Dr. Karim Hammoudi, Computer Vision and Machine Learning at UHA

Karim Hammoudi, PhD Research Projects Supervision Expert Activities Teaching Resources About me

Lecturer in Master of Computer Science,
Master of Information Systems
and Master of Business Informatics

Maître de Conférences en Informatique
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques
18, rue des Frères Lumière
Université de Haute-Alsace
68093 Mulhouse, France

Department of Computer Science
IRIMAS Institute, LMIA lab. : http://www.irimas.uha.fr/
Contact : karim.hammoudi(at)uha.fr

Background
Since 2016: Associate Professor at University of High-Alsace, France
Since 2020: Topic Editor, MDPI Journal of Imaging
[2013-2016]: Associate Professor at ESIGELEC, Normandy University, France
Head of the Master IS at ESIGELEC (2015-2016)
[2011-2013]: Post-doctoral Reseacher at Maynooth University, Ireland
[2008-2011]: PhD Student at IGN Institute, Paris, France

Current research & Teaching interests
- Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Machine Learning,
Biomedical Engineering, Precision Health, Public Health
- Agile Methodology, Software Modeling, DBMS

Find me on ResearchGate, Google Scholar, DBLP, ORCID and LinkedIn.

Research

News:

March 2023: Acceptance of our article "Object-centric Contour-aware Data Augmentation Using Superpixels of Varying Granularity" in Pattern Recognition, Elsevier

December 2022: Acceptance of our article "SuperpixelGridMasks Data Augmentation: Application to Precision Health and other Real-world Data" in Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, Springer

March 2022: Acceptance of our Surface-based protein domains retrieval method in Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Elsevier

Best Paper Award 2021 from the journal Smart Health, Elsevier for our article "MaskedFace-Net"

2021: Co-director of the PhD thesis investigated by Ms. Bouthaina Slika for assistance to COVID-19 diagnosis by chest X-ray image analysis (UPV/EHU, Spain).

September 2020: Project "MaskedFace-Net" has been featured by VisualData at https://www.visualdata.io/discovery

Our new generated MaskedFace-Net image dataset for fighting COVID-19 is online! Project webpage: https://github.com/cabani/MaskedFace-Net

Chair for the IEEE IPTA 2020 special session: "Advanced machine learning and image analysis for precision health"

November 2019: Chair for the IEEE IPTA 2019 special session: "Deep learning for emotion and facial expression recognition"

Member of the Scientific Program Committee for IEEE IPTA 2019: "http://www.ipta-conference.com/ipta19/index.php/committes"

May 2019: Acceptances in Eurographics co-events at Genova, Italy: ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (program) and Eurographics workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR) (program)

February 2019: Best Paper Award in signal and image processing at the ICICT 2019 congress, Brunel University London, UK

September 2018: Accepted paper for MICCAI workshop 2018 at Granada Conference Centre, Spain

June 2018: Speaker for IEEE SmartCity 2018 by University of Exeter, UK

Publications

International journals:

1.
B. Slika, F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi
Multi-Score Prediction for Lung Infection Severity in Chest X-ray Images.
In IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2024. (IF: 5.3)

2.
B. Slika, F. Dornaika, H. Merdji, K. Hammoudi
Lung Pneumonia Severity Scoring in Chest X-ray Images using Transformers.
In Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer, 2024. (IF: 2.6)

3.
F. Dornaika, D. Sun, K. Hammoudi, J. Charafeddine, A. Cabani, C. Zhang
Object-centric Contour-aware Data Augmentation Using Superpixels of Varying Granularity.
In Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 2023. (IF: 8.5)

4.
Haneen Dweik, Mohammed Abutaha, Adnane Cabani, K. Hammoudi
Review of AES Methods and Suggested Abstract Ciphering for Secured Image Data Communication in IoT and AI Applications.
In Journal of Information Systems Security, Information Institute Publishing, Washington DC, USA, 2023.

5.
K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, B. Slika, H. Benhabiles, F. Dornaika, M. Melkemi.
SuperpixelGridMasks Data Augmentation: Application to Precision Health and other Real-world Data.
In Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, Springer,, 2022.

6.
F. Langenfeld, T. Aderinwale, C. Christoffer, W.-H. Shin, G. Terashi, X. Wang, D. Kiharab, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, L. Sirugue, H.-N. H. Nguyen, T.-D. H. Nguyen, V.-T. Nguyen-Truong, D. Le, H.-D. Nguyen, M.-T. Tran, M. MontÃ¨s.
Surface-based protein domains retrieval methods from a SHREC2021 challenge.
In Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Elsevier, 2022. (IF: 2.51)

7.
Z. Yang, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, F. Windal, R. He, D. Collard.
A generalized deep learning-based framework for assistance to the human malaria diagnosis from microscopic images.
In Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2021. (IF: 5.6)

8.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, I. Arganda-Carreras, D. Collard, Arnaud Scherpereel.
Deep Learning on Chest X-ray Images to Detect and Evaluate Pneumonia Cases at the Era of COVID-19.
In Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, 2021. (IF: 4.46)

9.
M. Melkemi and K. Hammoudi.
Voronoi-based image representation applied to binary visual cryptography.
In Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier, 2020. (IF: 3.25)

10.
A. Cabani, K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi
MaskedFace-Net - A Dataset of Correctly/Incorrectly Masked Face Images in the Context of COVID-19.
In Smart Health, Elsevier, 2020.

