Ahmed Sabir

I'm a postdoctoral researcher interested in language grounding, visual semantics, and semantics similarity. I obtained my Ph.D. from the department of computer science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech in 2020, Spain, where I worked with the TALP Research Group under the supervision of Prof. Lluís Padró and Dr. Francesc Moreno Noguer (CSIC-UPC). I did my MSc at the Masuda AI lab at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Michiko Matsuda/Hiroshi Tanaka. Now, I'm a member of the TALP Research Center, and my advisor is Prof. Lluís Padró.

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I'm interested in Natural Languages Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine learning. Especially, the intersection between language, vision, and scene understanding. My current research focuses on adding visual context information to enhance image captioning without re-training.

Measuring the gender bias in image captioning systems.

COCO-based textual dataset for visual context information.

Investigating BERT+GloVe for visual grounding via textual semantic similarity for image captioning.

Visual semantic re-ranker for image caption generation

An extended version of the neural approach and comparison with BERT
and knowledge-base-embedding (sense embedding).

Textual visual dataset for text spotting

Neural approach to learn semantic relatedness between word-to-word and word-to-sentence pairs as visual re-ranker for Text Spotting problem or OCR in the wild

Word-level Natural Language Understanding based visual re-ranker for Text Spotting

Word-level Visual Semantic Re-ranker

Language and visual context based re-rankers as simple and fast post processing approach to improve scene text recognition for any pre-trained OCR model.

ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium

Developing Japanese semaphore recognition system.

手旗信号認識への Kinect 適用の検討とその評価
Ahmed Sabir, Yoshiki Ito, Yasuhiro Sudo, Hiroshi Tanaka, Michiko Matsuda
IEICE 2012 (Oral Presentation)
slide / bibtex / blog / poster

Investigation and Evaluation on Application of KINECT to Handflag Signaling Recognition in Japanese language.

Hackathon Mobility BCN
Ahmed Sabir, Jaime Sendra, José Umberto Gamboa , Juan Pedro, Carlos Valencia, 2017
Driving Experience Hardware Winner, Team Vegeta  
slides / cm / video / picture

Unix for Poets by Kenneth Ward Church

AWK cheat sheets

LaTeX for Linguists

My LaTeX Phd template

This guy make nice website 👉HERE👨‍💻