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Syed Taimoor Hussain Shah

PolitoBioMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

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Academic Profile

Syed Taimoor Hussain Shah serves as a PostDoc Researcher within the GALATEA Project at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has completed his PhD under the PARENT project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 initiative. He is based at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy. Shah earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Bahauddin Zakariya University. His current focus involves contributing to various projects aimed at developing computational explainable-AI engines. These engines are designed to predict the evolution of pathology based on clinical, biological patient variables, and imaging data, with a focus on adults and neonates. Shah’s research interests encompass machine learning, deep learning, and pattern recognition with an emphasis on computer vision. He has contributed to the academic landscape with published works, including original articles and conference papers in esteemed peer-reviewed journals such as Frontiers, MDPI, IEEE, Springer, and CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Shah’s specific research endeavours extend to areas such as facial feature extraction, characterization, and identification in both adults and infants. Additionally, his interests include hyperspectral imaging, pattern classification, and recognition, as well as other facets of biomedical and automated computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning systems.

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Editorial Roles

This user currently does not serve as an editor for any ICCK journals.

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ICCK Publications

Open Access | Research Article | 31 March 2026
B2-GraftingNet: A Hybrid Deep-Machine Learning Framework with Explainable AI for Automated Grape Leaf Disease Detection
ICCK Journal of Image Analysis and Processing | Volume 2, Issue 1: 27-52, 2026 | DOI: 10.62762/JIAP.2026.937901
Abstract
Plant diseases increasingly threaten global agriculture due to climate change, yet manual diagnosis remains challenging. We introduce B2-GraftingNet, a lightweight deep-learning framework for automated grape-leaf disease detection that combines a VGG16 backbone with Inception-style blocks to learn robust multi-scale cues. Binary Particle Swarm Optimization selects the most informative features before classification. On the public Kaggle grape-leaf dataset, a cubic SVM classifier achieves 99.56% peak accuracy, surpassing standard pretrained CNNs (VGG16/VGG19: 34.04%, Xception: 97.95%, Darknet: 94.91%, ResNet-50: 98.44%) while being faster and lighter. For transparency, we incorporate Grad-CAM... More >

Graphical Abstract
B2-GraftingNet: A Hybrid Deep-Machine Learning Framework with Explainable AI for Automated Grape Leaf Disease Detection