http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~itzik/itzikphot.jpgYitzhak Yitzhaky

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

The Electro-Optics Engineering Department

Phone: 972-8-6428618;  Fax: 972-8-6472949

Email: ytshak@bgu.ac.il

 

Post Doc from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA.

<Link: The Vision Rehabilitation Laboratory (Peli Lab)>

 

 

Ph. D. from the Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

<Link: Interdisciplinary Center for Optronics>

 

Teaching:

-        Selected topics in image processing

-        Imaging systems II

-        Biomedical image processing  

My research interests are mostly in the field of digital image processing and vision, and include computer vision, image analysis and understanding under degraded imaging conditions, human vision, vision-oriented image processing, image feature extraction, blind image restoration from motion and atmospheric effects, medical image processing, automatic image quality assessment, and automobile night-vision.

Projects with demonstration of results, in image and video processing

·         Blind Image Restoration, Given a Single Unknown Motion-Blurred Image 

·         Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Staggered TDI Motion-Degraded Video (space-variant distortions, thermal imaging system)

·         Moving Target Acquisition (by observers) in Long-Range Imaging (with and without image restoration)

·         Automatic Moving Target Acquisition (detection & tracking)  in Long-Range Imaging (with and without image restoration)

·         Interactive Blind Restoration of Images Degraded by Motion  (Can be activated only from within Ben Gurion University)

 

Publications in Reviewed Journals

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1.       Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Identification of blur parameters from motion blurred images,” CVGIP: graphical models and image processing, 59(5), pp. 321-332, September 1997. [PDF]

2.       Y. Yitzhaky, I. Dror and N. S. Kopeika, “Restoration of atmospherically blurred images according to weather predicted atmospheric modulation transfer function (MTF),” Optical Engineering, 36(11), November 1997. [PDF]

3.       Y. Yitzhaky, I. Mor, A. Lantzman, and N. S. Kopeika, “Direct method for restoration of motion-blurred images,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 15(6), 1512-1519, June 1998. [Example] [PDF]

4.       R. Melamed, Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Experimental comparison of three target acquisition models,” Optical Engineering, 37(7), July 1998 (invited paper). [PDF]

5.       Y. Yitzhaky, R. Milberg, S. Yohayev, and N. S. Kopeika, “Comparison of direct blind deconvolution methods for motion-blurred images,” Applied Optics, 38(20), pp. 4325-4332, July 1999. [PDF]

6.       Y. Yitzhaky, G. Boshusha, Y. Levi, and N. S. Kopeika, “Restoration of an image degraded by vibrations using only a single frame,” Optical Engineering, 38(8), August 2000.  [PDF]

7.       Y. Yitzhaky and E. Peli, “A method for objective edge detection evaluation and detector parameter selection,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, 25(8), pp. 1027-1033, August 2003. [PDF]

8.       Y. Yitzhaky and A. Stern, “Restoration of interlaced images degraded by variable velocity motion,” Optical Engineering, 42(12), December 2003. [PDF]

9.       E. Peli, J. Kim, Y. Yitzhaky, R. B. Goldstein and R. L. Woods, “Wide-band enhancement of television images for visually-impaired people,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 21(6), June 2004.  [PDF]

10.    G. Hochman, Y. Yitzhaky, N. S. Kopeika, Y. Lauber, M. Citroen and A. Stern, “Restoration of Images Captured by a Staggered TDI Camera in the Presence of Mechanical Vibrations,” Applied Optics, 43(22), pp. 4345-4354, August 2004. [PDF]

11.    Y. Yitzhaky and E. Peli, “Vision model based image foveation and motion estimation,” Optical Engineering, 44(10), October 2005. [PDF]

12.    V. Loyev and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Initialization of iterative parametric algorithms for blind de-convolution of motion-blurred images,” Applied Optics, 45(11), 2444-2452, April 2006. [PDF]

13.    O. Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Super-resolution reconstruction of a video captured by a vibrated TDI camera,” J. Elect. Imag., 15(2), Apr-Jun 2006. [Abstract and videos] [PDF]

14.    R. Koren and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Automatic selection of edge detector parameters based on spatial and statistical measures,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 102(2), 204-213, May 2006. [PDF]

