Lior Wolf I 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

Publications:

L. Wolf, T. Hassner, and Y. Taigman Effective Face Recognition by Combining Multiple Descriptors and Learned Background Statistic. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). To appear, 2010.

L. Wolf, L. Potikha, T. German, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts. Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II, 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): . Project web page:

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, Denmark 

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, Canada, July, 2001 .   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, Canada, July, 2001 .  

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 .  

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.

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.  

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  

Awards

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

Teaching

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have organized the 2007/2008 Computer Science colloquium . Sundays 11:15-12:15, at Schreiber 309.

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