Dr. Yotam Abramson

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I am a researcher in the Ran Naor center for Transportation safety, at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

My main interests are Intelligent Transportation Systems and Pedestrian Protection.

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Current Research Projects

Crossing assistance device

Automatic enforcement of pedestrian protection in crosswalks

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Previous Research Projects

Smart Signal for non-signalized intersections

Detection of irregular events in the traffic using video cameras

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Publications

Yotam Abramson and David Mahalel, "Vision-based Static Precrash Warning", in Road Safety on Four Continents, November 2007, Bangkok, Thailand

Yotam Abramson, Bruno Steux and Hicham Ghorayeb: "Yet Even Faster (YEF) real-time object detection", in International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2(2-3): 102-112 (2007)

Yotam Abramson, Fabien Moutarde, Bruno Steux, and Bogdan Stanciulescu, "Combining adaboost with a hill-climbing evolutionary feature-search for efficient training of performant visual object detectors", in Proceedings of the 7th International FLINS Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (FLINS '06), Genova, Italy, August 2006.

Yotam Abramson and Yoav Freund, "Active Learning for Visual Object Recognition",

University of California San-Diego Report, 2006.

Yotam Abramson, "Systèmes d'aide à la conduite basés sur la vision: de

la théorie aux applications", Doctoral Dissertation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France, December 2005.

Ayoub Khammari, Fawzi Nashashibi, Yotam Abramson, and Claude Laurgeau, "Vehicle detection combining gradient analysis and AdaBoost classification", in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '05), vol. 2005, p. 66, Vienna, Austria, September 2005.

Yotam Abramson, Bruno Steux, "Yet-Even-Faster real time object detection", in International Workshop on Automatic Learning and Real-Time (ALART ’05), September 2005, Siegen, Germany.

Yotam Abramson and Yoav Freund, "SEmi-automatic VIsuaL LEarning (SEVILLE): Tutorial on Active Learning for Visual Object Recognition", in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2005, San-Diego, CA, USA.

Yotam Abramson and Bruno Steux, "Hardware-friendly detection of pedestrians from an on-board camera", in Proceedings of the Xth IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, June 2004, Parma, Italy.

Yotam Abramson and Bruno Steux, "Robust real-time on-board vehicle tracking system using particle filtering', in Proceedings of the Xth International conference on Intelligent Automated Vehicles, July 2004, Lisbon, Portugal. 

Yotam Abramson, Alexander Moshe Rabinovich: "Decidability of Split Equivalence", in Information and Computation 173(1): 15-39 (2002)

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Contact

Mail: abramson@technion.ac.il

Phone: +972-54-6211463