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  • "Deep Neural Networks with Random Gaussian Weights: A Universal Classification Strategy?", School of Electrical Engineering, IPAM, UCLA, 2016.


  • "Graph Matching: Relax Or Not?", School of Electrical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Distinguished Lectures, North Carolina State University, 2014.


  • "Learning efficient parsimonious models", School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 2013.


  • "Data analysis tools for large-scale computer vision and multimedia information retrieval", College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2013.


  • "Multimodal diffusion geometry", Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2012.


  • "Sparse models in shape analysis", Computational Metric Geometry in Image and Shape Processing, Israel IEEE Convention, 2012.


  • "New dimensions of media", Communication and Information Technology 2025, University of California Irvine, 2012.


  • "Learning efficient sparse models", IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland, 2012.


  • "Learning efficient sparse models", FIRST Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel, 2012.


  • "Diffusion geometry in shape analysis", Eurographics Tutorial, Cagliari, Italy, 2012.


  • "Spectral methods in deformable shape analysis: a tutorial", Israeli Machine Vision Conference, 2012.


  • "Spectral methods in deformable shape analysis", University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 2012.


  • "Spectral methods in deformable shape analysis", IPAM Workshop on large scale multimedia search, UCLA, 2012.


  • "Spectral methods in shape analysis", Summer School on Image Processing (SSIP), Szeged, Hungary, 2011.


  • "Diffusion geometry methods in shape analysis", Intl. Conference on Computer Vision (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, 2011.


  • "Local and global diffusion geometry in deformable shape analysis", Innovations for Shape Analysis: Models and Algorithms, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2011.


  • "Diffusion geometry in shape analysis", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Heraklion, Grece, 2010.


  • "Similarity learning", Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC), 2010.


  • "ShapeGoogle: geometric words and expressions for invariant shape retrieval", Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Verona, Italy, 2009.


  • "Numerical geometry of deformable shapes", Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2009.


  • "Metric approach to analysis of nonrigid shapes", IPAM Workshop Laplacian Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions: Theory, Computation, Application, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, February 10th, 2009 (invited talk).


  • Four lectures on non-rigid shape analysis, MAIPCV Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, 20-21 November 2008.

  • Lecture I - Introduction
    Lecture II - Numerical tools
    Lecture III - Invariant similarity
    Lecture IV - Invariant correspondence

  • "Metric approaches to analysis of non-rigid shapes", Stanford University, USA, 2008.


  • "Not only size matters: regularized partial similarity of shapes", CVPR Workshop on Non-rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA), Ancorage, USA, 2008.


  • "A journey to non-rigid world", Excellence Program, Technion, Israel, 2007.


  • "A journey to non-rigid world", Technische Universitšat Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2007 (invited talk).


  • "A metric approach to non-rigid shape analysis", University of California Santa Cruz, USA, 2007.


  • "Non-rigid, non-rigid, non-rigid world", University of Southern California, USA, 2007.


  • "Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes", Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2007.


  • "Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes", Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2007.


  • "Computation of distance maps on non-Euclidean parametric three-dimensional manifolds", SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, USA, 2006 (invited talk).


  • "GMDS: Generalized multidimensional scaling", SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, USA, 2006 (invited talk).


  • "Generalized multidimensional scaling", Applied Math Workshop, Technion, Israel, 2006 (invited talk).


  • "Positron emission tomography", Lecture for the President of Israel, Wolfson Microelectronics Center, Technion, 6 January 2003.


  • "Applications of non-uniform FFT for acoustic diffraction tomography", Thomas Schwartz Prize lecture, 3 July 2002.


  • "Optimal nonlinear estimation of scintillation event coordinates in PET", Kasher Prize lecture, 27 June 2002.