| 2026 | ICPR | Explainability-Guided Deepfake Detection for High-Fidelity Facial Edits. | Bibek Das, Soumi Chattopadhyay, Chandranath Adak, Astitva Pandey, Ashutosh Parihar, Zahid Akhtar, Soumya Dutta, Abdenour Hadid |
| 2026 | ICPR | Diffusion-Latent Invisible Watermarking for Proactive Deepfake Provenance Verification. | Bibek Das, Anurag Deo, Chandranath Adak, Soumi Chattopadhyay, Zahid Akhtar, Soumya Dutta, Abdenour Hadid |
| 2025 | AVSS | CE-KD: Class-Wise Expert-Based Knowledge Distillation for Facial Expression Recognition. | Khin Cho Win, Zahid Akhtar, C. Krishna Mohan |
| 2024 | Tencon | Robust Facial Emotion Recognition System via De-Pooling Feature Enhancement and Weighted Exponential Moving Average. | Khin Cho Win, Zahid Akhtar, C. Krishna Mohan |
| 2021 | ISM | CCAP: Cooperative Context Aware Pruning for Neural Network Model Compression. | Li-Yun Wang, Zahid Akhtar |
| 2021 | QoMEX | Parametric Audio-visual Quality Measurement Based on Interpretable Fuzzy Logic. | Fatima Boudjerida, Atidel Lahoulou, Tiago H. Falk, Zahid Akhtar |
| 2021 | VCIP | HCiT: Deepfake Video Detection Using a Hybrid Model of CNN features and Vision Transformer. | Bachir Kaddar, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Wassim Hamidouche, Zahid Akhtar, Abdenour Hadid |
| 2019 | ICIP | Low Dose Abdominal CT Image Reconstruction: An Unsupervised Learning Based Approach. | Shiba Kuanar, Vassilis Athitsos, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, K. R. Rao, Zahid Akhtar, Dipankar Dasgupta |
| 2019 | SMC | Generalizable Adversarial Examples Detection Based on Bi-model Decision Mismatch. | Joo Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Zahid Akhtar, Tiago H. Falk |
| 2018 | ICASSP | Improved Audio-Visual Laughter Detection Via Multi-Scale Multi-Resolution Image Texture Features and Classifier Fusion. | Zahid Akhtar, Stefany Bedoya, Tiago H. Falk |
| 2016 | ICIP | Mobile ocular biometrics in visible spectrum using local image descriptors: A preliminary study. | Zahid Akhtar, Christian Micheloni, Gian Luca Foresti |
| 2014 | AVSS | MoBio_LivDet: Mobile biometric liveness detection. | Zahid Akhtar, Christian Micheloni, Claudio Piciarelli, Gian Luca Foresti |
| 2014 | INISTA | Multimodal emotion recognition with automatic peak frame selection. | Sara Zhalehpour, Zahid Akhtar, Cigdem Eroglu Erdem |
| 2013 | ICIAP | Face Recognition under Ageing Effect: A Comparative Analysis. | Zahid Akhtar, Ajita Rattani, Abdenour Hadid, Massimo Tistarelli |
| 2011 | ACC | Security Analysis of Multimodal Biometric Systems against Spoof Attacks. | Zahid Akhtar, Sandeep Kale |
| 2011 | ICIAP | Robustness Evaluation of Biometric Systems under Spoof Attacks. | Zahid Akhtar, Giorgio Fumera, Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli |