Yousri Kessentini

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 815 citations indexed

About

Yousri Kessentini is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yousri Kessentini has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 815 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Yousri Kessentini's work include Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (28 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (14 papers) and Text and Document Classification Technologies (10 papers). Yousri Kessentini is often cited by papers focused on Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (28 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (14 papers) and Text and Document Classification Technologies (10 papers). Yousri Kessentini collaborates with scholars based in Tunisia, France and Algeria. Yousri Kessentini's co-authors include Sourour Ammar, Thierry Paquet, I. Féki, Khan Muhammad, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, Abdelaziz Kallel, Alícia Fornés, Slim Kanoun, Thomas Bürger and Josep Lladós and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Yousri Kessentini

37 papers receiving 781 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Federated learning for COVID-19 screening from Chest X-ray images
    2021 177 citations I. Féki, Sourour Ammar et al. Applied Soft Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yousri Kessentini Tunisia 15 530 311 233 94 43 42 815
Zi-Rui Wang China 11 294 0.6× 374 1.2× 73 0.3× 49 0.5× 12 0.3× 23 661
Mohammad Faidzul Nasrudin Malaysia 12 244 0.5× 133 0.4× 61 0.3× 28 0.3× 12 0.3× 60 426
Laurent Wendling France 17 566 1.1× 158 0.5× 74 0.3× 40 0.4× 9 0.2× 67 862
Sheng Ren China 12 303 0.6× 148 0.5× 148 0.6× 49 0.5× 7 0.2× 32 521
Zhao-Min Chen China 5 578 1.1× 587 1.9× 64 0.3× 66 0.7× 4 0.1× 7 948
Inzamam Mashood Nasir Pakistan 14 183 0.3× 177 0.6× 35 0.2× 100 1.1× 13 0.3× 28 489
Xiaosheng Yu China 13 376 0.7× 153 0.5× 43 0.2× 204 2.2× 9 0.2× 99 653
Xiaokai Yi China 8 363 0.7× 201 0.6× 39 0.2× 30 0.3× 11 0.3× 11 662
Xin Feng China 11 344 0.6× 78 0.3× 62 0.3× 22 0.2× 7 0.2× 51 527
Amit Choudhary India 8 291 0.5× 123 0.4× 156 0.7× 55 0.6× 2 0.0× 24 494

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yousri Kessentini

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All Works

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Ammar, Sourour, et al.. (2025). ST-KeyS: Self-supervised Transformer for Keyword Spotting in historical handwritten documents. Pattern Recognition. 170. 112036–112036.
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2025). UCL-MHTR: A unified continual learning system for multilingual handwritten text recognition. Expert Systems with Applications. 294. 128741–128741.
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2025). Information extraction from multi-layout invoice images using FATURA dataset. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 149. 110478–110478.
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2023). MSdocTr-Lite: A lite transformer for full page multi-script handwriting recognition. Pattern Recognition Letters. 169. 28–34. 8 indexed citations
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Biswas, Sanket, Ali Furkan Biten, Alícia Fornés, et al.. (2023). Text-DIAE: A Self-Supervised Degradation Invariant Autoencoder for Text Recognition and Document Enhancement. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(2). 2330–2338. 15 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2023). Spectral–Temporal Fusion of Satellite Images via an End-to-End Two-Stream Attention With an Effective Reconstruction Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16. 1308–1320. 2 indexed citations
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Ammar, Sourour, et al.. (2022). Masking for better discovery: Weakly supervised complementary body regions mining for person re-identification. Expert Systems with Applications. 197. 116636–116636. 15 indexed citations
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Cheddad, Abbas, et al.. (2022). Introduction to the special section on intelligent systems and pattern recognition (SS:ISPR20). Pattern Recognition Letters. 156. 190–191. 1 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2021). Multi-task learning for simultaneous script identification and keyword spotting in document images. Pattern Recognition. 113. 107832–107832. 13 indexed citations
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Ammar, Sourour, et al.. (2021). Domain and writer adaptation of offline Arabic handwriting recognition using deep neural networks. Neural Computing and Applications. 34(3). 2055–2071. 9 indexed citations
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Féki, I., Sourour Ammar, Yousri Kessentini, & Khan Muhammad. (2021). Federated learning for COVID-19 screening from Chest X-ray images. Applied Soft Computing. 106. 107330–107330. 177 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2021). Transformer-based approach for joint handwriting and named entity recognition in historical document. Pattern Recognition Letters. 155. 128–134. 30 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2021). Enhance to read better: A Multi-Task Adversarial Network for Handwritten Document Image Enhancement. Pattern Recognition. 123. 108370–108370. 32 indexed citations
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Djeddi, Chawki, Yousri Kessentini, Imran Siddiqi, & Mohamed Jmaïel. (2021). Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Communications in computer and information science. 5 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2020). Multi-stream Deep Networks for Vehicle Make and Model Recognition. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 413–419.
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2019). Generalized Laplacian Pyramid Pan-Sharpening Gain Injection Prediction Based on CNN. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 17(4). 651–655. 19 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2019). A two-stage deep neural network for multi-norm license plate detection and recognition. Expert Systems with Applications. 136. 159–170. 81 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, et al.. (2011). An Optimized Multi-stream Decoding Algorithm for Handwritten Word Recognition. 1. 192–196. 1 indexed citations
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Bürger, Thomas, Yousri Kessentini, & Thierry Paquet. (2011). Dempster-Shafer Based Rejection Strategy for Handwritten Word Recognition. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 528–532. 5 indexed citations
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Kessentini, Yousri, Thierry Paquet, & Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou. (2009). A Multi-Lingual Recognition System for Arabic and Latin Handwriting. e81 d. 1196–1200. 11 indexed citations

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