Ohad Ben-Shahar publications page

Ohad ben-Shahar

Publications

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Dissertations

O. Ben-Shahar, The Perceptual Organization of Visual Flows , Ph.D. Thesis, , Yale university, New Haven, CT, 2003. Download other formats: ps.gz (14.8M).
O. Ben-Shahar, To Push or Not to Push: On the rearrangement of Movable Objects with a Mobile Robot , M.Sc. Thesis, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1996.

Somewhere in the queue

A formal good continuation model for general 2D scalar functions: Level sets, geometry and harmonic maps. , (In preparation) .
A Complete Perceptual Organization Approach to Color Image Denoising , (In preparation) .
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hues, Horizontal Connections, and Visual Cortex , (Submitted) .
O. Ben-Shahar, B.J.Scholl, and S.W. Zucker, Bridging the Gap Between Object-Based Attention and Texton-Based Segmentation: How Attention Spreads Through Orientation-Defined Textures , (Submitted) .

Journal articles

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Geometrical Computations Explain Projection Patterns of Long Range Horizontal Connections in Visual Cortex , Neural Computation, 16(3) 445-476, 2004.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Sensitivity to Curvatures Revealed in Orientation-Based Texture Segmentation , Vision Research, 44(3) 257-277, 2004
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, The Perceptual Organization of Texture Flow: A Contextual Inference Approach , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(4) 401-417, 2003. Download other formats: ps.gz (4.4M).
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, T. Izo, and S.W. Zucker, Cotrical Connections and Early Visual Function: Intra- and Inter-Columnar Processing , Journal of Physiology-Paris, 97(2-3), 191-208, 2003. Download other format: ps.gz (1.6M).
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, Practical Pushing Planning for Rearrangement Tasks , IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, 14(4) 549-565, 1998. Download other formats: ps.gz (2M).
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, On the Rearrangement of Movable objects by a Mobile Robot , IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 28(5) 667-679, 1998.

Conference articles and presentations

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue Fields and Color Curvatures: A Perceptual Organization Approach to Color Image Denoising , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Wisconsin, June 2003. Download other formats: ps.gz (2.8M).
B.J. Scholl, O. Ben-Shahar, and A. Marino, What counts as an 'object' of object-based attention? , Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, November 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, B. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker, Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons , Journal of Vision, 3(9), 474a, 2003. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 2003. Download: full size poster (2.7M) or letter size reprint (2.9M).
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker, On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges , In the 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, Tübingen, Germany, November 2002. Also appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2525 .
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Curvature and the Perceptual Organization of Texture Flows , Journal of Vision, 2(7), 468a, 2002. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 2002. Download: full size poster (5.5M) or letter size reprint (5.7M).
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, On the Perceptual Organization of Texture and Shading Flows: From a Geometrical Model to Coherence Computation , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , Hawaii, December 2001. Download other formats: ps.gz (2.3M).
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Flowing towards coherence: On the geometry of texture and shading flow , In the third workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.
G. Hager and D. Kriegman and A. Georghiades and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards Domain Independent Navigation: Dynamic Vision and Control , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To Push or not to Push II: Practical Pushing Planning for Rearrangement Tasks , In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, 1996.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To Push or not to Push I: On the Rearrangement of Movable objects by a Mobile Robot , In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, 1996.

Last updated: September 1, 2003