EDITORIAL BOARDS AND CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES

LECTURES AT CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS

LECTURES AND SEMINARS AT UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY
 

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES X
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, edited by Dr. Z.H. Cho and Dr. L.A. Shepp, from 1994.

Editorial Board of the Journal Pattern Recognition, edited by Dr. R. Ledley, from 1993 till 2004.

Editorial Board of the Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing Journal, edited by Prof. M.N.S. Swamy and previously by Prof. A. Zemanian, from 1995 till 2004.
Program Committee of the 6th Israeli AI and CV Conference, 1989.
Program Committee of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR'90, Atlantic City, 1990.

Chairman of Computer Vision Trade at the 7th Israeli AI and CV Conference, 1990.
Program Committee of the 8th Israeli AI and CV Conference, 1991.

Chairman of the 1992 Italy-Israel Workshop in Computer Vision, June 1992.

Program Committee of NGITS 93, The International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Haifa, Israel, June 1993.

Program Committee of the 2nd International Workshop on VISUAL FORM, Capri, Italy, May-June 1994.

Program Committee of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR' 94, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994.

Co-Chairman of the 1994 SSPRWorkshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Haifa, Israel, October 1994.

Program Committee of the 3rd International Workshop on VISUAL FORM, Capri, Italy, May,1997.

Program Committee of the First International Conference on Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Utrecht, Holland, July 1997.

Program Committee of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Corfu, Greece, September 1999.

Program Committee of CAIP'99, International Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1999.

Program Committee of FSPIPA Workshop on Image Structure, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.

Program Committee of the ANTS'2000 Conference, Brusseles, Belgium, September 2000.

Co-Organizer of the 2000 Dagstuhl Seminar on Multi-Image Search, Filtering, Reasoning and Visualization, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2000.

Program Committee of the Third International Conference on Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Program Committee of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR-2002, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.

Scientifc Committee of the Mathematics and Image Analysis, MIA'02, Paris, France, September
2002.

Program Committee of International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2003, Palermo, Italy, May 2003.

Program Committee of Scale Space 2003, Isle of Sky, Scotland, United Kingdom, June 2003.

Program Committee of European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004.

Program Committee of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR-2004, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 2004.
Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2004, Singapore, October 2004.

Program Committee of the 5th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale Space 2005, SchlÄobchen SchÄonburg, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 2005.

Program Committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2005, Washington D.C., USA, June 2005.

Technical Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2005, Genova, Italy, September 2005.

Program Committee of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM'05, Beijing, China, October 2005.
Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

Program Committee of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR-2006, Hong Kong, China, August 2006.

Program Committee of the European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, Graz, Austria, May 2006.

Program Committee of MARS' 06 Workshop, Setubal, Portugal, August 2006.

LECTURES AT CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS  X
1. Bruckstein, A.M., Zeevi, Y.Y., "COMPARISON OF SSIPFM National IEEE Convention ,
Tel Aviv , Israel, 1977.

2. Bruckstein, A.M., Zeevi, Y.Y., "ANALYSIS OF A NONLINEAR NEURONAL ENCODER MODEL", 11'th National IEEE Convention, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1979.

3. Bruckstein, A.M., Kailath, T., "ON SLIDING WINDOW KALMAN FILTERING AND SCATTERING THEORY", 16th Asilomar Conf. on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Monterey, California, 1982.

4. Kwon, W.H., Bruckstein, A.M., Kailath, T., "STABILIZING STATE-FEEDBACK DESIGN VIA THE MOVING HORIZON METHOD", 21st IEEE CDC Conference, Orlando, Florida,
1982.

5. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON THE INVARIANT MEASURES OF SOME DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV PROCESSES", Int. Symposium on Information Theory, Ste-Jovite, Canada, 1983.

6. Bruckstein, A.M., Cover, T., "MONOTONICITY OF LINEAR SEPARABILITY UNDER TRANSLATION", Int. Symposium on Information Theory, Ste-Jovite, Canada, 1983.

7. Bruckstein, A.M., Kailath, T., "ON SCHUR ALGORITHMS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING", National Meeting of SIAM, Denver, Colorado, 1983.

8. Bruckstein, A.M., "MUSIC AND THE SHARING OF A SECRET", 17th Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Monterey, California, 1983.

9. Bruckstein, A.M., Kailath, T., "ON SCATTERING, TIME REVERSAL AND INFORMATION FORMS", 22nd CDC Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 1983.

