--- title: "Imad Afyouni · University of Sharjah — author profile and papers" description: "Imad Afyouni, University of Sharjah: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Imad Afyouni # Imad Afyouni Imad Afyouni has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Ashraf Elnagar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-elnagar/), [Khalid Almubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-almubarak/), [Pierre Nugues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierre-nugues/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000538231) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6686-3069) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104469569) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000538231) · [75 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000538231) · [1,028 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000538231&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9342](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9342) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Imad+Afyouni) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Imad+Afyouni) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Imad+Afyouni) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Imad+Afyouni) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Sharjah** Sharjah · United Arab Emirates 2017–2026 · 50 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sharjah/) · [🎓**Umm al-Qura University** Makkah al Mukarramah · Saudi Arabia 2014–2017 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/) · [🔬**Institut de Recherche de l’École Navale** Brest · France 2010–2017 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/01v6shv96) · [🔬**King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology** Riyadh · Saudi Arabia 2014–2015 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/king-abdulaziz-city-for-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 2 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Arabic Image Captioning using Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/emami-2022-arabic-image-captioning-pre-training/)** *(2022 · 33 citations)* The paper tackles Arabic image captioning, which lags behind English mainly because there is little public data and because Arabic morphology is complex. 2. **[AraCLIP: Cross-Lingual Learning for Effective Arabic Image Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barham-2024-araclip-cross-lingual-learning-effective/)** *(2024 · 6 citations)* AraCLIP targets text-to-image retrieval with Arabic queries. Most CLIP-style systems are English-centric, and multilingual alternatives handle Arabic's morphology and cultural vocabulary only loosely. The authors do not retrain CLIP contrastively. Instead they use Knowledge Distillation: the English CLIP text encoder… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ashraf Elnagar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-elnagar/) ×2 - [Khalid Almubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-almubarak/) - [Pierre Nugues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierre-nugues/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) - [International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/): [INLG 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imad-afyouni/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026