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Mustansar Fiaz is a computer vision researcher whose work centers on visual object tracking, an increasingly vital area of artificial intelligence with broad real-world applications. His research systematically bridges traditional handcrafted methods and modern deep learning-based approaches, providing the field with comprehensive comparative frameworks that help researchers navigate a rapidly expanding algorithmic landscape. Fiaz is best known for his landmark survey "Handcrafted and Deep Trackers" (2019), which has accumulated 118 citations and stands as an authoritative reference for scholars entering the object tracking domain. Alongside earlier iterations of this work published in 2018, he has consistently addressed the challenge of tracking noisy targets under real-world conditions — a problem central to applications in autonomous vehicles, robotics, surveillance, human-computer interaction, and video indexing. What distinguishes Fiaz's contributions is his dedication to synthesizing emerging trends into accessible, rigorous reviews that serve both practitioners and researchers. By cataloguing algorithmic developments and identifying open challenges, his work has meaningfully accelerated progress in the field. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 180 across closely related publications, Mustansar Fiaz has established himself as a notable voice in computer vision, particularly for researchers seeking grounded, comprehensive guidance on the evolving landscape of object tracking methodologies.