Publications

2026 and in press

R. Toren, M. Goder-Goldberger, S.A. Rozen, and O. Ben-Shahar, Computational Flint Refitting , In the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (JASREP), 2026 (in press).
O. I. Shahar, G. Elkin, N. Alali, O. Ben-Shahar and coauthors, 79 AD Meets THE 21st Century: AI for Pompeii’s Archaeological Reconstruction , In Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage,, M. Pelillo, A. Zambrano and G. Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Ed.), Nocola Longobardi SLR, 2026 (in press).
O. I. Shahar, G. Elkin, and O. Ben-Shahar, Pairwise Alignment and Compatibility for Arbitrary Irregular and Eroded Image Fragments , In the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),, Lyon, France, August 2026 (in press).
O. I. Shahar, G. Elkin, and O. Ben-Shahar, The Missing GAP: From Solving Square Jigsaw Puzzles to Handling Real World Archaeological Fragments , In the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2026 (in press).
B. Aklilu and O. Ben-Shahar, How do we look at images through polygonal apertures: The PolyCAT Dataset , In the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2026 (in press).
D. Zlotnikov and O. Ben-Shahar, PIRATE - Precision Imaging Real-time Autonomous Tracker & Explorer , In the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE), 14(6), 558, 2026.

2025

R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, Stimulus Center Bias Persists Irrespective of Its Position on the Display , In the Journal of Eye Movement Research (JEMR), 18(6), 2025.
G. Zuchtriegel, M. A. Brunetto1, E. Gravina, M. C. Napolitano, F. Ricciardi, A. Zambrano, M. Khoroshiltseva, L. Palmieri, M. Pelillo, S. Vascon, G. Elkin, O. I. Shahar, Y. Ohayon, N. Alali, and O. Ben-Shahar, The RePAIR Project: Datasets for archaeological and restoration studies in Pompeii , In the Proceedings of Digital Heritage (DH), Siena, Italy, September 2025.
R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, The Polar Saccadic Flow Model: Re-modeling the Center Bias from Fixations to Saccades , In Vision Research, vol 228, 2025.
G. Elkin, O. I. Shahar, Y. Ohayon, N. Alali, and O. Ben-Shahar, Recognizing Artistic Style of Archaeological Image Fragments Using Deep Style Extrapolation , In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Culture and Computing (C&C), June 2025.

2024

T. Tsesmelis, ... O. Ben-Shahar, M. Pelillo, A. Del Bue, Re-assembling the past: The RePAIR dataset and benchmark for real world 2D and 3D puzzle solving , In the Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2024.
M. Lellouch and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards Visual Acuity Estimation from Eye Movements , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Aberdeen, Scotland, August 2024
O. Ben-Shahar and R. Mairon, Re-modeling the Center Bias: From Fixations to Saccades , In the workshop on Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS), May 2024 (withdrawn for inability to travel).
I. Git, M. Samina, S. Givon, R. Segev, M. Kiflawi, and O. Ben-Shahar, Acoustic tracking of moving marine targets using a single autonomous surface receiver , In the Journal of Field Robotics, 41(5), pp 1498-1520, 2024.
P. Harel, O.I. Shahar, and O. Ben-Shahar, Pictorial and apictorial polygonal jigsaw puzzles from arbitrary number of crossing cuts , In the International Journal of Computer Vision, 132(9), pp 3428-3462, 2024.
E. Amar and O. Ben-Shahar, Image Synthesis for Solar Flare Prediction , In The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 271:29 (11pp), 2024.

2023

M. Lellouch and O. Ben-Shahar, Fixational Eye Movements as Bio Markers of Visual Acuity , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Paphos, Cyprus, August 2023.
M.C. Napolitano et al., The Dataset of Paintings from the Pompeii Archive: A Task of the RePAIR Project , In the Proceedings of Pictura Parietum. Connessioni mediterranee in età ellenistica e romana (AIRPA VI), Agrigento, Italy, July 2023.
I. Git, M. Samina, S. Givon, M. Kiflawi, R. Segev, and O. Ben-Shahar, Real-time Tracking of Marine Targets Using a Single Moving Autonomous Receiver and AI , In the Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Sea Conference (SeaAI), Haifa, Israel, June 2023. (Oral)
B. Vardi, A. Torcinovich, M. Khoroshiltseva, M. Pelillo, and O. Ben-Shahar, Multi-Phase Relaxation Labeling for Square Jigsaw Puzzle Solving In the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer VisionTheory and Applications (VISAPP), Feb 2023.