11.
F. Langenfeld, Y. Peng, Y.-K. Lai, P. L. Rosin, T. Aderinwale, G. Terashi, C. Christoffer, D. Kihara, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, A. Giachetti, S. Mylonas, A. Axenopoulos, P. Daras, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, M. Montes.
SHREC2020 track: Multi-domain Protein Shape Retrieval Challenge.
In Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, 2020. (IF: 1.93)

12.
K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi.
Validating the correct wearing of protection mask by taking a selfie: design of a mobile application "CheckYourMask" to limit the spread of COVID-19.
In CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2020. (IF: 1.59)

13.
F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, T. D. A. Phan.
An Efficient Pyramid Multi-Level Image Descriptor: Application to Image-Based Parking Lot Monitoring.
In Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 2019. (IF: 2.15)

14.
A. Moujahid, F. Dornaika, Y. Ruichek, K. Hammoudi.
Towards semantic segmentation of orthophoto images using graph-based community identification.
In Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2019. (IF: 5.6)

15.
K. Hammoudi and M. Melkemi.
Personalized Shares in Visual Cryptography.
In Journal of Imaging, 4(11):126, 2018. (DBLP indexed, Q1)

16.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, A. Jandial, F. Dornaika, J. Mouzna.
Developing A Vision-based Adaptive Parking Space Management System.
In International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 192-200, December 2016. (Scopus indexed)

17.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis.
A Synergistic Approach for Recovering Occlusion-free Textured 3D Maps of Urban Facades from Heterogeneous Cartographic Data.
In International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Volume 10, 10p., 2013. (IF: 1.65)

18.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika.
A Featureless Approach to 3D Polyhedral Building Modeling from Aerial Images.
In Sensors Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 228-259, January 2011. (IF: 3.57)

International book chapters:

16.
K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, H. Benhabiles and M. Melkemi.
Image Style Transferred to Graphical User Interfaces.
In International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2022), NIT Warangal, India. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Springer, 2022. (to appear), preprint

17.
K. Hammoudi, M. Abu Taha, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Windal, S. El Assad and A. Queudet.
Image-based Ciphering of Video Streams and Object Recognition for Urban and Vehicular Surveillance Services.
In International Congress on ICT (ICICT 2019), Brunel University London, UK. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Volume 1027, Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-981-32-9342-7. (Best Paper Award in track image and signal)

18.
H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, A. Cabani.
A Transfer Learning exploited for Indexing Protein Structures from 3D Point Clouds.
In MICCAI workshop (SaMBa 2018), Granada, Spain, LNCS, Volume 11379, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-030-13834-9.

19.
K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, H. Benhabiles, F. Windal, O. Taoufik.
A Comparative Study of 2 Resolution-level LBP Descriptors and Compact Versions for Visual Analysis.
In FutureTech 2018, University of Salerno, Italy. Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, LNEE, Volume 518, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-981-13-1327-1.

20.
K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika., T. D. A. Phan, O. Taoufik.
Computing Multi-purpose Image-based Descriptors for Object Detection: Powerfulness of LBP and Its Variants.
In International Congress on ICT (ICICT 2018), Brunel University London, UK. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Volume 797, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-981-13-1164-2.

21.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika.
Detection Systems for Improving the Citizen Security and Comfort from Urban and Vehicular Surveillance Technologies: An Overview.
In ICT Infrastructures and Services for Smart Cities (IISSC), Italy. LNICST, Volume 189, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-67635-7.

22.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Kasraoui, N. Ajam, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu.
Developing vision-based and cooperative vehicular embedded systems for enhancing road monitoring services.
In Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Volume 52, Issue C, pp. 389-395, June 2015. (CiteScore: 2.5)

23.
K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald.
Design, Implementation and Simulation of an Experimental Multi-camera Imaging System for Terrestrial and Multi-purpose Mobile Mapping Platforms: A Study Case.
In Applied Mechanics and Materials, Optimization of the Robots (OPTIROB), Volume 332, pp. 139-144, 2013. (SJR indexed)

24.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis.
Recovering occlusion-free textured 3D maps of urban facades by a synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and Area-based information.
In Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS), Volume 41, Issue C, pp. 971-980, September 2012. (CiteScore: 2.7)

25.
F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi.
Estimating 3D Polyhedral Building Models by Registering Aerial Images.
In Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), LNCS, Volume 6475, Springer, pp. 239-248, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-17690-6.

International conference proceedings with review committee:

26.
F. Langenfeld, T. Aderinwale, C. Christoffer, W.-H. Shin, G. Terashi, X. Wang, D. Kiharab, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, L. Sirugue, H.-N. H. Nguyen, T.-D. H. Nguyen, V.-T. Nguyen-Truong, D. Le, H.-D. Nguyen, M.-T. Tran, M. MontÃ¨s.
SHREC 2021: Surface-based Protein Domains Retrieval.
In Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, The Eurographics Association, ISBN 978-3-03868-137-3 2021.

27.
H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, Z. Yang, W. Feryal, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, I. Arganda-Carreras.
Deep Learning based Detection of Hair Loss Levels from Facial Images.
In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), 2019.

28.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, S. R. Kadapanatham.
Visual Communication with Successive Reading of Public and Secret Information by Generating Dual-layer Images.
In Expressive 2019, Eurographics co-event, Genova, Italy, ACM, 2019.

29.
F. Langefeld, A. Axenopoulos, H. Benhabiles, P. Daras, A. Giachetti, X. Han, K. Hammoudi, D. Kihara, T. M. Lai, M. Melkemi, S. K. Mylonas, G. Terashi, Y. Wang, F. Windal, M. Montes.
Protein Shape Retrieval.
In Eurographics workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), SHREC contest, Genova, Italy, Eurographics DL, 2019.

30.
K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, M. Melkemi, H. Benhabiles, F. Windal.
Towards a Model of Car Parking Assistance System using Camera Networks: Slot Analysis and Communication Management.
In IEEE Smart City 2018, Exeter, UK, June 2018.

31.
K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, H. Benhabiles, F. Dornaika, S. Hamrioui, J. Rodrigues.
Analyzing and Managing the Occupancy of Car Parking by exploiting Vision-based Urban Surveillance Networks.
In IEEE Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNet), Avignon, France, May 2017.

32.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, A. Jandial, F. Dornaika, J. Mouzna.
Self-Driven and Direct Spatio-temporal Mechanisms for the Vision-based Parking Slot Surveillance.
In IEEE Science and Information Conference (SAI Computing), London, UK, July 2016.

33.
K. Hammoudi, N. Ajam, M. Kasraoui, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu.
Design, Implementation and Simulation of an Experimental Processing Architecture for Enhancing Real-time Video Services by Combining VANET, Cloud Computing System and Onboard Navigation System.
In IEEE Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS), pp. 174-179, Angers, France, February 2015.

34.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis.
Recovering quasi-real occlusion-free textures for facade models by exploiting fusion of image and Laser street data and image inpainting.
In IEEE International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Dublin, Ireland, May 2012.

