Co-founder and CTO of WEIR AI, ex Meta AI senior applied research lead, ex AWS principal scientist. I am also affiliated with The Open University of Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science where I was an associate professor until 2018. From 2015 to 2018, I was a senior computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Viterbi School of Engineering, both at USC, CA, USA, working on the IARPA Janus face recognition project.

I am associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI) and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). I was also associate editor for Springer The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ),

Community roles include general co-chair for the CVF/IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, 2024, program co-chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2022, the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, CA, 2021, and the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, USA, 2018.

Events and News

• 12-Apr-2024: Co-organizer at the 2nd Unlearning and Model Editing (U&ME’25) at ICCV’24, Honolulu, USA, Oct 2024.

• 7-May-2025: Invited Speaker at the Workshop on Unmasking (Truly) Deepfakes at IEEE-CAI’25, Santa Clara, Ca, USA, 2025.

• 5-May-2025: Outstanding associate editor award for 2024, awarded by the Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM)

• 12-Apr-2024: Co-organizer at the 1st Unlearning and Model Editing (U&ME’24) at ECCV’24, Milano, Italy, Oct 2024.

• 1-Jan-2024: Co-organizer at the 2nd Workshop and Challenge on DeepFake Analysis and Detection (DFDA2024) at CVPR’24, Seattle WA, USA, June 2024.

• 2-Oct-2023: Invited Speaker at the Workshop and Challenge on DeepFake Analysis and Detection (DFAD2023) at ICCV’23, Paris, France, 2023.

• 8-May-2023: General co-chair for the CVF/IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV’24), Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, 2024.

• 7-Feb-2023: Invited Speaker at the ELLIS Summer School on Large-Scale AI for Research and Industry, Modena, Italy, Sept.

• 24-Oct-2022: Invited Speaker at the TiE: Workshop on Text in Everything at ECCV’22, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2022.

• 7-June-2022: Area chair (Senior Meta Reviewer) for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Washington DC, USA, 2023.

• 28-October-2021: Program Co-Chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2022 (changed from co-Tutorial Chair)

• 20-October-2021: Panelist at the Biometrics Institute Congress 2021, Session 6.

• 14-October-2021: Panel moderator at the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, Panel on DeepFakes and Data Security.

• 26-August-2021: Keynote talk at the VinAI: AI Day 2021. See talk video in media page

• 21-July-2021: Area chair (Senior Meta Reviewer) for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2022.

• 28-April-2021: Area chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2022.

• 15-December-2020: Guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, Special Issue on Trustworthy Biometrics. See our call for papers here. Submission deadline is May 1st, 2021.

• 29-October-2020: Keynote talk at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC’20). See talk video in media page

• 29-September-2020: Keynote talk at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’20).

• 22-October-2019: Area Chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, 2020.

• 13-September-2019: Area Chair of Multi-view Geometry and 3D Computer Vision, for the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Lecce, Italy, 2021

• 2-September-2019: Tutorial co-Chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2022.

• 18-August-2019: Senior Program Committee for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), NYC, NY, USA, 2020.

• 2-April-2019: Workshop co-Chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, USA, 2020.

• 17-November-2018: Area Chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019.

• 6-December-2017: Workshop Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, 2019.

• 1-December-2017 Excited to announce that Roee Enbar was selected for the 2017 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for our paper Age and Gender Estimation of Unfiltered Faces. Congratulations Roee on the well-deserved honor!

• 27-October-2017 Our bid for holding the 2021 IEEE/CVF ICCV in Montreal was approved!
  A HUGE thank you to everyone at ICCV’17 who participated and voted for our team. And so I am happy to announce that I will be a Program Co-Chair for the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’21), Montreal, CA.

• 5-April-2017 Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, USA, 2018.

• 2-April-2017 Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Cross-domain Human Identification (CHI), held in conjunction with ICCV’17, Venice, Italy.

• 15-November-2016
  Tutorial co-chair for ICCV’17, Venice, Italy.

• 20-September-2016
  Biometrics Research Award, awarded by the The Biometric Applications Commissioner, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office

• 30-August-2016
  Workshop Co-Chair for AVSS’17, Lecce, Italy. Call for workshops is now available.

• 20-August-2016
  Demo Chair and Area chair for WACV’17, Santa Rosa, CA. Please see call for demos for more information.

• 20-August-2015
  Area chair for CVPR’16, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 11-June-2015
  Our LATCH descriptor has won the CVPR 2015, OpenCV State of the Art Vision Challenge, in the Image Registration category. LATCH is now integrated into OpenCV 3.0

• 11-May-2015
  Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, June 2015

• 24-March-2015
  Congratulations to Gil Levi, a graduate student at the OpenU computer vision lab, for being awarded the best student project award at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) for our project LATCH: Learned Arrangements of Three Patch Codes (PDF, Project and Code)

• 24-March-2015
  Invited speaker at the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC), one hour tutorial on “A Short Intro to Deep Learning for Face Recognition”

• 21-December-2014
  Invited speaker at the IDC Israel Vision Day. Talk title: “Towards Dense Correspondences Between Any Two Images.” (Talk video, Project, Code and Paper)

• 17-November-2014
  Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Surveillance and Tracking. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

• July 20th - 24th, 2014
  Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Seminar on “Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts”

• 23-June-2014
  Invited talk at the CVPR’14 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Columbus, Ohio (talk slides)

• 23-June-2014
  Invited speaker at POCV 2014: The Ninth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, CVPR’14, Columbus, Ohio

• 7-December-2013
  Invited speaker at THUMOS: The First International Workshop on Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, ICCV’13, Sydney, Australia (Talk video)

• 2-December-2013
  Invited talk at the ICCV’13 tutorial on Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision, Sydney Australia (talk slides: PDF, PPTX)

• 23-June-2013
  Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Action Similarity in Unconstrained Videos (ACTS’13), held in conjunction with CVPR’13, Portland, Oregon

• 21-May-2013
  Area chair for CVPR’14, Columbus, Ohio

• 13-May-2013
  Co-organizer of the OpenU Symposium on Biometrics for Recognition: Science, Technology, and Society. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)

• September 19th - 21st, 2012
  Co-organizer of the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Perspective Workshop on “Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits”

• 9-January-2012
  Co-organizer of the popular science Symposium on Human and Machine Vision. Videos lectures are available online. (Hebrew)