Klara Kedem | |
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Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
Known for | Computational geometry, shape comparison, motion planning, Voronoi diagrams |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Cornell University |
Doctoral advisor | Micha Sharir |
Klara Kedem is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel [1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. [2]
Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir. [3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison, [ACH] motion planning, [KLP] and Voronoi diagrams. [HKS] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic. [4]
HKS. | Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Sharir, Micha (1993), "The upper envelope of Voronoĭ surfaces and its applications", Discrete & Computational Geometry , 9 (3): 267–291, doi: 10.1007/BF02189323 , MR 1204784, Zbl 0770.68111, EuDML 131248 |
ACH. | Arkin, Esther M.; Chew, L. Paul; Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Mitchell, Joseph S. B. (1991), "An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes" (PDF), IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 13 (3): 209–216, doi:10.1109/34.75509, hdl: 1813/8729 , S2CID 8247618, Zbl 0800.68949 |
KLP. | Kedem, Klara; Livné, Ron; Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete & Computational Geometry , 1 (1): 59–71, doi: 10.1007/BF02187683 , MR 0824108, Zbl 0594.52004, EuDML 130981 |
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