Amar Ali-bey

Montréal, QC, Canada

amar.alibey#gmail.com

Machine Learning researcher with a Ph.D. from Laval University 🇨🇦. I teach machines to understand and remember locations like humans do.

I build AI models that actually work in the real world by designing better architectures and collecting high quality data to train them.

Interests

AI in Robotics: Making robots see and understand where they are.
Multi-modal Learning: Combining different types of data (images, sensors, depth) to make smarter AI.
Computer Vision Tasks: Image retrieval, object detection, segmentation, tracking, and more.
LLM: Information retrieval for better generative models.
OSS: Contributing to and leading open-source initiatives.

Selected publications

BoQ: A Place is Worth a Bag of Learnable Queries

Amar Ali-bey, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Philippe Giguère

In CVPR, 2024

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{Ali-bey_2024_CVPR,
  author = {Ali-bey, Amar and Chaib-draa, Brahim and Gigu\`ere, Philippe},
  title = {{BoQ}: A Place is Worth a Bag of Learnable Queries},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  year = {2024},
}

MixVPR: Feature Mixing for Visual Place Recognition

Amar Ali-bey, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Philippe Giguère

In WACV, 2023

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{ali2023mixvpr,
  title = {{MixVPR}: Feature Mixing for Visual Place Recognition},
  author = {Ali-bey, Amar and Chaib-draa, Brahim and Gigu{\`e}re, Philippe},
  booktitle = {WACV},
  pages = {2998--3007},
  year = {2023},
}

GSV-Cities: Toward Appropriate Supervised Visual Place Recognition

Amar Ali-bey, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Philippe Giguère

Neurocomputing, 2022

arXiv Bib Code

@article{ali2022gsv,
  title = {{GSV-Cities}: Toward Appropriate Supervised Visual Place Recognition},
  author = {Ali-bey, Amar and Chaib-draa, Brahim and Gigu{\`e}re, Philippe},
  journal = {Neurocomputing},
  volume = {513},
  pages = {194--203},
  year = {2022},
}

Global Proxy-based Hard Mining for Visual Place Recognition

Amar Ali-Bey, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Philippe Giguere

In BMVC, 2022

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{Ali-Bey_2022_BMVC,
  author = {Ali-Bey, Amar and Chaib-draa, Brahim and Giguere, Philippe},
  title = {Global Proxy-based Hard Mining for Visual Place Recognition},
  booktitle = {BMVC},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0958.pdf},
}