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Ofer Hadar Date (March, 2015)

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Personal Details Name: Ofer Hadar

Date and place of birth: July 27, 1965, Hadera, Israel

Citizenship: Israeli

Regular military service: November 1983 - November 1986

Work address: Department of Communication Systems Engineering

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel

Tel. 972-8-6477233, Fax 972-8-6472883

Home page: http://www.cse.bgu.ac.il/hadar

Home address: Avshalom St. 18/3, Beer-Sheva, 84511, Israel

Tel. 972-8-6417354

Education

October 1986-1990 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.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. program

Grade point average: 94.08.

October 1992-1997 Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Ph.D. Degree in Electrical and Computer

Engineering.

Dissertation: Effects of Vibrations and Motion on

Image Quality and Target Acquisition.

Employment history

November 2012 Associate Professor

September 2012 Chairman of Communication Systems Engineering

Department

October 2002 Senior Lecturer (tenured)

to present Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Communication Systems Engineering Department

September 2005, March 2010 One month visits at Labri , Bordeaux University as a

research visiting professor, working with Prof. Jenny

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Jenny Benois-Pineau.

April 1999 to Septmeber 2002 Lecturer

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Communication Systems Engineering Department

October 1997 to March 1999 Postdoctoral Researcher

Computer 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 Center

for : 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 Negev

to September 1997

Responsibilities: Teaching assistant: Courses include

1. 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).

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Editorial Board of The mathematical problems in engineering Journal (IF=1.082),

(October 2014).

Reviewer (Journal and Conferences):

OSA Applied Optics.

SPIE Optical Engineering.

INFOCOM.

BSF foundation.

IEEE Comm. Mag.

Transaction of IEEE Multimedia

Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal

COMNET

ITRE 2003-2006

2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Journal 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

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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

(e) Membership in professional/scientific societies

1999-2007 SPIE membership.

1999-2010 IEEE membership.

August 2011 Senior IEEE 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).

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

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).

Research Students

I. 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.

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(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.

(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.

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M.Sc. Students (Present)

(14) Ehud Gonen (EE – student), “Transmission of watermarking image over wireless

communication” (with Prof. Shlomi Arnon EE, at BGU) beginning September 2006.

(15) Yaniv Malka (Electro-optics program – student), “Caged Image Processing and its

implementation in hardware” (with Mr. Amir Kolaman Ph.D.student, EE, at BGU)

beginning October 2009.

(16) Ran Dubin (CSE – student), “Progressive Download Video Smoothing Using the

TCP Window and Deep Packet Inspection”, beginning October 2010.

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).

Ph.D. Students (Present)

(4) Merav Huber, “The influence of compression on point target tracking in Hyper Spectral

Imaging” (Joint supervision with Prof. Israel Stanley Rotman), (beginning March 2010).

(5) Revital Huber, “The influence of compression on target detection in IR” (Joint

supervision with Prof. Israel Stanley Rotman), (beginning March 2010).

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(6) Ran Dubin, “Advanced subjects in adaptive video streaming”, (beginning October 2012).

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

journals or SPIE Proceedings literature on mathematical imaging and

vision.

Scientific Publications (a) Authored books

Chapters in a book

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1. 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

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,

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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.

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

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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,

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).

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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).

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." accepted to 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.

Invited paper for a conference

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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. Rudoler, O. Hadar, M. Fisher, and N. S. Kopeika, "Image resolution limits

resulting from mechanical vibrations, Part II: Experiment," Opt. Eng.*, Vol. 30, pp. 577-

589, 1991.

2. O. Hadar, M. Fisher and N. S. Kopeika, "Image resolution limits resulting from

mechanical vibrations, Part III: numerical calculation of modulation transfer function,"

Opt. Eng. Vol. 31, pp. 581-589, 1992.

3. O. Hadar, I. Dror, and N. S. Kopeika, "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, 1994.

4. O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, "Target acquisition modeling of forward

motion considerations for airborne reconnaissance over hostile territory," Opt. Eng.,

Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 3106-3117, 1994.

