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Arnon Amir

from San Jose, CA
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Also known as:
Aamir Gondal, Amir Ali, Amir Aslam, Mohammed Majeedi
Phone and address:
4004 Payne Ave, San Jose, CA 95117
(408) 867-1345
Connected to:
Abbas A Amir, 39Ajeenah S Amir, 45Alvin Amir, 32Amnon Amir, 50Arielle Amir, 36Bashar A Amir, 40Dana R Amir, 55Eva Amir, 100Irlan S Amir, 50Kamal Y Amir, 71

Arnon Amir Phones & Addresses

  • 4004 Payne Ave, San Jose, CA 95117 (408) 867-1345
  • 13570 Beaumont Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070 (408) 868-1567 (408) 868-9186
  • North Miami Beach, FL
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Santa Barbara, CA
  • Saint Charles, MO
  • Woodbridge, VA
  • Arlington, TX

Work

Company: Ibm 1997 Position: Research staff member

Education

Degree: Doctorates, Doctor of Science School / High School: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Sep 1992 to Jul 1997 Specialities: Computer Science

Skills

Algorithms • Computer Vision • Computer Science • Information Retrieval • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Software Engineering • Data Mining • Signal Processing • Pattern Recognition • Distributed Systems • Natural Language Processing • Java • High Performance Computing • Software Design • Programming • Human Computer Interaction • Image Processing • Algorithm Design • Information Extraction • Big Data • Speech Recognition • Text Analytics

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Computer Software

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Research Staff Member

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Location:
San Francisco, CA
Industry:
Computer Software
Work:
Ibm
Research Staff Member
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 1989 - 1997
Teaching Assistant and Lecturer
Education:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Sep 1992 - Jul 1997
Doctorates, Doctor of Science, Computer Science Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Sep 1989 - Aug 1992
Master of Science, Masters, Computer Science Ben - Gurion University of the Negev Sep 1985 - Aug 1989
Bachelors, Bachelor of Science, Engineering
Skills:
Algorithms
Computer Vision
Computer Science
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Data Mining
Signal Processing
Pattern Recognition
Distributed Systems
Natural Language Processing
Java
High Performance Computing
Software Design
Programming
Human Computer Interaction
Image Processing
Algorithm Design
Information Extraction
Big Data
Speech Recognition
Text Analytics

Publications

Us Patents

Method And Apparatus For Determining Eye Contact

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US Patent:
6393136, May 21, 2002
Filed:
Jan 4, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/225476
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA
Myron Dale Flickner - San Jose CA
David Bruce Koons - San Jose CA
Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto - San Jose CA
Shumin Zhai - San Jose CA
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06K 900
US Classification:
382103, 382107, 382173, 382128, 382116, 348 14, 348169
Abstract:
A method and apparatus determine when a subject is looking at a specific target area by estimating a divergence angle between (1) the direction in which the subject is looking and (2) the direction from the subject directly to the target area. This technique accesses whether the subject is looking at a particular area. The invention may further condition this determination according to the subjects distance from the target area, because there is less tolerance for divergent angles when the subject is farther away. In one embodiment, the divergence angle is estimated using the position of a glint of light in the subjects pupil. The glint is created by a light source located in the target area. If the glint is sufficiently central to the pupil, with the camera and light source being near the target area, the subject is looking at the target area. At long distances, when the glint is not sufficiently discernable from the pupil, another technique may be employed to estimate divergence angle.

Method And Apparatus For Associating Pupils With Subjects

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US Patent:
6539100, Mar 25, 2003
Filed:
Jan 27, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/238979
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA
Myron Dale Flickner - San Jose CA
David Bruce Koons - San Jose CA
Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto - San Jose CA
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06K 900
US Classification:
382117, 382173
Abstract:
A method and apparatus analyzes a scene to determine which pupils correspond to which subjects. First, a machine-readable representation of the scene, such as a camera image, is generated. Although more detail may be provided, this representation minimally depicts certain visually perceivable characteristics of multiple pupil candidates corresponding to multiple subjects in the scene. A machine such as a computer then examines various features of the pupil candidates. The features under analysis include (1) visually perceivable characteristics of the pupil candidates at one given time (âspatial cuesâ), and (2) changes in visually perceivable characteristics of the pupil candidates over a sampling period (âtemporal cuesâ). The spatial and temporal cues may be used to identify associated pupil pairs. Some exemplary spatial cues include interocular distance, shape, height, and color of potentially paired pupils.

