Publications

Recent Publications

Since 2010

Amir Rosenfeld and Daphna Weinshall. Extracting Foreground Masks towards Object Recognition. In Proc. of 13th IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona Spain, Nov 2011.

Roie Kliper, Hendrik Kayser, Daphna Weinshall, J\"orn Anem\"uller and Israel Nelken. Monaural Azimuth Localization Using Spectral Dynamics of Speech. In Proceedings: Interspeech, Florence Italy, Aug 2011.

Uri Shalit, Daphna Weinshall and Gal Chechik. Online Learning in the Manifold of Low-Rank Matrices. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2010, MIT Press.

Avishai Hendel, Daphna Weinshall, and Shmuel Peleg. Identifying Surprising Events in Videos Using Bayesian Topic Models. In Proc. 10th Asian Conference of Computer Vision (ACCV), Queenstown New Zealand, Nov 2010.

Roie Kliper, Yontan Vaizman, Daphna Weinshall and Shirley Portuguese. Evidence for depression and schizophrenia in speech prosody. Second ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics - ExLing, Athens Greece, August 2010.

Roie Kliper, Thomas Serre, Daphna Weinshall and Israel Nelken. The Story of A Single Cell: Peeking into the Semantics of Spikes. In IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP2010), Elba Island, June 2010.

Rubi Hammer, Andre Brechmann, Frank W. Ohl, Daphna Weinshall and Shaul Hochstein, Differential category learning processes: The neural basis of comparison-based learning and induction. Neuroimage, 52:699-709, 2010.

Daphna Weinshall, Hynek Hermansky, Alon Zweig, Jie Luo, Holly Jimison, Frank Ohl and Misha Pavel. Beyond Novelty Detection: Incongruent Events, when General and Specific Classifiers Disagree. Under revision. (conference version)

Learning similarity, and the use of pairwise constraints

Rubi Hammer, Tomer Hertz, Shaul Hochstein and Daphna Weinshall, Category Learning from Equivalence Constraints. Cognitive Processing, 10(3):211-232, 2009 ; initial conference publication .

Rubi Hammer, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Daphna Weinshall and Shaul Hochstein, Comparison Processes in Category Learning: From Theory to Behavior. Brain Research, 1225:102-118, 2008.

Rubi Hammer, Tomer Hertz, Shaul Hochstein and Daphna Weinshall, Classification with Positive and Negative Equivalence onstraints: Theory, Computation and Human Experiments. F. Mele et al. (Eds.): BVAI 2007, LNCS 4729, pp. 264-276, 2007.

Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Learning Distance Function by Coding Similarity. In Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2007, Corvallis OR, June 2007.

Tomer Hertz, Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Learning a Kernel Function for Classification with Small Training Samples. In Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2006, Pittsburgh PA, June 2006.

Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental and Daphna Weinshall. Learning a Mahalanobis Metric from equivalence constraints. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2005. (abstract)

Inna Weiner, Tomer Hertz, Israel Nelken and Daphna Weinshall. Analyzing Auditory Neurons by Learning Distance Functions. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2005, MIT Press.

Tomer Hertz, Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Boosting Margin-Based Distance Functions for Clustering. In Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2004, Banff Canada, July 2004.

Noam Shental, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz and Daphna Weinshall. Computing Gaussian Mixture Models with EM using Equivalence Constraints. Hebrew University, Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science, TR 2003-43, 2003.

Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman. Self Organization in Vision: Stochastic Clustering for Image Segmentation, Perceptual Grouping, and Image Database Organization. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(10):1053-1074, 2001. (abstract, conference version)

David W. Jacobs, Daphna Weinshall and Yoram Gdalyahu. Classification with Non-Metric Distances: Image Retrieval and Class Representation. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(6):583-600, 2000. (abstract)
Additional Conference papers (with the initial description of the earlier work above)

Object class recognition

Alon Zweig and Daphna Weinshall. Exploiting Object Hierarchy: Combining Models from Different Category Levels. In Proc. of 11th IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro Brazil, October 2007.

Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Subordinate class recognition using relational object models. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2006. .

Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz and Daphna Weinshall. Efficient Learning of Relational Object Class Models. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 77: 175--198, 2008. ; initial (shorter) conference publication (ICCV 2005) .

Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz and Daphna Weinshall. Object class recognition by boosting a part based model. In Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San-Diego CA, June 2005.

Virtual Reality and Schizophrenia Research

Anna Sorkin, Daphna Weinshall, Ilan Modai and Avi Peled, Improving the Accuracy of the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia by Means of Virtual Reality. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(3):512-520, 2006 ; preliminary conference publication - .

Anna Sorkin, Daphna Weinshall and Avi Peled, The distortion of reality perception in schizophrenia patients, as measured in Virtual Reality. In Proc. 16th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference (MMVR), Long Beach CA, Jan 2008 , full version (TR) .

Computer Vision

Motion Segmentation

Doron Feldman and Daphna Weinshall. Motion Segmentation and Depth Ordering Using an Occlusion Detector. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 30(7):1171-1185, July 2008 ; short workshop publication (affiliated with ECCV 2006).

XSlits cameras

Doron Feldman and Daphna Weinshall. Realtime IBR with Omnidirectional Crossed-Slits Projection. In Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, October 2005.

Doron Feldman, Tomas Pajdla, and Daphna Weinshall. On the Epipolar Geometry of the Crossed-Slits Projection. In Proc. of 9th IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, October 2003.

Assaf Zomet, Doron Feldman, Shmuel Peleg and Daphna Weinshall. Mosaicing New Views: The Crossed-Slits Projection. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(6):741-754, June 2003. (abstract)
follow-up on:
Daphna Weinshall, Mi-Suen Lee, Tomas Brodsky, Miroslav Trajkovic and Doron Feldman. New view generation with a bi-centric camera . In Proc. of 7th European Conference of Computer Vision, Copenhagen, May 2002.

Single 2-D Views: Invariants, Recognition and Bayesian Vision

Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman. Minimal Decomposition of Model-Based Invariants. J. Math. Imaging and Vision, 10(1):77-87, 1999.

Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman. On View Likelihood and Stability. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 19(2):97-108, 1997.

Ronen Basri and Daphna Weinshall. Distance Metric between 3D Models and 2D Images for Recognition and Classification. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 18(4):465-470, 1996. (full version)

Daphna Weinshall. Model-Based Invariants for 3-D Vision. Int. J. of Computer Vision 10(1):27-42, 1993.

Multi-Point Multi-View Geometry:

Daphna Weinshall, Mi-Suen Lee, Eric Cohen-Solal and Antonio Colmenarez. What if cameras could see themselves? Short version in Proceedings: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, I:1026-1033, Hawaii, Dec 2001.

Michal Irani, P. Anandan and Daphna Weinshall. From Reference Frames to Reference Planes: Multi-View Parallax Geometry and Applications. In Proc. of 5th European Conference of Computer Vision, Freiburg, June 1998, Springer-Verlag. . (See related paper under qualitative vision below .)

Stefan Carlsson and Daphna Weinshall. Dual Computation of Projective Shape and Camera Positions from Multiple Images. Int. J. of Computer Vision 27(3), 1998.

3-D Structure from Multiple Views:

Hagit Zabrodsky and Daphna Weinshall. Using Bilateral Symmetry to Improve 3-D Reconstruction from Image Sequences. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 67(1):48-57, July, 1997.

Daphna Weinshall and Carlo Tomasi. Linear and Incremental Acquisition of Invariant Shape Models from Image Sequences. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(5):512-517, May 1995. (full version)

Visual Perception (Psychophysics)

Zili Liu and Daphna Weinshall. Mechanisms of Generalization in Perceptual Learning. Vision Research 40(1):97-109, 2000. (abstract)

Daphna Weinshall. The computation of multiple matching in doubly ambiguous stereograms with transparent planes. Spatial Vision, 7(2):183-198, 1993.

