Publications

Peer reviewed articles

(DBLP)

• 1. Rachid Hedjam, Margaret Kalacska, Max Mignotte, Hossein Zieae and Mohamed Cheriet. ”Iterative classifiers combination model for multitemporal change detection”. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 2016, accept, (impact factor 3.36).

  2. Hossein Zieae, Atena Shahkolaei, Rachid Hedjam, and Mohamed Cheriet. MUG: ”A Parameterless No-Reference JPEG Quality Evaluator Robust to Block Size and Misalignment”. IEEE Signal processing letters, 2016, accept, (impact factor 1.751).

  3. Hossein Zieae, Atena Shahkolaei, Rachid Hedjam, and Mohamed Cheriet. ”Mean Deviation Similarity Index: An Efficient and Reliable Full-Reference Image Quality Evaluator”. 2016, IEEE Access (accepted), (impact factor 1.270)

  4. Rachid Hedjam, Hossein Ziae, Margaret Kalacska and Mohamed Cheriet. ”Influence of color-to-gray conversion on the performance of document image binarization algorithms: toward a novel learning problem”. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.24, no.11, pp.3637,3651, Nov. 2015, (impact factor 3.625)

  5. Rachid Hedjam, and Mohamed Cheriet. Historical document image restoration using multispectral imaging, Pattern Recognition Journal. Elsevier Pattern Recognition (PR), 46(8), August 2013, Pages 2297-2312, (impact factor 3.39).

  6. M. Cheriet, R. Farrahi Moghaddam and Rachid Hedjam,. ”A learning framework for the optimization and automation of document binarization methods”. Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 117(3), March 2013, Pages 269-280, (impact factor 2.13).

  7. Rachid Hedjam„ Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, and Mohamed Cheriet. 2011. ”A spatially adaptive statistical method for the binarization of historical manuscripts and degraded document images”. Elsevier Pattern Recognition (PR). 44(9), September 2011, 2184-2196, (impact factor 3.39).

Conferences

(DBLP)

• 1. R. Hedjam„ H.Z. Nafchi, R. F. Moghaddam, M. Kalacska and M. Cheriet. MS-TEx 2015: ICDAR 2015 MultiSpectral Text Extraction Contest. ICDAR’15, 1181-1185, Nancy (France), 2015.

  2. R. Hedjam„ M. Cheriet and M. Kalacska. Constrained Energy Maximization and Self-Referencing Method for Invisible Ink Detection from Multispectral Historical Document Images. ICPR 22th int. conf., August 2014, Sweden.

  3. M. Cheriet, R. F. Moghaddam, R. Hedjam,. Visual language processing (VLP) of ancient manuscripts: Converting collections to windows on the past GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2013 7th IEEE, 407-412.

  4. M. Cheriet, R. Hedjam, and R. F. Moghaddam. Taibah university conference on Advances in Information Technology for the Holy Quran and Its Science. KSA, December 2013.

  5. Rachid Hedjam, and Mohamed Cheriet. Ground-truth estimation in multispectral representation space: application de historical document image binarization. ICDAR’13. Washington DC, USA, 190-194, August 2013.

  6. Rachid Hedjam, and Mohamed Cheriet. Hyperspectral Band Selection Based on Graph Clustering, Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA), 2012. 11th International Conference on. Montreal, Canada, 5-7, Jul. 2012. (Best conference paper).

  7. T. Abboud, R. Hedjam, R. Noumeir and A. Berinstain. Segmentation d’images de plantes captur’ees par un systeme d’imagerie fluorescente, 25 th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 29 avril-2 mai 2012. Montreal, Canada.

  8. Rachid Hedjam and Mohamed Cheriet. Novel Data Representation for Text Extraction from Multispectral Historical Document Images. Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on. Beijing, China, pp. 18-21 Sept. 2011.

  9. Rachid Hedjam and Mohamed Cheriet. Combining statistical and geometrical classifiers for text extraction in multispectral document images. In Proceedings of the 2011; Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP’11); Beijing, China, pp. 18-21 Sept. 2011.

  10. Rachid Hedjam and Mohamed Cheriet. Segmentation-based document image denoising. Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), 2010 2nd European Workshop on pp. 61-65, July 2010. Paris, France.

  11. Rachid Hedjam, Reza F. Moghaddam and Mohamed Cheriet. Text extraction from degraded document images. Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), 2010 2nd European Workshop on, pp.247-252, 5-6 July 2010. Paris, France.

  12. Rachid Hedjam and Max Mignotte. A hierarchical graph-based Markovian clustering approach for the unsupervised segmentation of textured color images. Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on, pp.1365-1368, Cairo, Egypt, 7-10. Nov. 2009.

  13. Rachid Hedjam„ Reza F. Moghaddam and Mohamed Cheriet. Markovian clustering for the nonlocal means image denoising," Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on, pp.3877-3880, Cairo, Egypt, 7-10 Nov. 2009;

Unpublisahed international communications

• 1. Rachid Hedjam, Margaret Kalacska, Soumaya S. Ali Al-ma’adeed, and Mohamed Cheriet ”Old manuscript analysis: beyond the visible’. Second conference on natural science and technology in manuscript analysis, Hambourg, 2016, 29 April - 1 March.

  2. Rachid Hedjam, Margaret Kalacska, Soumaya S. Ali Al-ma’adeed, and Mohamed Cheriet ”Visual literary topology”. Second conference on natural science and technology in manuscript analysis, Hambourg, 2016, 29 April - 1 March.