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My 1st BOOK on AMAZON
My 2nd BOOK on AMAZON

Conference papers 2022
O. Halimi, T. Stuyck, D. Xiang, T. Bagautdinov, H. Wen, R. Kimmel, T. Shiratori, C. Wu, Y. Sheikh, and F. Pradaand, Pattern-based cloth registration and sparse-view animation,  ACM transactions on graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2022.
N. Rostein, A. Bracha, and R. Kimmel, Multimodal colored point cloud to image alignment,  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
R. Slossberg, I. Jubran, and R. Kimmel, Unsupervised high-fidelity facial texture generation and reconstruction, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

Conference papers 2021

I. Jubran, A. Maalouf, R. Kimmel, and D. Feldman, Provably approximated point cloud registration, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

Conference papers 2020

A. Livne, Z. Aviv, S. Grofit, A. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Do we need depth in state-of-the-art face authentication? Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
O. Halimi, I. Imanuel, O. Litany, G. Trappolini, E. Rodola, L. Guibas, and R. Kimmel, Towards precise completion of deformable shapes, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
S. Levanon, O. Markovich, I. Gozlan, O. Bakhshian, A. Zvirin, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel, Abiotic stress prediction from rgb-t images of banana plantlets, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV-Workshops), 2020.
L. Cosmo, A. Norelli, O. Halimi, R. Kimmel, and E. Rodola, Limp: Learning latent shape representations with metric preservation priors, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
R. Rabinovich, I. Jubran, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel, Cobe-coded beacons for localization, object tracking, and slam augmentation, IEEE 16th Int. Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2020.
A. Bracha, O. Halim, and R. Kimmel, Shape correspondence by aligning scale-invariant LBO eigenfunctions, Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2020.

Conference papers 2019

M. Joseph-Rivlin, A. Zvirin, and R. Kimmel, Momen(e)t: Flavor the moments in learning to classify shapes, Int. Conf. Comp. Vision (ICCV), 2019.
O. Halimi, O. Litany, E. Rodola, A. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Unsupervised learning of dense shape correspondence, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019. (code)
G. Pai, R. Talmon, A. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, DIMAL: Deep isometric manifold learning using sparse geodesic sampling, IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2019.
M. Lichtenstein, G. Pai, and R. Kimmel, Deep Eikonal solvers, Int. Conf. on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2019. best student paper award.
D. Greenfeld, M. Galun, R. Kimmel, I. Yavneh, and R. Basri, Learning to optimize multigrid PDE solvers, 36th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019.
D. Kuznichov, A. Zvirin, Y. Honen, and R. Kimmel, Data augmentation for leaf segmentation and counting tasks in rosette plants, Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping (CVPPP) CVPR-Workshops, 2019.

Conference papers 2018

O. Hamili and R. Kimmel, Self functional maps ,Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018.
R. Slossberg, G. Shamai, and R. Kimmel, High quality facial surface and texture synthesis via generative adversarial networks,Geometry meets deep learning (GMDL) ECCV-workshop, 2018.
S. Wu, H. Huang, T. Portenier, M. Sela, D. Cohen-Or, R. Kimmel, and M. Zwicker, Specular-to-diffuse translation for multi-view reconstruction,  European Conf. on Comp. Vision (ECCV), 2018.

Conference papers 2017

M. Sela, E. Richardson, and R. Kimmel,Unrestricted facial geometry reconstruction using image-to-image translation,Int. Conf. Comp. Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, Oct. 22-29, 2017.
M. Vestner, Z. Lähner, A. Boyarski, O. Litany, R. Slossberg, T. Remez, E. Rodolà, M. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, D. Cremers,Efficient deformable shape correspondence via kernel matching,Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017.
R. Breuer, and R. Kimmel, A deep learning perspective on the origin of facial expressions, 28th British Machine Vision Conf. (BMVC Wrokshops), London, UK, Sept. 4-7, 2017.
G. Shamai, and R. Kimmel, Geodesic distance descriptors, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, Honolulu, July 21-26, 2017.
E. Richardson, M. Sela, R. Or-El, and R. Kimmel, Learning detailed face reconstruction from a single image, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, Honolulu, July 21-26, 2017.
Y. Choukroun, G. Pai, and R. Kimmel, Schrodinger operator for sparse approximation of 3D meshes, Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP-Posters), London UK, July 1-5, 2017.
G. Pai, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel,  Learning invariant representations of planar curves, Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR), Toulon, France, April 24-26, 2017.

