Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

Professor Department of Computer Science

faouzi.cheikh@ntnu.no +47 61135203

Bygg A, A210, Gjøvik, Teknologivegen. 22, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway

Faouzi Alaya Cheikh is a Professor of computer science at NTNU.

Background

BSc (Electronics) from the department of electrical engineering from ENIT, Tunisia, 1992
MSc (Signal Processing) from the Department of Information Technology, TUT, 1997
Dr. Tech. (Signal Processing) from the Department of Information Technology, TUT, 2004
Worked as Associate Professor at Gjøvik University College, 2006–2015
Worked as researcher at TUT, 1994-2006
Worked as Electronics engineer at Société Tunisienne de l´Éléctricité et du Gaz, Sousse, Tunisia 1992-1993

Research Interests

His re-search interests include e-Learning, 3D imaging, image and video processing and analysis, video-surveillance, biometrics, video-guided intervention, and content-based retrieval. He is member of the Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory (Colourlab)

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Hachicha, Walid; Kaaniche, Mounir; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2017) No-reference stereo image quality assessment based on joint wavelet decomposition and statistical models. Signal processing. Image communication. vol. 54.
Palomar, Rafael; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Edwin, Bjørn; Fretland, Åsmund Avdem; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Elle, Ole Jakob. (2017) A novel method for planning liver resections using deformable Bezier surfaces and distance maps. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. vol. 144.
Palomar, Rafael; Gómez-Luna, Juan; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Olivares-Bueno, Joaquín; Elle, Ole Jakob. (2017) High-Performance Computation of Bézier Surfaces on Parallel and Heterogeneous Platforms. International journal of parallel programming.
Imran, Ali Shariq; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Kowalski, Stewart James. (2016) Automatic annotation of lecture videos for multimedia driven pedagogical platforms. Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal. vol. 8 (4).
Palomar, Rafael; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Elle, Ole Jakob. (2016) Intra-operative modeling of the left Atrium: A simulation approach using poisson surface reconstruction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 9805.
Palomar, Rafael; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Edwin, Bjørn; Beghdadhi, Azeddine; Elle, Ole Jakob. (2016) Surface reconstruction for planning and navigation of liver resections. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. vol. 53.
Guraya, Fahad Fazal Elahi; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2015) Neural networks based visual attention model for surveillance videos. Neurocomputing. vol. 149 (Part C).
Hachicha, Walid; Kaaniche, Mounir; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2015) Efficient inter-view bit allocation methods for stereo image coding. IEEE transactions on multimedia. vol. 17 (6).
Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Saha, Sajib; Rudakova, Victoria; Wang, Peng. (2012) Multipeople tracking across multiple cameras. International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA). vol. 2 (1).
Hachicha, Walid; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2012) Combining Depth Information and Local Edge Detection for Stereo Image Enhancement. Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference.
Guraya, Fahad Fazal Elahi; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2011) Predictive Visual Saliency Model for Surveillance Video. Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference.
Yubing, Tong; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Guraya, Fahad Fazal Elahi; Konik, Hubert; Tremeau, Alain. (2011) A Spatiotemporal Saliency Model for Video Surveillance. Cognitive Computation. vol. 3 (1).
Imran, Ali Shariq; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2010) Blind Image Quality Metric For Blackboard Lecture Images. Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference.
Tong, Yubing; Konik, Hubert; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Tremeau, Alain. (2010) Full reference image quality assessment based on saliency map analysis. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology. vol. 54 (3).

Books

Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2013) 4th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP); June 10-12, 2013, Paris, France. IEEE conference proceedings. 2013. ISBN 978-82-93269-13-7.

Part of book/report

Fan, Yu; Larabi, Mohamed-Chaker; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Fernandez-Maloigne, Christine. (2017) Stereoscopic image quality assessment based on the binocular properties of the human visual system. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
Ramachandra, Raghavendra; Bylappa Raja, Kiran; Venkatesh, Sushma Krupa; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Busch, Christoph. (2017) On the Vulnerability of Extended Multispectral Face Recognition Systems Towards Presentation Attacks. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA).
Fan, Yu; Larabi, Mohamed-Chaker; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Fernandez-Maloigne, Christine. (2016) On the performance of 3D just noticeable difference models. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP)-Proceedings.
Liu, Xinwei; Pedersen, Marius; Charrier, Christophe; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Bours, Patrick. (2016) An improved 3-step contactless fingerprint image enhancement approach for minutiae detection. 2016 6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP).
Qureshi, Muhammad Ali; Beghdadi, Azeddine; Sdiri, Bilel; Deriche, Mohamed; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi. (2016) A comprehensive performance evaluation of objective quality metrics for contrast enhancement techniques. 2016 6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP).