Research

Research Fields

• Document image analysis, Handwriting recognition, Pattern recognition, Computer  Vision, Machine/Deep learning 

International Advisory Appointments  

Journal Guest Editor

• Guest Editor in Pattern Recognition Letters journal. Special section on intelligent systems and pattern recognition.

• Lead Guest Editor in Neural Computing and Applications journal. Special Issue on Emerging trends in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Guest Editor in Multimedia Tools and Applications journal. Special Issue on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence based Multimedia Systems and Applications.

• Guest Editor in Sensors journal. Special Issue "AI-Enabled Advanced Sensing for Human Action and Activity Recognition".

• Guest Editor in International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering. Special Issue on: "Recent Advances in Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition".

Journal Referee

• Pattern Recognition (PR).

• Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL).

• Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP).

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 

• International journal of Document Analysis and Recogntion (IJDAR).

• Information Science (IS).

• Expert Systems with Application (ESWA).

• Applied Soft Computing (ASOC).

• Computational Intelligence (COIN).

•  Zhejiang University SCIENCE (JZUS).

Conference Referee

• Program committee member in WACV 2023.

• Senior program committee member in ICFHR 2022.

• General chair of International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Patterns Recognition (ISPR 2022).

Link : https://ispr2022.sciencesconf.org/

• Program chair of the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence MedPRAI’2020.

• Program chair of International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Patterns Recognition (ISPR 2020).

Link : https://ispr2020.sciencesconf.org/

Proceeding : Link

• General chair of the workshop IndabaX Sfax'2019.

• Publicity chair et PC member in MedPRAI 2016.

• Program committee member ICFHR 2016.

• Reviewer for international conferences ICDAR’2009 ICDAR'11, ICDAR'13, CIFED’2010, ICFHR'16, MedPRAI'16, CCODE'17, ICDAR-OST-2019, C-CODE 2019, ICDHT’2019, MedPRAI’2020 ...

Projects

• AI4Observabilty: Enhancing the Power of Observability with Artificial Intelligence, Partner: IP-Label company, January 2024 - December 2024. 

• OOPredict: Olive Oil Price Prediction, Partner: CHO group company, September 2023 - May 2024.  

• DocPRESERV: Preserving & Processing Historical Document Images with Artificial Intelligence, Partner : Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona (Sweden), July 2021 - June 2022.

• IntelliDoc: Extraction d’informations à partir des images de documents par apprentissage profond, Partner : Instadeep company, February 2021- January 2024.

• READ: Reconnaissance et Extraction d’information d’imAges de Documents, Partenaire : Partner Studia company, February - September 2020.

• SmartSURV: Vidéo Protection Urbaine dans les villes intelligentes, Financed by programme d’encouragement des jeunes chercheurs (PEJC), ministry of higher education and scientific research, December 2019- November 2021.

• SOS-OLIVIER: Suivi multi-apprOche de la Santé de l’OLIVIER en Tunisie par télédétection optique, Financed by programme projet de recherche fédérée (PRF), ministry of higher education and scientific research, November 2019 - October 2021.

• SMART-CASTLE : SMART Contrôle Aérien, Satellitaire et Terrestre de L'activité terroristE,  PRF project financed by ministry of higher education and scientific research.

• ADiP : Automatic Detection of in-process pieces using robot control, partner: SOPAL company.

• REIVE : Reconnaissance de l'identité de Véhicule Tunisiens, VRR project financed by ministry of higher education and scientific research.

• TADA : Traitement et analyse de documents arabes, partenaire industriel.

• DOD : Une nouvelle génération d’offre de dématérialisation de documents avec la société ITESOFT sur le thème de la reconnaissance de l’écriture manuscrite.

• MADONNE (MAsse de DOnnées issues dela Numérisation du patrimoiNE).

• Bovary : Edition des manuscrits "Madame Bovary".

Supervised students

POSTDOC

• Nabila Mansouri (July 2018 – September 2019), Suspect object retrieval using multi-stream deep learning, Financed by SuperSense PRF project .

• Ahmed Rekik (September 2016 -August 2017), Automatic Detection of in-process pieces using robot control, Industrial partner project (SOPAL).

PHD

• Sana Khemakhem, defended in 23/09/2020, Contribution à la reconnaissance de lignes de textes manuscrits Arabes à vocabulaire ouvert : Proposition d’une méthode de détection et recouvrement de mots hors vocabulaire.

• Ahmed Chikhrouhou, defended in 29/06/2021, Keyword Spotting in printed and handwritten multi-script document images.

• Dhia Besbes, defended in 30/06/2021, Vehicle identity recognition using deep learning. Co-supervision with Cergy Pontoise university, France. 

• Tayeb Benzenati, defended in 30/01/2022, Contributions to Satellite Image Fusion in the Deep Learning Era, Grant: Algerian PhD Scholarship.

• Mahmoud Ghorbel, defended in 21/11/2022, Deep Visual Feature Learning for Person Re-identification, Mobidoc contract with SOGIMEL.

• Mohamed Ali Souibgui, defended in 01/12/2022, Recognition of Handwritten Ciphers using deep learning, Co-supervision with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CVC), DECRYPT project Decryption of Historical Manuscripts.

• Marwa Dhiaf, defended in 06/07/2024, Deep Learning for Handwriting and Named Entity Recognition in Document Images, Financed by Instadeep.

• Ines Feki, Ongoing, Inspection visuelle automatisée : application à la détection d’anomalies par apprentissage profond.

• Mahmoud Limam, Ongoing, Generative Deep Learning Models for Document Image Processing, Collaboration with Prince Sultan University. 

MSc Theses

• Mohamed Hachicha, Système de traitement et d’extraction d'information des images de factures. Mastère professionnel ingénierie des systèmes d’information et d’aide à la prise de décision, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion. Defended in 18/06/2019.

• Oumar Sidi, Système intelligent pour la détection d’objets par apprentissage profond, Mastère professionnel ingénierie des systèmes d’information et d’aide à la prise de décision, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion. Defended in 20/06/2019.

• Zeineb Abdelhadi, HMM-based Arabic/Latin Handwritten/Printed Word Identification. Defended in 04/01/2016.

• Sana Ben Abderrahim, Identification de scripteurs par fusion d'informations dans le cadre de la théorie de Dempster-Shafer, Defended in 31/10/2015.

• S. Ammar, Fusion d'information pour la détection et la localisation des piétons dans des scènes routières, Defended in September 2010.

• A. Guermazi, Optimisation d’un système multi-flux pour la Reconnaissance de l’écriture manuscrite, Defended in September 2010. 

• D. Hebert, Champs de Markov cachés 2D à composantes séparables, Application à l’extraction de structures de journaux anciens, Defended in September 2009.

• H. Tabia, Fusion d’information dans le cadre de la théorie des fonctions de croyance, Defended in July 2008.