multi-Mobile-Manipulator Payload Transport Systems, Rahul Tallamraju, Durgesh Salunkhe, Sujit Rajappa, Aamir Ahmad, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Suril Vijaykumar Shah, Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019), Vancouver, Canada, 2019.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8842840).

Decentralized MPC based Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot Target Tracking Scenarios, Rahul Tallamraju, Sujit Rajappa, Michael J. Black, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Aamir Ahmad, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2018), Philadelphia, PA, 2018, pp. 1-8. 2018.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2018.8468655).

Dynamic baseline stereo vision-based cooperative target tracking, Aamir Ahmad, Eugen Ruff, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2016), Heidelberg, Germany, 2016 (Available Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7528092).

[Award Paper] Moving-horizon Nonlinear Least Squares-based Multirobot Cooperative Perception, Aamir Ahmad, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, 7th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2015), Lincoln, United Kingdom, 2015.
→ Voted by the reviewers and the conference participants as one of the 10 best papers presented.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR.2015.7324197).

Onboard robust person detection and tracking for domestic service robots, David Sanz, Aamir Ahmad, Pedro Lima, ROBOT’2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18615-3_26).

Towards Optimal Robot Navigation in Domestic Spaces, Rodrigo Ventura, Aamir Ahmad, RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII, Volume 8992 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 318-331. 2015.
(Available Online: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-18615-3_26)

Cooperative Robot Localization and Target Tracking based on Least Squares Minimization, Aamir Ahmad, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Pedro Lima and Wolfram Burgard, Proc. of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631396).

Perception-Driven Multi-Robot Formation Control, Aamir Ahmad, Tiago Nascimento, André G. S. Conceição, Antonio Paulo Moreira and Pedro Lima, Proc. of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630821).

Unknown-Color Spherical Object Detection and Tracking, A. Troppan, E. Guerreiro, F. Celiberti, G. Santos, Aamir Ahmad and Pedro Lima, in Proceedings of Robotica 2013 - 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013.
(Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/Robotica.2013.6623533).

[Award Paper] Multi-Robot Cooperative Object Tracking Based on Particle Filters , Aamir Ahmad and Pedro Lima, Proc. of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2011), Örebro, Sweden, 2011.
→ Voted by the reviewers and the conference participants as one of the 10 best papers presented, 2011.

Cooperative Localization Based on Visually Shared Objects, Pedro Lima, P. Santos, R. Oliveira, Aamir Ahmad and J. Santos, RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 350-361. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.6556 Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 2011.
(Available Online: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-20217-9_30)

Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point Trajectories, Aamir Ahmad, Alessio Del Bue and Pedro Lima, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009.

Probabilistic Roadmap Method and Real Time Gait Changing Technique Implementation for Travel Time Optimization on a Designed Six-legged Robot, Aamir Ahmad and Nirjhar Dhang, Proc. of ISR 2008 - 39th International Symposium on Robotics, Seoul, South Korea, 2008.