Two IVUL Ph.D. students (Fabian Caba and Victor Escorcia) participate in the annual MSR Summer School.
Hachid won the award for the Venture pitch with the best business plan at the Fifth Annual Vision Industry and Entrepreneur Workshop (VIEW) 2016.
Our recent work on stroke authorship recognition (SAR) was highlighted in the KAUST Discovery webpage. This work was published in CGF2015.
A graphics technique is the first to identify people based on their sketching style.
An MIT Tech Review article was published about work done with Effat university undergrads, a very hard working bunch of young ladies
The first annual ActivityNet large-scale action recognition challenge is underway. A development kit, training, and validation subsets, and testing data without ground-truth annotations are available.
QNRF proposal with David Yang, Marianne Winslett, and Mounir Hamdi on "Real-Time Analytics for Sports Video Streams" is accepted!
Prof. Ghanem gave a talk on large-scale activity understanding at the annual KAUST-NSF conference.
IVUL got 3 papers accepted to CVPR2016! They focus on RGB tracking, RGBD tracking, and activity detection.
Our workshop proposal on large-scale human activity understanding was accepted to CVPR2016. We will be releasing the results of the 1st annual ActivityNet challenge during the workshop. This venue allows researchers in the field to evaluate their activity classification and detection techniques on a large-scale benchmark of in-the-wild video sequences.
Ghanem works in the Visual Computing Center (VCC) and is interested in computer vision, image processing, and machine learning.
Fabian Caba and Victor Escorcia get invited to the 10th Annual MSR Summer School at Cambridge, UK.