Matan Sela

Matan Sela
Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Short Bio.
Matan is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Computer Science at the Technion under the supervision of Prof. Ron Kimmel. He received B.Sc. (cum laude, GPA: 92.0) and M.Sc. (cum laude) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He is a TA of the course Geometric Computer Vision and a project supervisor at the Geometric Image Processing Laboratory. Prior to graduate school, Matan was a chip design engineer at the processor department of Intel Corp. for 3 years.
Awards
2016 - IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
2016 - CS Sixth Research Day, Technion, Best Poster and Public's Favorite Awards.
2015 - M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude.
2013 - Wilk Family Award for Excellent Undergraduate Projects.
2012 - B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering , Technion, Cum Laude.
2009 - Intel's Excellent Student Award.
2008-2012 - President’s and Dean’s lists, Technion.
Contact Details
Office phone: +972-4-829-4927
Room number: Taub 431
E-mail: matansel "at" cs.technion.ac.il
Journal Publications

Fast Blended Transformations for Partial Shape Registration
A. Shtern*, M. Sela*, and R. Kimmel
*Equal Contribution
(Submitted)

Computational Caricaturization of Surfaces
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, and R. Kimmel
Computer Vision and Image Understanding 141:1-17, 2015.
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Conference Publications

3D Face Reconstruction by Learning from Synthetic Data
E. Richardson*, M. Sela*, and R. Kimmel
*Equal Contribution
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Consistent Discretization and Minimization of the L1-Norm on Manifolds
A. Bronstein, Y. Choukroun, R. Kimmel, and M. Sela
*Alphabetical order
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Randomized Independent Component Analysis
M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
(Accepted to ICSEE 2016)

Improving 3D Facial Action Unit Detection with Intrinsic Normalization
E. Yudin, M. Sela, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-Diff-CV) 2015.
Technical Reports

Customized Facial Constant Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) Masks
M. Sela, N. Toledo, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel
Patents

Audio-based Caricature Exaggeration
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, R. Kimmel - US Patent 20,150,287,229, 2015
Teaching

Geometric Computer Vision (CS Department, Technion)
Winter 2016 - Teaching Assistant in Charge
Winter 2015 - Teaching Assistant in Charge
Winter 2014 - Teaching Assistant in Charge
Digital Image Processing (CS Department, Technion)
Spring 2014 - Teaching Assistant in Charge
Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (EE Department, Technion)
Spring 2014 - Teaching Assistant
Winter 2013 - Teaching Assistant
Spring 2013 - Teaching Assistant in Charge
Winter 2012 - Teaching Assistant
Talks

Shape Exaggeration: Isometric Invariant Perspective,
Israel Computer Graphics Day 2014, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Shape Exaggeration and Auto-Caricaturization,
Israel Computer Vision Day 2014, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Project Supervision

Generating 3D Colored Face Model Using a Kinect Camera
Students: R. Mordoch, N. Toledano and O. Ziskind

Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Short Bio.

Awards

Contact Details

Journal Publications

Fast Blended Transformations for Partial Shape Registration
A. Shtern, M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
Equal Contribution
(Submitted)*

Computational Caricaturization of Surfaces
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, and R. Kimmel
Computer Vision and Image Understanding 141:1-17, 2015.

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Conference Publications

3D Face Reconstruction by Learning from Synthetic Data
E. Richardson, M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
*Equal Contribution
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Consistent Discretization and Minimization of the L1-Norm on Manifolds
A. Bronstein, Y. Choukroun, R. Kimmel, and M. Sela
*Alphabetical order
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Randomized Independent Component Analysis
M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
(Accepted to ICSEE 2016)

Improving 3D Facial Action Unit Detection with Intrinsic Normalization
E. Yudin, M. Sela, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-Diff-CV) 2015.

Technical Reports

Customized Facial Constant Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) Masks
M. Sela, N. Toledo, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel

Patents

Audio-based Caricature Exaggeration
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, R. Kimmel - US Patent 20,150,287,229, 2015

Teaching

Geometric Computer Vision (CS Department, Technion)

Digital Image Processing (CS Department, Technion)

Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (EE Department, Technion)

Talks

Shape Exaggeration: Isometric Invariant Perspective,

Shape Exaggeration and Auto-Caricaturization,

Project Supervision

Generating 3D Colored Face Model Using a Kinect Camera

Students: R. Mordoch, N. Toledano and O. Ziskind

Matan Sela

Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Short Bio.

Awards

Contact Details

Journal Publications

Fast Blended Transformations for Partial Shape RegistrationA. Shtern*, M. Sela*, and R. Kimmel*Equal Contribution(Submitted)

Computational Caricaturization of SurfacesM. Sela, Y. Aflalo, and R. KimmelComputer Vision and Image Understanding 141:1-17, 2015.

[bib] [code]

Conference Publications

3D Face Reconstruction by Learning from Synthetic DataE. Richardson*, M. Sela*, and R. Kimmel*Equal Contribution(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Consistent Discretization and Minimization of the L1-Norm on ManifoldsA. Bronstein, Y. Choukroun, R. Kimmel, and M. Sela*Alphabetical order(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Randomized Independent Component AnalysisM. Sela, and R. Kimmel(Accepted to ICSEE 2016)

Improving 3D Facial Action Unit Detection with Intrinsic NormalizationE. Yudin, M. Sela, A. Wetzler, and R. KimmelBritish Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-Diff-CV) 2015.

Technical Reports

Customized Facial Constant Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) MasksM. Sela, N. Toledo, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel

Patents

Audio-based Caricature ExaggerationM. Sela, Y. Aflalo, R. Kimmel - US Patent 20,150,287,229, 2015

Teaching

Geometric Computer Vision (CS Department, Technion)

Digital Image Processing (CS Department, Technion)

Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (EE Department, Technion)

Talks

Shape Exaggeration: Isometric Invariant Perspective,

Shape Exaggeration and Auto-Caricaturization,

Project Supervision

Generating 3D Colored Face Model Using a Kinect Camera

Students: R. Mordoch, N. Toledano and O. Ziskind

Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Fast Blended Transformations for Partial Shape Registration
A. Shtern, M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
Equal Contribution
(Submitted)*

Computational Caricaturization of Surfaces
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, and R. Kimmel
Computer Vision and Image Understanding 141:1-17, 2015.

3D Face Reconstruction by Learning from Synthetic Data
E. Richardson, M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
*Equal Contribution
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Consistent Discretization and Minimization of the L1-Norm on Manifolds
A. Bronstein, Y. Choukroun, R. Kimmel, and M. Sela
*Alphabetical order
(Accepted to 3DV 2016)

Randomized Independent Component Analysis
M. Sela, and R. Kimmel
(Accepted to ICSEE 2016)

Improving 3D Facial Action Unit Detection with Intrinsic Normalization
E. Yudin, M. Sela, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-Diff-CV) 2015.

Customized Facial Constant Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) Masks
M. Sela, N. Toledo, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel

Audio-based Caricature Exaggeration
M. Sela, Y. Aflalo, R. Kimmel - US Patent 20,150,287,229, 2015