10. Bruckstein, A.M., Fiszer, H. and Smadja, M., "ON FINDING THE SHAPE OF A MOUNTAIN FROM SHADING INFORMATION", Int. Symposium on Information Theory, Brighton, England, 1985.

11. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON EIGENSTRUCTURE METHODS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING", 2nd
Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, December 1985, 12. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON SOFT BIT ALLOCATION", 24'th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 1-3, 1986.

13. Bruckstein, A.M. and Lindenbaum M., "ON A MULTIPLE REGISTRATION PROBLEM",
Proc. 24'th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 1986.

14. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON OPTIMAL IMAGE DIGITIZATION", Int. Symposium on Information Theory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1986.

15. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON MULTIVARIABLE SCATTERING AND THE FACTORIZATION OF STRUCTURED MATRICES", 3rd Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, January,
1987.

16. Bruckstein, A.M. and T. Kailath, "ON DISCRETE SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS AND THEIR TWO-COMPONENTWAVE-EQUATION EQUIVALENTS", First International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM-87, La Villete, Paris, June-July 1987.

17. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVERSE SCATTERING ALGORITHMS", SIAM Workshop on the Mathematics of Systems and Signal Processing, Stanford University, Stanford, California
August-September 1987, (Invited Presentation).

18. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVERSE SCATTERING AND FAST MATRIX FACTORIZATION AL-
GORITHMS", International Conference on Linear Algebra and Applications, Valencia, Spain, September 1987, (Invited Special Session Presentation).

19. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON SOME MATRIX FACTORIZATION IDENTITIES AND A METHOD
OF KREIN FOR SOLVING INTEGRAL EQUATIONS" 4th Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, January, 1988.

20. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON SHAPE FROM SHADING", First Ollendor® Symposium on Computer Vision, Technion, Haifa, March 1988.

21. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON THE MINIMAL PARTIAL REALIZATION PROBLEM" 5th Haifa
Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, January, 1989.

22. Bruckstein, A.M., "GL(2,Z) AND THE SELF-SIMILARITY OF DIGITIZED LINES", 6th Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, June, 1990.

23. Bruckstein, A.M., "THE SELF-SIMILARITY OF DIGITAL LINES", 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June, 1990.

24. Bruckstein, A.M., and Netravali, A.N., "ON DIFFERENTIAL INVARIANTS OF PLANAR
CURVES AND RECOGNIZING PARTIALLY OCCLUDED PLANAR SHAPES", International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, 1991.

25. Bruckstein, A., Katzir, N., Lindenbaum, M., and Porat, M., "SIMILARITY INVARIANT
SIGNATURES FOR PARTIALLY OCCLUDED PLANAR SHAPES", Italian-Israeli Binational Symposium on Computer Vision, Capri, May, 1991.

26. Bruckstein, A.M., "THREE EASY GEOMETRIC PIECES", International Workshop on
Computational Geometry, Eilat, Israel, March, 1992.

27. Bruckstein, A.M., "GEOMETRIC INVARIANTS AND APPLICATIONS", Italian-Israeli Bi-
national Symposium on Computer Vision, Kiryat Anavim, Israel, June, 1992.

28. Bruckstein, A.M., "WHY THE ANT TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE", SIAM 40'th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles, California, July, 1992.

29. Bruckstein, A.M., "POLYGON EVOLUTIONS AND CIRCULANT MATRICES", 8th Haifa
Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, June 7-10, 1993.

30. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION BY LOCAL INTERACTIONS" (Invited
Lecture) International Conference on Control Theory and Applications, Maale HaChamisha (Zvi Artstein, organizer), October 18-21, 1993.

31. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVARIANTS FOR PLANAR SHAPE RECOGNITION AND SMOOTHING", (Invited Lecture) ECCV'94 Invariance Workshop (Luc VanGool, organizer), Stockholm, May 7, 1994.

32. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVARIANT SMOOTHING AND SHAPE RECOGNITION", (Invited Lecture) Research Conference on Mathematics of Multiscale Analysis in Image Processing (P.L. Lions, organizer), Lunteren, Holland, October 15-20, 1994.

33. Bruckstein, A.M. and Pnueli, Y., "GRIDLESS HALFTONING: A REINCARNATION OF THE OLD METHOD", (Invited Lecture), Israel-France Binational Symposium on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling (C. Gotsman, organizer), Herzliya, December 12-13, 1994.

34. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVARIANT SIGNATURES FOR CURVE MATCHING, SURFACE
MATCHING AND SKEW-SYMMETRY DETECTION", (Invited Lecture), Italian-Israeli
Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Molecular Biology (H. Wolfson and A. Apostolico, organizers), Padova University, Italy, December 19-23, 1994.

