1. Book chapters
1. Motaz El Saban and Ayman Kaheel, “Panoramic video construction from mobile video
streams” in Mobile and Cloud Visual Media Computing, Springer (under preparation).
Refereed Publications and Manuscripts
1. Abbubakrelsedik Karali, Ahmad Bassiouny and Motaz El Saban, “Facial Expression
Recognition in the Wild Using Rich Deep Features”, ICIP 2015 (selected as one of the
top 10% papers in ICIP 2015).
2. Amr Sharaf, Mohammad Hussein, Marwan Torki and Motaz EL Saban, “Real-time Multi-
scale Action Detection From 3D Features”, WACV 2015.
3. Ahmed Bassiouny and Motaz El-Saban, “Semantic segmentation as image representation
for scene recognition”, ICIP 2014.
4. Krishnan Ramnath, Simon Baker, Anitha Kannan, Lucy Vanderwende, Michel Galley, Yi
Yang, Deva Ramanan, Motaz El-Saban, Noran Hasan, Lorenzo Torresani, Sudipta Sinha,
“Auto Caption”, WACV 2014.
5. Mostafa Izz, Alaa Abd El Hakeem and Motaz El-Saban, “Graph-Based Superpixel
Labeling for Enhancement of Online Video Segmentation”, ICIIP 2013.
6. Mohammad Gowayyed, Marwan Torki, Mohamed Hussein, Motaz El-Saban, “Histogram
of Oriented Displacements (HOD): Describing Trajectories of Human Joints for Action
Recognition”, IJCAI 2013.
7. Mohamed Hussein, Marwan Torki, Mohammad Gowayyed, Motaz El-Saban, “Human
Action Recognition Using a Temporal Hierarchy of Covariance Descriptors on 3D Joint
Locations”, IJCAI 2013
8. Osama Khalil, Mohammad Fathy, Dina Khalil, Motaz El Saban, Pushmeet kohli and Jamie
Shotton, “Synthetic Training in Object Detection”, ICIP 2013.
9. Noran Hasan, Ahmad Fathy, Tamer Deif, Ramy Shahin and Motaz El Saban, “Using Skin
Segmentation to Improve Similar Product Recommendations in Online Clothing Stores”,
VISAPP 2013.
10. Noureldin Laban, Motaz ElSaban, Ayman Nasr and Hoda Onsi, “Spatial cloud detection
and retrieval system for satellite images”, International Journal of Advanced Computer
Science and Applications (IJACSA), December 2012.
11. Ayman Kaheel, Motaz El-Saban, Mostafa Izz and Mahmoud Refaat, “Employing 3D
Accelerometer Information for Fast and Reliable Image Features Matching on mobile
devices”, ICME 2012 workshop on hot topics in mobile multimedia.
12. Alaa Abd El Hakeem and Motaz El-Saban and, “FRPCA: Fast Robust Principal
Component Analysis”, ICPR 2012.
13. Meena Abd El Meseeh, Islam Badr El Deen, Mohammad Abd El Kader and Motaz El-
Saban, “Combining global and local information for within-category object class
recognition”, ICPR 2012.
14. NourElDin Laban, Motaz ElSaban, Ayman Nasr and Hoda Onsi, “System Refinement for
Content Based Satellite Image Retrieval”, The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and
Space Sciences, 2012.

2. 15. Alaa Abd El Hakeem and Motaz El-Saban, “Distortion Impact on Low-Dimensional
Manifold Recovery of High-Dimensional Data”, Taibah University International
Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT 2012).
16. Alaa Abd El Hakeem and Motaz El-Saban, “Face Authentication Using Graph-Based Low-
Rank Representation of Face Components”, ICCV 2011 workshop on Mobile Vision.
17. Mahmoud Refaat , M. El-Saban and Ayman Kaheel, “Active Feedback for Enhancing the
Construction of Panoramic Live Mobile Video Streams”, ICME 2011, full paper.
18. Motaz El-Saban, Xin-Jing Wang, Noran Hasan, Mahmoud Bassiouny and Mahmoud
Refaat, “Seamless annotation and enrichment of mobile captured video streams in real-
time”, ICME 2011 application/industrial short paper.
19. Mostafa S. Ibrahim, Motaz El Saban, "Higher order potentials with superpixel
neighbourhood (HSN) for semantic image segmentation", ICIP 2011.
20. Motaz El-Saban, Mostafa Izz, Ayman Kaheel and Mahmoud Refaat, "Improved optimal
seam selection blending for fast video stitching of videos captured from freely moving
devices", ICIP 2011.
21. Mohammad Nael, Moataz Abd El Wahab, Motaz El-Saban and Mikhail Wasfy, “Highly
Efficient Human Action Recognition using compact 2DPCA-based descriptors in the
Spatial and Transform domains”, invited paper at the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and
Systems (MWSCAS) 2011, special session.
22. Mohammad Nael, Moataz Abd El Wahab and Motaz El-Saban, “Multi-view Human Action
Recognition System Employing 2DPCA”, WACV 2011.
23. Mahmoud Bassiouny and Motaz El-Saban, “Object Matching Using Feature Aggregation
Over a Frame Sequence”, WACV 2011.
24. Motaz El-Saban, Mostafa Izz and Ayman Kaheel , “Fast stitching of videos captured from
freely moving devices by exploiting temporal redundancy”, ICIP 2010.
25. Mohammad El Deeb and Motaz El-Saban, “Human age estimation using enhanced bio-
inspired features (EBIF)”, ICIP 2010.
26. A. Kaheel, M. El-Saban, M. Refaat and M. Izz, “Mobicast: A System for Collaborative
Event Casting Using Mobile Phones”, ACM-MUM 09.
27. M. El-Saban, M. Refaat, A. Kaheel and A. Abd El-Hameed, “Stitching videos streamed by
mobile phones in real-time“, ACM-MM 09 (technical demonstration)
28. M. Eldib, B. Abou Zaid, H. Zawbaa, M. El-Zahar, M. El-Saban, “Soccer video
summarization using enhanced logo detection', ICIP 2009.
29. Waleed Magdy, Kareem Darwish and Motaz El-Saban, “Efficient Language-Independent
Retrieval of Printed Documents without OCR”, in SPIRE 2009.
30. Nayer Wanas, Motaz El-Saban, Heba Ashour, Waleed Ammar, "Automatic Scoring of
Online Discussion Posts", CIKM Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web
(WICOW 2008)
31. M. El-Saban et al. Automated tracking and modelling of microtubule dynamics,
International Symposium of biomedical imaging, IEEE International Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 06.
32. B. S. Manjunath, B. Sumengen, Z. Bi, J. Byun, M. El-Saban, D. Fedorov, N. Vu, Towards
Automated Bioimage Analysis: from features to semantics, IEEE International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), invited paper.

