Publications

2025

1. SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, and Oscar Saz

   In IEEE MLSP, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{farooq25_mlsp,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Saz, Oscar},
     title = {{SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition}},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {IEEE MLSP},
   }

2024

1. Progressive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for ASR Using Ensemble Models and Multi-stage Training

   Rehan Ahmad, Muhammad Umar Farooq, and Thomas Hain

   In IEEE ICASSP, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{rehan24_icassp,
     author = {Ahmad, Rehan and Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Hain, Thomas},
     title = {{Progressive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for ASR Using Ensemble Models and Multi-stage Training}},
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {IEEE ICASSP},
   }

2023

1. MUST: A Multilingual Student-Teacher Learning Approach for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Rehan Ahmad, and Thomas Hain

   In IEEE ASRU, 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{farooq23_asru,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Ahmad, Rehan and Hain, Thomas},
     title = {{MUST: A Multilingual Student-Teacher Learning Approach for Low-Resource Speech Recognition}},
     year = {2023},
     booktitle = {IEEE ASRU},
   }

2. Learning Cross-lingual Mappings for Data Augmentation to Improve Low-Resource Speech Recognition

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, and Thomas Hain

   In Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{farooq23_interspeech,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Hain, Thomas},
     title = {{Learning Cross-lingual Mappings for Data Augmentation to Improve Low-Resource Speech Recognition}},
     year = {2023},
     booktitle = {Proc. INTERSPEECH},
     pages = {5072--5076},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1613},
   }

3. Towards Domain Generalisation in ASR with Elitist Sampling and Ensemble Knowledge Distillation

   Rehan Ahmad, Md Asif Jalal, Muhammad Umar Farooq, and 2 more authors

   In IEEE ICASSP, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{10095746,
     author = {Ahmad, Rehan and Jalal, Md Asif and Umar Farooq, Muhammad and Ollerenshaw, Anna and Hain, Thomas},
     booktitle = {IEEE ICASSP},
     title = {Towards Domain Generalisation in ASR with Elitist Sampling and Ensemble Knowledge Distillation},
     year = {2023},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {1-5},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095746},
   }

2022

1. Investigating the Impact of Crosslingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Recognition

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, and Thomas Hain

   In Proc. Interspeech, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{farooq22_interspeech,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Hain, Thomas},
     title = {{Investigating the Impact of Crosslingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Recognition}},
     year = {2022},
     booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
     pages = {3849--3853},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10916},
   }

2. Non-Linear Pairwise Language Mappings for Low-Resource Multilingual Acoustic Model Fusion

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Darshan Adiga Haniya Narayana, and Thomas Hain

   In Proc. Interspeech, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{farooq22b_interspeech,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Narayana, Darshan Adiga Haniya and Hain, Thomas},
     title = {{Non-Linear Pairwise Language Mappings for Low-Resource Multilingual Acoustic Model Fusion}},
     year = {2022},
     booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
     pages = {4850--4854},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-11449},
   }

2021

1. Agent-based modeling and simulation in the analysis of e-commerce market

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Aamna Shakoor, and Abu Bakar Siddique

   In International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{9701406,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Shakoor, Aamna and Siddique, Abu Bakar},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)},
     title = {Agent-based modeling and simulation in the analysis of e-commerce market},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {287-292},
     doi = {10.1109/FIT53504.2021.00060},
   }

2020

1. Enhancing Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System for Urdu-English Conversational Code-Switched Speech

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Farah Adeeba, Sarmad Hussain, and 2 more authors

   In IEEE O-COCOSDA, 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{9295036,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Adeeba, Farah and Hussain, Sarmad and Rauf, Sahar and Khalid, Maryam},
     booktitle = {IEEE O-COCOSDA},
     title = {Enhancing Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System for Urdu-English Conversational Code-Switched Speech},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {155-159},
     doi = {10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295036},
   }

2019

1. X-vectors based Urdu Speaker Identification for short utterances

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Farah Adeeba, and Sarmad Hussain

   In IEEE O-COCOSDA, 2019

   Bib

   @inproceedings{9041237,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Adeeba, Farah and Hussain, Sarmad},
     booktitle = {IEEE O-COCOSDA},
     title = {X-vectors based Urdu Speaker Identification for short utterances},
     year = {2019},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {1-5},
     doi = {10.1109/O-COCOSDA46868.2019.9041237},
   }

2. Improving Large Vocabulary Urdu Speech Recognition System Using Deep Neural Networks

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Farah Adeeba, Sahar Rauf, and 1 more author

   In Proc. Interspeech 2019, 2019

   Bib

   @inproceedings{farooq19_interspeech,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Adeeba, Farah and Rauf, Sahar and Hussain, Sarmad},
     title = {{Improving Large Vocabulary Urdu Speech Recognition System Using Deep Neural Networks}},
     year = {2019},
     booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2019},
     pages = {2978--2982},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2629},
   }

2017

1. GPS based Public Transport Arrival Time Prediction

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Aamna Shakoor, and Abu Bakar Siddique

   In International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{8261015,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Shakoor, Aamna and Siddique, Abu Bakar},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)},
     title = {GPS based Public Transport Arrival Time Prediction},
     year = {2017},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {76-81},
     doi = {10.1109/FIT.2017.00021},
   }

2. An Efficient Dynamic Round Robin algorithm for CPU scheduling

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Aamna Shakoor, and Abu Bakar Siddique

   In International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE), 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{7918936,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Shakoor, Aamna and Siddique, Abu Bakar},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE)},
     title = {An Efficient Dynamic Round Robin algorithm for CPU scheduling},
     year = {2017},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {244-248},
     doi = {10.1109/C-CODE.2017.7918936},
   }

2016

1. ARM based Bidirectional Visitor Counter and Automatic Room Light Controller using PIR sensors

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Aamna Shakoor, and Abu Bakar Siddique

   Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 2016

   Bib

   @article{Farooq2016,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Shakoor, Aamna and Siddique, Abu Bakar},
     journal = {Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal},
     number = {5},
     pages = {10--15},
     title = {{ARM based Bidirectional Visitor Counter and Automatic Room Light Controller using PIR sensors}},
     url = {http://astesj.com/archive/volume-1/volume-1-issue-5/arm-based-bidirectional-visitor-counter-automatic-room-light-controller-using-pir-sensors/},
     volume = {1},
     year = {2016},
   }

2015

1. Smartphone based interface for epidemic surveillance system

   Muhammad Umar Farooq, Ali Ayyaz, Shahid Mehmood Awan, and 1 more author

   In International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST), 2015

   Bib

   @inproceedings{7396412,
     author = {Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Ayyaz, Ali and Awan, Shahid Mehmood and Shakoor, Aamna},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST)},
     title = {Smartphone based interface for epidemic surveillance system},
     year = {2015},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {115-119},
     doi = {10.1109/ICOSST.2015.7396412},
   }