Conference papers 2016

E. Richardson, M. Sela, and R. Kimmel, 3D face reconstruction by learning from synthetic Data, 4th Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), Stanford University, California, USA, October 25-28, 2016.
A.M. Bronstein, Y. Choukroun, R. Kimmel, and M. Sela, Consistent discretization and minimization of the L1 norm on manifolds, 4th Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), Stanford Univ., California, USA, Oct. 25-28, 2016.
R. Or-El, R. Heshkovitz, A. Wetzler, G. Rosman, A. M. Bruckstein, and R. Kimmel, Real-time depth refinement for specular objects, Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016.

Conference papers 2015

G. Shamai, Y. Aflalo, M. Zibulevsky, and R. Kimmel, Classical scaling revisited, Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 2255-2263, 2015.
A. Wetzler, R. Slossberg, and R. Kimmel, Rule of thumb: Deep derotation for improved fingertip detection, In Proc. of the British Machine Vision Conf. Swansea, UK (BMVC), 2015. [HandNet page]
R. Slossberg, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel, Freehand laser scanning using a mobile phone, In Proc. of the British Machine Vision Conf. Swansea, UK (BMVC), 2015.
E. Yudin, M. Sela, A. Wetzler, and R. Kimmel, Improving 3D facial action unit detection with intrinsic normalization, In Proc. of the British Machine Vision Conf. Swansea, UK (BMVC), 2015.
R. Or-El, G. Rosman, A. Wetzler, R. Kimmel, and A.M. Bruckstein, RGBD-Fusion: Real-time high precision depth recovery, in Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 5407-5416, 2015.

G. Shamai, M. Zibulevsky, and R. Kimmel, Accelerating the computation of canonical forms for 3D nonrigid objects using multidimensional scaling, in Proc. of Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), pp. 71-78, 2015.

Conference papers 2014

A. Wetzler, R. Mecca, R. Kimmel and A. M. Bruckstein, Close Range photometric stereo with point light sources, Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV) Tokyo, Dec. 2014.
A. Shtern and R. Kimmel. Iterative closest spectral kernel maps, Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV) Tokyo, Dec. 2014.
A. Dubrovina, Rom Hershkovitz, and R. Kimmel. Image editing using level set trees, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP) 2014.

Conference papers 2013

A. Wetzler, Y. Aflalo, A. Dubrovina and R. Kimmel, The Laplace-Beltrami operator: a ubiquitous tool for image and shape processing, Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing, LNCS 7883:302-316, 2013
Y. Aflalo, A. Dubrovina, R. Kimmel and A. Wetzler. Curvature in image and shape processing, Dicrete curvature: theory and applications, CIRM 3(1):131-139, 2013
R. Mecca, A. Wetzler, R. Kimmel, and A.M. Bruckstein. Direct shape recovery form photometric stereo with shadows, Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV 2013), June, 2013.
A. Dubrovina, G. Rosman, and R. Kimmel. Active contours for multi-region image segmentation with a single level set function, SSVM, 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 7893, 2013
R. Mecca, G. Rosman, R. Kimmel, and A.M. Bruckstein. Perspective photometric stereo with shadows, SSVM 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 7893, 2013.
A. Dubrovina, D. Raviv, and R. Kimmel. Non-rigid shape correspondence using pointwise surface descriptors and metric structures, Presented at Dagstuhl seminar no. 11142 in 2011, Innovations for Shape Analysis: Models and Algorithms, 2013.

