Services, Memberships and Editorships

• Program committee in many conferences such as CVPR 2007, CVPR 2009, CVPR2012, IPTA 2008, IPTA 2010 etc.
• Session chair in IPTA 2008, IPTA 2010
• Consulting on Face Recognition Technologies.
• 2010- :Area Editor for Journal of Advanced COmputing Technologies (JACOT)
• 2000- :International Program Committee member in several conferences (> 30 conferences) on computer vision (ICPR2004, ICPR 2006, ICIP2006, ECCV2006, ICCV 2007, CVPR 2007, CVPR 2010, IPTA 2010 etc.)
• 2001- :Member of Pattern Recognition Society of Finland
• 2001- :Member of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
• 2005- :Member of the organizing committee of several workshops (e.g. PSIPS2005) and session chair in many conferences (e.g. IPTA 2008, IPTA 2010)
• 2008 :External expert-Reviewer for The Research and Innovation Funding Agency (IWT) of Belgium
• 2011- :External expert-Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• 2010 :Coordinator of the first Algerian Summer School on Biometrics
• 2011 :Guest editor of the special issue on LBP for the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
• 2011- :Editorial Board Members of the International Journal of Computer Vision & Signal Processing (IJCVSP)
  2011- :Reviewer and jury member (opponent) in PhD defenses at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France (September 2011) at Eurecom institute France (December 2011).
• 2011 :Coauthoring a Springer book: Computer Vision Using Local Binary Patterns, Springer 2011
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Invited Talks and Tutorials at International Events

• Tutorial at the 4th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005, Joensuu Finland)
• Tutorial at The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006,Hong Kong, China)
• Tutorial at The international Workshops on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2008, Sousse, Tunisia)
• Tutorial at The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009, Xi’an, China)
• Tutorial at The international Workshops on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2010, Paris, France)
• Tutorial at The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, California on March 21-25, 2011
• Tutorial at 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2011), September 14-16, Ravenna, Italy
• Invited speaker at The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China (2006)
• Invited speaker at The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (2006)
• Invited speaker at The Institute of Industrial Science, University of TOKYO , JAPAN (2009)
• Invited speaker at Tokyo Institute of Technology, TOKYO , JAPAN (2009)
• Invited speaker at Nissan Research Center, TOKYO , JAPAN (2009)
• Invited Speaker at the First Algerian Summer School on Biometrics (2010)
• Invited talk at Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland (2010)

International Research Visits

• Nov-Dec 2011:Short research visit to University of Cagliari, Italy (Professor Fabio Roli). Research Topic: Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks (Status: Confirmed)
• Jun-July 2010:Short research visit to Eurecom Institute, France (Professor Dugelay Jean Luc). Research Topics: Facial Dynamics, Face Recognition under Occlusions (Status: Done)
• Jun-Aug 2009:Two-month research visit to University of Tokyo, Japan (Professor Yoichi Sato), Research Topics: Gaze Estimation, Audio-Video Synchronization Analysis and Recognition of blurred faces. (Status: Done)
• Mar-Jun 2006:Three-month research visit to the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China (Prof. Stan Z. Li). Research Topic: Face Recognition from Videos using Local Binary Patterns. (Status: Done)
  

Grants & Awards

• Awarded a NOKIA visiting professor grant for a short visit to University of California Santa Barbara (2011)
• Awarded a grant from the Graduate School in Electronics, Telecommunication and Automation, GETA (Finland) for Postgraduate studies (2001-2005).
• Awarded a research grant from NOKIA Foundation for dissertation (2004).
• Awarded a visiting researcher grant from Emil Aaltosen säätiö for post-doctoral research (2006).
• Awarded a visiting researcher grant from NOKIA Foundation for post-doctoral research (2007).
• Awarded a visiting researcher grant from NOKIA Foundation for post-doctoral research (2006).
• Awarded a research position from the Academy of Finland (2008-2010)
• Awarded a visiting researcher grant from Infotech oulu (2009).
• Awarded a visiting researcher grant from University of Oulu FINALND (2009).
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Regular reviewer for

• 2001- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• 2002- Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Journal (PR)
• 2003- Reviewer for Image and Vision Computing Journal (IVC)
• 2003- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• 2003- Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)
• 2003- Reviewer for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
• 2003- Reviewer for Machine Vision and Applications (MVA)
  2005- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• 2007- Reviewer for International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• 2010- Reviewer for Neurocomputing
• 2005- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• 2005- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC): Part A: Systems and Humans
• 2005- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Part B: Cybernetics
• 2005- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Part C: Applications and Reviews
• 2009- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• 2008- Reviewer for Pattern Analysis & Applications (PAA)
• 2004- Reviewer for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
• 2005- Reviewer for IEEE Computers
• 2007- Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
• 2007- Reviewer for Machine Vision and Applications
• 2008- Reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Letters