Hajj Profile
Dr Faizan Ur Rehman
Consultant, SDAIA
Computer Vision
Flow Rate
Congestion Detection
Digital Twin
Bus Simulation
Pedestrian Simulation
Train Simulation
Smart HajjSmart Hajj
Spatial Analysis
Reshuffling
Hajj 1441 Mataf Tracks
during Pandemic
Interactive Map
Smart Hajj
Mobile Application
GIS
Cloud Platform
Schedule Pilgrims movement in Hajj
First in Saudi Arabia to successfully implement scheduling of 2 million pilgrims (2019) for stoning ritual in Jamarat
Data
Collection
Using Drone
Big Data
Analytics and
Visualization
for Buses in Hajj
Current Online Applications
02
Android Mobile Application for Group Leaders In Haj for Ministry of Haj and Umrah, Saudi Arabia
03
IOS Mobile Application for Group Leaders in Haj for Ministry of Haj and Umrah, Saudi Arabia
Past Online Applications
01
Smart Hajj
02
Family Connect
03
Hajj Messenger
04
Tawaf App
05
Perform Hajj and Umrah
Patents
(Granted/Published)
P1
Capacity Constrained And User Preference Based Scheduler, Rescheduler, Simulation, And Prediction For Crowds In Spatiotemporal Environments”, Filed in USPTO, December 2020
P3
Deep Trajectory Classification Model For Congestion Detection In Human Crowds, Filed in USPTO, February 2021
P6
Method and system for the generation of context aware services based on crowd sourcing
Innovations
KAUST
SafeHajj Award
SafeHajj Award
AugNav- Augmented
Reality based Navigation
Reality based Navigation
Awards and
Achievements
Top 1000 Inventor- Geneva Exhibition (Bronze Medal) - 2024
Nominated by: Ministry of Haj and Ministry of Education
Patent 2023
KAUST Hajj and Umrah Challenge - 2022
Wadi Makkah - 2017
Best Paper Award - 2015
Best Paper Award - 2014
GIS Technology Innovation Center - 2015
Patent Award - 2014
Patent Award - 2014
Patent Award - 2014
Patent Award - 2014
Publications
2024
“Crowd Counting in Diverse Environments Using a Deep Routing Mechanism Informed by Crowd Density Levels, “ MDPI Information live karde
“Deep learning framework for congestion detection at public places via learning from synthetic data,” Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences.
2023
2022
- “An Interactive Analysis Platform for Bus Movement: A Case Study of One of the World’s Largest Annual Gathering.” IoT for Sustainable Smart Cities and Society. Springer, Cham, 2022. 125-143.
- “Optimization of the Mashaer Shuttle-Bus Service in Hajj: Arafat-Muzdalifah Case Study.” Information 12.12 (2021): 496.
- “Towards Building an Interactive Evaluation framework for Decision-makers to Manage Large Crowd,” International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, Japan, 2021
- “Analyzing Pedestrian Crossflow Through Complex Transfer Corridors,” Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC) 2021 to be held from 29-30 April 2021 in Vancouver, Canada
- “Low-Cost Digital Twin Framework for 3D Modeling of Homogenous Urban Zones,” Computing Conference, July 2021, Canada
- “Deep Trajectory Classification Model for Congestion Detection in Human Crowds”, CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua Journal, Vol.68, No.1, March 2021.
- “A Modelling and Scheduling Tool for Crowd Movement in Complex Network”, Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing Journal,2021
- “Improving Response Time for Crowd Management in Hajj.” Computers 10.4 (2021): 46.
2021
2020
- “A Survey on Hajj Mobile Applications.”, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol. 20 No. 1 pp. 15-30, February, 2020
- “Digital Revolution for Hajj Crowd Management: A Technology Survey,” in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3037396, November 2020.
- “An Interactive System For Analyzing Movement Of Buses In Hajj”, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information TechnologyVol.98, No.21, November 2020
- “Inferring Crowd Trip Informatics Using Mobile App in Hajj”, IJCSNS, September 2020
- “A Framework to Extract Trip Informatics for Individuals and Groups Using Mobile Sensory Data in Mass Gathering Events”, IEEE Big data 2020
- A Platform for Extracting Driver Behavior from Vehicle Sensor Big Data, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), December 2020
- A Preference-based Interactive Tool for Safe Rescheduling of Groups for Hajj, AICCSA 2019
- “An Optimized Scheduling Process for a Large Crowd to Perform Spatio-temporal Movements Safely during Pilgrimage”, IEEE Big Data 2019
- “Towards Building Evacuation Planning Platform using Multimodal Transportation for a Large Crowd”, IEEE International Workshop on Big Spatial Data, IEEE Big Data 2019
- “Towards Building an Interactive Platform for Analyzing Movement of Buses in Hajj”, International Workshop on Big data for Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Big Data 2019
2019
2018
“Context-Aware Services based on Spatio-Temporal Zoning and Crowdsourcing”, Journal of Behavior and Information Technology, Taylor and Francis Series (2018)
- “ST-Diary: A Multimedia Authoring Environment for Crowdsourced Spatio-Temporal Events”, 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2015), 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015), November 3-6, 2015 — Seattle, Washington, USA
- “A Constraint-Aware Optimized Path Recommender in a Crowdsourced Environment”, 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2015, November 17-20, 2015, Marrakech, Morocco.
- “Semantic Multimedia-Enhanced Spatio-temporal Queries in a Crowdsourced Environment”, 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015), November 3-6, 2015 — Seattle, Washington, USA.
- “A Spatio-temporal Multimedia Big Data Framework for a Large Crowd”, Big Data for sustainable development Workshop in IEEE Big Data 2015, IEEE International Conference on Big Data October 29-November 1, 2015,Santa Clara, CA, USA (Best Presentation Award)
- “A Semantic Geo-Tagged Multimedia-Based Routing in a Crowdsourced Big Data Environment”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2015), 26 – 30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia
- “i-Diary: A Crowdsource-based Spatio-Temporal Multimedia Enhanced Points of Interest Authoring Tool”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2015), 26 – 30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia
- “Crowdsourced Multimedia Enhanced Spatio-temporal Constraint Based on-Demand Social Network for Group Mobility”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2015), 26 – 30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
2015
2014
- “Toward Dynamic Path Recommender System Based on Social Network Data”, 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, Dallas, Texas, November 4, 2014
- “A Framework for Crowd-Sourced Data Collection and Context-Aware Services in Hajj and Umrah”, 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA’ 2014), November 10-13, 2014, Doha, Qatar, 2014
- “Towards a Mobile and Context-Aware Framework from Crowdsourced Data”, IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technology For The Muslims World (ICT4M), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 17-19 November 2014 (Best Paper)
- “Intelligent Shelter Allotment for Emergency Evacuation Planning: A Case Study of Makkah”, IEEE Intelligent Systems
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