Mohamed DAOUDI is a Full Professor of Computer Science at IMT Nord Europe and Head of the Image Group at the CRIStAL Laboratory (UMR CNRS 9189). His research focuses on Riemannian geometry, computer vision, and machine learning, with particular emphasis on human behavior understanding. He has published more than 150 papers in leading international journals and conferences.
He has served as Associate Editor for several journals, including Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Computers & Graphics. He is currently an Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM). He has also served as Guest Editor for special issues of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Image and Vision Computing, Sensors, and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, covering topics such as human analysis, manifold learning, and face and body behavior understanding.
Professor Daoudi has played an active role in the organization of major international conferences. He served as General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) in 2019 and 2025, and will serve as General Chair of FG 2027. He has also served as General Chair of the 3D Object Retrieval Symposium (2010, 2022, 2023) and the Shape Modeling International Conference (2015). In addition, he has organized numerous workshops at leading conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICPR, WACV, ICMI, FG, and ICIAP, on topics ranging from face and gesture analysis for health informatics to human behavior generation, manifold learning, and learning from limited annotations.
He has served as Area Chair for 3DV 2021, IEEE FG 2024, ACM Multimedia (2021–2025), and EUSIPCO (2013, 2015), and has been actively involved in the organization and scientific committees of numerous international conferences. He has also served on the program committees ore reviewer of major conferences, including CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, BMVC and IJCAI.
He is an IAPR Fellow, an IEEE Senior Member, an ACM Member, and a member of ELLIS. He has supervised 30 PhD students, many of whom have subsequently pursued successful careers in academia and industry, and has served on numerous doctoral and graduate committees.
News
Septembre 2024: the paper Basis restricted elastic shape analysis on the space of unregistered surfaces", Emmanuel Hartman, Emery Pierson, Martin Bauer, Mohamed Daoudi, Nicolas Charon, has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computer Vision,
Keynote speaker, ECCV 2024, 3rd edition of Computer Vision for Metaverse (CV4Metaverse), Milan, Italy, 29th September 2024.
ECCV 2024, Our paper "ScanTalk: 3D Talking Heads from Unregistered Scans" accepted to 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024 https://tbesnier.github.io/projects/scantalk/
Chair with, Shaun Canavan, Lijun Yin, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2025.
Tutorial, 3D Human Motion Generation, International Spring School Multimodal Foundation Models and Generative AI, April 29 - May 3 2024 Rabat (Morocco).
Keynote speaker, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, May 30 2024 https://fg2024.ieee-biometrics.org/
Keynote speaker, Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW), Terme Olimia Slovenia, February 15, 2024. https://cvww2024.sdrv.si/invited-speaker/
Tutorial, Apprentissage profond 3D (3D Deep Learning", Coresa 2021 Sophia Antipolis November 3 - 5 2021, https://coresa2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5
1 paper accepted at WACV 2024 on Bipartite Graph Diffusion Model for Human Interaction Generation
31/8 - 1/09 2023: Chair, with Silvia Biasotti, of Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval 2023 (3DOR’23), 3DOR 2023 will be held in Lille, France, on 31th August and 1st September.
14/07/2023: the paper "BaRe-ESA: A Riemannian Framework for Unregistered Human Body Shapes" Emmanuel Hartman, Emery Pierson, Martin Bauer, Nicolas Charon, Mohamed Daoudi has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICCV 2023.
26/06/2023: the paper "Toward Mesh-Invariant 3D Generative Deep Learning with Geometric Measure", Thomas Besnier, Sylvain Arguillère, Emery Pierson, Mohamed Daoudi has been accepted for publication in Computer & Graphics (3DOR SI).
18/06/2023: Organizer with Zakia Hammal of The Fourth Workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics at CVPR.
18/05/2023: Computer Vision and Image Understanding Special Issue, Eyes on People Recent Trends on Human Analysis, Perception and Generation, accepted, Guest Editors Mohamed Daoudi and Xavier Alameda Pineda, Federico Becattini, Guido Borghi, Marcella Cornia , Claudio Ferrari, Tomaso Fontanini, Andrea Pilzer.
05/06/2023: the paper "Generating Multiple 4D Expression Transitions by Learning Face Landmark Trajectories",
Naima Otberdout; Claudio Ferrari, Mohamed Daoudi; Stefano Berretti; Alberto Del Bimbo, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
13/04/2023: Yujin WU successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Yujin
10/03/2023: Baptiste Chopin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Baptiste
3/03/2023: Emery Pierson successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Emery
03/04/2023: the paper "Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Multimodal Representation Learning for Wearable Emotion Recognition", Yujin WU, Mohamed Daoudi, Ali Amad, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
03/02/2023: the paper "Interaction Transformer for Human Reaction Generation", Baptiste Chopin, Hao Tang, Naima Otberdout; Mohamed Daoudi, Nicu Sebe, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
January 5-8 2023: the paper "The Florence 4D Facial Expression Dataset", Filippo Principi, Stefano Berretti, Claudio Ferrari, Naima Otberdout, Mohamed Daoudi, Alberto Del Bimbo, has been accepted for publication in IEEE FG 2023.