Ofer Hadar Date (May 2017)

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Personal DetailsName: Ofer HadarDate and place of birth: July 27, 1965, Hadera, IsraelCitizenship: IsraeliRegular military service: November 1983 - November 1986Work address: Department of Communication Systems Engineering

Ben-Gurion University of the NegevP.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, IsraelTel. 972-8-6477233, Fax 972-8-6472883

Home page: http://www.cse.bgu.ac.il/hadarHome address: Avshalom St. 18/3, Beer-Sheva, 84511, Israel

Tel. 972-8-6417354 Education

October 1986-1990 Ben-Gurion University of the NegevDept. of Electrical and Computer EngineeringB.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

October 1990-1992 Ben Gurion University of the Negev M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, CUM LAUDE.A combined M.Sc. - Ph.D. programGrade point average: 94.08.

October 1992-1997 Ben Gurion University of the NegevPh.D. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.Dissertation: Effects of Vibrations and Motion on Image Quality and Target Acquisition.

Employment historyAugust 2015 – February 2016 Visiting Associate Professor at EE,

UCLA (Sabbatical leave), working on Communication constraints with Autonomous cars with Prof. Izhak Rubin.

November 2012 Associate ProfessorSeptember 2012 Chairman of Communication Systems Engineering

DepartmentOctober 2002 Senior Lecturer (tenured) to present Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Communication Systems Engineering DepartmentSeptember 2005, March 2010 One month visits at Labri , Bordeaux University as a

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research visiting professor, working with Prof. Jenny Jenny Benois-Pineau. April 1999 to Septmeber 2002 Lecturer

Ben Gurion University of the NegevCommunication Systems Engineering Department

October 1997 to March 1999 Postdoctoral ResearcherComputer Science Department,

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.Working with Prof. Reuven Cohen. Area of research: High-speed networks. Video transmission over ATM networks. Video rate smoothing algorithms. Flow control in ATM network.

August 1996 - January 1997 Research Visiting Scientist for six months at the Centerfor : Research & Education in Optics & Lasers, (CREOL), University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida.Working with Professor Glenn D. Boreman.Area of research: Analysis angular dependence of sampling MTF. Over sampling MTF

October 1990 Mathematics teacher to August 1996 Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Pre-Academic Program

October 1990 Ben Gurion University of the Negevto September 1997

Responsibilities:Teaching assistant: Courses include1. Introduction to communication theory., 3rd year course.2. Electronic lab., 2nd year course.3. Electronic lab., 3rd year course.4. Energy conversion lab., 3rd year course.5. Introduction to random process., 3rd year course.6. Supervisor of 4th year student projects.

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Professional Activities

(a) Positions in academic administration (departmental, faculty and

university)

September 2012 – to present Acting chairman of Communication Systems Engineering. 2010 – to present Representative of the Engineering Faculty in the committee to advance e-learning.

2008 - Representative of the Engineering Faculty in “Lamdan” – Science and Knowledge studies for youth.

2000-2003 Head of the Network Multimedia System track. 2000-2001 Chairman of the departmental teaching committee.

(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions

(c) Significant professional consulting

1. 1999-2000 Degem Systems Ltd. - Academic consultant for building new courses in Computer Communication

2. 2000-2001 Nylus-Tec Ltd. (Enquad) – Chief Science Officer.3. 2001-2005 Scopus Ltd.- Research and development consultant. 4. 2006 The IDF – Consulting on video quality measures: objective measures vs. subjective measures.

5. 2006-2008 Radvision Ltd. – Logo insertion for H.264 in the DCT domain. 6. 2007-2009 Elbit Ltd. – Video transmission on ad-hoc networks. 7. 2009 Corriegent Ltd. – Statistical Video Multipluxing for HDTV system.

d) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal

Editorial board of scientific journal:

Editorial Board of ISRN Communications (2010) Associate Editor of Optical Engineering (Area: Video) , (September 2010 to present). Guest Editor with D. Grois of Special Section on Video Compression Technology, in Optical Engineering The submission deadline is 1 October 2012.

Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal (IF=1.524), (May 2012).Editorial Board of The mathematical problems in engineering Journal (IF=1.082), (October 2014).

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Reviewer (Journal and Conferences):OSA Applied Optics.SPIE Optical Engineering.INFOCOM.BSF foundation.IEEE Comm. Mag.Transaction of IEEE MultimediaSignal Processing: Image Communication JournalCOMNETITRE 2003-20062006 IEEE Sarnoff SymposiumIEEE/OSA Journal of Display TechnologyJournal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS)

Conference Organizing Committees:

Invited to be a session chair in International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2002), 8-10 April 2002, in Las-Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Invited to organize a session of invited papers on Networked Multimedia Systems, the Sixth Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2002),which will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 14 -18, 2002.

Middle East liason, and TPC member, ITRE 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, August 10-13, 2003, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Middle East liason, and TPC member, ITRE 2004, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, June 28 – July 1 ,2004, London, UK.

Middle East liason, and TPC member, ITRE 2005, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, June 27-30, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Technical Program Chair, ITRE 2006, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, October 16-18, 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2009, 24-26 March 2009, Shanghai, China.

Technical Program Committee Member of the Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII session at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 17-21 August 2014, San Diego. USA.

Technical Program Committee Member of the Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII session at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 9-13 August 2015, San Diego. USA.

Technical Program Committee Member of the Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII session at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 9-13 August 2016, San Diego. USA.

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Program Co-Chair, RESCUE 2017, Workshop on Reliability, Security and Quality, ETS17 Fringe Workshop, May 25-26, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus.

(e) Membership in professional/scientific societies

1999-2007 SPIE membership.

1999-2010 IEEE membership.

August 2011 Senior IEEE member.

August 2016 Senior SPIE member.

Educational activities Courses taught:

Under-Graduate

1. Introduction to Computer Communications (236334), undergraduate and graduate course,

two teaching groups, jointly taught with Prof. Reuven Cohen, and Dr. Roy Friedman

(Computer Science -Technion, 1997-2000).

2. Introduction to Random Process (3711170101), undergraduate course, (CSE- BGU, 1999-

2000).

3. Networked Multimedia Systems (37111231) undergraduate course, (CSE- BGU, 1999-

2003).

4. Networks Architecture (37110201) undergraduate course, (CSE- BGU, 1999-2003).

5. Introduction to Multimedia communication (37111211), undergraduate course, (CSE- BGU,

2003).

6. Computer Networks Laboratory (EE-Technion, 1997-2000).

7. Computer Networks Laboratory (CS-Technion, 1997-1998).

8. Introduction to Communication theory (3711021), undergraduate course, (CSE- BGU,

2004-2006).

9. Computer Communication Networks 1 (37110121), undergraduate course, (CSE – BGU,

2008-2009).

10. Multimedia Compression (3711241), undergraduate course, (CSE – BGU, 2009-2010).

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Garduate

11. Video transmission over the Internet (37725081), graduate course for the Electrooptics

program (BGU, 2000).

12. Transmission of Audio and Video over the Internet (37111221), undergraduate and graduate

course, (CSE- BGU, 2001-2003).

13. Selected topics in Image and Video Communication (3711261), graduate course (CSE-

BGU, 2009).

14. Image Processing I (EE211A), graduate course (EE – UCLA, Spet-Dec. 2015).

Research StudentsI. Graduate Students

M.Sc. Students (Completed)

(1) Sergey Riter (EE – student), “The influence of motion sensor error on Image restoration from vibrations and motion" (with Prof. Natan Kopeika from EE, at BGU), Graduated – February 2003, with grade - 95.

