ActivityNet Challenge starts! 1 min read · Thu, Mar 24 2016 News 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 on Real-Time Sports Analytics Accepted! 1 min read · Wed, Mar 23 2016 News QNRF proposal with David Yang, Marianne Winslett, and Mounir Hamdi on "Real-Time Analytics for Sports Video Streams" is accepted!
Prof. Ghanem gives talk at KAUST-NSF conference 1 min read · Wed, Mar 16 2016 News Prof. Ghanem gave a talk on large-scale activity understanding at the annual KAUST-NSF conference.
Three papers accepted to CVPR2016! 1 min read · Tue, Mar 1 2016 News IVUL got 3 papers accepted to CVPR2016! They focus on RGB tracking, RGBD tracking, and activity detection.
First Annual ActivityNet Challenge to be held at CVPR2016! 1 min read · Fri, Dec 18 2015 News 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.
Two AAAI papers accepted! 1 min read · Mon, Nov 16 2015 News Out of 2 paper submissions, IVUL got 2 AAAI papers accepted!
Three Papers Accepted to ICCV! 1 min read · Fri, Aug 28 2015 News ICCV three paper accepted IVUL got 3 papers accepted to ICCV, out of 3 submissions!
Computer vision: Teaching computers how to see the world 1 min read · Wed, May 27 2015 News semantic analysis artificial intelligence UAV Ghanem works in the Visual Computing Center (VCC) and is interested in computer vision, image processing, and machine learning.
Two invitations to the MSR PhD Summer School 1 min read · Wed, Apr 15 2015 News Fabian Caba and Victor Escorcia get invited to the 10th Annual MSR Summer School at Cambridge, UK.
Five Papers accepted to CVPR!! 1 min read · Mon, Mar 2 2015 News CVPR 5 CVPR papers got accepted!!! 1 oral + 4 posters
CIV Conference at KAUST 1 min read · Sun, Mar 1 2015 News CIV Conference at KAUST. Thanks to David Forsyth, Irfan Essa, Larry Davis, Shuicheng Yan, Yi Ma, Daniel Cremers, and ALL the other speakers!
Google Faculty Research Award 1 min read · Fri, Feb 13 2015 News Awarded Google Faculty Research Award for ''ActivityNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Human Activity Understanding''!
Invited Talk at ARAMCO 1 min read · Mon, Dec 15 2014 News Gave an invited talk the first annual Conference on Remote Sensing at ARAMCO in Dammam
Two Eurographics papers accepted 1 min read · Mon, Dec 15 2014 News eurographics two papers accepted publication 2 Eurographics papers accepted to publication
Outstanding Reviewer for Pacific-Rim Multimedia 1 min read · Mon, Dec 15 2014 News Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2014.
Ali Thabet wins SABIC fellowship 1 min read · Mon, Jun 16 2014 News postoc SABIC fellowship Ali Thabet wins the SABIC postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014-2015 year!
PC Member for 2 ACCV Workshops 1 min read · Mon, May 19 2014 News Program Committee member of two workshops at ACCV 2014.
