I am a researcher at the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab. My research interests are in the areas of computer vision and computer graphics. More specifically I am interested in non-parametric and by-example methods for image and video synthesis and analysis. In my recent work I explored how local similarities within and across images and video can be used for image editing, enhancement, interpolation, object and action recognition, visual saliency, video summarization and more.

I finished my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University in 1996. Between 2001 and 2007 I attended the Weizmann Institute of Science where I received with honors a M.Sc. and Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. I had the honor to be advised by Prof. Michal Irani. More details about my Ph.D. work can be found here. In August 2007 I joined Adobe and also started sharing my time as a post-doc with the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering department. Since 2010 I am a full researcher at the Creative Technologies Lab.

My publications on Google Scholar / MS Academics.

Projects

Tech transfers

(New!) Content Aware Patch and Move tools in Photoshop CS6

Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 and Content Aware Spot Healing Brush in PSE9

Honors

2011 – my paper on PatchMatch was chosen to be published as a "Research Highlight" in CACM
2010 – “Technical Excellence Award for 2010” by the PC Magazine to the “Content Aware Fill” feature in Photoshop CS5
2007 – The J.F. Kennedy Award for Ph.D. work (highest award), Weizmann Institute of Science
2007 – Outstanding Student Award, The Israeli Knesset (parliament)
2004 – Best Poster Award, CVPR 2004, for the paper “Space-Time Video Completion”
2003 – Dean's prize for M.Sc. students, Weizmann Institute of Science
2002 – Best Paper Award, ECCV 2002, for the paper “Increasing Space Time Super-Resolution in Video”