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Professor of Computer Science
Laboratory of Research on Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Department
Faculty of Electronic and Computer Science
University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene
BP 32, EL ALIA, 16111, Algiers, Algeria
Email: slarabi at usthb dot dz
Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Vision, 1991
National Polytechnic School of Toulouse, France
Advisor: Prof. Philippe MARTHON.
Ph.D. Dissertation Title: The use of Projective Geometry in Stereoscopic Vision
Master, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, 1986
Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Advisor: Prof. André Bruel.
Master Dissertation: Computing tools for understanding the causes and the role of convergence
motion of eyes in the binocular vision process
M. Eng. Diploma, Computer Science, 1985
University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria.
M. Eng. Dipl. Thesis Title: Parallel Algorithms for information processing
Research
Topics of interest
Shape description and Recognition
Contour detection and Image segmentation
Image Analogies
Gaze direction estimation
Human gesture and action recognition
Image and video database indexing and retrieval
Image Analysis and Pattern recognition
Professional experience
January, 1992 to December, 2002
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department,
University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria
January, 2002 to present
Professor, Computer Science Department,
University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria
September 1995 to June 1996
Post-doc position, Laboratory of automatic and System Engineering,
University of Valladolid, Spain
June 13, 2008 to August 11, 2008
Visiting Professor Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LIFL),
University of Science and Technology of Lille 1 (France)
July 01, 2009 to August 31, 2009
Visiting Professor Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LIFL),
University of Science and Technology of Lille 1 (France)
September 17, 2010 to August 02, 2011
Scholar visitor, Image and Signal Processing (VISP) group,
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University,
Edinburgh, UK
Research Supervision
Ph.D. Students Supervised
Saliha AOUAT. Thesis: `` 3D object Recognition using textual description of their silhouettes'' (completed June 2009).
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algiers, Algeria.
Yacine AMARA. Thesis: `` A real-time framework for the visualization and amplification of large terrains '' (completed February 2010).
Currently Associate Professor, Polytechnic Military School, Algiers, Algeria.
Nadia BAHA, Thesis: Accurate real-time neural disparity MAP estimation with FPGA, (completed June 2012).
Currently Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
Djamila DAHMANI, Thesis: User-Independent System for Sign Language Finger Spelling Recognition, (completed September 2014).
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
Nacera LAICHE,Thesis: Geometric descriptions of objects, (completed November 09, 2014).
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
Afifa DAHMANE,Thesis: Gaze Direction Estimation from video, (completed February 01, 2015).
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
M.S. Students Supervised
Ait Kaci AZZOU Samira. Thesis: "Matching of Features Trajectories obtained by a stereoscopic system performing a
convergence motion" (Completed November 1995).
Fatma Zohra BELLALA. Thesis: "Visual Servoing of object grasping using uncalibrated stereoscopic system"
(Completed November 2002).
Saliha BOUAGAR. Thesis: "The use of the knowledge in vision processes" (Completed July 2003).
Mehdi TAFER. Thesis: "Indexing database of images described textually" (Completed June 2005).
Afifa DAHMANE. Thesis: "Coding images with text '' (Completed July 2006).
ALIOUCHE Abdelaziz. Thesis: "Visualizing images from their textual descriptions" (Completed July 2007).
Mohamed El Yazid BOUDRAREN. Thesis: "Markovian Classification of ground from Aerial images" (Completed October 2009).
Khadidja HIMRI, Thesis: "Human actions recognition by classification" (Completed October 2013).
Conducted Projects
Towards a Computer Vision System in Real Time, January 1998 to December 1999
Moving of a Robot with Stereoscopic Head towards a Moving Target, January 2001 to December 2002
Security of Image database, January 2005 to December 2007
A computer system Managing Images of external scenes, January 2008 to December 2010
Director of the doctoral school of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB),
Algiers, Algeria (2010-2013)
Chair of the Scientific Council of Computer Science Department, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB),
Algiers, Algeria (2014-2016)
Reviewer for:
Special Issue of the International Journal of Imaging, 2009
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2010)
IET Computer Vision, IEE
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special issue: Pose and Gesture, Elsevier
Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization
Transactions on Computers, IEEE
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Elsevier
NeuroComputing, Elsevier
Chair of Program Committee
International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence (ICMWI'2010), Algiers, October 3-5, 2010
9th International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2009), May, 18-20, Algiers, 2009
Member of Program Committee
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP 2015, 11-14 March 2015, Berlin, Germany
CompIMAGE'2014 Symposium: The 4th Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and
Applications, September 3-5, 2014, Pittsburgh, USA
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP 2014, 05-08 January 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP 2013, 21-24 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain
IECON 2013 - The 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
10th -13th of November 2013, Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
VipIMAGE 2013 - IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, October 14-16,
2013, Madeira Island, Portugal
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP 2012, 24-26 February 2012, Rome, Italy
CompIMAGE'2012 Symposium: Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and
Applications, September 5-7, 2012, Rome, Italy
VipIMAGE 2011 - 3rd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, October 12-14,
2011, Algarve, Portugal
International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP 2010), Angers, France, 17-21 May, 2010
CompIMAGE'2010 Symposium: Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and
Applications, Buffalo, NY, 5-7 May 2010
International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP 2009), Lisboa, Portugal, 5-8 February 2009
Other conferences: ISPS2007, ISPS2005, EGC2005, ISPS2003, ISPS2001, ISPS1999.
Saliha Aouat, Nacéra Laiche, Feryel Souami, Slimane Larabi.
3D object indexing and recognition ,
Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier,(1): 318-332, 2008
Slimane Larabi.
Textual description of shapes.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation 20(8): 563-584 (2009)
Slimane Larabi, Textual description of shapes. International Journal for Computational Vision
and Biomechanics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi. Coarse Comparison of Silhouettes
using XLWDOS Language, International Journal for Computational Vision and
Biomechanics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi. Comparison of Detailed Descriptors of Noisy Silhouettes,
International Journal Machine Graphics and Vision Volume 10, Number 3,
July 2010
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi, Shape Matching using Coarse Descriptors. International Journal of Computer Vision and
Robotics, Inderscience Publisher, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2010
Amina Bensebaa, Slimane Larabi, Neil M. Robertson.
Inferring heading direction from silhouettes ,
Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision,
Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, Vol. 19
Tavares, João Manuel, Natal Jorge, Renato (Eds.) April, 2015.
International Conferences (from 2003)
Slimane Larabi, Saliha Bouagar, Felix Miguel Trespaderne, Eusibio de la Fuente Lopez.
LWDOS: Language for Writing Descriptors of Outline Shapes,
In the LNCS proceeding of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, June 29 - July 02, Gotborg, Sweden, 2003
Slimane Larabi, Saliha Bouagar, Felix Miguel Trespaderne, Eusibio de la Fuente Lopez.
A Part-Based Description of Outline Shapes,
In the proceeding of International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, Agadir, Maroc, June 25-27, 2003
Saliha AOUAT, Slimane Larabi.
Comparison of silhouettes descriptions, ICGST
International Conference on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, LE CAIRE, 19-21 Décembre 2005
Slimane LARABI, Saliha Aouat. Matching XML Descriptors of Silhouttes,
ICGST International Conference on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, LE CAIRE, 19-21 Décembre 2005
Slimane LARABI, Saliha BOUAGAR. An XML Language for
Writing Descriptors of Silhouettes, ICGST International Conference on Graphics,
Vision and Image Processing GVIP 2005. Cairo, Egypt. 19-21 December 2005
Djamila Medjahed, Slimane LARABI. Human activities interpretation based on silhouette description,
ICGST International Conference on Graphics,
Vision and Image Processing GVIP 2005. Cairo, Egypt. 19-21 December 2005
Slimane Larabi. Textual description of images,
In the proceeding of International Conference CompImage (Computational Modelling of objects represented in images,
Fundamentals and Applications), Coimbra, Portugal, 20-21 October 2006
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi; Coarse comparison of outlines shapes descriptors,
In the proceeding of the Thematic conference on computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VIP 2007),
17-19 October 2007 Porto Portugal
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi;
La reconnaissance des silhouettes d'objets en utilisant une description textuelle,
IEEE CCECE'08: Symposium on Controls and Robotics, May 4-7, 2008, Ontario, Canada
Samira Ait Kaci Azzou, Slimane Larabi, Chabane Djeraba.
