2023
Yoffe, G., Bühler, A., Dershowitz, N., Finkelstein, I., Piasetzky, E., Römer, T. & Sober, B. (2023). A statistical exploration of text partition into constituents: The case of the priestly source in the books of Genesis and Exodus. arXiv:2305.02170 .
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Pu, W., Sober, B., Daly, N., Zhou, C., Sabetsarvestani, Z., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., & Rodrigues, M. R. D. (2023). Image separation with side information: A connected auto-encoders based approach. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 32, 2931–2946.
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Aizenbud, Y., & Sober, B. (2023). Approximating the span of principal components via iterative least-squares. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 63, 84–92.
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Sober, B., Bucklow, S., Daly, N., Daubechies, I., Dragotti, P. L., Higgitt, C., Huang, J.-J., Pizurica, A., Pu, W., Reynolds, S., Rodrigues, M. R. D., Schonlieb, C.-B., & Yan, S. (2022). Revealing and reconstructing hidden or lost features in art investigation. IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, 1–16.
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Daubechies, I., DeVore, R., Dym, N., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Kovalsky, S. Z., Lin, K.-C., Park, J., Petrova, G., & Sober, B. (2023). Neural network approximation of refinable functions. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 69(1), 482–495.
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2022
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., & Sober, B. (2022). Computational handwriting analysis of Ancient Hebrew inscriptions – A survey. IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, 1–15.
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Pu, W., Huang, J.-J., Sober, B., Daly, N., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., Dragotti, P. L., & Rodrigues, M. R. D. (2022). Mixed X-Ray image separation for artworks with concealed designs. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 31, 4458–4473.
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Shustin, B., Avron, H. & Sober, B. (2022). Manifold free Riemannian optimization. arXiv:2209.03269 .
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Arad, I. (2022). Digitization of medical journals in a medium-size hospital library. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 22(4), 356–368.
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Mendlovic, J., Mimouni, F. B., Arad, I., & Heiman, E. (2022). Trends in health quality–related publications over the past three decades: Systematic review. Interactive Journal of Medical Research11(2), e31055.
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2021
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Gerber, Y., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2021). Literacy in Judah and Israel: Algorithmic and forensic examination of the Arad and Samaria ostraca. Near Eastern Archaeology, 84(2), 148–158.
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Sober, B., Aizenbud, Y., & Levin, D. (2021). Approximation of functions over manifolds: A Moving Least-Squares approach. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 383, 113140.
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Pu, W., Huang, J., Sober, B., Daly, N., Higgitt, C., Dragotti, P. L., Daubechies, I., & Rodrigues, M. R. D. (2021). A learning based approach to separate mixed x-ray images associated with artwork with concealed designs. 2021 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), (pp. 1491-1495).
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Aizenbud, Y. & Sober, B. (2021). Convergence rates of vector-valued local polynomial regression. arXiv:2107.05852.
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Aizenbud, Y. & Sober, B. (2021). Non-Parametric estimation of manifolds from noisy data. arXiv:2105.04754.
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2020
Shaus, A., Gerber, Y., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Sober, B., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2020) . Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level. PLOS ONE, 15(9), e0237962.
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Dym, N., Sober, B., & Daubechies, I. (2020). Expression of fractals through neural network functions. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 1(1), 57–66.
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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2020). Algorithmic handwriting analysis of the Samaria inscriptions illuminates bureaucratic apparatus in biblical Israel. PLOS ONE, 15(1), e0227452.
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Pu, W., Sober, B., Daly, N., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., & Rodrigues, M. R. D. (2020). A connected auto-encoders based approach for image separation with side information: with applications to art investigation. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). (pp. 2213-2217).
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Sober, B., Ravier, R. & Daubechies I. (2020). Approximating the Riemannian metric from point clouds via manifold moving least squares. arXiv:2007.09885.
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2019
Sober, B., & Levin, D. (2019). A manifold approximation by moving least-squares projection (MMLS). Constructive Approximation, 52(3), 433–478.
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Mendel-Geberovich, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., & Milevski, I. (2019). A renewed reading of Hebrew ostraca from cave A-2 at Ramat Beit Shemesh (Naḥal Yarmut), based on multispectral imaging. Vetus Testamentum, 69(4–5), 682–701.
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Sabetsarvestani, Z., Sober, B., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., & Rodrigues, M. R. D. (2019). Artificial intelligence for art investigation: Meeting the challenge of separating x-ray images of the Ghent Altarpiece. Science Advances, 5(8).
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Aizenbud, Y. & Sober, B. (2019). Approximating the span of principal components via iterative least-squares. arXiv:1907.12159.
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2018
Shaus, A., Sober, B., Tzang, O., Ioffe, Z., Cheshnovsky, O., Finkelstein, I., & Piasetzky, E. (2018). Raman binary mapping of iron age ostracon in an unknown material composition and high-fluorescence setting—A proof of concept. Archaeometry, 61(2), 459–469. Portico.
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2017
Mendel-Geberovich, A., Shaus, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2017). A brand new old inscription: Arad ostracon 16 rediscovered via multispectral imaging. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 378, 113–125.