35. Bruckstein, A.M., "HAPPY PURSUITS", (Invited Lecture), Applications of Dynamical Systems to Biology Workshop (Shay Gueron, Nadav Liron and Gershon Wolansky, organizers), Technion, Haifa, January 4-14, 1995, and Invited Lecture at The International Conference on Communications, Computing, Control and Signal Processing, in honor of Professor Thomas Kailath, Stanford, June 22-26, 1995.

36. Bruckstein, A.M., Onn, R., Richardson, T.J., "IMPROVING THE VISION OF MAGIC EYES: A GUIDE TO BETTER AUTOSTEREOGRAMS", 1995 Stockholm Workshop on Computational Vision, Rosenon Island, Sweden, July 31- Aug 4, 1995, Int. Workshop on Computer Vision and Applied Geometry, Nordfjordeid, Norway, Aug. 1-7, 1995.

37. Bruckstein, A.M., "SCALE-SPACE INVARIANTS FOR PLANAR SHAPES" (Invited Lec-
ture), Int. Workshop on Computer Vision and Applied Geometry, Nordfjordeid, Norway, Aug. 1-7, 1995.

38. Bruckstein, A.M, and Shaked, D., "SKEW SYMMETRY DETECTION VIA INVARIANT SIGNATURES", 6th International Conference in Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP'95, Prague, The Czech Republic, September 6-8, 1995.

39. Bruckstein, A.M., O'Gorman, L., and Orlitsky, A., "DESIGN OF SHAPES FOR PRECISE IMAGE REGISTRATION", (Invited Plenary Lecture) 5th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery Workshop, Clermont-Ferrand, France, September 25-27, 1995.

40. Bruckstein, A.M., Rivlin, E. and Weiss, I., "RECOGNIZING OBJECTS USING SCALE
SPACE LOCAL INVARIANTS", 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August25-29, 1996.

41. Bruckstein, A.M, Holt, R.J., and Netravali, A.N., "DISCRETE ELASTICA", 6th Discrete
Geometry for Computer Imagery Workshop, Lyon, France, November 13-15, 1996.

42. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVARIANCE IN PLANAR SHAPE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING",
(Invited Main Speaker) Mathematics for Object Recognition Workshop, Shape, Invariance and Deformations, CIRM Luminy, France, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

43. Bruckstein, A.M., Holt, R.J., Huang T.S. and Netravali A.N., "NEW DEVICES FOR 3D
POSE ESTIMATION: MANTIS EYES, AGAM PAINTINGS, SUNDIALS AND OTHER
SPACE FIDUCIALS, 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, Australia, August, 1998.

44. Bruckstein, A.M., "SOME REMARKS ON IMAGEWATERMARKING AND HOLOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS". (Invited Presentation) Israel-New Jersey Workshop on Multimedia Technology, Tel-Aviv University, December 13-14, 1999.

45. Bruckstein, A.M., Holt, R.J., Huang, T.S and Netravali, A.N., "OPTIMUM FIDUCIALS
UNDER WEAK PERSPECTIVE PROJECTIONS" International Conference on Computer
Vision, Corfu, Greece, September, 1999.

46. Bruckstein, A.M., Holt, R.J., and Netravali, A.N., "SELF-SIMILAR IMAGE SAMPLING
SCHEMES: HOLOGRAPHIC AND LOW DISCREPANCY PROPERTIES" (Invited Pre-
sentation) Fundamental Structural Properties in Image and Pattern Analysis Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, September, 1999.

47. Bruckstein, A.M., "FIDUCIALS FOR SELF LOCATION", The Ollendor® German-Israeli
Symposium on Image processing and Computer Vision, Technion, Haifa, March 7-9, 2000.

48. Bruckstein, A.M., "SPACE FIDUCIALS FOR ROBOTIC SELF-LOCATION" Schloss Dagstuhl Workshop on Multi-Image Search, Filtering, Reasoning and Visualization, Germany, March, 2000.

49. Bruckstein, A.M.,and Richardson T.J., "OMNIVIEW CAMERAS WITH CURVED SUR-
FACE MIRRORS', IEEE CVPR Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Hilton Head Island,
June, 2000.

50. Bruckstein, A.M., Holt, R.J., and Netravali, A.N., "HOLOGRAPHIC JPEG COMPRESSION", ICPR'2000 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2000.

