Prof. MAYER ALADJEM



Ph.D and Master Students,
Theses (journal publications with my students-pdf):

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Ph.D. students (work in progress)
Master students (work in progress)
Former master students (Graduated 2009-2010)
Former master students (Graduated until 2009)


Ph.D. students (work in progress):

1. Zoar Halbe, "Mixture models for pattern recognition" (2010 - thesis under review)

H. Zohar ,M. Aladjem (2011) "Regularized Mixture Density Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, [submitted]
H. Zohar ,M. Aladjem (2007) "Regularized Mixture Discriminant Analysis", Pattern Recognition Letters , vol.28, pp.2104-2116. [full text (PDF)]
H. Zohar, M. Aladjem(2005) "Model-based mixture discriminant analysis - an experimental study", Pattern Recognition , Volume 38, Issue 3, March 2005, pp. 437-440, [full text (PDF)]

2. Maria Bortman , "Multivariate Probabilistic Modeling - Neural Networks and Mixture Models"

M. Bortman ,M. Aladjem (2009) "A Growing and Pruning Method for Radial Basis Function Networks", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks , vol. 20, pp.1039-1045. [full text (PDF)]

3.Etay Mor, "Recognition of Ultrasound Patterns" (jointly supervised with Dr.Amnon Azulai, Soreq nuclear research center)

E. Mor, A. Azoulay, M. Aladjem (2010) "A Matching Pursuit Method for Approximating Overlapping Ultrasonic Echoes", IEEE Transactions on on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control , vol.57, pp.1996-2004.
E. Mor , M. Aladjem(2005) "Boundary Refinements for Wavelet-Domain Multiscale Texture Segmentation", Image and Vision Computing , vol. 23, pp.1150-1158. [full text (PDF)]

4. Tomer Lancewicki, "Study the methods for Multidimensional Scaling" (Combined Doctoral Program)

T. Lancewicki, M. Aladjem (2010) "Diffusion locally multidimensional scaling", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, [in preparation]


Master students (work in progress):

1. Dvir Hadad , "Support Vector Machine versus Extended Fisher Discriminant Analysis"
2. Ohad Shaubi , "Ensemble Based Recognition with Boosted Extended Linear Discriminant Analysis" (Direct M.Sc. Program)
3. Michael Dimshits, "Variational Methods for Simplifying Mixture Models"


4. Idan Kizerman , "Spatiotemporal Blind Source Separation"
I. Kizerman ,M. Aladjem (2010) "Spatiotemporal blind source separation using iterative constrained independent component analysis", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks , [in preparation]

5. Shay Yacobi, "Variational Bayesian Mixture of Factor Analyzers"

S. Yacobi, M. Aladjem (2010) "Variational component splitting for mixture of factor analyzers", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, [in preparation]


Former master students (Graduated 2009-2010):

1. Haim Yona , "Speech recognition by incorporating VB-EM algorithm into HMM Tool Kit (HTK)"

2. Dmitry Kirzhner , "A Method for Blind Separation of Sub-Gaussian Post-Nonlinear Mixtures"

D. Kirzhner, M. Aladjem (2011) "A Method for Blind Separation of Sub-Gaussian Post-Nonlinear Mixtures", Neurocomputing, [submitted]

3. Merav Ben-Asher , "Spatio-Temporal characterization of pre-ictal EEG using BSS and fuzzy cluster analysis"
(jointly supervised with Prof. A. Geva - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BGU; and Dr. Alon Friedman, Laboratory for Experimental Neurosurgery, BGU)

M. Ben-Asher, M. Aladjem, A. Friedman, M. Benifla, I. Shelef, A. Geva (2010) "A method for scalp localization of an epileptic focus via blind source separation and cluster analysis techniques ",chapter in book: Epileptic Seizures , [submitted]

4. BARAK LAISH , "Unsupervised multi-stage method for image segmentation"

5. Amit Assa , "Shrinkage discriminant analysis" (Direct M.Sc. Program, jointly supervised with Prof. Edna Schechtman - Department of Industrial Engineering and Managment, BGU)

T. Lancewicki, A. Assa, M. Aladjem (2010) "Regularized linear discriminant analysis", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, [in preparation]

6. Maor Nissan , "A Score Normalization method in speaker verification" (project - M.Sc. degree without thesis)

M. Nissan ,M. Aladjem (2010) "A Score Normalization method in speaker verification", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, [submitted]

7. IGAL GRINIS , "Study of kernel methods for discriminant analysis"

Former master students (Graduated until 2009):

1. Gal Ofek (Graduated in 2008), "Source localization using neural networks"
(jointly supervised with Dr. J. Tabrikian - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BGU)

G. Ofek, J. Tabrikian M. Aladjem (2010) "A Modular Neural Network for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation", ,Neurocomputing, [in press]

2.Maria Bortman (Graduated in 2006), "Real time pattern recognition"

3. Alon Gines (Graduated in 2006), "Image changes detection using ROI extraction techniques"
(jointly supervised with Dr. S. Greenberg - Department of Communication Systems Engineering, BGU)

4. Daniel Kogan (Graduated in 2005), "Global motion estimation and scene-cut detection in video sequences using wavelets"
(jointly supervised with Dr. S. Greenberg - Department of Communication Systems Engineering, BGU)

S. Greenberg, M. Aladjem, D. Kogan (2002) "Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Filtering Techniques", Real-Time Imaging, Vol. 8, pp.227-236. [full text (PDF)] [Figures and Tables, Acrobat, Format-PDF]

5. Daniel Estrakh (Graduated in 2005), "Density Estimation with support vector machines"

6. Zoar Halbe (Graduated in 2004), "Mixture discriminant analysis"
H. Zohar, M. Aladjem(2005) "Model-based mixture discriminant analysis - an experimental study", Pattern Recognition , Volume 38, Issue 3, March 2005, pp. 437-440, [full text (PDF)]

7. Etai Mor (Graduated in 2004), "Texture image segmentation using wavelets"
E. Mor , M. Aladjem(2005) "Boundary Refinements for Wavelet-Domain Multiscale Texture Segmentation", Image and Vision Computing , vol. 23, pp.1150-1158. [full text (PDF)]

8. Yitzhak Fima (Graduated in 2002), "A study of feature extraction methods for face recognition"
I. Pima, M. Aladjem(2004) "Regularized discriminant analysis for face recognition", Pattern Recognition , Volume 37, Issue 9, September 2004, pp. 1945-1948 , [full text (PDF)]

9. Natela Lichtrov (Graduated in 2000), "Graphical interactive classification"

N. Likhterov, M. Aladjem(2003) "Two Dimensional Projection Pursuit Applied to Gaussian Mixture Model Fitting", Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. 1, Number 4. [full text (PDF)]

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