15.    I. Klapp and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Angular-Motion PSF Model Considering Aberrations and Defocus Effects,”  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 23(8), August 2006. [PDF]

16.    O. Haik, Y. Lior, D. Nahmani and Y. Yitzhaky, “Effects of image restoration on acquisition of moving objects from thermal video sequences degraded by the atmosphere,” Optical Engineering, 45(11), November 2006. [Abstract and video examples] [PDF]

17.    S. Zamek and Y. Yitzhaky, “Turbulence strength estimation from an arbitrary set of atmospherically degraded images”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 23(12), December 2006. [PDF].

18.    O. Shacham, O Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, "Blind restoration of atmospherically degraded images by automatic best step edge detection," Pattern Recognition Letters, 28(15) pp. 2094-2103, 2007. [PDF]

19.    O Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, "Effects of image restoration on automatic acquisition of moving objects in thermal video sequences degraded by the atmosphere", accepted for publication, Applied Optics, 46(36), 8562-8572, December 2007.   [Abstract and video examples] [PDF]

20.    A. Halstuch and Y. Yitzhaky, "Intensity and polarization properties of light reflected from road signs in active imaging", Applied Optics 47(22), pp. 4031-4036, 2008.

21.    N. T. Shaked, Y. Yitzhaky, and J. Rosen, “Incoherent holographic imaging through thin turbulent media”, accepted for publication, Optics Communications 282, 1546-1550, 2009.

22.    E. Cohen and Y. Yitzhaky, "No-reference assessment of blur and noise impacts on image quality", Signal, Image and Video Processing, 4(3), 289-302, 2010.

23.    D. Rozban, A. Levanon, H. Joseph, A. Akram, A. Abramovich, N. S. Kopeika, Y. Yitzhaky, A. Belenky and O. Yadid-Pecht, "Inexpensive THz focal plane array imaging using miniature neon indicator lamps as detectors", IEEE Sensors Journal, 11(9), 1962-1968, 2011.

24.    E. Chen, O. Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, "Classification of thermal moving objects in atmospherically-degraded video", Optical Engineering, 51(10), 101710: 1-14, Oct. 2012.

25.    J. Sokolovsky, Y. Yitzhaky and I. Abdulhalim, "Analysis of optical coherence tomography interferograms of multi-layered biological samples", Applied Optics, 51(35), 2012.

26.    M. Shilemay, D. Rozban, A. Levanon, Y. Yitzhaky, N. S. Kopeika, O. Yadid-Pecht and A. Abramovich, " Quantification of millimeter wavelength imaging system performance based on inexpensive glow discharge detector focal plane array", accepted to Applied Optics.