51. Sochen, N., Kimmel, R. and Bruckstein, A.M., "DIFFUSIONS AND CONFUSIONS IN SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING", Mathematics and Image Analysis Workshop, Paris, France, September, 2000.

52. Lebanon G., and Bruckstein, A.M., "ON DESIGNING MOIRE PATTERNS", Visual Attention Mechanisms, "E.R. Caianiello" International School on Neural Nets, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, October, 2000.

53. Bruckstein, A.M., "SPACE FIDUCIALS", (Invited Lecture) The Prague Spring Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, Prague, The Czech Republic, May, 2001.

54. Bruckstein, A.M., "INVARIANT RECOGNITION AND PROCESSING OF PLANAR SHAPES", (Invited Lecture) 4th International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May, 2001.

55. Bruckstein, A.M., "ON SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS IN PAIRS OF ORTHOGONAL
BASES", (Invited Lecture) International Linear Algebra Conference, Haifa, June, 2001.

56. Lebanon G., and Bruckstein, A.M., "THE MAGIC OF MOIRE PATTERNS", (Invited Lecture) 2001 Stockholm Workshop on Computational Vision, Rosenon Island, Sweden, July 30-August 1, 2001.

57. Elad M., and Bruckstein, A.M., "ON SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS IN PAIRS OF OR-
THOGONAL BASES", (Invited Lecture) International Conference on Image Processing, Tessaloniki, Greece, September 2001 (presented due to the "situation" by Prof. Martin Vetterli).

58. Bruckstein, A.M., "LAPLACIAN SNAKES", (Invited Lecture) Sapporo Symposium on PDE's in Image Processing, Sapporo, Japan, Nov. 8, 2001.
59. Bruckstein A.M., "DIGITAL GEOMETRY FOR IMAGE-BASED METROLOGY", (Invited
Plenary Lecture) Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI'2002, Bordeaux, France, April 3-5, 2002.

60. Bruckstein A.M.,"INSIGHTS INTO VISUALIZATION", (Keynote Lecture) International Symposium on Visualization and Imaging in Transport Phenomena, Antalya, Turkey, May 5-10, 2002.

61. Bruckstein A.M., "WHY THE ANT-TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE: OR THE MATHEMATICS OF MULTI A(GE)NT INTERACTION", (Invited Plenary Lecture) Applied Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics, AMAM 2003, Nice, France, Feb. 10-12, 2003.

62. Bruckstein A.M., "VARIATIONAL EDGE INTEGRATION", (Invited Lecture) Principal
Investigators Meeting, O±ce of Naval Research, ONR Workshop, Minneapolis, USA, May 7-9, 2003.

63. Bruckstein A.M.,"GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION VIA LOCAL INTERACTIONS", (Invited Lecture) 5th Negev Workshop on Applied Mathematics, June 17-21, 2003.

64. Bruckstein A.M., "ON VARIATIONAL EDGE DETECTION AND INTEGRATION", 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2003, Sydney, Australia, July 7-11, 2003.

65. Bruckstein A.M.,"EDGE-FLOWS AND OPTIMAL VECTOR FIELDS", (Invited Lecture) SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Seattle, USA, Nov. 10-13, 2003.

66. Bruckstein, A.M., "THE VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO IMAGE ANALYSIS",(Invited Lecture) 2004 Annual Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union, Shefayim, May 2004.

67. Bruckstein, A.M., "VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS: DO WE KNOW WHAT TO OPTIMIZE FOR?", (Invited Lecture) Mathematics and Image Analysis 2004, MIA'04, Paris, France, September 06-09, 2004.

68. Bruckstein, A.M., "PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL SURVEILLANCE", (Invited Lecture) 1st Workshop on Integrative Information Systems for Homeland Security, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, September 21-22, 2004.

69. Bruckstein, A.M., "GRAND CHALLENGES IN IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS", (Invited Special Session Lecturer) 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 13-15, 2004.

LECTURES AND SEMINARS AT UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY X
1. ON MODELLING NEURAL CODING PROCESSES, Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill, NJ, USA, September 14, 1981 (organized by Prof. J. Salz).

2. ON STATE-SPACE ESTIMATION AND SCATTERING THEORY, Distributed Sensor Net-work Group Meeting, I.S.L., Stanford University, CA, November 16, 1981 (organized by Prof. M. Morf).

3. ON CODING OF VISUAL STIMULI IN SEQUENCES OF NEURAL SPIKES, Biophysics Seminar at the Physics Department, Groningen University, Holland, October 22, 1982 (organized by Prof. H.A.K. Mastebroek).