(2) Arcady Greenberg (Electro-optics program - student), “Data hiding in compressed images in the DCT domain” , Graduated 2003–, with grade - 95.

(3) Alex Ginzburg (Electro-optics program - student), “Developing algorithms for global motion compensation for MPEG-4 compression”, Graduated 2004–, with grade - 93.

(4) Merav Huber, (EE- Student), "Hybrid Error Concealment Methods, applied on a Compressed Digital Video Signal" (with Prof. Natan Kopeika from EE, at BGU) Graduated 2004–, with grade – 95.

(5) Revital Huber, (EE- Student), "Measuring the Influence of Packet Loss in an IP Network on a Compressed Digital Video Signal Quality, Using Human-Vision-Based Quality Measures" (with Prof. Natan Kopeika from EE, at BGU) Graduated 2005–, with grade - 95.

(6) Shmuel Benyaminovich (Electro-optics program - student), “Optimal Transrating via DCT Coefficients Modification and Dropping” Graduated June 2005, with grade - 93.

(7) Freddy Bembarom, "Efficient techniques of video rate smoothing for multiplexing purposes" Graduated October 2005, with grade - 95.

(8) Dan Grois (Electro-optics program - student), "Time-Rate-Distortion Analysis for Optimizing the H.264/AVC Video Compression" Graduated July 2006, with grade – 93.

(9) Lior Friedman (EE – student), "Development of algorithms for efficient compressed video transcoding" (with Prof. Natan Kopeika from EE, at BGU), Graduated July 2007, with grade – 85.

(10) Erick Elharar (Electro-optics program - student), "A hybrid compression method for integral images using discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform” (with Dr. Adrian Stern Electro-optics program, at BGU), Graduated July 2007, with grade – 95.

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(11) Alexander Lyadski (Electro-optics program - student), “Real time image restoration from vertical vibrations” (with Prof. Natan Kopeika from EE, at BGU) Graduated July 2007, with grade – 91.

(12) Dmitry Bykhovsky (Electro-optics program - student), “Analysis of the error resulting from motion estimation in video compression” , Graduated July 2008, with grade – 87.

(13) Kobi Bentkovski (Electro-optics program –student), “H.264 error correction for wireless transmission” Graduated July 2010, with grade – 88.

(14) Ran Dubin (CSE – student), “Progressive Download Video Smoothing Using the TCP Window and Deep Packet Inspection”, Graduated July 2012, with grade – 88.

(15) Irina Bronfman (Electro-optics program –student), " Video and data handling error conditions in wireless broadcast channel interference and error concealment", Graduated March 2017, with grade – 92.

M.Sc. Students (Present)

(16) Rafael Shalala (CSE – student), “Video Quality of Experience Prediction Using Clients ID as Added Feature for Machine Learning Algorithms”, beginning October 2014.

(17) Amir Lasry (CSE – student), "Intra Prediction algorithms for VP9 codec", beginning October 2013.

(18) Ariel Shliefer (CSE – student), "Improvments for hot pixels in digital imagers using lossless approximation techniques and inproving of Intra Prediction for VP10 codec" ”, beginning October 2014.

(19) Yaron Amsalem (CSE – student), "Cyber Attack/Defense Algorithms Based on Data Hiding in Compressed Video Stream" beginning March 2015.

(20) Yoram Segal (CSE – student), "Defense from Covert Channel Cyber-attack over video stream payload" beginning October 2016.

(21) Dana Yietiv (Electro-optics program –student), "New algorithm for Edge Detection based on Streach Phase Trasform" beginning October 2015.

(22) Eduard Segal (Electro-optics program –student), "Defense from Covert Channel Cyber-attack from MV modifications" beginning October 2015.

Ph.D. Students (Completed)

(1) Ron Shmueli (EE- student), “Evaluation the video quality as function of network QoS parameters” (Joint supervision with Prof. Natan Kopeika), (Graduated on March 2007).

(2) Evgeny Kaminsky (EE- student), “Video transcoding and Motion Compensation” (Joint supervision with Prof. Shlomi Arnon), (Graduated on March 2009).

(3) Dan Grois (CSE-student), "New algorithms for rate control in H.264”, (Graduated on February 2012).

(4) Merav Huber, “The influence of compression on point target tracking in Hyper Spectral Imaging” (Joint supervision with Prof. Israel Stanley Rotman), (Graduated on June 2017).

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(5) Revital Huber, “The influence of compression on target detection in IR” (Joint supervision with Prof. Israel Stanley Rotman), (Graduated on June 2017).

(6) Ran Dubin, “Advanced subjects in adaptive video streaming”, (Graduated on June 2017).

Ph.D. Students (Present)

(7) Raz Birman, "Deep Learning algorithm for improving Video Compression" (Begining on October 2016).

Honors and awards 1990 Academic distinction award for the 4th year of studies.1990 Academic distinction award from the Knesset (Israeli parliament).1991 Academic distinction award for best student project from the Paul Ivanier

Center for Robotics and Production Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

1992 Wolf Foundation prize for M.Sc. students. 1993 Rector's prize, distinction award for M.Sc. students. 1993 Academic distinction award from the Knesset (Israeli parlament).1995 Clore scholar award on the basis of academic excellence. This award was

granted to only 11 doctoral students in nation-wide competition, and included personal scholarship and grants to the amount of $ 52,500.This award was granted to only 11 doctoral students in nation-wide competition, and included personal scholarship and grants to the amount of $ 52,500.

1996 Minerva fellowship for Scientific Cooperation between Germany and Israel, and included personal scholarship and grants to the amount of DM 38,800 (Declined).

1997 Israeli-government fellowship for Post-doctoral students at Tel-Aviv University. This fellowship was granted to only 8 Post-doctoral students from 67 candidates, and included personal scholarship to the amount of $ 16,000 (Declined).

1997 The National Research Council Research Associateship award at the Air Force Research Laboratory / Rome Laboratory – Electromagnetics & Reliability Directorate Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. It included personal scholarship and grants to the amount of $ 39,000 (Declined).

1999 The paper "Automatic target recognition during sensor motion and vibration", has been selected for inclusion in the new Selected SPIE Papers on CD-ROM series, Vol. 6: Automatic Target Recognition. The CD-ROM, published in December 1999 by SPIE, is edited by Dr. Firooz Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp. The collection includes key papers from the SPIE

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journals or SPIE Proceedings literature on mathematical imaging and vision.

Scientific Publications H-index (ISI : 10, Google Scholar: 17, i10-index: 40) Total number of citations of all articles (from ISI: 362, GS: 1292) Total number of citations without self-citations (from ISI: 293, GS is optional)

(a) Authored books

Chapters in a book1. O. Hadar, I. Dror and N. S. Kopeika, "Real-Time Restoration of Images Degraded by

Image Motion and Vibration," in Trends in Optical Engineering, G. Menon, editor, Council of Scientific Research, Trivandrum 695023, Kerala, India, pp. 287 - 298 (1994).

2. D. Grois , E. Kaminsky and O. Hadar, “Optimization Methods for H.264/AVC Video Coding,” in Handbook of MPEG Applications: Standards in Practice, The (eds M. C. Angelides and H. Agius), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp. 175-204, (2010).

3. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, “Recent Advances in Region-of-Interest Coding,” in Recent Advances on Video Coding, Javier Del Ser Lorente (Ed.), InTech, pp. 49-76, (2011).

