Research Interests: Computer Vision; Video Motion Analysis; Video Mosaicing; Video Synopsis and Indexing

Short Biography (from Alumni Hall of Fame, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland.)

Publications ( 2001-2009, 1995-2000, 1991-1994, 1988-1990, 1978-1987 )

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Last modified: August 3, 2008.

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2001 - 2009

Y. Pritch, E. Kav-Venaki, and S. Peleg, Shift Map Image Editing, ICCV'09, Kyoto, Sept. 2009. in press. Click here for a Demo.

Y. Pritch, S. Ratovitch, A. Hendel, and S. Peleg, Clustered Synopsis of Surveillance Video, 6th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS'09), Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2-4, 2009. in press.

Y. Pritch, A. Rav-Acha, and S. Peleg, Nonchronological Video Synopsis and Indexing, IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol 30, No. 11, Nov. 2008, pp. 1971-1984. Click here for a Demo.

A. Rav-Acha, G. Engel, and S. Peleg, Minimal Aspect Distortion (MAD) Mosaicing of Long Scenes, IJCV, Vol 78, No. 2-3, July 2008, pp. 187-206. Click here for a Demo.

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Pritch, D. Lischinski, and S. Peleg, Dynamosaicing: Mosaicing of Dynamic Scenes, IEEE Trans. PAMI, Oct. 2007, pp. 1789-1801. Click here for a Demo.

Y. Pritch, A. Rav-Acha, A. Gutman, and S. Peleg, Webcam Synopsis: Peeking Around the World, ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 2007. Click here for a Demo.

S. Peleg, Video Mosaicing for Non-Chronological Time Editing, Invited Talk at IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA'2007), Tokyo, Japan, May 2007, pp. 367-375.

A. Rav-Acha and S. Peleg, Lucas Kanade Without Iterative Warping. ICIP'06, Atlanta, October 2006, pp. 1097-1100. A longer version is in Hebrew University Technical Report HUJI-CSE-LTR-2006-39, May 2006.

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Pritch, and S. Peleg, Making a Long Video Short: Dynamic Video Synopsis. CVPR'06, New York, June 2006, pp. 435- 441. Click here for a Demo.

A. Zomet, A. Levin, S. Peleg and Y. Weiss, Seamless image stitching by minimizing false edges, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 4, April 2006, pp. 969-977.

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Pritch, and S. Peleg, Online Registration of Dynamic Scenes using Video Extrapolation, Workshop on Dynamical Vision at ICCV'05, Beijing, October 2005. In Dynamical Vision, LNCS 5358, pp. 151-164, Springer, 2007

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Pritch, D. Lischinski, and S. Peleg, Spatio-Temporal Video Warping, SIGGRAPH'05 sketch, August 2005. A full version is: Evolving Time Fronts: Spatio-Temporal Video Warping, Hebrew University Technical Report HUJI-CSE-LTR-2005-10, April 2005. Click here for a Demo.

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Pritch, D. Lischinski, and S. Peleg, Dynamosaicing: Video mosaics with non-chronological time, CVPR'05, San Diego, June 2005, pp. 58-65. Click here for a Demo.

A. Rav-Acha and S. Peleg, Two motion-blurred images are better than one, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol 26, pp. 311-317, 2005.

A. Rav-Acha and S. Peleg, A Unified Approach for Motion Analysis and View Synthesis, Second IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2004.

A. Rav-Acha, Y. Shor, and S. Peleg, Mosaicing with Parallax using Time Warping, Second IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (IVR'04), Washington, DC, July 2004.

A. Levin, A. Zomet, S. Peleg, and Y. Weiss, Seamless Image Stitching in the Gradient Domain, ECCV'04, Prague, May 2004, Part IV, pp. 377-389.

C. Sun and S. Peleg, Fast Panoramic Stereo Matching using Cylindrical Maximum Surfaces, IEEE Trans. on SMC Part B, Vol. 34, Feb. 2004, pp. 760-765.

D. Feldman, A. Zomet, D. Weinshall, and S. Peleg, New View Synthesis with Non-Stationary Mosaicing, Mirage 2003 (Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging, Rendering, image Analysis and Graphical special Effects), INRIA Rocquencourt, France, March 2003.

