תיאור: http://sipl.technion.ac.il/~nimrod/index.1.jpg

Areas of Interest:

Digital Signal Processing: video, image, speech, audio, watermarking.

Digital Signal Processors (DSP)

Address: Department of Electrical Engineering

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel

Office: Room 505, 5^th fl., Meyer building

Phone: +972-4-829-4747

Fax: +972-4-829-2795

E-mail: nimrod@siglab.technion.ac.il

Biographical Information
1986: B.Sc. (Cum Laude) Electrical Engineering, Technion IIT.

1989-1992: Accomplished all academic studies for M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing), without Thesis.

Professional Experience

1986 - 1992: Application engineer, Signal and Image Processing lab, Technion IIT.

Including: Development of algorithms and real-time applications in speech and image compression and project supervisor (undergraduate students).

1993: Director of Research and Development, Optibase Sounds and Images Ltd., Herzlia, Israel.

1994 - : Chief engineer, Signal and Image Processing Lab, Technion IIT

Teaching Experience

1986 - : Supervising undergraduate student projects in various contexts of speech, image and video compression

2000 - : Academic Courses on:

1. Audio and Video Compression

at:

Computer Science Dept., University of Haifa

Computer Science Dept., InterDisciplinary Center, Herzlia

Computer Science Dept., Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel.

2. DSP Architecture and Implementations

Computer Science Dept., InterDisciplinary Center, Herzlia,. (2002-2003)

2000-2007: Image & video compression course. A course that I teach in various industrial organizations:

The principles and technology of image & video compression (JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3, H.264/AVC)

Published papers

· Raz Bareket, Yoram Or-Chen, Nimrod Peleg, Guillermo Sapiro, Omer Tzifroni, "Fractal Image Compression Using a Motorola DSP96002" ICSPAT 1993, Santa Clara, CA

· Ran Bar-Sella, Nir Shachar, Zelig Weiner and Nimrod Peleg, "MPEG-1/VCD Digital Video Editing", ICSPAT 1996 , Boston MA.

· Tal Mizrahi, Eran Borenstein, George Leifman, Yuval Cassuto, Michael Lustig, Shay Mizrachi, and Nimrod Peleg, "Real-Time Implementation for Digital Watermarking in Audio Signals Using Perceptual Masking", Texas Instruments DSP Education and Research conf., Paris Sep. 2000

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· Nimrod Peleg, Torrence H. Robinson, J. Patrick Frantz, David Jacob Rhodes, Benefits of DSP Extra-curricular Activities: A Look at the Texas Instruments DSP and Analog Challenge, ICASSP 2002, Orlando , May 2002

§ Moshe Y., Peleg N., and Cohen N., SPDemo: A Novel Software Tool for Teaching Multimedia Signal Processing. Proc. of ITRE 2004, 2nd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, London, UK, July 2004, pp.116-120.

§ Moshe Y. and Peleg N. Implementations of H.264/AVC Baseline Decoder on Different Digital Signal Processors. Proc. of 47^th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 on Multimedia Systems and Applications, Zadar, Croatia, June 2005, pp. 37-40.

§ Nimrod Peleg, Content Insertion into Compressed Video in the Coding Domain,

Tel-Hai 3^rd Conference in Computer Science: Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, June 2007.

Awards

1985: Dean's Honor list, Dept. of EE, Technion IIT

1986: Honor list, Technion IIT.

1990: Distinguished employee, Dept. of EE, Technion IIT

1999: Distinguished employee, Technion IIT.

2001: Mentor of the winning team in Texas Instruments World-Wide Analog and DSP Challenge 2000.

2006: Senior Member - IEEE