4. D. Grois , O. Hadar, “Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming by Using Scalable Video Coding,” in Streaming Media with Peer-to-Peer Networks: Wireless Perspectives, Martin Fleury and Nadia Qadri, editors, pp. 162-195, (2012).

5. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, “Recent  Advances in Watermarking for Scalable Video Coding,” in Watermarking - Volume 2, Dr. Mithun Das Gupta (Ed.), pp. 1-16, (2012).

6. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, “Region-of-Interest Processing and Coding Techniques: Overview of Recent Trends and Directions,” accepted to the book Intelligent Multimedia Technologies for Networking: Techniques and Tools, IGI Global, to be published in 2012.

7. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, “Recent Advances in Computational Complexity Techniques for Video Coding Applications,” accepted to the book Intelligent Multimedia Technologies for Networking: Techniques and Tools, IGI Global, to be published in 2012.

8. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, “Advances in Region-of-Interest Video and Image Processing,” accepted to the book Multimedia Networking and Coding: From Capture to Display, IGI Global, to be published in 2012.

 In Conferences

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1. O. Hadar, M. Fisher and N. S. Kopeika, "Numerical Calculation of Vibrational Motion Modulation Transfer Function", in Target Acquisition, Pointing, and Tracking, Proc. SPIE vol. 1482, 1991, presented at the SPIE Symposium in Orlando, FL., April 1991.

2. O. Hadar, I. Dror, and N. S. Kopeika, "Numerical Calculation of Image Motion and Vibration Modulation Transfer Function - a new method, " in Optomechanics and Dimensional stability, Proc. SPIE vol. 1533, pp. 61-74, 1991, presented at SPIE Symposium in San Diego, CA., 1991.

3. O. Hadar, I. Dror, and N. S. Kopeika, "Numerical calculation of image motion: experimental verification" in Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing, M. K. Masten and L.A. Stockum, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 1697, pp. 183-197, 1992, presented at the SPIE Symposium in Orlando, FL., and April 1992.

4. O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, "Motion consideration for airborne reconnaissance of a target over hostile territory: target acquisition probabilities" in Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing, M. K. Masten and L. A. Stockum, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 1950, pp. 115-128 1993, presented at the SPIE Symposium in Orlando, FL., April 1993.

5. O. Hadar, Z. Adar, A. Cotter and N. S. Kopeika, "Restoration of images degraded by mechanical vibrations", in Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing VII, M. K. Masten and L. A. Stockum editors, Proc. SPIE vol. 2221, pp. 375-383, 1994.

6. O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika and S. R. Rotman, "Target Acquisition Probabilities for Image Motion and Vibration" in Infrared Imaging Systems, Design, Analysis, Modeling and Testing V, G. C. Holst, editor, Proc. SPIE vol. 2224, pp. 108 - 120, 1994.

7. O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika, and S. R. Rotman, "Automatic Target Recognition during image motion and vibrations" in Automatic target Recognition IV, F. A. Sadjadi, Conference Chair, Proc. SPIE vol. 2234, pp. 326-336, 1994.

8. O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, "Target acquisition probabilities for image motion and vibration," in Ground Target Modeling & Validation Conf., Aug. 23-25, 1994, Houghton, MI, USA.

9. O. Hadar, A. Mendelblat, R. Sabat, N. S. Kopeika and S. R. Rotman, "Influence of sensor motion on target acquisition," in Airborne Reconnaissance XVIII., W. G. Fishell, P. A. Henkle, and A. C. Crane., eds., Proc SPIE vol. 2272, pp. 263-274, 1994.10. O. Hadar, Z. Adar, A. Cotter and N. S. Kopeika, "Restoration of images degraded by

mechanical vibrations" in Conference C: Signal Processing, Proc. 12th IAPR, Jerusalem, Israel, pp. 137-139, 1994.

11. O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika, and S. R. Rotman, "Quantitative evaluation of the target acquisition capability when restoring images blurred by sensor motion," in The 9th meeting on optical engineering in Israel, Oct. 1994.

12. O. Hadar, M. Robbins, Y. Novogrozky, D. Kaplan, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, “Image motion restoration from a sequence of images,” in Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing VII, M. K. Masten and L. A. Stockum editors, San-Diego, July 1995.

13. D. Arbel, O. Hadar and N. S. Kopeika, “Medical image restoration of dynamic lungs using motion OTF, “ Application of Digital Image Processing XVIII, Andrew G. Tescher, editors, San-Diego, July 1995.

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14. O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika, and S. R. Rotman, “Target detection of objects with a moving sensor,” in Ground Target Modeling & Validation Conf., Aug. 23-25, 1995, Houghton, MI, USA.

15. O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and N. S. Kopeika, “Incorporating the entire modulation transfer function into a target acquisition model,” in Targets and Backgrounds: Characterization and Representation II., Apr. 8-10, 1996, Orlando, FL, USA.16. O. Hadar, E. Gersten, D. A. Weitzman and D. Arbel, “Image reconstruction from power

spectral data, “ in Digital Image Recovery and Synthesis III, Paul S. Idell and Thimothy J. Schultz editors, Aug. 4-9, 1996, Denver, CO, USA.

17. O. Hadar, N. Corse, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, “Contrast vs noise effects on image quality, “in Airborne Reconnaissance XX, Wallace G. Fishell, Conference Chair. Aug. 4-9, 1996, Denver, CO, USA.

18. O. Hadar, N. Corse, R. Khalif, Y. Neumann, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, “Image restoration for target detection - will it help ?, “in Ground Target Modeling & Validation Conf., Aug. 22-24, 1996, Houghton, MI, USA.

19. R. Succary, N. Corse, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, N. S. Kopeika, “Reletaive effects of blur and noise on target acquisition: The advisability of image restoration, Proceedings of SPIE, Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 120-129, (1997).

20. O. Hadar, A. Dogariu and G. D. Boreman, "Angular dependence of sampling MTF," in The 10th meeting on optical engineering in Israel, Jerusalem, March 1997.

21. O. Hadar, and G. D. Boreman, “Analysis of Oversampling Requirements in Infrared Scene Projectors,” in Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing, V, M. S. Scholl and B. F. Andresen. , Conference Chairs, July 27 - August 1, 1997, San-Diego, CA, USA.

22. O. Hadar, and A. Stern, “Image compression improvement by pre-filtering,” in Application of Digital Image Processing XXI, A. G. Tescher, Conference Chair, July 19 -24, 1998, San-Diego, CA, USA. 23 O. Hadar and R. Cohen, "PCRTT Enhancement for Off-Line Video Smoothing," in Proc. SPIE Vol. 3528, pp. 89-100, Multimedia Systems and Applications, Andrew G. Tescher; Bhaskaran Vasudev; V. Michael Bove; Barbara Derryberry; Eds., November 1998, Boston, MA, USA. 24. E. Felstaine, R. Cohen and O. Hadar, "Crankback Prediction in Hierarchical ATM

Networks", Infocom99, NY, USA.25. O. Hadar, M. Huber, R. Huber and A. Stern, “MTF as a quality measure for compressed images transmitted over computer networks,” in Mathematics of Data/Image Coding Compression, and Encryption II, 18-23 July 1999, Denver, CO, USA.26. O. Hadar and S. Greenberg, ”Video rate smoothing and statistical multiplexing using the e-PCRTT algorithm,” in Multimedia Systems and Applications II, Conference Chair: Michael O. Polley, 19-22 September 1999, Boston, MA, USA. 27. O. Hadar and S. Greenberg, "Statistical Multiplexing and Admission Control Policy for Smoothed Video Streams using e-PCRTT Algorithm," in International Conference on

Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2000), 27-29 March 2000, in Las-Vegas, Nevada, USA.

