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	Yonatan Wexler Microsoft Virtual Earth Group One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Tel: 425-421-7050 firstname.lastname@microsoft.com
I am a researcher in the Virtual Earth Group at Microsoft. My research interests lie in the field of Computer Vision, Geometry in Vision (Motion Analysis, Shape Description) for perceptual tasks such as Action Recognition, View Synthesis and Augmented Reality. My work has been concentrated particularly on the recovery and representation of scenes from images. My research focuses on finding computational methods that enable accurate and efficient use of pictorial data, both in images and video sequences.
Research:
	Space-Time Scene Manifolds
	Space-Time Video Completion
	Environment Matting
	Alpha Matting
	Dynamic Morphing
	Qwarping
Publications:
Space-Time Scene Manifolds Y. Wexler and D. Simakov International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2005, abstract, pdf Space-Time Video Completion Y. Wexler, E. Shechtman, and M. Irani In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), March 2007. pdf. Previously appeared in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2004 and received Best Poster Award. abstract, pdf Image-Based Rendering Using Image-Based Priors A.W. Fitzgibbon Y. Wexler, and A. Zisserman. International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003. Received the David Marr Prize. Abstract, pdf, Data Also appeared in the International Journal of Computer Vision, 63(2):141–151, July 2005. Marr Prize special issue. Learning Epipolar Geometry from Image Sequences Y. Wexler, A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2003 abstract, pdf Image-based Environment Matting Y. Wexler, A. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman. Proc. 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Italy, 2002. pdf Shorter version appeared as SIGGRAPH 02' sketch, San Antonio. pdf Bayesian Estimation of Layers from Multiple Images. Y. Wexler, A. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman. Proc. 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002. ps.gz, pdf. View Synthesis using Convex and Visual Hulls Y. Wexler, R. Chellappa. In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 2001', Manchester. pdf Join Tensors: On 3D-to-3D Alignment of Dynamic Sets L. Wolf, A. Shashua and Y. Wexler Proc. of Int. Conf. on Pattern Recog. (ICPR), Sep. 2000, Barcelona. pdf. Also, CfAR report 4097, January 2000: ps.gz pdf On the Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes from Reference Views. Y. Wexler and A. Shashua IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2000, South Carolina CfAR report 4096, January 2000. ps.gz pdf Sample output automatically builds this movie from these 3 images. Q-warping: Direct Computation of Quadratic Reference Surfaces. Y. Wexler and A. Shashua. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 1999. pdf Also, PAMI journal version appeared in August 2001 (Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 920-925) pdf
Awards:
The Marr Prize Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003
Best Poster Award at the 22nd IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004)
Places I have been affiliated with:
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Oxford University’s Visual Geometry Group The University of Maryland The Hebrew University