Prof. Lior WolfI am a faculty member at The Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Before, I was a postdoc working with Prof. Poggio at CBCL, MIT. I received my PhD working with Prof. Shashua at the Hebrew U, Jerusalem Address: Schreiber Building, room 103, Tel Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978email: phone: +972-3-640-6700 fax: +972-3-640-9357 |
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L. Wolf and N. Levy The SVM-minus Similarity Score for Video Face Recognition IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2013.
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N. Levy, L. Wolf, . Stokes. Document classification based on what is there and what
should be there. Digital Humanities (DH), 2013.
Roni Shweka; Yaacov Choueka; Lior Wolf; Nachum Dershowitz. Automatic extraction of catalog data from digital images of historical manuscripts. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2013.
L. Jerby, L. Wolf, C. Denkert, G. Y. Stein, M. Hilvo, M. Oresic, T. Geiger, and E. Ruppin. Metabolic associations of reduced proliferation and oxidative stress in advanced breast cancer. Cancer Research, 2012.
N. Levy, L. Wolf. Minimal Correlation Ensemble. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.
O. Kliper, Y. Gurovich, T. Hassner, L. Wolf. Motion Interchange Patterns for Action Recognition in Unconstrained Videos. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.. Project webpage: 
N. Levy, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, P. Stokes. Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification. Digital Humanities (DH), 2012.
S. Stempler, Y. Waldman, L. Wolf, E. Ruppin. Hippocampus neuronal metabolic gene expression outperforms whole tissue data in accurately predicting Alzheimer's disease progression. Neurobiology of Aging , 2012.
T. Hassner, L. Wolf, A. Lerner, and Y. Leitner. Viewing the Viewers: how Adults With Attentional Deficits Watch Educational Videos. Journal of Attention Disorders (JAD), 2012.
A. Zaritsky, S.
Natan, J. Horev, I. Hecht, L. Wolf, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Tsarfaty Cell Motility Dynamics: A Novel Segmentation Algorithm to
Quantify Multi-Cellular Bright Field Microscopy Images. PLOS One, 2011.
G. Wainreb, L.
Wolf, H. Ashkenazy, Y. Dehouck and N. Ben-Tal
Protein stability: A single recorded mutation aids in predicting the
effects of other mutations in the same amino acid site. Bioinformatics, 2011.
O. Kliper-Gross, T.
Hassner, and L. Wolf The Action Similarity
Labeling Challenge.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2012. Project webpage:
M. Guttmann, L.
Wolf, and D. Cohen-Or Content Aware Video
Manipulation. Computer
Vision and Image Understanding, 2012.
O. Kliper-Gross, T.
Hassner, and L. Wolf One Shot Similarity
Metric Learning for Action Recognition. International Workshop on
Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition, 2011
L. Wolf, L. Litwak,
N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka
Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from
Both Images and Catalogs. IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), 2011. Temporary version: .
L. Wolf, N.
Dershowitz, L. Potikha, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts
IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP). 2011.
R. Shweka, Y. Choueka, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, and M. Zeldin Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Genizah Fragments' Images Digital Humanities (DH). 2011.
R. Shweka, Y.
Choueka, L. Wolf, and N. Dershowitz
"Veqarev otam ehad el ehad: Zihui ktav yad vezeruf qitei hagnizah
be-emzaut mahshev" (in Hebrew) Ginzei Kedem. 2011.
L. Wolf, C.
Goldberg, N. Manor, R. Sharan, E. Ruppin.
Gene expression in the rodent brain is associated with its regional
connectivity. PLoS
Computational Biology. 2011.
L. Wolf, T. Hassner
and I. Maoz Face Recognition in
Unconstrained Videos with Matched Background Similarity. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2011.. Project web page:
O. Van Kaick, A.
Tagliasacchi, O. Sidi, H. Zhang, D. Cohen-Or, L. Wolf, and G. Hamarneh.
Prior Knowledge for Part Correspondence.
Eurographics. 2011.
L. Wolf, R.
Littman, N. Mayer, T. German, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka
Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah.
