Computer Science Program
Prof. Bernard Ghanem
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Recruiting PhDs
Contact: bernard.ghanem@kaust.edu.sa
Biography
Prof. Bernard Ghanem is a Full Professor in the Computer Science Program and Principal Investigator of the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) at KAUST. His research is at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and mathematical optimization, specializing in video analysis and temporal action localization.
Active Research & Lab Focus
- Automatic recognition of human activities and actions in untrimmed video datasets.
- 3D reconstruction and semantic understanding of complex physical scenes.
- Developing light-weight deep neural networks for real-world robotics and autonomous systems.
Key Publications & Research papers
- 1.B. Ghanem et al., "ActivityNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Human Activity Understanding", CVPR 2023
- 2.B. Ghanem, "Temporal Action Localization in Untrimmed Videos via Deep Reinforcement Learning", IEEE TPAMI 2024
Academic Institution
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaResearch Keywords
Computer VisionMachine LearningKAUSTSaudi Arabia