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Biography
Mahmoud Wahba is a Ph.D. student in Information Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in communications and computer Engineering in 2016 from Al-Azhar University.
He received his Master’s degree in ICT for Internet and Multimedia Engineering in 2023 from the University of Padova.
His research activities are about Computer Vision and Deep Learning with a particular focus on optimizing the streaming of immersive content such as virtual reality and 360 video.
Research areas
Immersive Media
MPEG Immersive Video (MIV)
Publications
2025
Learning-Based Viewport Prediction for 360-Degree Videos: A Review Journal Article
In: Electronics, vol. 14, no. 18, 2025, ISSN: 2079-9292.
Sphere-GAN: a GAN-based Approach for Saliency Estimation in 360deg Videos Proceedings Article
In: 2025, (To appear in the proceedings of IEEE MMSP 2025).
2023
A study on the impact of virtual reality on user attention Conference
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), IEEE, 2023.