28. S. Riter, O. Hadar, I. Dror, and N. S. Kopeika, "Practical uses of vibrated image restoration," in Sensors, Cameras, and Applications for Digital Photography III,

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part of IS&T/SPIE's Photonics West 2001- Electronic Imaging, 21-26 January 2001, San Jose, CA, USA.

29. O. Hadar, and M. Segal, "Models and algorithms for bandwidth allocation of CBR video streams in a VoD system," in International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2001), 2-4 April 2001, in Las-Vegas, Nevada, USA.30. O. Hadar, and Hagai Folkman, "Arbitrary-shaped objects Alpha coding for low

bit rate MPEG-4," in OptiComm 2001, Optical Networking and Communications Conference, 19 - 24 August 2001, Denver, CO USA.

31. O. Hadar, A. Kazir, and R. Stone, "Prefeteched multiplexing of individually smoothed video streams," in OptiComm 2001, Optical Networking and Communications Conference, 19 - 24 August 2001, Denver, CO USA.

32. S. Raiter , O. Hadar., and N. S. Kopeika, “The influence of motion sensor error on image restoration from vibrations and motion, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering,Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 414 - 424, (2001).

33. H. Stern, and O. Hadar, “Optimal Video Stream Multiplexing through Linear Programming,” in International Conference on Information Technology:

Coding and Computing (ITCC 2002), 8-10 April 2002, in Las-Vegas, Nevada, USA.34. O. Hadar, and H. Stern, “Optimal Client constraint multiplexing: A linear Programming

Approach,” in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Information Systems and Databases, pp. 197-203, September 25-27, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

35. E. Kaminsky and O. Hadar, "Motion Estimation Algorithms for Video Compression: Evaluation Environment and Student Projects," in, ITRE 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, August 10-13, 2003, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

36. O. Hadar, M. Huber, and R. Huber, “Hybrid Error Concealment in Digital Compressed Video Streams,” in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2004 / Multimedia Technology, June 28 - July 1 ,2004, London, UK. The paper won the outstanding student paper award.

37. R. Shmueli, O. Hadar, and R. Huber, “The effect of frame rate and frame size on the perceived compressed video quality transmitted over lossy IP networks,” in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2004 / Multimedia Technology, June 28-July 1 ,2004, London, UK.

38. F. Bembaron, and O. Hadar, “FRames-Ensured-Delivery Algorithm for Smoothing and Multiplexing Prerecorded Videos,” in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2004 / Multimedia Technology, June 28 – July 1 ,2004, London, UK. The paper won the best student paper award.

39. F. Bembaron and O. Hadar, "Smoothing and Multiplexing Protocol for Computer Networks", Proceedings International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT'04), Austin, August 2004.

40. S. Benyaminovich, O. Hadar, and E. Kaminsky, “Optimal Transrating via DCT Coefficients Modification and Dropping”, in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2005 / Multimedia Technology, June 27-30, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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41. P. Kramer, O. Hadar, J. Benois-Pineau, and J.P Domenger, “Super-Resolution Mosaicing from MPEG compressed video,” in the International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.

42. P. Kramer, O. Hadar, J. Benois-Pineau, and J.P Domenger, "Use of motion information in super-resolution mosaicing" in the International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, USA, October 8-11, 2006.

43. E. Kaminsky, D. Grois, O. Hadar, "Dynamic Computational Complexity and Bit Allocation for Optimizing H.264/AVC Video Compression," in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2006 / Multimedia Technology, October 16-18, 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

44. R. Shmueli, O. Hadar, R. Huber, M. Maltz, M. Huber, "Effects of the encoding scheme on the perceived compressed video quality transmitted over lossy IP networks," in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2005 / Multimedia Technology, October 16-18, 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

45. M. Huber, R. Huber, O. Hadar, “Hybrid Error Concealment with Automatic Error Detection for MPEG-2 Video Streams,” in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2005 / Multimedia Technology, October 16-18, 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

46. E. Kaminsky, A. Ginzburg, Y. Abramov, O. Hadar, “DCT-domain Coder for Digital Video Applications,” in International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2005 / Multimedia Technology, October 16-18, 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

47. O. Hadar, E. Goldberg, and E. Topchik, " The influence of image compression on target acquisition," in Electronic Imaging 2008, 27–31 January 2008, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6806, San Jose, California, USA.

48. O. Hadar, E. Gonen, and E. Kaminsky, "Rate Distortion Optimization for Efficient Watermarking in the DCT Domain," in IEEE Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2008, "Multiple Technologies for Multimedia ", 31 March – 2 April 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

49. O. Hadar, and D. Grois, “Buffer Control in H.264/AVC Applications by Implementing Dynamic Complexity-Rate-Distortion Analysis”, in IEEE Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2009, 13-15 May 2009, Bilbao, Spain.50. R. Huber, and O. Hadar, “Compression of infrared imagery sequences containing a slow moving point target” in 1 st Workshop on Apecial Topics in Homeland Nuclear Security, July 22-24, 2009, International House, University of California, Berkeley, CA.51. D. Grois, E. Kaminsky, and O. Hadar, “Dynamically Adjustable and Scalable ROI Video Coding” in IEEE Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2010, 24-26 March 2010, Shanghai, China.52. E. Kaminsky, D. Grois, and O. Hadar, “ Efficient Real-Time Video-in-Video Insertion

into a Pre-Encoded Video Stream for the H.264/AVC”, in IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), 1-2 July 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece.

53. D. Grois, E. Kaminsky, and O. Hadar, “ROI Adaptive Scalable Video Coding for Limited Bandwidth Wireless Networks” in IEEE Wireless Days conference (WD’10), 20-22 , October, 2010, Venice, Italy.

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54. D. Grois, E. Kaminsky, and O. Hadar, “Adaptive Bit-Rate Control for Region-of-Interest Scalable Video Coding”, in IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 17-20 November, 2010.

55. D. Bykhovsky , and O. Hadar, “Evaluation of a GLRT Threshold for Voiced-Unvoiced   Decision and Pitch Tracking in Noisy Speech,” in IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 17-20 November, 2010.56. H. Boujut, O. Hadar, J. Benois-Pineau, T. Ahmed, and P. Bonnet, “Weighted-MSE based on saliency map for assessing video, “ in Electronic Imaging 2011, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7867, San-Francisco , California, USA, 23–27 January 2011.57. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, "Efficient Adaptive Bit-Rate Control for Scalable Video Coding

by using Computational Complexity-Rate-Distortion Analysis," in IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Nuremberg, Germany, 8-10 June 2011.

58. (*) H. Boujut, J. Benois-Pineau, T. Ahmed, O. Hadar, P. Bonnet, “A Metric for No-Reference Video Quality Assessment for HDTV Delivery based on Saliency Maps,” in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011), Barselona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011.

59. (*) D. Grois , and O. Hadar, "Complexity-Aware Adaptive Spatial Pre-Processing for ROI Scalable Video Coding with Dynamic Transition Region," in International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 11-14, 2011.