2022

S. Givon⁺, M. Samina⁺, O. Ben-Shahar^*, and R.Segev^*, From Fish on Dry Land to New Insights on Navigation Mechanisms in Animals, In the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society for Neuroscience (ISFN), Dec 2022 (+,*=equal contribution).
S. Volotsky, O. Donchin, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev, Neural basis of object recognition in the visual system of the archerfish , The proceedings of the International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022.
S. Givon, M. Samina, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev, From fish on dry land to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals , The proceedings of the International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022.
S. Givon, R. Pickholtz, E.Y. Pickholtz, O. Ben-Shahar, M. Kiflawi, and R. Segev, Towards naturalistic neuroscience of navigation: opportunities in coral reef fish , In Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Naturalistic Neuroscience – Towards a Full Cycle from Lab to Field, 16, 2022.
H. Jiang, G. Zhang, Y. Adbuallah, C. Xu, E. Amar, O. Ben-Shahar, J. T. L. Wang and H. Wang, Big Data-Enabled AI-Powered Solar Eruption Prediction , In the 9th Annual New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium (NJBDA), Princeton, New Jersey, 2021.
S. Volotsky, O. Ben-Shahar, O. Donchin, R. Segev, Recognition of natural objects in the archerfish, Journal of Experimental Biology, 225(3), 2022.
Y. Koren, R. Mairon, I. Sofer, Y. Parmet, O. Ben-Shahar, S. Bar-Haim, Vision, Cognition and Walking Stability in Young Adults, Scientific Reports, 12:513, 2022.
S. Givon⁺, M. Samina⁺, O. Ben-Shahar^*, and R.Segev^*, From Fish out of Water to New Insights on Navigation Mechanisms in Animals, Behavioural Brain Research, Vol. 419, 2022 (+,*=equal contribution). This research generated unusual popular media attention, articles, and interviews. Here are selected publications: CBS 17, AccuWeather, BBC, CNN, The Times, Washington Post, The Naked Scientists, EuroNews, Sky News, Inside Edition, The Times of Israel, Haaretz, The Guardian, Newsweek, The Smithonian Magazine, and many others. This research became so viral that it even feaured in The Late Show in their hysteric piece The Fish and the Furious and also mentioned in Saturday Night Live.

2021

P. Harel and O. Ben-Shahar, Pictorial and apictorial polygonal jigsaw puzzles: The lazy caterer model, properties, and solvers , arXiv:2008.07644v2, 2021.
S. Volotsky, O. Ben-Shahar, O. Donchin, R. Segev, Recognition of natural objects in the archerfish , bioRxiv 2021.08.30.458062, 2021.
M. Khoroshiltseva, B. Vardi, A. Torcinovich, A. Traviglia, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Pelillo, Jigsaw Puzzle Solving as a Consistent Labeling Problem , In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Sep 2021.
P. Harel and O. Ben-Shahar, , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp 3084-3093, June 2021.
H. Jiang, J. T. L. Wang, O. Ben-Shahar, J. El-Sana, and H. Wang, Big Data-Enabled AI-Powered Space Weather Analytics with a Community-Driven Infrastructure , In the 8th Annual New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium (NJBDA), Princeton, New Jersey, 2021.
R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, Rethinking the center bias: from fixations to saccades , Journal of Vision, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), May 2021.
Y. Koren, R. Mairon, I. Sofer, Y. Parmet, O. Ben-Shahar, and S. Bar-Haim, Gazing Down Increases Standing and Walking Postural Steadiness, In the Royal Society Open Science, 8(3), 2021.
O. Ben-Shahar and R. Segev, Feature integration theory , In the Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds), Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1588-1, 2021.