Calibration-Free Eye Gaze Tracking

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US Patent:
6578962, Jun 17, 2003
Filed:
Apr 27, 2001
Appl. No.:
09/844682
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA
Myron Dale Flickner - San Jose CA
David Bruce Koons - San Jose CA
Gregory Fraser Russell - Yorktown Heights NY
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
A61B 314
US Classification:
351209, 345157
Abstract:
A system and method for calibration-free tracking of a users eye gaze vector and point of regard even if substantial head movement or rotation occurs. The preferred embodiment includes two synchronized interlaced cameras, each viewing the users eye and having on-axis lighting that is alternately modulated. An image difference between lighted and unlighted images of the eye is used to identify a users pupil. A plane containing the gaze vector is defined by rotating a base plane through the angle in a camera image plane between a pupil center, a first glint, and a second glint. The intersection of two such planes (one from each camera), defines the gaze vector. The gaze position is the intersection of the gaze vector with the object being viewed by the user. Alternate embodiments are also described.

System And Method For Linking An Audio Stream With Accompanying Text Material

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US Patent:
6636238, Oct 21, 2003
Filed:
Apr 20, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/295076
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA
Carlton Wayne Niblack - San Jose CA
Norman Jerome Pass - Sunnyvale CA
Dragutin Petkovic - Saratoga CA
Dulce Beatriz Ponceleon - Palo Alto CA
Savitha Srinivasan - San Jose CA
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 1721
US Classification:
345730, 345804
Abstract:
A system enables a user to query for key words and phrases a text document, such as a presentation slide file, and an associated audio stream, such as can be derived from an audio-video recording that is made of a presenter contemporaneously with the showing of the slides to an audience. A graphical user interface is presented in which query results for both the text document and the audio stream are displayed in a time-aligned format, to enable a user to easily and conveniently browse the text document and accompanying time-aligned audio stream based on the key words/phrases.

System And Method For Eye Gaze Tracking Using Corneal Image Mapping

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US Patent:
6659611, Dec 9, 2003
Filed:
Dec 28, 2001
Appl. No.:
10/034524
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Saratoga CA
Myron Dale Flickner - San Jose CA
David Bruce Koons - San Jose CA
Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto - Sao Paulo, BR
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
A61B 314
US Classification:
351210
Abstract:
A system and method for eye gaze tracking without calibrated cameras, direct measurements of specific users eye geometries, or requiring the user to visually track a cursor traversing a known trajectory. The preferred embodiment includes two uncalibrated cameras imaging the users eye and haying on-axis lighting. The cameras capture images of a test pattern in real space as reflected from the users cornea, which is essentially a convex spherical mirror. The invention then extracts parameters required to define a mathematical mapping between real space and image space, including spherical and perspective transformations. The invention processes subsequent images of objects reflected from the users eye through the inverse of the mathematical mapping to determine a gaze vector and a point of regard. Alternately, a single calibrated camera may be employed with means for estimating the eye-to-camera distance. A head-mounted embodiment that may include a laser pointer is also described.

Fast Video Playback With Automatic Content Based Variable Speed

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US Patent:
6760536, Jul 6, 2004
Filed:
May 16, 2000
Appl. No.:
09/572136
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA
Dragutin Petkovic - Saratoga CA
Dulce Beatriz Ponceleon - Palo Alto CA
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
H04N 591
US Classification:
386 68, 386111, 386112
Abstract:
Browsing of digital video data is performed using a fast forward or fast reverse play mode. The digital video is analyzed and processed to produce a content-based variable-rate video playback sequence for fast browsing. To create the playback sequence, each shot in a video is sped-up at a relatively slow rate at the beginning of the shot by selecting many frames and then the speedup rate is increased as the shot progresses by selecting progressively fewer frames. This method and apparatus of variable-rate frame selection can be used to add and index to a video, play an original video in fast forward/backward mode or to create a new videoâa fast forward playback video summary.

Video And Multimedia Browsing While Switching Between Views

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US Patent:
6907570, Jun 14, 2005
Filed:
Mar 29, 2001
Appl. No.:
09/822035
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Saratoga CA, US
Dulce Beatriz Ponceleon - Palo Alto CA, US
Savitha Srinivasan - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G09G005/00
US Classification:
715720, 715727, 715748, 725 59
Abstract:
Preferred implementations of the invention permit a user to seamlessly switch from a first media stream to a second media stream in a synchronized way, such that the second media stream picks up where the first media stream left off. In this way, the user experiences events chronologically but without interruption. In a preferred implementation, a user watching a skim video switches to a full length video when, for example, the skim video reaches a frame that is of particular interest to the user. The full length video begins at a point corresponding to the frame in the skim video that is of interest to the user, without skipping over video segments, so that the user does not experience any time gaps in the story line.

System And Method For Adapting Speech Playback Speed To Typing Speed

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US Patent:
6952673, Oct 4, 2005
Filed:
Feb 20, 2001
Appl. No.:
09/789452
Inventors:
Arnon Amir - Cupertino CA, US
Michael Rodeh - Haifa, IL
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G10L015/26
US Classification:
704235, 704211, 704207, 1791001 R, 1791001 VC
Abstract:
A system and method for automatically adjusting the rate at which recorded speech is played back as a typist manually transcribes the speech. The typing speed is measured and a speech playback rate determined based on the measured speed. The playback rate of the audio is then automatically increased or decreased as appropriate to match the typing speed.
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