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Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Conference Articles

Abstracts

Dissertations

Journal Articles

M. Ben-Tov, I. Kopilevich, O. Donchin, O. Ben Shahar, C. Giladi, and R. Segev, Visual Receptive Field Properties of Cells in the Optic Tectum of the Archer Fish , Journal of Neurophsyiology, to appear.
R. Ben-Ari and O. Ben-Shahar, computationally efficient tracker with direct appearance-kinematic measure and adaptive Kalman filter , Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, to appear.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, A perceptual paradigm and psychophysical evidence for hierarchy in scene gist processing , Journal of Vision, 12(13):16, 1-17, 2012.
A. Ben-Simon, O. Ben-Shahar, G. Vasserman, M. Ben-Tov, and R. Segev, Visual acuity in the archer fish: Behavior, anatomy, and neurophysiology , Journal of Vision, 12(12), 2012.
Avi Ben-Simon, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Genadiy Vasserman, and Ronen Segev, Predictive saccade in the absence of smooth pursuit: Interception of moving targets in the archer fish , Journal of Experimental Biology, 215, 4248-4254, 2012.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Tangent bundle curve completion with locally connected parallel networks , Neural Computation, 24(12), 3277-3316, 2012.
O. Ben-Shahar, S. Dolev, A. Dolgin, and M. Segal, Direction election in flocking swarms , Ad Hoc Networks (AHN), to appear.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A tangent bundle theory for visual curve compeltion , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(7), 1263-1280, 2012.
K. Kapach, E. Barnea, R. Mairon, Y. Edan, and O. Ben-Shahar, Computer vision for fruit harvesting robots - State of the art and challenges ahead , International journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, 3(1/2), 2012.
W. Harmening, J. Orlowski, O. Ben-Shahar, and H. Wagner, Overt attention towards oriented objects in free viewing barn owls , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 108(20), 8461-8466, 2011.
A. Mokeichev, Segev, R., and O. Ben-Shahar, Orientation saliency without visual cortex and target selection in archer fish , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 107(38), 16726-16731, 2010. Research featured in Science Now, The Scientist, Discover magazine, the Digital Journal, and other science news outlets.
Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Shape from specular flow , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 32(11), 2054-2070, 2010.
R. Berenstrin, O. Ben-Shahar, A. Shapiro, and Y. Edan, Grape clusters and foliage detection algorithms for autonomous selective vineyard sprayer , Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), 3(4), 233-243, 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, General Geometric Good Continuation: from Taylor to Laplace via Level Sets , International Journal of Computer Vision, 86(1), 48-71, 2010.
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.
M. Lawlor, D. Holtman-Rice, P. Huggins, O. Ben-Shahar, and S.W. Zucker, Boundaries, shading, and border ownership: A cusp at their interaction , Journal of Physiology-Paris, 103(1-2), 18-36, 2009.
A. Shapiro, E. Korkidi, A. Demri, O. Ben-Shahar, R. Riemer, and Y. Edan, Toward Elevated Agrobotics: An Autonomous Field Robot for Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm Trees , Journal of Field Robotics, 26(6/7), 572-590, 2009.
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.
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.
A. Mokeichev, M. Okun, O. Barak, Y. Katz, O. Ben-Shahar, and I. Lampl, Stochastic emergence of repeating cortical motifs in spontaneous membrane potential fluctuations in vivo , Neuron, 53, 413-425, 2007. See also the preview for this paper.
O. Ben-Shahar, Visual saliency and texture segregation without feature gradient , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 103(42), 15704-15709, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue geometry and horizontal connections, Neural Networks, 17 753-771, 2004.
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.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Sensitivity to curvatures revealed in orientation-based texture segmentation , Vision Research, 44(3) 257-277, 2004.
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.
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, T. Izo, and S.W. Zucker, Cotrical connections and early visual function: Intra- and inter-columnar processing , Journal of Physiology-Paris, 97(2-3), 191-208, 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, Practical pushing planning for rearrangement tasks , IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, 14(4) 549-565, 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, On the rearrangement of movable objects by a mobile robot , IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 28(5) 667-679, 1998.