2020

P. Harel and O. Ben-Shahar, Lazy caterer jigsaw puzzles: Models, properties, and a mechanical system-based solver , arXiv:2008.07644v1 , 2020.
B. Arad, R. Timofte, O. Ben-Shahar, and coauthors, NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Spectral Reconstruction from RGB Images , In the Proceedings of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop , as part of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seatle, WA, USA, 2020.
O. Ben-Shahar and R. Mairon, What is the Center in the Center-Bias? , Journal of Vision, 20(11):1733, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), May 2020.
R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, Modeling the dynamic nature of the center-bias , Journal of Vision, 20(11):814, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), May 2020.
E. Vinepinsky, L. Cohen, S. Perchik, O. Ben-Shahar, O. Donchin, and R. Segev, Representation of Edges, Head Direction, and Swimming Kinematics in the Brain of Freely-Navigating Fish , Scientific Reports, 10:14762, 2020.
A. Dutta, T. Lev-Ari, O. Barzilay, R. Mairon, A. Wolf, O. Ben-Shahar, and Y. Gutfreund, Self-motion trajectories can facilitate orientation based figure-ground segregation , Journal of Neurophysiology (JNP), Vol. 123(3), pages 912-926, 2020.
B. Arad, J. Balendonc, R. Barth, O. Ben-Shahar, Y. Edan, T. Hellstr, J. Hemming, P. Kurtser, O. Ringdahl, T. Tielen, and B. van Tuijl, Development of a Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot , Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Vol. 37, pp. 1027-1039, 2020 (Authors listed alphabetically).
A. Reichenthal, R. Segev^*, and O. Ben-Shahar^*, Feature integration theory in non-humans: aspotlight on the archerfish , Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (APP), Vol 82, pages 752–774, 2020 (*=equal contribution).
Y. Koren, R. Mairon, I. Sofer, Y. Parmet, O. Ben-Shahar, S. Bar-Haim, Downward Gazing for Steadiness , bioRxiv 2020.02.28.969162, 2021.

2019

E. Vinepinsky, L. Cohen, O. Ben-Shahar, O. Donchin, and R. Segev, Representation of space in the goldfish brain , The proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, IL, USA, Obtober 2019.
L. Cohen, E. Vinepinsky, O. Donchin, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev, Representation of head direction and speed in the goldfish brain , The proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, IL, USA, Obtober 2019.
Y. Koren, Y. Parmet, I. Sofer, O. Ben-Shahar, R. Mairon, S. Bar-Haim, Look where you are thinking , In the Proceedings of the ISPGR World Congress, Edinburgh, Schotland, July 2019.
R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, Focusing on the center bias: resolving biased from content-based fixations , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Leuven, Belgium, August 2019.
B. Arad^*, P. Kurtser^*, E. Barnea, B. Harel, Y. Edan, and O. Ben-Shahar, Controlled lighting and illumination-independent target detection for real-time cost-efficient applications. The case study of sweet pepper robotic harvesting , Sensors, Special issue on Agricultural Sensing and Image Analysis, Vol. 19, pp. 1-15 , 2019 (*=equal contribution).
E. Barnea and O. Ben-Shahar, Exploring the Bounds of the Utility of Context for Object Detection , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 2019.
A. Reichenthal⁺, M. Ben-Tov⁺, O. Ben-Shahar^*, and R. Segev^*, What pops out for you pops out for fish: four common visual features , the Journal of Vision (JOV), 19(1):1, pp. 1-16, 2019 (+,*=equal contribution).
E. Taig and O. Ben-Shahar, Gradient Surfing - a New Deterministic Approach for Low Dimensional Global Optimization , The Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA) , 180, pp. 855-878, 2019.