A. Zomet, D. Feldman, S. Peleg, and D. Weinshall, Mosaicing New Views: The Crossed-Slits Projection, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, June 2003, pp. 741-754.

D. Feldman, A. Zomet, S. Peleg, and D. Weinshall, Video Synthesis made simple with the X-Slits Projection, IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando, Dec. 2002, pp. 195-200.

A. Zomet and S. Peleg, Multi-Sensor Super Resolution, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Orlando, Dec. 2002, pp. 27-31.

A. Rav-Acha, A. Zomet, S. Peleg, Robust Super Resolution, CVPR'01, Hawaii, Dec. 2001, Vol. I, pp. 645-650.

A. Zomet and S. Peleg, Super-Resolution from Multiple Images having Arbitrary Mutual Motion, in S. Chaudhuri (Editor), Super-Resolution Imaging, Kluwer Academic, Sept.2001, pp. 195-209.

Y. Pritch, M. Ben-Ezra, and S. Peleg, Optics for OmniStereo Imaging, in L.S. Davis (Editor), Foundations of Image Understanding, Kluwer Academic, July 2001, pp. 447-467.

S. Peleg, M. Ben-Ezra, and Y. Pritch, OmniStereo: Panoramic Stereo Imaging, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, March 2001, pp. 279-290.

S. Peleg, M. Ben-Ezra, and Y. Pritch. Panoramic imaging with horizontal stereo. In R. Benosman and S.B. Kang, editors, Panoramic Vision: Sensors, Theory, and Applications, pages 153-169. Springer Verlag, March 2001.

S. Peleg, B. Rousso, A. Rav-Acha, and A. Zomet. Mosaicing with strips on adaptive manifolds. In R. Benosman and S.B. Kang, editors, Panoramic Vision: Sensors, Theory, and Applications, pages 322339. Springer Verlag, March 2001.

1995 - 2000

A. Rav-Acha and S. Peleg, Restoration of Multiple Images with Motion Blur in Different Directions, Fifth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'00), Palm Springs, Dec. 2000, pp. 22-28.

S. Peleg, B. Rousso, A. Rav-Acha, and A. Zomet, Mosaicing on Adaptive Manifolds, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Oct. 2000, pp. 1144-1154.

A. Zomet and S. Peleg, Efficient Super-Resolution and Applications to Mosaics, ICPR'00, Barcelona, Sept 2000, Vol. I, pp. 3-7.

A. Zomet, S. Peleg, and C. Arora, Rectified Mosaicing: Mosaics without the Curl, CVPR'00, Hilton Head Island, June 2000, Vol. II, pp. 459-465.

S. Peleg, Y. Pritch, and M. Ben-Ezra, Cameras for Stereo Panoramic Imaging, CVPR'00, Hilton Head Island, June 2000, Vol. I, pp. 208-214.

Y. Pritch, M. Ben-Ezra, and S. Peleg, Automatic Disparity Control in Stereo Panoramas (OmniStereo), IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Hilton Head Island, June 2000, Vol. I, pp. 54-61.

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and M. Werman, Model Based Pose Estimator using Linear Programming, ECCV'00, June 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 267-281

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and M. Werman, Real-Time Motion Analysis with Linear Programming, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 78, No. 1, Apr. 2000, pp. 32-52.

P. Bouthemy, Y. Dufournaud, R. Fablet, R. Mohr, S. Peleg, and A. Zomet. Video Hyper-link Creation for Content-Based Browsing and Navigation, Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI'99, Toulouse, France, October 1999.

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and M. Werman, Real-Time Motion Analysis with Linear Programming, ICCV'99, Corfu, Sept. 1999, pp. 703-709.

Shmuel Peleg and Moshe Ben-Ezra, Stereo Panorama with a Single Camera, CVPR'99, Ft. Collins, June 1999, pp. 395-401.

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and M. Werman, Efficient Computation of the Most Probable Motion from Fuzzy Correspondences, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Princeton, Oct. 1998, pp. 22-27.

A. Zomet and S. Peleg, Applying Super-Resolution to Panoramic Mosaics, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Princeton, Oct. 1998, pp. 286-287.

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and M. Werman, Robust, Real-Time Motion Analysis, DARPA IUW, Nov. 1998.

B. Rousso, S. Peleg, I. Finci, and A. Rav-Acha, Universal Mosaicing using Pipe Projection , ICCV'98, Bombay, January 1998, pp. 945-952.