3. 33. A. Altinok, M. E-Saban et al. Activity Recognition in Microtubule Videos by Mixture of
Hidden Markov Models, Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
34. S. Bhagavaty and M. A. El Saban. SketchIt: Basketball Video Retrieval Using Ball Motion
Similarity, in Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004: 5th Pacific
Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan.
35. M. A. El Saban and B. S. Manjunath. Interactive Segmentation Using Curve Evolution and
Relevance Feedback. ICIP 2004
36. M. A. El Saban and B. S. Manjunath. Video Region Segmentation by Spatio-temporal
watersheds. ICIP 2003.
37. M. A. El Saban, S. Abd El-Azeem and M. Rashwan. A new video coding scheme based on
the H.263 standard and entropy constrained vector quantization. Faculty of engineering
journal, Nov. 2000.
38. M. A. El Saban, S. Abd El-Azeem and M. Rashwan. A new video coding scheme based on
the H.263 standard and entropy constrained vector quantization. ICII 2000, Kuwait, Nov.
2000.
Non-refereed Publications and Articles
1. Motaz El-Saban, Xin-Jing Wang and Lei Zhang, “Seamless annotation and enrichment of
mobile captured video streams in real-time”, Microsoft ThinkWeek 2010.
2. Kareem Darwish, Ahmed EL-Shimi, Ahmad Abd El-Hamid, Heba Ashour and Motaz El-
Saban, Exploiting English Resources to Enhance Bing’s International Search Experience,
Microsoft ThinkWeek paper 2009.
3. Nayer Wanas, Heba Ashour, Motaz El-Saban, Waleed Ammar, Mostafa El Baradei,
Ahmed Morsy, Mining Online Discussion Forum Content, Microsoft ThinkWeek paper
2009.
4. Kareem Darwish, Ahmed El-Shimi, Ahmad Abd El-Hamid, Heba Ashour and Motaz El-
Saban, Arabic Language searching on the Web, ThinkWeek paper 2007
5. M. A. El Saban and B. S. Manjunath, “Spatiotemporal contour tracking of microtubules”,
Technical Report, VRL, ECE, UCSB, June 2005.
6. M. A. El Saban and B. S. Manjunath, “Tracking curvilinear structures using active contours
and application to microtubule videos”, Technical Report, VRL, ECE, UCSB, June 2005.
7. M. El-Saban, “Why I enjoy hosting summer interns?”, CMIC newsletter, Issue 4, last
retrieved Nov 30, 2010.
8. M. El-Saban, “Increasing Multimedia Arabic Content”, CMIC Website, last retrieved Nov
30, 2010.
Research Grants
1. Co-Principal investigator for a two-year research grant with Nile university on human
activity recognition in RGB videos.
2. Co-principal investigator for a one-year research grant with Virginia Tech MENA on
gesture recognition from RGB + depth videos

4. Professional Activities and Services
 Reviewer for INFOS 2014
 PC member for NLP track of the 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer
Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2014)
 Reviewer for the international conference in computer vision (ICCV 2013)
 Reviewer for the Multimedia systems journal
 Board member of a Microsoft research wide committee on issues in patent detectability
 Reviewer for the Microsoft Research Award in the “Multimedia, Graphics, and Computer
Vision” track 2013.
 Session chair in ICPR 2012
 Reviewer for TIEC (Technology Innovation and entrepreneurship center) proposals for
startups in Egypt.
 Review for 2012 IBTIECAR graduation projects competition in Egypt.
 Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM-TIST).
 Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM-TOIS).
 TPC member for EMC 2010 (International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia
Computing )
 TPC member for ICPR 2010
 Reviewer for the international journal of computer vision 2010
 Session chair at ICIP 2009
 Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and
Applications (TOMCCAP)
 Reviewer for IEEE international conference on image processing (ICIP) 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012 and 2014
 Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and systems for video technology (CSVT)
 Reviewer for Elsevier Image and Vision Computing journal
 Reviewer for The Egyptian Informatics Journal
 Served on the program committee for INFOS 2008 (Cairo, Egypt) for “Computational
Intelligence in Multimedia Computing” track.
 External examiner for graduation projects in American University in Cairo (AUC) 2010.
 Board member for MSc thesis in Nile University, Egypt (Aug 2010)
 IEEE/ACM member