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Contact Information
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Israel
Technion City, Haifa, Israel
Phone: +972-4-823-1237 (307)
Fax: +972-4-822-0407
E-mail: ron.maurer@hp.com

Education
B.Sc. Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel, 1990 (Cum Laude)

M.Sc. Physics, Technion, 1994

D.Sc. Physics, Technion, 2000

Current Fields of Interest

Image Processing:  nonlinear image filtering and enhancement, feature detection, scanned document image processing and compression, image resampling and scaling, robust-estimation methods, machine-learning for image-processing.

Physics: numerical modeling and simulation.

Honorary Citations and Awards

• President Honor role (Physics faculty), 1990
• Miriam and Aaron GUTWIRTH Memorial Fellowship, March 1993
• Award for excellence in teaching, Technion, June 1997

Journal Publications

1. R. Maurer, E. Cohen, A.Ron, E.Linder, L.N. Pfeiffer, H.Shtrikman, "Polarization modulation spectroscopy for measuring magnetooptical transitions with high Landau indices under low magnetic fields in narrow quantum wells", Journal of Luminescence, Vol. 72-74, pp. 366-367 (1997).

Conference Presentations

1. R. Maurer, E. Cohen, A.Ron, E.Linder, L.N. Pfeiffer, H.Shtrikman, "Polarization modulation spectroscopy for measuring magnetooptical transitions with high Landau indices under low magnetic fields in narrow quantum wells", (Poster). Int'l Conf. on Luminescence, ICL'96 , Prague, August 1996.

Patent applications

1. Ron Maurer, Danny Barash, and Richard Alan Burgin
   A Method For Compression Of Scanned Document Images
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/676,867, September 29, 2000.
2. Ron Maurer
   Image Sharpening By Varible Contrast Mapping
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/676,011, September 29, 2000.
3. Ron Maurer and Danny Barash
   A Low-Complexity Method For Enhancing Compressibility And Visual-Quality Of Scanned Document Images
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/675,270, September 29, 2000.
4.  Ron Maurer
   Selective Denoising And Sharpening Of Images By Generalized Unsharp Masking
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/676,201, September 29, 2000.
5. Ron Maurer
   Reduction Of Chromatic Bleeding Artifacts In Color Document Images With Subsample Chrominance Information
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/676,866, September 29, 2000.
6. Ron Kimmel and Ron Maurer
   Method of Computing Sub-Pixel Euclidean Distance Maps
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 09/736654, December 1, 2000.
7. Ron Maurer, Marie Vans, Carl Staelin and Kristin Smith
   User Selected Background Noise Removal for Scanned Document Images
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/087,584, February 28, 2002.
8. Renato Keshet, Ron Maurer, Yacov Hel-Or, Doron Shaked, and Danny Barash
   Method and Apparatus for Processing Sensor Images
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/096,025, March 11, 2002.
9. Ron Maurer
   System and Method of Gamut Mapping Image Data
   Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/377,911, February 28, 2003.
10. Ron Maurer
    Variable Contrast Mapping of Digital Images
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/377,523, February 28, 2003.
11. Ron Maurer
    Blind Inverse Halftoning
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/376,911, February 28, 2003.
12. Selective Smoothing Including Bleed-Through Reduction
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/376,888, February 28, 2003.
13. Ron Maurer
    Restoration and Enhancement of Scanned Document Images
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/377,197, February 28, 2003.
14. Ron Maurer
    Selective Thickening of Dark Features by Biased Sharpening Filters
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/377,476, February 28, 2003.
15. Ron Maurer
    A Method for Bilateral Filtering of Digital Images
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # , July 31, 2003.
16. Renato Keshet, Ron Maurer, Bob Sobol and Chris Whitman
    Digital Imaging Systems, Articles of Manufacture, and Digital Image Processing Mathods, 
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/632,291, July 31, 2003.”
17. Renato Keshet, Ron Maurer, Bob Sobol and Chris Whitman
    Digital Image Processing Mathods, Digital Image Devices, and Articles of Manufacture, 
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/632,292, July 31, 2003.”
18. Carl Staelin, Darryl Greig, Mani Fischer, Ron Maurer Neural Network Trained With Spatial Errors
    Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Application Serial # 10/600,671, July 20, 2003.”