4. MODELS FOR NEURAL COMMUNICATION PROCESSES, Distributed Sensor Network Group Meeting, I.S.L., Stanford University, CA, November 1982 (organized by Prof. M. Morf).

5. FAST ALGORITHMS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL INVERSE SCATTERING, Mathematics Workshop on Computational Methods in Ill Posed and Inverse Problems, Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 26, 1983 (organized by Prof. L. Payne).

6. NEW RESULTS IN 1-D INVERSE SCATTERING, Hughes Aircraft Co., Radar Division, Los Angeles, CA, January 27, 1984 (organized by Dr. R. Madan).

7. INVERSE SCATTERING VIA SCHUR COEFFICIENTS, Industrial A±liates Meeting, I.S.L., Stanford University, CA., February 17, 1983.

8. AN EIGENSTRUCTURE METHOD FOR SIGNAL RESOLUTION, Industrial A±liates Meeting, I.S.L., Stanford University, CA., February 16, 1984.

9. NUMERICAL PROBLEMS ARISING IN INVERSE SCATTERING ALGORITHMS, Bay Area Numerical Analysis Day, Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, February 25, 1984 (organized by Prof. B.N. Parlett).

10. CONTINUED FRACTIONS, PARTIAL REALIZATION AND INVERSE SCATTERING, Bay Area Inverse Problems Workshop, Stanford University, CA., July 24, 1984 (organized by Prof. M. Cheney).

11. THE MUSIC ALGORITHM AND SOME OF ITS APPLICATIONS, EE Colloquium, Tech-
nion, IIT, Haifa, November 28, 1984.

12. ALGORITHMS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING AND MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS, RECURSIVE PARTIAL REALIZATIONS, OPERATOR DILATIONS, Two Lectures at
Prof. I. Gohberg's Seminar on Operator Theory, Tel Aviv University Mathematics Department, February 27, March 6, 1985.

13. ALGORITHMIC ASPECTS OF INVERSE SCATTERING, Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, N.J., August 1986 (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau).

14. DESIGN OF PERIMETER ESTIMATORS FOR DIGITIZED IMAGES, Computer Science Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 5, 1987 (organized by Dr. S. Peleg).

15. ON SOME TOPICS IN COMPUTER VISION, Computer Systems Laboratory, A.T.&T. Bell Labs at Murray Hill, New Jersey, August 20, 1987 (organized by Dr. Larry O'Gorman).

16. ON THREE OPEN PROBLEMS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, Mathematics Group Seminar, A.T.&T. Bell Labs at Murray Hill, New Jersey, August 1987, (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau).

17. ON SEVERAL PROBLEMS IN COMPUTER VISION, Robotics and Vision Lab., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, U.C. at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, Sept 4, 1987 (organized by Prof. Shankar Sastry).

18. DESIGN OF PERIMETER ESTIMATORS, Center for Automation Research, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 21, 1987 (organized by Dr. Peter Meer).

19. SHAPE ANALYSIS, Air-Force Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, January 6, 1988, April 17, 1989, November 6, 1990 and November 27, 1991, December 12, 1994 Workshop on Image Processing and Analysis (organized by Dr. Shmuel Peleg).

20. ON SOME TOPICS IN COMPUTER VISION, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, University of the NEGEV, Beer-Sheva, March 8, 1988 (organized by Prof. R. N. Sen).

21. ON DIRECT AND INVERSE SCATTERING AND APPLICATIONS, Department of   Elecrtrical Engineering, Communication and Signal Processing Seminar, Haifa, April 13, 1989 (organized by Dr. S. Shamai).

22. ON SOME SHAPE-FROM SHADING PROBLEMS, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, September 21, 1989, (organized by Prof. I. Koltracht).

23. ON SHAPE-FROM SHADING AND PHOTOMETRIC STEREO, Image Processing Seminar, Lab 1122, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray-Hill, NJ, September 29, 1989 (organized by Dr. C. Podilchuk).

24. SELF-SIMILARITY OF DIGITIZED STRAIGHT LINES, Mathematics Research Colloquium, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ October 12, 1989 (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau) also Computer Science Department Colloquium, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 4, 1989 (organized by Dr. Mike Werman) and Computer Science Department Colloquium, The Technion of Haifa, December 12, 1989 (organized by Dr. Zvi Rosberg).

25. SOME RECENT OBSERVATIONS ON DIGITIZED SHAPES, Center for Automation Research Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, October 16, 1989 (organized by Dr. Peter Meer).

