Shai Avidan

Senior Research Scientist,

Adobe Systems Inc.,

Newton, MA

email: shai.avidan@gmail.com

phone: +1-617-232-3575

 

 Education

 

Ph.D. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1999

B.Sc. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 1993

Click here for my CV.

 

 Places I have been affiliated with

 

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA

MobilEye Vision Technologies, LTD, Jerusael, Israel.

Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

 

 Journals

M. Rubinstein, A. Shamir and S. Avidan

Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting

SIGGRAPH 2008

 

Eugene Hsu, Tom Mertens, Sylvain Paris, Shai Avidan and Frédo Durand

Light Mixture Estimation for Spatially Varying White Balance  [Project web page]

SIGGRAPH 2008

 

S. Avidan and A. Shamir

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Retargeting

SIGGRAPH 2007

 

N. Joshi, W. Matusik, S. Avidan, H. Pfister and W. T. Freeman.

Exploring Defocus Matting: Non-Parametric Acceleration, Super-Resolution, and Off-Center Matting

Special Issue-Computational Photography of IEEE Journal on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2007

 

S. Avidan.

Ensemble Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 29(2), pp 261-271, 2007

 

S. Avidan, Y. Moses and Y. Moses

Centralized and Distributed Multi-view Correspondence

International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 71(1), pp 49-69, 2007

 

N. Joshi, W. Matusik and S. Avidan

Natural Video Matting using Camera Arrays  [Project web page]

SIGGRAPH, Boston, MA, USA, 2006

 

S. Avidan

Support Vector Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 26(8), pp. 1064--1072, 2004

 

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Threading Fundamental Matrices

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 23(1), pp. 73--77, 2001

 

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Trajectory Triangulation: 3D Reconstruction of Moving Points from a Monocular Image Sequence

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 22(4), pp. 348--357, 2000

 

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Novel View Synthesis by Cascading Trilinear Tensors

IEEE Transacions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 4(4), 1998.

 


 Publications: 2008

T. S. Cho, M. Butman, S. Avidan and W. T. Freeman

The patch transform and its applications to image editing  [Project web page]

To appear in CVPR 2008


 Publications: 2007

N. Joshi, S. Avidan, W. Matusik and D. Kriegman

Synthetic Aperture Tracking: Tracking through Occlusions  [Project web page]

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.

 

B. Moghaddam, Y. Weiss and S. Avidan

Fast Pixel/Part Selection with Sparse Eigenvectors

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.

 

N. J. W. Morris, S. Avidan, W. Matusik and H. Pfister

Statistics of Infrared Images  [Project web page]

In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , pages 1--7, 2007

 


 Publications: 2006

S. Avidan and M. Butman

Efficient Methods for Privacy Preserving Classification

Advances in Neural Information Systems (NIPS 18), 2006.

 

B. Moghaddam, Y. Weiss and S. Avidan

Generalized Spectral Bounds for Sparse LDA

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006.

 

Q. Zhu, S. Avidan, M. Ye and K-T Cheng

Fast human detection using a cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), NY, NY, USA, 2006.

 

S. Avidan and M. Butman

Blind Vision

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, 2006.

 

S. Avidan

SpatialBoost: Adding Spatial Reasoning to AdaBoost

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, 2006.

 


 Publications: 2005

Q. Zhu, S. Avidan and K-T Cheng

Learning a Sparse, Corner-based Representation for Time-varying Background Modeling

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Beijing, China, 2005.

 

S. Avidan

Ensemble Tracking

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, USA, 2005.

 

B. Moghaddam, Y. Weiss and S. Avidan

Spectral Bounds for Sparse PCA: Exact and Greedy Algorithms

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS18), 2005.

 


 Publications: 2004

S. Avidan and M. Butman

The power of feature clustering: An application to object detection

Advances in Neural Information Systems (NIPS 16), 2004.

 

S. Avidan

Joint Feature-Basis Subset Selection

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington D.C., 2004.

 

P. Reisman, O. Mano, S. Avidan, and A. Shashua

Crowd Detection in video sequences

IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV), 2004, Parma, Italy.

 

S. Avidan, Y. Moses and Y. Moses

Probabilistic Multi-View Correspondence in a Distributed Setting with No Central Server

Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, 2004.

 


 Publications: 2003

S. Avidan

Subset Selection for Efficient SVM Tracking

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2003.

 


 Publications: 2002

A. Shashua A. Levin and S. Avidan

Manifold Pursuit: A New Approach to Appearance Based Recognition.
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition. (ICPR), Quebec City, Canada, 2002.

 

S. Avidan

EigenSegments: A spatio-temporal decomposition of an ensemble of image

Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002.

 


 Publications: 2001

S. Avidan

Support Vector Tracking

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, 2001.

 


 Publications: 2000

R. Szeliski, S. Avidan, and P. Anandan

Layer extraction from multiple images containing reflections and transparency

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hilton Head Island, 2000.

 

P. Anandan and S. Avidan

Integrating Local Affine into Global Projective Images in the Joint Image Space

Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Dublin, Ireland, 2000.

 

A. Shashua and S. Avidan

On the Reprojection of 3D and 2D Scenes Without Explicit Model Selection

Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Dublin, Ireland. 2000.

 


 Publications: 1999

A. Shashua, S. Avidan and M. Werman

Trajectory Triangulation over Conic Sections

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kerkyra, Corfu, Greece, 1999. 

 

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Trajectory Triangulation of Lines: Reconstruction of a 3D point Moving along a  Line from a Monocular Image Sequence

IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),  Ft. Collins, CO, USA,1999.

 


 Publications: 1998

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Tensor Embedding of the Fundamental Matrix

Post-ECCV SMILE Workshop, Frieburg, Germany, 1998.

 

S. Avidan and A. Shashua.

Threading Fundamental Matrices

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Frieburg, Germany, 1998.

 


 Publications: 1997

S. Avidan and A. Shashua

Novel View Synthesis in Tensor Space

IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),  Puerto-Rico, 1997. For demo click here. 

 

S. Avidan, T. Evgeniou, A. Shashua and T. Poggio

Image-Based View Synthesis by Combining Trilinear Tensors and Learning Techniques

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Conference (VRST), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1997.

 


 Publications: 1996

A. Shashua and S. Avidan

The Rank4 Constraint In Multiple View Geometry

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Cambridge, UK, 1996.

 

B. Rousso, S. Avidan, A. Shashua and S. Peleg

Robust Recovery of Camera Rotation from Three Frames

IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San-Francisco, USA, 1996.

 

S. Avidan and A. ShashuaTensorial Transfer: On the Representation of $N>3$ Views of a 3D Scene

Proc. of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Palm Springs, 1996.