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We are honored to organize the first shared task (StanceEval2024) on Arabic Stance Detection as part of the ArabicNLP conference co-located with ACL 2024.

Projects

• [2024-2025] “Instruction tuning for large language models and the role of machine translation.” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. (Co-Investigator)
• [2024-2025] “Arabic Text Style Transfer.” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. Project Number JRC-AI-UCG-05. (SAR 211K, $56K). (Co-Investigator)
• [2023-2024] “Continuous Saudi Sign Language Dataset Development.” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. Project Number JRC-AI-UCG-02. (SAR 328K, $87.5K) (Principle Investigator)
• [2023-2024] “Continuous Saudi Sign Language Recognition and Translation.” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. Project Number JRC-AI-RFP-14. (SAR 180K, $48K) (Principle Investigator)
• [2022-2023] “Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Learning.” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. Project Number JRC-AI-RFP-05. (SAR 180K, $48K) (Principle Investigator)
• [2022-2023] “Showcase/MVP of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).” Funded by the SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for AI. Project Number JRC-AI-UCG-01. (SAR 328K, $87.5K) (Principle Investigator)
• [2022-2023] “Automated Detection of Diabetic Changes in Fundus Photographs of Saudi Patients.” Funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Secure Systems (IRC-ISS). Project Number INSS2205. (SAR 111.3K, $30K) (Co-Investigator)
• [2020-2021] “Improved Approach for Arabic Sign Language Visual Recognition Using Hand and Facial Gestures with Deep Learning.” Funded by KFUPM. Project Number RS191014. (SAR 82.5K, $22K) (Principle Investigator)
• [2016-2018] “Recognition of Arabic Sign Language and Two-Way Translation between Arabic Text and Arabic Sign language using Natural Language Processing.” Funded by KFUPM. (SAR 184.8K, $49K) (PhD Student)
• [2015-2016] “Arabic Spell Checking and Correction.” Funded by KACST. (SAR 802,1K, $ 214K) (PhD Student)
• [2014-2015] “Automatic Online Arabic Text Recognition (AOATR).” Funded by KACST. (SAR 852,1K, $227.3K) (PhD Student)
• [2011-2013] “Arabic Document Analysis and Font Identification (ADAFI).” Funded by KACST. (SAR 495,4K, $132.1K) (Master Student)

Patents

• Sadam Al-Azani, Hamzah Luqman, et al. "Real-time monitoring system for personal protective equipment compliance at worksites." U.S. Patent (Filed). Docket Number: 550659US, 2024.
• Hamzah Luqman, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Galal M. Binmakhashen. "Methods and systems for computerized recognition of hand gestures". U.S. Patent No. 11227151, 2022. Link
• Hamzah Luqman and Sabri Mohammed. "Methods, computer readable media, and systems for machine translation between Arabic and Arabic sign language". U.S. Patent No. 11216617, 2022. Link
• Hamzah Luqman and Sabri Mohammed. "Method and apparatus for Arabic and Farsi font recognition". U.S. Patent No. US9014481 B1. 21 Apr. 2015. Link

