Abdelrahman Kamel Siddek Abdelhamed

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PhD Student (Computer Science)
Computational Vision and Imaging Lab (CVIL) | Lassonde School of Engineering
York University, Canada
Supervisor: Prof. Michael S. Brown
Email | Resume | Google Scholar | LinkedIn

A new version of SIDD Benchmark (SIDD+) is being hosted as a challenge at the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE 2020) workshop in conjunction with CVPR 2020.
The participating solutions and results will be published in the challenge report in the CVPR 2020 Workshop proceedings.

Challenges can be accessed at the following Codalab competitions:
NTIRE 2020 Real Image Denoising Challenge - Track 1 - rawRGB
NTIRE 2020 Real Image Denoising Challenge - Track 2 - sRGB

Dataset and benchmark for real image denoising: Smartphone Image Denoising Dataset (SIDD)

Education

MSc (Computer Science), National University of Singapore, 2016
Supervisor: Prof. Michael S. Brown
Thesis

MSc (Computer Science), Assiut University, Egypt, 2014
Supervisors: Prof. Yousef B. Mahdy, Assoc. Prof. Khaled F. Hussain
Thesis

BSc (Computer Science), Assiut University, Egypt, 2009

Research interests

Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computational Photography, Human Computer Interaction
Noise Modelling, White Balance, Mobile Interfaces, Deep Learning, CNNs, Nearest Neighbour Search, Image Retrieval

Professional service

Workshop/Challenge organizer and program committee member NTIRE 2019 workshop @ CVPR 2019
Website chair, CVPR'18
Reviewer, CVPR, ICCV, BMVC, WACV, CRV, CIC, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IET Computer Vision, IET Image Processing, Signal Processing

Publications

Noise Flow: Noise Modeling with Conditional Normalizing Flows
Abdelhamed A., Brubaker M. A., Brown M. S.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 (Oral Presentation)
PDF | Supplemental | Code & Models | Bibtex

@InProceedings{abdelhamed2019noiseflow,
				  title={{Noise Flow: Noise Modeling with Conditional Normalizing Flows}},
				  author={Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Brubaker, Marcus A and Brown, Michael S},
				  booktitle={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
				  year={2019}
				}

Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-capture White-balance Editing
Afifi M., Punnappurath A., Abdelhamed A., Karaimer H. C., Abuolaim A., Brown M. S.
Color and Imaging Conference (CIC), 2019 (Oral Presentation, CIC27 Best Paper Award, US Provisional Patent)
PDF | Project | Matlab Code (to be released) | Android Code (to be released) | PPT | Bibtex

@inproceedings{afifi2019color,
					  title={Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-Capture White-Balance Editing},
					  author={Afifi, Mahmoud and Punnappurath, Abhijith and Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Karaimer, Hakki Can and Abuolaim, Abdullah and Brown, Michael S},
					  booktitle={Color and Imaging Conference},
					  volume={2019},
					  number={1},
					  pages={1--6},
					  year={2019},
					  organization={Society for Imaging Science and Technology}
					}

NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Methods and Results
Abdelhamed A., Timofte R., Brown M. S., et al.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2019
Preprint | Bibtex

@InProceedings{Abdelhamed_2019_CVPR_Workshops,
				author = {Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Timofte, Radu and Brown, Michael S. and others},
				title = {NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Methods and Results},
				booktitle = {The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)},
				month = {June},
				year = {2019}
				}

AFIF⁴: Deep gender classification based on AdaBoost-based fusion of isolated facial features and foggy faces
Afifi M., Abdelhamed A.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), 2019
arXiv | Bibtex | Project and Dataset

@article{AFIFI201977,
					title = "AFIF4: Deep gender classification based on AdaBoost-based fusion of isolated facial features and foggy faces",
					journal = "Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation",
					volume = "62",
					pages = "77 - 86",
					year = "2019",
					issn = "1047-3203",
					doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2019.05.001",
					url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047320319301567",
					author = "Mahmoud Afifi and Abdelrahman Abdelhamed",
					keywords = "Gender classification, Deep convolutional neural networks, Face image dataset"
				}

@inproceedings{MarkWhite_2019_GI,
					author = {Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and MacKenzie, I. Scott and Brown, Michael S.},
					title = {MarkWhite: An Improved Interactive White-Balance Method for Smartphone Cameras},
					booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2019},
					series = {GI 2019},
					month = {May},
					year = {2019},
					issn = {0713-5424},
					isbn = {978-0-9947868-4-5},
					location = {Kingston, Ontario},
					pages={24:1--24:8},
					numpages = {8},
					doi = {10.20380/GI2019.24},
					publisher = {Canadian Information Processing Society},
					keywords = {Mobile user interfaces, user-interactive white balance, smartphone camera, MarkWhite}
				}

A High-Quality Denoising Dataset for Smartphone Cameras
Abdelhamed A., Lin S., Brown M. S.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
PDF | Bibtex | Project | Code

@InProceedings{SIDD_2018_CVPR,
					author = {Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Lin, Stephen and Brown, Michael S.},
					title = {A High-Quality Denoising Dataset for Smartphone Cameras},
					booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
					month = {June},
					year = {2018}
				}

Two Illuminant Estimation and User Correction Preference
Cheng D.*, Kamel A.*, Price B., Cohen S., Brown M. S. *Equal contribution
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
PDF | Bibtex | Project

@InProceedings{Cheng_2016_CVPR,
					author = {Cheng, Dongliang and Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Price, Brian and Cohen, Scott and Brown, Michael S.},
					title = {Two Illuminant Estimation and User Correction Preference},
					booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
					month = {June},
					year = {2016}
				}

Multi-Bin Search: Improved Large-Scale Content-Based Image Retrieval
Kamel A., Mahdy Y. B., Hussain K. F.
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR), 2014
PDF | Bibtex

@article{MultiBin_2014,
					title={Multi-bin search: improved large-scale content-based image retrieval},
					author={Kamel, Abdelrahman and Mahdy, Youssef B and Hussain, Khaled F},
					journal={International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval},
					volume={4},
					number={3},
					pages={205--216},
					year={2015},
					publisher={Springer}
				}

Multi-Bin Search: Improved Large-Scale Content-Based Image Retrieval
Kamel A., Mahdy Y. B., Hussain K. F.
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013 (Oral Presentation)
PDF | Bibtex

@inproceedings{MultiBin_2013_ICIP,
					title={Multi-bin search: Improved large-scale content-based image retrieval},
					author={Kamel, Abdelrahman and Mahdi, Youssef B and Hussain, Khaled F},
					booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
					pages={2597--2601},
					year={2013},
					organization={IEEE}
				}

Experience

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019
Research Intern, Apple AI/ML

Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2019
Research Intern, Borealis AI

2017 - Now
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, York University

2016 - 2017
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, National University of Singapore

2014 - 2015
Assistant Lecturer, Computer Science, Assiut University, Egypt

2009 - 2014
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Assiut University, Egypt

Awards

2018 - 2019
AdeptMind Scholarship, AdeptMind

2017 - 2019
Ontario Trillium Scholarship (OTS), York University

2017
Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship (LGES), York University

2017
York Graduate Scholarship (YGS), York University

2015 - 2016
NUS Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore