About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Kuwait University. My research interests lie in computer vision, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, particularly at the intersection of computer vision and generative AI, with a focus on controllable visual synthesis.
You can find my CV here.
Education
| August 2018 - May 2023 | Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Virgina Tech |
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| August 2016 - May 2018 | Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Virgina Tech |
| September 2010 - July 2014 | Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Kuwait University |
Research
 | Illusion3D: 3D Multiview Illusion with 2D Diffusion Priors Yue Feng, Vaibhav Sanjay, Spencer Lutz, Badour AlBahar, Songwei Ge, and Jia-Bin Huang Preprint, 2024 project page | paper |
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 | Single-Image 3D Human Digitization with Shape-Guided Diffusion Badour AlBahar, Shunsuke Saito, Hung-Yu Tseng, Changil Kim, Johannes Kopf, and Jia-Bin Huang SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 project page | paper | code (coming soon) |
 | Text-driven Visual Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Prior Ting-Hsuan Liao, Songwei Ge, Yiran Xu, Yao-Chih Lee, Badour AlBahar, and Jia-Bin Huang Preprint, 2023 project page | paper |
 | Temporally Consistent Semantic Video Editing Yiran Xu, Badour AlBahar, and Jia-Bin Huang ECCV 2022 project page | paper | code |
 | Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGAN Badour AlBahar, Jingwan Lu, Jimei Yang, Zhixin Shu, Eli Shechtman, and Jia-Bin Huang ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021 project page | paper | code |
 | Guided Image-to-Image Translation with Bi-Directional Feature Transformation Badour AlBahar and Jia-Bin Huang ICCV 2019 project page | paper | code | poster |
News
| June 2023 | I joined Kuwait University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering |
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| March 2022 | Invited speaker at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Dhahran workshop, hosted at KFUPM, talk titled "Pose with Style" |
| Spring 2022 | Gave an invited guest lecture, "Controllable Visual Synthesis," for CS4664 / Data-Centric Computing Capstone at Virginia Tech (instructor: Mohannad Elhamod) |
| Jan-May 2022 | I joined Meta as a research intern working with Shunsuke Saito, Hung-Yu Tseng, Changil Kim, Xuejian Rong, Ayush Saraf, Johannes Kopf, and Jia-Bin Huang |
| Summer 2021 | I joined Adobe Research as a research intern working with Jimei Yang, Cynthia Lu, Yang Zhou, Zhixin Shu, and Eli Shechtman |
| September 2019 | Featured in DAC Student Spotlight |
| August 2016 | Received a scholarship from Kuwait University to pursue my masters and Ph.D. at Virginia Tech |