Ph.D Candidate                          Address: Information Systems Laboratory                         Packard #251, 350 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-9510 (650) 723-4544 Email: haim1 (at) stanford (dot) edu

Research Interests:
Information theory, wireless communication systems, Markov decision processes, optimization, statistical signal processing. In the past, I also worked in image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision and speech recognition.

Journal Publications

Information and communication theory:

[1] H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, and T. Weissman, “Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback,” to appear at  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory. , July 2008 [Slides]

[2] H. Permuter, T. Weissman and A. Goldsmith, “Finite state channels with time-invariant deterministic feedback,” submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory. [Slides]

[3] H. Permuter and  T. Weissman, “Capacity Region of the Finite-State Multiple Access Channel with and without Feedback,” submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory.

[4] B. Shrader and H. Permuter “Feedback capacity of the compound channel,,” submitted to  IEEE Trans. Info. Theory. [Slides]

Image and signal processing:

[5] H. Permuter and J.M. Francos , “Estimating the orientation of planar Surfaces: Algorithms and Bounds.” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 46 pp. 1908-1920, August 2000.

[6] J.M. Francos and H. Permuter, “Parametric Estimation of Orientation of Textured Planar Surfaces,” IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 10, pp. 403-418, March 2001. [ Slides]

[7] H. Permuter, J.M. Francos and I. Jermyn “A study of Gaussian mixture models of color and texture features for image classification and segmentation,” Pattern Recognition vol. 39, pp. 695-706, February 2006. (Conf. version)

Recent Conferences

[1] T. M. Cover and H. Permuter,  “Capacity of Coordinated Actions,”  ISIT 2007, Nice, France.[Slides]

[2] H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, and T. Weissman, “Capacity and Zero-Error Capacity of the Chemical Channel with Feedback,” ISIT 2007, Nice, France.

[3] B. Shrader and H. Permuter,  “On the compound finite state channel with feedback,”   ISIT 2007, Nice, France.

[4] H. Permuter, Y. -H Kim and T. Weissman, “On Directed Information and Gambling,” accepted to  ISIT 2008, Toronto, Canada.

[5] H. Permuter,  T. Weissman and  J. Chen  “New Bounds for the Capacity Region of the Finite-State Multiple Access Channel,” acceptded to  ISIT 2008, Toronto, Canada.

[6]  L. Zhao and H. Permuter  “Zero-error capacity for finite state channels with feedback and channel state information,” accepted to  ISIT 2008, Toronto, Canada.

[7] J. Chen, H. Permuter and  T. Weissman “On the Capacity of Finite-State Channels,” accepted to  ISIT 2008, Toronto, Canada.

Teaching Assistant

 ("The best way to learn things is through teaching and research", Tom Cover.)

EE376A/Stat376A, Information Theory (Winter 2007/8, by Prof. Cover and Spring 2005/6, by Prof. Weissman)

EE478,  Network Information Theory (Fall 2006/7, by Prof. El Gamal)

EE378,  Statistical Signal Processing (Spring 2004/5, by Prof. Weissman)

Some Links

IEEE Information theory society, Information Theory student resources, ISIT 2008, movie on Shannon.

Short Bio

Haim Permuter received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude)  in Electrical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University. Since October 2004 he is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF). Before coming to Stanford, Haim served as a scientific research officer in an R&D unit in the Israeli Defense Forces.