Fayez Lahoud

PhD student, Computer Science

I am currently a PhD student in the IVRL group of EPFL, headed by Professor Sabine Süsstrunk. I obtained my Masters degree in Computer Science at EPFL doing my thesis in this same lab.

I have previously worked at Sony Europe Ltd, where I researched the use of convolutional neural network for speech recognition. I have also worked as an intern at Vidinoti SA where I developed a javascript AR tracking library.

My research interests are in Computer Vision and Graphics, specifically to apply machine learning for image processing tasks.

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Electronic Imaging 2019

Jan 2019

I will be giving two presentations about super resolution in Computational Imaging XVII and virtual reality in The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2019 at EI 2019 in California.

26th Color and Imaging Conference

Nov 2018

I will give a presentation about image re-coloring in the deep learning and color workshop at CIC 26 in Vancouver.

Won PIRM 2018 Challenge on Spectral Image Super-Resolution

Sep 2018

I won the challenge with IVRL members R. Zhou and S. Süsstrunk.
I will be giving a spotlight presentation at PIRM 2018 in Munich about our solution.

PhD., Computer Science - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mar 2018 - Present

M.S., Computer Science - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Sep 2015 - Feb 2018

B.E., Computer and Communication Engineering - American University of Beirut

Sep 2009 - Jul 2013

Minor in Mathematics
7 x Dean's Honor List

Software Developer Intern - Sony Europe Limited

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017

Audio speech recognition using VGG networks
Neural network development using Sony's NNAbla
Tools for NNabla such as network graph drawing and activation visualization

Technologies: C/C++, Cython, Python, NNabla, Open Grid Engine

Software Developer Intern - Vidinoti SA

Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

Browser-based augmented reality library for mobile browsers
Image recognition and tracking using AGAST corner detection and BRIEF descriptors
NPM module for easy calculation of BRIEF descriptors

Technologies: JavaScript, RequireJS, NPM, Gulp, Python, Image processing

Software Developer - Murex Systems

Jul 2012 - Sep 2015

Java Swing manipulation API for test developers
Web templates for test reports and automated tools
Java-JavaScript bindings API in JavaFx Web Engine

Technologies: JavaFx, Groovy, Maven, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails

F. Lahoud and S. Süsstrunk, “AR in VR: Simulating Infrared Augmented Vision,” in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018.

BibTeX
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2018.8451811

@inproceedings{lahoud2018arinvr,
  title = {AR in VR: Simulating Infrared Augmented Vision},
  author = {Lahoud, Fayez and S{\"u}sstrunk, Sabine},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2018.8451811}
}

F. Lahoud, R. Zhou, and S. Süsstrunk, “Multi-Modal Spectral Image Super-Resolution,” in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2018.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lahoud2018multi,
  title = {Multi-Modal Spectral Image Super-Resolution},
  author = {Lahoud, Fayez and Zhou, Ruofan and S{\"u}sstrunk, Sabine},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops},
  year = {2018}
}

F. Lahoud, M. S. Ortiz Segovia, B. Jin, and S. Süsstrunk, “Keyword-Based image color re-rendering with semantic segmentation,” in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017.

BibTeX
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2017.8296820

@inproceedings{lahoud2017keyword,
  title = {Keyword-Based image color re-rendering with semantic segmentation},
  author = {Lahoud, Fayez and Ortiz Segovia, Maria S and Jin, Bin and S{\"u}sstrunk, Sabine},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2017.8296820}
}

C. M. Boukhater, O. Dakroub, F. Lahoud, M. Awad, and H. Artail, “An intelligent and fair GA carpooling scheduler as a social solution for greener transportation,” in Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2014 17th IEEE, 2014, pp. 182–186.

BibTeX
DOI: 10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820528

@inproceedings{boukhater2014intelligent,
  title = {An intelligent and fair GA carpooling scheduler as a social solution for greener transportation},
  author = {Boukhater, Carl Michael and Dakroub, Oussama and Lahoud, Fayez and Awad, Mariette and Artail, Hassan},
  booktitle = {Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2014 17th IEEE},
  pages = {182--186},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820528}
}

O. Dakroub, C. M. Boukhater, F. Lahoud, M. Awad, and H. Artail, “An intelligent carpooling app for a green social solution to traffic and parking congestions,” in Intelligent Transportation Systems-(ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference on, 2013, pp. 2401–2408.

BibTeX
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2013.6728586

@inproceedings{dakroub2013intelligent,
  title = {An intelligent carpooling app for a green social solution to traffic and parking congestions},
  author = {Dakroub, Oussama and Boukhater, Carl Michael and Lahoud, Fayez and Awad, Mariette and Artail, Hassan},
  booktitle = {Intelligent Transportation Systems-(ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference on},
  pages = {2401--2408},
  year = {2013},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ITSC.2013.6728586}
}

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