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Mapping nutrition with “What did I eat?” Cognitive Build project simplifies food logging Learn more
Cognitive Build project simplifies food logging
Visual recognition gives computers new eyes into the world. Whether it’s mapping the drought in California or maintaining telecom towers, cognitive systems are helping computers derive more meaning from images, providing more value to us. “What did I eat?” is a finalist project in the Cognitive Build, IBM’s internal team innovation challenge looking at one very specific use case: helping mobile devices make sense of what’s on our plates. The app helps this logging issue using the camera on your phone. Just snap a picture of your food and the app will identify it based on the similarity to images in its database, much as Facebook may identify you and friends when you upload a picture.
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IBM Research - Haifa is the largest lab of IBM Research Division outside of the United States. Founded as a small scientific center in 1972, it grew into a major lab that leads the development of innovative technological products and cognitive solutions for the IBM corporation. The Lab works with IBM development and services arms, partners with clients to answer their needs, and collaborates with universities to promote industrial research. Continuously reinventing and refocusing itself to stay at the forefront of the technology, most projects today fall under cognitive computing, cloud data services, healthcare informatics, and image and video analytics, alongside mobile, security and quality. The lab also focuses on the healthcare domain.

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Join some of the best scientists from around the world, at IBM Research - Haifa. Some of our key research areas include machine learning and analytics, healthcare informatics, augmented reality and computer vision, cloud storage and virtualization, security, and mobile platforms.

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IBM Research - Haifa
Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel
Haifa, 3498825, Israel.
IBM Research Tel-Aviv Facility
BMC Software Building, 6 Habarzel St., Ramat Hachayal,
Tel Aviv, Israel
IBM Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Ben Gurion University Campus
Beer Sheva, Israel

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Director
Oded Cohn is an IBM Vice President serving as the Director of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel.
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Creating a sieve that filters essential clinical and diagnostic imaging information to form anomaly-driven summaries and recommendations.
Affective computing
Developing computers that have an Emotional Quotient (EQ) to monitor human reactions to guide responses in cognitive systems.
Augmented reality and computer vision
Enhance people's vision with cognitively-driven object recognition and interacted information using augmented reality.
Cloud Analytics
Building a fast bridge to the cloud
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Our scientists are working on solutions to complex problems around the world. Our exciting projects focus on healthcare, augmented reality, debating technologies, cloud computing and object storage, computer vision, video analytics, affective computing, quality, security, and more.
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IBM Research - Haifa
IBM Research - Haifa was established in 1972 and is currently located on the Haifa University campus on the Carmel mountain range.
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Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel Haifa, 3498825, Israel
IBM Research Tel-Aviv Facility
Our Tel Aviv facility located in Ramat Hachayal, houses researchers working on hardware development, systems and storage, machine learning, and cognitive technologies.
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+972-3-7689400
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BMC Software Building, 6 Habarzel St., Ramat Hachayal, Tel Aviv, Israel
IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence (CCoE)
The Center is based in the campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, within close proximity to Beer Sheva's vibrant cyber technology park. It is the home for a relatively small but influential team of IBM security researchers and engineers who investigate emerging cyber threat and solutions, in collaboration with university researchers, government agencies, clients and partners.
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Ben Gurion University Campus Beer Sheva, Israel
Join IBM Research - Haifa
IBM Research – Haifa, with locations in Haifa and Tel Aviv, is the largest IBM Research lab outside the US. Our scientists are working on solutions to complex problems around the world. Our exciting projects focus on healthcare, augmented reality, debating technologies, cloud computing and object storage, computer vision, video analytics, affective computing, quality, security, and more. This is the place where your research ideas can come to life and make a difference in countries around the world.