60. H. Boujut, O. Hadar, J. Benois-Pineau, and T. Ahmed, “No-reference video quality assessment of H.264 video streams based on semantic saliency maps, “ in Electronic Imaging 2012, presented in San-Francisco , California, USA, 22–26 January 2012.

61. E. Cohen, R. Heiman, and O. Hadar, “Image and video restoration via Ising-like models, “ in Electronic Imaging 2012, presented in San-Francisco , California, USA, 22–26 January 2012.62. R. Dubin, O. Hadar, “Progressive Download Video Rate Traffic Shaping Using TCP

Window and Deep Packet Inspection,” in The 11th International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'12), Las Vegas, USA, July 16-19, 2012.

63. R. Huber, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and M. Huber, " Temporal and spatial compression of infrared imagery sequences containing slow moving point targets." in the IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2012), Eilat, Nov. 14-16, 2012.

64. M. Huber, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and R. Huber, "Compression of Hyperspectral images containing a sub-pixel target." in IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2012), Eilat, Nov. 14-16, 2012.

65. D. Grois , and O. Hadar, R. Ohayon, and N. Amram, "Live Video Streaming with Adaptive Pre-Processing by Using Scalable Video Coding" in IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2013), Jan. 11-14, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

66. D. Grois , M. Loants, O. Hadar, R. Ohayon, and N. Amram, "Ultra-Fast Live Video-in-Video Insertion for H.264/AVC" in IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2013), Jan. 11-14, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

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67 D. Grois, and O. Hadar, "Recent trends in online multimedia education for heterogeneous end-user devices based on Scalable Video Coding," IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2013),

Berlin, Germany, pp.1-4, 12-15 Mar., 2013.68. R. Dubin, A. Dvir, and O. Hadar,"The Effect of Client Buffer and MBR Consideration

on DASH Adaptation Logic" in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2013, (WCNC 2013), April. 7-10, 2013. , Shanghai, China.

69. E. Cohen, M. Carmi, R. Heiman, O. Hadar and A. Cohen, “Image Restoration via Ising Theory and Automatic Noise Estimation," in IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, London, England, 4-7 June 2013.

70. R. Huber-Shalem, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and M. Huber-Lerner, "Improving variance estimation ratio score calculation for slow moving point targets detection in infrared imagery sequences," in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 25-29 August 2013, San Diego, California (USA).71. (*) D. Grois, D. Marpe, A. Mulayoff, B. Itzhaky, O. Hadar, "Performance Comparison of

H.265/MPEG-HEVC, VP9, and H.264/MPEG-AVC Encoders," in 30th Picture Coding Symposiun, Dec 8-11, 2013, San Jose, California.

72. E. Cohen, M. Shnitser, T. Avraham, O. Hadar and Y. Dotan, "Automatic Detection and Correction of Defective Pixels for Medical and Space Imagers," in W6 MEDIAN -Workshop on Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale, DATE-2014 conference, 24-28 March, Dresden, Germany.

73. E. Cohen, and O. Hadar, "Multipurpose Image Denoising Model Based on Ising Theory," in Inetration Congres of Imaging Science (ICIS), May 12-14 ,2014, Tel Aviv, Israel.

74. E. Cohen, M. Shnitser, T. Avraham, and O. Hadar, “Correction of defective pixels for medical and space imagers based on Ising Theory,” in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 17-21 August 2014, San Diego, California (USA).

75. A. Lasri, A. Lev, M. Loants, and O. Hadar, “Adaptive live IP multicast of SVC with unequal FEC,” in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 17-21 August 2014, San Diego, California (USA).

76. D. Grois, D. Marpe, T. Nguyen, and O. Hadar, “Comparative assessment of H.265/MPEG-HEVC, VP9, and H.264/MPEG-AVC encoders for low-delay video applications,” in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 17-21 August 2014, San Diego, California (USA).

77. (*) H. B. Chang, I. Rubin and O. Hadar, “Scalable Video Downlink Multicasting in Multi-cell Cellular Wireless Networks,” in IEEE Globecom 2014, Austin, TX, USA (8-12 December 2014).

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78. A. Dvir, R. Dubin, O. Hadar and B. Benmoshe, "A Novel Adaptive Logic for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Network," in IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2014), Eilat, Dec. 3-5, 2014.

79. A. Dvir, R. Dubin, O. Hadar, O. Ahark, and R. Shalala, "Video Complexity Hybrid Traffic Shaping for HTTP Adaptive Streaming." in  IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), January 9-12, 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

80. A. Dvir, R. Dubin, O. Hadar, " Novel Ad Insertion Technique for MPEG-DASH'." accepted to  IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), January 9-12, 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

81. A. Dvir, R. Dubin, O. Hadar, "Multicast Adaptive Logic for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Network," accepted to workshop on Communication and Networking Techniques for Contemporary Video (CNTCV) at IEEE INFOCOM'15 , April 28 – May 1, 2015, Hong-Kong.

82. A. Shleifer, and O. Hadar, "Improvements for hot pixels in digital imagers using lossless approximation techniques," in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 9-13 August 2015, San Diego, California (USA).

83. Y. Amsalem, A. Poznov. A. Bedinerman, M. Kotcher, and O. Hadar, "Cyber attack/defense algorithms based on data hiding in compressed videostream," in SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 9-13 August 2015, San Diego, California (USA).

84. A. Shleifer, C. Lanka, M. Setia, S. Agarwal, O. Hadar and D. Mukherjee, "Novel Intra Prediction modes for VP10 Codec," accepted to SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 28th

August -1st September 2016, San Diego, California (USA). (This talk was life broadcasting trough YouTube as part of the Royalty Free Video session on August 31st, 2016).

85. S. Chaabouni, J. Benois-Pineau, and O. Hadar, "Prediction of visual saliency in video with deep CNNs," accepted to SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 28th August -1st September 2016, San Diego, California (USA).

86. H. Asghari, O. Hadar and B. Jalali, "Application of phase stretch transform to plate license identification under blur and noise conditions," accepted to SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, 28th August -1st September 2016, San Diego, California (USA).

87. A. Shleifer, C. Lanka, M. Setia, S. Agarwal, O. Hadar and D. Mukherjee, "Novel Intra Prediction modes for VP10 Codec," in Chrome/YouTube Research Conference. Google, Mountain View, California. August 23rd 2016

88. R. Segal , E. Segal and O. Hadar, "Cyber Attack/Defense Based on Estimated Motion Vectors Via Covered Channel," in TRUDEVICE 2016: Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices, 14th -16th November, 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

89. (*) R. Dubin. A. Dvir, O. Pele, and O. Hadar, "I Know What You Saw Last Minute – The Chrome Browser Case," in Balckhat Europe 2016, 1st-4th November 2016, London, UK.

90. R. Segal, R. Birman, E. Hadas and O. Hadar, "Defence from Covert Channel Cyber-attack over video stream payload," accepted to the RESCUE 2017 workshop, part of the 22nd IEEE European Test Symposium, Limassol, May 25-26, 2017, Cyprus, May 25-26,

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(*) Acceptance ratio bellow 30%Invited paper for a conference

1. O. Hadar, D. Sadot, I. Dror, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, “Contrast limited target acquisition: atmospheric and motion effects,” Invited paper, in Target and Backgrounds : Characterization and Representation, W. R. Watkins and D. Clement, eds., Proc. SPIE vol. 2469, pp. 550-567, 1995.

