Ariel Shamir () is an Israeli professor of

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. He serves as dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. and one of the developers of

Seam carving Seam carving (or liquid rescaling) is an algorithm for content-aware image scaling, image resizing, developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), and Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center and MERL. It fu ...

Biography

Shamir received a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

and a doctorate in computer science in 2000. He specialized mainly in computerized image and video processing, imaging and machine learning. He did his

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fellowship at the Center for Computational Imaging at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

and then researched at Mitsubishi Electric's research laboratories at Cambridge, Disney Research and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

. In 2017, he started serving as a dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. Shamir has published dozens of publications on his research topics, and in 2014 he was mentioned as one of the most cited and influential researchers in the field of computer science. Since 2017, Shamir has been an associate editor of several journals like IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and

ACM Transactions on Graphics ''ACM Transactions on Graphics'' (TOG) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer graphics. The editor-in-chief is Carol O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin). According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', th ...

. As of 2021, Shamir's research has been cited over 11,000 times in academic papers worldwide.

References

External links

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The resume of Professor Shamir
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shamir, Ariel 1966 births Living people Israeli scientists Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academics from Jerusalem Israeli computer scientists Academic staff of Reichman University