International Journal of Computer
Vision (IJCV), 2011.
L. Wolf, T.
Hassner, and Y. Taigman Effective Unconstrained Face
Recognition by Combining
Multiple Descriptors and Learned Background Statistic. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2011.
L. Wolf, N.
Dershowitz, L. Potikha, T. German, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts.
Codicology and Palaeography in the
Digital Age II, 2011.
D. Kropotov, D.
Vetrov, L. Wolf, and T. Hassner
Variational Relevance Vector Machine for Tabular Data. Asian Conference on Machine Learning .
2010.
L. Wolf, T.
Yedidya, R. Ganor, M. Chertok, A. Nachmani, and Y. Finkelstein
Automatic Cephalometric Evaluation of Patients
Suffering from Sleep-Disordered Breathing. International Conference on Medical Image
Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010.
L. Wolf and N. Manor
Visual Recognition using Mappings that Replicate
Margins. IEEE Conf. on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.. Project web page:
L. Wolf, Z. Freund
and S. Avidan An Eye for an Eye: A Single
Camera Gaze-Replacement Method. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2010.
J. Assa, L. Wolf,
and D. Cohen-Or The Virtual
Director: a Correlation-Based Online Viewing of Human Motion.
EUROGRAPHICS, 2010.
Demo video (48Mb): 
. Project web page:
L. Liu, R. Chen, L.
Wolf and D. Cohen-Or
Optimizing Photo Composition. EUROGRAPHICS, 2010.
Demo video: 
. Project web page:
Niloy J. Mitra,
Hung-Kuo Chu, Tong-Yee Lee, Lior Wolf, Hezy Yeshurun, Daniel Cohen-Or
Emergence Images ACM SIGGRAPH Asia , 2009.
Lior Wolf, Rotem
Littman, Naama Mayer, Nachum Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka
Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the
Cairo Genizah Post
ICCV workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation, 2009.Best paper award winner. Please let me
know if you are interested in obtaining a copy of the new benchmark,
its size is more than 90Gb.
M. Guttmann, L.
Wolf and D. Cohen-Or Semi-Automatic Stereo
Extraction From Video Footage IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), 2009..
L. Yeffet and L.
Wolf Local Trinary Patterns for Human Action
Recognition IEEE
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009..
L. Wolf, T.
Hassner, and Y. Taigman The One-Shot
Similarity Kernel IEEE
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
Extended version: Project web page:
L. Wolf, Chen
Goldberg and Hezy Yeshurun Proximity
Visualization via Common Fate Luminance Changes GraphiCon , 2009.
L. Wolf, Y. Taigman
and T. Hassner Similarity Scores based on
Background Samples
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009.
Y. Taigman, L.
Wolf, and T. Hassner Multiple One-Shots for
Utilizing Class Label Information The British Machine Vision Conference
(BMVC) , 2009. Project web page:
L. Gavish, L. Wolf,
L. Shapira, D. Cohen-Or Principal-channels
for One-sided Object Cutout IEEE CAD/Graphics 2009.
L. Wolf Face Recognition, Shape vs. Appearance-Based Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2009.
L. Wolf, T.
Hassner, and Y. Taigman Descriptor Based
Methods in the Wild
Post ECCV workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images: Detection, Alignment,
and Recognition , 2008. Currently (updated to almost..)
the best result of the LFW face
recognition benchmark. Project web page:
L. Wolf and Y.
Donner Local Regularization for Multiclass
Classification Facing Significant Intraclass Variations Proc. of the European Conference on
Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008.
L. Wolf and Y.
Donner An experimental study of employing
visual appearance as a phenotype IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2008. What is this work about? 
L. Wolf, M.
Guttmann and D. Cohen-Or Non-homogeneous
Content-driven Video-retargeting. IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), 2007.
Demo video (29Mb):
. Project web page:
H. Jhuang, T.
Serre, L. Wolf and T. Poggio A Biologically
Inspired System for Action Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), 2007.
J. Assa and L. Wolf
Diorama Construction from a
Single Image. EUROGRAPHICS,
2007.
