About Me

I am a final year PhD student in Computer Vision at CVSSP - University of Surrey, supervised by Yi-Zhe Song. My research is focused on using generative models to enable people more control and creativity with visual content. I'm currently an intern at Samsung Research UK (SRUK) working on Agentic Memory for on device AI agents.

Before starting my PhD, I completed my MSc in AI at the University of Paris Saclay, where I worked on several projects including 3D reconstruction and molecular dynamics simulations modeling.

News

  • [Apr 2026] S2MV preprint on multi-view generation from freehand sketches is out!
  • [Jan 2026] SketchingReality accepted at ICLR 2026.
  • [Nov 2025] Started an internship at Samsung Research UK (SRUK), working on multiview and 3D generation.
  • [Feb 2024] Open Vocabulary Scene Sketch Understanding accepted at CVPR 2024.

Research

2026

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Geometrically Consistent Multi-View Scene Generation from Freehand Sketches
Ahmed Bourouis1,2, Savas Ozkan1, Andrea Maracani1, Yi-Zhe Song2, Mete Ozay1
1Samsung Research   2CVSSP, University of Surrey
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SketchingReality: From Freehand Scene Sketches to Photorealistic Images
Ahmed Bourouis1, Mikhail Bessmeltsev2, Yulia Gryaditskaya1,3
1CVSSP, University of Surrey   2Université de Montréal   3Adobe Research
ICLR 2026

2024

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Open Vocabulary Scene Sketch Semantic Understanding
Ahmed Bourouis1, Judith-Ellen Fan2, Yulia Gryaditskaya1
1CVSSP, University of Surrey   2Department of Psychology, Stanford University
CVPR 2024

Datasets

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FSCOCO-Seg: Segmented Scene Sketches

It contains our split of the sketches from the FSCOCO dataset into training, validation and test sets. For the validation and test sets, we provide stroke-level annotations into different categories, as shown in the teaser image.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant - University of Surrey
  • EEEM068 - Applied Machine Learning, Spring 2024
  • EEE2041 - Computer Vision and Graphics, Spring 2024
  • EEEM067 - AR, VR and the Metaverse, Fall 2023
  • EEE2041 - Computer Vision and Graphics, Spring 2023

Funding

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CVSSP, University of Surrey
Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI logo
Surrey PAI
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Adobe Research Gift
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Samsung Research UK