35.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, N. Paparoditis.
Generating Occlusion-free Textures for Virtual 3D Model of Urban Facades by Fusing Image and Laser Street Data.
In IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Costa Mesa, California, USA, March 2012.

36.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, N. Paparoditis.
Generating Virtual 3D Model of Urban Street Facades by Fusing Terrestrial Multi-source Data.
In IEEE Intelligent Environments (IE), Nottingham, UK, July 2011.

37.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
Extracting Wire-frame Models of Street Facades from 3D Point Clouds and the Corresponding Cadastral Map.
In Photogrammetric Computer Vision (PCV), Vol. 38, Part 3A, pp. 91-96, Paris, France, September 2010.

38.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
Extracting Outlined Planar Clusters of Street Facades from 3D Point Clouds.
In IEEE Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Ottawa, Canada, June 2010.

39.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, N. Paparoditis.
Extracting Building Footprints from 3D Point Clouds using a Terrestrial Laser Scanning at Street Level.
In City Models, Roads and Traffic (CMRT),Vol. 38, Part 3/W4, pp. 65-70, Paris, France, September 2009.

40.
F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi.
Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images using a Featureless and Direct Approach.
In Machine Vision Applications (MVA), IAPR, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009.

Other communications:

41.
K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika.
Analyse et gestion de lâ€™occupation de places de stationnement par vision artificielle.
In EGC Workshop, Gestion et Analyse des donnÃ©es Spatiales et Temporelles (GAST), Grenoble, France, January 2017.

42.
K. Hammoudi.
Traitement d'images et applications.
In SÃ©minaire Informatique et Sciences du NumÃ©rique (ISN), Talk, AcadÃ©mie de Strasbourg, Mulhouse, December 2016.

43.
K. Hammoudi, N. Ajam, M. Kasraoui, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu.
Design, Implementation and Simulation of a Cloud Computing System for Enhancing Real-time Video Services by using VANET and Onboard Navigation Systems.
In CORESA, Colloque Compression et ReprÃ©sentation des Signaux Audiovisuels, Reims Image Conference (RI), Tome 3, pp. 87-92, France, Novembre 2014.

44.
K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald.
Wide-scale Acquisition of Terrestrial Images by using the StratAG Mobile Mapping Vehicle : A Quick Reference Guide.
In Practical Documentation of the Department of Computer Science from the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2013.

45.
K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald.
Enhancing urban GIS databases through a multi-view MMS acquisition system for street feature extraction.
In Annual GIS Ireland Conference, Irish Organisation for Geographic Information (IRLOGI), Dublin, Ireland, October 2012.

46.
K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald.
Design of an outdoor multi-view acquisition system for diversifying activities in mobile mapping.
In IRLOGI/NCG Joint Event on GI Science: The Next 10 Years, National Center for Geocomputation, Maynooth, Ireland, July 2012.

47.
K. Hammoudi.
Contributions to the 3D city modeling: 3D polyhedral building model reconstruction from aerial images and 3D facade modeling from terrestrial 3D point cloud and images.
Thesis synopsis. In Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, Volume 4, Number 2, 2012.

48.
K. Hammoudi.
Towards the Next Generation of Full and Accurate 3D Building Models by Fusing Aerial and Terrestrial Imagery.
Thesis synopsis. In International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2012.

49.
K. Hammoudi.
Contributions to the 3D city modeling: 3D polyhedral building model reconstruction from aerial images and 3D facade modeling from terrestrial 3D point cloud and images.
In Ph.D. thesis in signal and image processing from Universite Paris-Est, 2011.

50.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
A Pipeline for Modeling Urban Street Facades from Terrestrial Laser and Image Data.
In ICVSS Computer Vision Summer School, Sicilia, Italy, July 2011.

51.
K. Hammoudi.
Extraction de Facades a partir de Nuages Lasers Terrestres.
In IGN Research Days, Institutional Video, Paris, France, Mars 2011. (slides) (video)

52.
K. Hammoudi.
Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images using a Featureless and Direct Approach.
In CRV Tutorial Day, Computer and Robot Vision, Tutorial 5, University of Ottawa, Canada, June 2010.

53.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
Generating Raw Polygons of Street Facades from a 2D Urban Map and Terrestrial Laser Range Data.
In Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC), 6p., Alice Springs, Australia, September 2010.

54.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
Building Modeling using Aerial and Terrestrial Data.
In ICVSS Computer Vision Summer School, Sicilia, Italy, July 2010.

55.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis.
Extracting Facade Outlines from 3D Point Clouds using Terrestrial Laser Scanning at Street Level.
In ConfÃ©rence de l'Ecole Doctorale MSTIC de l'UniversitÃ© Paris-Est , Marne-la-VallÃ©e, France, June 2010.

56.
K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika.
Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images: A Featureless and Direct Approach.
In Workshop on Models and Images for Porous Media (MIPoM), Universite Paris Descartes, France, January 2009.

57.
K. Hammoudi.
Introduction a la modelisation 3D de batiments a partir d images aeriennes.
In Doctoriales de l'Universite Paris-Est, Chateau de la Brosse-Montceaux, Seine-et-Marne, France, Decembre 2008.

58.
K. Hammoudi.
Reconstruction 3D de batiments a partir d'images aeriennes: une approche directe basee image.
In Memoire de Master de l'Universite Paris Descartes, Archive du Centre de Documentation de l'Institut Geographique National, Paris, France, Juin 2008.

Projects

Project SuperpixelGridMasks - Semantic data augmentations over X-ray scans for precision health:

Group co-leader from 2022 to now.

Team members:
Dr. Karim Hammoudi, group co-leader (UHA)
Dr. Adnane Cabani, group co-leader (ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, Rouen)
Ms Bouthaina Slika, PhD student (UPV/EHU, Spain)
Dr. Halim Benhabiles (JUNIA, IEMN CNRS, Lille)
Pr. Fadi Dornaika, invited researcher (UPV/EHU & IKERBASQUE Foundation, Spain)
Pr. Mahmoud Melkemi (UHA)

Achievements: Developing a library of new semantic image data augmentation approaches towards increasing machine learning performances.
https://github.com/hammoudiproject/SuperpixelGridMasks

Project MaskedFace-Net - Generation of a masked face image dataset for public health:

Group co-leader from 2019 to 2022.

