In the 2nd semester of  2009/10, I will teach a course Random codes in Communication (361-25981), which replaces Mathematical Methods in Communication . It is open for undergrad and graduate students. The course will be similar to Mathematical Methods in Communication  and  adjusted to complement the Information theory course taought by Prof. Lyandress.

Research Interests

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Communication through finite state channels, possibly with feedback:
H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, and T. Weissman, “Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback,”   IEEE Trans. Info. Theory,  July 2008 [Slides]

H. Permuter, T. Weissman and A. Goldsmith, “Finite state channels with time-invariant deterministic feedback,”  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, Feb 2009. [Slides]

H. Permuter and  T. Weissman, “Capacity Region of the Finite-State Multiple Access Channel with and without Feedback,” accepted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.

B. Shrader and H. Permuter “Feedback capacity of the compound channel,,” accepted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory. [Slides]

L. Zhao and H. Permuter  “Zero-error feedback capacity via dynamic programming,”   submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory. [Slides]

J. Chen, H.  Permuter,  and  T. Weissman, “Tighter Bounds on the Capacity of Finite-State Channels via Markov Set-Chains ,” 
submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.  

Coordination and rate distortion:

T. M. Cover and H. Permuter,  “Capacity of Coordinated Actions,”  ISIT 2007, Nice, France.[Slides]

P. Cuff, H. Permuter, T. M. Cover. “Coordination Capacity.” submitted to IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, August, 2009.

H. Permuter, Y. Steinberg and  T. Weissman, “Two-way source coding with a helper” submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory

T. Weissman and H. Permuter , “Source Coding with a Side Information “Vending Machine” ” 
submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.

Z. Lei, P. Cuff, and H. Permuter,  “Consolidating achievable regions of multiple descriptions,”  ISIT 2009, Seoul, Korea.[Slides]

J. Wang, J. Chen, L. Zhao, P. Cuff, H. Permuter, “A Random Variable Substitution Lemma With Applications to Multiple Description Coding” submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.

Directed information, Estimation and portfolio theory:

H. Permuter, Y. -H Kim and T. Weissman, “On Directed Information and Gambling,”  ISIT 2008, Toronto, Canada.

H. Permuter, Y. -H Kim and T. Weissman, “Directed Information, Causal Estimation and Communication in Continuous Time,” 
Proc. Control over Communication Channels (ConCom 2009), Seoul, Korea, June 27th, 2009.

Image and signal processing:
H. Permuter and J.M. Francos , “Estimating the orientation of planar Surfaces: Algorithms and Bounds.” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 46 pp. 1908-1920, August 2000.

J.M. Francos and H. Permuter, “Parametric Estimation of Orientation of Textured Planar Surfaces,” IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 10, pp. 403-418, March 2001. [ Slides]

H. Permuter, J.M. Francos and I. Jermyn “A study of Gaussian mixture models of color and texture features for image classification and segmentation,” Pattern Recognition vol. 39, pp. 695-706, February 2006. (Conf. version)

 

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IEEE Information theory society, Information Theory student resources, ISIT 2009, movie on Shannon.

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Haim Permuter received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University (BGU) and Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in in Electrical Engineering, in 1997 and 2008, respectively.  Between 1997-2004, he served as a scientific research officer in an R&D unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. In summer 2002 he worked for IBM, Almaden research center, and automn he was research  visitor at Stanford. He is a recipient of several rewards including Eshkol Fellowship, Wolf Award,  Fulbright Fellowship,  Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and Allon Fellowship.  Recently, Haim joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering Department at BGU.