Mohamed A. Elgharib, Ph.D. http://blogs.bu.edu/gharib/ [email protected] Tel: +974 7044 7577

EXPERIENCE

Qatar Computing Research Institute, Oct. 2013 - Present With Mohamed Hefeeda (QCRI), Fredo Durand (MIT), Bill Freeman (MIT), and Wojciech Matusik (MIT).

MIT Lab for Computer Science, Visiting Post-doc, 10th Oct. – 10th Nov. 2014 With Fredo Durand and Bill Freeman

Boston University, Post-doc, 1st Jan. 2012-Oct. 2013 With Venkatesh Saligrama

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2011, Trinity College , Ireland Thesis: Handling Transparency in Digital Video Supervisors: Prof. Anil Kokaram and Dr. Francois Pitie

B.A.I. Electrical , 2008, , Ireland

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

I collaborated and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in the following fields/topics:

Computer Vision, Video Processing, Computational Photography, Computer Graphics, 2D-3D Video Conversion, Restoration, Video Search, Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference, Motion Estimation, Reflections, Video Magnification

I co-authored peer-reviewed publications with a number of people:

 William T. Freeman, , MIT (currently with )  Fredo Durand, Professor, MIT  Mohamed Hefeeda, Professor, Simon Fraser University (currently with QCRI)  Wojciech Matusik, Associate Professor, MIT  Anil Kokaram, Professor, Trinity College Dublin (currently Tech-lead at Google)  Venkatesh Saligrama, Professor, Boston University  Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Associate Professor, University of Sherbrooke  Francois Pitie, Senior Research , Trinity College Dublin  Piotr Didyk, Independent Research Group Leader, Saarland University

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Mohamed Elgharib, Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram. Blotch and Scratch Removal in Archived using a Semi-transparent Corruption Model and a Ground-truth Generation Technique. In Springer EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2013:33

Greg Castanon, Mohamed Elgharib, Pierre-Marc Jodoin and Venkatesh Saligrama. Retrieval in Long Surveillance Videos using User Described Motion & Object Attributes. In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 2015

Conference Proceedings

Mohamed Elgharib, Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram. Extraction of Non-binary Blotch Mattes. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009

Mohamed Elgharib, Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram. Reflection Detection in Image Sequences. In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011

Mohamed Elgharib, Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram. Multiple Motion Estimation for Regions of Reflections through Layer Separation. In ACM European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2011 (Oral)

Mohamed Elgharib, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram and Venkatesh Saligrama. User- assisted Reflection Detection and Feature Point Tracking. In ACM European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2013

Mohamed Elgharib, Mohamed Hefeeda, Fredo Durand and Bill Freeman. Video Magnification in Presence of Large Motions, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015

Kiana Calagari, Mohamed Elgharib, Mohamed Hefeeda, Piotr Diydk and Wojciech Matusik. Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion for Soccer Videos. In ACM Multimedia Conference, 2015

RECOGNITION

Small in Large: Amplifying small motions in large motions, MIT News, June 2015.

Fully paid PhD scholarship, Irish Research Council (IRCSET).

OTHER PROJECTS

Implemented a real time system for counter-flow detection for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. It was written in C++ with OpenCV and tested for several weeks.

2 patent applications in process

1 product commercialization in progress

REFERENCES

Mohamed Hefeeda, Professor Simon Fraser University Currently with Qatar Computing Research Institute Email: [email protected]

Fredo Durand, Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL Email: [email protected]

William T. Freeman, Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL Currently with Google Email: [email protected]

Wojciech Matusik, Associate Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL Email: [email protected]