Angles Estimation of Rotating Camera,
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2009), Lisboa, Portugal, 5-8 Febrary, 2009
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi.
Indexing binary images using quad-tree Decomposition. In the proceedings of the
IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics. Istambul, Turkey, 10-13, 2010
Nadia. Baha, Slimane Larabi.
Disparity map estimation with neural network, In the proceeding of
the IEEE International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence (ICMWI'2010), October 3-5, Algiers, Algeria
Afifa Dahmane, Slimane Larabi. Towards a new format for image coding, In the proceeding of the IEEE
International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence (ICMWI'2010), October 3-5, Algiers, Algeria
Nacéra Laiche, Slimane Larabi. Retrieval of 2D Objects and Shape Matching Using the B-spline Representation,
IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications 2011, 16-18 November 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Saliha BOUAGAR, Slimane LARABI. On Aligning Shapes, IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing
Applications 2011, 16-18 November 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dahmani Djamila, Benchikh Soumia, Slimane Larabi. User Independent System for Recognition of Hand Postures Used in Sign
Language. ICPRAM, 2012: 581-584
Amel Ourahmoune, Slimane Larabi, Chafia Hamitouche-Djabou,
A Survey of Echographic Simulators,
CompImage: Computational Modelling
of objects represented in images, Fundamentals and Applications, Rome, Italy, 5-7 September 2012
Asma Bellili, Slimane Larabi, Neil M. Robertson,
Outlines of objects detection by analogy ,
In the LNCS proceedings of 15th on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'2013), pp. 385-392,
August 27-29, York, UK
Amina Bensebaa, Slimane Larabi, Neil M. Robertson,
Head Direction Estimation from Silhouette ,
In the LNCS proceedings of 15th on Conference on Image Analysis and Patterns (ICIAP'2013), pp. 340-350,
Napoli, Italy, September 11-13, 2013
Asma Bellili and Slimane Larabi,
Image Segmentation by Image Analogies ,
The 4th Computational Modelling of objects represented in images, Fundamentals and Applications,
Pittsburg, USA, 3-5 September 2014
Asma Manel KHERCHI and Slimane Larabi,
Head Pose Estimation from Depth Map,
The International Conference in Computer Vision (CVA 2015), Tiziouzou, April 2015
Saliha Bouagar, Slimane Larabi, Utilisation de la connaissance dans la mise en correspondance
d'images.
4ème Séminaire National en Informatique de Biskra SNIB'04, 5-6 Mai 2004, Biskra,
Algeria
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi, Transformation de descripteurs de silhouettes pour
la comparaison d'images, 5ème Séminaire National d'Informatique (SNIB 2006)
Université Mohamed KHIDER de Biskra, 02-04 mai 2006, Algeria
Nadia Baha, Slimane Larabi. Obstacle detection based on dense disparity maps,
2ème Conférence sur
la Vision Artificielle CVA'2007, 18-20 Novembre, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria
Saliha Aouat, Slimane Larabi. Correction of detailed descriptors to compare noisy silhouettes,
2ème Conférence sur la Vision Artificielle CVA'2007, 18-20 Novembre, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria
Nadia BAHA, Slimane LARABI. Neural disparity map estimation from stereo vision, MISC'2010, 30-31, May 2010
Constantine, Algeria