Publications

• [2024] Sarah Alyami, Hamzah Luqman, Mohammad Hammoudeh. “Reviewing 25 years of continuous sign language recognition research: Advances, challenges, and prospects.” Information Processing & Management. (2024). ()
• [2024] Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Hamzah Luqman, Raed Katib, Saeed Anwar. “FSBI: Deepfakes Detection with Frequency Enhanced Self-Blended Images.” arXiv preprint. (2024). ()
• [2024] Nora Alturayeif, Hamzah Luqman, and Moataz Ahmed. “Enhancing Stance Detection through Sequential Weighted Multi-Task Learning.” Social Network Analysis and Mining, (2024). ()
• [2024] Ziyad Alswaidan, Motaz Alfarraj, Hamzah Luqman. “Geology-constrained dynamic graph convolutional networks for seismic facies classification.” Computers & Geosciences. (2024). ()
• [2024] Sarah Alyami and Hamzah Luqman. “A Comparative Study of Continuous Sign Language Recognition Techniques.” Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. (2024). ()
• [2024] Maged S Al-Shaibani, Hamzah Luqman, S Abdulaziz S Al-Ghofaily, Abdullatif A Al-Najim. “WASM: A Dataset for Hashtag Recommendation for Arabic Tweets.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. (2024). ()
• [2024] Asma Yamani, Albandari Alyami, Hamzah Luqman, Silvio Giancola, and Bernard Ghanem,. “Active Learning for Single-Stage Object Detection in UAV Images with Uncertainty Aggregation.” IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). (2024). ()
• [2023] Rawwad Alhejaili, Motaz Alfarraj, Hamzah Luqman, and Ali Al-Shaikhi. “Recursions Are All You Need: Towards Efficient Deep Unfolding Networks.” The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). (2023). ()
• [2023] Alyafeai, Zaid, Maged S. Alshaibani, Badr AlKhamissi, Hamzah Luqman, Ebrahim Alareqi, and Ali Fadel. "Taqyim: Evaluating Arabic NLP Tasks Using ChatGPT Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16322 (2023). ()
• [2023] Hussein Samma, Sadam Al-Azani, Hamzah Luqman, and Motaz Alfarraj. “Contrastive-based YOLOv7 for Personal Protective Equipment Detection.” Neural Computing and Applications, (2023). ()
• [2023] Almattar, Wadha, Hamzah Luqman, and Fakhri Alam Khan. "Diabetic retinopathy grading review: Current techniques and future directions." Image and Vision Computing. (2023). ()
• [2023] Sarah Alyami, Hamzah Luqmanand Mohammad Hammoudeh. "Isolated Arabic Sign Language Recognition Using A Transformer-based Model and Landmark Keypoints." ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. (2023) ()
• [2023] Nora Alturayeif, Hamzah Luqmanand Moataz Ahmed. "A systematic review of machine learning techniques for stance detection and its applications." Neural Comput & Applic 35, 5113–5144 (2023) ()
• [2023] Hamzah Luqman. "ArabSign: A Multi-modality Dataset and Benchmark for Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition." Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2023) (2023) (, Code&Data)
• [2022] Nora Alturayeif, Hamzah Luqmanand Moataz Ahmed. "MAWQIF: A Multi-label Arabic Dataset for Target-specific Stance Detection." Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP) (2022) (, Code&Data)
• [2022] Hamzah Luqman "An Efficient Two-Stream Network for Isolated Sign Language Recognition Using Accumulative Video Motion." IEEE Access (2022) [IF: 3.476] (, Code)
• [2022] El-Sayed M. El-Alfy and Hamzah Luqman "A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy of Sign Language Research." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2022) [IF: 6.21] ()
• [2022] Mohammed R. Al-Sinan, Aseel F. Haneef, and Hamzah Luqman "Ensemble Learning using Transformers and Convolutional Networks for Masked Face Recognition." 16th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (2022)
• [2022] Hamzah Luqman and El-Sayed M. El-Alfy. Utilizing Motion and Spatial Features for Sign Language Gesture Recognition Using Cascaded CNN and LSTM Models. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (2022) (Accepted) [IF: 0.806]
• [2021] Nora Alturayeif and Hamzah Luqman Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis of Arabic COVID-19 Tweets Using BERT-Based Transformers and Dynamically Weighted Loss Function- Applied Sciences, 2021 [IF: 2.6]