26. IMAGE PROCESSING, A SHORT COURSE, Three 4 hour lectures at Elscint Co. Ltd., Haifa, April 23, May 7, May 21, 1990 (organized by Dr. Dov Maor). and at Elbit Co. Ltd,
Haifa, May 7, 9 and 14, 1991 (organized by Ran Helerstein and Daniela Doron) 27. DIFFERENTIAL INVARIANTS AND PLANAR SHAPE RECOGNITION, Mathematics Research Colloquium, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ September 27, 1990 (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau) also Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Seminar, Yale University, October 5, 1990 (organized by Prof. Arye Nehorai and Prof. Jean-Marc Delosme).

28. WHY THE ANT TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE, Computer Engineering Seminar, EE Department, Technion, IIT, Haifa, January 1991 (organized by Dr. Amos Israeli).

29. SOME MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, September 3, 1991 (organized by Prof. I. Koltracht).

30. DIFFERENTIAL, SEMI-DIFFERENTIAL AND LOCAL INVARIANTS FOR PLANAR SHAPE RECOGNITION UNDER PARTIAL OCCLUSION, Lems and Electrical Sciences Seminar, Brown University, Rhode Island, September 6, 1991 (organized by Prof. Ben Kimia).

31. RECOGNIZING OCCLUDED PLANAR SHAPES, Computer Engineering Seminar, EE Department, Technion, IIT, Haifa, January 1992 (organized by Dr. Amos Israeli), Computer Science Department, Tel Aviv University, May 1992 (organized by Dr. Haim Wolfson).

32. SOME TOPICS IN CURVE AND POLYGON EVOLUTION, Mathematics Research Group Seminar, AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, September 10, 1992, (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau)

33. COMPUTER VISION ACTIVITIES AT THE TECHNION, Mathematics Seminar, Maquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September 28, 1992 (organized by Prof. P. Pleasants).

34. TOPICS IN IMAGE DIGITIZATION, Special Seminar in Number Theory and Discrete Geometry, Department of Mathematics, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia, October 1, 1992 (organized by Prof. J. Pitman).

35. SOME TOPICS IN ROBOT NAVIGATION AND SHAPE RECOGNITION, Signal Process-
ing Research Institute Lecture, Adelaide, Australia, October 2, 1992 (organized by Prof. M. Brooks).

36. CURVE EVOLUTIONS IN CAD AND COMPUTER VISION, Computer Science Seminar, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, October 6, 1992, (organized by Dr. R. Kozera).

37. SOME MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN COMPUTER VISION, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, October 12, (organized by Prof. A.C. Tsoi).

38. IMAGE ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING: Its Future, Present and Past, Second International Seminar on Arti¯cial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2nd of June 1993, (Invited Lecture), and The Pixel Club, November 2nd, 1993, (organized by Ron Kimmel and Doron Shaked).

39. WHY THE ANT TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE, Biomedical Engineering De-
partment Colloquium, March 6th, 1994 (organized by Prof. I.Gath).

40. HAPPY PURSUITS, Mathematics Research Colloquium AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, September 22, 1994, (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau);

Mathematics Department Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, September 29, 1994, (organized by Prof. I. Koltracht);

Computer Science Department Colloquium, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 12, 1995, (organized by Dr. Daphna Weinshall);

Computer Science Colloquium, Technion, Haifa, January 24, 1995, (organized by Dr. Michael Lindenbaum);

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Talk, Princeton University, October 24, 1995, (organized by Prof. Simon Levin);

Math Group Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, June 17, 1996, (organized by Dr. Ron Kimmel and Prof. Jamie Sethian);

GRASP Lab Seminar, University of 16 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 7th, 1996, (organized by Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy);

Center for Intelligent Control Systems and LIDS Colloquium, LIDS M.I.T., November 5, 1996, (organized by Prof. Sanjoy Mitter);

EE Department Seminar, Princeton University, November 7, 1996, (organized by Prof. M. Orchard);

Department of Computer Science Seminar, La Sapienza University, Roma, May 26, 1997, (organized by Prof. Stefano Levialdi and Prof. Janos Korner);

Mathematics Club Meeting, Haifa University Mathematics Department, May 16, 1999, (organized by Prof. David Blanc);

LaMI Colloquium, Evry University, Paris, July 5, 2001, (organized by Prof. Jean-Marc Delosme).

41. INVARIANCE GAMES IN PLANAR SHAPE ANALYSIS, Pixel Club Lecture, January 3, 1995, (organized by Ron Kimmel and Doron Shaked).

