Hagit Zabrodsky Hel-Or ( he, חגית הל-אור) is an Israeli computer scientist known for her research in

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

, and the applications of

symmetry Symmetry (from grc, συμμετρία "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, "symmetry" has a more precise definit ...

pattern matching In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually has to be exact: "either it will or will not be ...

and

computational chemistry Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulation to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry, incorporated into computer programs, to calculate the structures and properties of m ...

. She is a faculty member in the computer science department at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

Education and career

Hel-Or graduated from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

in 1985, earned a master's degree there in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994, with a dissertation supervised by Shmuel Peleg. After postdoctoral research at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

and

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, she returned to Bar-Ilan University in 1997 as a lecturer. She moved to the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer in 1998.

Book

With Yanxi Liu, Craig S. Kaplan, and Luc Van Gool, Hel-Or is the coauthor of the book ''Computational Symmetry in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics'' (Now Publishing, 2009).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hel-Or, Hagit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Israeli computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists Computer vision researchers Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University Academic staff of the University of Haifa