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Amnon Shashua

Sachs Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Computer Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91904
Israel

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


email: shashua@cs.huji.ac.il
phone: +972-2-658-5988 fax: +972-2-675-7328

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
M.Sc. Weizmann Institute of Science, 1989
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University, 1986

Biography

Awards Chronological Publications:

2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1988-94


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High-Tech Entrepreneurship (companies I founded):
 




Publications: 2009

T. Hazan and A. Shashua. Norm-Product Belief Propagation: Primal-Dual Message-Passing for Approximate Inference. TR 2009-5, Leibniz Center for Research, School of Computer Science and Eng., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March, 2009. Arxiv 0903.3127 posted March 18, revised April 30, 2009. ViewPDF

Publications: 2008

T. Hazan and A. Shashua. Convergent Message-Passing Algorithms for Inference over General Graphs with Convex Free Energies. The 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Helsinki, July 2008. ViewPDF Best student paper runner up.

T. Hazan, A. Man and A. Shashua. A Parallel Decomposition Solver for SVM: Distributed Dual Ascend using Fenchel Duality. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2008, Anchorage, Alaska. ViewPDF

R. Zass and A. Shashua. Probabilistic Graph and Hypergraph Matching. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2008, Anchorage, Alaska. ViewPDF

Publications: 2007

S. Polak and A. Shashua. Latent Model Clustering and Applications to Visual Recognition. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Rio, Brazil, Oct., 2007  ViewPDF

T. Hazan, R. Hardoon and A. Shashua. pLSA for Sparse Arrays With Tsallis Pseudo-Additive Divergence: Noise Robustness and Algorithm. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Rio, Brazil, Oct., 2007  ViewPDF

T. Hazan and A. Shashua. An Efficient Algorithm for Maximum Tsallis Entropy using Fenchel-duality . Technical Report 2007-110, Leibniz Center for Research, School of Computer Science and Eng., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June, 2007. ViewPDF

T. Hazan and A. Shashua. Analysis of L2-loss for Probabilistically valid Factorizations under General Additive Noise. Technical Report 2007-13, Leibniz Center for Research, School of Computer Science and Eng., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April, 2007. ViewPDF

Publications: 2006

R. Zass and A. Shashua. Doubly Stochastic Normalization for Spectral Clustering. Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec. 2006. ViewPDF

R. Zass and A. Shashua. Nonnegative Sparse PCA. Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec. 2006. ViewPDF

R. Mason, J. Radford, D. Kumar, R. Walters, B. Fulkerson, E. Jones, D. Caldwell, J. Meltzer, Y. Alon, A. Shashua, H. Hattori, N. Takeda, E. Frazzoli, and S. Soatto. The Golem Group / UCLA Autonomous Ground Vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge. Journal of Field Robotics 23(8), 527-553, 2006.ViewPDF

Y. Alon, A. Ferencz and A. Shashua. Off-road Path Following using Region Classification and Geometric Projection Constraints. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2006, NY. ViewPDF

A. Shashua, R. Zass and T. Hazan. Multi-way Clustering Using Super-symmetric Non-negative Tensor Factorization. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2006, Graz, Austria. ViewPDF

Publications: 2005

L. Wolf and A. Shashua. Feature Selection for Unsupervised and Supervised Inference: the Emergence of Sparsity in a Weight-based Approach. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 6(11):1885-1887, 2005. ViewPDF

R. Zass and A. Shashua. A Unifying Approach to Hard and Probabilistic Clustering. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Beijing, China, Oct., 2005  ViewPDF

T. Hazan, S. Polak and A. Shashua. Sparse Image Coding using a 3D Non-negative Tensor Factorization. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Beijing, China, Oct., 2005  ViewPDF

A. Shashua and T. Hazan. Non-Negative Tensor Factorization with Applications to Statistics and Computer Vision. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Aug. 2005. ViewPDF

L. Wolf, A. Shashua and S. Mukhergee. Gene Selection via a Spectral Approach. post CVPR IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Bioinformatics (CVMB), 2005. ViewPDF

Publications: 2004

A. Shashua and T. Hazan. Algebraic Set Kernels with Application to Inference Over Local Image Representations. Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec. 2004. (final version). ViewPDF

