Dr. Lama Affara is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Beirut Arab University and a board member at the Syndicate of Computer Science in Lebanon.She began her studies at Rafik Hariri University from which she holds a BSc in Computer Science. She finished an MSc in Computer Sciences from American University of Beirut where she also held a graduate assistant position at the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She completed a PhD in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2018.During her PhD studies, she was a graduate research assistant at the Image and Video Understanding Lab at the Visual Computer Center. Her PhD work focused on urban image analysis with convolutional sparse coding. Her current research interests are broadly in image processing and computer vision, and specifically in image features and understanding.

Research Interests

• Image Processing
• Computer Vision

Selected Publications

• Nada Said, Bilal Nakhal, Ali Zaart, Lama Affara, "Dual RANSAC with Rescue Midpoint Multi-Trend Vanishing Point Detection", Journal of Imaging 12 (4), (2026) 172
• Salma Ghali, Ali Zaart, Lama Affara, "Hybrid Attention and Learnable Thresholding for 3D Brain Tumor Segmentation", International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering 22 (3), (2025) 
• Joseph Nabhan, Lama Affara, "Improved Panoramic Image Stitching using Relative Attributes of Detected Features", International Arab Conference on Information Technology 2025
• Mariam Suboh, Lama Affara, "Artistic Style Classification using Convolution Sparse Coding", International Conference on Computer & Applications 2024
• Lama Affara, and Bilal Nakhal, "Computer Vision Aided Hospot Creating in Virtual Environments." Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)28.3 (2023): 5.
• Shaheen, Sara, Lama Affara, and Bernard Ghanem. "Constrained convolutional sparse coding for parametric based reconstruction of line drawings." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. 2017.
• Affara, Lama, et al. "Large scale asset extraction for urban images." Computer Vision–ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III 14. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

• CMPS345: Discrete Sructures II
• CMPS445: Concepts of Programming Laguages
• CMPS452: Introduction to Data Mining
• BMIS303: Programming for Business Applications
• CMPS342: Database Systems
• CMPS344: Software Engineering
• CMPS327: Image Processing
• MDPH613: Qualitative Analysis of Medical Images
• CMPS248: Discrete Sructures
• MATH111: Introduction to Calculus and Analytic Geometry 
• CMPS642: Advanced Theory of Computation
• CMPS441: Fundamentals of Algorithms
• GRAD403: Interactive Design
• CMPS643: Advanced Programming
• CMPS242: Object Oriented Programming
• CMPS246: Web Programming
• CMPS347: Data Structures
• CMPS647: Advanced Image Processing