In Journals

1. S. RudolerPD, O. HadarS, M. FisherS, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Image resolution limits resulting from mechanical vibrations, Part II: Experiment," in Opt. Eng., Vol. 30, pp. 577-589, May 1991. (NOC: ISI = 14, GS = 46 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

2. O. HadarS, M. FisherS and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Image resolution limits resulting from mechanical vibrations, Part III: numerical calculation of modulation transfer function," Opt. Eng. Vol. 31, pp. 581-589, March 1992. (NOC: ISI = 32, GS=59 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

3. O. HadarPI, I. DrorPI, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Image resolution limits resulting from mechanical vibrations, Part IV: Real-Time numerical calculation of Optical Transfer Functions and experimental verification," Opt. Eng., Vol. 33, No. 2, 566-578, Feb. 1994. (NOC: ISI = 58, GS = 106, IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

4. O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Target acquisition modeling of forward motion considerations for airborne reconnaissance over hostile territory," Opt. Eng., Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 3106-3117, Sept. 1994. (NOC: ISI = 6, GS=12 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

5. O. HadarPI, N. S. KopeikaPI, and S. R. RotmanPI, "Thermal image target acquisition probabilities in the presence of vibrations," Infrared Physics and Technology., Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 691-702, Apr. 1995. (NOC: ISI = 4, GS=10 , IF = 1.588, IF (last 5 years)= 1.675. JR = 24/56, Q2).

6. O. HadarPI, A. KuntsevitskyS, M. WasserblatS, N. S. KopeikaPI, and S. R. RotmanPI, "Automatic Target Recognition during image motion and vibrations," Opt. Eng. ,

Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 3062-3068, 1995. (NOC: ISI = 3, GS=7 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

7. S. R. RotmanPI, E. S. GordonPI, O. HadarPI, N. S. KopeikaPI, V. GeorgePI, and M. L. KowalczykPI, “Search strategy for optimal infrared acquisition performance,” Infrared Physics and Technology., Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 1025-1034, Oct. 1995. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS= 1 , IF = 1.588, IF (last 5 years)= 1.675. JR = 24/56, Q2).

8. O. HadarPI, M. RobbinsS, Y. NovogrozkyS, D. KaplanS, “Image motion restoration from a sequence of images,” Opt. Eng. , Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 2898-2904, Oct. 1996. (NOC: ISI = 20, GS=35 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

9. O. HadarPI, Z. AdarS, A. CotterS, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Restoration of images degraded by extreme mechanical vibrations," in Optics & Laser Technology, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp.

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171- 177, 1997. (NOC: ISI=12, GS=17 , IF = 1.879, IF (last 5 years)= 1.649. JR = 33/90, Q2).

10. O. HadarPI, A. MendelblatS, R. SabathS, N. S. KopeikaPI and S. R. RotmanPI, "Influence of sensor motion on target acquisition," Infrared Physics and Technology, Vol. 38, No.6 pp.373-382, 1997. (NOC: ISI=3, GS=5 , IF = 1.588, IF (last 5 years)= 1.675. JR = 24/56, Q2).

11. O. HadarPI, A. DogariuPI and G. D. BoremanPI, "Angular dependence of sampling MTF," Applied Optics. Vol. 36, No. 28, pp. 7210-7216, 1997. (NOC: ISI = 12, GS=18, IF = 1.598, IF (last 5 years)= 1.613. JR = 45/90, Q2).

12. R. SuccaryS, M. MaltzS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Relative effects of distortion and noise on target acquisition: The advisability of image restoration," Opt. Eng., Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 1914-1922, 1998 (Invited paper). (NOC: ISI = 5, GS=9 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

13. O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI and N. S. KopeikaPI, “Incorporating the entire Modulation Transfer Function into an infrared target acquisition model,” Infrared Physics and Technology, Vol. 39, No. 5, 307-314, 1998. (NOC: ISI = 2, GS=3 , IF = 1.588, IF (last 5 years)= 1.675. JR = 24/56, Q2).

14. O. HadarPI, and G. D. BoremanPI, "Analysis of Oversampling Requirements in Pixelated Imager Systems,” Opt. Eng. , Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 782-785, May 1999. (The figures from the paper were chosen to be on the journal cover). (NOC: ISI = 24, GS=33 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

15. O. HadarPI, A. SternPD, and R. KoreshS, "Enhancement of an image compression algorithm by pre and post-filtering" Opt. Eng., Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 193-199, Feb. 2001. (NOC: ISI = 3, GS=10, IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

16. D. ArbelPI, O. HadarPI, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Medical Image Restoration of Dynamic Lungs using Optical Transfer Function of Lung Motion" J BIOMED OPT, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 193-199, 2001. (NOC: ISI = 3, GS=10 , IF = 2.556, IF (last 5 years)= 2.603. JR = 21/90, Q1).

17. O. HadarPI, and R. CohenPI, “Enhancement of the Piecewise Constant Rate Transmission and Transport (PCRTT) algorithm for off-line video smoothing" in Special Issue on Adaptive Real Time Multimedia Transmission over Packet Switching Networks in Journal of Real Time Imaging, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 301-314, June 2001. (NOC: ISI= 5, GS=40 , IF = 2.27, IF (last 5 years)= 1.287. JR = 5/84, Q1).

18. O. HadarPI, M. HuberS, R. HuberS and A. SternPD, “MTF as a quality measure for compressed images transmitted over lossy packet network,” in Opt. Eng., Vol. 40, No.

10, pp. 2134-2142, Oct. 2001. (NOC: ISI = 24 (including the conference version), GS=16, IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

19. E. FelstaineS, R. CohenPI and O. HadarPI, "Crankback Prediction in Hierarchical ATM Networks" in special issue on Traffic Engineering and Management of the Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 329-357, 2002. (NOC: ISI=12, GS= , IF = , IF (last 5 years)=. JR = , Q).

20. J. El-SanaPI, N. AsisS, and O. HadarPI, “View-Dependent Rendering for Dynamic Environments” in Journal of Computers and Graphics, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 721-731, Oct. 2002. (NOC = 0 , IF = 1.12, IF (last 5 years)= 1.234. JR = 41/106, Q2).

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21. S. RaiterS, O. HadarPI, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "The influence of motion sensor error on Image restoration from vibrations and motion" in Opt. Eng. , Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 3276-3282, 2002. (NOC: ISI = 3, GS=8 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

22. D. ArbelS, O. HadarPI, S. GreenbergPI, and N. S. KopeikaPI, “Criteria for Satellite Image Restoration Success” in Opt. Eng Vol. 42 No. 9, pp. 2607-2613, 2003. (NOC: ISI = 7, GS=5 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

23. S. ReiterS, A. SternPD, O. HadarPI, and N. S. KopeikaPI, "Image restoration from camera vibration and object motion blur in infrared staggered TDI systems" in Opt. Eng. Vol. 42 No. 11, pp. 3253-3264, Nov. 2003. (NOC: ISI = 9, GS=11, IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

24. O. HadarPI, R. HuberS, M. HuberS, and R. ShmueliS, "Quality measurements for compressed video transmitted over a lossy packet network" in Opt. Eng. Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 506-520, Feb. 2004. (NOC: ISI = 7, GS=10 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

25. O. HadarPI, M. HuberS, R. HuberS, and S. GreenbergPI, "New Hybrid Error Concealment for Digital Compressed Video" in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, No. 12, pp. 1821-1833, 2005. (NOC: ISI = 4, GS=14 , IF = 0.463 (2006), JR = 138/206, Q3).

