Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar

obs foto Associate professor

Office hours:by email appointment

Contacts

Email:
Homepage:
Office: 114 in 37 building
Phone number: 08-6477868
Fax number: 08-6477975
Box number: 38

Teaching

Spring 2005 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Fall 2005-2006 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Fall 2005-2006 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Spring 2006 20221521 Advanced Seminar B
Spring 2006 20214001 Project Course
Fall 2006-2007 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Fall 2006-2007 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Spring 2007 20225551 Research Seminar
Spring 2007 20225091 Selected Topics in Computational Vision
Fall 2007-2008 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Fall 2007-2008 20013011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis for IAF
Spring 2008 20225551 Research Seminar
Fall 2008-2009 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Fall 2008-2009 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Spring 2009 20225551 Research Seminar
Spring 2009 20214001 Project Course
Fall 2009-2010 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Spring 2010 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Spring 2010 20214171 Topics in Computational Vision
Fall 2010-2011 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Fall 2010-2011 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Fall 2010-2011 20013011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis for IAF
Spring 2011 20214001 Project Course
Spring 2011 20225571 Research Seminar 2
Fall 2011-2012 20013011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis for IAF
Fall 2011-2012 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision
Fall 2011-2012 20214171 Topics in Computational Vision
Spring 2012 20225571 Research Seminar 2
Fall 2012-2013 20213011 Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Fall 2012-2013 20215261 Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision

Research groups

Computational vision
Computer graphics

Education

2003  -  Ph.D  Yale University, Computer Science
Thesis: The Perceptual Organization of Visual Flows
Advisor: Steven W. Zucker

Selected publications all BibTex

 
Articles
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Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar. Shape from specular flow. , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2010 (in press).
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, .. General geometric good continuation: From Taylor to Laplace via levelsets , International Journal of Computer Vision. , 86(1):48-71, 2010.
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A. Ben-Simon, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev. Measuring and Tracking Eye Movements of a Behaving Archer Fish by Real-Time Stereo Vision. The Journal of Neuroscience Methods,, 184:235-243, 2009.
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G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar. Curvature-based perceptual singularities and texture saliency with early visual mechanisms. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25(8):1974-1993, 2008.
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O. Ben-Shahar, B.J. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker. Attention, segregation, and textons: Bridging the gap between object-based attention and texton-based segregation. Vision Research, 47(6):845-860, 2007.
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O. Ben-Shahar. Visual saliency and texture segregation without feature gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 103(42):15704-15709, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Sensitivity to Curvature Revealed in Orientation-Based Texture Segmentation. Vision Research, 44(3):257-277, 2004.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Geometrical Computations Explain Projection Patterns of Long Range Horizontal Connections in Visual Cortex. Neural Computation , 16(3):445-476, 2004.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Hue Geometry and Horizontal Connections . Neural Networks , 17:753-771, 2004.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker . The Perceptual Organization of Texture Flow: A Contextual Inference Approach. IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(4):401-417, 2003.
 
Book Chapters
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Boundary Gestalt limits flow gestalt: The geometry of good continuation. In Visual thought: The depictive space of the mind, L. Albertazzi editor, John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Hue Geometry and Horizontal Connections. In Vision and Brain, S. Grossberg, L. Finkel, and D. Field editor, Elsevier, 2004.
 
Conference Articles
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G Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar. , Minimum length in the tangent bundle as a model for curve completion. In , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.
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Canas, G.D., Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, S. Gortler, and O. Ben-Shahar.. A linear formulation of shape from specular flow. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.
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I. Kadar, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Sipper,. Evolution of a local boundary detector for natural images via genetic programming and texture cues. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2009.
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Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar. Dense specular shape from multiple specular flows. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008.
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O. Ben-Shahar,. Perceptual singularities in smooth orientation-defined textures: Segregation without Feature Gradient. In The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar, A. Glaser, and S.W. Zucker. Good Continuation in Layers: Shading flows, color flows, surfaces and shadows. In fifth workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar. Visualization with smooth oriented textures and flows: Insights from Perception. In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar. Saliency and segregation without feature gradient: New insights for segmentation from orientation-defined textures. In the fifth workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, 2006.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker,. Good continuation of general 2D visual features: Dual harmonic models and computational inference. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Hue Fields and Color Curvatures: A Perceptual Organization Approach to Color Image Denoising. , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Wisconsin, June 2003.
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O. Ben-Shahar, B. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker. Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons. , The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 2003.
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O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker. Curvature and the Perceptual Organization of Texture Flows. , The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 2002.
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O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker . On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges. , 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, Tübingen, Germany, November 2002.