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Prof. Shmuel Peleg
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Shmuel Peleg received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1979 under the guidance of Professor Azriel Rosenfeld. The title of his thesis was "Ambiguity Reduction in Probabilistic Networks." While the topic of the thesis was "Probabilistic Relaxation", Shmuel still tries to follow the advice in Jack Minker's letter (the CS Chairman in 1979) which reminded him that the period after graduation "is not a time for relaxation"...
After graduating from Maryland, Shmuel returned to Israel and spent one Year at Ben Gurion University. In 1981 he became a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is still a Professor of Computer Science. Shmuel served as chairman of the Institute of Computer Science at Hebrew University from 1990 to 1993. He spent a sabbatical year at Maryland, and two sabbatical years at the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton.
Shmuel published over 130 technical papers in computer vision. His research covered pyramid representation, image enhancement, motion analysis, and panoramic mosaicing. He was issued 10 US patents which provided the technical foundations to three startup companies: VideoBrush (USA), Emaki (Japan), and HumanEyes (Israel).
Professor Peleg is best known for his work on creating panoramic mosaics from sets of images, and more recently, from sets of videos. With the limited field of view of human vision, human perception of most scenes is built over time while our eyes are scanning the scene. In the case of static scenes this process can be modeled by panoramic mosaicing: stitching together images into a panoramic view. Prof. Peleg has shown how, remarkably a dynamic scene, scanned by a video camera, can be represented with a dynamic panoramic video even though different parts of the mosaic were imaged at different times. His research shows how to generate dynamic mosaics by sweeping the aligned space-time volume of the input video by a "time front" surface and generating a sequence of time slices in the process. A demonstration of this process can be found at his web site.
He has advised 10 Ph.D. students. The following have academic positions: M. Werman (The Hebrew U.), H. Schweitzer (U. of Texas), D. Keren (Haifa U.), Y. Hel-Or (IDC-Israel), H. Hel-Or (Haifa U.), and M. Irani (Weizmann Inst.).
Shmuel was an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on PAMI (1992-1997), CVIU (1997-2003), and ACM Computing Surveys (1994-1994). He has served on program committees for numerous conferences, and co-chaired the 10th ICPR in Jerusalem in 1994.
Shmuel lives in Jerusalem, Israel with his wife, Gaby.
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Prof. Amnon Shashua
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Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University. He was the head of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the term 2003--2005. He has been a Professor since 2003, Associate Professor since 1999, and joined the Hebrew University as a Senior Lecturer in the fall of 1996. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computational Neuroscience, working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 1993; his M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 1989; and his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1986. During 2001/2 he spent a Sabbatical at the Computer Science department of Stanford University.
His research interests are in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His work includes early visual processing of Saliency and Grouping mechanisms, Visual Recognition and Learning, Image Synthesis for Animation and Graphics, theory of Computer Vision in the areas of multiple-view geometry and multi-view tensors, multilinear algebraic systems in Vision and Learning and primal/dual optimization for approximate inference in MRF and Graphical models. His work on multiple-view geometry received the "best paper award" at ECCV'2000 and the honorable mention to the MARR prize in ICCV'2001. His work on graphical models has received a "best paper" award category at UAI'2008.
Amnon Shashua received the first prize of the 2004 Kaye Innovation award , and the 2005 Landau award for Science and Research in the area of exact sciences - Robotics. Since 2007 he became the incumbent of the newly formed Sachs chair in computer science.
He is the founder of CogniTens Ltd. (established 1995, sold to Hexagon in 2006), and co-founder of MobilEye Vision Technologies (established 1999). |
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Prof. Dani Lischinski
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Dani Lischinski is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he is running the Computer Graphics Lab. Dani received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science and the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University in 1994, and was a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington until 1996. In 2002/3, he spent a sabbatical year at Pixar Animation Studios. |
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Prof. Michael Werman
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Michael Werman is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current research Interests includes: Computer Vision, Geometric Algorithms and Statistical Algorithms. |
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Prof. Yair Weiss
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Yair Weiss is an associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yair's research interests is currently in Human and machine vision. Machine Learning. Bayesian methods. Neural computation.
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Dr. Raanan Fattal
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Raanan Fattal is a faculty member at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Raanan received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 2005, and was a post-doctoral Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley until 2008. |
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