Michal Irani (Hebrew: מיכל איראני) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.[1]
Michal Irani | |
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| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Thesis | Multiple Motions in Image Sequences - Analysis and Applications (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shmuel Peleg |
| Website | www |
Education
editIrani received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subsequently, she was a member of the Vision Technologies Laboratory at the Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton).[1]
Research
editIrani's research is in the area of computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence. In particular, she has done work on understanding the internal statistics of natural images and videos, the space-time analysis of videos, and on visual inference by composition.[2][3][4]
Selected awards
edit- 2020 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering[5]
- 2017 Helmholtz Prize for the paper "Actions as space-time shapes"[6][7]
- 2016 Maria Petrou Prize (awarded by the International Association in Pattern Recognition) for outstanding contributions to the fields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition[8]
- 2003 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics[9]
- 2000, 2002 ECCV Best Paper Awards[10][11][12]
References
edit- ^ a b "Prof. Michal Irani". Weizmann Institute of Science. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ "Amplifying — or removing — visual variation". MIT News. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". Science Daily.
- ^ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "The Rothschild Prize". The Rothschild Prize. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ Blank, Moshe; Gorelick, Lena; Shechtman, Eli; Irani, Michal; Basri, Ronen (2005). "Actions as space-time shapes". Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1. pp. 1395-1402 Vol. 2. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2005.28. ISBN 0-7695-2334-X. S2CID 175905. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Computer Vision Awards; The Computer Vision Foundation". The Computer Vision Foundation.
- ^ "IAPR Awards". IAPR. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Prizes list by year". Weizmann Institute. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "ICCV, ECCV and CVPR Best Paper Awards". Prize Papers. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ Irani, Michal; Anandan, P (2000). "Factorization with Uncertainty". European Conference on Computer Vision. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1842: 539–553. doi:10.1007/3-540-45054-8_35. ISBN 978-3-540-67685-0.
- ^ Shechtman, Eli; Caspi, Yaron; Irani, Michal (2002). "Increasing Space-Time Resolution in Video". European Conference on Computer Vision. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2350: 753–768. doi:10.1007/3-540-47969-4_50. ISBN 978-3-540-43745-1. Retrieved 7 March 2020.