Slimane Larabi

Specialty: 
Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision
Faculty: 
  • slarabi@usthb.dz
  • slimane.larabi@gmail.com
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Education

  • 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

  • Semantic coding of scene from depth images
  • Gaze and body direction estimation
  • Human gesture and action recognition
  • Image and video database indexing and retrieval
  • Image Analysis and understanding
  • 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

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) Saliha BOUAGAR,Thesis: Textual Description of Shapes and Matching, (completed October, 2017). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
  • (8) Amel Ourahmoune,Thesis: A Virtual Environment for Ultrasound Examination Learning, (completed March, 2019). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
  • (9) Amina Bensebaa,Thesis: Gaze Direction Estimation from low resolution images, (completed April, 2019).
  • (10) Insaf Setitra,Thesis: Object classification from image sequence of low resolution, (completed May 02, 2019).
  • (11) Asma Bellili,Thesis: Image segmentation by image analogies, (to be completed in June, 2019).

Magister 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
  • Video processing, January 2012 to December 2013
  • Gaze head estimation from low resolution images, January 2013 to December 2016
  • Depth image for interaction person-computer and scene-computer. January 2019 to December 2023

Main teaching responsibilities

Multimedia Systems

Computer Vision

Algorithmic

Publications

International Journals (from 2007)

Chapters in books

  • 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)

National Conferences

  • 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

Activities

Main administrative responsibilities

  • 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)

  • Program director

    Master's Degree Program in Visual Computing, USTHB University

  • Director of the Laboratory RIIMA ( Research in Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Applied Mathematics) (2019-2022)

Scientific activities

    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
    • Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE
    • Machine Vision and Applications, Springer
    • Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE

    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

    • Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2017), TROMSO, 12-14 June 2017, Norway
    • International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP 2015, 11-14 March 2015, Berlin, Germany
    • 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.

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