42. INVARIANCES FOR PLANAR SHAPE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, NEC Research Seminar, Princeton, July 21, 1995 (organized by Dr. David Jacobs and Dr. Ronen Basri), Division of Applied Sciences Seminar, Harvard University, November 1, 1996, (organized by Prof. Roger Brockett).

43. IMPROVING THE VISION OF MAGIC EYES: A GUIDE TO BETTER AUTOSTERE-OGRAMS, Center for Automation Research Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, February 26, 1996 (organized by Prof. A. Rosenfeld;

Mathematics Research Colloquium AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, March 7, 1996, (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau);

 Information Systems Laboratory EE370 Seminar series, Stanford University, Stanford, Cal ifornia, March 14th, 1996 (organized by Prof. T. Kailath);

 Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, April 18, 1996, (organized by Prof. I. Koltracht);

Rutgers University Colloquium on Human and Computer Vision, April 29, 1996 (organized by Prof. Bela Julesz and Prof. Sven Dickinson);

 Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook, October 9, 1996 (organized by Prof. Theo Pavlidis);

AI Lab Seminar, M.I.T., November 4, 1996, (organized by Prof. Berthold Horn), Princeton University Computer Science Department, Geometry Seminar, April 28, 1997 (organized by Prof. Bernard Chazelle);

Computer Vision Seminar, Columbia University, August 1, 1997 (organized by Prof. Shree Nayar);

Pixel Club, Technion, November 18, 1997, Netanya College Computer Science Seminar, January 13th, 1998, (organized by Dr. Amos Israeli);

Distinguished Lecture, Computer Science Department at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 16th, 1998 (organized by Dr. Amnon Shasua);

Computer Science Colloquium, University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, February 23, 1999(organized by Prof. Y. Dinitz), LaMI Colloquium, Evry University, Paris, July 12, 2001, (organized by Prof. Jean-Marc Delosme).

44. ON ANT-ROBOTICS, INVARIANCE AND AUTOSTEREOGRAMS, Special Seminar at U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept., June 21, 1996, (organized by Prof. Shankar Shastry).

45. FROM IMAGE WATERMARKING TO HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS,
Mathematics Research Colloquium, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ February 13, 1997 (organized by Dr. H.J. Landau);

Information Systems Laboratory Seminar, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, June 19, 1997 (organized by Prof. T. Kailath);

Research Seminar, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, November 14, 1997 (organized by Prof. Olivier Faugeras and Prof. Rachid Deriche);

Computer Science Deaprtment Colloquium and Pixel Club, January 27, 1998 (organized by Dr. Reuven Bar-Yehuda), Research Seminar at the Weizmann Institute Applied Mathematics, June 9th, 1998 (organized by Prof. Moni Naor);

ResearchSeminar at IBM Haifa Research Center, October 26th, 1999 (organized by Dr. Israel Wagner), EE Department Seminar at Tel-Aviv University, November 15th, 1999 (organized by Prof Nahum Kiryati).

46. QUO VADIS COMPUTER VISION, Multimedia Research Lab, Discussion Series, May 7, 1997 (organized by Dr. Mohan M. Sondhi).

47. A PUZZLE, A SEQUENCE, AND SOME CONSEQUENCES, Mathematical Research Colloquium, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, February 17, 1998 (organized by Dr. Henry Landau), The Technion Mathematics Club, Mathematics Department, January 13, 1999, (organized by Dr. Itai Shafrir).

48. IMAGE ANALYSIS: DETECTING STRUCTURES IN SETS OF POINTS, Philip Merlin Memorial Lecture, Department of Electrical Engineering, May 5, 1999, (organized by Prof. Adrian Segall).

49. "DESIGN OF SHAPES FOR PRECISE IMAGE REGISTRATION", Lecture at KLA-Tencor, November 26, 2000, (organized by Dr. Mike Adel).

50. "ON THE EVOLUTION OF POLYGONS", Lecture at the Center for Geometric Computing, Tel-Aviv University, May 3, 2001, (organized by Dr. Nir Sochen).

51. "EDGE INTEGRATION REVISITED", Vision and Robotics Seminar, The Weizmann Institute of Science, May 17, 2001, (organized by Prof. Michal Irani).

52. "BETTER MAGIC EYES and THE MAGIC OF MOIREES, or How To Have Fun in Grad-
uate School", Lecture to Graduate Students, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, November  11, 2001 (organized by Prof. Koichiro Deguchi).

53. "THE MAGIC OF MOIRE PATTERNS", Computer Science Colloquium, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2001, (organized by Prof. Sugihara).