2018

E. Barnea and O. Ben-Shahar, Contextual Object Detection with a Few Relevant Neighbors , In the Proceedings of the Asian Conferenced on Computer Vision (ACCV), Perth, Australia, December 2018.
Y. Oiknine, B. Arad, I. August, O. Ben-Shahar and A. Stern, Dictionary based hyperspectral image reconstruction captured with CS-MUSI , The Proceedings of the IEEE GRSS workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2018.
E. Vinepinsky, O. Ben-Shahar, O. Donchin, and R. Segev, Space representation in the goldfish brain , The proceedings of the International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), Brisbane, Australia, July 2018.
A. Reichenthal, M. Ben-Tov, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev, Parallel and serial visual search modes in the archerfish , The proceedings of the International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), Brisbane, Australia, July 2018.
M. Ben-Tov, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev What a predator can teach us about visual processing: a lesson from the archerfish , Current Opinion in Neurobiology (CONEUR), 52, pp. 80-87, 2018.
B. Arad, O. Ben-Shahar and coatuthors, NTIRE 2018 Challenge on Spectral Reconstruction from RGB Images , In the Proceedings of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop , as part of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2018.
E. Barnea and O. Ben-Shahar, Curve Reconstruction via the Global Statistics of Natural Curves , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2018.
J. Orlowski, O. Ben-Shahar, and H. Wagner, Visual Search in Barn Owls: Task Difficulty and Saccadic Behavior , the Journal of Vision (JOV), 18(1):4, pp. 1-13, 2018.

2017

B. Arad, and O. Ben-Shahar, Filter Selection for Hyperspectral Estimation , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, October 2017.
S. Gur, and O. Ben-Shahar, From Square Pieces to Brick Walls: The Next Challenge in Solving Jigsaw Puzzles , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, October 2017.
G. Nir, B. Arad, and O. Ben-Shahar, Multi inducer grouping for curve completion: Perceptual and computational exploration , the Journal of Vision (JOV), 17(9):8, 1-15, 2017
D.N. Dovencioglu, O. Ben-Shahar, P. Barla, and K. Doerschner, Specular motion and 3D shape estimation , the Journal of Vision (JOV), 17(6):3, pp. 1-15, 2017.

2016

B. Arad and O. Ben-Shahar, Sparse Recovery of Hyperspectral Signal from Natural RGB Images , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2016.
D. Dovencioglu, M.W.A. Wijntjes, O. Ben-Shahar, and K. Doerschner, Perceived rigidity is not enough to explain why shape from specular flow in 3D-rotating objects is difficult , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain, August 2016.
D. Dovencioglu, M.W.A. Wijntjes, O. Ben-Shahar, and K. Doerschner, Perceived bumpiness of 3D-rotating objects are affected by surface reflectance and motion characteristics , Journal of Vision, 16(12):945, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete, Florida, May 2016.
R. Segev, M. Ben-Tov, O. Donchin, and O. Ben-Shahar, Saliency map in the archer fish optic tectum , The proceedings of the International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2016.
E. Barnea, R. Mairon,and O. Ben-Shahar, Colour-Agnostic Shape-Based 3D Fruit Detection for Crop Harvesting Robots , Biosystems Engineering, 146, pp. 57-70, 2016
R. Ben-Ari and O. Ben-Shahar, Computationally efficient tracker with direct appearance-kinematic measure and adaptive Kalman filter , Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2016.

