Research Summary: papers

peer-reviewed publications

• Image Signature: Highlighting sparse salient regions. (2011)
  Xiaodi Hou, Jonathan Harel, Christof Koch;
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (official copy) / source code

• Distinct Roles for Eye and Head Movements in Selecting Salient Image Parts during Natural Exploration. (2009)
  Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Frank Schumann, Johannes Vockeroth, Klaus Bartl, Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Erich Schneider, Peter Konig;
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1164:188-193.

• On the optimality of spatial attention for object detection (2009)
  Jonathan Harel and Christof Koch;
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (presented at WAPCV 2008)
  slides

• Decoding what people see from where they look: predicting visual stimuli from scanpaths (2009)
  Jonathan Harel*, Moran Cerf*, Alex Huth, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, and Christof Koch;
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (presented at WAPCV 2008)
  *equal contribution

• Predicting human gaze using low-level saliency combined with face detection (2007)
  Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, and Christof Koch;
  NIPS*2007
  

• Graph-Based Visual Saliency (2006)
  Jonathan Harel, Christof Koch, and Pietro Perona;
  NIPS*2006  (oral presentation)
  poster / saliency map algorithm source code for MATLAB

• Performance Enhancements for Algebraic Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes (2004)
  Mostafa El-Khamy, Robert J. McEliece, and Jonathan Harel;
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2004.
  (my sketchy notes on this)

• Poset Belief Propagation - Experimental Results (2003)
  Jonathan Harel, Robert J. McEliece, and Ravi Palanki;
  IEEE International Symposiumon Information Theory (ISIT) 2003

• Region-of-Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management (2002)
  Sam Dolinar, Gilbert Chinn, Jonathan Harel, Aaron Kiely, Matt Klimesh, Roberto Manduchi, Shervin Shambayati, Melanie Vida;
  Eath Science Technology Conference (ESTC) 2002

thesis

• Poset Belief Propagation: Experimental Results (2003)
  Jonathan Harel;
  Towards a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

technical reports

• Attention and Recognition of Humans and Threat Objects in Video (2005)
  P. Merkle, C. Koch, P. Perona, C. Fanti, E. DiBernardo, J. Harel, U. Rutishauser;
  SANDIA Report SAND2005-6646, Official Use Only. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM. 2005.