-- Feb. 2021 : When geometry meets deep neural networks! --
Check out and explore our
-- Jan. 2021 : Join the Editorial Board of the Journal --
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
-- Dec. 2020 : Guest Associate Editor in Computer Vision --
With Pavan Turaga, Anuj Srivastava and Shantanu Joshi
-- Nov. 2020, PhD defense of My student Nadia HOSNI --
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-- FULBRIGHT AMBASSADOR --
After being Fulbright research laureate in 2016-17, evaluator in 2017-18 and mentor in 2018-19, I was appointed ambassador of the same program (June 2019). Thanks to the "Commission franco-américaine Fulbright France" for the opportunity to continue serving this exceptional scientific-cultural program!
March 2020 - I'm happy to announce that former PhD student Amor Ben Tanfous just received a distinction (second place - "special mention") at the AFRIF Ph.D. thesis prize competition 2019. The AFRIF is the French branch of the IAPR.
CONGRATULATIONS to him!
Proud and glad to announce that the MS "Cybersecurity Engineering" @IMT Lille Douai for which I served as founding director for three years (2016-2019) is ranked 7th in France.
- Check out the ranking in meilleurs-masters.com website as well as the students feedback -
The MS, accredited by the CGE and endorsed SecNumEdu by the ANSSI, made a progress of 3 places within the top 10 training programs in Cybersecurity!
An outstanding research published in top-one Computer Vision Conference (CVPR) and journal IEEE T-PAMI (IF 17.730)!
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, is a graduate-level, research-based academic institution that offers specialized degree programs for local and international students in the field of Artificial Intelligence (Application open! ).
Further details : https://mbzuai.ac.ae
A regular T-BME paper just accepted for publication (September 23, 2019).The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, is a graduate-level, research-based academic institution that offers specialized degree programs for local and international students in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
A regular T-PAMI paper accepted for publication (July 22, 2019)!
The workshop RFMI'2019 received the IAPR endorsement.
Submission deadline : September, 30, 2019.
The proceedings of RFMI'2017 are published online in the CCIS Series by Springer.
SAVE THE DATE - The international workshop RFMI'2019 will take place in Hammamet (Tunisia), 11-13 December 2019 (http://www.arts-pi.org.tn/rfmi2019/),
I'm hosting Dr. Achraf Ben-Hamadou, Researcher at CRNS (Sfax, Tunisia).
The PAIN proposal appears in the complementary list of the ANR.
My PhD student A. Ben Tanfous will attend the ICSSV Summer School @Sicily.Italy.
I will attend the TAIMA'2018 conference (Hammamet, Tunisia, Apr. 30 - May 5).
The PAIN pre-proposal passed the first evaluation step of the ANR Agency.
The collaborative research project PHC Utique DEFI, for which I'm the French coordinator, was renewed for the third year (Feb. 2018).
N. Hosni officially started her PhD thesis under my supervision (Feb. 2018).
with my PhD students A. Ben Tanfous and N. Hosni - with RFMI'2017 co-chairs.
Member of the Fulbright Selection Committee (Feb. 2018, Paris).
Fulbright Mentor for a laureate from Stanford University (Jan. 2018).
Certificate of completion related to my Fulbright research scholarship (Jan. 2018).
http://fulbright-france.org/node/297?id=9515
Co-chair of the seventh edition of RFMI workshop endorsed by the IAPR and published in the CCIS of Springer (Aussois, Savoie, Dec. 2017).
Giving an invited talk at RFMI'2017 - RFMI'2017 group photo.
IAPR Distinguished Speaker at RFMI workshop (Dec. 2017).
Visit of my PhD student A. Ben Tanfous to the SSAMG @FSU (FL, USA) for 2 months (co-funded by the Région Hauts-de-France and FSU, Oct.-Dec. 2017)
Invited talk at the CARf (University of Maryland, USA) — invited by Prof. Rama Chellappa (Aug. 2017).
Invited talk at the CRCV (University of Central Florida, USA) — invited by Prof. Mubarak Shah (July 2017).
CGE Accreditation renewed for the MS Cybersecurity Engineering for 3 y. (Jan. 2017)
Fulbright Enrichment Seminar (Mar. 2017, Los Angeles).
Invited talk at the SSAMG @Florida State University (Jan. 2017).
The MS Cybersecurity Engineering labeled SecNumEdu by the ANSSI (Jan. 2017).
With the director of the French Agency ANSSI and the former dean of IMT Lille Douai (Jan. 2017)
Fulbright Research Scholar @Florida State University (Dec. 2016 - August 2017).
A. Ben Tanfous started his PhD thesis under my supervision (Nov. 2016).
January 1st, 2016 - Promoted to the grade of Full Professor of the IMT.
Five (5) students graduated MS CGE “Cybersecurity Engineering” (oct. 2017).
Seven (7) students are following MS CGE “Cybersecurity Engineering” (Sep. 2017).
2015, former PhD student Taleb Alashkar graduated (now, Machine Learning Scientist - Algomus, USA).
2014, former PhD student Baiqiang Xia graduated (now, Research Associate - School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK).
Dec. 2014, H.D.R. (Habilitation) defense. Evaluation committee,
Prof. Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA (Reviewer).
Prof. Maja Pantic, Professeur, Imperial College London, UK (Reviewer).
Prof. Atilla Baskurt, Professeur, INSA Lyon, France (Reviewer).
Prof. Bernadette Dorizzi, Professeur, Télécom SudParis, France (Examiner).
Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, Professeur, University of Florence, Italy (Examiner).
Prof. Sophie Tison, Professeur, Université de Lille, France (Examiner).
Prof. Mohamed Daoudi, Professeur, Télécom Lille, France (Examiner).