Demo video (100Mb):
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E. Meyers and L.
Wolf Using Biologically
Inspired Features for Face Processing (short paper). International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV), accepted 2007.
L. Wolf, H.Jhuang
and T.Hazan Learning Appearances with
Low-Rank SVM. IEEE
Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
L. Wolf and M.
Guttman Artificial complex cells via the
tropical semiring. IEEE
Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
S. Bileschi and L.
Wolf Image representations beyond histograms
of gradients: The role of Gestalt descriptors. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
T. Serre, L. Wolf,
S. Bileschi, M. Riesenhuber, and T. Poggio
Robust Object Recognition
with Cortex-like Mechanisms IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2007.
L. Wolf, S.
Bileschi, and E. Meyers Perception
Strategies in Hierarchical Vision Systems IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
L. Wolf, Xiaolei
Huang, Ian Martin and Dimitris
Metaxas Patch-Based Texture Edges and
Segmentation Proc. of
the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2006.
L. Wolf and S.
Bileschi A critical view of
context (short paper). International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV), 2006.
Lior Wolf and A.
Zomet Wide Baseline
Matching between Unsynchronized Video Sequences. International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV),68(1), 2006.
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), 2005.
S. Bileschi and L.
Wolf. A Unified System for Object
Detection, Texture Recognition, and
Context Analysis Based on the Standard Model Feature Set. British Machine Vision Conference
(BMVC), 2005.
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.
L. Wolf and I.
Martin. Robust Boosting for Learning from
Few Examples. IEEE
Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2005.
Preprint: ; TR: AIM-2004-025, CBCL-243
L. Wolf and S.
Bileschi. Combining Variable Selection
with Dimensionality Reduction IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2005. Preprint:
T. Serre, L. Wolf
and T. Poggio. A new biologically
motivated framework for robust object recognition IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), 2005. Preprint: AIM-2004-026, CBCL-243,
A. Shashua and L.
Wolf. Dynamic P^n to P^n Alignment.
The Handbook of Computational
Geometry for Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and
Robotics. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano (eds.), Springer-Verlag,
2004.
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
L. Wolf and A.
Shashua. Learning over Sets using Kernel
Principal Angles
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 4(10):913-931, 2003.
L. Wolf, A. Shashua
and S. Mukherjee Selecting Relevant Genes with a Spectral
Approach CBCL Technical Report
234, AIM-2004-002, 2004..
Lior Wolf and A.
Shashua. Direct Feature Selection with Implicit Inference.
International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV) 2003 .
An extended version HU TR-2003-58
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 .
A. Aner-Wolf
and L. Wolf Video de-Abstraction or "How to save money on
your wedding video". Workshop on Applications in Computer
Vision (WACV) 2002 
. Demo video:
Lior Wolf and A.
Zomet Correspondence-free
Synchronization and Reconstruction in a Non-rigid Scene.
post ECCV 2002 Workshop on Vision
and Modeling of Dynamic Scenes.
Lior Wolf and
A. Zomet Sequence to Sequence Self Calibration .European Conference on Computer Vision
(ECCV), May 2002, Copenhagen,
Lior Wolf and A. Shashua.
Two-body Segmentation from Two Perspective Views. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), Dec. 2001, Hawaii. .
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), 2001.
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, Complete version: International Journal of
Computer Vision (IJCV) 48(1), June 2002 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,
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,
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, Best paper award winner.
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,
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,
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ICCV workshop on eHeritage 2009, Best paper award
Sackler Career Development Chair 2008
Colton Excellence Fellowship for new faculty 2006-2007
PhD with distinction (summa cum laude), and the the Max Shlumiuk award
for 2004
Rothchild fellowship 2004
ICCV 2001, Marr prize honorable mention
ECCV 2000, Best paper award Amirim excellence program scholarship
1996-1999
Dean award 1996
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Spring semester 2013 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesdays 10:00-13:00. Dan David 002.
Spring semester 2012 -- 0368-3249-01 First steps in research of outstanding students. Meets Mon 10:00-13:00. Shenkar 222.