A. Shashua and L. Wolf. Dynamic P^n to P^n Alignment. To appear in Handbook of Computational Geometry for Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2004. ViewPDF

A. Shashua, Y. Gdalyahu and G. Hayon. Pedestrian Detection for Driving Assistance Systems: Single-frame Classification and System Level Performance. Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2004), June 2004, Parma, Italy. ViewPDF

A. Shashua and L. Wolf. Kernel Feature Selection with Side Data using a Spectral Approach. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2004, Prague, Czech Republic. ViewPDF

J. Kaminski and A. Shashua. Multiple View Geometry of General Algebraic Curves. International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV), 56(3), pp. 195-219, 2004. ViewPDF

Publications: 2003

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Learning over Sets using Kernel Principal Angles. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 4(10):913-931, 2003. ViewPDF

L. Wolf, A. Shashua and S. Mukherjee. Selecting relevant genes with a spectral approach. Submitted, Sep., 2004.ViewPDF

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Feature Selection for Unsupervised and Supervised Inference: the Emergence of Sparsity in a Weighted-based Approach. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  2003. ViewPDF An extended version in JMLR ViewPDF

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Kernel Principal Angles for Classification Machines with Applications to Image Sequence Interpretation. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2003, Madison, Wisconsin  ViewPDF

G.P. Stein, O. Mano and A. Shashua. Vision-based ACC with a Single Camera: Bounds on Range and Range Rate Accuracy. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2003),June 2003, Columbus, OH. ViewPDF

Publications: 2002 (Sabbatical at Stanford)

A. Shashua, R. Meshulam, L. Wolf, A. Levin and G. Kalai. On Representation Theory in Computer Vision Problems. Technical Report 2002-44, Leibniz Center for Research, School of Computer Science and Eng., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July, 2002.ViewPDF

A. Shashua and A. Levin. Ranking with Large Margin Principle: Two Approaches. Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec. 2002. ViewPDF

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. On Projection Matrices P^k -> P^2, k=3,...,6, and their Applications in Computer Vision. International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV) 48(1), 2002.ViewPDF Honorable Mention for the 2001 Marr Prize.

A. Levin and A. Shashua. Principal Component Analysis Over Continuous Subspaces and Intersection of Half-spaces. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. ViewPDF

A. Levin and A. Shashua. Revisiting Single-view Shape Tensors: Theory and Applications. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. ViewPDF

A. Shashua, A. Levin and S. Avidan. Manifold Pursuit: A New Approach to Appearance Based Recognition. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 2002, Quebec, Canada. ViewPDF

Publications: 2001

A. Shashua and A. Levin. Linear Image Coding for Regression and Classification using the Tensor-rank Principle. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Dec. 2001, Hawaii.  ViewPDF

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Two-body Segmentation from Two Perspective Views. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Dec. 2001, Hawaii.  ViewPDF

A. Levin, Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Time-varying Shape Tensors for Scenes with Multiply Moving Points. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Dec. 2001, Hawaii.  ViewPDF

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. On Projection Matrices P^k -> P^2, k=3,...,6, and their Applications in Computer Vision. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001  ViewPDF The complete version to appear in IJCV ViewPDF Honorable Mention for the 2001 Marr Prize.

Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Affine 3-D Reconstruction from Two Projective Images of Independently Translating Planes. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001  ViewPDF

A. Shashua and A. Levin Multi-frame Infinitesimal Motion Model for the Reconstruction of (Dynamic) Scenes with Multiple Linearly Moving Objects. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001  ViewPDF

A. Zomet, Lior Wolf and A. Shashua. Omni-rig: Linear Self-recalibration of a Rig with Varying Internal and External Parameters. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001  ViewPDF

J. Y. Kaminski, M. Fryers, A. Shashua and M. Teicher. Multiple View Geometry of Non-planar Algebraic Curves. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Vancouver, Canada, July, 2001  ViewPDF

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Threading Fundamental Matrices. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 23(1), pp. 73--77, 2001  ViewPDF

A. Shashua and T. Riklin Raviv.The Quotient Image: Class Based Re-rendering and Recognition With Varying Illuminations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 23(2), pp. 129--139, 2001  ViewPDF