Conference papers 2012

G. Rosman, A. M. Bronstein, M.M. Bronstein, X. C. Tai, and R. Kimmel. Group-valued regularization for analysis of articulated motion, NORDIA workshop, European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012.
Y. Aflalo, and R. Kimmel. Shape representation by metric interpolation, in Proc. of 27th Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), 2012.
A. Wetzler, G. Rosman, and R. Kimmel, Patch-space Beltrami denoising of 3D point clouds, in Proc. of 27th Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), 2012.
M. Newhouse , A. Luder , A. Chalamish , D. Raviv , R. Kimmel and I. Amirav, Evidence based design of face masks for children through computerized 3D face analysis, Pediatric Respiratory Reviews 13, S72-S73, 2012.
G. Rosman, A. Dubrovina and R. Kimmel, Sparse modeling of shape from structured light, 2012 2nd Int. Conf. on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DIMPVT), 2012.
J. Iglesias and R. Kimmel, Schrödinger diffusion for shape analysis with texture, in Proc. of ECCV’12 Workshops and Demonstrations , LNCS  7583:123-132, 2012.       
G. Rosman, M. Bronstein, A. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel. Articulated otion segmentation of point clouds by group-valued regularization, Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2012.
C. Grushko, D. Raviv, A. and R. Kimmel. Intrinsic local symmetries: A computational framework, Eurographics workshop on 3D object retrieval (3DOR) 2012.
D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, and N. Sochen.  Equi-affine invariant geometries of articulated objects, in Proc. of Outdoor and large-scale real-world scene analysis, LNCS ISBN:0302-9743 7474:177-190, 2012.
A. Kovnatsky, M. M. Bronstein, A. M. Bronstein, D. Raviv, and R. Kimmel, Affine-invariant photometric heat kernel signatures, Proc. Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2012.
Y. Aflalo and R. Kimmel, Measuring geodesic distances via the uniformization theorem, Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2012.
G. Rosman,Y. Wang, X. C. Tai, A.M. Bruckstein and R. Kimmel, Fast regularization of matrix-valued images , in Proc. of ECCV’12 Workshops and Demonstrations,LNCS 123-132, 2012.

Conference papers 2011

D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, and; N. Sochen,   Affine-invariant geometry of deformable 3D shapes, in Proc. of Computer vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2011.
D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel and N. Sochen,  Affine-invariant geodesic geometry of deformable 3D shapes, in Proc. of Shape Modeling International (SMI), June 2011.
G. Rosman, M. Bronstein, A. Bronstein, A. Wolf and R. Kimmel, Group-valued regularization framework for motion segmentation of dynamic non-rigid shapes, in Proc. of conf. of scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.
G. Rosman, S. Shem-Tov, D. Bitton, T. Nir, G. Adiv, R. Kimmel, A. Feuer and A. M. Bruckstein, Over-parameterized optical flow using a stereoscopic constraint, in Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.
A. Kovnatsky, M. M. Bronstein, A. M. Bronstein and R. Kimmel,  Photometric heat kernel signatures, in Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.
D. Raviv, A. Dubrovina, and R. Kimmel, Hierarchical matching of non-rigid shapes, in Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.
Y. Aflalo, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein and R. Kimmel, Deformable shape retrieval by learning diffusion kernels, in Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.
A. Wetzler and R. Kimmel, Efficient Beltrami flow in patch-space,  in Proc. of  Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2011.

Conference papers 2010

A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, U. Castellani, A. Dubrovina, L. J. Guibas, R. P. Horaud, R. Kimmel, D. Knossow, E. von Lavante, D. Mateus, M. Ovsjanikov, and A. Sharma, SHREC 2010: robust correspondence benchmark, Proc. EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2010.
D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Volumetric heat kernel signatures, in Proc. EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2010.
D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel and G. Sapiro, Diffusion symmetries of non-rigid shapes, 5th Int. Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), 2010.
A. Dubrovina, and R. Kimmel, Matching shapes by eigendecomposition of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, 5th Int. Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), 2010.
G. Rosman, X. C. Tai, L. Dascal and R. Kimmel, Polyakov action for efficient color image processing, in Proc. of Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop, European Conf. on Computer Vision, 2010.

Conference papers 2009

L. Dascal, G. Rosman, X. C. Tai, and R. Kimmel, On semi-implicit splitting schemes for the Beltrami color flow, Scale Space and Variational Methods (SSVM) 2009
Y. Devir, G. Rosman, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel,  On reconstruction of non-rigid shapes with intrinsic regularization, in Proc. of Workshop on Nonrigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA), 2009.
O. Rubinstein, Y. Honen, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel,  3D color video camera, in Proc. of Workshop on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), 2009.

Conference papers 2007

L. Dascal, G. Rosman, R. Kimmel, Efficient Beltrami filtering of color images via vector extrapolation, Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM) 2007
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, A. M. Bruckstein, R. Kimmel, Paretian similarity for partial comparison of non-rigid objects, Proc. of Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM)2007
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, A. M. Bruckstein, R. Kimmel, Partial similarity of objects and text sequences, Proc. Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, 2007
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, Rock, paper, and scissors: extrinsic vs. intrinsic similarity of non-rigid shapes, Proc. Intl. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio, 2007
D. Raviv, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, Symmetries of non-rigid shapes, Proc. Workshop on Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning (NRTL), Rio, 2007
L. Dascal, G. Rosman, and R. Kimmel, Efficient Beltrami filtering of color images via vector extrapolation, Scale Space and Variational Methods, 2007.