Team members:
Dr. Adnane Cabani, group co-leader (ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, Rouen)
Dr. Karim Hammoudi, group co-leader (UHA)
Dr. Halim Benhabiles (JUNIA, IEMN CNRS, Lille)
Pr. Mahmoud Melkemi (UHA)
Junhao Cao, Master intern (ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, Rouen)

Achievements: Detecting correctly and incorrectly worn mask from face images towards limiting the spread of COVID-19.
https://github.com/hammoudiproject/MaskedFace-Net

Project SHREC - protein SHape REtrieval Challenge:

Group co-leader from 2019 to 2021.

Team members:
Dr. Halim Benhabiles, group co-leader (JUNIA, IEMN CNRS, Lille)
Dr. Karim Hammoudi, group co-leader (UHA)
Pr. Mahmoud Melkemi (UHA)
Dr. Feryal Windal (JUNIA, IEMN CNRS, Lille)
Dr. Adnane Cabani (ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, Rouen)

Achievements: Development of approaches for classifying 3D protein shapes towards supportin drug design.
https://github.com/hammoudiproject/ProteinNet

Project SMARTPARKING - University of High-Alsace (UHA):

Project manager from 2017 to 2019.

Team members:
Dr. Karim Hammoudi, group leader (UHA)
Pr. Mahmoud Melkemi (UHA)
Pr. Fadi Dornaika, invited researcher (UPV/EHU & IKERBASQUE Foundation, Spain)
Pr. Zakaria Belhachmi (UHA)
Oussama Taoufik, Master intern (UHA)
Tran Duy Anh Phan, Master intern (UHA)

Achievements: Development of a prototype for detecting available parking slots from surveillance cameras.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11760-019-01512-6

Project SAVEMORE "Smart Autonomous VEhicle for urban MObility using Renewable Energy" - European France-England Research (INTERREG/ERDF):

Member of this project from 2013 to 2016.

Speaker at the SAVEMORE final event for a session entitled "Adaptation of concepts used in autonomous robotics to urban delivery autonomous vehicles", June 9, 2015.

Achievements: Development of vision-based and cooperative systems for enhancing road monitoring services
http://2emc.esigelec.fr/Newsletter/ESIGELEC7/Savemore-un-projet-economique-et-ecologique.html

Project StratAG "Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies" - Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI):

Member of this project from 2011 to 2013.

Achievements: Development of 3D reconstruction approaches and stereo-vision systems for a mobile mapping vehicle.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/national-centre-geocomputation-ncg/research/strategic-research-cluster-advanced-geotechnologies-stratag

Project iTOWNS "Image-based Town On-line Web Navigation and Search engine" - French National Research Agency (ANR):

Member of this project from 2008 to 2011.

Achievements: Feasibility study for the 2D facade delineation in a Google-like Street Viewer from 3D point clouds.
http://www.itowns-project.org/

Supervision

PhD thesis:

Bouthaina Slika, PhD student [2021 - ...], Assistance to COVID-19 diagnosis by chest X-ray image analysis (co-advised with Pr. Fadi Dornaika,Dpt. CS and AI, UPV/EHU and IKERBASQUE Foundation for Science).

MS internships (by 4-6 months):

Junhao Cao, MSc intern 2021, Detecting correctly and incorrectly worn mask from face images (co-advised with Dr. A. Cabani, IRSEEM lab, Rouen).

Oussama Taoufik, MSc intern 2018, Real-time detection of available parking slots from surveillance cameras by using deep learning approaches towards facilitating the car parking (co-advised with Pr. M. Melkemi (UHA)).

Tran Duy Anh PHAN, MSc intern 2016, Real-time detection of available parking slots from surveillance cameras by using hand-crafted approaches towards facilitating the car parking (co-advised with Pr. M. Melkemi (UHA) & Pr. Fadi Dornaika, Dpt. CS and AI, UPV/EHU and IKERBASQUE Foundation for Science).

Veronica Wenner, MSc intern 2015, Remote control of computer applications by gesture recognition through a low cost camera, ERASMUS programme, Mid Sweden University & ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen (co-advised with Dr. H. Benhabiles, IRSEEM lab, Rouen).

Abhishek Jandial, MSc intern 2015, Real-time detection of available parking slots from surveillance cameras by using Dissimilarity Metrics towards facilitating the car parking (co-advised with H. Benhabiles, IRSEEM lab, Rouen).

Sample of supervised master & engineering projects (by 2 months):

MS Project 1: Generator of panoramic images for mobile phone and corresponding georeferencing onto 2D maps

Moundir Chaour, Fred Nganare-Monzane, Kays Yar, MS Project 2017, Laboratory LMIA, University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

MS Project 2: Road Traffic Regulation by using Urban Camera Networks

Soumia Kouicem & Taleb Nabila, MS Project 2017, Faculty of Sciences, Saad Dahlab University (USDB), Blida, Algeria & University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

MS Project 3: Gestural control of computer applications

Runping Huang & Sravan Kumar Vasam, MSc project 2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

MS Project 4: Video-based road monitoring services

Aaron Charles Vizzini & Weibo Wu, MSc project 2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

MS Project 5: Quality enhancement for images of handwritten notes

Prince Amankwah & Xingyu Qi, MSc project 2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

MS Project 6: Vision-based geospatial information systems

Jyoti Adhikari & Bishal Thapaliya, MSc project 2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

MS Project 7: Vision-based recognition of facial expressions

Jing Li & Tega Philip Oghenekohwo, MSc project 2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

MS Project 8: Development of an indoor simulator for creating vision-based vehicular embedded systems and extending video-based road services (SmartCar)

Mohamed Kasraoui, PhD student 2014-2015, IRSEEM Lab, Rouen (design of computer networks, project developed beside his thesis topic)

Karan Radhakrishnan, MSc intern 2014-2015, IRSEEM Lab, Rouen (microcomputer programming, image transferring and synchronizing) [accepted as intern to TechJect, spin-off from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, 2015]

Karthik Bandi, MSc intern 2014-2015, IRSEEM Lab, Rouen (face detection) [accepted as Intern to Texas Instruments, Germany, 2015]

