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Publications (5)

cs.CV2025

Measuring Student Behavioral Engagement using Histogram of Actions

Ahmed Abdelkawy, Aly Farag, Islam Alkabbany +4

In this paper, we propose a novel technique for measuring behavioral engagement through students' actions recognition. The proposed approach recognizes student actions then predict…

cs.CV2024

Occlusion Aware Student Emotion Recognition based on Facial Action Unit Detection

Shrouk Wally, Ahmed Elsayed, Islam Alkabbany +2

Given that approximately half of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate students in U.S. colleges and universities leave by the end of the first yea…

eess.IV2023

Leveraging machine learning to enhance climate models: a review

Ahmed Elsayed, Shrouk Wally, Islam Alkabbany +2

Recent achievements in machine learning (Ml) have had a significant impact on various fields, including climate science. Climate modeling is very important and plays a crucial role…

cs.CV2026

Context Matters: Peer-Aware Student Behavioral Engagement Measurement via VLM Action Parsing and LLM Sequence Classification

Ahmed Abdelkawy, Ahmed Elsayed, Asem Ali +3

Understanding student behavior in the classroom is essential to improve both pedagogical quality and student engagement. Existing methods for predicting student engagement typicall…

cs.CV2025

EPAM-Net: An Efficient Pose-driven Attention-guided Multimodal Network for Video Action Recognition

Ahmed Abdelkawy, Asem Ali, Aly Farag

Existing multimodal-based human action recognition approaches are computationally intensive, limiting their deployment in real-time applications. In this work, we present a novel a…