8 papers
VLM-PAR: A Vision Language Model for Pedestrian Attribute Recognition
Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Fadi Dornaika +2
Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) involves predicting fine-grained attributes such as clothing color, gender, and accessories from pedestrian imagery, yet is hindered by sever…
Integrating ConvNeXt and Vision Transformers for Enhancing Facial Age Estimation
Gaby Maroun, Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Fadi Dornaika
Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-…
C-DiffDet+: Fusing Global Scene Context with Generative Denoising for High-Fidelity Car Damage Detection
Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Ilyes Benaissa, Salah Eddine Bekhouche +3
Fine-grained object detection in challenging visual domains, such as vehicle damage assessment, presents a formidable challenge even for human experts to resolve reliably. While Di…
CVPD at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: An Efficient Encoder-Based Approach for Islamic Inheritance Reasoning
Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Hichem Telli +2
Islamic inheritance law (Ilm al-Mawarith) requires precise identification of heirs and calculation of shares, which poses a challenge for AI. In this paper, we present a lightweigh…
Beyond Linear Bottlenecks: Spline-Based Knowledge Distillation for Culturally Diverse Art Style Classification
Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Cosimo Distante +1
Art style classification remains a formidable challenge in computational aesthetics due to the scarcity of expertly labeled datasets and the intricate, often nonlinear interplay of…
Enhanced Arabic Text Retrieval with Attentive Relevance Scoring
Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Azeddine Benlamoudi, Yazid Bounab +2
Arabic poses a particular challenge for natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) due to its complex morphology, optional diacritics and the coexistence of M…