Qing Cai, MSc intern 2014-2015, IRSEEM Lab, Rouen (cloud computing) [accepted as Intern to PSA Peugeot Citroen, Velizy, France, 2015]

Sai Liu, MSc intern 2014-2015, IRSEEM Lab, Rouen (license plate detection) [accepted as Intern to Bosch, Stuttgart, Germany, 2015]

ENG Project 10: ModÃ©lisation 3D de scÃ¨nes planes Ã partir du nuage de points

Kamel Laayatti, Meriem Benchekroun, Izzri Sabri, Omar Soulami and Aymane Enouali, Engineering project 2015-2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

ENG Project 11: DÃ©veloppement d'une mini plateforme mobile Ã©quippÃ©e d'une camÃ©ra pour simuler des mÃ©canismes de vÃ©hicules autonomes

Jean Serein Moutele, Marie Coumba Diop, Ahmadou Mbacke Gueye, Kalimath Maliki and Mingchen Xu, Engineering project 2014-2015, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

ENG Project 12: DÃ©tection de chutes chez les personnes isolÃ©es

Ornela Ogou, Chengchun Xu, Dany Boyer, Mathilde Lesbros and Yuntao Yu, Engineering project 2015-2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

Abdramane Konate, Shiqlang Zuo, Nicolas Tissot, Ludovic Invernon and Andy Boumah Yovo, Engineering project 2014-2015, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

ENG Project 13: Simplification de l'appel des Ã©tudiants par vision
(RÃ©compensÃ© par le Prix de l'innovation de l'ESIGELEC)

Congyi Shi, Youri Mahut, Oulimatou Thiam, Kevin Hermann Yankam, Jean Arnaud Nemi and Siqi Xie, Engineering project 2015-2016, ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen, France

Expert Activities

Member of the Topic Advisoral Panel in Journal of Imaging (Rank Q1):

Since 2018, Member of the Topic Advisoral Panel in the international journal of imaging (MDPI)

Invited Session Chair at International Conferences:

2020: Chair for the IEEE IPTA 2020 special session: "Advanced machine learning and image analysis for precision health"

2019: Chair for the IEEE IPTA 2019 special session: "Deep learning for emotion and facial expression recognition"

2018: Chair at University of Salerno, Italy, Session A-3, FutureTech 2018
FutureTech 2018 conference

2015: Chair at University of Greenwich, London, Session "Service Oriented Computing for Systems and Applications", International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2015)
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/ (conference program)

Invited Professor at ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Normandy University, France:

Since 2017, annual invited stays fully funded by ESIGELEC. Each year, 40 hours of courses on Mobile developments in the international Master in IS

Academic Head of an internation Master training in Computer Science:

Nominated as Head of an International Master in Computer Science entitled "Master en Sciences et Technologie, mention Â« IngÃ©nierie des SystÃ¨mes Complexes Â», parcours SystÃ¨me d'Information" (co-delivered by ESIGELEC Rouen and INSA Rouen, 2015-2016)

Invited examiner for PhD thesis:

Internal Examiner (not committee member) of the preliminary presentation for a PhD Thesis entitled "SÃ©curitÃ© des systÃ¨mes communicants" by Mohamed Kasraoui (ESIGELEC, 2015)

External Evaluator (committee member) for a PhD Thesis entitled "Fuzzy sign model for Pakistani Sign Language Recognition" by Sumaira Kumar (NUST, 2014)
http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/handle/123456789/2558 (thesis committee members)

Teaching

2016 - present: Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of High-Alsace, Mulhouse, France.

MS of Business Informatics and MS of Computer Science:

MS-CS - Cloud Computing

MS-CS - Advanced Computer Systems

MS-CS - Software Development Process (Agile)

MS-CS - Modeling Language

MS-CS - Database Management

MS-CS - Security of Computer Applications

L3-CS - Computer Networks

MS-CS - 3D Terrain Modeling

2013 - 2016: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Ã‰cole SupÃ©rieure d'IngÃ©nieurs en GÃ©nie Ã‰lectrique (ESIGELEC School of Engineering), Rouen, France.

MS/Eng-CS - Computer Networks

MS/Eng-CS - Algorithmic

MS/Eng-CS - C programming

MS/Eng-CS - C for Microprocessor Programming

MS/Eng-CS - Database Management

MS/Eng-CS - Software Development Project (UML/JAVA)

MS/Eng-CS - Website Development

MS/Eng-CS - R&D Projects

2010: Course support in Computer Vision (occasional), French National School in Geomatic Sciences (IGN/ENSG), Paris, France.

MS-GIS - Urban Point-cloud Processing

2008 - 2011: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Universite Paris Descartes (UP5).

BS-CS-ML1PROG - Introduction to the Computer Programming in Pascal

BS-CS-ML2PROG - Computer Programming in Pascal

BS-CS-MLI230A - Computer Programming in OCaml

2003 - 2005: Instructor in Computer Science, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France.

MS-CS- Assistance for universitary projects in Computer Science

Resources

MaskedFace-Net, image dataset for fighting COVID-19: https://github.com/cabani/MaskedFace-Net

Computer vision papers: http://openaccess.thecvf.com/menu.py | http://www.cvpapers.com/ | http://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/recent

Itowns, a tool for geospatial data visualization: http://www.itowns-project.org/

Calibration chessboards (A4): chessboard_6x9.pdf | chessboard_7x10.pdf

Comparison of stereo correspondence algorithms: http://vision.middlebury.edu/stereo/

Conversions between projected geographic coordinate systems for Ireland: http://www.fieldenmaps.info/cconv/cconv_ie.html

About me

Karim Hammoudi holds a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. His primary research interest is image analysis, computer vision, 3D processing and machine learning. His research has been funded under various research programmes from French National Research Agency (ANR), Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In the past he has been Instructor at the "Université de Picardie Jules Verne" (UPJV, France), Researcher at the MATIS laboratory of the "Institut Géographique National" (IGN, France), Adjunct Professor at the "Université Paris Descartes" (UP5), Associate Researcher at the "Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière" (IGN, France), Researcher during two years at the CVIL laboratory of the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM, Dublin). Also, he held a tenured position as Associate Professor during three years at the Department of ICT of the ESIGELEC Engineering School (ESIGELEC, France). During this period, his research was carried out at the Embedded Electronic Systems Research Institute (IRSEEM). Additionnally, he was the Head of the International Master in Information Systems of the school during the academic year 2015-2016.

