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
Keyword spotting in handwritten documents based on a generic text line HMM and a SVM verification
Y Kessentini, T Paquet
2015 13th international conference on document analysis and recognition …, 2015

7 2015
Word Spotting and Regular Expression Detection in Handwritten Documents
Y Kessentini, C Chatelain, T Paquet
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013 12th International …, 2013

17 2013
Multi-stream Markov models for Arabic handwriting recognition
Y Kessentini, T Paquet, AM Ben Hamadou
Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts, 335-350, 2012

4 2012
Dempster-Shafer based rejection strategy for handwritten word recognition
T Burger, Y Kessentini, T Paquet
2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 528-532, 2011

15 2011
Evidential combination of SVM road obstacle classifiers in visible and far infrared images
B Besbes, S Ammar, Y Kessentini, A Rogozan, A Bensrhair
2011 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 1074-1079, 2011

14 2011