Alfred Marcel Bruckstein

Alfred Marcel Bruckstein (born January 24, 1954) is a scientist, an emeritus professor at the Technion.^[1], and a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University^[2]. In 2014 Bruckstein was recognized as a SIAM fellow^[3] for contributions to signal processing, image analysis, and ant robotics, in 2023 he was elected an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) fellow^[4] and IEEE fellow^[5] for contributions to signal representations and swarm robotics, in 2024 he became an elected fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities^[6], and in 2025 he became a corresponding member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI)^[7].

Bruckstein began his studies at the Technion faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he received his B.Sc. in 1976 and M.Sc. in 1981 ^[8]. He continued his studies at Stanford University under the guidance of Thomas Kailath, receiving his Ph.D in 1984 ^[9], after which he returned to the Technion. At the Technion he was bestowed with the Franz Ollendorff chair of science^[1] and has served in a range of positions, including dean of the graduate school (2002–2005) ^[10] and head of the excellence program (2006–2011) ^[11]. Bruckstein has written over 300 scientific papers^[12] and contributed to nine US patents^[13] Bruckstein's research topics include sparse representations, various aspects of computer vision, pattern recognition, image registration, fiducial design, and ant robotics.

• 2014 SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize^[14], along with David L. Donoho and Michael Elad for their paper titled "From Sparse Solutions of Systems of Equations to Sparse Modeling of Signals and Images".
• 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award^[15] with Michal Aharon and Michael Elad for their paper titled "The K-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing of Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation".

• Bruckstein, A.M. (1987), "On optimal image digitization", IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 35 (4): 553–555, Bibcode:1987ITASS..35..553B, doi:10.1109/TASSP.1987.1165148
• Bruckstein, A.M. (1987), "On 'Soft' bit allocation", IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 35 (5): 614–617, Bibcode:1987ITASS..35..614B, doi:10.1109/TASSP.1987.1165184
• Bruckstein, A.M.; Kailath, T. (1987), "An inverse scattering framework for several problems in signal processing", IEEE ASSP Magazine, 4 (1): 6–20, Bibcode:1987IASSP...4....6B, doi:10.1109/MASSP.1987.1165567
• Bruckstein, A.M.; Elad, M.; Kimmel, R. (2003), "Down-scaling for better transform compression", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 12 (9): 1132–1144, Bibcode:2003ITIP...12.1132B, doi:10.1109/TIP.2003.816023, PMID 18237984

• Bruckstein, A.M. (1988), "On shape from shading", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 44 (2): 139–154, doi:10.1016/S0734-189X(88)80002-1, ISSN 0734-189X
• Kiryati, N.; Eldar, Y.; Bruckstein, A.M. (1991), "A probabilistic Hough transform", Pattern Recognition, 24 (4): 303–316, Bibcode:1991PatRe..24..303K, doi:10.1016/0031-3203(91)90073-E, ISSN 0031-3203
• Lindenbaum, M.; Bruckstein, A.M. (1994), "Blind approximation of planar convex sets", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 10 (4): 517–529, Bibcode:1994ITRA...10..517L, doi:10.1109/70.313101
• Kimmel, R.; Bruckstein, A.M. (1995), "Tracking Level Sets by Level Sets: A Method for Solving the Shape from Shading Problem", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 62 (1): 47–58, doi:10.1006/cviu.1995.1040, ISSN 1077-3142

• Bruckstein, A.M. (1993), "Why the ant trails look so straight and nice", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 15 (2): 59–62, doi:10.1007/BF03024195, ISSN 0343-6993
• Yanovski, V.; Wagner, I.A.; Bruckstein, A.M. (2003), "A Distributed Ant Algorithm for Efficiently Patrolling a Network", Algorithmica, 37 (3): 165–186, doi:10.1007/s00453-003-1030-9, ISSN 1432-0541
• Altshuler, Y.; Pentland, A.; Bruckstein, A.M. (2018). Swarms and network intelligence in search. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Vol. 729. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. IX, 238. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63604-7. ISBN 978-3-319-63602-3. ISSN 1860-949X.

• Bruckstein, A.M.; O'Gorman, L.; Orlitsky, A. (1998), "Design of shapes for precise image registration", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 44 (7): 3156–3162, Bibcode:1998ITIT...44.3156B, doi:10.1109/18.737548
• Bruckstein, A.M.; Holt, R.J.; Netravali, A.N. (1998), "Holographic representations of images", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 7 (11): 1583–1597, Bibcode:1998ITIP....7.1583B, doi:10.1109/83.725365, PMID 18276223
• Bruckstein, A.M.; Holt, R.J.; Huang, T.S.; Netravali, A.N. (2001), "Trifocal tensors for weak perspective and paraperspective projections", Pattern Recognition, 34 (2): 395–404, Bibcode:2001PatRe..34..395B, doi:10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00228-9, ISSN 0031-3203
• Adel, M.; Ghinovker, M.; Golovanevsky, B.; Izikson, P.; Kassel, E.; Yaffe, D.; Bruckstein, A.M.; Goldenberg, R.; Rubner, Y.; Rudzsky, M. (2004), "Optimized overlay metrology marks: theory and experiment", IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 17 (2): 166–179, Bibcode:2004ITSM...17..166A, doi:10.1109/TSM.2004.826955

• Aharon, M.; Elad, M.; Bruckstein, A.M. (2006), "The K-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing of Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 11 (54): 4311–4322, Bibcode:2006ITSP...54.4311A, doi:10.1109/TSP.2006.881199, S2CID 7477309
• Bruckstein, A.M.; Donoho, D.L.; Elad, M. (2009), "From Sparse Solutions of Systems of Equations to Sparse Modeling of Signals and Images", SIAM Review, 51 (1): 34–81, Bibcode:2009SIAMR..51...34B, doi:10.1137/060657704
• Vainsencher, D.; Mannor, S.; Bruckstein, A.M. (2011), "The Sample Complexity of Dictionary Learning", Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12 (100): 3259–3281

• Alfred M. Bruckstein's Technion Webpage
• Elie Wiesel Technion Honorary Doctorate Ceremony
• NAAI Introduction to Alfred M. Bruckstein