Professional Experience (2003-Present):

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Dpt. of CS
UniversitÃ© de Haute-Alsace
UHA
Mulhouse, France

Associate Professor of Computer Science
&
Head of the International Master in Information Systems
Dpt. of ICT/IRSEEM laboratory
Ã‰cole SupÃ©rieure consulaire d'IngÃ©nieurs gÃ©nÃ©ralistes
ESIGELEC
Rouen, France

Associate Researcher in Computer Science
MATIS laboratory
Institut National de l'Information GÃ©ographique et ForestiÃ¨re
IGN
Saint-MandÃ©, France

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science
Dpt. of CS/CVIL laboratory
National University of Ireland Maynooth
NUIM
Dublin

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Dpt. of Maths/Info
UniversitÃ© Paris Descartes
UP5
Paris

Visiting Scientist in Computer Science (cotutelle)
Dpt. of CS/AI
Universidad del PaÃs Vasco
UPV/EHU
San Sebastian, Spain

Ph.D. Student in ICT
MATIS laboratory
Institut GÃ©ographique National
IGN
Saint-MandÃ©, France

Instructor in Computer Science
PÃ´le Sciences
UniversitÃ© de Picardie Jules Verne
UPJV
Amiens, France

Educational Background:

Certification to the rank of Associate Professor "Maître de Conférences" (Signal Processing and Computer Science): French National Council of Universities (No: MCF-2013-61-13261242489 (section 61) & No: MCF-2013-27-13227242489 (section 27)), 2013. (list of certified candidates)

Post-doc. at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), 2011-2013.

Ph.D. with European academic mention "Doctor Europeus" (Signal and Image Processing): Universite Paris-Est and French National Mapping Agency (IGN), 2011.(Manuscript)

M.Sc. (Mathematics and Computer Science speciality Image Processing): Universite Paris Descartes (UP5), 2008.

B.Sc. (Mathematics): Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), 2007.

B.Sc. (Computer Science): Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France, 2006.

Webpage by Karim Hammoudi (2022)

1.	B. Slika, F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi Multi-Score Prediction for Lung Infection Severity in Chest X-ray Images. In IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2024. (IF: 5.3)
2.	B. Slika, F. Dornaika, H. Merdji, K. Hammoudi Lung Pneumonia Severity Scoring in Chest X-ray Images using Transformers. In Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer, 2024. (IF: 2.6)
3.	F. Dornaika, D. Sun, K. Hammoudi, J. Charafeddine, A. Cabani, C. Zhang Object-centric Contour-aware Data Augmentation Using Superpixels of Varying Granularity. In Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 2023. (IF: 8.5)
4.	Haneen Dweik, Mohammed Abutaha, Adnane Cabani, K. Hammoudi Review of AES Methods and Suggested Abstract Ciphering for Secured Image Data Communication in IoT and AI Applications. In Journal of Information Systems Security, Information Institute Publishing, Washington DC, USA, 2023.
5.	K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, B. Slika, H. Benhabiles, F. Dornaika, M. Melkemi. SuperpixelGridMasks Data Augmentation: Application to Precision Health and other Real-world Data. In Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, Springer,, 2022.
6.	F. Langenfeld, T. Aderinwale, C. Christoffer, W.-H. Shin, G. Terashi, X. Wang, D. Kiharab, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, L. Sirugue, H.-N. H. Nguyen, T.-D. H. Nguyen, V.-T. Nguyen-Truong, D. Le, H.-D. Nguyen, M.-T. Tran, M. MontÃ¨s. Surface-based protein domains retrieval methods from a SHREC2021 challenge. In Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Elsevier, 2022. (IF: 2.51)
7.	Z. Yang, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, F. Windal, R. He, D. Collard. A generalized deep learning-based framework for assistance to the human malaria diagnosis from microscopic images. In Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2021. (IF: 5.6)
8.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, I. Arganda-Carreras, D. Collard, Arnaud Scherpereel. Deep Learning on Chest X-ray Images to Detect and Evaluate Pneumonia Cases at the Era of COVID-19. In Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, 2021. (IF: 4.46)
9.	M. Melkemi and K. Hammoudi. Voronoi-based image representation applied to binary visual cryptography. In Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier, 2020. (IF: 3.25)
10.	A. Cabani, K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi MaskedFace-Net - A Dataset of Correctly/Incorrectly Masked Face Images in the Context of COVID-19. In Smart Health, Elsevier, 2020.
11.	F. Langenfeld, Y. Peng, Y.-K. Lai, P. L. Rosin, T. Aderinwale, G. Terashi, C. Christoffer, D. Kihara, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, A. Giachetti, S. Mylonas, A. Axenopoulos, P. Daras, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, M. Montes. SHREC2020 track: Multi-domain Protein Shape Retrieval Challenge. In Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, 2020. (IF: 1.93)
12.	K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi. Validating the correct wearing of protection mask by taking a selfie: design of a mobile application "CheckYourMask" to limit the spread of COVID-19. In CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2020. (IF: 1.59)
13.	F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, T. D. A. Phan. An Efficient Pyramid Multi-Level Image Descriptor: Application to Image-Based Parking Lot Monitoring. In Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 2019. (IF: 2.15)
14.	A. Moujahid, F. Dornaika, Y. Ruichek, K. Hammoudi. Towards semantic segmentation of orthophoto images using graph-based community identification. In Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2019. (IF: 5.6)
15.	K. Hammoudi and M. Melkemi. Personalized Shares in Visual Cryptography. In Journal of Imaging, 4(11):126, 2018. (DBLP indexed, Q1)
16.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, A. Jandial, F. Dornaika, J. Mouzna. Developing A Vision-based Adaptive Parking Space Management System. In International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 192-200, December 2016. (Scopus indexed)
17.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis. A Synergistic Approach for Recovering Occlusion-free Textured 3D Maps of Urban Facades from Heterogeneous Cartographic Data. In International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Volume 10, 10p., 2013. (IF: 1.65)
18.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika. A Featureless Approach to 3D Polyhedral Building Modeling from Aerial Images. In Sensors Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 228-259, January 2011. (IF: 3.57)