2015

J. Orlowski, C. Beissel, F. Rohn, Y. Adato, H. Wagner, and O. Ben-Shahar, Visual pop-out in barn owls: Human-like behavior in the avian brain, , Journal of Vision, 15(14):4, 1-13, 2015.
R. Berenstein, M. Hocevar, T. Godesa, Y. Edan, and O. Ben-Shahar, Distance Dependent Multimodal Image Registration for Agriculture Tasks , Sensors, 15(8), 20845-20862, 2015.
R.M. Vota, D. Dovencioglu, O. Ben-Shahar, K. Dorschner and M. Wijntjes, The contribution of motion to shape-from-specularities , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Liverpool, United Kingdom, August 2015.
D. Dovencioglu, R.M. Vota, O. Ben-Shahar, M.W.A. Wijntjes and K. Doerschner, Surface reflectance and motion characteristics affect perceived bumpiness of 3D-rotating objects , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Liverpool, United Kingdom, August 2015.
B. Arad and O. Ben-Shahar, Hyperspectral evalution of trichromatic response filters , Journal of Vision 15(12):251-251, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete, Florida, May 2015.
G. Nir and O. Ben-Shahar, How do multple inducers group in perceptual completion stimuli: Psychophysics and modelling , Journal of Vision 15(12):843-843, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete, Florida, May 2015.
M. Ben-Tov, O. Donchin, O. Ben-Shahar^*, and R. Segev^*, Pop-out in Visual Search of Moving Targets in the Archer Fish , Nature Comminucations, 6:6476, pp. 1-11, 2015 (*=equal contribution).
D.N. Dovencioglu, M.W. Wijntjes, O. Ben-Shahar, and K. Doerschner, Effects of surface reflectance on local second order shape estimation in dynamic scenes , Vision Research, 115, pp. 218-230, 2015
O. Ben-Shahar and G. Ben-Yosef, Tangent bundle elastica and computer vision , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 37(1), pp:161-174, 2015.

2014

R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, A Closer Look at Context: From Coxels to the Contextual Emergence of Object Saliency , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Zurich, Switzerland, September 2014.
E. Barnea and O. Ben-Shahar, Depth Based Object Detection from Partial Pose Estimation of Symmetric Objects , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Zurich, Switzerland, September 2014.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, SceneNet: A Perceptual Ontology for Scene Understanding , In the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computer vision + ONTology Applied Cross-disciplinary Technologies (CONTACT), In conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Zurich, Switzerland, September 2014.
M. Ben-Tov, O. Donchin, O.Ben-Shahar and R. Segev, Pop-out visual search of moving targets in the archer fish, , In the proceedings of the International Congress on Neuroethology (ICN), Sapparo, Japan, July 2014.
R. Berenstein, O. Ben-Shahar, Y. Edan, G. Tone, and M. Hacevar, Image registration for agricultural sensing tasks , In the Proceedings of the Internation Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2014.
R. Mairon and O. Ben-Shahar, Highlight detection with application to sweet pepper localization , In the Proceedings of the Internation Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2014.
E. Barnea and O. Ben-Shahar, Depth based fruit detection from viewer based pose , In the Proceedings of the Internation Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2014.
D.N. Dovencioglu, M.W.A. Wijntjes, O. Ben-Shahar, and K. Doerschner Effects of reflectance and object motion in estimating 3D structure , Journal of Vision, 14(10):736-736, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete, Florida, May 2014.
G. Nir and O. Ben-Shahar, The perceptual grouping model in contour completion , The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete, Florida, May 2014.
O. Ben-Shahar, S. Dolev, A. Dolgin, and M. Segal, Direction election in flocking swarms , Ad Hoc Networks (AHN), 12, pp 250-258, 2014.

2013

M. Ben-Tov, I. Kopilevich, O. Donchin, O. Ben Shahar, C. Giladi, and R. Segev, Visual receptive field properties of cells in the optic tectum of the archer fish , Journal of Neurophsyiology, 110, pp. 748-759, 2103.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, From Perceptual Relations to Scene Gist Recognition , in the Scene Understanding Workshop (SUNw), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Independence of luminance and chromatic edge orientations in natural scenes , The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, SceneNet: A Perceptual Ontology Database for Scene Understanding , Journal of Vision, 13(9):1310-1310, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, From Perceptual Relations to Scene Gist Recognition , The Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision Workshop (MODVIS), Naples, Florida, May 2013.