5. O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika, and S. R. Rotman, "Thermal image target acquisition

probabilities in the presence of vibrations," Infrared Physics and Technology., Vol. 36,

No. 3, pp. 691-702, 1995.

6. O. Hadar, A. Kuntsevitsky, M. Wasserblat, N. S. Kopeika, and S. R. Rotman,

"Automatic Target Recognition during image motion and vibrations," Opt. Eng. ,

Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 3062-3068, 1995.

7. S. R. Rotman, E. S. Gordon, O. Hadar, N. S. Kopeika, V. George, and M. L. Kowalczyk,

“Search strategy for optimal infrared acquisition performance,” Infrared Physics and

Technology., Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 1025-1034, 1995.

8. O. Hadar, M. Robbins, Y. Novogrozky, D. Kaplan, , “Image motion restoration from a

sequence of images,” Opt. Eng. , Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 2898-2904, 1996.

9. O. Hadar, Z. Adar, A. Cotter, and N. S. Kopeika, "Restoration of images degraded by

extreme mechanical vibrations," Optics & Laser Technology, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 171-177,

1997.

10. O. Hadar, A. Mendelblat, R. Sabath, N. S. Kopeika and S. R. Rotman, "Influence of

sensor motion on target acquisition," Infrared Physics and Technology, Vol. 38, No.6

pp.373-382, 1997.

11. O. Hadar, A. Dogariu and G. D. Boreman, "Angular dependence of sampling MTF,"

Applied Optics. Vol. 36, No. 28, pp. 7210-7216, 1997.

12. R. Succary, M. Maltz, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, "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).

13. O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman and N. S. Kopeika, “Incorporating the entire Modulation

Transfer Function into an infrared target acquisition model,” Infrared Physics and

Technology, Vol. 39, No. 5, 307-314, 1998.

14. O. Hadar, and G. D. Boreman, "Analysis of Oversampling Requirements in Pixelated -

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Imager Systems,” Opt. Eng. , Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 782-785, 1999. (The figures from the

paper were chosen to be on the journal cover).

15. O. Hadar, A. Stern, and R. Koresh, "Enhancement of an image compression algorithm by

pre and post-filtering" Opt. Eng., Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 193-199, 2001.

16. D. Arbel, O. Hadar, and N. S. Kopeika, "Medical Image Restoration of Dynamic

Lungs using Optical Transfer Function of Lung Motion" J BIOMED OPT, Vol. 6, No. 2,

pp. 193-199, 2001.

17. O. Hadar, and R. Cohen, “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, 2001.

18. O. Hadar, M. Huber, R. Huber and A. Stern, “MTF as a quality measure for

compressed images transmitted over lossy packet network,” in Opt. Eng., Vol. 40, No.

10, pp. 2134-2142, 2001.

19. E. Felstaine, R. Cohen and O. Hadar, "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.

20. J. El-Sana, N. Asis1, and O. Hadar, “View-Dependent Rendering for Dynamic

Environments” in Journal of Computers and Graphics, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 721-731, 2002.

21. S. Raiter1, O. Hadar, and N. S. Kopeika, "The influence of motion sensor error on

Image restoration from vibrations and motion" in Opt. Eng. , Vol. 41, No. 12, pp.

3276-3282, 2002.

22. D. Arbel2, O. Hadar, S. Greenberg, and N. S. Kopeika, “Criteria for Satellite Image

Restoration Success” in Opt. Eng Vol. 42 No. 9, pp. 2607-2613, 2003.

23. S. Reiter1, A. Stern

2, O. Hadar, and N. S. Kopeika, " Image restoration from camera

vibration and object motion blur in infrared staggered TDI systems" in Opt. Eng. Vol. 42

No. 11, pp. 3253-3264, 2003.

24. O. Hadar, R. Huber1, M. Huber

1, and R. Shmueli

2, "Quality measurements for

compressed video transmitted over a lossy packet network" in Opt. Eng. Vol. 43, No. 2,

pp. 506-520, 2004.

