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Shira Ifergane

Computer Science Ph.D. student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Computer Vision · Deep Learning

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), working in The Vision, Inference, and Learning (VIL) Group under the supervision of Prof. Oren Freifeld.

Publications

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1.Video Stitching from Multiple Moving Cameras

Shira Ifergane, Roy Amoyal, Shahar Ben Ishay, Oren Freifeld

NeurIPS 2026

The first method for stitching videos from more than two freely moving cameras,
together with a new annotated multi-view video dataset and benchmark.

Project pagePaper, code and dataset coming soon

2.Unsupervised Generation of Approximate Cross-Instance Semantic-Geometric Correspondences

Roy Amoyal, Shira Ifergane, Oren Freifeld

NeurIPS 2026

Project pagePaper, code and dataset coming soon

3.FastJAM: a Fast Joint Alignment Model for Images

Omri Hirsch*, Ron Shapira Weber*, Shira Ifergane, Oren Freifeld

NeurIPS 2025

PaperCodeProject page

4.Trainable Highly-expressive Activation Functions

Irit Chelly*, Shahaf E. Finder*, Shira Ifergane, Oren Freifeld

ECCV 2024

PaperCodeSupplementary

* Equal contribution

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science2026 – presentBen-Gurion University of the Negev
  • M.Sc., Computer Science2024 – 2026Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    GPA 91 · First-Year Academic Excellence Award
  • B.Sc., Computer Science2021 – 2024Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    GPA 93 · magna cum laude

Fellowships, Awards & Academic Programs

  • International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS)2026
  • STEM Doctoral Fellowship2026Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies
  • National Fellowship for Outstanding MSc Students in AI & Data Science2024 – 2026Council for Higher Education of Israel
  • Summer Excellence Scholarship2024BGU Computer Science Department
  • First Place, BrainGurion Mental Health Hackathon2024Brainstorm IL
  • Dkalim Excellence Program (Scholarship)2022 – 2024BGU Faculty of Natural Sciences

Teaching

  • Introduction to Machine LearningTeaching Assistant · Fall 2024, Fall 2026
  • Design of AlgorithmsTeaching Assistant · Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026