Alex Bronstein | Communications 2025

Alex Bronstein

Senior Lecturer

School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Speech Title:

"New Dimensions of Media"

Abstract:

During roughly a century of its turbulent life, electronic media has faced several leaps, most of which are related to an increase in the number of dimensions, such as the transition from voice to television, and from black-and-white to color. Today, with the advent of affordable three-dimensional acquisition and display technologies, we are facing yet another increase in the dimensionality of media. Accurate and reliable 3D acquisition offers a formidable tool for quantifying and understanding the geometry of the world surrounding us, which is one of the fundamental challenges in machine vision with potential applications impacting virtually every aspect of our life. However, in many aspects geometric data are more challenging to analyze than the regular two-dimensional images. In this talk, I highlight the latest achievements and challenges in the field, and share my reflections on its impact on electrical engineering and computer science.

Bio:

Received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. with honors from the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Technion, and in currently with the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University where he is the founder and head of the 3D Imaging and Vision laboratory, and the head of the Digital Signal Processing laboratory. His main research interests are theoretical and computational methods in computer vision, pattern recognition, shape analysis, and machine learning. He is a coauthor of the first book systematically treating computational analysis of deformable shapes, and chaired the first IEEE workshops on the topic. Alex Bronstein is the alumnus of the Technion Excellence Program and the Academy of Achievement. His research was recognized by numerous awards, including the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation award, the Gensler counter-terrorism prize, the Adams Fellowship, and the Krill prize by the Wolf Foundation. Dr. Bronstein held visiting appointments in several universities including Stanford. In addition to his academic activities, he was a co-founder of the Silicon Valley startup Novafora, where he served as vice president of video technology, and one of the principal technologists and inventors behind the 3D acquisition technology developed by the Israeli startup Invision and acquired by Intel in 2011.