16.	K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, H. Benhabiles and M. Melkemi. Image Style Transferred to Graphical User Interfaces. In International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2022), NIT Warangal, India. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Springer, 2022. (to appear), preprint
17.	K. Hammoudi, M. Abu Taha, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Windal, S. El Assad and A. Queudet. Image-based Ciphering of Video Streams and Object Recognition for Urban and Vehicular Surveillance Services. In International Congress on ICT (ICICT 2019), Brunel University London, UK. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Volume 1027, Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-981-32-9342-7. (Best Paper Award in track image and signal)
18.	H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, A. Cabani. A Transfer Learning exploited for Indexing Protein Structures from 3D Point Clouds. In MICCAI workshop (SaMBa 2018), Granada, Spain, LNCS, Volume 11379, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-030-13834-9.
19.	K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, H. Benhabiles, F. Windal, O. Taoufik. A Comparative Study of 2 Resolution-level LBP Descriptors and Compact Versions for Visual Analysis. In FutureTech 2018, University of Salerno, Italy. Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, LNEE, Volume 518, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-981-13-1327-1.
20.	K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika., T. D. A. Phan, O. Taoufik. Computing Multi-purpose Image-based Descriptors for Object Detection: Powerfulness of LBP and Its Variants. In International Congress on ICT (ICICT 2018), Brunel University London, UK. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Volume 797, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-981-13-1164-2.
21.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika. Detection Systems for Improving the Citizen Security and Comfort from Urban and Vehicular Surveillance Technologies: An Overview. In ICT Infrastructures and Services for Smart Cities (IISSC), Italy. LNICST, Volume 189, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-67635-7.
22.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Kasraoui, N. Ajam, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu. Developing vision-based and cooperative vehicular embedded systems for enhancing road monitoring services. In Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Volume 52, Issue C, pp. 389-395, June 2015. (CiteScore: 2.5)
23.	K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald. Design, Implementation and Simulation of an Experimental Multi-camera Imaging System for Terrestrial and Multi-purpose Mobile Mapping Platforms: A Study Case. In Applied Mechanics and Materials, Optimization of the Robots (OPTIROB), Volume 332, pp. 139-144, 2013. (SJR indexed)
24.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis. Recovering occlusion-free textured 3D maps of urban facades by a synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and Area-based information. In Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS), Volume 41, Issue C, pp. 971-980, September 2012. (CiteScore: 2.7)
25.	F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi. Estimating 3D Polyhedral Building Models by Registering Aerial Images. In Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), LNCS, Volume 6475, Springer, pp. 239-248, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-17690-6.

26.	F. Langenfeld, T. Aderinwale, C. Christoffer, W.-H. Shin, G. Terashi, X. Wang, D. Kiharab, H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, F. Windal, M. Melkemi, E. Otu, R. Zwiggelaar, D. Hunter, Y. Liu, L. Sirugue, H.-N. H. Nguyen, T.-D. H. Nguyen, V.-T. Nguyen-Truong, D. Le, H.-D. Nguyen, M.-T. Tran, M. MontÃ¨s. SHREC 2021: Surface-based Protein Domains Retrieval. In Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, The Eurographics Association, ISBN 978-3-03868-137-3 2021.
27.	H. Benhabiles, K. Hammoudi, Z. Yang, W. Feryal, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika, I. Arganda-Carreras. Deep Learning based Detection of Hair Loss Levels from Facial Images. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), 2019.
28.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, S. R. Kadapanatham. Visual Communication with Successive Reading of Public and Secret Information by Generating Dual-layer Images. In Expressive 2019, Eurographics co-event, Genova, Italy, ACM, 2019.
29.	F. Langefeld, A. Axenopoulos, H. Benhabiles, P. Daras, A. Giachetti, X. Han, K. Hammoudi, D. Kihara, T. M. Lai, M. Melkemi, S. K. Mylonas, G. Terashi, Y. Wang, F. Windal, M. Montes. Protein Shape Retrieval. In Eurographics workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), SHREC contest, Genova, Italy, Eurographics DL, 2019.
30.	K. Hammoudi, A. Cabani, M. Melkemi, H. Benhabiles, F. Windal. Towards a Model of Car Parking Assistance System using Camera Networks: Slot Analysis and Communication Management. In IEEE Smart City 2018, Exeter, UK, June 2018.
31.	K. Hammoudi, M. Melkemi, H. Benhabiles, F. Dornaika, S. Hamrioui, J. Rodrigues. Analyzing and Managing the Occupancy of Car Parking by exploiting Vision-based Urban Surveillance Networks. In IEEE Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNet), Avignon, France, May 2017.
32.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, A. Jandial, F. Dornaika, J. Mouzna. Self-Driven and Direct Spatio-temporal Mechanisms for the Vision-based Parking Slot Surveillance. In IEEE Science and Information Conference (SAI Computing), London, UK, July 2016.
33.	K. Hammoudi, N. Ajam, M. Kasraoui, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu. Design, Implementation and Simulation of an Experimental Processing Architecture for Enhancing Real-time Video Services by Combining VANET, Cloud Computing System and Onboard Navigation System. In IEEE Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS), pp. 174-179, Angers, France, February 2015.
34.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, J. McDonald, N. Paparoditis. Recovering quasi-real occlusion-free textures for facade models by exploiting fusion of image and Laser street data and image inpainting. In IEEE International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Dublin, Ireland, May 2012.
35.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, B. Vallet, N. Paparoditis. Generating Occlusion-free Textures for Virtual 3D Model of Urban Facades by Fusing Image and Laser Street Data. In IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Costa Mesa, California, USA, March 2012.
36.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, N. Paparoditis. Generating Virtual 3D Model of Urban Street Facades by Fusing Terrestrial Multi-source Data. In IEEE Intelligent Environments (IE), Nottingham, UK, July 2011.
37.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. Extracting Wire-frame Models of Street Facades from 3D Point Clouds and the Corresponding Cadastral Map. In Photogrammetric Computer Vision (PCV), Vol. 38, Part 3A, pp. 91-96, Paris, France, September 2010.
38.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. Extracting Outlined Planar Clusters of Street Facades from 3D Point Clouds. In IEEE Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Ottawa, Canada, June 2010.
39.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, N. Paparoditis. Extracting Building Footprints from 3D Point Clouds using a Terrestrial Laser Scanning at Street Level. In City Models, Roads and Traffic (CMRT),Vol. 38, Part 3/W4, pp. 65-70, Paris, France, September 2009.
40.	F. Dornaika, K. Hammoudi. Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images using a Featureless and Direct Approach. In Machine Vision Applications (MVA), IAPR, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009.

