Profile Yousri Kessentini

First Name
Yousri

Last Name
Kessentini

Address
Technopole of Sfax, PO Box 275, Sakiet Ezzit, 3021 Sfax - Tunisia

Zip code
3038

Biography
Yousri KESSENTINI is Associate Professor at the Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS) and the head of the DeepVision research team. He received his Ph.D. degree in the field of pattern recognition from the University of Rouen, France in 2009. He was postdoctoral researcher at ITESOFT company and LITIS laboratory from 2011 to 2013. He is certified as an official instructor and ambassador from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. His main research areas concern deep learning, document processing and recognition, data fusion, and computer vision. He has participated in several research projects and technology transfer projects. He has published more than 60 papers in international conferences and journals. He is also a reviewer for several international conferences and journals in the field of pattern recognition and computer vision.
Scientific publications
Title Cited by Year
ST-KeyS: Self-supervised transformer for keyword spotting in historical handwritten documents
SK Jemni, S Ammar, MA Souibgui, Y Kessentini, A Cheddad
Pattern Recognition 170, 112036, 2026

7 2026
Information extraction from multi-layout invoice images using FATURA dataset
M Limam, M Dhiaf, Y Kessentini
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 149, 110478, 2025

2 2025
ST-WID: Self-supervised transformer for writer identification in arabic handwritten scripts: I. Fatnassi et al.
I Fatnassi, S Khamekhem Jemni, S Ammar, Y Kessentini
Signal, Image and Video Processing 19 (14), 1190, 2025

0 2025
UCL-MHTR: A Unified Continual Learning System for Multilingual Handwritten Text Recognition
M Dhiaf, MA Souibgui, Y Kessentini, A Fornés, AC Rouhou
Expert Systems with Applications, 128741, 2025

0 2025
STF-Trans: A two-stream spatiotemporal fusion transformer for very high resolution satellites images
T Benzenati, A Kallel, Y Kessentini
Neurocomputing 563, 126868, 2024

14 2024