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Alfred M. Bruckstein
Technion Ollendorff Chair in Science

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Computer Science Department

 718 Taub Building Technion ― IIT

Haifa 32000, Israel

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freddy@cs.technion.ac.il

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+972-4-829- 4361

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GRADUATE STUDENTS X

MSc

1. Baruch Bardugo, MSc,

"DESIGN OF FINITE MEMORY KALMAN FILTERS"

December, 1986. (went on to get a PhD at Technion in Biomedical Engineering, now works in Hi-Tech in Israel).


2. Henry Fiszer, MSc,

"ANALYSIS OF A SHAPE-FROM-SHADING ALGORITHM OVER A PIXEL ARRAY",

July, 1986 (went on to get an MBA, now is an economist in Paris, France).


3. Marc Smadja, MSc,

"SHAPE-FROM-SHADING USING A CONTOUR CLIMBING ALGORITHM",

March, 1987 (went on to get an MBA, now is an economist in Paris, France).

 

4. Ronald Riesenbach, MSc,

"A VLSI ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL TIME IMAGE PROCESSING"

(Dr. Ran Ginosar was principal advisor) July, 1986 (now works in Hi-Tech in Canada).


5. (*) Michael Lindenbaum, MSc,

"SHAPE DETERMINATION FROM LOCAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS",

April, 1987. (PhD at Technion with Alfred Bruckstein).


6. (*) Shimon Yanowitz, MSc,

"IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD SURFACES",

May, 1987 (worked in VLSI Inspection Industry, now visiting in the CS Department, Technion).


7. Eliezer Cohen, MSc,

"ESTIMATION OF PULSE SHAPE AND LOCATION FROM INTEGRAL MEASUREMENTS" June, 1987.


8. (*) Ruth Onn, MSc,

"SHAPE FROM SHADING FROM TWO ILLUMINATION DIRECTIONS",

June, 1987 (PhD at Cornell University with Allan Johnes, now works for Rafael Ltd. Haifa, Israel).


9. (*) Nahum Kiryati, MSc,

"BIT ALLOCATION TRADEOFFS IN DIGITIZING BINARY IMAGES",

February, 1988. (PhD at Technion with Alfred Bruckstein).


10. (*) Raanan Bornstein, MSc,

"FINDING THE KERNEL OF PLANAR SHAPES",

June, 1988 (now works in Hi-Tech in Silicon Valley in California, USA).


11. Arkadi Gluchovski, MSc,

"ON SURFACE INTERPOLATION METHODS IN A NEW ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING PROCEDURE", May, 1989. (went on to get a PhD at Technion with Prof. Dan Adam, then became CTO of Given Imaging).


12. Itai Nehoran, MSc,

"TWO IMAGE REGISTRATION",

July, 1989.


13. Rami Baruch, MSc, "RECOGNIZING FINGERPRINTS", June, 1990 (now works in
Hi-Tech, founder of Koranix Ltd. in Koranit, Israel).


14. (*)Einat Adin, MSc,

"NAVIGATING BETWEEN MOVING OBSTACLES",

October, 1990 (now works for Rafael Ltd., Haifa, Israel).


15. Iftach Maayan, MSc,

"DIGITIZED LINES AND PLANES",

June, 1991.


16. (*)Doron Shaked, MSc,

"DIGITAL STAR-SHAPEDNESS",

December 1991. (PhD at Technion with Alfred Bruckstein).


17. Ziva Zommer, MSc,

"SUBPIXEL PRECISION LINE AND BORDER TRACKING",
December 1991 (now works in Hi-Tech, Elbit, Haifa, Israel).


18. (*)Ronny Kimmel, MSc,

"SHAPE FROM SHADING VIA LEVEL SETS",

1992. (PhD at Technion with Alfred Bruckstein).


19. (*) Amir Arnon, MSc,

"DEPTH RECONSTRUCTION WITH STRUCTURED LIGHT",
1992. (PhD at Technion with Michael Lindenbaum, now at IBM Almaden Research,
California, USA).


20. (*)Daphna Palti, MSc,

"LINE FOLLOWING FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS"

(Prof. Ra¯ Beyar was principal advisor) 1993/4. (PhD at Technion with Nahum Kirayti, Alfred Bruckstein and Rafael Beyar).


21. Tzachi Shalit, MSc,

"ROBOTICS BIN-PICKING PROJECT", 1993/4.


22. (*)Polina Golland, MSc,

"USE OF COLOR FOR OPTICAL FLOW ESTIMATION",
1995. (PhD at MIT with W.E.L. Grimson, now Assistant Professor at MIT).


23. (*)Ami Steiner, MSc,

"PLANAR SHAPE EXAGGERATION", 1995

(now works in Hi-Tech, founder of E-Teacher Ltd.).


24. Michael Kliot, MSc,

"LOCAL MULTIVALUED INVARIANT SIGNATURES AND THEIR USAGE IN PICTORIAL DATABASES",

1996, (joint advisor with Dr. E. Rivlin, now works for Rafael Ltd., Haifa, Israel).


25. Boris Zemlyak, MSc,

"CAMERA MOTIONS FOR DEPTH ESTIMATION",

1997 (now works in Hi-Tech in California, USA).