Publications: 2000

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  ViewPDF

A. Shashua and Lior Wolf. Homography Tensors: On Algebraic Entities That Represent Three Views of Static or Moving Planar Points. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), June 2000, Dublin, Ireland. best paper award winner.  ViewAbstract ViewPDF

A. Shashua and Lior Wolf. On the Structure and Properties of the Quadrifocal Tensor. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), June 2000, Dublin, Ireland. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

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), June 2000, Dublin, Ireland. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

D. Segal and A. Shashua. 3D Reconstruction from Tangent-of-Sight Measurements of a Moving Object Seen from a Moving Camera. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), June 2000, Dublin, Ireland. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

J. Kaminski and A. Shashua. On the Calibration and Reconstruction from Planar Curves. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), June 2000, Dublin, Ireland. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

Y. Wexler and A. Shashua. On the Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes from Reference Views.  IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2000, South Carolina. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

Lior Wolf, A. Shashua and Y. Wexler. Join Tensors: on 3D-to-3D alignment of Dynamic Sets. Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Pattern Recog. (ICPR), Sep. 2000, Barcelona, Spain ViewAbstract ViewPDF

G.P. Stein, O. Mano and A. Shashua.A Robust Method for Computing Vehicle Ego-motion. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2000),Oct. 2000, Dearborn, MI. ViewAbstract ViewPDF

G.P. Stein and A. Shashua. Model-based Brightness Constraints: on Direct Estimation of Structure and Motion. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Vol. 22(9), pp. 992--1015, 2000. ViewAbstractViewPDF

Publications: 1999

A. Shashua, S. Avidan and M. Werman.Trajectory Triangulation over Conic Sections. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  Sep., 1999  ViewAbstract ViewPDF

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), June, 1999 ViewPDF

T. Riklin Raviv and A. Shashua.The Quotient Image: Class Based Re-rendering and Recognition With Varying Illuminations. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 1999ViewAbstract ViewPDF

Y. Wexler and A. Shashua. Q-warping: Direct Computation of Quadratic Reference Surfaces. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 1999.ViewAbstractViewPDF (full journal version in ViewPDF)

A. Shashua. On the Equivalence Between the Support Vector Machine for Classification and Sparsified Fisher's Linear Discriminant . Neural Processing Letters, 9(2): 129--139, 1999. ViewPDF

G. P. Stein and A. Shashua. On Degeneracy of Linear Reconstruction from Three Views: Linear Line Complex and Applications.IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 21(3), pp. 244--251, 1999. ViewAbstractViewPDF


Publications: 1998

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Tensor Embedding of the Fundamental Matrix. Post-ECCV SMILE Workshop, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany. Springer LNCS series, Vol. 1506. Journal Version (submitted)

A. Shashua. Omni-Rig Sensors: What Can be Done With a Non-Rigid Vision Platform?. Proc. of the Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Princeton, Oct. 1998.

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Threading Fundamental Matrices. ECCV'98, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany. Journal Version (to appear)

G. P. Stein and A. Shashua. On Degeneracy of Linear Reconstruction from Three Views: Linear Line Complex and Applications. ECCV'98, June 1998, Frieburg, Germany.

G. P. Stein and A. Shashua. Direct Estimation of Motion and Extended Scene Structure from a Moving Stereo Rig. CVPR'98, Santa Barbara, June 1998.

S.J. Maybank and A. Shashua. Ambiguity in Reconstruction from Images of Six Points . In Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), January 1998, Bombay, India.


Publications: 1997

A. Shashua. Trilinear Tensor: The Fundamental Construct of Multiple-view Geometry and its Applications. International Workshop on Algebraic Frames For The Perception Action Cycle (AFPAC97), Kiel Germany Sep. 8--9, 1997.

G.P. Stein and A. Shashua. Model-based Brightness Constraints: on Direct Estimation of Structure and Motion. CVPR, June 1997. For demo click here

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Novel View Synthesis in Tensor Space. CVPR, June 1997. For demo click here. A Brief Description is found here.

S. Avidan, T. Evgeniou, A. Shashua and T. Poggio Image-Based View Synthesis by Combining Trilinear Tensors and Learning Techniques. ACM VRST'97 Conference.

