I am postdoctoral researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) working with Prof. Bernard Ghanem. I completed my Phd at the University of Amsterdam, advised by Prof. Cees Snoek. My area of interest is Video Understanding, with my PhD thesis (which you can find here ) focussing on Video-Efficient Foundation Models. I am particularly interested in training foundation models via self-supervised learning from multiple modalities of the video data.
Contact: fida.thoker *at* kaust.edu.sa
News & Activities
- June 2026 : 'Structured-Noise Masked Modeling for Video, Audio and Beyond ' is accepted ECCV Oral
- March 2026 : 'TrackMAE: Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict' is accepted to CVPR
- March 2025 : 'SMILE: Infusing Spatial and Motion Semantics in Masked Video Learning' is accepted to CVPR
- September 2024 : 'LocoMotion: Learning Motion-Focused Video-Language Representations' is accepted as ACCV Oral
- July: Our paper 'SIGMA: Sinkhorn-Guided Masked Video Modeling' is accepted to ECCV
- May: I gave a talk at SkatingVerse Workshop , International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
- March 2024: I joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a Post Doctoral Researcher
- December: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled Video-Efficient Foundation Models
- November: My Ph.D. thesis is approved by the doctoral committee, with defense set on 8th of December 2023
- September: 'Tubelet-Contrastive Self-Supervision for Video-Efficient Generalization' is accepted as an oral at NCCV
- August: I gave a talk at University of Bonn
- August: I am selected for 'ICCV 2023 Doctoral Consortium'
- July: Our paper 'Tubelet-Contrastive Self-Supervision for Video-Efficient Generalization' is accepted to ICCV
- April 2023: I gave a talk at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- August: I attented International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) 2022
- July 2022: Our paper 'How Severe is Benchmark-Sensitivity in Video Self-Supervised Learning?' is accepted to ECCV
- August 2021: Our paper Skeleton-Contrastive 3D Action Representation Learning was accepted at ACM Multimedia
- Octobre 2020: Our paper Feature-Supervised Action Modality Transfer was accepted at ICPR
- May: I joined VIS LAB as a Ph.D. candidate at Univeristy of Amsterdam
- April 2019: Our paper CROSS-MODAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR ACTION RECOGNITION was accepted at ICIP
Publications
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FLORO: A Multimodal Geospatial Foundation Model for Ecological Remote Sensing Across Sensors and Scales Jorge L. Rodriguez, Victor Angulo Morales, Areej Alwahas, Mariana Elias Lara, Fida Mohammad Thoker, Kasper Johansen, Bernard Ghanem, Fernando T. Maestre, Matthew F. McCabe Preprint (Arxiv), 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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MedCTA: A Benchmark for Clinical Tool Agents Tajamul Ashraf, Hyewon Jeong, Fida Mohammad Thoker, Bernard Ghanem Preprint (Arxiv), 2026. [Webpage] [Arxiv] [Code] |
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Structured-Noise Masked Modeling for Video, Audio and Beyond Aritra Bhowmik*,Fida Mohammad Thoker*, Carlos Hinojosa*, Bernard Ghanem, Cees G. M. Snoek European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral, 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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TrackMAE: Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict Renaud Vandeghen*, Fida Mohammad Thoker*, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Bernard Ghanem Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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SEVERE++: Evaluating Benchmark Sensitivity in Generalization of Video Representation Learning
Fida Mohammad Thoker, Letian Jiang, Chen Zhao, Piyush Bagad, Hazel Doughty, Bernard Ghanem, Cees G. M. Snoek Arxiv (Pre-print), 2025. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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SMILE: Infusing Spatial and Motion Semantics in Masked Video Learning Fida Mohammad Thoker, Letian Jiang, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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LocoMotion: Learning Motion-Focused Video-Language Representations Hazel Doughty,Fida Mohammad Thoker, Cees Snoek Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024 (Oral). [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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SIGMA: Sinkhorn-Guided Masked Video Modeling Mohammadreza Salehi*, Michael Dorkenwald*, Fida Mohammad Thoker*, Efstratios Gavves, Cees G. M. Snoek, Yuki M. Asano European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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Tubelet-Contrastive Self-Supervision for Video-Efficient Generalization Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Cees Snoek International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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How Severe is Benchmark-Sensitivity in Video Self-Supervised Learning? Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Piyush Bagad, Cees Snoek European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
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Skeleton-Contrastive 3D Action Representation Learning Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Cees Snoek ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), 2021 [arXiv] [Code] |
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Feature-Supervised Action Modality Transfer Fida Mohammad Thoker, Cees Snoek IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020 [arXiv] |
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CROSS-MODAL KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR ACTION RECOGNITION Fida Mohammad Thoker, Juergen Gall IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019 [arXiv] |
Academic Service
Reviewer: BMVC 2020, CVIU 2021, Nuerips 2021, ICCV 2021, ECCV 2022, ACCV 2022, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023
Teaching
Teaching Assistant: Deep Learning for Visual Recognition (MSc Computer Science Univerisity of Bonn)
Teaching Assistant: Technical Neural Networks (MSc Computer Science Univerisity of Bonn)
