PUBLICATIONS
*Papers where I am either first author or with equal contribution to the first author
Published (peer reviewed)
*Sober, B., Aizenbud, Y., Levin, D. Approximation of Functions over Manifolds: A Moving Least-Squares Approach. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2020.
*Shaus, A., Gerber Y., Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Sober B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level. PLOS ONE 2020 (under embargo till September 8).
*Dym N., Sober B., Daubechies, I., Expression of Fractals Through Neural Network Functions, Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT) 2020.
*Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Shaus A., Sober B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., Algorithmic Handwriting Analysis of the Samaria Inscriptions Illuminates Bureaucratic Apparatus in Biblical Israel. PLOS ONE 2020.
Pu, W., Sober, B., Daly, N., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., Rodrigues, M.R.D., A connected auto-encoders based approach for image separation with side information: with applications to art investigation. 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP) 2020.
Shaus, A., Sober B., Tzang, O., Ioffe, Z., Cheshnovsky, O., Finkelstein, I., Piasetzky, E., Raman Binary Mapping of Iron Age Ostracon in an Unknown Material Composition and High‐Fluorescence Setting - A Proof of Concept. Archaeometry 2019.
*Sober, B., Levin, D. Manifold Approximation by Moving Least-Squares Projection (MMLS). Constructive Approximations 2019.
*Sabetsarvestani, Z. Sober, B., Higgit, C., Daubechies, I., Rodrigues, M.R.D. Artificial Intelligence for Art Investigation: Meeting the Challenge of Separating X-ray Images of the Ghent Altarpiece. Science Advances 2019.
Mendel-Geberovich A., Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Shaus A., Sober B., Cordonsky, M., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein I., Milevsky, I. A Renewed Reading of Hebrew Ostraca from Cave A-2 at Ramat Beit Shemesh (Nahal Yarmut), Based on Multispectral Imaging. Vetus Testamentum 2019.
*Sober, B., Levin, D., Computer aided restoration of handwritten character strokes, Journal of Computer Aided Design 2017.
Shaus, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Sober B., Piasetzky, E., Turkel E., Potential Contrast - A New Image Quality Measure. Proceedings of the Image Quality and System Performance 2017.
Mendel-Geberovich A., Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Shaus A., Sober B., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein I., A Brand New Old Inscription: Arad Ostracon 16 Rediscovered Via Multispectral Imaging. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 2017.
*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 Unnoticed Biblical-Period Inscription. PLOS ONE 2017.
*Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Shaus A., Sober B., Levin D., Na’aman, N., Sass, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah’s military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2016.
*Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Beyond the ground truth: Alternative quality measures of document binarizations, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2016.
*Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A, Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Levin, D., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Turkel, E., Computerized Paleographic Investigation of Hebrew Iron Age Ostraca, Radiocarbon, 2015.
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Rollston, C. A., Piasetzky, E., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., The Ophel (Jerusalem) Ostracon in Light of New Multispectral Images, Semitica, 2015.
*Sober, B., Faigenbaum, S., Beit-Arieh, I., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Shaus, A., Multispectral Imaging as a Tool to Enhance the Reading of Ostraca, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2014.
*Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Shaus, A., Cordonsky, M., Multispectral Imaging of two Hieratic Inscriptions from Qubur el- Walaydah, Egypt and the Levant XXIV, 2014.
*Faigenbaum, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Evaluating Glyph Binarizations Based on Their Properties, 13th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2013.
Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Improving binarization via sparse methods, Proceedings of 16th International Graphonomics Society 2013.
*Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Shaus, A., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Bearman, G., Cordonsky, M., Finkelstein, I., Multispectral Images of Ostraca: Acquisition and Analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012.
Finkelstein, I., Boaretto, E., Ben Dor Evian, S., Cabanes, D., Cabanes, M., Eliyahu, A., Faigenbaum, S., Gadot, Y., Langgut, D., Martin, M., Meiri, M., Namdar, D., Sapir-Hen, L., Shahack-Gross, R., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Tofollo, M., Yahalom-Mack, N., Zapassky, L., Weiner, S., Reconstructing Ancient Israel: Integrating Macro- and Micro-archaeology, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 2012.
Preprints
*Sober B., Ravier R., Daubechies I., Approximating the Riemannian Metric from Point Clouds via Manifold Moving Least-Squares. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09885.
*Aizenbud, Y., Sober B., Approximating the span of principal components via iterative least-squares. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12159.
Pu, W., Sober, B., Daly, N., Sabetsarvestani, Z., Higgitt, C., Daubechies, I., Rodrigues, M.R.D., Image separation with side information: A Connected Auto-Encoders Based Approach. Submitted.
Other Publications
*Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Levin, D, Piasetzky, E., Turkel, E., Statistical Inference in Archaeology: Are We Confident? in: in: O. Lipschits, Y. Gadot, M. J. Adams eds., Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 2017.
*Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Piasetzky, E., Turkel, E., Facsimile creation: Review of algorithmic approaches, in: I. Finkelstein, C. Robin, T. Romer eds., Alphabets, Texts and Artefacts in the Ancient Near East, Studies Presented to Benjamin Sass, 2016.
Nir-El, Y., Goren, Y., Piasetzky, E., Moinester, M., Sober, B., X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements of red ink on a Tel Malhata ostracon, Tel Malhata a Central City in the Biblical Negev, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh (ed), Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University Monograph Series 32. 2015.
*Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Bearman, G., Multispectral Imaging of Tel Malhata Ostraca, in “Tel Malhata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev”, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh (ed), Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University Monograph Series 32, , 2015.