B. Rousso, S. Peleg, and I. Finci, Video Mosaicing using Manifold Projection , British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'97, Univ. of Essex, UK, Sept. 1997. HTML version.

S. Peleg and J. Herman, Panoramic Mosaics by Manifold Projection ,, CVPR'97, June 1997, pp. 338-343.

B. Rousso, S. Peleg, and I. Finci, Mosaicing with Generalized Strips, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, May 1997, pp. 255-260.

S. Peleg and J. Herman, Panoramic Mosaicing with VideoBrush, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, May 1997, pp. 261-264.

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Recovery of Ego-Motion Using Region Alignment, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, March 1997, pp. 268-272.

S. Benayoun, D. Kharitonsky, A. Zilberman, and S. Peleg, Local Quantitative Measurements for Cardiac Motion Analysis, ECCV'96, Cambridge, UK, 1996, Volume II, pp. 262-271.

B. Rousso, S. Avidan, A. Shashua, and S. Peleg, Robust recovery of camera rotation from three frames, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, February 1996, pp. 851-856.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Symmetry as a Continuous Feature, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 17, Dec 1995, pp. 1154-1166.

1991 - 1994

M. Ben-Ezra, S. Peleg, and B. Rousso Motion Segmentation Using Convergence Properties, ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, November 1994, pp. 1233-1235.

S. Hsu, P. Anandan, and S. Peleg, Accurate Computation of Optical Flow by Using Layered Motion Representation, 12th ICPR, Jerusalem, October 1994, Vol. I, pp I:743-746.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Symmetry of Fuzzy Sets, 12th ICPR, Jerusalem, October 1994, Vol. I, pp. 499-504.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Continuous Symmetry for Shapes , 2nd International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, May-June 1994, pp. 594-613. Published in 1994 by World Scientific as "Aspects of Visual Form Processing".

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Recovery of Ego-Motion Using Image Stabilization, CVPR'94, Seattle, June 1994, pp. 454-460.

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Computing Occluding and Transparent Motions, Int. J. Computer Vision, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1994, pp. 5-16.

M. Irani and S. Peleg, Motion Analysis for Image Enhancement: Resolution, Occlusion, and Transparency, J. on Visual Communications and Image Representation, Vol. 4 No. 4, December 1993, pp. 324-335.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Continuous symmetry measures, 2: Symmetry groups and the tetrahedron, J. of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 115, 1993, pp. 8278-8289.

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Robust Recovery of Ego-Motion , Proc. Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'93), Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 1993. Springer LNCS 719, pp. 371-378.

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Isolating Multiple Image Motions for Enhancement and 3D Analysis, 3rd Int. Conf. on Digital Signal Processing, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 1993.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Completion of occluded shapes using symmetry, CVPR '93, June 1993, pp. 678-679.

J.R. Bergen, P.J. Burt, R. Hingorani, and S. Peleg, A Three Frame Algorithm for Estimating Two-Component Image Motion, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 14, Dec. 1992, pp. 886-896.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Continuous symmetry measures, J. of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 114, 1992, pp. 7843-7851.

R. Bronstein, M. Werman, and S. Peleg, Surface reconstruction from derivatives, 11th ICPR, Vol. 1, Aug-Sept 1992, pp. 391-394.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Hierarchical symmetry, 11th ICPR, Vol. 3, Aug-Sept 1992, pp. 9-12.

H. Zabrodsky, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, A measure of symmetry based on shape similarity, CVPR '92, Jun 1992, pp. 703-706.

M. Irani and S. Peleg, Image sequence enhancement using multiple motions analysis, CVPR '92, Jun 1992, pp. 216-221.

M. Irani, B. Rousso, and S. Peleg, Detecting and Tracking Multiple Moving Objects Using Temporal Integration , ECCV'92, Santa Margarita Ligure, Italy, May 1992, pp. 282-287.

J.R. Bergen, P.J. Burt, K. Hanna, R. Hingorani, P. Jeanne, and S. Peleg, Dynamic multiple-motion computation, In Y.A. Feldman and A. Bruckstein, editors, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision: Proceedings of the Israeli Conference, Elsevier (North Holland), 1991, pp 147-156.

