IBM R&D Labs in Israel

Registration

Opening Remarks,
Oded Cohn, VP, Director of IBM Research – Haifa

Visual Learning and Recognition in the Cloud,
Dr. John R. Smith, IBM Fellow, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Keynote: Vision at the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines,
Prof. Tomaso Poggio, MIT

Break

Deep Learning – An Information Theoretic Perspective,
Prof. Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Graphical Models, Neural Networks and Image Restoration,
Prof. Yair Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Enumerate, Don't Estimate,
Prof. Shai Avidan, Tel Aviv University

Lunch

Watson: The Evolution of Cognitive Computing,
Rob High, IBM Fellow, VP, CTO Watson

Machine Learning in Your Pocket,
Dr. Yoni Wexler, OrCam

A Cross-Saliency Approach to Asymmetry-Based Tumor Detection,
Dr. Sharon Alpert, IBM Research – Haifa

Break

Visual Vibrometry,
Dr. Miki Rubinstein, Google & MIT

Edge Detection and Other Tasks on a Computational Budget: A Sublinear Approach,
Prof. Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute of Science

Closing Remarks,
Dr. Aya Soffer, Director, Big Data and Cognitive Analytics, IBM Research – Haifa

Reception and Demos