12 papers
Semantic Motion Anchors: Bridging Motion and Meaning in Co-Speech Gestures
Varsha Suresh, Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Mohamed Salman +5
Learning a shared representation between spoken text and gesture is central to co-speech gesture retrieval, synthesis, and understanding, but remains challenging for semantically m…
Almieyar-Oryx-BloomBench: A Bilingual Multimodal Benchmark for Cognitively Informed Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Omid Ghahroodi, Anas Madkoor +4
Despite the rapid progress of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the field lacks benchmarks that rigorously diagnose their true reasoning abilities and chart meaningful progress toward…
ProtoTTA: Prototype-Guided Test-Time Adaptation
Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Parvin Mousavi, Purang Abolmaesumi +1
Deep networks that rely on prototypes-interpretable representations that can be related to the model input-have gained significant attention for balancing high accuracy with inhere…
Structure Matters: Evaluating Multi-Agents Orchestration in Generative Therapeutic Chatbots
Sina Elahimanesh, Mohammadali Mohammadkhani, Sara Zahedi Movahed +3
While large language models (LLMs) excel at open-ended dialogue, effective psychotherapy requires structured progression and adherence to clinical protocols, making the design of p…
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34
We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…
GUIDE-US: Grade-Informed Unpaired Distillation of Encoder Knowledge from Histopathology to Micro-UltraSound
Emma Willis, Tarek Elghareb, Paul F. R. Wilson +6
Purpose: Non-invasive grading of prostate cancer (PCa) from micro-ultrasound (micro-US) could expedite triage and guide biopsies toward the most aggressive regions, yet current mod…