CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data:
Name: Ido Omer
Address: 17 Modigliani st. Tel-Aviv, Israel
Telephone: +972 (0) 3 609 2395
E-mail: idom@cs.huji.ac.il
URL: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~idom
Date of Birth: October 1 1972
Marital Status: married +1
Sex: male
Nationality: Israeli

Education:
Since Feb 2003 PhD student, Computer vision lab, School of Computer
Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). Under the supervision of Professor
Michael Werman.
Thesis topic: Color and Texture in natural images,
Computing similarities between feature points.
Oct 2000 – Oct 2002 MSc. At the Computer vision lab, HUJI. Under the
supervision of Professor Michael Werman.
Thesis topic: Color Lines.
Oct 1996 – Oct 2000 BSc. In computer science with divisions in math and
cognitive science, at HUJI.

Publications
• “Image Specific Color Representation”
Ido Omer and Michael Werman, CPMCV 2003
• “Color Lines: Image Specific Color Representation”
Ido Omer and Michael Werman, CVPR 2004
• “Using Natural Image Properties as Demosaicing Hints”
Ido Omer and Michael Werman, ICIP 2004
• “Image Specific Feature Similarities”
Ido Omer and Michael Werman, ECCV 2006
• “The Bottleneck Geodesic: Computing Pixel Affinity”
Ido Omer and Michael Werman, CVPR 2006

Relevant Experience:
Since Mar 2006 Writing image and video search algorithms for PicScout
Ltd.
Feb 2004 – Oct 2005 Teaching assistant, Data Structures course at HUJI.
Jul 2001 – Oct 2001 Summer internship in Minolta Japan (letter of
recommendation enclosed).
Oct 2000 – Oct 2003 TA (grading papers) of the following courses:
Programming Lab, Data Structures, Image Processing,
Operation Systems at HUJI.
Jul 1998 – Oct 2000 Computer programmer at Amdocs.

Professional skills:
Highly proficient in C++ and Matlab, familiar with the OpenCV library.
Language skills:
Hebrew native language
English highly proficient in reading, writing and speaking.

Leisure interests: rock climbing, hiking, cycling, volleyball, reading,

photography.