Publications

Ahmed Z. Emam, Yasser Ali and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, "Adaptive Features Extraction for Capsule Endoscopy (CE) Video Summarization”, International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Analysis applications (ICCVIA’15). (accepted)
Ouiem Bchir and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, "Generic Evaluation Metrics for Hyperspectral Data Unmixing",  The Soft Computing and Automation Journal. (accepted)
Ouiem Bchir, Hichem Frigui and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, "Fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels", Pattern Application and Analysis Journal. (under revision)
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir, "Verbal Offense Detection in Social Network Comments using Novel Fusion Approach",  AI Communications (under revision)
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir, "Endoscopy Video Summarization using Novel Relational Motion Histogram Descriptor and Semi-supervised Clustering". Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. (To appear).
Ouiem Bchir and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, "Generalized Relative Spectral Unmixing Evaluation Measure", IEEE-International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), Shanghai, July 2014.
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir, "Survey on number of endmembers estimation approaches for unmixing hyperspectral data", IEEE-International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), Shanghai, July 2014.
Mohamed Alkaoud, Ibrahim AshShohail, and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, "Automatic Image Annotation Using Fuzzy Cross-Media Relevance Models," Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 59-63,. doi: 10.12720/joig.2.1.59-63, June 2014.
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir, "Insult Detection in Social
Network Comments Using Possibilistic Based Fusion Approach", Computer
and Information Science, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol.
566, pp 15-25, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10509-3_2, , 2014.
Heelah Alraqibah, Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir，"Empirical Comparison of
Visual Descriptors for Content based X-ray Image Retrieval", International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP'14), Cherbourg, June 2014.
Heelah Alraqibah, Ouiem Bchir and Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail，"X-Ray Image Retrieval System Based on Visual Feature Discrimination", Proceeding SPIE, vol. 9159, International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP), Athens, April 2014.
Mohamed M. Ben Ismail, Ouiem Bchir, and Ahmed Z. Emam, “Endoscopy Video Summarization based on Multi-modal Descriptors and Possibilistic Unsupervised Learning and Feature Subset Weighting”. The Soft Computing and Automation Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 381-402, 2014. (DOI:10.1080/10798587.2014.890320).
M. Maher Ben Ismail and Hichem Frigui, “Unsupervised Clustering and Feature Weighting based on Generalized Dirichlet Mixture Modeling". Information Sciences. vol. 274, pp. 35-54, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.146, 2014.
Mohamed M. Ben Ismail, Ouiem Bchir, and Ahmed Z. Emam, “Endoscopy Video Summarization based on Unsupervised Learning and Feature Discrimination”, IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing. VCIP 2013. Malaysia 2013.
Ouiem Bchir, M. Maher Ben Ismail, and Hichem Frigui. “Semi-supervised fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels". International Journal on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 13500. 2013.
Sarah Alotaibi, Sahar Kasim, Ouiem Bchir and Mohamed Ben Ismail. “Empirical comparison of visual descriptors for multiple bleeding spots recognition in wireless capsule endoscopy video”. 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2013, pp. 402-407 UK. 2013.
Ouiem Bchir, Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Hichem Frigui. “Mixture Analysis based on Spectral Summarization”, 5th IEEE workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in remote Sensing. WHISPERS 2013. Florida, USA. 2013.
Ouiem Bchir, M. Maher Ben Ismail, and Hichem Frigui. “Semi-Supervised clustering and Local Scale Learning algorithm”. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ICAI 2013. Tunisia. 2013.
Ouiem Bchir, M. Maher Ben Ismail, and Hichem Frigui. “Semi-Supervised Relational Fuzzy clustering with Local Distance Measure Learning”. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ICAI 2013. Tunisia. 2013.
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail and Ouiem Bchir, “Automatic Image Annotation based on Semi-supervised Clustering and Membership based Cross Media Relevance Model”. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Vol. 26, No. 6, Dec 2012.
Ben Ismail, M. Maher; Frigui, H. “Image Database Categorization using Robust Modeling of Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture”. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 143-153, July 2012.
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail.  “Image Database Categorization based on a Novel Possibilistic Clustering and Feature Weighting Algorithm”.  International Proceedings of Computer Science & Information Technology, vol. 46, pp. 122-127, Singapore, 2012.
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail: “Possibilistic Clustering and Feature Weighting based on Robust Modeling of Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture”. 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM). Germany, 2012
Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail, “Image Annotation and Retrieval Based on Multi-Modal Feature Clustering and Similarity Propagation”. PhD thesis packaged, produced and published by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI (available online for sale). 2011.
M. Maher Ben Ismail, Hichem Frigui: “Image Database Categorization using Robust Unsupervised Learning Of Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture Models”. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2457 - 2460, 2011.   
M. Maher Ben Ismail, Hichem Frigui: “Possibilistic Clustering based on Robust Modeling of Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture”. Twentieth conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). pp. 573 - 576, ICPR 2010.
M. Maher Ben Ismail, Hichem Frigui: “Image Database Categorization using Robust Modeling of Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture” International Workshop on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Application (IPTA). pp. 334-339, 2010
M. Maher Ben Ismail, Hichem Frigui: “Image Annotation based on Constrained Clustering and Semi-naive Bayesian Model”. IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). pp. 431-436, 2009.
M. Maher Ben Ismail, Hichem Frigui, Caudill Joshua: “Empirical Comparison of automatic Image Annotation Systems”. International Workshop on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Application (IPTA), pp. 1-8, 2008.