54. "DIFFUSIONS AND CONFUSIONS IN IMAGE PROCESSING" and "IMPROVING THE
VISION OF MAGIC EYES", Kyoto ATR Research Colloquium, Kyoto-Nara, Japan, November 15, 2001, (organized by Dr. Kinoshita).

55. "HAPPY PURSUITS", Departmental Computer Science Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University, January 24, 2002 (organized by Prof. N. Netaniyahu).

56. "WHY THE ANT TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE: ON ROBOTICS AND MULTIPLE A(GE)NT INTERACTIONS", New Discoveries in Science Lecture, Department of Physics, Technion, April 15, 2002 (organized by Prof. Y. Avron).

57. "DIGITAL GEOMETRY FOR IMAGE BASED METROLOGY", Seminar In Geometric
Computing and Its Applications, Tel Aviv University, April 22, 2002 (organized by Prof. M. Sharir). 58. "HAPPY PURSUITS: WHY ANT TRAILS LOOK SO STRAIGHT AND NICE", lecture at "Machshevim u'Machshevet" Computers and Thought, Seminar in celebration of Yom Yerushalaim, Jerusalem, May 9-11, 2002 (organized by Martin Golumbic and Shlomo Kipnis).

59. "SEXY APPLIED GEOMETRY, or THE BEAUTY AND USE OF SIMPLE GEOMETRY
IN REAL LIFE", 1st TAU-Technion Workshop on Geometric Computing, Nachsholim, Israel, June 14, 2002.

60. "IMAGE ANALYSIS: A Mini-Course" Part I, TsingHua University, Beijing, China, September, 2002.
Lecture 1: Introduction: the Structure of Images
Lecture 2: Edge Detection and Integration and Image Segmentation
Lecture 3: Planar Shape Analysis Principles
Lecture 4: Invariance in Shape Analysis and Shape Evolutions
Lecture 5: Geometry of the Integer Grid.

61. "VARIATIONAL IMAGE ANALYSIS: A Mini-Course" Part II, TsingHua University, Beijing, China, November - December, 2002.
Lecture 1: Variational Principles in Image Processing
Lecture 2: Shape form Shading Methods
Lecture 3: Photometric Stereo and Structured Light
Lecture 4: Optic Flow Algorithms
Lecture 5: Stereo and Motion Analysis.

62. "ON VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN EDGE INTEGRATION", National Laboratory of
Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, December, 2002 (invited by Dr. Tienu Tan).

63. "ON VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN EDGE INTEGRATION", Bell Labs China, Beijing, December, 2002 (invited by Dr. David Lee).

64. "TOPICS IN IMAGE ANALYSIS: A Mini- Course" Part III, TsingHua University, Beijing, China, February, 2003:
Lecture 1: The mathematics of Multi-A(ge)nt Interactions

Lecture 2: Minimal Time Path in the Plane and Eikonal Equations in Image Analysis.

65. "THE GEOMETRY OF VECTOR FIELDS" 2nd TAU-Technion Workshop on Geometric Computing, Nachsholim, Israel, May 2003 .

66. "APPLIED GEOMETRY" and "TRACKING LEVEL SETS BY LEVEL SETS IN SHAPE FROM SHADING AND MOTION ANALYSIS", lectures at EVRY University, Paris, France, October 2003 (Invited By Prof. Jean Marc Delosme).

67. "VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS", School of Computer Science and Engineering colloquium, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2004 (organized by Prof. A. Shahsua).

68. "VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS", Vision and Robotics Seminar, The Weizmann Institute of Science, January 2004 (organized by Prof. M. Irani).

69. "TOPICS IN IMAGE ANALYSIS: A Mini- Course" Part IV, APPLIED GEOMETRY, TsingHua University, Beijing, China, April 2004.

70. "VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS", special colloquium at Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, May 2004.

71. "WHY DO WE LOVE GEOMETRY SO MUCH?", 3rd TAU-Technion Workshop on Geo
metric Computing, Nachsholim, Israel, May 2004.

72. "ON LOGO DESIGN", seminar in Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - IIT., Haifa, Israel, Dec. 2004.

73. "ON SPACE FIDUCIALS", Robotics Colloquium, Karlsruhe University, Germany, February 2005 (organized by Prof. K. Kroschel).

74. "ON OMNIVIEWING WITH CURVED MIRROR SURFACES", Robotics Colloquium, Karlsruhe University, Germany, February 2005 (organized by Prof. K. Kroschel).