Conference papers 2006

A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Robust expression-invariant face recognition from partially missing data”, in Proc. ECCV, Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, A. M. Bruckstein, and R. Kimmel, Matching two-dimensional articulated shapes using generalized multidimensional scaling, in Proc. of Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO), pp. 48-57, 2006
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Face2Face: an isometric model for facial animation, in Proc. Conf. on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO), pp. 38-47, 2006
G. Rosman, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, Topologically constrained isometric embedding, in Proc. of Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (MLPR), 2006

Conference papers 2005

A. Spira, N. Sochen, and R. Kimmel, Geometric filters, diffusion flows, and kernels in image processing, Handbook of Computational Geometry for Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano (ed.), Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-20595-0, pp. 203-230, Feb. 2005.
A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, and I. Yavneh, A multigrid approach for multi-dimensional scaling, in Proc. of 12th Copper Mountain Conf. on Multigrid Methods, Colorado, April 3-8, 2005. best student paper award.
A. Spira and R. Kimmel. Enhancement of images painted on manifolds, in Proc. of Scale Space, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 7-9, 2005. LNCS 3459, pp. 492-502, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
A. Elad, Y. Keller, and R. Kimmel Texture Mapping via Spherical Multi-Dimensional Scaling, in Proc. of Scale Space, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 7-9, 2005. LNCS 3459, pp. 443-455, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Isometric embedding of facial surfaces into $S^3$, in Proc. of Scale-Space, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 7-9, 2005 LNCS 3459, pp. 622-631, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
A. Brook, A.M. Bruckstein, and R. Kimmel. On similarity-invariant fairness measures in Proc. of Scale Space, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 7-9, 2005. LNCS 3459, pp. 456-467, Springer-Verlag, 2005
A. Spira and R. Kimmel. Segmentation of images painted on parametric manifolds, Eusipco, Antalya , Turkey, September 4-8, 2005
A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel. Expression-invariant face recognition via spherical embedding. in Proc. of Intl. Conf. of Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 3, pp. 756-759, , 2005

Conference papers 2004

A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, and A. Spira. 3D face recognition without facial surface reconstruction, in Proc. of ECCV 2004, Prague, May 11-14, 2004.

Conference papers 2003

A. Spira, R. Kimmel, and N. Sochen, Efficient Beltrami flow using a short time kernel, Scale Space 2003, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, June 2003. Appeared in Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision, L. D. Griffin and M. Lillholm (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2695, pp. 511-522. (PDF)
A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, and R. Kimmel, Expression-invariant 3D face recognition, Proc. Audio & Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), Lecture Notes in Comp. Science 2688, Springer, pp. 62-69, 2003.
A. Spira and R. Kimmel, An efficient solution to the eikonal equation on parametric manifolds, INTERPHASE 2003 meeting, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2003 Preprints, Preprint no. NI03045-CPD, UK, June 2003. (PDF)
B. Gilburd, M. Holtzman-Gazit, A. Spira, D. Goldsher, and R.  Kimmel, Volumetric medical imaging environment, Dicta2003, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2003.
M. Holtzman-Gazit, D. Goldsher, and R. Kimmel, Hierarchical segmentation of thin structures in volumetric medical images, MICCAI (2), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, (2879):562-569, 2003.
R. Kimmel, On active contours, edge detection and segmentation, in Proc. of ICIP’03, Barcelona, October, 2003.
R. Kimmel, Fast edge integration, invited chapter in Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics, S. Osher and N. Paragios (Eds.), Springer Verlag, ISBN 0387954880, 2003. (PDF)

Conference papers 2002

R. Goldenberg, R. Kimmel, E. Rivlin, and M. Rudzsky. `Dynamism of a dog on a leash’ or behavior classification by eigen-decomposition of periodic motions, ECCV-02, Copenhagen, May 2002. (PDF)
A. Spira and R. Kimmel, Geodesic Curvature flow on parametric surfaces,  Curves and Surfaces 2002, Saint-Malo, France, June 2002. Appeared in Curve and Surface Design: Saint-Malo 2002, T. Lyche, M. L. Mazure, and L. L. Schumaker (eds.), Nashboro Press, Brentwood, TN., ISBN 0-9728482-0-7, pp. 365-373. (PDF)