2012

I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, A perceptual paradigm and psychophysical evidence for hierarchy in scene gist processing , Journal of Vision, 12(13):16, 1-17, 2012.
A. Ben-Simon, O. Ben-Shahar, G. Vasserman, M. Ben-Tov, and R. Segev, Visual acuity in the archer fish: Behavior, anatomy, and neurophysiology , Journal of Vision, 12(12), 2012.
Avi Ben-Simon, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Genadiy Vasserman, and Ronen Segev, Predictive saccade in the absence of smooth pursuit: Interception of moving targets in the archer fish , Journal of Experimental Biology, 215, 4248-4254, 2012.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Tangent bundle curve completion with locally connected parallel networks , Neural Computation, 24(12), 3277-3316, 2012.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A tangent bundle theory for visual curve compeltion , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(7), 1263-1280, 2012.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, Small sample scene categorization from perceptual relations , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Neural patterns of minimal bending as perceptual curve completion , Journal of Vision 12(9):880, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Phase randomization of natural color images with simultaneous preservation of first and second order statistics , Journal of Vision 12(9):846, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, Learning perceptual relations for categorizing natural scenes from few training examples , Journal of Vision 12(9):799, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
D. Holtmann-Rice, O. Ben-Shahar, S. Zucker, Superposition of Glass Patterns: finding the flow through local measurements , Journal of Vision 12(9):1312, 2012, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2012.
K. Kapach, E. Barnea, R. Mairon, Y. Edan, and O. Ben-Shahar, Computer Vision for Fruit Harvesting Robots - State of the Art and Challenges Ahead , International journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, 3(1/2), 2012.

2011

W. Harmening, J. Orlowski, O. Ben-Shahar, and H. Wagner, Overt attention towards oriented objects in free viewing barn owls , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 108(20), 8461-8466, 2011.
Y. Adato and O. Ben-Shahar, Specular Flow and Shape in One Shot , In the Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Dundee, Scotland, August 2011.
M. Shemesh and O. Ben-Shahar, Free boundary conditions active contours with application for vision , In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 2011.
Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, A polar representation of motion and implications for optical flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 1145-1152, 2011.
D. Pomeranz, M. Shemesh, and O. Ben-Shahar, A fully automated greedy square jigsaw puzzle solver , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 9-16, 2011. See also the project page for more demos, info, and code. This paper was also the basis for a follow up senior project of a robot that solves physical square jigsaw puzzles. See the project video (or the version with Hebrew explanations by the students) and the various Israeli media coverage (mostly in Hebrew) at IBA's Bet Channel, Giga Bet radio program, The Times of Israel, Geektime, IsraelDefense Magazine, and others.
Y. Vasilyev, T. Zickler, S. Gortler, and O. Ben-Shahar Shape from Specular Flow: Is One Flow Enough? , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, pp. 2561-2568, 2011.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Tangent bundle contour completion with early vision mechanisms , Journal of Vision, 11(11):1036, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
A. Mokeichev and O. Ben-Shahar, Chroma and luminance interactions in processing of orientation saliency , Journal of Vision, 11(11):139, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
I. Kadar and O. Ben-Shahar, ANew Perceptual Paradigm And Psychophysical Evidence For Hierarchical Gist Recognition , Journal of Vision, 11(11):1113, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.
O. Ben-Shahar and G. Ben-Yosef, Lazy neurons for good shape - Neural energy minimization models for perceptual curve completion , Journal of Vision, 2011, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2011.

2010

A. Mokeichev, Segev, R., and O. Ben-Shahar, Orientation saliency without visual cortex and target selection in archer fish , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 107(38), 16726-16731, 2010. Research featured in Science Now, The Scientist, Discover magazine, the Digital Journal, and other science news outlets.
Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Shape from specular flow , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 32(11), 2054-2070, 2010.
R. Berenstrin, O. Ben-Shahar, A. Shapiro, and Y. Edan, Grape clusters and foliage detection algorithms for autonomous selective vineyard sprayer , Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), 3(4), 233-243, 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, General Geometric Good Continuation: from Taylor to Laplace via Level Sets , International Journal of Computer Vision, 86(1), 48-71, 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Good Continuation in Layers: Shading flows, color flows, Surfaces, and Shadows, in Information in Perception, L. Albertazzi (Ed.), MIT Press, 2010.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A biologically-inspired theory for non-axiomatic parametric curve completion , In the Proceedings of the Asian Conferenced on Computer Vision (ACCV), Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010.
O. Ben-Shahar, S. Dolev, A. Dolgin, M. Segal, Direction election in flocking swarms , In the Proceedings of the SIGACT/SIGMOBILE Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (DIALM-POMC), Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2010.
Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards robust computation of specular flow , In the Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberystwyth, UK, August 2010.
G Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Minimum length in the tangent bundle as a model for curve completion , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Fransisco, California, June 2010. You can also see the talk itself, since this CVPR all talks were filmed by videolectures.net.
H. Wagner, J. Orlowski, O. Ben-Shahar, and W.M. Harmening Image-based gaze analysis in free-viewing barn owls<, , The International Congress on Neuroethology, Salamanca, Spain, August 2010. Download: poster reprint.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Curve completion as minimum action in the primary visual cortex , Journal of Vision 10(7):1165, 2010, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2010.
L. Diesendruck and O. Ben-Shahar, Overt and Covert attention interact with curvature-based perceptual singularities , Journal of Vision 10(7):134, 2010, The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2010.

