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
S. Avidan
and A. Shamir
Seam
Carving for Content-Aware Image Retargeting
SIGGRAPH,
San-Diego, 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
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:
2007
N.
Joshi, S. Avidan, W. Matusik and D. Kriegman
Synthetic
Aperture Tracking: Tracking through Occlusions
To
appear in ICCV 2007
B.
Moghaddam, Y. Weiss and S. Avidan
Fast
Pixel/Part Selection with Sparse Eigenvectors
To
appear in ICCV 2007
N.
J. W. Morris, S. Avidan, W. Matusik and H. Pfister
Statistics
of Infrared Images
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.
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