M. Irani and S. Peleg, Improving Resolution by Image Registration, CVGIP:GMIP, Vol. 53, May 1991, pp. 231-239.

Y. Hel-Or, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Characterization of Right-Handed and Left-Handed Shapes, CVGIP:IU, Vol. 53, May 1991, pp. 297-302.

1988-1990

J.R. Bergen, P.J. Burt, R. Hingorani, and S. Peleg, Computing two motions from three frames, ICCV '90, Dec 1990, pp. 27-32.

S. Peleg and G. Ron, Nonlinear Multiresolution: A Shape-From-Shading Example, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 12, Dec 1990, pp. 1206-1210.

Y. Hel-Or, S. Peleg, and D. Avnir, Two-dimensional rotational dynamic chirality and a chirality scale, Langmuir, Vol. 6, Nov. 1990, pp. 1691-1695.

D. Sherman and S. Peleg, Stereo by Incremental Matching of Contours, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 12, Nov. 1990, pp. 1102-1106.

H. Zabrodsky and S. Peleg, Attentive transmission, J. of Visual Communications and Image Representation, Vol. 1, Nov. 1990, pp. 189-198.

P.J. Burt, J.R. Bergen, R. Hingorani, S. Peleg, and P. Anandan, Dynamic analysis of image motion for vehicle guidance, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control, Istanbul, Aug. 1990, pp. 75-82.

M. Irani and S. Peleg, Super resolution from image sequences, 10th ICPR, Vol. 2, Jun 1990, pp. 115-120.

D. Keren, R. Marcus, M. Werman, and S. Peleg, Segmentation by minimum length encoding, 10th ICPR, Vol. 1, Jun 1990, pp. 681-683.

S. Peleg and H. Rom, Motion Based Segmentation, 10th ICPR, Vol. 1, Jun 1990, pp. 109-113.

J.R. Bergen, P.J. Burt, R. Hingorani, and S. Peleg, Transparent-Motion Analysis, ECCV'90, Antibes, France, April 1990, pp. 566-569.

S. Peleg, M. Werman, and H. Rom, A Unified Approach to the Change of Resolution: Space and Gray-Level, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 11, July 1989, pp. 739-742.

G. Ron and S. Peleg, Multiresolution shape from shading, CVPR'89, San Diego, June 1989, pp. 350-355.

A. Kalvin, S. Peleg, and R. Hummel, Pyramid segmentation in 2D and 3D images using local optimization, 9th ICPR, Rome, Nov. 1988, pp. 276-278.

M. Werman and S. Peleg, Gray level requantization, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 43, July 1988, pp. 81-87.

H. Rom and S. Peleg, Image representation using Voronoi tessellation: Adaptive and secure , CVPR'88, Ann Arbor, June 1988, pp. 282-285.

Y. Hel-Or, S. Peleg, and H. Zabrodsky, How to tell right from left. CVPR'88, Ann Arbor, June 1988, pp. 304-309.

D. Keren, S. Peleg, and R. Brada, Image sequence enhancement using sub-pixel displacements, CVPR'88, Ann Arbor, June 1988, pp. 742-746.

1978-1987

S. Peleg, D. Keren, and L. Schweitzer, Improving image resolution using subpixel motion, Patter Recognition Letters, Vol. 5, March 1987, pp. 223-226.

H. Shvaytser and S. Peleg, Representation of patterns of symbols by equations with applications to puzzle solving, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 5, Feb. 1987, pp. 119-128.

H. Shvaytser and S. Peleg, Inversion of picture operators, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 5, Jan. 1987, pp. 49-61.

S. Peleg and M. Werman, Halftoning as Optimal Quantization, 8th ICPR, 1986, pp. 1114-1116.

S. Peleg and O. Federbush, Custom Made Pyramids, NATO ASI Series, Vol F25, Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision, Edited by V. Cantoni and S. Levialdi. Springer, 1986, pp. 165-171.

M. Werman, S. Peleg, R. Melter, and T.Y. Kong, Bipartite graph matching for points on a line or a circle, Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 7, 1986, pp. 277-284.

M. Werman, S. Peleg, and A. Rosenfeld, A distance metric for multidimensional histograms, CVGIP, Vol. 32, Dec. 1985, pp. 328-336.

H. Shvaytser and S. Peleg, Fuzzy and probability vectors as elements of a vector space, Information Sciences, Volume 36, Issue 3 , Sept. 1985, pp. 231-247.

