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Bernard Ghanem

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division
Email icon bernard.ghanem@kaust.edu.sa
Website icon Image and Video Understanding Lab

Program Affiliations

Center of Excellence

Research Interests

Professor Ghanem's research interests focus on topics in computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. They include: Modeling dynamic objects in video sequences to improve motion segmentation, video compression, video registration, motion estimation, and activity recognition.Developing efficient optimization and randomization techniques for large-scale computer vision and machine learning problems.Exploring novel means of involving human judgment to develop more effective and perceptually-relevant recognition and compression techniques.Developing frameworks for joint representation and classification by exploiting data sparsity and low-rankness.

Education Profile

  • Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 2012

  • Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) of Illinois in Singapore, 2011

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2010

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2010

  • M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2008

  • B.E., American University of Beirut (AUB), 2005

Publications

  • Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, Si Liu, and Narendra Ahuja, "Robust Visual Tracking via Structured Multi-Task Sparse Learning", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2013)

  • Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, Si Liu, and Narendra Ahuja, "Low-Rank Sparse Coding for Image Classification", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013)

  • Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja, "Dinkelbach NCUT: A Framework for Solving Normalized Cuts Problems with Priors and Convex Constraints", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2010)

  • Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja, "Maximum Margin Distance Learning for Dynamic Texture Recognition", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010)

  • Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja, "Phase Based Modeling of Dynamic Textures", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007)

Research Areas

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Visual Computing
  • Machine Learning