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home search this site embedded files skip to main content skip to navigation home publications patents curriculum vitae openings contact home publications patents curriculum vitae openings contact more home publications patents curriculum vitae openings contact bernard ghanem professor of ece and cs chair director of center of excellence in generative ai genai deputy director of ai initiative former pi of image and video understanding lab ivul king abdullah university of science and technology kaust al khawarizmi building bldg 1 room 2125 thuwal 23955 6900 kingdom of saudi arabia bernard dot ghanem at kaust dot edu dot sa google scholar research gate dblp linkedin i am currently a professor of ece and cs at king abdullah university of science and technology kaust and chair director of the center of excellence in generative ai genai i lead the image and video understanding lab ivul at kaust my research interests are broadly in computer vision and machine learning broadly and specifically in large scale video understanding 3d understanding and foundations of machine learning i was a graduate research assistant at the computer vision and robotics lab cvrl at the beckman institute for advanced science and technology at the university of illinois at urbana champaign my advisor was professor narendra ahuja who heads cvrl my phd work focused on modeling dynamic textures from video for the purpose of non trivial synthesis recognition compression extraction and activity recognition while i was doing my phd i worked on other things too including efficient optimization schemes e g in normalized graph cuts sparse representation and dictionary learning and ways of using human perceptual information in computer vision applications news this section only shows highlight news 202 6 04 2026 2 papers accepted at acl 2026 0 2 202 6 5 papers accepted at cvpr202 6 0 1 202 6 2 papers accepted at tmlr 2026 and 1 iclr2026 202 5 09 202 5 3 papers accepted at neurips202 5 and 1 at emnlp 202 5 06 2025 7 papers accepted to iccv2025 05 2025 1st ivul paper accepted to acl2025 03 2025 4 papers accepted at cvpr2025 202 4 09 2024 4 papers accepted at neurips2024 and 1 at emnlp 2024 07 2024 6 papers accepted to eccv2024 06 2024 1 paper accepted to miccai 1st from ivul 03 2024 2 papers accepted to icml2024 0 2 2024 8 papers accepted to cvpr 2024 01 202 4 1 paper accepted to aaai 1 paper accepted to 3dv and 1 paper accepted to tpami 01 202 4 3 papers accepted to iclr 202 4 a new record for ivul 202 3 10 2023 2 papers accepted to neurips 2023 0 7 2023 9 papers accepted to iccv 2023 a new record for ivul 02 2023 8 papers accepted to cvpr 2023 a new record for ivul 0 1 202 3 1 paper accepted to iclr 202 3 01 2023 1 paper accepted as oral to aaai2023 202 2 0 9 2022 2 papers accepted to neurips 2022 07 2022 4 papers accepted to eccv 2022 0 7 202 2 promoted to full professor at kaust 05 2022 1 paper to nature scientific data accepted first ivul paper in nature sub journals 04 2022 1 paper at proceedings of national academy of sciences in the us pnas accepted first ivul paper in pnas 0 3 202 2 7 papers accepted to cvpr202 2 2 orals and 5 posters new record for ivul 02 2022 3 papers accepted to aaai 2022 01 2022 i will be area chair ac for cvpr 2022 eccv 2022 and neurips 2022 202 1 10 2021 i am appointed deputy director of the ai initiative at kaust after prof juergen schmidhuber joins as director 09 2021 2 papers accepted tp neurips 2021 09 2021 1 paper accepted to emnlp 2021 first ivul paper at emnlp 07 2021 6 papers accepted to iccv 2021 06 2021 1 paper accepted to icml2021 first ivul paper at icml 05 2021 i will be an area chair ac for cvpr 2022 04 2021 appointed interim lead of ai initiative at kaust 02 2021 1 paper accepted to cvpr2021 20 20 11 2020 i will be an area chair ac for iccv 2021 10 2020 an ivul student team won top prize in the neom ai challenge for the entertainment track as part of the global ai summit in riyadh ksa 10 2020 awarded the shoman arab researcher award for the topic of machine learning and big data 08 2020 accepted invitation to be spc ac for aaai2021 08 2020 accepted invitation to be an affiliated researcher with cinfonia the first academic center to study ai in latin america 07 20 2 papers accepted to eccv2020 1 paper accepted to acmmm 06 2020 accepted invitation to be ac for iclr2021 03 2020 4 papers accepted to cvpr2020 01 2020 i will be an ac for cvpr2021 2019 12 2019 invited contribution to the ai index report 2019 pages 53 54 based on our work on activitynet url 07 2019 2 oral papers accepted to iccv 2019 06 2019 4th annual activitynet large scale activity recognition challenge organized at cvpr2019 we thank our sponsors deepmind google ai and kaust 06 2019 participated in the first annual ai video summit at facebook la url 06 2019 best paper award at the international workshop on computer vision for uavs cvprw 2019 03 2019 1 oral paper accepted to rss 2019 1st one 03 2019 1 paper accepted to cvpr 2019 01 2019 1 paper accepted to iclr 2019 1st one 2018 11 2018 1 paper accepted to aaai 2019 11 2018 i will be an area chair ac for iccv 2019 07 2018 one of my students humam alwassel participated in the annual computer vision summer school in sicily italy 07 2018 6 papers