26. (*) Vladimir Yanovsky, MSc,

"SIMPLE A(GE)NTS FOR COMPLEX TASKS",

2001, (jointly with Dr. Israel Wagner, does PhD at the Technion with Dr. Israel Wagner and Prof. Alfred Bruckstein).


27. Barak Hermesh, MSc,

"FIDUCIALS FOR PRECISE LOCATION ESTIMATION",

2001(works in Hi-Tech in Israel.


28. (*) Alexander Nisenboim, MSc,

"SHAPE-FROM-SEM IMAGES",

2003. (now works for IBM Research in Haifa, Israel).


29. (*) Adi Bar-Lev, MSc,

"COMPUTERIZED MARIONETTES", 2003,

(jointly with Prof. Gershon Elber, now works in Hi-Tech in Canada).


30. (*) Vadim Makhervaks, MSc,

"ON IMAGE-FLOWS AND ONE-LINER IMAGE TRACINGS",

2003, (jointly with Dr. Gill Barequet, now works for IBM Research in Haifa, Israel).


31. Dimitry Livshitz, MSc,

"SELF LOCATION WITH 3D FIDUCIALS AND OMNICAMERAS",

2003.


32. Tamer Salman, MSc,

"KERNEL METHODS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND SHAPE CATEGORIZATION", (jointly with Prof. Yoram Baram, currently doing a PhD at Technion with Yoram Baram).


33. (*) Guy Levanon, MSc,

"MOIRE PATTERN DESIGN",

2000. (PhD at Carnegie Mellon with John LaŽerty, now Assistant Professor at Purdue University, USA).
 

PhD

1. (*) Michael Lindenbaum, PhD,

"TOPICS IN GEOMETRIC PROBING",

June, 1990 (currently Associate Professor at CS Department, Technion).


2. (*) Nahum Kiryati, PhD,

"THE HOUGH TRANSFORM: ANALYSIS, EXTENSIONS AND APPLICATIONS",

January 1991 (currently Associate Professor at EE Department, Tel Aviv University).


3. (*)Yachin Pnueli, PhD, "GRIDLESS HALFTONING",

1993 (currently works in Hi-Tech in Israel).

 

4. (*)Guillermo Sapiro, PhD,

"AFFINE INVARIANT SHAPE EVOLUTIONS",

1993 (jointly with Prof. Allen Tannenbaum , now Distinguished Professor at the EE Department, University of Minnesota).


5. (*)Doron Shaked, PhD,

"SYMMETRY, INVARIANCE AND EVOLUTION IN PLANAR SHAPE ANALYSIS",

1995 (currently senior member of technical staff, Hewlett Packard Research in Haifa, Israel).


6. (*)Ronny Kimmel, PhD,

"CURVE EVOLUTION ON SURFACES",

1995 (joint advisor with Dr. Nahum Kiryati, currently Associate Professor at CS Department, Technion).


7. (*)Israel Wagner, PhD, "ANT-ROBOTICS: SEARCH, EXPLORATION AND COVERING IN MULTI-A(GE)NT SYSTEMS", 1997, (joint advisor with Dr. Michael Lindenbaum, now member of technical staff at IBM Research, Haifa, Israel and Adjunct at
Technion).


8. Daphna Palti, PhD

"LINE FOLLOWING FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS",

1998 (Prof. Rafael Beyar and Dr. N. Kiryati were principal advisors, currently working in Hi-Tech in Israel).

 

9. Eliyahu Osherovich, MSc,

"ANT ROBOTICS: COVERING CONTINUOUS DOMAINS BY MULTI-A(GE)NT SYSTEMS"

(Phd student in the Department of Computer Science, Technion).

 

10. Miriam Inberg, MSc,

"ANALYZING BLOOD VESSEL NETWORKS".

 

11. Erez Brickner, MSc

"The Populating Problem - A Study In Multi-Nano-Robotics"

(jointly with Dr. Israel Wagner).
 

12. Tal Nir, MSc,

"TOPICS IN MOTION ANALYSIS"

 

13. Tal Nir, PhD,

"MOTION ADVANCE ANALYSIS AND OBJECT TRACKING".

 

 

STUDENTS IN PROGRESS X

MSc

 

1. Mark Ginzburg, MSc

"Holographic Video-Scene Watermarking in the 3D-DFT Domain"

 

2. Ishay Goldin, MSc
"A SHAPE DEFORMATION PRIOR FOR TRACKING AND SEGMENTATION"

 

3. Vainsencher Daniel, MSc

"2D Digital Balls"

 

PhD

1. Yaniv Altshuler, PhD,

"MULTI AGENTS ROBOTICS IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS",
(jointly with Dr. Israel Wagner).


2. Uri Dubin, PhD,

in initial stages.

 

3. Noam Gordon , PhD,

"PATTERN FORMATION AND OTHER FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN MULTI- A(GE)NT ROBOTIC SYSTEMS"

(jointly with Dr. Israel Wagner).
 

4. Vladimir Yanovsky, PhD,

"MULTI AGENT SEARCH PROCESSES",

(jointly with Dr. Israel Wagner).