Conference papers 2001

R. Goldenberg, R. Kimmel, E. Rivlin, and M. Rudzsky. Cortex segmentation – A fast variational geometric approach, IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001. (PDF)
R. Kimmel and A.M. Bruckstein. Regularized laplacian zero crossings as optimal edge integrators, in Proc. of Image and Vision Computing, IVCNZ01, New Zealand, Nov. 2001. (PDF)
I. Blayvas, A.M. Bruckstein, and R. Kimmel. Efficient computation of adaptive threshold surface for binarization, in Proc. of CVPR’01 Hawaii, Dec. 2001. (PDF)
A. Elad (Elbaz), and R. Kimmel. Bending invariant representations for surfaces, in Proc. of CVPR’01 Hawaii, Dec. 2001. (PDF)

Conference papers 2000

R. Kimmel, and J. A. Sethian. Optimal algorithm for shape from shading,  in Proc. of 4-th Asian Conf. on Computer Vision. Taipei, Taiwan, January 8-11, 2000. (PDF)
J. Gil and R. Kimmel. Efficient dilation, erosion, opening and closing algorithms. in Proc. of Int. Symposium on Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing V, June 26, 2000, Palo-Alto, CA, USA. (PDF)

Conference papers 1999

R. Kimmel, R. Malladi, and N. Sochen. On The Geometry of Texture. AFA Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Saint-Malo, France, July, 1999, to appear in Curve and Surface Design, P.J. Laurent, P. Sablonniere, and L. L. Schumaker (eds.) Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, ISBN 0-8265-1356-5 (PDF)
R. Kimmel, and J.A. Sethian. Fast Voronoi diagrams and offsets on triangulated surfaces. AFA Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Saint-Malo, France, July, 1999, and in Curve and Surface Design, P.J. Laurent, P. Sablonniere, and L. L. Schumaker (eds.) Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, ISBN 0-8265-1356-5 (PDF)
R. Goldenberg, R. Kimmel, E. Rivlin, and M. Rudzsky. Fast geodesic active contours. M. Nielsen, P. Johansen, O.F. Olsen, J. Weickert (Eds.), Scale-space theories in computer vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1682, Springer, Berlin, 1999. (PDF)
R. Kimmel, and N. Sochen. Geometric-variational approach for color image enhancement and segmentation. M. Nielsen, P. Johansen, O.F. Olsen, J. Weickert (Eds.), Scale-space theories in computer vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1682, Springer, Berlin, 1999 (PDF)

Conference papers 1998

R. Kimmel. A natural norm for color processing. in Proc. of 3-rd Asian Conf. on Computer Vision. Hong Kong, January 8-11, 1998.
R. Kimmel, R. Malladi, and N. Sochen. Image processing via the Beltrami operator. in Proc. of 3-rd Asian Conf. on Computer Vision. Hong Kong, January 8-11, 1998. (PDF)
R. Kimmel. Demosaicing: Image reconstruction from color CCD samples.  In Proc. of 5-th European Conf. on Computer Vision. Freiburg, Germany, June 2-6, 1998. some results (PDF)

Conference papers 1997

R. Kimmel, N. Sochen, and R. Malladi. From high energy physics to low level vision. Presented in the ONR workshop , UCLA, September 5 1996. Also in Proc. of 13th Israeli Symposium on AICVNN, Tel Aviv University, February 3-4, 1997. Also First Int. Conf. on Scale Space Theory in Computer Vision, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2-4, 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (volume 1252), pp. 236-247. (PDF)
R. Kimmel. Intrinsic scale space for images on surfaces: The geodesic curvature flow. First Int. Conf. on Scale Space Theory in Computer Vision, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2-4, 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (volume 1252), pp. 212-223. (PDF)
R. Kimmel, R. Malladi, and N. Sochen. Images as embedding maps and minimal surfaces: Movies, color, and volumetric medical images. IEEE CVPR’97, pp. 350-355,  Puerto Rico, June 17-19, 1997. (PDF)
R. Kimmel, A natural geometric norm for multichannel image processing. 4-th Int. Conf. on Math. Methods for Curves and Surfaces. Lillehammer, Norway, July 3-8, 1997. Appeared in `Mathematical methods for curves and surfaces II’ Daehlen, Lyche, and Schumaker (eds.), Vanderbilt Univ. Press, ISBN 0-8265-1315-8, pages 271-278, 1998.
R. Kimmel, R. Malladi, and N. Sochen. Images as embedding maps and minimal surfaces: A Unified Approach for Image Diffusion. In Proc. of IEEE ICIP’97. Santa Barbara, California, October 26-29, 1997.

