Education

• February 2008: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA.
• 2003: Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt.
• 1998: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt .

Research Projects

"3D Modeling for the Human Jaw": This research aims to design a model-based vision system for dentistry that will replace traditional approaches used in diagnosis and treatment planning.

"Three-dimensional face recognition": This research aims to design the hardware + the computer vision algorithms to build a smart system that uses the 3D face information for human recognition.

Publications

• Abdelrehim Ahmed, Aly Farag and Thomas Starr, "A New Symmetric Shape from Shading Algorithm with an Application to 3-D Face Reconstruction," submitted to ICIP'08.

• Abdelrehim Ahmed and Aly Farag, "A New Statistical Model Combining Shape and Spherical Harmonics Illumination for Face Reconstruction," the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC '07), Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California November 26-28, 2007.

• Abdelrehim Ahmed and Aly Farag, "Shape From Shading for Hybrid Surfaces," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'07), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 16-19, 2007.

• Abdelrehim Ahmed and Aly Farag, "Shape from Shading Under Various Imaging Conditions," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 18-23, 2007.
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• Abdelrehim Ahmed and Aly Farag, "A New Formulation for Shape from Shading for Non-Lambertian Surfaces," Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06), New York, NY, USA June 17-22, 2006.
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• Refaat Mohamed, Abdelrehim Ahmed, Ahmed Eid and Aly Farag, “Support Vector Machines for Camera Calibration Problem,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'06), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 8-11, 2006.
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Teaching Experience

2007: assisted in teaching the ECE 619/645 Computer Vision & lab class for the graduate students in ECE Dep. - University of Louisville.

1999-2003: Teaching Assistant in Electrical Eng. Dep., Assiut University, Egypt.
I assisted in teaching the following classes for the undergraduate students:Introduction to Programming- Logic Design - Computer Organization, Computer Architecture - Microprocessor Design - Computer Networks - Numerical Analysis – Electrical Circuits – Verilog programming

C++ code

I am developing  a C++ Library for image processing and computer vision algorithms. Parts of this library will be available for downloading.