Dr. Amit Efraim
Amit Efraim is a Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sami Shamoon College of Engineering. He received his B.Sc. (2011), M.Sc. (2018) and Ph.D. (2024) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research interests include computer vision, specializing in 3D model processing in mapping and navigation tasks
Profile
Be'er Sheva
308 Einstein(40)
Education
2018-2024 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Dissertation title: Rigid Transformation Universal Manifold Embedding 3D local descriptor.
Adviser: Prof. Joseph M. Francos.
2016-2018 M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Dissertation title: Universal Manifold Embedding Under Rigid Motion Assumption
Adviser: Prof. Joseph M. Francos.
2007-2010 B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Research
Development of robust point-cloud registration methods with applications in navigation systems
Publications
Peer reviewed papers
A. Efraim and J.M. Francos, Invariant Feature Extraction Functions for UME-Based Point Cloud Detection and Registration. Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 2024
A. Efraim and J.M. Francos, Robust point cloud registration for map-based autonomous robot navigation. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2024, 57 (2024).
A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, “On Minimizing the Probability of Large Errors in Robust Point Cloud Registration,” IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2024.
A. Efraim and J. M. Francos, “Estimating Rigid Transformations of Noisy Point Clouds Using the Universal Manifold Embedding,” Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 64, pp. 343–363, 2022.
Courses
Probability and Statistics
Waves and Transmission Lines
