Shahaf Finder

Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
My research areas are machine learning, computer vision, and optimization. Advisors: Prof. Oren Freifeld and Prof. Eran Treister.


Education

Ph.D. Computer Science

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2020 - 2024 (expected)

M.Sc. Computer Science

(Magna Cum Laude)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2018 - 2020

B.Sc. Computer Science

(Magna Cum Laude)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dkalim program for excellent students
Ashalim program for excellent students
2015 - 2018

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Wavelet Convolutions for Large Receptive Fields
    ECCV 2024
    Shahaf E. Finder, Roy Amoyal, Eran Treister, Oren Freifeld
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Trainable Highly-expressive Activation Functions
    ECCV 2024
    Irit Chelly*, Shahaf E. Finder*, Shira Ifergane, Oren Freifeld
    * - contributed equally
    [Paper] [Code]

  • SpaceJAM: a Lightweight and Regularization-free Method for Fast Joint Alignment of Images
    ECCV 2024
    Nir Barel*, Ron Shapira Weber*, Nir Mualem, Shahaf E. Finder, Oren Freifeld
    * - contributed equally
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Wavelet Feature Maps Compression for Image-to-Image CNNs
    NeurIPS 2022
    Shahaf E. Finder*, Yair Zohav*, Maor Ashkenazi*, Eran Treister
    * - contributed equally
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Searching for N:M Fine-grained Sparsity of Weights and Activations in Neural Networks
    ECCV Workshop 2022
    Ruth Akiva-Hochman*, Shahaf E. Finder*, Javier S. Turek, Eran Treister
    * - contributed equally
    [Paper] [Code-TBA]

  • DeepDPM: Deep Clustering With an Unknown Number of Clusters
    CVPR 2022
    Meitar Ronen, Shahaf E. Finder, Oren Freifeld
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Effective Learning of a GMRF Mixture Model
    IEEE Access, 2022
    Shahaf E. Finder, Eran Treister, Oren Freifeld
    [Paper] [Code]

  • Multi-Spectral Optimization for Tissue Probing Using Machine Learning
    IEEE Photonics Journal, 2020
    Yarden Tzabari Kelman, Hadas Lupa Yitzhak, Nadav Shabairou, Shahaf E. Finder, Zeev Zalevsky
    [Paper]


Teaching

Teaching Assistant

  • 2018-2024 - Computational Models
    • 2019-2023 - Head TA
    • 2023-2024 - TA for excellence program students
  • 2018-2024 - Design of Algorithms
    • 2023-2024 - TA for excellence program students

Mentoring

  • Mr. Roy Amoyal - Structured Convolutions for Increased Receptive Field. 4-point project, AY 2022-2023
  • Mr. Or Zadka - Superpixels Vision Transformers. 4-point project, AY 2022-2023
  • Mr. Ron Levi - Superpixels Vision Transformers. 4-point project, AY 2022-2023

Contact

Office: Alon building, VIL lab (37/-105)
Email: finders@post.bgu.ac.il