NEWS

2025

• [2025-04]: I am a guest editor for ScienceDirect Special Issue on Computer Vision for Sports and Winter Sports. Submissions are open! 

• [2025-04]: I am organizing the 4th edition of the KAUST Rising Stars in AI!

• [2025-04]: I reached a new milestones: I have published 50 peer-reviewed papers! 🥳  

• [2025-04]: 2 papers accepted at CVsports'25! See you at CVPR!

• [2025-04]: 1 paper accepted at PVUW'25! See you at CVPR!

• [2025-03]: I am an editor for a Nature Special Issue on Sports in AI . Submissions are open!

• [2025-02]: 1 paper accepted at CVPR'25!

2024

• [2024-07]: I published my first paper in Nature Communications!

• [2024-07]: I am part of the program committee of IEEE STAR 24.

• [2024-06]: 2 papers accepted at ECCV'24!

• [2024-06]: 1 paper accepted at ICIP'24!

• [2024-06]: 1 paper accepted in Sports Engineer!

• [2024-06]: 1st place winner of the 2024 Ego4D-Ego-Exo4D Challenge in the Visual Queries 3D track! [report] [code]

• [2024-06]:  I co-organized the workshop CVsports at CVPR'24.

• [2024-06]:  I co-organized the workshop 3DMV at CVPR'24.

• [2024-06]: I co-organized the SoccerNet Challenge 2024 at CVsports'24!

• [2024-04]: 2 papers accepted at IEEE STAR 24!

• [2024-04]: 4 papers accepted at CVsports'24!

• [2024-03]: I am an Area Chair for ICIP'24

• [2024-03]: I am an Area Chair for ICANN'24

• [2024-02]: I organized the KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2024. For its 3rd edition, we invited 30+ international speakers from all horizon.

2023

• [2023-10]: 1 paper accepted to WACV'24!

• [2023-10]: Attended ICCV in Paris and the FIFA research symposium in Zurich

• [2023-08]: EgoLoc was accepted at ICCV'23 as an oral presentation (top ~5% paper).

• [2023-07]: Attended ACL in Toronto and ICML in Honolulu to represent the KAUST AI Initiative.

• [2023-06]: EgoLoc won the 1st place for the Visual Queries 3D Localization at the Ego4D challenge. 

• [2023-06]:  I co-organized the tutorial 3DMV at CVPR'23.

• [2023-06]: We organized the SoccerNet Challenge 2023 at CVsports 2023!

• [2023-06]: Attended VivaTech in Paris with Thya Technology and CVPR in Vancouver.

• [2023-04]: 3 papers accepted at CVsports'23!

• [2023-04]: I gave a talk at the AI for Energy research conference at KAUST about our CloudLabeling platform.

• [2023-02]: I organized the Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2023 at KAUST with 30+ international speakers

2022

• [2022-12]: I have been awarded a Research Translation Funding grant for a project entitled “EarthLabeling: Computer Vision for Aerial Images”!

• [2022-10] I participated to the Thakaa competition in AI+Sports. Our team AinSports won the 2nd place!

• [2022-10]: I have been awarded an Impact Acceleration Funding grant for a project entitled “Platform for Automated Analysis of Satellite Imagery”!

• [2022-09]: I have attend the global AI summit at Riyadh!

• [2022-07]: 1 paper accepted to 3DV 2022!

• [2022-07]: 1 paper accepted to MMSports 2022!

• [2022-06]: We organized the SoccerNet Challenge 2022 at CVsports 2022!

• [2022-06]: Received a Best Paper Award at CVSports 2022!

• [2022-06]: 1 paper to Nature Scientific Data accepted!

• [2022-05]: I gave a talk on Geometric Deep Learning during the AIDD Spring School at Lugano.

• [2022-03]: 3 papers accepted to CVPR 2022!

• [2022-02]: I organized the Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2022 at KAUST with 30+ internal speakers

• [2022-02]: 1 paper accepted to AAAI 2022!

2021

• [2021-10] Gave a talk on Soccer Video Understanding to Baidu Research

• [2021-09] Selected for the Taqadam accelerator program with CloudLabeling and awarded a Taqadam accelerator funding

• [2021-08] Participated to Taqadam'21 Bootcamp with CloudLabeling

• [2021-07] 1 paper accepted @ICCV'21!

• [2021-06] SoccerNet-v2 received the Best Paper Award during CVSports @CVPR'21

• [2021-06] We hosted the SoccerNet challenge during the ActivityNet workshop @CVPR'21. 

• [2021-05] Nominated Outstanding Reviewer @CVPR 2021

• [2021-04] Organized the KAUST Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a 2-days hybrid conference on AI gathering 100 in-person and 1000 remote attendees.

• [2021-04] 3 papers accepted at CVSports (acceptance ratio: 12 / 25)

2020

• [2020-12] I was invited as part of the external jury for the Phd Defense of Anthony Cioppa

• [2020-12] I was a reviewer for ICRA'21. I reviewed 1 papers.

• [2020-06] Presented Context-Aware Loss Function during CVPR’20

2019

• [2019-12] Awarded a KAUST Impact Acceleration Grant.

• [2019-09] Academic visit in Belgium: IVUL Research Presentation and Scientific Committee for the project DEEPSPORT in Belgium.

• [2019-06] I attended CVPR19 in Long Beach, CA and presented Leveraging Shape Completion for 3D Siamese Tracking as a poster.

2018

• [2018-10] I attended ECCV18 in Munich and presented TrackingNet.

• [2018-07] My first book A Survey on 3D Cameras has been published by Springer.

• [2018-06] Visual-Inertial KinectFusion and SoccerNet were presented as orals at different workshops at CVPR18.

• [2018-04] 2 papers got accepted in CVPR workshops

• [2018-04] My Springebrief A Survey on 3D Cameras is in production with Springer.

2017

• [2017-12] One paper published on MDPI Machine on underbridge 3D reconstruction.

• [2017-06] The project Visione Industria is online.

• [2017-04] One paper published in the Elsevier Science and Justice journal.

• [2017-04] I started a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow at KAUST, Saudi Arabia.

• [2017-02] I defended my PhD Thesis.

2016

• [2016-12] Two papers presented at the MobiHealth 2016 conference in Milano, Italy.

• [2016-10] I submitted my PhD thesis for review.

• [2016-10] I attended the ECCV16 conference at Amsterdam, Netherland.

2015

• [2015-11] Visiting PhD Student position started in KAUST, Saudi Arabia.

• [2015-09] One paper presented in FASE at Montpellier, France.

2014

• [2014-12] One paper presented at the A.I.VE.LA. annual meeting in Rome, Italy.

• [2014-09] One paper presented at the MESA2014 conference in Senigallia, Italy.

• [2014-09] I attended the summer school Italo Gorini in Lecce, Puglia.

• [2014-01] Welcome to my Google Site!