Book Chapters

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Good Continuation in Layers: Shading flows, Color flows, Surfaces, and Shadows, in Information in Perception, L. Albertazzi (Ed.), MIT Press, 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar, G. Li, and S.W. Zucker, Connection Geometry, Color, and Stereo , in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4673, pp. 13-198, 2007.
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 (Ed.), John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue geometry and horizontal connections, in Vision and Brain, S. Grossberg, L. Finkel, and D. Field (Eds.), Elsevier, 2004.
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker, On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2525, pp. 189-198, 2002.

Conference Articles (rigorously peer reviewed)

I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, From Perceptual Relations to Scene Gist Recognition , in the Scene Understanding Workshop (SUNw), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, Small Sample Scene Categorization from Perceptual Relations , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012.
Y. Adato and O. Ben-Shahar, Specular Flow and Shape in One Shot , In the Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Dundee, Scotland, August 2011.
M. Shemesh and O. Ben-Shahar, Free boundary conditions active contours with application for vision , In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 2011.
Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, A polar representation of motion and implications for optical flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 1145-1152, 2011.
D. Pomeranz, M. Shemesh, and O. Ben-Shahar, A fully automated greedy square jigsaw puzzle solver , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 9-16, 2011. See also the project page for more demos, info, and code.
Y. Vasilyev, T. Zickler, S. Gortler, and O. Ben-Shahar Shape from Specular Flow: Is One Flow Enough? , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 2561-2568, 2011.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A biologically-inspired theory for non-axiomatic parametric curve completion , In the Proceedings of the Asian Conferenced on Computer Vision (ACCV), Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar, S. Dolev, A. Dolgin, M. Segal, Direction election in flocking swarms , In the Proceedings of the SIGACT/SIGMOBILE Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (DIALM-POMC), Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2010.
Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards robust computation of specular flow , In the Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberystwyth, UK, August 2010.
G Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Minimum length in the tangent bundle as a model for curve completion , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Fransisco, California, June 2010. You can also see the talk itself, since this CVPR all talks were filmed by videolectures.net.
Canas, G.D., Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, S. Gortler, and O. Ben-Shahar, A linear formulation of shape from specular flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, September 2009.
I. Kadar, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Sipper, Evolution of a local boundary detector for natural images via genetic programming and texture cues, In the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
I. Kadar, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Sipper, Evolving boundary detectors for natural images via genetic programming , In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008.
E. Korkidi, A. Shapiro, and O. Ben-Shahar, Visual servoing of a pan tilt spraying head for accurate spraying of date palm trees, In the Proceedings of the Israeli Conference on Robotics (ICR), Herzlia, Israel, November 2008.
Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Dense specular shape from multiple specular flows , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008.
A. Shapiro, E. Korkodi, A. Rotenberg, G. Furst, H. Namdar, B. Sapir, M. Mishkin, O. Ben- Shahar, and Y. Edan, A robotic protoype for spraying and pollinating date palm trees, In the Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA), August, 2008.
Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, O. Ben-Shahar, and T. Zickler, Toward a theory of shape from specular flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.
O. Ben-Shahar, G. Li, and S.W. Zucker, Connection geometry, color, and stereo , The International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Vienna, Austria, August 2007.
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 (POCV), New York, USA, June 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, A. Glaser, and S.W. Zucker, Good Continuation in Layers: Shading flows, color flows, surfaces and shadows , In the fifth workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), New York, USA, June 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, Visualization with smooth oriented textures and flows: Insights from Perception, In the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), Boston, USA, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Good continuation of general 2D visual features: Dual harmonic models and computational inference , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, 2005.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, General geometric good continuation: A biologically plausible network model, In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks & Brain (ICNN&B), Beijing, China, 2005.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue fields and color curvatures: A perceptual organization approach to color image denoising , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Wisconsin, June 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker, On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2525, pp. 189-198, 2002.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, On the perceptual organization of texture and shading flows: From a geometrical model to coherence computation , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, December 2001.
G. Hager and D. Kriegman and A. Georghiades and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards domain independent navigation: Dynamic vision and control, In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 1998.
G. Hager and D. Kriegman and A. Georghiades and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards domain independent navigation: Dynamic vision and control, In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To push or not to push II: Practical pushing planning for rearrangement tasks, In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, 1996.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To push or not to push I: On the rearrangement of movable objects by a mobile robot, In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, 1996.