27.    L. Itan and Y. Yitzhaky, “Performance of visual tasks from contour information”, accepted to J. Opt. Soc. Am. A.  

Articles in Conference Proceedings and Abstracts

  1. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Identification of motion blur for blind image restoration,” in and Electro-optics, part of the IEEE symposium in Tel-Aviv, March 1995.
  2. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Identification of the blur extent from motion blurred images,” in Infrared Imaging Systems: design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing VI, Proce - SPIE in press, presented at SPIE’s symposium in Orlando, FL., April 1995.
  3. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Identification of blur parameters from motion blurred images,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XIX, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CO., August 1996.
  4. Y. Yitzhaky, I. Dror and N. S. Kopeika, “Restoration of Atmospherically Blurred Images According to Weather predicted Atmospheric Modulation Transfer Function (MTF),” in Image Propagation through the Atmosphere, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CO., August 1996.
  5. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Evaluation of the PSF from motion blurred images,” in Image Processing and Hardware, part of the SPIE symposium in Jerusalem, March 1997.
  6. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Restoration of motion blurred images,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XX, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., July 1997.
  7. R. Melamed, Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Comparison of noise-limited target acquisition modeling: experiment,” in Airborne Reconnaissance XXI, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., July .
  8. Y. Yitzhaky and N. S. Kopeika, “Comparison of direct methods for restoration of motion blurred images,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XXI, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., July 1998.
  9. Y. Yitzhaky, G. Boshusha, Y. Levi, and N. S. Kopeika, “Vibrated image restorationfrom a single frame,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XXII, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CO., July 1999.
  10. Y. Yitzhaky, A. Stern, and N. S. Kopeika, “Restoration of nonlinear motion-distorted composite frame,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XXIII, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2000.
  11. Y. Yitzhaky and E. Peli, (Abstract) “Visual feature based registration of images from different retinal eccentricities,” in  Opthalmol. Vis. Sci. (ARVO Suppl.), 43, s2839, Fort Lauderdale, FL,  May 2002.
  12. G. Hochman, Y. Yitzhaky, N. S. Kopeika, Y. Lauber, M. Citroen and A. Stern, ” Restoration of images captured by a staggered TDI camera in the presence of mechanical vibrations,” in Applications of Digital Image processing XXVI, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2003.
  13. R. Koresh and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Automatic selection of edge detector parameters based on spatial and statistical measures,” in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CA., August 2004.
  14. O. Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Superresolution reconstruction of a video captured by a translational vibrated staggered TDI camera,” in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CA., August 2004.
  15. O. Shaham and Y. Yitzhaky, (Abstract) ”Automatic restoration of atmospherically-degraded images using step function detection,” Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII, part of SPIE’s symposium in Denver, CA., August 2004.
  16. I. Klapp and Y. Yitzhaky, ”Angular-motion OTF model,” Optical Scanning 2005, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2005.
  17. S. Zamek and Y. Yitzhaky, “Turbulence strength estimation and super-resolution from an arbitrary set of atmospherically degraded images,” in Atmospheric Optical Modeling, Measurement, and Simulation II, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2006.
  18. E. Cohen and Y. Yitzhaky, in "No-reference assessment of blur and noise impacts on image quality," in Applications of Digital Image Processing, San Diego, CA., August 2007.
  19. A. Halstuch and Y. Yitzhaky, "Properties of light reflected from road signs in active imaging for driving safety," in Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications, Florence, Italy, September 2007.
  20. O. Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, "Improvement of automatic acquisition of moving objects in long-distance imaging by blind image restoration," in Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications, Florence, Italy, September 2007.
  21. N.S. Kopeika, A. Abramovich, O. Yadid-Pecht, Y. Yitzhaky, A. Belenky, S. Lineykin, and D. Rozban, "Relatively inexpensive terahertz imaging", IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel,  December 2008.
  22. S. Mahpod and Y. Yitzhaky, “Compression of turbulence-affected video signals”, part of SPIE’s symposium in Mathematics of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XII, San Diego, CA., August 2009.
  23. Y. Yitzhaky and L. Itan, “Performance of visual tasks from contour information”, in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2010.
  24. S. Yona, A. Katsman, D. Gitler, A. Orenbuch and Y. Yitzhaky, “Segmentation and classifying of synapses in microscopic images”, in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIV, part of SPIE’s symposium in San Diego, CA., August 2011.
  25. E. Chen, O. Haik and Y. Yitzhaky, "Classification of small moving objects in atmospherically-degraded video", part of SPIE’s Security & Defence symposium in Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2011.
  26. B. Dee-Noor, A. Stern, Y. Yitzhaky and N.S. Kopeika, "Infrared image denoising by non-local means filtering", part of SPIE’s Defense, Security and Sensing symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2012.
  27. N. S. Kopeika, A. Zilberman, Y. Yitzhaky and E. Golbraikh, "Atmospheric effects on target acquisition", part of SPIE’s Defense, Security and Sensing symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2012.
  28. O. Perry and Y. Yitzhaky, “Automatic understanding of road signs in vehicular active night vision system", Third IEEE/IET International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP 2012), Shanghai, China, July 16-18, 2012.

Honors and awards

Year

Honor

1986

The Air Force Award.

1995

Academic distinction award for best M. Sc. Project from the Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics Research and Production, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

1996/7

The Jacob Ben-Isaac Hacohen distinction award.

1997

The Ministry of Science and Technology ESHKOL fellowship award for three years.

2000

The Wolf scholarship for Ph.D. students

2000 

Award from Applied Materials for Ph.D. students.