- Computer vision
- Machine learning
- Pattern segmentation, detection, and recognition
- Analysis of document images, video scenes, and electrocardiogram signals
- SWEETHEART (december 2023 -> july 2024, scientific lead at Epsidy): Screening Women using magnetic rEsonanace and Electronic Textiles for HEART disease, funded by the National Agency for Research (ANR - PRCE) - France
- CardioVIA-IRM (july 2023 -> july 2024, principal researcher and head of the AI program at Epsidy): AI-equipped bra for cardiac MRI, funded by the Grand-Est region start-up development support program - France
- 2SADE (december 2019 -> december 2021, Principal investigator): Smart scanner for archival document enrichment, funded under the "19PEJC-08-02" grant agreement number by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the context of the young researcher encouragement program (PEJC 2019) - Tunisia
- SHR (mai 2019 -> mai 2021, 22 (LATIS collaborator): Securing high-risk sites by intrusion detection and autonomous decision-making by the mobile PGuardrobot, funded by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the context of the research result promotion program (VRR 2019) - Tunisia
- DIGIDOC (november 2011 -> august 2014, Ph.D student): Document Image diGitisation with Interactive DescriptiOn Capability, funded by the National Agency for Research (ANR - CONTINT) - France
2020 Explainability assessment of deep models for analyzing historical document images
Iheb Brini
Co-supervision (50%) with Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara and Rolf Ingold
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2019 Automatic vehicle license plate recognition in in-the-wild scenarios
Amir Ismail, Ph.D. thesis defended in March 27, 2025
Co-supervision (50%) with Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara and Anis Sahbani
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2018 Text transcription of archival document images using deep learning architectures
Olfa Mechi, Ph.D. thesis defended in December 10, 2022
Co-supervision (50%) with Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara and Rolf Ingold
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2017 Restoration of color images of archival documents
Walid Elhedda, Ph.D. thesis defended in July 15, 2021
Co-supervision (50%) with Mohamed Ali Mahjoub
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2024 AI-driven system for low-latency pattern matching in disturbed electrocardiograms
Achraf Nedjmeddine Derrar (ESI - Sidi Bel Abbès), M.Sc. thesis defended in September 11, 2024
Epsidy - France
2023 Synthesis of realistic ECG signals during cardiac MRI acquisition using deep learning
Aymen Bahri (ENIT), M.Sc. thesis defended in December 09, 2023
Epsidy - France
2023 Real-time R-peak detection in electrocardiogram signals using deep learning on edge devices
Amdjed Bensalah (ESI - Sidi Bel Abbès), M.Sc. thesis defended in September 20, 2023
Epsidy - France
2023 Towards evaluating the explainability of deep architectures for archival document image segmentation
Iheb Brini (ENISo), M.Sc. thesis defended in January 11, 2023
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2020 Development of a cognitive digitization module
Chadi Abdallah (ENISo)
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2020 Identification of graphical and textual regions in archival document images
Ghada Elfekih (INSAT)
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2013 Development of a SLIC-based method for ancient document image enhancement and segmentation
Nabil Sliti (ENISo)
L3i Laboratory - University of La Rochelle - France
2013 Robustness assessment of texture features for segmenting ancient document images
Mohamed Mhiri (ENISo)
LITIS Laboratory - Normandy University - France
2023 Development of a web application for real-time electrocardiogram signal visualization
Shidi XIA (ISEP), Eng. thesis defended in September 05, 2023
Epsidy - France
2021 Integration of a cognitive digitization module into a scanner
Nada Lataoui (ENISo), Eng. thesis defended in September 25, 2021
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
2021 Development of a mobile application for managing the transportation of medical products
Ahmed Chemkhi (ENISo), Eng. thesis defended in September 15, 2021
MeTIDE - Italy
2021 Development of a web application for tracking marketing campaign tests
Mohamed Mehdi Wertani (ENISo), Eng. thesis defended in September 22, 2021
ITSERV - Tunisia
2020 Development of an advertising platform
Imen Hassine (ENISo), Eng. thesis defended in September 18, 2020
PAYPOS - Tunisia
2017 Development of a ground truthing toolkit for layout analysis of historical document images
Aroua Hammedi (ENISo), Eng. thesis defended in November 04, 2017
LATIS Laboratory - ENISo - University of Sousse - Tunisia
- Best paper award at FAIEMA'24
- Silver applications paper award at ISRM'24
- Outstanding reviewer award for ICDAR'21
- Seal of Excellence for a project submitted under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie program - Horizon 2020
- "Les Technologies au Service du Cœur" seminar organized by the "Nanomatériaux, Electronique Et Vivant" (N2EV) department of the Institut Jean Lamour [CNRS, University of Lorraine] on the topic "Contribution à l'augmentation de l'intelligence de capteurs physiologiques IRM-compatibles" (May 30, 2023)
- "Multimédia" team seminar of the "Traitement et Transport de l'Information" research laboratory (L2TI, Institut Galilée, University Paris 13) on the topic "Contributions à l'analyse d'images de niveaux de structuration variables pour la reconnaissance" (April 19, 2022)
Research group memberships
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- French Research Group in Written Communication (GRCE)
- French Association in Pattern Recognition and Interpretation (AFRIF)
- IAPR Educational Committee (EC-IAPR'23)
- French-Speaking Learned Society for Machine Learning (SSFAM)
- Reasoning, Learning, and Decision-Making in Artificial Intelligence Research group (GDR-RADIA)
Contests
- Co-chair of the ICFHR 2022 Competitions (ICFHR'22)
- Main organizer of the ICDAR 2019 Competition on Historical Book Analysis (HBA'19)
- Member of the organization committee of Tunisian Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM TCPC'18)
- Member of the organization committee of the 1st ICDAR 2015 - Smartphone Document Capture and OCR Competition (SmartDoc'15)
Events and projects
- Project reviewer for PHC Utique Franco-Tunisien program (PHC'24)
- Chair deliberations for first-year students in applied computer engineering department (ENISo'21)
- Member of the organizing committee of the 1st digital innovation day in mutual/insurance field (INNOV'15)
Conference and workshop committees
- Member of the program committee of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'23 and ICDAR'21)
- Member of the program committee of the International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'23, HIP'21, HIP'19, and HIP'17)
- Member of the program committee of the International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (OST'22 and OST'19)
- Member of the technical program committee of the International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD'21)
Conference and workshop reviewing
- International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'25, ICDAR'24, ICDAR'23, ICDAR'21, and ICDAR'19)
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'22, ICPR'20, ICPR'18, and ICPR'16)
- International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'22)
- International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'22, HIP'20, HIP'18, and HIP'17)
- International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (OST'21 andOST19)
- International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD'21)
- International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR'18)
Journal reviewing
- International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
- Journal of Engineering and Technology Research
- IEEE Access
- Pattern Recognition
- Expert Systems With Applications
- International Journal of Computer Vision