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Chafic Abou Akar
dblp:337/2726
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6ranked-venue papers
5as first author
6since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-2426-0857ORCID · corroborated
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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 4 · 3 first-author · 4 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 3 first-author · 3 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational science and engineering · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
generative adversarial network |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Generative Adversarial Network Applications in Industry 4.0: A Review · Int. J. Comput. Vis. 2024 |
Computational science and engineering › manufacturing automation › manufacturing
industry 4.0 |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Generative Adversarial Network Applications in Industry 4.0: A Review · Int. J. Comput. Vis. 2024 |
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Visualizing the Lifespan of Industrial Objects with AI-Generated Texture Space
Joe Khalil, Chafic Abou Akar, Marc Barouky, Dani Azzam, Marc Kamradt, Raphaël Couturier |
ACIVS | 2 |
| 2025 | A New Pipeline for Extracting and Clustering Sub-Images from Unannotated Complex Image DatasetsabstractLarge-scale complex images contain a large number of crowded and fine-grained features that are prone to information loss during Deep Learning's (DL) downsampling process. While most recent contributions focused on discriminative tasks like small object detection, fewer papers tackled complex image processing for generative tasks. This paper presents a new pipeline for extracting and clustering significant sub-images from complex, unannotated image datasets. The pipeline is composed of three main steps: (1) identifying clusters of keypoints using K-means, (2) extracting and refining sub-image frames with a region-based expansion algorithm, and (3) classifying extracted frames. Subsequently, it enables data augmentation, simplifies domain complexity, and supports conditional training, tailoring the learning process to specific contexts, and enhancing the quality of image synthesis models. Furthermore, we analyze the structure of complex image domains by investigating intra-domain gap between extracted clusters. Chafic Abou Akar, Christian Beddawi, Marc Kamradt, Abdallah Makhoul |
CBMI | 1 |
| 2025 | SORDI.ai: large-scale synthetic object recognition dataset generation for industries
Chafic Abou Akar, Jimmy Tekli, Joe Khalil, Anthony Yaghi, Youssef Haddad, Abdallah Makhoul, Marc Kamradt |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 1 |
| 2024 | Generative Adversarial Network Applications in Industry 4.0: A Review
Chafic Abou Akar, Rachelle Abdel Massih, Anthony Yaghi, Joe Khalil, Marc Kamradt, Abdallah Makhoul |
Int. J. Comput. Vis. | 1 |
| 2023 | Enhancing Complex Image Synthesis with Conditional Generative Models and Rule ExtractionabstractGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown potential for generating images, but have limitations when applied to complex datasets. To address these limitations, class-conditional training is employed, as it performs better and maintains a high level of semantic diversity. In this work, we propose a new method for training generative models on complex images by extracting rules defining the relationships between objects in the image, cropping significant sub-regions based on these rules, and training the models in a conditional setting using the extracted rules as labels. The proposed approach is evaluated and the results demonstrate its effectiveness by increasing the training dataset size, and then feeding it to conditional training. As a result, synthesized samples maintain asset fine-grained details and the visibility of small instances. Chafic Abou Akar, André Luckow, Ahmad Obeid 0001, Christian Beddawi, Marc Kamradt, Abdallah Makhoul |
ICMLA | 1 |
| 2023 | Mixing Domains for Smartly Picking and Using Limited Datasets in Industrial Object Detection
Chafic Abou Akar, Anthony Semaan, Youssef Haddad, Marc Kamradt, Abdallah Makhoul |
ICVS | 1 |