Margarita Osadchy

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Computer Science Department,
University of Haifa, Mount Carmel,
Haifa 31905, Israel
Office : +972-4-8288444
Fax : +972-4-8249331
Email : rita [at]cs [dot]haifa.ac.il

Research Interests:

My research interests are computer vision, image processing, and machine learning. Within these areas I focus on:
  • Automatic extraction and recognition of objects in a scene
  • Event recognition
  • Illumination insensitive recognition of objects with different materials properties such as matte, specular, transparent and their combinations
  • Photometric image matching
  • 3D recovery/modeling and image based rendering

Courses:

Fall 2008-2009

Lab in Computer Vision  203.4720
Introduction to Computer Science  203.1110

Spring 2008

Introduction to Machine Learning  203.4770
Lab in Computer Vision  203.4720

Fall 2007

Introduction to Computer Science  203.1110

Spring 2007

Introduction to Computer Science  203.1110
Lab in Computer Vision  203.4720

Fall 2006

Introduction to Machine Learning  203.4770

Spring 2006

Lab in Computer Vision  203.4720

Publications:

Refereed Journal Publications:

  • M. Osadchy, D.W. Jacobs, R. Ramamoorthi, D. Tucker, Using Specularities in Comparing 3D Models and 2D Images, CVIU, Vol. 111(3), 2008, pp. 275-294.
  • M. Osadchy, M. Lindenbaum, D.W. Jacobs, Surface Dependent Representations for Illumination Insensitive Image Comparison, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 29(1), 2007, pp. 98-111.
  • M. Osadchy, Y. LeCun, M. Miller, Synergistic Face Detection and Pose Estimation with Energy-Based Models, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Volume 8, 2007, pp.1197 – 1215.
  • M. Osadchy and D. Keren, Efficient Detection under Varying Illumination Conditions and Image Plane Rotations, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 93, Issue 3, March 2004, pp. 245-259.
  • M. Osadchy and D. Keren, A Rejection-Based Method for Event Detection in Video, IEEE Trans. on circuits and systems for video technology, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2004, pp. 534-541.
  • D. Keren M. Osadchy and C. Gotsman, Anti-Faces: A novel, fast method for image detection, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, No. 7, July 2001, pp. 747-761.
  • D. Keren and M. Osadchy, Restoring subsampled color images, Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 11, issue 4, 1999, pp.197-202.

Conference Proceedings:

Workshops:

  • M. Osadchy, M.L. Miller, Y. LeCun, Synergistic Face Detection and Pose Estimation, Machine Learning Workshop, Snowbird, 2004.
  • M. Osadchy, M. Lindenbaum and D.W. Jacobs, Whitening for photometric comparison of smooth surfaces, Int'l Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision, 2003.

Patents:

  • M.L. Miller, M.Osadchy, and Y. LeCun, Synergistic face detection and pose estimation with energy-based models, US Patent No. 7236615.
  • M. Osadchy and D. Reisfeld, Method and apparatus for intracardially surveying conditions of a chamber of a heart, US patent No. 6385476.
  • M. Osadchy and D. Reisfeld, Method and apparatus for mapping a chamber of a heart, US patent No. 6368285.