Academia

Research and teaching

tl;dr - I studied both my Bachelors and my Masters in Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and did my research under the guidance of prof. Lior Wolf, graduating in 2019. In addition, from 2017 to 2022 I TA-ed the Introduction to Information Security course.

Teaching

Spring 2022 - TA for Introduction to Information Security
Spring 2021 - TA for Introduction to Information Security
Spring 2020 - TA for Introduction to Information Security
Spring 2019 - TA for Introduction to Information Security
Spring 2018 - TA for Introduction to Information Security
Spring 2017 - TA for Introduction To Information Security (site no longer available)

Research

I did my Masters research in the Deep Learning Lab under the guidance of prof. Lior Wolf. My research is part of the ArchAIDE project, which is included in the European Union’s 2020 horizon program. The research focuses on building an automatic classification system for pottery sherds, from single-view 2D images.

Publications

Computational visual ceramicology: Matching image outlines to catalog sketches, 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), 2021
Barak Itkin, Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz
Computational Ceramicology, published to arXiv to summarize my Masters thesis.
Barak Itkin, Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz
Ranking Systems for Computer-Aided Single-View Pottery Classification, my Masters thesis.
Barak Itkin
VaseSketch: Automatic 3D Representation of Pottery Classes from Paper Catalogue Drawings, accepted to ICDAR 2017.
Francesco Banterle, Barak Itkin, Matteo Dellepiane, Lior Wolf, Marco Callieri, Nachum Dershowitz and Roberto Scopigno
The ArchAIDE Project: results and perspectives after the first year, published in the 15th Eurographics Workshops on Graphics and Cultural Heritage.
Francesco Banterle, Matteo Dellepiane, Tim Evans, Gabriele Gattiglia, Barak Itkin and Massimo Zallocco

Presentations

ArchAIDE: Similarity based on Shape and Appearance - a 15-minute pitch presented at the ArchAIDE Discussion Workshop @ York (2017-12-07).
ArchAIDE: Automatic Potsherd Recognition - key notes from my summary presentation in the ArchAIDE final conference (2019-05-13). A video recording is available here (starts at 41:22, ~30 minutes).