Rami Cohen
I am a PhD student at the Deptartment of Electrical Engineering
of the Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Yuval Cassuto.
I completed
my MSc degree at the Deptartment of
Electrical Engineering of the Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. David Malah.
My MSc Thesis is available here.
Research
Interests:
1. Channel
Coding (especially LDPC codes and BP decoding) and Information Theory
2.
Lossless/lossy video compression
3. Video
processing and computer vision
Teaching:
1. Introduction to
Coding Theory for Communications (046205) (in charge)
2. Video Signal
Processing (049015) (in charge)
3. Calculus 2m/2
(104022) (in charge)
4. Project
supervisor at Signal and Image Processing Lab (SIPL)
5. Introduction to
Digital Communication (046206) – Exercise grader
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
1. Manipulation
of Unvoiced Fricatives for Improved Discrimination by Hearing Impaired
by Rami Cohen, Oren Ierushalmi, Yizhar Lavner, Michal Genussov and Ami Steiner,
iberSPEECH 2012, November
2012, Madrid, Spain
2. LORD:
LOw-complexity, Rate-controlled, Distributed video coding system
by Rami Cohen and David
Malah, SITIS 2012, November
2012, Sorrento, Italy
3. Infant
Cry Analysis and Detection by Rami Cohen and Yizhar Lavner, IEEEI 2012,
November 2012, Eilat, Israel
Technical Reports:
1. Chan-Vese algorithm (Active contours) -
Implementation (MATLAB code files can be requested by mail)
2. Distributed Video Coding
(including Bayer data compression, Demosaicing algorithms, Super resolution and
Scalable Video Coding. Appendix on syndrome encoding is included)
3. Face Recognition using Curvelet Transform
(including appendices on k-NN and SVM. MATLAB code files can be requested by
mail)
4. Statistical
Analysis of the Autoregressive Modeling of Reverberant Speech (summary of
dereverberation method using LPC coefficients + suggested improvement in format
of a paper), Presentation
5. Signal
Denoising Using Wavelets (review of the method and of two specific papers by Donoho (Adapting to Unknown
Smoothness via Wavelet Shrinkage) and Cai (Incorporating
information on neighbouring coefficients into wavelet estimation))
6. Short review of
Diffusion Maps
7. Hearing Impairment
Simulation – Loudness Recruitment and Spectral Smearing (Implementation in
MATLAB can be requested by mail)
8. Bayer
Demosaicing algorithms
Talks:
1. Feedback-less
Distributed Video Coding and its Application in Compressing Endoscopy Videos – SIPL annual project presentation day,
June 2012
2. Manipulation of
Phonemes for Application in Digital Hearing Instruments, IAA Conference 2012, Ben-Gurion
University, Israel, September 2012
3. Infant
Cry Analysis and Detection, IEEEI
2012, Eilat, Israel, November 2012
4. LORD:
LOw-complexity, Rate-controlled, Distributed video coding system, SITIS 2012, November 2012, Sorrento,
Italy
If you have ideas for
projects that involve speech/video processing or Channel Coding, please let me know
(see below some examples).
Current and former students (undergraduate projects):
1.
Assaf Hallak (currently an MSc student at the Technion)
and Keren Levinstein (currently an MSc student at Weizmann Institute of
Science), October 2011 – Compression of Bayer-format videos.
2. Uriel Moreira (currently a 4th year student at Polytechnic Institute of New York University) and Tianqiong Luo (currently a 4th year student at Fudan University, Shanghai, China), July 2012 – Infant cry detection.
3.
Ofer Stern and Idan Rahamim (Currently final-year
students at the EE dept., Technion), February 2013 - Phonemes Manipulation
for Application in Digital Hearing Instruments.
4.
Gilad Avrashi and Shlomi Mosseri (Currently final-year
students at the EE dept., Technion), Video
Coding for Underwater Transmission, with Rafael Advanced
Defense Systems Ltd., in progress (from March 2013).
Old projects:
1. Presentation (July
2010) on “Knowledge-Based Segmentation of SAR Data with Learned Priors” (in the
course Introduction
to Medical Imaging)
2. Presentation 1
(June 2010), Presentation 2 (November 2010) and poster on “Discrimination of
Unvoiced Phonemes for Application in Hearing Aid Instruments” using machine
learning methods (SIPL Project).
Including review of Diffusion Maps and Hearing Impairment Simulations –
Loudness Recruitment and Spectral Smearing.
3. Presentation (March 2010) and poster (June 2010) on
“Multipath Medium Identification” (SIPL
Project). MATLAB GUI code files can be requested by mail.
Pictures
from Jerusalem (including the Old City and City of David), September 2011, Another set of Pictures
from Jerusalem, April 2012
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Contact:
Email: rc@tx.technion.ac.il
Room 805, Meyer building, Phone: +972-(4)-829-4662
Department of Electrical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
Last update:
Saturday,
April 06, 2013
