News

2018 JVCI Best Paper Award

Our paper on Poisson inverse problems (with Arik Rond and Raja Giryes) has been announced as the winner of the 2018 JVCI Best Paper Award Honorable Mention.

I have been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Fellow)

This fellowship honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by this organization. I am among a distinguished group of members nominated by our peers and selected for the 2018 Class of Fellows

I am happy to bring to your attention a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

I am happy to bring to your attention a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that Yaniv Romano (my PhD student) and I have constructed on Sparse Representations. Here is the link under the edX webpage. This course will open formally on October 25th this year. It is built of two 5 weeks parts, the first presents the basic theoretical ideas of sparse representations, and the other connects this model to applications in image processing. In this course we are essentially following the content of my book. We will be delighted to see you joining our course, which could provide you with a pleasant introduction to our field.

My paper with Michal Aharon on image denoising stands at the top of the list in the Signal Processing category

Google-Scholar released a list of what they refer to as the classic papers published during 2006. My paper with Michal Aharon on image denoising stands at the top of the list in theВ Signal Processing category. Also, my paper with David Donoho and Volodya Temlyakov on sparse representations is included in the classics of theВ Information Theory category.

SIAM News has posted my article "Deep, Deep Trouble"

SIAM News has posted my article,В Deep, Deep Trouble, in its May 2017 issue. This article discusses the emerging field of deep learning and its impact on the research work in the image processing arena.

I have been selected (again) as a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

I have been selected (again) as a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. This list contains about 3000 scientists in various disciplines. Interestingly, only 9 of this list are from Israel, and I am the only Israeli representing the subfield "Engineering". More on this list can be foundВ here.

Deep-LearningВ offering a highly effective paradigm for supervised classification and regression

Deep-LearningВ is an emerging sub-field of machine-learning, offering a highly effective paradigm for supervised classification and regression. While empirical evidence puts this tool in the very forefront of today's artificial intelligence, both in the academia and the industry, theoretical understanding of this field has been lagging behind. I am proud to announce that ourВ recent workВ (joint with Vardan Papyan and Yaniv Romano) closes much of this gap. We propose an extension of the classic theory of sparse representations, modeling signals as hierarchical sparse compositions. For these signals we are able to show that fully-connected or convolutional neural networks (NN) are in fact pursuit algorithms, aiming to decompose the signals into their building atoms. With this view, we are able to analyze the performance of NN and consider various architectural improvements.

Thomson-Reuters published their 2015 list ofВ highly Cited Researchers

Thomson-Reuters published their 2015 list ofВ highly Cited Researchers, which contains about 3000 scientists from various disciplines. Three scientists from the Technion earned this distinction, and I am delighted to be one of them.

I have been appointed Editor-in-Chief ofВ SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

I have been appointed Editor-in-Chief (EiC) ofВ SIAM Journal on Imaging SciencesВ effective January 1st, 2016. This journal is at the top in applied mathematics (based on impact factor), being the prime publication venue for mathematically-oriented image processing research papers.

Today I have been awarded the Henry Taub Prize for academic excellence

Today I have been awarded the Henry Taub Prize for academic excellence. This prize is given annually to 4 faculty in the Technion that stand out in their research achievements.