Michal Irani
Appearance
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 |
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]
Education
[edit]Irani 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
[edit]Irani'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. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ "Amplifying — or removing — visual variation". MIT News. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". Science Daily. Archived from the original on 2020-02-15. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ^ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "The Rothschild Prize". The Rothschild Prize. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024. 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. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Computer Vision Awards; The Computer Vision Foundation". The Computer Vision Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "IAPR Awards". IAPR. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Prizes list by year". Weizmann Institute. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "ICCV, ECCV and CVPR Best Paper Awards". Prize Papers. Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. 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. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.