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A small change in images at the minimal recognizable configurations (MIRC) level can cause a large drop in human recognition rate. MIRCs (top) and corresponding sub-MIRCs (bottom); numbers under each image indicate the human recognition rate

Less than Meets the Eye

07.03.2016
Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision
How do computers - or our brains - recognize images? 
Prof. Shimon Ullman

Prof. Shimon Ullman

27.05.2015
Brain & Behavior, Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Prof. Shimon Ullman received the Israel Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science
Mover event detected in the red cell: Motion (left) flows into the cell, (middle) stays briefly in the cell, and (right) leaves the cell, changing its appearance. Warmer colors indicate faster motion

Seeing Like a Baby

18.11.2012
Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision
A computer program reveals how babies begin to make sense of the world
Prof. Shimon Ullman

Looking Forward to computers that "see" almost like humans and images with perfect focus

01.11.2009
Computer Vision, Mathematics
Prof. Shimon Ullman: "I expect the day will come when we can write a computer program that will learn on its own how to use vision to understand the...
The Inside View

The Inside View

01.05.2007
Math & Computer Science, Computer Vision, Biotechnology
"Seeing" computers might, in the future, help diagnose disease
Uplifting encounter. Prof. Dov Sagi and Prof. Tamar Flash

Brain Teaser

01.11.2005
Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision
When Computer Science Encounters Neurobiology: Prof. Tamar Flash and  Prof. Dov Sagi are joining forces to better understand how...
Top (l-r): Leonid Karlinsky, Dr. Michel Vidal-Naquet, Ita Lifschitz, Boris Epshtein. Bottom (l-r): Prof. Shimon Ullman, Eli Okon, Evgeniy Bart, Dan Levy, Eran Borenstein. On all fours: the everfaithful LeilahProf. Ullman's

Man's Search for Meaning

31.08.2004
Brain & Behavior, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Technology
 How does the brain piece together the signals reaching it from the eye to make sense of our world?
Prof. Ronen Basri

The Ninth Dimension

01.09.2002
Computer Vision
Prof. Ronen Basri of the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department seeks to improve the vision of computers – in...
Dr. Michal Irani

A Visual Window into Space and Time

01.01.2002
Computer Vision, Mathematics, Technology
Whether spellbinding or tedious, a video film seems like a simple sequence of pictures. Yet it encompasses often-overlooked spatial and temporal...

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The ions in the center of the cluster are cooled to the lowest temperatures, and can then be further accelerated in the ion beam trap

Colder and Colder

Humans and fish share about 70% of their protein-coding genes, but only about 0.5% of their regulatory long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)

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The ions in the center of the cluster are cooled to the lowest temperatures, and can then be further accelerated in the ion beam trap
18.09.2017
Colder and Colder
Humans and fish share about 70% of their protein-coding genes, but only about 0.5% of their regulatory long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
18.09.2017
Genomic Recycling: Ancestral Genes Take On New Roles
Cancerous tumor tissue under a microscope:
18.09.2017
Altitude Training for Cancer-Fighting Cells

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