Advanced Vision & Intelligent Systems (AVIS) Research Lab

Projects

The lab’s funded projects and active research lines, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the University Grants Commission (UGC), and ICT, with partners including Gazipur Agricultural University and Bangladesh Medical University. Click any project for the full story on our Blog.

Running now

PlantPhenoBot
PlantPhenoBot UGC–DU grant · 2026 – present

Robotics for high-throughput plant phenotyping, in collaboration with Gazipur Agricultural University.

Explainable AI for Histological Cancer Detection
Explainable AI for Histological Cancer Detection MOST · 2025 – present

Accurate and interpretable deep-learning models for microscopic tissue images (Grad-CAM, SHAP, LIME), with Bangladesh Medical University.

Offline Goal-Conditioned RL
Offline Goal-Conditioned RL Research line · 2026

Long-horizon, goal-reaching agents learned purely from logged data, including GTRL and a study of goal versus state representations.

VLM-Driven UAV Navigation
VLM-Driven UAV Navigation Research line · 2024 – present

Mapless drone navigation from a single camera using depth estimation and vision-language models, from simulation to a real Pixhawk quadrotor.

Completed

Inter-University Robotics Hackathon
Inter-University Robotics & Hackathon ICT · 2024 – 2025

An ICT-funded inter-university robotics and hackathon competition.

SmartPDE
SmartPDE UGC · 2023 – 2024

Deep-learning-based plant disease epidemiology and forecasting for smart agriculture.

IHABOT2
IHABOT2 UGC · 2023 – 2024

A teleoperated, intelligent hospital-assistance robot to help fight contagion.

Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis
Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis MOST · 2022 – 2023

Deep-learning-driven automated diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases using image memorability.

Code & data

Code and datasets are linked from the individual papers on our Publications page where available.