Anat Levin

MIT CSAIL
The Stata Center 32-D466
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139
Phone: +617-253-7245

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Research Interests:
My research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning. In particular I worked on low and mid level vision, computational photography, inference and optimization, and visual recognition and detection. For more details about my work, please have a look at my publications list.

Publications:

Anat Levin, Peter Sand, Taeg Sang Cho, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman. Motion-Invariant Photography.
SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2008.
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Anat Levin, William T. Freeman, Fredo Durand. Understanding camera trade-offs through a Bayesian analysis of light field projections.
CSAIL Tech Report, April 2008.
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Anat Levin, Rob Fergus, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman. Image and Depth from a Conventional Camera with a Coded Aperture.
SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2007.
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Anat Levin, Alex Rav-Acha, Dani Lischinski. Spectral Matting.
Best paper award runner up.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, June 2007
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A. Levin D. Lischinski and Y. Weiss. A Closed Form Solution to Natural Image Matting.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Feb 2008
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A. Levin and Y. Weiss. User Assisted Separation of Reflections from a Single Image Using a Sparsity Prior.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Sep 2007
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A. Levin. Blind Motion Deblurring Using Image Statistics.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec 2006
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A. Levin D. Lischinski and Y. Weiss. A Closed Form Solution to Natural Image Matting.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2006, New York
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A. Levin and Y. Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation.
Longuet-Higgins best paper award.
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, May 2006.
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A. Levin D. Lischinski and Y. Weiss Colorization using Optimization.
SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2004.
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A. Levin and R. Szeliski Visual Odometry and Map Correlation.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2004, Washington DC
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A. Levin, A. Zomet and Y. Weiss Separating Reflections from a Single Image Using Local Features.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2004, Washington DC
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A. Levin and Y. Weiss. User Assisted Separation of Reflections from a Single Image Using a Sparsity Prior.
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, May 2004.
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A. Levin, A. Zomet, S. Peleg and Y. Weiss. Seamless Image Stitching in the Gradient Domain.
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, May 2004.
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A. Levin, A. Zomet, S. Peleg and Y. Weiss. Seamless Image Stitching in the Gradient Domain.
Hebrew University Technical Report, 2003-82.
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A. Levin, A. Zomet and Y. Weiss. Learning How to Inpaint from Global Image Statistics.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2003, Nice, France.
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A. Levin, P. Viola and Y. Freund. Unsupervised Improvement of Visual Detectors using Co-Training.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2003, Nice, France.
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A. Levin, A. Zomet and Y. Weiss. Learning to Perceive Transparency from the Statistics of Natural Scenes.
Finalist for the Ben Wegbreit best student paper award.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Dec 2002, Vancouver, Canada.
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A. Shashua and A. Levin. Ranking with Large Margin Principle: Two Approaches.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Dec 2002, Vancouver, Canada.
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A. Levin and A. Shashua Principal Component Analysis Over Continuous Subspaces and Intersection of Half-spaces.
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002,Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A. Levin and A. Shashua Revisiting Single-view Shape Tensors: Theory and Applications.
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002,Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A. Shashua A. Levin and S. Avidan Manifold Pursuit: A New Approach to Appearance Based Recognition.
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Pattern Recog. (ICPR), Aug 2002, Quebec City, Canada.
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A. Shashua, R. Meshulam, L. Wolf, A. Levin and G. Kalai. On Representation Theory in Computer Vision Problems. Technical Report 2002-44, Leibniz Center for Research, School of Computer Science and Eng., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July, 2002
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A. Shashua and A. Levin Linear Image Coding for Regression and Classification using the Tensor-rank Principle.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Dec 2001, Hawaii.
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A. Levin L. Wolf and A. Shashua Time-varing Shape Tensors for Scenes with Multiply Moving Points.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Dec 2001, Hawaii.
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A. Shashua and A. Levin Multi-frame Infinitesimal Motion Model for the Reconstruction of (Dynamic) Scenes with Multiple Linearly Moving Objects. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), July 2001, Vancouver, Canada.
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