D. Farin, S. Peleg, D. Yavin, and D. Avnir, Applications and limitations of boundary-line fractal analysis of irregular surfaces: proteins, aggregates, and porous materials, Langmuir, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 1985, pp 399-407.

E. Harouche, S. Peleg, H. Shvaytser, and L. Davis, Noisy image restoration by cost function minimization, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol 3, January 1985, pp. 65-69.

M. Werman and S. Peleg, Min max operators in texture analysis, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol 7, Nov. 1985, pp. 730-733.

H. Shvaytser and S. Peleg, A New Approach To The Consistent Labeling Problem, CVPR'85, San Francisco, June 1985, pp. 320-327.

M. Werman and S. Peleg, Multiresolution Texture Signatures Using Min-Max Operators, 7th ICPR, Montreal, Canada, July 1984 , pp. 97-99.

S. Peleg, J. Naor, R. Hartley, and D. Avnir, Multiple resolution texture analysis and classification, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 6, July 1984, pp. 518-523. (Comment: Textures analysis based on fractal properties.)

D. Avnir, M. Kagan, R. Kosloff, and S. Peleg, Spatial Structures Formed by Chemical Reactions at Liquid Interfaces: Phenomenology, Model Simulations and Pattern Analysis, in: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Chemical Systems, C. Vidal and A. Pacault (Eds.), Springer Series in Synergetics Vol. 27, 1984, pp. 118-121.

M. Kagan, S. Peleg, E. Meisels, and D. Avnir, Spatial Structures Induced by Chemical Reactions at Interfaces: Survey of Some Possible Models and Computerized Pattern Analysis, in: Modeling of Patterns in Space and Time, W. Jager and J. Murray (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Vol. 55, 1984, Springer, pp. 146-156.

S. Peleg, Classification by Discrete Optimization, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 25, 1984, pp. 122-130.

S. Peleg and A. Nathan, Classification and tracking using local Optimization, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 13, Dec. 1983, pp. 1158-1162.

J. Naor and S. Peleg, Hierarchical image representation for compression, filtering and normalization , Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 2, Oct. 1983, pp. 43-46.

J. Naor and S. Peleg, Image Compression and Filtering Using Pyramid Data Structures, 8th IJCAI, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1983, pp. 1086-1088.

D.P. O'Leary and S. Peleg, Digital image compression by outer product expansion, IEEE Trans. on Communications, Vol. COM-31, March 1983, pp. 441-444.

T.H. Hong, K.A. Narayanan, S. Peleg, A. Rosenfeld, and T.M. Silberberg, Image Smoothing and Segmentation by Multiresolution Pixel Linking: Further Experiments and Extensions, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 12, No. 5, September/October 1982, pp. 611-622.

W.S. Rutkowski, S. Peleg, and A. Rosenfeld, Shape segmentation using relaxation, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol 3, July 1981, pp. 368-375.

S. Peleg, Elimination of seams from photomosaics, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 16, May 1981, pp. 90-94.

S. Peleg and A. Rosenfeld, A min-max medial axis transformation, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 3, March 1981, pp. 208-210. (Comment: Medial Axis using fuzzy morphology.)

S. Peleg and A. Rosenfeld, A note on the evaluation of probabilistic labelings, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. SMC-11, pp. 176-179, February 1981.

S. Peleg, Labeling evaluation in probabilistic networks, Information Sciences, vol. 21 pp. 213-220, August 1980.

S. Peleg, A new probabilistic relaxation scheme, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 2, July 1980, pp. 362-369.

S. Peleg and A. Rosenfeld, Breaking Substitution Ciphers Using a Relaxation Algorithm, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 22, Nov. 1979, pp. 598-605.

S. Peleg, Maximal derivations for probabilistic strings in stochastic languages, Information and Control, vol. 42, September 1979, pp. 290-304.

S. Peleg, Ambiguity reduction in handwriting with ambiguous segmentation and uncertain interpretation, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 10, July 1979, pp. 235-245.

S. Peleg, Iterative histogram modification, 2, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-8, July 1978, pp. 555-556.

S. Peleg and A. Rosenfeld, Determining compatibility coefficients for curve enhancement relaxation processes, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-8, July 1978, pp. 548-554.