Hagit Zabrodsky Hel-Or () is an Israeli computer scientist known for her research in
image processing
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,
computer vision
Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...
, and the applications of
symmetry
Symmetry () in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, the term has a more precise definition and is usually used to refer to an object that is Invariant (mathematics), invariant und ...
to
pattern matching
In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually must be exact: "either it will or will not be a ...
and
computational chemistry
Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulations to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry incorporated into computer programs to calculate the structures and properties of mol ...
. She is a faculty member in the computer science department at the
University of Haifa
The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...
.
Education and career
Hel-Or graduated 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. ...
in 1985, earned a master's degree there in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994, with a dissertation supervised by Shmuel Peleg.
After postdoctoral research at
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...
and
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
, she returned to Bar-Ilan University in 1997 as a lecturer. She moved to the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer in 1998.
Book
With
Yanxi Liu, Craig S. Kaplan, and Luc Van Gool, Hel-Or is the coauthor of the book ''Computational Symmetry in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics'' (Now Publishing, 2009).
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
Academic staff of the University of Haifa