Daphna Weinshall. Seeing ``Ghost'' Planes in Stereo Vision. Vision Research, 31(10):1731-1748, 1991.

2-D Vision

Yoram Gdalyahu and Daphna Weinshall. Flexible Syntactic Matching of Curves and its Application to Automatic Hierarchical Classification of Silhouettes. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 21(12), December 1999. (abstract)

Gilad Halevy and Daphna Weinshall. Motion of disturbances: detection and tracking of multi-body non-rigid motion. Machine Vision and Applications, 11(3):122-137, 1999. (conference version)

Michael Werman and Daphna Weinshall. Similarity and Affine Invariant Distance Between Point Sets. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(8):810-814, August 1995.

Qualitative Vision

Daphna Weinshall, P. Anandan and Michal Irani. From Ordinal to Euclidean Reconstruction with Partial Scene Calibration. In Springer LNCS: 3D Structure from Multiple Images of Large Scale Environments, June 1998. (abstract)

Daphna Weinshall. Local Shape Approximation from Shading. J. Math. Imaging & Vision 4(2):119-138, April 1994.

Daphna Weinshall. Direct Computation of Qualitative 3-D Shape and Motion Invariants. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13(12):1236-1240, 1991.

Daphna Weinshall. Qualitative Depth from Stereo, With Applications. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 49:222-241, 1990.

Learning and Vision

Learning distance functions

Tomer Hertz, Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Learning Distance Functions for Image Retrieval. In Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR), washington DC, June 2004.

Noam Shental, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz and Daphna Weinshall. Computing Gaussian Mixture Models with EM using Equivalence Constraints. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2003, MIT Press.

Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental, and Daphna Weinshall. Learning Distance Functions using Equivalence Relations. In Proc. of 20th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2003, Washington DC, August 2003.

Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Learning with Equivalence Constraints, and the Relation to Multiclass Learning. In Proc. of 16th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) 2003, Washington DC, August 2003.

Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental, Aharon Bar-Hillel and Daphna Weinshall. Enhancing Image and Video Retrieval: Learning via Equivalence Constraints. In Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Madison WI, June 2003.

Noam Shental, Tomer Hertz, Daphna Weinshall and Misha Pavel. Adjustment Learning and Relevant Component Analysis. In Proc. of 7th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, May 2002.

Other

Daphna Weinshall and Lior Zamir, Image Classification from Small Sample, with Distance Learning and Feature Selection. 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing, G. Bebis et al. (Eds.): ISVC 2007, Part II, LNCS 4842, pp. 106-115, 2007.

Chen Yanover and Tomer Hertz. Predicting Protein-Peptide Binding Affinity by Learning Peptide-Peptide Distance Functions. In the 9th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB), 2005.

Aharon Bar-Hillel, Adam Spiro and Eran Stark. Spike sorting: Bayesian Clustering of Non-Stationary Data. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2004.

Shimon Edelman and Daphna Weinshall. A self-organizing multiple-view representation of 3D objects. Biological Cybernetics, 64:209-219, 1991.

Cognitive passwords

Daphna Weinshall. Cognitive Authentication Schemes Safe Against Spyware. In Proc. 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2006. ; see also extended TR version .

Daphna Weinshall and Scott Kirkpatrick, Passwords you'll never forget, but can't recall. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2004, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29.

The Evolution of Sex

Ilan Eshel and Daphna Weinshall. Sexual reproduction and viability of future offspring. American Naturalist, 130(5):775-787, 1987.

Daphna Weinshall and Ilan Eshel . On the evolution of an optimal rate of sexual reproduction. American Naturalist, 130(5):758-774, 1987.

Daphna Weinshall. Why is a two environment system not rich enough to explain the evolution of sex?. American Naturalist, 128(5):736-750, 1986.