accepted to eccv 2018 06 2018 3rd annual activitynet large scale activity recognition challenge organized at cvpr2018 we thank our sponsors deepmind google facebook and kaust 05 2018 promoted to associate professor at kaust 03 2018 5 papers accepted to cvpr2018 3 posters 2 orals 02 2018 attended the cvpr ac meeting in toronto 2017 10 2017 gave invited talks at intel vision lab and gtc europe in munich 07 2017 2nd annual activitynet large scale activity recognition challenge organized at cvpr2017 we thank our sponsors google deepmind nvidia panasonic qualcomm and kaust 07 2017 3 papers accepted to iccv2017 05 2017 two of my students adel bibi and matthias mueller participate in the annual computer vision summer school in sicily italy 04 2017 i will be an area chair ac for cvpr 2018 02 2017 6 papers accepted to cvpr2017 4 posters 2 orals 2016 12 2016 forbes me ranks hachid among best 50 startups in saudi url 11 2016 awarded a taqadam grant from sabb bank based on project with effat university 11 2016 1 paper accepted to aaai2017 08 2016 two of my students fabian caba and victor escorcia participate in the annual msr phd summer school in cambridge uk the annual computer vision summer school in sicily italy and the annual deep learning summer school in montreal canada 07 2016 4 papers accepted at eccv 2016 3 posters and 1 spotlight 1 paper at iros2016 07 2016 mit tech review article on collaborative project with effat university here is the article 07 2016 1st annual activitynet recognition and detection challenge organized at cvpr2016 check out the competition results we thank our sponsors google nvidia and kaust 06 2016 ivul presented our 3 papers at cvpr2016 06 2016 hachid won the best business plan competition at view2016 at cvpr this year the win was based on a pitch i gave at the workshop 03 2016 3 cvpr papers accepted 2 posters 1 spotlight 03 2016 qnrf proposal with david yang marianne winslett and mounir hamdi on real time analytics for sports video streams is accepted go to 02 39 in the video here 03 2016 i gave a talk at the annual kaust nsf conference on large scale activity understanding url 02 2016 fashionlatte and fashionmatch are in the news again here s the dailyillini article 01 2016 fashionlatte and fashionmatch are in the news here s the chicagoinno article and the ece uiuc article 2015 11 2015 2 out of 2 aaai papers accepted 06 2015 featured article about computer vision on the kaust website 06 2015 we presented 5 cvpr papers one of them an oral i want to congratulate all the members of the ivul group at kaust all the papers will be available on the ivul website 04 2015 article in the universidad del norte website about my google faculty award it s in spanish 03 2015 civ conference at kaust thanks to david forsyth irfan essa larry davis shuicheng yan yi ma daniel cremers and all the other speakers 03 2015 5 cvpr papers got accepted 1 oral 4 posters 02 2015 awarded google faculty research award for activitynet a large scale video benchmark for human activity understanding 2014 12 2014 2 eurographics papers accepted to publication 12 2014 gave an invited talk at the first annual conference on remote sensing at aramco in dammam 12 2014 recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the pacific rim conference on multimedia 2014 11 2014 presented 3 papers at accv 2014 06 2014 my postdoc ali thabet wins the sabic postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014 2015 year 06 2014 attended cvpr 2014 05 2014 program committee member of two workshops at accv 2014 iwrr2014 fslcv 03 2014 victor and fabian arrive to kaust for a long term research internship link to barranquilla news expo here 03 2014 paper accepted to mit sloan sports analytics conference link here 2013 12 2013 iccv2013 tutorial on sparse and low rank representations link here 10 2013 finally picked a name for my lab at kaust it will be the image and video understanding lab ivul the website will come soon 09 2013 won the research collaboration award from the university of western australia uwa with collaborators prof ajmal mian and prof faisal shafait 07 2013 best paper award at cvsports workshop at cvpr congrats team 05 2013 kaust seed fund awarded kaust lens 2012 11 2012 adsc s sports team got hosted in singapore s second most read newspaper today here or here 10 2012 neurocomputing submission about low rank sdp accepted 09 2012 opening for a postdoc position at kaust link here for more details 08 2012 cviu submission about modeling dynamic swarms accepted with minor revisions 08 2012 gave talks at google research and hp labs 06 2012 ijcv submission about multi task tracking accepted with minor revisions 06 2012 1 paper accepted to eccv 2012 06 2012 3 papers accepted to icpr 2012 2 orals and 1 poster 03 2012 visited adsc in singapore many fruitful meetings 03 2012 our mtt paper got accepted to cvpr for an oral 03 2012 submitted 2 papers to eccv 02 2012 joined kaust 2011 and earlier 03 2011 we got the spring singapore grant 12 2010 joined adsc google sites report abuse google sites report abuse this site uses cookies from google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic information about your use of this site is shared with google by clicking accept you agree to its use of cookies cookie policy reject accept