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Sober, B., & Levin, D. (2017). Computer aided restoration of handwritten character strokes. Computer-Aided Design, 89, 12–24.
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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Levin, D., Moinester, M., Sass, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2017). Multispectral imaging reveals biblical-period inscription unnoticed for half a century. PLOS ONE, 12(6), e0178400.
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Levin, D., Piasetzky, E. & Turkel, E. (2017). Statistical inference in archaeology: Are we confident? in: Lipschits, O., Gadot, Y. & Adams, M. J. (eds). Rethinking Israel: Studies in the history and archaeology of ancient Israel in honor of Israel Finkelstein. (pp.389-401) Winona Lake, Indiana: EISENBRAUNS.
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Shaus, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Sober, B., & Turkel, E. (2017). Potential contrast - A new image quality measure. Electronic Imaging, 29(12), 52–58.
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2016
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Levin, D., Na’aman, N., Sass, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. (2016). Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah’s military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), 4664–4669.
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Piasetzky, E., & Turkel, E. (2016). Facsimile creation: Review of algorithmic approaches. in: Finkelstein, I., Robin, C. & Römer, T. (eds). Alphabets, texts and artefacts in the ancient near east, studies presented to Benjamin Sass. (pp. 474-488).
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E. (2016). Beyond the ground truth: alternative quality measures of document binarizations. 2016 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) (pp. 495-500).
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2015
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Rollston, C. A., Piasetzky, E., Sober, B., & Finkelstein, I. (2015). The Ophel (Jerusalem) ostracon in light of new multispectral images. Semitica, 57, 113-137.
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Nir-El, Y., Goren, Y., Piasetzky, E., Moinester, M., & Sober, B. (2015). X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements of red ink on a Tel Malhata ostracon. in: Beit-Arieh, I, editor. Tel Malhata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev. Tel-Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Levin, D., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Turkel, E. (2015). Computerized paleographic investigation of Hebrew iron age ostraca. Radiocarbon, 57(2), 317–325.
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Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Bearman, G. (2015). Multispectral imaging of Tel Malhata ostraca. Tel Malhata: a central city in the biblical Negev, 1, 510-513.
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Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Shaus, A., & Cordonsky, M. (2015). Multispectral imaging of two hieratic inscriptions from Qubur el-Walaydah. Ägypten Und Levante, 24, 349–354.
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2014
Sober, B., Faigenbaum, S., Beit-Arieh, I., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Shaus, A. (2014). Multispectral imaging as a tool for enhancing the reading of ostraca. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 146(3), 185–197.
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2013
Faigenbaum, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E. (2013). Evaluating glyph binarizations based on their properties. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM symposium on Document engineering (pp. 127-130).
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Tzang, O., Ioffe, Z., Cheshnovsky, O., Finkelstein, I., & Piasetzky, E. (2013). Raman scanning of biblical period ostraca. In: Book of Abstracts of the 7th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology (pp. 176-7).
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Tzang, O., Ioffe, Z., Cheshnovsky, O., Finkelstein, I., & Piasetzky, E. (2013). Raman scanning of biblical period ostraca. In: Book of Abstracts of the 7th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology (pp. 176-7).
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E. (2013). Improving binarization via sparse methods. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Graphonomics Society Conference (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Press, Tokyo) (pp. 163-166).
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2012
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Shaus, A., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Bearman, G., Cordonsky, M., & Finkelstein, I. (2012). Multispectral images of ostraca: acquisition and analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39(12), 3581–3590.
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Finkelstein, I., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Langgut, D., Cabanes, D., Namdar, D., Boaretto, E., Sapir-Hen, L., Zapassky, L., Cabanes, M.-T., Martin, M., Meiri, M., Toffolo, M., Yahalom-Mack, N., Shahack-Gross, R., Faigenbaum, S., Evian, S. B. D., Weiner, S., & Gadot, Y. (2012). Reconstructing ancient Israel: Integrating macro- and micro-archaeology. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 1(1), 133.
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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E. Document Binarization and Ground Truth Evaluation.
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1997
Levi, Y., Margulis, H. & Arad, I. (1997). A system, software and method for locating information in a collection of text-based information sources. Patent application WO 97/38376.
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1992
Tsujii, J.I., Ananiadou, S., Arad, I. & Sekine, S. (1992). Linguistic knowledge acquisition from corpora. In: Proceedings of ‘International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing (pp. 30-31).
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1991
Arad, I. (1991). BITS, A Hebrew-English bibliographic translation system.
Machine Translation, 6(4), 247–263.
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Master and Doctoral Dissertations
Sober, B. (2018). Structuring high dimensional data: A Moving least-squares projective approach to analyze manifold data. Doctoral Dissertation, Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv University.
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Sober, B. (2013). Handwritten Character Stroke Reconstruction and Analysis. Dissertation, Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv University.
Arad I. (1991). A quasi-statistical approach to automatic generation of linguistic knowledge. Doctoral Dissertation, Manchester, UK, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Arad I. (1989). BITS, A Hebrew-English bibliographic translation system; A pilot study. Dissertation, Manchester, UK, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.