41.	K. Hammoudi, H. Benhabiles, M. Melkemi, F. Dornaika. Analyse et gestion de lâ€™occupation de places de stationnement par vision artificielle. In EGC Workshop, Gestion et Analyse des donnÃ©es Spatiales et Temporelles (GAST), Grenoble, France, January 2017.
42.	K. Hammoudi. Traitement d'images et applications. In SÃ©minaire Informatique et Sciences du NumÃ©rique (ISN), Talk, AcadÃ©mie de Strasbourg, Mulhouse, December 2016.
43.	K. Hammoudi, N. Ajam, M. Kasraoui, F. Dornaika, K. Radhakrishnan, K. Bandi, Q. Cai, S., Liu. Design, Implementation and Simulation of a Cloud Computing System for Enhancing Real-time Video Services by using VANET and Onboard Navigation Systems. In CORESA, Colloque Compression et ReprÃ©sentation des Signaux Audiovisuels, Reims Image Conference (RI), Tome 3, pp. 87-92, France, Novembre 2014.
44.	K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald. Wide-scale Acquisition of Terrestrial Images by using the StratAG Mobile Mapping Vehicle : A Quick Reference Guide. In Practical Documentation of the Department of Computer Science from the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2013.
45.	K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald. Enhancing urban GIS databases through a multi-view MMS acquisition system for street feature extraction. In Annual GIS Ireland Conference, Irish Organisation for Geographic Information (IRLOGI), Dublin, Ireland, October 2012.
46.	K. Hammoudi, J. McDonald. Design of an outdoor multi-view acquisition system for diversifying activities in mobile mapping. In IRLOGI/NCG Joint Event on GI Science: The Next 10 Years, National Center for Geocomputation, Maynooth, Ireland, July 2012.
47.	K. Hammoudi. Contributions to the 3D city modeling: 3D polyhedral building model reconstruction from aerial images and 3D facade modeling from terrestrial 3D point cloud and images. Thesis synopsis. In Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, Volume 4, Number 2, 2012.
48.	K. Hammoudi. Towards the Next Generation of Full and Accurate 3D Building Models by Fusing Aerial and Terrestrial Imagery. Thesis synopsis. In International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2012.
49.	K. Hammoudi. Contributions to the 3D city modeling: 3D polyhedral building model reconstruction from aerial images and 3D facade modeling from terrestrial 3D point cloud and images. In Ph.D. thesis in signal and image processing from Universite Paris-Est, 2011.
50.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. A Pipeline for Modeling Urban Street Facades from Terrestrial Laser and Image Data. In ICVSS Computer Vision Summer School, Sicilia, Italy, July 2011.
51.	K. Hammoudi. Extraction de Facades a partir de Nuages Lasers Terrestres. In IGN Research Days, Institutional Video, Paris, France, Mars 2011. (slides) (video)
52.	K. Hammoudi. Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images using a Featureless and Direct Approach. In CRV Tutorial Day, Computer and Robot Vision, Tutorial 5, University of Ottawa, Canada, June 2010.
53.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. Generating Raw Polygons of Street Facades from a 2D Urban Map and Terrestrial Laser Range Data. In Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC), 6p., Alice Springs, Australia, September 2010.
54.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. Building Modeling using Aerial and Terrestrial Data. In ICVSS Computer Vision Summer School, Sicilia, Italy, July 2010.
55.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika, B. Soheilian, N. Paparoditis. Extracting Facade Outlines from 3D Point Clouds using Terrestrial Laser Scanning at Street Level. In ConfÃ©rence de l'Ecole Doctorale MSTIC de l'UniversitÃ© Paris-Est , Marne-la-VallÃ©e, France, June 2010.
56.	K. Hammoudi, F. Dornaika. Extracting 3D Polyhedral Building Models from Aerial Images: A Featureless and Direct Approach. In Workshop on Models and Images for Porous Media (MIPoM), Universite Paris Descartes, France, January 2009.
57.	K. Hammoudi. Introduction a la modelisation 3D de batiments a partir d images aeriennes. In Doctoriales de l'Universite Paris-Est, Chateau de la Brosse-Montceaux, Seine-et-Marne, France, Decembre 2008.
58.	K. Hammoudi. Reconstruction 3D de batiments a partir d'images aeriennes: une approche directe basee image. In Memoire de Master de l'Universite Paris Descartes, Archive du Centre de Documentation de l'Institut Geographique National, Paris, France, Juin 2008.

Associate Professor of Computer Science	Dpt. of CS	UniversitÃ© de Haute-Alsace	UHA	Mulhouse, France
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Head of the International Master in Information Systems	Dpt. of ICT/IRSEEM laboratory	Ã‰cole SupÃ©rieure consulaire d'IngÃ©nieurs gÃ©nÃ©ralistes	ESIGELEC	Rouen, France
Associate Researcher in Computer Science	MATIS laboratory	Institut National de l'Information GÃ©ographique et ForestiÃ¨re	IGN	Saint-MandÃ©, France
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science	Dpt. of CS/CVIL laboratory	National University of Ireland Maynooth	NUIM	Dublin
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science	Dpt. of Maths/Info	UniversitÃ© Paris Descartes	UP5	Paris
Visiting Scientist in Computer Science (cotutelle)	Dpt. of CS/AI	Universidad del PaÃs Vasco	UPV/EHU	San Sebastian, Spain
Ph.D. Student in ICT	MATIS laboratory	Institut GÃ©ographique National	IGN	Saint-MandÃ©, France
Instructor in Computer Science	PÃ´le Sciences	UniversitÃ© de Picardie Jules Verne	UPJV	Amiens, France