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PROFESSIONAL GOAL

Research for commercial and/or government applications in the general fields related to digital signal processing

(image, video, audio, speech, medical, physiological, biometrics applications), stochastic processes and random signal

processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, data analysis, etc; University-level teaching of above topics.

EDUCATION

Cambridge, MA

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

Ph.D. Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Thesis research done at MIT Media Laboratory entitled, Statistical

Image Sequence Segmentation Using Multidimensional Attributes. GPA: 5.0/5.0 February, 1998

GPA: 5.0 June, 1992

Electrical Engineer Degree in EECS

GPA: 5.0 June, 1989

Master or Science in EECS

June, 1988

GPA: 4.5

Bachelor of Science in EE

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Pattern recognition: classification algorithms, Bayesian estimation, non-parametric classification, unsupervised

learning methods, template matching.

Video Surveillance: Motion detection based on feature point tracking, background subtraction, homographic

motion estimation, camera calibration, scene geometry.

Image and Video Analysis: feature detection, (e.g. motion, shape, depth) watermarking techniques.

Image and Video Compression: Proficient in MPEG-2 (encoding and decoding); Developed tools for MPEG-

4, MPEG-7. Comfortable with many other standards: JPEG-2000, JVT, H.263, etc.

Signal Processing: Fourier domain analysis, filter design, decimation/interpolation, multirate, and stochastics.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Extensive programming in MATLAB, Unix shell scripts, (csh, tcsh, bash) C, C++, Perl, and HTML.

LANGUAGES

English (native speaker), fluent in French, conversational in Hebrew, and Spanish.

EXPERIENCE

Jerusalem, Israel

JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (aka MACHON LEV)

2007-current

Senior Lecturer: Electronic Engineering Department

Currently teaching and/or taught the following courses: Signals and Systems; Random Signals and Noise;

Digital Signal Processing; Signal Processing and Analysis; Signals and Systems for Communications;

Introduction to Electronics Lab.

Research interests and projects supervised include: Auto stereoscopic (3D) image/video processing and

analysis; photo-mosaic (tiling) analysis; motion estimation; pattern analysis and classification of cognitive health

data; pattern analysis of field data of integrated circuit failure rate; audio analysis of time and pitch scaling.

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Jerusalem, Israel

HUMANEYES CORPORATION

2011

Video Research Consultant (Part Time)

Providing research expertise in image analysis and processing for print and electronic auto stereoscopic (3D)

displays. Research includes source separation, filter design, segmentation, and motion analysis.

Beit Shemesh, Israel

VRINGO CORPORATION

2007-2008

Video Research Consultant (Part Time)

Vringos are video ring tones available on a web server to be shared between social networking buddies. I was

responsible to ensure encoding and decoding compatibility maximizing the number of mobile platforms, and

optimizing audio/video quality. Additional projects included animated gif from key frames, streaming video,

white paper on data mining,

Burlington, MA

BAE SYSTEMS (formerly ALPHATECH)

2004-2007

Lead Research Engineer : Signal Understanding and Networking Division

Responsible for program management, system engineering, data analysis, and algorithm design and

implementation on following projects:

- Combat Zones that See (CTS) - DARPA contract to track vehicles across extended distances using a

network of cameras at Ft. Belvoir, VA. Responsible for algorithm design making use of color feature to

assist with correlation of detected vehicles. (BAE was subcontractor)

- Wide Area Surveillance DHS/TSA contract (BAE was subcontractor) to track pedestrian motion in an

airport facility using a network of cameras (overlapping field of view). Responsible for algorithm

development of camera-to-camera track stitching, system engineering, system integration, and on-site

hardware installation.

- SeeCoast contract valued at $3.3 million from the US Coast Guard (funded by DHS). Objective is to

integrate radar track data, video image streams, positioning informat ion from an Automatic Identification

System (AIS), and other data inputs to provide machine understanding of the coastal and port security scene

and enhance vessel detection, evaluation, and tracking in support of tactical analysis and intercept decisions.

Responsible for program management and some algorithm development of video tracking and camera

control modules. Project team received Chairman s Silver Award

- Weapons Detection System - DHS/TSA contract (BAE was subcontractor) to use x-ray and CT scan of

carry-on bags to detect weapons. Responsible for program management, system engineering, data analysis

and testing, and algorithm development.

- Multilingual Automatic Document Classification Analysis and Translation (MADCAT) DARPA seedling

effort for Arabic and Chinese OCR and handwriting recognition. Seedling effort lead to a DARPA program

(BAA 07-38 June 2007).

- Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exploitation Technology (URGENT) - Program manager on a successful

DARPA proposal (BAA 07-13) seeking to using ladar and electro-optic video to detect and recognize

objects in an urban scene environment.

- Video tracking research designed an object detection and tracking performance analysis metric and

implemented a GUI tool to measure tracking performance.

Princeton, NJ

SARNOFF CORPORATION

1998-2004

Member Technical Staff : Convergence Technologies, Vision Technology

Laboratory, and Multimedia Technology Laboratory

Participated in analysis, algorithm design, and implementation on projects

(* Projects listed with an * means work lead to a patent):

- Designed and implemented digital radio (eg SIRIUS) bit stream analysis tool to ensure compliance.

- * Designed and prototyped variable bit rate encoder compatible with MPEG audio, like DIRECTV

Applied for an NIH/NEI grant (as PI) entitled, Image Stabilization for Low Vision Mobile Tasks .

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- Designed and tested an MPEG-2 frame rate conversion algorithm modifying header data only.

- Design of a reference free (JND) video quality objective metric tuned to the human visual system

- Digital Cinema decoder (encoded at 40Mbps) and real-time playback (1.2 Tbyte per movie) on a PC

- Low Bandwidth robust watermarking of digital cinema content for camcorder -captured forensics.

- Lead Scientist for MPEG encryption: optimally select MPEG-2 transport stream packets to encrypt

Integration coordinator for Digital Cinema project: end to end system of high bit-rate encoding and

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real-time decoding of high-resolution (10-bit 1920x1080, 24fps) video on a linux cluster

- * Analyzed and improved a compressed MPEG-2 bit-stream scene cut detection algorithm.

Technical Leader for MPEG-2 for DOD project: analysis and demo (GUI) of novel MPEG -2 encoding

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abilities (e.g. spatial-temporal tradeoff, IR/EO encoding, embed still images in transport stream).

Technical Leader for MPEG-4 evaluation for DOD project: analysis and demo of MPEG -4 encoding

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- Classification of terrain-relief data based on oriented edge attributes, used in the geo -registration project.

- Analyzed quality vs. compression tradeoff (using SNR and JND) for an MPEG-2 rate control algorithm.

Developed an object-based image sequence segmentation process for MPEG-4 like encoding

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- Analyzed, designed and developed a visually lossless still image 8x interpolation algorithm based on edge

tracking; Analyzed DCT-domain processing algorithm for image resizing.

- ** Developed an object-based motion description and searching algorithm for MPEG -7.

Cambridge, MA

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MIT Media Laboratory

1998

Consultant: Gesture and Narrative Language

Managed database of 5000 applicants and multimedia applications (in many languages) to MIT Media Lab

Junior Summit, an innovative educational project bringing students aged 10 -16 from around the globe to

participate in a virtual community to discuss how computers could help solve medical, social, economical, and

technical problems.

1991-1998

Research Assistant: Information and Entertainment Section

Developed an image segmentation toolbox useful for decomposing a natural video scene into regions

corresponding to objects. Novel concepts include interactive design approach which allows user to control

which objects are detected; sophisticated probability density function estimate of multiple image characteristics

(color, motion, texture, and position) for r obust classification process. Showed how the segmentation process

could be used for object-based editing, compression, and hyperlinked video authoring. Research lead to a patent.

1996-1997

Supervisor: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Designed and supervised a project appropriate for the undergraduate level, yet challenging enough to teach

something new to the student, and simultaneously applicable to PhD research. Helped student explore multiple

programming environments (C++, Tcl/Tk, and X Toolkit/Motif) to test parameters of the segmentation process

on a series of image sequences.

1992, 1994

Teaching Assistant: Systems and Signal Processing for Media Technology

Prepared recitation section and graded homework assignments and quizes. Course des cription: Fundamentals of

signal processing and linear systems theory as applied to audio/visual messages and physiologically-derived signals.

Linear systems, difference equation, Z-transforms, convolution, filtering. Additional topics may include filter d esign,

feature detection, communication systems.

MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics

1991

Research Assistant: Radiation Astronomy Group

Gathered data in field experiments at NASA Ames Research Center used for a remote -sensing weather system

installed in a high altitude aircraft.

