Barak Fishbain, PhD (cv) Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IE&OR) University of California at Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Prof. D. Hochbaum Evans, Room# 485 Etcheverry, Room# 3115

Research Interests

• Computer Vision
• Graph Theory based Image Analysis

• Multidimensional and multi component digital image processing and data fusion
• Image Analysis and Features Measurements
• Video Perfecting by Means of Stabilization and Super Resolution

• Presentation – On Video Data Fusion (~240MBytes)
• Demonstration Videos (~100MBytes)
• Traffic Video Systems

• Real Time Image Processing

• Presentation – Real-time Video Enhancement (~240MBytes)

Awards & Fellowships

• Post Doctoral Fellow – Oct. 2008 – today

University of California at Berkeley

• Ran Naor Road Safety Research Center Foundation, Post Doctoral Scholar – Dec. 2008 - today

The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

• Applied Materials Research Student Excellency Scholarship – Dec. 2007

Applied Materials, Inc. - Globa leader in nano-manufacturing technology solutions

• Rosenberg Excellency Scholarship – Nov. 2007

Zandman-Slaner School for Graduate Studies in Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

• PhD Research Fellowship – Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2008

Israel Ministry of Science Culture and Sport, Israel.

• PhD Research Scholarship – Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2008

Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Academic Activities

• Guest Editor

Journal of Real-time Image Processing special issue on

Real-Time Vision-Based Motion Analysis and Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Reviewer

· Optics Letters

· Journal of Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), Optical Society of America

· Journal of Real-time Image Processing

· National Science Fund Panelist

• Committees

· Real-Time Image and Video Processing, 1st Workshop on Special Topics in Homeland Nuclear Security, Berkeley CA., Aug 2009.

· Real-Time Image and Video Processing Conference, Photonics Europe 2010, Brussels, Belgium, Apr. 2010.

PhD Research

“Real Time Methods for Restoration, Enhancement and Analysis of Videos

with Applications in Intelligent Transportation System” (Download)

under the supervision of

Prof. (Tel-Aviv University) L. P. Yaroslavsky

and

Assoc. Prof. (Technion) D. Mahalel

Publications

Books

· B. Fishbain, Surveillance, Monitoring and Traffic Video Systems, VDM-Verlag Pub., Berlin, Germany. 2009. ISBN: 978-3-639-15240-1. 

Journal Papers

· D. S. Hochbaum, B. Fishbain, “Nuclear Threat Detection with Mobile Distributed Sensor Networks”, Annals of Operations Research (to appear)

· L. P. Yaroslavsky, G. Shabat, I. A. Ideses, B. G. Salomon and B. Fishbain “Non-uniform signal sampling, signal and image recovery from sparse data and the discrete sampling theorem”, Journal of Optical Society of America A., Vol. 26(3), pp. 566-575, March 2009.

· B. Fishbain, G. Shabat, I. A. Ideses, B. G. Salomon, L. P. Yaroslavsky, “Super-resolution in color turbulent videos”, Optics Letters, Vol. 34, pp. 587-589, February 2009.

· Barak Fishbain, Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, and Ianir Ideses, “Spatial, Temporal, and Interchannel Image Data Fusion for Long-Distance Terrestrial Observation Systems,” Advances in Optical Technologies, vol. 2008, Article ID 546808, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/546808.

· L.P. Yaroslavsky, B. Fishbain, G. Shabat and I. Ideses, "Super-resolution in turbulent videos: making profit from damage", Optics Letters, Vol. 32(20), pp. 3038-3040, 2007.

· B. Fishbain, L. P. Yaroslavsky and I. A. Ideses, "Real-time stabilization of long range observation system turbulent video", Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol.2(1), pp. 11-22, Oct. 2007.

· I. Ideses, L. Yaroslavsky, B. Fishbain, "Real-Time 2D to 3D Video Conversion, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol.2(1), pp. 3-9, Oct. 2007.

Patents

· B. Fishbain, I. A. Ideses, L. P. Yaroslavsky, "An Apparatus and Method for Real-time Super-resolution which Incorporates the Family of ITU and MPEG Video Coding Standards", US Patent (Pending) filed 10-Jan-2009.

· I. A. Ideses, B. Fishbain, L. P. Yaroslavsky, R. Vistuch, "Methods and Systems for Use in 3D Video Generation, Storage and Compression", US Patent (Pending) filed 13-Oct-2007.