26. O. HadarPI, R. HuberS, M. HuberS and R. ShmueliS, “Effects of compression parameters on the perceived quality of video stream over a lossy Internet protocol network IP networks,” in Opt. Eng. Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 87-103, Aug. 2006. (NOC: ISI = 2, GS=5 , IF = 0.984, IF (last 5 years)= 0.908. JR = 65/90, Q3).

27. O. HadarPI, D. BykhovskyS, G. GoldwasserS, and E. FisherS, "A musical source separation system with lyrics alignment" in WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp.

2464-2467, 2006. (NOC: GS= 2 , IF = non, IF (last 5 years)= non. JR = non).28. E. ElhararS, A. SternPI, O. HadarPI and B. JavidiPI,”A hybrid compression method for integral images using discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform” in

IEEE/OSA journal of Display Technology. Vol. 3, No 3, pp. 321 – 325, Sept. 2007. (NOC: ISI = 13, GS= 48 , IF = 1.925, IF (last 5 years)= 1.899. JR = 30/90, Q2).

29. P. KramerS, O. HadarPI, J. Benois-PineauPI, and J.P DomengerPI, “Super-Resolution Mosaicing from MPEG compressed video,” in Signal Processing: Image Communication,

Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 845–865, Nov. 2007. (NOC: ISI = 4, GS=12 , IF = 1.602, IF (last 5 years)= 1.53. JR = 99/257, Q2).

30. O. HadarPI, S. GreenbergPI, and M. SegalPI, “EPCRTT-based Smoothing and Multiplexing of VBR Video Traffic,” in Multimedia tools and Applications, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 205-219, Feb. 2008. (NOC: ISI = 0 , GS=4 , IF = 1.331, IF (last 5 years)= 1.403. JR = 31/106, Q2).31. E. KaminskyS, and O. HadarPI, “Multi-parameter Method for Analysis and Selection of

Motion Estimation Algorithms for Video Compression” in Multimedia tools and Applications, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 119–146, May 2008. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS=3, IF = 1.331, IF (last 5 years)= 1.403. JR = 31/106, Q2).

32. E. Kaminsky S , D. GroisS, O. HadarPI, "Dynamic Computational Complexity and Bit Allocation for Optimizing H.264/AVC Video Compression," in Journal of Visual

Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 56–74, 2008. (NOC: ISI = 13, GS=21 , IF = 1.53, IF (last 5 years) = 1.549. JR = 19/106 , Q1).

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33. H. SternPI, O. HadarPI, and N. FriedmanS, “Optimal Video Stream Multiplexing through Linear Programming,” in Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.

224–238, March 2008. (NOC: ISI = 2, GS=2, IF = 1.602, IF (last 5 years)= 1.53. JR = 99/257, Q2).

34. R. ShmueliS, O. HadarPI, R. HuberS, M. MaltzPI, and M. HuberS, "Effects of the encoding scheme on perceived video quality transmitted over lossy Internet protocol networks,"

in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 628–640, September 2008, “Quality Issues in Multimedia Broadcasting”. (NOC: ISI = 10, GS=30, IF = 2.381, IF (last 5 years)= 2.396. JR = 12/82, Q1).

35. M.Sh.LevinPD, O. KruchkovT. O. HadarPI, and E. KaminskyS, “Combinatorial Systems Evolution: Example of Standard for Multimedia Information,” in INFORMATICA, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 519-538, December 2009. (NOC: ISI = 5, GS=18 , IF = 1.386, IF (last 5 years)= 1.104. JR = 47/254, Q1).

36. R. Huber-ShalemS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI, and M. Huber-LernerS, “Compression of infrared imagery sequences containing a slow-moving point target,” in Applied Optics, Vol. 49, No. 19, pp. 3798-3813, July 2010. (NOC: ISI = 3, GS=4, IF = 1.598, IF (last 5 years)= 1.613. JR = 45/90, Q2).

37. E. KaminskyS, A. GinzburgS and O. HadarPI, “DCT-domain Coder for Digital Video Applications Journal of Real-Time Image Processing,” in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 259-274, November 2010. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS=3, IF = 1.564, IF (last 5 years)= 1.59, JR = 10/24, Q2).

38. D. GroisS, E. KaminskyPD, and O. HadarPI, “Efficient Real-Time Video-in-Video Insertion into a Pre-Encoded Video Stream,” ISRN Signal Processing, vol. 2011, Article ID 975462, 11 pages, 2011. (NOC =3 , IF =, IF (last 5 years)=. JR = ).39(*). R. Huber-ShalemS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI, and M. Huber-LernerS, "Compression of

infrared imagery sequences containing a slow moving point target, part II," in Applied Optics, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1646-1654, March 2013. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS=2, IF = 1.598, IF (last 5 years)= 1.613. JR = 45/90, Q2).

40(*). D. GroisPD, O. HadarPI, "Complexity-Aware Adaptive Pre-Processing Scheme for Region-of-Interest Spatial Scalable Video Coding," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 1025-1039, June 2014. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS=3, IF = 2.254, IF (last 5 years)= 2.617. JR = 54/257, Q1).

41(*). M. Huber-LernerS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI, R. Huber-ShalemS "Compression of Hyperspectral Images Containing a Sub-pixel Target," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 7, No. 6, Special Issue: SI, pp. 2246-2255, June 2014. (NOC: ISI = 1, GS=10, IF = 2.145, IF (last 5 years)= 2.613. JR = 61/257, Q1).

42(*). N. A. BaloninPI, M. B. SergeevPI, O. HadarPI, and J. SeberryS, "Three-Level CretanMatrices Constructed via Conference Matrices," in Information and Control Systems, no. 2, pp. 4-6. 2015, doi:10.15217/issn1684-8853.2015.2.4 (NOC: ISI = ?, GS=?, IF = ?, IF (last 5 years)= ?. JR = ?/?, Q?).

43(*). E. CohenS, R. HeimanS, M. CarmiS, O. HadarPI, and A. CohenPI, "When physics meets signal processing: Image and video denoising based on Ising theory," in Sig. Proc.: Image Comm. Vol. 34, pp. 14-21 , May 2015. (NOC: ISI = 2, GS=3 , IF = 1.602, IF (last 5 years)= 1.53. JR = 99/257, Q2).

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44(*). H. B. ChangS, I. RubinPI, and O. HadarPI, "Scalable Video Multicast for Multi-cell Cellular Wireless Networks," in Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on Frontiers of Computing and Communications (FCC), Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 715-727, September 2015 (NOC: ISI = ?, GS=?, IF = ?, IF (last 5 years)= ?. JR = ?/?, Q?).

45(*). M. Huber-LernerS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI, R. Huber-ShalemS “Hyperspectral Band Selection for Anomaly Detection: The Role of Data Gaussianity,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 2,   No. 2,   pp. 732-743, Feb 2016. (NOC = 0 , IF = 2.145, IF (last 5 years)= 2.613. JR = 61/257, Q1).

46(*). R. Huber-ShalemS, O. HadarPI, S. R. RotmanPI, and M. Huber-LernerS, "Parametric temporal compression of infrared imagery sequences containing a slow moving point target," in Applied Optics, Vol. 55,   No. 5,   pp. 1151-1163, Feb 2016. (NOC = 0 , IF = 1.598, IF (last 5 years)= 1.613. JR = 45/90, Q2).47(*). R. DubinS, A. DvirPI, O. PelePI and O. HadarPI, "Adaptation Logic for HTTP Dynamic

Adaptive Streaming using Geo-Predictive Crowdsourcing for Mobile Users," accepted to Multimedia Systems, July 2016. (NOC = 0 , IF = 1.41, IF (last 5 years)= 1.262. JR = 32/105, Q2).

