Biography:Michal Irani

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Short description: Israeli computer scientist
Michal Irani
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsWeizmann Institute of Science
ThesisMultiple Motions in Image Sequences - Analysis and Applications (1994)
Doctoral advisorShmuel Peleg
Websitewww.weizmann.ac.il/math/irani//

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

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

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

  • 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prof. Michal Irani". https://www.weizmann.ac.il/pages/search/people?language=english&single=1&person_id=4578. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  2. ↑ "Amplifying — or removing — visual variation". http://news.mit.edu/2015/algorithms-graphics-software-reveal-structural-defects-1106. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  3. ↑ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191030132655.htm. 
  4. ↑ "Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition". https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/wios-ans103019.php. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  5. ↑ "The Rothschild Prize". https://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/rothschild-prize. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  6. ↑ 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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1544882. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  7. ↑ "Computer Vision Awards; The Computer Vision Foundation". https://www.thecvf.com/?page_id=413#Helmholtz. 
  8. ↑ "IAPR Awards". https://iapr.org/fellowsandawards/awards_petrou.php. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  9. ↑ "Prizes list by year". https://www.weizmann.ac.il/acadaff/awards-and-honors/scientific-council-prizes/prizelist-year?field_year_value=2003. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  10. ↑ "ICCV, ECCV and CVPR Best Paper Awards". https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/timothy.f.cootes/CVPeople/prize_papers.html. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  11. ↑ 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. 
  12. ↑ 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. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-47969-4_50. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 



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