A. Shashua. On Photometric Issues in 3D Visual Recognition from a Single 2D Image. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 21(1/2), 99-122, 1997. For demo click here

A. Shashua and S. Toelg. The Quadric Reference Surface: Theory and Applications. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 23(2), 185-198, 1997.
 


Publications: 1996

A. Shashua and S.J. Maybank. Degenerate $N$ point Configurations of Three Views: Do Critical Surfaces Exist? . Hebrew University, Computer Science TR 96-19, Nov. 1996.

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Unifying Two-View and Three-View Geometry . Hebrew University, Computer Science TR 96-21, Nov. 1996.

A. Shashua and N. Navab. Relative Affine Structure: Canonical Model for 3D from 2D Geometry and Applications. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Vol. 18(9), pp. 873--883, 1996.

A. Shashua and S. Avidan. The Rank4 Constraint In Multiple View Geometry. ECCV, April 1996.

D. Weinshall, M. Werman and A. Shashua. Duality Of Multi-Point And Multi-Frame Geometry: Fundamental Shape Matrices And Tensors. ECCV, April 1996.

B. Rousso, S. Avidan, A. Shashua and S. Peleg. Robust Recovery of Camera Rotation from Three Frames. CVPR, June 1996. For demo click here

A. Shashua. Multiple-view Geometry and Photometry. "Recent Progress in Computer Vision", Springer-Verlag, LNCS series - Invited papers of ACCV'95, Singapore Dec. 1995.

A.Shashua and P. Anandan. Trilinear Constraints Revisited: Generalized Trilinear Constraints And The Tensor Brightness Constraint. In Proc. of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Palm Springs, Feb. 1996.

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Tensorial Transfer: On the Representation of $N>3$ Views of a 3D Scene. In Proc. of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Palm Springs, Feb. 1996.

S. Avidan and A. Shashua. Novel View Synthesis in Tensor Space. Technion, CIS Report 9602, January 1996. For demo click here



Publications: 1995

A. Shashua. Algebraic Functions For Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Vol. 17(8), pp. 779--789, 1995.

A. Shashua and M. Werman. On the Trilinear Tensor of Three Perspective Views and its Underlying Geometry. In Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), June 1995, Boston MA.

M. Werman and A. Shashua. Elimination: An Approach to the Study of 3D-from-2D. In Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), June 1995, Boston MA.

A. Shashua. Multiple-view Geometry and Photometry. "Recent Progress in Computer Vision", Springer-Verlag, LNCS series - Invited papers of ACCV'95, Singapore Dec. 1995.



Publications: 1988-94

A. Shashua. Trilinear Functions For Visual Recognition. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 479-484, May 1994, Stockholm, Sweden.

A. Shashua and S. Toelg.  The Quadric Reference Surface: Applications in Registering  Views of Complex 3D Objects. Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 407-416, May 1994, Stockholm, Sweden.

A. Shashua. Projective Structure from Uncalibrated Images: Structure from Motion and Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Vol. 16(8), pp. 778--790, 1994.

A. Shashua and N. Navab. Relative Affine Structure: Theory and Application for 3D Reconstruction From Perspective Views. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 483-489, June 1994, Seattle, Washington.

A. Shashua. Projective Depth: A Geometric Invariant For 3D Reconstruction  >From Two Perspective/Orthographic Views and For Visual Recognition. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 583-590, May 1993, Berlin, Germany.

D. Beymer, A. Shashua and T. Poggio. Example Based Image Analysis and Synthesis. MIT, AI Memo 1431, October 1993.

A. Shashua. Geometry and Photometry in 3D Visual Recognition. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Nov. 1992. AITR-1401.

A. Shashua and S. Ullman. Grouping Contours by Iterated Pairing Network. In Lippmann,R.P., Moody,J.E. and Touretzky,D.S. (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3, pp. 335--341, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, CA, 1991 (Proc. of NIPS'90).

A. Shashua. Illumination and View Position in 3D Visual Recognition. In J.E. Moody, S.J. Hanson and R.P. Lippmann (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, pp. 404--411, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, CA 1992 (Proc. of NIPS'91).

A. Shashua and S. Ullman. Structural Saliency: the Detection of Globally Salient Structures Using a Locally Connected Network. In Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Dec. 1988, Tarpon Springs, Florida.ViewPDF