Raz Ramon

We are delighted to share the exciting news that Raz Ramon, currently pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science at the Open University of Israel, has achieved a remarkable feat. Under the guidance of Prof. Elishai Ezra Tzur, Raz has been diligently working on his thesis within the neuro-biomorphic engineering laboratory at the university's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

This year, at the prominent IEEE conference hosted by Stanford University in the United States, Raz, in collaboration with the laboratory's director, Dr. Hadar Cohen Devik, received the prestigious prize for their outstanding article. Among a multitude of submissions centered around neural computation and computational cognition, their article stood out prominently.

In his research work at the Neuro-Biomorphic Engineering Laboratory, Raz worked with neuromorphic cameras - cameras that "see" the world in a similar way to the retina in the human visual system. These cameras work at a rate of thousands of frames per second and are characterized by an extremely high dynamic range. Raz developed an unsupervised learning algorithm that allows to extract from the visual input characteristics that can be tracked efficiently. Despite the algorithm being unsupervised (it does not require training on labeled data) and based on a compact neural network, it compares in performance to other much larger neural networks based on supervised machine learning.

For a more in-depth understanding of Raz's groundbreaking research, we invite you to explore the comprehensive video presentation showcased at the conference: https://lnkd.in/e8Bbp-dP.

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