25. O. Hadar, M. Huber1, R. Huber

1, and S. Greenberg, "New Hybrid Error Concealment for

Digital Compressed Video" in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, No. 12,

pp. 1821-1833, 2005.

26. O. Hadar, R. Huber1, M. Huber

1 and R. Shmueli

2, “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, 2006.

27. O. Hadar, D. Bykhovsky1, G. Goldwasser

1, and E. Fisher

2, "A musical source separation

system with lyrics alignment" in WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp.

2464-2467, 2006.

28. E. Elharar1, A. Stern, O. Hadar and B. Javidi,”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, 2007.

29. P. Kramer2, O. Hadar, J. Benois-Pineau, and J.P Domenger, “Super-Resolution

Mosaicing from MPEG compressed video,” in Signal Processing: Image Communication,

Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 845–865, 2007

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30. O. Hadar, S. Greenberg, and M. Segal, “EPCRTT-based Smoothing and Multiplexing of

VBR Video Traffic,” in Multimedia tools and Applications, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 205-219,

2008. 31. E. Kaminsky

2, and O. Hadar, “Multi-parameter Method for Analysis and Selection of

Motion Estimation Algorithms for Video Compression” in Multimedia tools and

Applications. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 119–146, 2008.

32. E. Kaminsky2, D. Grois

1, O. Hadar, "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.

33. H. Stern, O. Hadar, and N. Friedman, “Optimal Video Stream Multiplexing through

Linear Programming,” in Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.

224–238, 2008.

34. R. Shmueli2, O. Hadar, R. Huber

1, M. Maltz, and M. Huber

1, "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, 2008, “Quality

Issues in Multimedia Broadcasting”.

35. M.Sh.Levin3, O. Kruchkov

2. O. Hadar, and E. Kaminsky

2, “Combinatorial Systems

Evolution: Example of Standard for Multimedia Information,” in INFORMATICA, Vol.

20, No. 4, pp. 519-538, December 2009.

36. R. Huber-Shalem2, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and M. Huber-Lerner

2, “Compression of

infrared imagery sequences containing a slow-moving point target,” in Applied Optics,

Vol. 49, No. 19, pp. 3798-3813, July 2010.

37. E. Kaminsky3, A. Ginzburg

1 and O. Hadar, “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.

38. D. Grois2, E. Kaminsky

3, and O. Hadar, “Efficient Real-Time Video-in-Video Insertion

into a Pre-Encoded Video Stream,” ISRN Signal Processing, vol. 2011, Article ID

975462, 11 pages, 2011.

39. R. Huber-Shalem2, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, and M. Huber-Lerner

2, "Compression of

infrared imagery sequences containing a slow moving point target, part II," Accepted for

publication in Applied Optics, March 2013.

40. D. Grois3, O. Hadar, "Complexity-Aware Adaptive Pre-Processing Scheme for Region-

of-Interest Spatial Scalable Video Coding," accepted for publication in IEEE

Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology , December 2013.

41. M. Huber-Lerner2, O. Hadar, S. R. Rotman, R. Huber-Shalem "Compression of

Hyperspectral Images ‎Containing a Sub-pixel Target,"accepted for publication in IEEE

Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, April

2014.

42. E. Cohen, A. Cohen, and O. Hadar, “When Physics Meets Signal Processing: Image and

Video Denoising Based on Ising Theory,” accepted for publication in Signal Processing:

Image Communication, March 2015.

1. M.Sc. student

2. Ph.D student

3. Post Doc/ Researcher Fellow

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• 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.

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.

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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.

Patents

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 the Cyber Berou in Israel on “Cyber Attack/Defense Algorithms based on

Data Hiding in Compressed Video Streams” (Principle investigator) ($ 102,000 for two

years 2015-2016).

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Total Research Grants: $ 1,511,000

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)

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 Enrichment

4. Using Watermarking for developing new video quality measure.

5. Error resilient and concealment of video over wireless networks.