Starting August 2015 I will be on sabbatical and taking up a position of Senior Computer Scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), Viterbi School of Engineering, Information Sciences Institute (ISI).

Contact info

Office address:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel
1 University Road, P.O.B. 808, Raanana 43107, Israel

Office phone: +972-9-778-1261
Office Fax: +972-9-778-0605
E-Mail: hassner@openu.ac.il

Research interests

I am an Associate Professor at the Open University of Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. My research interests are mainly Statistical Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Events and news

Dec. 6th, 2017
Workshop Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, 2019.

December 1st, 2017
Excited to announce that Roee Enbar was selected for the 2017 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for our paper Age and Gender Estimation of Unfiltered Faces. Congratulations Roee on the well-deserved honor!

October 27th, 2017
Our bid for holding the 2021 IEEE/CVF ICCV in Montreal was approved!
A HUGE thank you to everyone at ICCV'17 who participated and voted for our team.
And so I am happy to announce that I will be a Program Co-Chair for the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'21), Montreal, CA.

April 5th, 2017
Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, USA, 2018.

April 2nd, 2017
Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Cross-domain Human Identification (CHI), held in conjunction with ICCV'17, Venice, Italy.

November 15th, 2016
Tutorial co-chair for ICCV'17, Venice, Italy.

September 20th, 2016
Biometrics Research Award, awarded by the The Biometric Applications Commissioner, Israeli Prime Minister's Office

August 30th, 2016
Workshop Co-Chair for AVSS'17, Lecce, Italy. Call for workshops is now available.

August 20th, 2016
Demo Chair and Area chair for WACV'17, Santa Rosa, CA. Please see call for demos for more information.

August 20th, 2015
Area chair for CVPR'16, Las Vegas, Nevada

June 11th, 2015
Our LATCH descriptor has won the CVPR 2015, OpenCV State of the Art Vision Challenge, in the Image Registration category. LATCH is now integrated into OpenCV 3.0

May 11th, 2015
Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, June 2015

Mar. 24th, 2015
Congratulations to Gil Levi, a graduate student at the OpenU computer vision lab, for being awarded the best student project award at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) for our project LATCH: Learned Arrangements of Three Patch Codes (PDF, project and code)

Mar. 24th, 2015
Invited speaker at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC), one hour tutorial on "A Short Intro to Deep Learning for Face Recognition"

Dec. 21st, 2014
Invited speaker at the IDC Israel Vision Day. Talk title: "Towards Dense Correspondences Between Any Two Images." (Talk video, project, code and paper)

Nov. 17th, 2014
Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Surveillance and Tracking. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

Jul. 20th - 24th, 2014
Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Seminar on "Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts"

Jun. 23rd, 2014
Invited talk at the CVPR'14 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Columbus, Ohio (talk slides: PPTX)

Jun. 23rd, 2014
Invited speaker at POCV 2014: The Ninth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, CVPR'14, Columbus, Ohio (talk slides: PPTX)

May 21st, 2013
Area chair for CVPR'14, Columbus, Ohio

Dec. 7th, 2013
Invited speaker at THUMOS: The First International Workshop on Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, ICCV'13, Sydney, Australia (Talk video)

Dec. 2nd, 2013
Invited talk at the ICCV'13 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Sydney Australia (talk slides: PDF, PPTX)

June 23rd, 2013
Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Action Similarity in Unconstrained Videos (ACTS'13), held in conjunction with CVPR'13, Portland, Oregon

May 13th, 2013
Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Biometrics for Recognition: Science, Technology, and Society. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

Sept. 19th - 21st, 2012
Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Perspective Workshop on "Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits"

Jan. 9th, 2012
Co-organizer of the popular science Symposium on Human and Machine Vision. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)