2009

A. Ben-Simon, O. Ben-Shahar, and R. Segev, Measuring and Tracking Eye Movements of a Behaving Archer Fish by Real-Time Stereo Vision , The Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 184, 235-243, 2009.
M. Lawlor, D. Holtman-Rice, P. Huggins, O. Ben-Shahar, and S.W. Zucker, Boundaries, shading, and border ownership: A cusp at their interaction , Journal of Physiology-Paris, 103(1-2), 18-36, 2009.
A. Shapiro, E. Korkidi, A. Demri, O. Ben-Shahar, R. Riemer, and Y. Edan, Toward Elevated Agrobotics: An Autonomous Field Robot for Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm Trees , Journal of Field Robotics, 26(6/7), 572-590, 2009.
Canas, G.D., Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, S. Gortler, and O. Ben-Shahar, A linear formulation of shape from specular flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, September 2009.
I. Kadar, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Sipper, Evolution of a local boundary detector for natural images via genetic programming and texture cues, In the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Curvature-based segregation for multi-oriented textures , Journal of Vision 9(8):927, 927a, 2009. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2009. Download: poster reprint.

2008

G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, Curvature-based perceptual singularities and texture saliency with early visual mechanisms , Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25(8), 1974-1993, 2008.
I. Kadar, O. Ben-Shahar, and M. Sipper, Evolving boundary detectors for natural images via genetic programming , In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008.
E. Korkidi, A. Shapiro, and O. Ben-Shahar, Visual servoing of a pan tilt spraying head for accurate spraying of date palm trees, In the Proceedings of the Israeli Conference on Robotics (ICR), Herzlia, Israel, November 2008.
Y. Vasilyev, Y. Adato, T. Zickler, and O. Ben-Shahar, Dense specular shape from multiple specular flows , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008.
A. Shapiro, E. Korkodi, A. Rotenberg, G. Furst, H. Namdar, B. Sapir, M. Mishkin, O. Ben- Shahar, and Y. Edan, A robotic protoype for spraying and pollinating date palm trees, In the Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA), August, 2008.
W.M. Harmening, S.Ohayon, E.Rivlin, O. Ben-Shahar, and H. Wagner, The owl cam: Ego-centered assessment of visual behaviour in free-viewing barn owls , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2008.
L. Diesendruck and O. Ben-Shahar, Object-based effects of attentional selection due to low-level curvature-based perceptual singularities , In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2008.

2007

O. Ben-Shahar, B.J. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker, Attention, segregation, and textons: Bridging the gap between object-based attention and texton-based segregation , Vision Research, 47(6), 845-860, 2007.
A. Mokeichev, M. Okun, O. Barak, Y. Katz, O. Ben-Shahar, and I. Lampl, Stochastic emergence of repeating cortical motifs in spontaneous membrane potential fluctuations in vivo , Neuron, 53, 413-425, 2007. See also the preview for this paper.
O. Ben-Shahar, G. Li, and S.W. Zucker, Connection Geometry, Color, and Stereo, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4673, pp. 13-198, 2007.
Y. Adato, Y. Vasilyev, O. Ben-Shahar, and T. Zickler, Toward a theory of shape from specular flow , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.
O. Ben-Shahar, G. Li, and S.W. Zucker, Connection geometry, color, and stereo , The International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Vienna, Austria, August 2007.
G. Ben-Yosef and O. Ben-Shahar, A biologically-plausible model for curvature-based texture segregation , Journal of Vision, 7(9):909, 909a, 2007. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2007. Download: poster reprint.

