Starting August 2015 I will be on sabbatical and taking up a position of Senior Computer Scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), Viterbi School of Engineering, Information Sciences Institute (ISI).

Contact Info

Office address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel 1 University Road, P.O.B. 808, Raanana 43107, Israel

Office phone: +972-9-778-1261
Office Fax: +972-9-778-0605
E-Mail: talhassner@gmail.com

Research Interests

I am an Associate Professor at the Open University of Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. My research interests are mainly Statistical Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Events and News

• 6-December-2017:
  Workshop Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, 2019.

• 1-December-2017:
  Excited to announce that Roee Enbar was selected for the 2017 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for our paper Age and Gender Estimation of Unfiltered Faces. Congratulations Roee on the well-deserved honor!

• 27-October-2017:
  Our bid for holding the 2021 IEEE/CVF ICCV in Montreal was approved!
  A HUGE thank you to everyone at ICCV’17 who participated and voted for our team. And so I am happy to announce that I will be a Program Co-Chair for the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’21), Montreal, CA.

• 5-April-2017:
  Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, USA, 2018.

• 2-April-2017:
  Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Cross-domain Human Identification (CHI), held in conjunction with ICCV’17, Venice, Italy.

• 15-November-2016:
  Tutorial co-chair for ICCV’17, Venice, Italy.

• 20-September-2016:
  Biometrics Research Award, awarded by the The Biometric Applications Commissioner, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office

• 30-August-2016: Workshop Co-Chair for AVSS’17, Lecce, Italy. Call for workshops is now available.

• 20-August-2016:
  Demo Chair and Area chair for WACV’17, Santa Rosa, CA. Please see call for demos for more information.

• 20-August-2015:
  Area chair for CVPR’16, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 11-June-2015:
  Our LATCH descriptor has won the CVPR 2015, OpenCV State of the Art Vision Challenge, in the Image Registration category. LATCH is now integrated into OpenCV 3.0

• 11-May-2015:
  Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, June 2015

• 24-March-2015:
  Congratulations to Gil Levi, a graduate student at the OpenU computer vision lab, for being awarded the best student project award at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) for our project LATCH: Learned Arrangements of Three Patch Codes (PDF, Project and Code)

• 24-March-2015:
  Invited speaker at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC), one hour tutorial on “A Short Intro to Deep Learning for Face Recognition”

• 21-December-2014:
  Invited speaker at the IDC Israel Vision Day. Talk title: “Towards Dense Correspondences Between Any Two Images.” (Talk video, Project, Code and Paper)

• 17-November-2014:
  Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Surveillance and Tracking. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

• July 20th - 24th, 2014:
  Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Seminar on “Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts”

• 23-June-2014:
  Invited talk at the CVPR’14 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Columbus, Ohio (talk slides)

• 23-June-2014:
  Invited speaker at POCV 2014: The Ninth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, CVPR’14, Columbus, Ohio

• 7-December-2013:
  Invited speaker at THUMOS: The First International Workshop on Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, ICCV’13, Sydney, Australia (Talk video)

• 2-December-2013:
  Invited talk at the ICCV’13 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Sydney Australia (talk slides: PDF, PPTX)

• 23-June-2013:
  Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Action Similarity in Unconstrained Videos (ACTS’13), held in conjunction with CVPR’13, Portland, Oregon

• 21-May-2013:
  Area chair for CVPR’14, Columbus, Ohio

• 13-May-2013:
  Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Biometrics for Recognition: Science, Technology, and Society. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

• September 19th - 21st, 2012:
  Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Perspective Workshop on “Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits”

• 9-January-2012:
  Co-organizer of the popular science Symposium on Human and Machine Vision. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)