Spring semester 2012 -- 0368-3500-49 Workshop in Computer Science. Meets Sun 9:00-11:00, Kaplun 319.
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Fall semester 2012 -- 0368-4014-01 Machine Vision. Meets Wed 10:00-13:00. Schreiber 006 first class. Afterwards, classroom number 4 in Schreiber.
Fall semester 2012 -- 0368-5196-01 Research seminar: Digital Humanities, jointly with Prof. Dershowitz. Meets Wed 14:00-16:00. Schreiber 309.
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Spring semester 2012 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Wednesdays 9:00-12:00. Orenstein 103.
Spring semester 2012 -- 0368-5107-01 Research seminar: Computational Vision. Meets Wed 12:00-14:00. Kaplun 324.
Spring semester 2012 -- 0368-4606-01 Advanced seminar: visual object recognition. Meets Wed 14:00-16:00, Kaplun 324.
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Spring semester 2011 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesday 10:00-13:00.
Spring semester 2011 -- 0368-3500-25 Workshop in computer Science. Meets Sundays 9:00-11:00.
Fall semester 2010 -- 0368-3245-01 Teaching Computer Science in the Community. Tuesday 12:00-15:00. Schreiber 006.
Fall semester 2010 -- 0368-4014-01 Machine Vision Meets Wed 10:00-13:00. Orenstein 110 first class. Afterwards, classroom number 4 in Schreiber.
Fall semester 2010 -- 0368-5107-01 Research seminar: Computational Vision. Meets Wed 13:00-15:00. Schreiber 309 first hour, Kaplun 319 second hour.
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Spring semester 2010 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesday 10:00-13:00.
Spring semester 2010 -- 0368-3500-25 Workshop in computer Science. Meets Sundays 9:00-11:00.
Fall semester 2009 -- 0368-3245-01 Teaching Computer Science in the Community. Tuesday 12:00-15:00. Kaplun 324.
Fall semester 2009 -- 0368-4014-01 Machine Vision Meets Wed 10:00-13:00. Kaplun 319 first class. Afterwards, classroom number 4 in Schreiber.
Fall semester 2009 -- 0368-5107-01 Research seminar: Computational Vision. Meets Sun 12:00-14:00. Schreiber 309.
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Spring semester 2009 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesday 10:00-13:00.
Spring semester 2009 -- 0368-3500-25 Workshop in computer Science. Meets Sundays 9:00-11:00.
Fall semester 2008 -- 0368-3245-01. Community Computer Science Teaching. Tuesday 12:15-13:15. Dan David 209. Exam dates -- 22-Feb and 9-Aug.
Fall semester 2008 -- 0368-3060-01 Intro to Machine Learning. Meets Wed 10:00-13:00.
Fall semester 2008 -- 0368-4606-01 Advanced seminar: visual object recognition. Meets Wed 13:00-15:00.
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Spring semester 2008 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesday 10:00-13:00.
Spring semester 2008 -- 0368-3500-25 Workshop in computer Science. Meets Sundays 9:00-11:00.
Fall semester 2007 -- 0368-3060-01 Concentrated M.Sc program: Workshop in visual object recognition. Meets Fridays 11:30-14:30.
Fall semester 2007 -- 0368-3060-01 Intro to Machine Learning. Meets Mondays 10:00-13:00.
Fall semester 2007 -- 0368-4606-01 Advanced seminar: visual object recognition. Meets Mondays 13:00-15:00.
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Spring semester 2007 -- 0368-2157-07 Software 1. Meets Tuesday 10:00-13:00
Spring semester 2007 -- 0368-3373-01 Seminar: introduction to visual object recognition. Meets Wednesdays 11:00-13:00. Note: If you are interested in object recognition but were unable to make it through the bidding, please contact me.
Fall semester 2006 -- 0368-4606-01 Advanced seminar: visual object recognition. Meets Mondays 13:00-15:00.
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I have organized the 2007/2008 Computer Science colloquium . Sundays 11:15-12:15, at Schreiber 309.
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