48(*). O. HadarPI, I. BronfmanS, N. BlaunsteinPI, “Optimization of Error Concealment based on analysis of fading types: Part 1: Statisitcal Description of the Wireless Video Channel, Modes of BER Determination and Error Concealment of Video Signals,” accepted to Scientific Journal on Information and Control Systems, March 2017.

49(*). H. B. ChangS, I. RubinPI, S. ColonnesePI, F. CuomoPI, and O. HadarPI, "Joint Adaptive Rate and Scheduling for Unicasting Video Streams in Cellular Wireless Networks haS been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Principal InvestigatorPI, studentS, post-doctoral fellowPD, co-researcherC, technician/laboratory assistantT

1. student

2. Ph.D student

3. Post Doc/ Researcher Fellow

• Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not Followed by Published Proceedings

Invited plenary lectures at conferences/meetings

1. Subject of Tutorial "Effects of vibrations and motion on image quality and target acquisition". invited by Technologies Guidance Center in "ElectroOptics '94" Conference, Daniel Hotel, Herzelia, Israel, 4.10.1994.

2. Subject of Tutorial "Communication System Engineering department as an example of System Engineering requirements" invited by INCOSE_IL (International Council Of Systems INCOSE) in the senior panel in the 3rd conference of Systems Engineering. Daniel Hotel, Herzelia, Israel, 20.9.2005.

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3. Subject of Tutorial "Compression of Infrared imagery containing small moving point targets" in Video Analytics Security conference, IAF Herzelia, Israel, 24.2.2014.

Seminar presentations at universities and institutions

1. October 1994, EE, Department seminar, Technion.2. April 1996, Research & Education in Optics & Lasers, (CREOL), University of Central

Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida.3. April 1996, Air Force Research Laboratory / Rome Laboratory – Electromagnetics &

Reliability Directorate in Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.4. December 1998, EE, Department seminar, BGU.5. December 2000, Electrooptics conference at BGU.6. October 2001, IEEE and LEOS conference at BGU.7. April 2002, ICS, Colloquium, Irvine, CA, USA.8. October 2002, CS, Colloquium, Osaka University, Japan.9. April 2003, EE, Colloquium in IEEE North Communications Chapter, NJIT, NJ, USA.10. April 2003, ECE, Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA.11. August 2003, EE – University of Hawaii , Honolulu, USA. 12. September 2003, Colloquium, LABRI – University of Bordeaux , France.13. December 2003, Colloquium, EE- ClubNet – The Technion, Haifa, Israel.14. February 2004, Colloquium, LABRI – University of Bordeaux, France.15. Septmber 2004, Colloquium, LABRI – University of Bordeaux, France.16. February 2005, Colloquium, CS – University of Trento, Italy.17. Oct. 2005, Invited talk, Corsika, Scholl of Nato on Computers and Physics.18. February 2006, Invited talk, University of Trento, Italy.19. March 2006, Colloquium, EE – NJIT, USA.20. August. 2006, Invited talk, Budapest, NATO ASI on Coding and Analysis of Multiple Access Channels 2006.21. October 2006, Invited talk, University of Trento, Italy.22. March 2008, Invited talk by Prof. Dorit Huchbaum, University of Berkeley, USA.23. October 2008, Invited talk at CS, EPFL, Switzerland. 24. August 2010, poster presentation, NATO ASI "Advanced All-Terrain Autonomous Systems" in Ceşme, Turkey.25. April 2014, Invited seminar at ECE UMass, Amherst, USA.26. April 2014, Invited Seminar ar EE NJIT, Newark, USA.27. December 2015, Invited Seminar at EE UCLA, LA, USA.28. March 2017, Invited seminar at Tuscia University , Italy.29. April 2017, Invited Seminar at Ariel University, Israel.

Patents

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O. Hadar, I. Dror, and N. S. Kopeika “Method and apparatus for the restoration of images degraded by mechanical vibrations, ” Ben - Gurion University of the Negev, U.S Patent Application S.N. 08/388,608 and 08/795, 110.

Research grants

1. Grant from Ministry of Science (TASHTIOT) on "Efficient and reliable transmission of Multimedia of high speed networks" (Principle investigator and research coordinator) $ 465,000 for three years (2000-2003) joint project with Prof. Assaf Schuster, Prof. Reuven Cohen, Dr. Roy Freedman (Technion) and Dr. Shlomo Greenberg (BGU)).

2. Grant from Consortium STRIMM (MAGNET) on "Efficient and Scalable Transcoding of Short Multimedia Messages” (Principle investigator) ($ 60,000 per year, 2000-2003).

3. Grant from Consortium STRIMM (MAGNET) on ” Hybrid Error Concealment Methods, applied on a Compressed Digital Video Signal, affected by Packets Losses in Wireless Networks" (Principle investigator) ($ 60,000 per year, 2003-2005).

4. IPF6 Semantic Hi FI., “Source separation and Browsing by Lyrics” European project (Principle investigator) (113,000 Euro, 2003-2006).

5. Grant from Consortium NEGEV (MAGNET) on "Scalable Video Coding ROI, ROAD" and "Video in Video coding in the DCT domain" (Principle investigator) ($ 140,000 per year, 2009-2011).

6. Grant from IDF (MAFAT) on “Scalable Video Codec (SVC) for Ad-Hoc network topology” (Principle investigator) ($ 27,000 for year 2011).

7. Grant from Consortium Net-HD (MAGNET) on “Adaptive Live Streaming by Using Scalable Video Coding” (Principle investigator) ($ 61,000 per year 2011-2014).

8. Joint grant between LiveU and BGU (MAGNETON) on "Live Video Streaming with Adaptive Pre-Processing Scheme for Optimizing Video Quality" (Principle investigator) ($ 120,000 for year 2013-2014).

9. Grant from Consortium Infomedia (MAGNET) on “Big-data Multimedia Metadata Enrichment” (Principle investigator) ($ 66,787 per year 2015-2018).

10. Grant from The National Cyber Bureau on "Cyber Defense Techniques based on information hiding in compressed video stream" (Principle investigator) ($ 53,00 per year 2015-2017).

Total Research Grants: $ 1,528,787

Submitted research proposals :

1. Submitted proposal to ISF "Visual saliency in 3D and its dependence on the display technology" joint submission with A. Stern, and Y. Yitzaky (application number 1313/13) –Submitted in the end of October 2012.

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2. Submitted proposal to the joint program between BGU and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, "Detection of Brain Disorder with Eye Link Glasses," joint submission with Dr. C. Erickson (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital) , Submitted in January 2016.

Member of the Management Committee (MC) of the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical (COST) Research in:

          COST ACTION IC 1103 - median: manufacturable and dependable multicore architectures at nanoscale. (2013-Now)

          COST ACTION IC 1204 - Trudevice: Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure. (October 2014-Now)

Present Academic Activities

1. CYBER ATTACK/DEFENSE TECHNIQUES BASED ON DATA HIDING IN COMPRESSED VIDEO STREAM.

2. Video and data handling error conditions in satellite broadcast channel interference and error concealment.

3. Big-data Multimedia: Metadata Enrichment4. Using Watermarking for developing new video quality measure.5. Error resilient and concealment of video over wireless networks.

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