2006

O. Ben-Shahar, Visual saliency and texture segregation without feature gradient , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 103(42), 15704-15709, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Boundary Gestalt limits flow gestalt: The geometry of good continuation, in Visual thought: The depictive space of the mind, L. Albertazzi (Ed.), John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, Saliency and segregation without feature gradient: New insights for segmentation from orientation-defined textures, In the fifth workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), New York, USA, June 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, A. Glaser, and S.W. Zucker, Good Continuation in Layers: Shading flows, color flows, surfaces and shadows , In the fifth workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), New York, USA, June 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, Visualization with smooth oriented textures and flows: Insights from Perception, In the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), Boston, USA, 2006.
O. Ben-Shahar, Perceptual singularities in smooth orientation-defined textures: Segregation without Feature Gradient, Journal of Vision, 6(6), 763a, 2006. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2006. Download: poster reprint.

2005

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Good continuation of general 2D visual features: Dual harmonic models and computational inference , In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, 2005.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, General geometric good continuation: A biologically plausible network model, In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks & Brain (ICNN&B), Beijing, China, 2005.

2004

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue geometry and horizontal connections , Neural Networks, 17 753-771, 2004.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Geometrical computations explain projection patterns of long range horizontal connections in visual cortex , Neural Computation, 16(3) 445-476, 2004.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Sensitivity to curvatures revealed in orientation-based texture segmentation , Vision Research, 44(3) 257-277, 2004.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue geometry and horizontal connections, in Vision and Brain, S. Grossberg, L. Finkel, and D. Field (Eds.), Elsevier, 2004.

2003

O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, The perceptual organization of texture flow: A contextual inference approach , IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(4) 401-417, 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, T. Izo, and S.W. Zucker, Cotrical connections and early visual function: Intra- and inter-columnar processing , Journal of Physiology-Paris, 97(2-3), 191-208, 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Hue fields and color curvatures: A perceptual organization approach to color image denoising , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Wisconsin, June 2003.
B.J. Scholl, O. Ben-Shahar, and A. Marino, What counts as an 'object' of object-based attention?, Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, November 2003.
O. Ben-Shahar, B. Scholl, and S.W. Zucker, Where objects come from: Attention, segmentation, and textons, Journal of Vision, 3(9), 474a, 2003. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2003. Download: poster reprint.
O. Ben-Shahar, The perceptual organization of visual flows , Ph.D. Thesis , Yale university, New Haven, CT, December 2003.

2002 and Earlier

O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker, On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2525, pp. 189-198, 2002.
O. Ben-Shahar, P. Huggins, and S.W. Zucker, On computing visual flows with boundaries: The case of shading and edges , In the 2nd Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV), Tübingen, Germany, November 2002.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Curvature and the perceptual organization of texture flows , Journal of Vision, 2(7), 468a, 2002. The Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Sarasota, Florida, May 2002. Download: poster reprint.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, On the perceptual organization of texture and shading flows: From a geometrical model to coherence computation , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, December 2001.
O. Ben-Shahar and S.W. Zucker, Flowing towards coherence: On the geometry of texture and shading flow, In the third workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.
G. Hager and D. Kriegman and A. Georghiades and O. Ben-Shahar, Towards domain independent navigation: Dynamic vision and control , In the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, Practical pushing planning for rearrangement tasks , IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, 14(4) 549-565, 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To push or not to push: On the rearrangement of movable objects by a mobile robot, , IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 28(5) 667-679, 1998.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To push or not to push II: Practical pushing planning for rearrangement tasks, In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, 1996.
O. Ben-Shahar and E. Rivlin, To push or not to push I: On the rearrangement of movable objects by a mobile robot, In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, 1996.
O. Ben-Shahar, To push or not to push: On the rearrangement of movable objects with a mobile robot , M.Sc. Thesis, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1996.