Ron Ferens

Director of Architecture and AI at Blink Technologies, Inc. | PhD Candidate

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Education

Bar-Ilan University
PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering, advised by Prof. Yosi Keller. Field of research - Deep-visual end-to-end camera pose localization.
Fall 2022 - Current
Tel-Aviv University
MSc, Electrical Engineering, advised by Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky. Project - 3D content rendering
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
BSc, Electrical Engineering, advised by Prof. Stanley Rotman. Project - Point target detection in Hyper-spectral Images
Fall 2002 - Spring 2006

Employment

Blink Technologies
Director of Architecture and AI.
2021 - Current
Haifa, Israel
Huawei
Research Team Lead.
2019 - 2021
Tel-Aviv and Haifa, Israel
Intel
Senior Research Engineer.
2017 - 2019
Tel-Aviv and Haifa, Israel
Intel
Research Team Lead.
2013 - 2017
Haifa, Israel
Intel
Algorithm and Software Engineer.
2010 - 2013
Haifa, Israel
Zoran
Software Engineer.
2005 - 2009
Haifa, Israel

Publications

HyperPose: Hypernetwork-Infused Camera Pose Localization and an Extended Cambridge Landmarks Dataset
R. Ferens, Y. Keller
We advocate for incorporating hypernetworks into single-scene and multiscene camera pose regression models.
CVPR, 2025
Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Scene Pose Regression with Transformers
Y. Shavit, R. Ferens, Y. Keller
We extend our previous MSTransformer approach by introducing a mixed classification-regression architecture that improves the localization accuracy.
TPAMI, 2023
Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers
Y. Shavit, R. Ferens, Y. Keller
We propose to learn multi-scene absolute camera pose regression with Transformers, where encoders are used to aggregate activation maps with self-attention and decoders transform latent features and scenes encoding into candidate pose predictions.
ICCV, 2021
Learning single and multi-scene camera pose regression with transformer encoders
Y. Shavit, R. Ferens, Y. Keller
We propose an attention-based approach for pose regression, where the convolutional activation maps are used as sequential inputs.
CVIU, 2024
Do We Really Need Scene-specific Pose Encoders?
Y. Shavit, R. Ferens
We propose that scene-specific pose encoders are not required for pose regression and that encodings trained for visual similarity can be used instead.
ICPR, 2020
Introduction to Camera Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
Y. Shavit, R. Ferens
We review deep learning approaches for camera pose estimation. We describe key methods in the field and identify trends aiming at improving the original deep pose regression solution. We further provide an extensive cross-comparison of existing learning-based pose estimators, together with practical notes on their execution for reproducibility purposes. Finally, we discuss emerging solutions and potential future research directions.
arXiv, 2019