You are cordially invited to a full-day Cognitive Computing colloquium on Computer Vision and Video Technologies, to be held on Sunday, November 6th, 2016. This traditional event is dedicated to cognitive computing systems that are designed to learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machines could do on their own. This year's colloquium will focus on computer vision and video technologies and is organized by the Multimedia Analytics department at IBM Research - Haifa. It will cover a broad spectrum of cutting edge technologies, algorithms and applications, and will combine academic and industrial sessions, with contributions from leading scientists and practitioners in the field.
The event will take place in the auditorium of the IBM Research - Haifa site on the Haifa University campus from 09:30 to 18:00. Lunch and light refreshments will be served.
Participation is free, but registration is required.
The event will be collocated with the IBM Machine Learning Seminar to be held on November 7th, 2016.
Seminar Organizers
- Dror Porat, IBM Research - Haifa
- Tal Drory, IBM Research - Haifa
- Prof. Lior Wolf, Tel Aviv University
Local Arrangements
Program
09:00 –09:30 Registration
09:30 –09:45 Opening Remarks
Oded Cohn, VP, Director of IBM Research – Haifa
09:45 –10:30 Keynote: Challenges for Deep Learning in the Medical Imaging Domain
Prof. Max Welling, University of Amsterdam, UC Irvine & CIFAR
10:30 –11:00Information Flow and Design Principles in Deep Learning
Prof. Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:00 –11:30 Break
11:30 –12:00 Amplitude Modulated Video Camera – Light Separation in Dynamic Scenes
Prof. Hugo Guterman, Ben-Gurion University
12:00 –12:30 Nonparametric Canonical Correlation Analysis
Prof. Tomer Michaeli, Technion
12:30 –13:00 Using Spatial Order to Boost the Elimination of Incorrect Feature Matches
Prof. Ilan Shimshoni, University of Haifa
13:00 –14:00 Lunch
Industrial Applications Session
14:00 –14:30 Video and Cognitive – A Match Made in Cloud
Balazs Szakacs, Head of Business Intelligence, IBM Cloud Video
14:30 –15:00 Autonomous Navigation and Perception for Aerial Vehicles
Prof. Vadim Indelman, Technion
15:00 –15:30 Deep Reinforcement Learning for Driving Policy
Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Mobileye
15:30 –15:45 Break
Student Spotlight Session
15:45 –16:10 On the Quality of the Initial Basin in Overspecified Neural Networks
Itay Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science
16:10 –16:35 Detecting Repeating Objects Using Patch Correlation Analysis
Inbar Huberman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:35 –17:00 Video Scene Detection Using Optimal Sequential Grouping
Daniel Rotman, IBM Research – Haifa
17:00 –17:15 Closing Remarks
Dr. Aya Soffer, Director, Big Data and Cognitive Analytics, IBM Research – Haifa
17:15 –18:00 Reception and Demos
Previous Seminars
Visiting IBM Research - Haifa
The Haifa facility of the IBM R&D Labs in Israel, located on the campus of the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel, is the home of the IBM Research - Haifa.
Address
IBM R&D Labs in Israel, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498825, Israel