Abstracts

I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, From Perceptual Relations to Scene Gist Recognition , The Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision Workshop (MODVIS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Independence of luminance and chromatic edge orientations in natural scenes , Journal of Vision (to appear), The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, SceneNet: A Perceptual Ontology Database for Scene Understanding , Journal of Vision (to appear), The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Neural patterns of minimal bending as perceptual curve completion , Journal of Vision 12(9):880, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Phase Randomization of Natural Color Images with Simultaneous Preservation of First and Second Order Statistics , Journal of Vision 12(9):846, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, Learning perceptual relations for categorizing natural scenes from few training examples , Journal of Vision 12(9):799, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
D. Holtmann-Rice, O. Ben-Shahar, S. Zucker, Superposition of Glass Patterns: finding the flow through local measurements , Journal of Vision 12(9):1312, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Tangent bundle contour completion with early vision mechanisms , Journal of Vision, 11(11):1036, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Chroma and luminance interactions in processing of orientation saliency , Journal of Vision, 11(11):139, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, ANew Perceptual Paradigm And Psychophysical Evidence For Hierarchical Gist Recognition , Journal of Vision, 11(11):1113, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
O. Ben-Shahar and G. Ben-Yosef, Lazy neurons for good shape - Neural energy minimization models for perceptual curve completion , Journal of Vision, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
H. Wagner, J. Orlowski, O. Ben-Shahar, and W.M. Harmening Image-based gaze analysis in free-viewing barn owls<, The International Congress on Neuroethology, Salamanca, Spain, August 2010. Download: poster reprint.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Curve completion as minimum action in the primary visual cortex , Journal of Vision 10(7):1165, 2010, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2010.
L. Diesendruck and O. Ben-Shahar, Overt and Covert attention interact with curvature-based perceptual singularities , Journal of Vision 10(7):134, 2010, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2010.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Curvature-based segregation for multi-oriented textures , Journal of Vision 9(8):927, 927a, 2009. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2009. Download: poster reprint.
W.M. Harmening, S.Ohayon, E.Rivlin, O. Ben-Shahar, and H. Wagner, The owl cam: Ego-centered assessment of visual behaviour in free-viewing barn owls , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2008.
L. Diesendruck and O. Ben-Shahar, Object-based effects of attentional selection due to low-level curvature-based perceptual singularities , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2008.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A biologically-plausible model for curvature-based texture segregation , Journal of Vision, 7(9):909, 909a, 2007. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2007. Download: poster reprint.
O. Ben-Shahar, Perceptual singularities in smooth orientation-defined textures: Segregation without Feature Gradient, Journal of Vision, 6(6), 763a, 2006. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2006. Download: poster reprint.
B.J. Scholl, O. Ben-Shahar, and A. Marino, What counts as an 'object' of object-based attention?, Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, November 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, B. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker, Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons, Journal of Vision, 3(9), 474a, 2003. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2003. Download: poster reprint.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Curvature and the perceptual organization of texture flows , Journal of Vision, 2(7), 468a, 2002. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2002. Download: poster reprint.

Dissertations

O. Ben-Shahar, The perceptual organization of visual flows , Ph.D. Thesis , Yale university, New Haven, CT, December 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, To push or not to push: On the rearrangement of movable objects with a mobile robot , M.Sc. Thesis, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1996.

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