Boaz Cohen, M.Sc.

Born-

1965, Haifa, Israel.

B.Sc.EE.-

1993, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

M.Sc.EE.-

1996, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Marital status-  

married (to Michal) + 2 (Shira & Jonathan).

Research
Interests-

image restoration and resolution enhancement, image sequence analysis.

Ph.D. Thesis:
(in progress)

Restoration and Enhancement of Image Sequences

M.Sc. Thesis:

A System for Computerized Classification of
Color Textured Perthite Images

1. B. Cohen, I. Dinstein, and M. Eyal, "A System for Computerized Classification of Color Textured Perthite Images", Pattern Recognition, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1533-1545, Sept. 1997.

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2. B. Cohen, V. Avrin, M. Belitsky, and I. Dinstein, "Generation of a restored image from a video sequence recorded under turbulence effects", Optical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 3312-3317, Dec. 1997.

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3. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "Polyphase back-projection filtering for image resolution enhancement", to appear in IEE Proceeding- Vision, Image and Signal Processing.

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4. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "Polyphase FIR Wiener filtering for image resolution enhancement", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

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5. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "New maximum likelihood motion estimation schemes for noisy ultrasound images", submitted to Pattern Recognition.

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1. B. Cohen, I. Dinstein, and M. Eyal, "Computerized Classification of Color Textured Perthite Images", in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, Aug 25-29, 1996, vol. II, pp. 601-605.

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2. B. Cohen, V. Avrin, M. Belitsky, and I. Dinstein, "Restoration of an image representing a video sequence recorded under turbulence effects", in Proceedings of the SPIE, Applications of Digital Image Processing XX, San-Diego, CA, 30 July-1 Aug., 1997, vol. 3164, pp. 535-543.

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3. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "Resolution Enhancement by Polyphase Back-Projection Filtering", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, Washington, May 12-15, 1998, vol. V, pp. 2921-2924.

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4. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "Image Resolution Enhancement by Polyphase FIR Wiener Filtering", in Proceedings of the SPIE, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXII, Denver, Colorado, July 18-23, 1999, vol. 3808, pp. 504-514.

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5. B. Cohen, V. Avrin and I. Dinstein, "Polyphase back-projection filtering for resolution enhancement of image sequences", to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 5-9, 2000.

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6. B. Cohen and I. Dinstein, "Motion estimation in noisy ultrasound images by maximum likelihood", to appear in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 3-8, 2000.

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3/96-Today:

Ph.D. degree studies at the Ben-Gurion University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, in the area of Image Processing. Ph.D. dissertation subject - "Restoration and Enhancement of Image Sequences" (supervised by prof. Its'hak Dinstein).

Istructor of fourth year final projects.

Teaching assistant (image processing lab, micro computers lab, dynamic systems).

10/93-2/96:

M.Sc. degree studies at the Ben-Gurion University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, in the area of Image Processing (graduation with honors,average grade-95.3, thesis grade-96). Thesis subject-"A System for Computerized Classification of Color Textured Perthite Images" (supervised by prof. Its'hak Dinstein).

Teaching assistant (micro computers lab, dynamic systems).

10/92-9/93:

Fourth year undergraduate project, "Parallel Image Registration".

10/88-9/93:

B. Sc. degree studies at the Ben-Gurion University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Signal Processing and Computer Engineering tracks (graduation with honors, average grade- 89.6).

6/88-9/93:

Part time job at the CET (Center for Educational Technology) as an instructor and developer of computer based military one day training.

2/85-10/88:

Military service, IDF armored corps. Current military rank -Major.