• [2021] Hamzah Luqman and El-Sayed M. El-Alfy. "Towards Hybrid Multimodal Manual and Non-Manual Arabic Sign Language Recognition: mArSL Database and Pilot Study." Electronics 10.14 (2021): 1739. [IF: 2.39]
• [2021] Hamzah Luqman and Mohammed O. Assayony. "Using bag-of-features for arabic font recognition." 3rd Smart Cities Symposium (2021): 628-632.
• [2021] Sidig, Ala Addin I., Hamzah Luqman, Sabri Mahmoud, and Mohamed Mohandes. "KArSL: Arabic Sign Language Database." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) 20, no. 1 (2021): 1-19. [IF: 1.413] (Data)
• [2020] Hamzah Luqman and M. O. Assayony. "Using bag-of-features for arabic font recognition." Proceeding of the 3rd IET International Smart Cities Symposium, (2020): 628-632.
• [2020] Hamzah Luqman, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, and Galal M. BinMakhashen. "Joint space representation and recognition of sign language fingerspelling using Gabor filter and convolutional neural network." Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020): 1-22. [IF: 2.75]
• [2020] Nurnoby, M. Faisal, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, and Hamzah Luqman. "Evaluation of CNN Models with Transfer Learning for Recognition of Sign Language Alphabets with Complex Background." 2020 International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies (3ICT). IEEE, 2020.
• [2019] Hamzah Luqman, and Sabri A. Mahmoud. "A machine translation system from Arabic sign language to Arabic." Universal Access in the Information Society (2019): 1-14. [IF: 3.078]
• [2019] Sidig, Ala Addin I., Hamzah Luqman, and Sabri A. Mahmoud. "Arabic sign language recognition using vision and hand tracking features with HMM." International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 18, no. 5 (2019): 430-447.
• [2019] Luqman, Hamzah, and Sabri A. Mahmoud. "Automatic translation of Arabic text-to-Arabic sign language." Universal Access in the Information Society 18, no. 4 (2019): 939-951. [IF: 3.078]
• [2019] BinMakhashen, Galal M., Hamzah Luqman, and M. Ahmed. "Evaluation of Bayesian Classifier for Salt Dome Detection using Texture analysis." (2019): 14-6.
• [2019] Makhashen, GM Bin, Hamzah A. Luqman, and E-SM El-Alfy. "Using Gabor Filter Bank with Downsampling and SVM for Visual Sign Language Alphabet Recognition." IET Conference Proceedings (2019): 15-6.
• [2018] Mahmoud, Sabri A., Hamzah Luqman, Baligh M. Al-Helali, Galal BinMakhashen, and Mohammad Tanvir Parvez. "Online-KHATT: An Open-Vocabulary Database for Arabic Online-Text Processing." The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal 12, no. 1 (2018).
• [2017] Kobilica, Armin, Hamzah Luqman, and Emad Ramadan. "Wavelets in the Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: A Review." In 2017 9th IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2017.
• [2017] Luqman, Hamzah, and Sabri A. Mahmoud. "Arabic Sign Language Recognition Using Optical Flow-Based Features and HMM." In International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology, pp. 297-305. Springer, Cham, 2017.
• [2017] Luqman, Hamzah, and Sabri A. Mahmoud. "Transform-based Arabic sign language recognition." Procedia Computer Science 117 (2017): 2-9.
• [2016] Husni Al-Muhtaseb and Hamzah Luqman. “Post-processing optimization for Arabic optical character recognition” (In Arabic). The 5th international conference on Arabic language, Dubai. (2016).
• [2015] Luqman, Hamzah, Sabri A. Mahmoud, and Sameh Awaida. "Arabic and Farsi Font Recognition: Survey." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 29.01: 1553002. (2015). [IF: 1.373]
• [2015] El-Attar, Mohamed, Hamza Luqman, Peter KARPATI, Guttorm Sindre, and Andreas Opdahl. "Extending the UML Statecharts Notation to Model Security Aspects." IEEE Transactions on on Software Engineering (Volume:41 , Issue: 7). (2015). [IF: 6.22]
• [2014] Luqman, Hamzah, Sabri A. Mahmoud, and Sameh Awaida. "KAFD Arabic font database." Pattern Recognition 47.6: 2231-2240. (2014). [IF: 7.74]
• [2013] Helmy, Tarek, Hamdi Al-Jamimi, Bashar Ahmed, and Hamzah Loqman. "Fuzzy Logic–Based Scheme for Load Balancing in Grid Services." Journal of Software Engineering and Applications 5, no. 12: 149. (2013).