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

	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]
	MedCTA: A Benchmark for Clinical Tool Agents Tajamul Ashraf, Hyewon Jeong, Fida Mohammad Thoker, Bernard Ghanem Preprint (Arxiv), 2026. [Webpage] [Arxiv] [Code]
	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]*
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]*
	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]
	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]
	Skeleton-Contrastive 3D Action Representation Learning Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Cees Snoek ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), 2021 [arXiv] [Code]
	Feature-Supervised Action Modality Transfer Fida Mohammad Thoker, Cees Snoek IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020 [arXiv]
	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)