PUBLICATIONS

Shlomo Engleberg and Edmond Chalom, " Measuring the Spectral Content of a Signal: An Introduction", IEEE

Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol 13, No. 6, December 2010: 34 -38

M. Seibert, B. Rhodes, N. Bomberger, P. Beane, J. Sroka, W. Kogel, W. Kreamer, C. Stauffer, L. Kirschner, E.

Chalom, M. Bosse, R. Tillson, "SeeCoast Port Surveillance", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6204, May 2006

V. Michael Bove, Jr., J. Dakss, Edmond Chalom, S. Agammanolis, Hyperlinked Television Research at the MIT

Media Laboratory, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 39 Nos. 3&4, 2000: 470-478

V. Michael Bove, Jr., Jonathan Dakss, Stefan Agamanolis, Edmond Chalom, Adding Hyperlinks to Digital

Television, SMPTE Journal 108, No. 11, Nov. 1999: 795-801

Edmond Chalom, Sriram Sethuraman, Iraj Sodagar, A Motion Trajectory Description Scheme for Action -Based

Retrieval of Video Content, MPEG-7 Proposal, #p461, Feb. 1999

Jonathan Dakss, Stefan Agamanolis, Edmond Chalom, and V. Michael Bove, Jr., Hyperlinked Video, SPIE

Multimedia Systems and Applications, #3528, 1998

Edmond Chalom and V. Michael Bove, Jr., Segmentation of an image sequence using multi-dimensional image

attributes. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP - 96), Lausanne, Switzerland,

September 1996, Vol. II, pp. 525 -528.

Edmond Chalom and V. Michael Bove, Jr., Segmentation of frames in a video sequence using motion and other

attributes. Proceedings of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, and The International Society for

Optical Engineering, Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology (SP IE/IS&T 95), San Jose, CA,

February 1995, Vol. 2419, pp. 230 -241.

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V. Michael Bove, Jr. and Edmond Chalom, Open architecture television for motion compensated coding.

Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering, Visual Communication s and Image Processing

(SPIE-VCIP 92), Boston, MA, 1992, Vol. 1818, pp. 1146 -1154.

Edmond Chalom, Statistical Image Sequence Segmentation Using Multidimensional Attributes. MIT EECS PhD

Thesis, January 1998. (Abstract or entire thesis available by request.)

William F. Schreiber, William Butera, Warren Chou, Edmond Chalom, Jae S. Lim, Andrew B. Lippman, Peter

Monta, Arun N. Netravelli, Ashok Popat, David H. Staelin, and Adam Tom, Robust Bandwidth -Efficient HDTV

Transmission Formats. MIT Media Lab ATRP Technical Report #102, October, 1989.

Edmond Chalom, Video Data Compression Using Quadrature Mirror Filters and Adaptive Coding. MIT EECS

Master of Science Thesis, June 1989.

Edmond Chalom, Compatible High Definition Television Using Subsampling. MIT EECS Bachelor of Science

Thesis, June 1988.

PATENTS

US Patent 7,996,234, C. Dieterich, E. Chalom, T. Chen, Method and apparatus for adaptive variable bit rate audio

encoding, 8/9/11 (also world patent WO2005020210 3/3/2005)

US Patent 6,996,183, R. Peterson, E Chalom, Scene Cut Detection in a video bit stream, 2/7/06 (also world patent

WO03028236)

US Patent 6,643,387, S Sethurman, E Chalom, I Sodagar, Apparatus and method for context-based indexing and

retrieval of image sequences, 11/4/2003 (also world patent WO0045305 and TW460813B)

US Patent 6,642,940, J Dakss, VM Bove Jr, N Vasconcuelos, E Chalom, Management of properties for

hyperlinked video, 11/4/2003 (also world patent WO0167388)

US Patent 6,366,701, E Chalom, S Sethurman, I Sodagar, Apparatus and method for describing the motion

parameters of an object in an image sequence, 4/2/2002 (a lso world patent WO0045339 and TW454158B)

REFERENCES

Professional References

David Goldfarb Joel Douglas, PhD

CTO Director, Computer Vision Group

Vringo Corp. BAE Systems

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Matthew Antone, PhD Michael Isnardi, PhD

Senior Scientist, Computer Vision Group Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS)

BAE Systems Sarnoff Corporation

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Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D., FIEEE Charlie Wine (retired)

Director of Affective Computing Research Former DMTS at Sarnoff Corporation

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MIT Media Laboratory

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Personal References

Rabbi David Bassous Rabbi Aaron Hamaoui

Congregation Etz Ahaim Sephardic Community of Greater Boston

Highland Park, NJ Brighton, MA

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