Conference Papers

· B. Fishbain, I. Ideses, D. Mahalel, L. Yaroslavsky, “Real-Time Vision-Based Traffic Flow Measurements and Incident Detection”, Proc. Real-time Image and Video Processing / Electronic Imaging 2009, SPIE Vol. 7244, San-Jose, CA, USA, 18-22 January 2009.

· I. Ideses, B. Fishbain, L. Yaroslavsky, “Real-Time Depth Map Manipulation for 3D Visualization”, Proc. Real-time Image and Video Processing / Electronic Imaging 2009, SPIE Vol. 7244, San-Jose, CA, USA, 18-22 January 2009.

· L. P. Yaroslavsky, G. Shabat, B. Fishbain, B. G. Salomon and I. A. Ideses, “Non-uniform sampling, signal and image recovery from sparse data and the discrete sampling theorem”, Proc. Algorithms and Systems VII /Electronic Imaging 2009, SPIE Vol. 7245A, San-Jose, CA, USA, 18-22 January 2009.

· Barak Fishbain, Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Ianir A. Ideses, " Real Time Turbulent Video Super-Resolution Using MPEG 4", proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6811, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2008.

· Barak Fishbain, Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Ianir A. Ideses, Frédérique Roffet-Crété, " No-Reference Method for Image Effective Bandwidth Estimation", proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6808, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2008.

· Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Gil Shabat, Barak Fishbain, Ianir A. Ideses, "Super-Resolution of Turbulent Video: Potentials and Limitations", proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6812, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2008.

· Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Alex Agranovich , Barak Fishbain, Ianir A. Ideses, "Precise differentiation can significantly improve the accuracy of optical flow measurements", proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6812, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2008.

· Ianir A. Ideses, Barak Fishbain, Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, "Depth Maps: Faster, Higher and Stronger?", proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2008, SPIE Vol. 6805, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2008.

· B. Fishbain, L.P. Yaroslavsky, I.A. Ideses, “Real Time Turbulent Video Perfecting by Image Stabilization and Super-resolution”, proc. Of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2007), Palma de Mallorca Spain, 29-31/8/2007.

· Ianir Ideses, Leonid Yaroslavsky, Itai Amit, Barak Fishbain, “Depth map Quantization – how much is Sufficient?”, Proc of 3DTV-Conference, Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, Kos Island, Greece, 7-9/5/2007.

· B. Fishbain, I.A. Idess, Sh. Gepstein & L.P. Yaroslavsky, Turbulent video enhancement: Image stabilization and super-resolution, Proc of The 11th. Meeting on Optical Engineering and Science in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 26-27/3/2007.

· O. Shapira, D. Ravid, B. Fishbain, I. A. Ideses, L.P. Yaroslavsky, Z. Hadas, “Turbulent Compensation Implementation for Embedded Systems”, Proc of The 11th. Meeting on Optical Engineering and Science in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 26-27/3/2007.

· Ianir Ideses, Leonid Yaroslavsky, Roni Vistuch and Barak Fishbain, “3D video from compressed 2D video”, Proceedings of Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XVIII, SPIE and IS&T, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2007.

· B. Fishbain, L. P. Yaroslavsky, I. A. Ideses, A. Shtern, O. Ben-Zvi, “Real-time stabilization of long-range observation system turbulent video”, proc. of Real-Time Image Processing/Electronic Imaging 2007, SPIE Vol. 6496, San-Jose, CA, USA, 28 January – 1 February 2007.

· L. Yaroslavsky, I. Ideses, B. Fishbain, R.Vistuch, L. Ridel, 3D Video from 2d MPEG streams, Methods and applications, ICO Topical Meeting on, Optoinformatics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 4-7 September 2006.

· L.P. Yaroslavsky, B. Fishbain, I. Ideses, D. Slasky, Z. Hadas, Simple methods for real time stabilization of turbulent video, ICO Topical Meeting on, Optoinformatics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 4-7 September 2006.

· Shai Gepshtein, Alex Shtainman, Barak Fishbain, Leonid Yaroslavsky, “Restoration of atmospheric turbulent video containing real motion using elastic image registration”, The 2004 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2004), Vienna, Austria, September 6-10, 2004.

· L.Yaroslavsky, B. Fishbain, A. Shteinman, Sh. Gepshtein, “Processing and Fusion of Thermal and Video Sequences for Terrestrial Long Range Observation Systems”, The 7th International Conference on Information Fusion, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004.

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