Conference papers 1996

V. Caselles, R. Kimmel, G. Sapiro, and C. Sbert. Minimal surfaces: A three dimensional segmentation approach. In Proc. of ECCV’96, Cambridge, England April, 1996.
L. Cohen and R. Kimmel. Finding global minimum for active contours using level set approach. In Proc. of IEEE ICIP’96, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996. (PDF)
L. Cohen and R. Kimmel. Global minimum for active contours models: A minimal path approach. In Proc. of CVPR’96, San-Francisco, California, 1996. (PDF)
V. Caselles, C. Sbert, R. Kimmel, and G. Sapiro. 3D active contours. In Proc. of ICAOS’96 Paris, France, June 26-28, 1996.
L. Cohen and R. Kimmel. Regularization properties for minimal geodesics of a potential energy. In Proc. of ICAOS’96 Paris, France, June 26-28, 1996. (PDF)
A. Steiner, R. Kimmel, and A. M. Bruckstein. Shape enhancement and exaggeration I. Presented in Curves and Surfaces, Chamonix, France, 1996. Appeared in `Curves and Surfaces with Applications in CAGD’, Le M’ehaut’e, Rabut, and Schumaker (eds.) Vanderbilt Univ. Press, ISBN 0-8265-1293-3, 1997.
A. Steiner, R. Kimmel, and A. M. Bruckstein. Shape enhancement and exaggeration. In Proc. of ICPR’96, Aug. 25-30, Vienna, Austria, 1996. (PDF)
R. Malladi, R. Kimmel, D. Adalsteinsson, V. Caselles, G. Sapiro, and J. A. Sethian. A geometric approach to segmentation and analysis of 3D medical images. In Proc. of IEEE/SIAM workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, San-Francisco, California, June, 1996. (PDF)
R. Kimmel. Affine differential signatures for gray level images of planar shapes. In Proc. of ICPR’96, Aug. 25-30, Vienna, Austria, 1996. (PDF)

Conference papers 1995

V. Caselles, R. Kimmel, and G. Sapiro. Geodesic active contours. In Proceedings of ICCV’95, pages 694-699, Cambridge, June, 1995.
G. Sapiro, R. Kimmel, and V. Caselles. Measurements in medical images via geodesic deformable contours. In Proceedings SPIE – Vision Geometry IV, Volume 2573, San Diego, California, July 1995.
V. Caselles, R. Kimmel, G. Sapiro, and C. Sbert. 3D active contours. Second European Workshop on Image Processing and Mean Curvature Motion, Palma, September, 1995.

Conference papers 1994

R. Kimmel and N. Kiryati. Computing shortest paths on 3D surfaces: A coarse to fine approach. presented in SSPR`94, Nahariya, Israel, October, 1994.
R. Kimmel and A. M. Bruckstein. Global shape from shading. In Proceedings ICPR`94, Jerusalem, October, 1994.
R. Kimmel and A. M. Bruckstein. Tracking level sets by level sets: A method for solving the shape from shading problem. presented in ICPR`94, Jerusalem, October, 1994.
R. Kimmel, N. Kiryati, and A. M. Bruckstein. Using multi-layer distance maps in finding shortest paths between moving obstacles. In Proceedings ICPR`94, Jerusalem, October 1994.
R. Kimmel and N. Kiryati. Finding shortest paths on surfaces by fast global approximation and precise local refinement. In Proceedings SPIE – Vision Geometry III, volume 2356, pages 198-209, Boston, November, 1994.
R. Kimmel, D. Shaked, N. Kiryati, and A. M. Bruckstein. Skeletonization via distance maps and level sets. In Proceedings SPIE – Vision Geometry III, volume 2356, pages 137-148, Boston, November, 1994.

Conference papers 1993

R. Kimmel, A. Amir, and A. M. Bruckstein. Finding shortest paths on surfaces. presented in Curves and Surfaces, Chamonix, France, June 1993, appeared in Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Design, edited by Laurent, Le. Méhauté and Schumaker, pages 259-268, August 1994.
R. Kimmel and A. M. Bruckstein. Sub-pixel distance maps and weighted distance transforms. In Proceedings SPIE – Geometric Methods in Computer Vision II, volume 2031, pages 259-268, San Diego, California, July 1993.