[ May 7, 2024 ]
The Israelis invest in technology, innovation, and education. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas invest in jihad, Jew-hatred, and violence. The Left demands that you boycott the former. The greatest weapon against the neo-Nazi BDS Movement is Israeli technology and innovation.
Israeli Students Develop App to Help the Blind Cross the Street
By Technion, September 8th, 2019:
The app was developed by two students from the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Story continues below advertisementRoni Ash and Dolev Ofri, students from the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, have developed an innovative application expected to significantly assist the visually impaired and the blind. The app was presented at the 2018 ICSEE International Conference in Eilat, Israel, and won the Thomas Schwartz Outstanding Project Award.
The app allows visually impaired pedestrians to safely cross the street at a traffic light. It recognizes the pedestrian traffic light and notifies the user of its color. The user is only required to point the phone camera in the desired general direction – it does not need to be accurate – and the app notifies him or her if it is possible to cross. The need for the development of such assistive technology is particularly great when it comes to a crosswalk where there is no audio indication for the blind.
The app’s high credibility is based on deep learning, training an artificial neural network that learns to identify the traffic light color based on a large set of traffic light examples. The dataset used for training the system was built by the students who developed the app as an undergraduate final project in the Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (SIPL) of the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, headed by Professor David Malah and Laboratory Engineer Nimrod Peleg. They performed the project under the guidance of Laboratory Engineer Yair Moshe and also received help from student Ayelet Cohen. The project is a collaboration of the lab with the social hub at the Technion.
To increase awareness of using the app and demonstrate its use, its creators are shooting these days a short humorous video. The video will be directed by filmmaker Elad Kidan, an Ophir Award winner, who heard about the app and volunteered for the task.
https://www.facebook.com/TechnionLive/videos/397810860939940/?t=9
Roni Ash and Dolev Ofri, students from the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, have developed an innovative application expected to significantly assist the visually impaired and the blind. The app was presented at the 2018 ICSEE International Conference in Eilat, Israel, and won the Thomas Schwartz Outstanding Project Award.
Related: ISRAEL’S MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS ARE IMPROVING THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
ISRAELI-MADE INNOVATIVE CANCER TREATMENT GETS FDA STAMP OF APPROVAL
During pivotal trials that led to the drug’s approval, approximately 40% of patients saw their tumors shrink in size.
By Jerusalem Post, September 5, 2019:
The world’s first drug to prevent proliferation of cancerous cells, established by Israeli scientist Dr. Sharon Shacham, just received FDA approval, kicking off Leukemia Awareness Month.
XPOVIO was developed by Karyopharm Therapeutics, a Newton, Massachusetts company established by Israel’s Dr. Sharon Shacham.
“We believe that our activity at Karyopharm constitutes an important milestone in the war on cancer,” she said.
The FDA first approved the drug for sale in July after 10 years of development. Karyopharm wrote in a press release that within six days of the FDA’s approval, cancer patients in the USA began receiving XPOVIO.
During a pivotal trial that led to the drug’s approval, approximately 40% of patients saw their tumors shrink. Karyopharm also reported that patient life expectancy increased by three to five times thanks to the treatment.
XPOVIO has been mainly used to treat myeloma, the second most common type of blood cancer, which affects 400 to 500 people in Israel annually, according to a Karyopharm Therapeutics press release.
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40 Comments
4 years ago
Another case of Israeli technology overcoming blindness – and evil – with good. Pretty girls, too!
4 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
What’s this infantile bootlicking? God knows there are prettier Jewesses.
These three spectacle wearers did not enter Israel’s beauty contest, but
use their brains for the good of mankind. Perhaps they even have the sa-
me optician? You cowards simply lack the courage to say something that
others don’t expect from you. So you’ve already come out as “usual”. And
reap “upvotes” from bootlicking. “Opinionative sovereignty” looks different.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
For my part: They are not ugly, but
my desire is limited. Pam for exam-
ple easily run rings around them.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
“Being positive” doesn’t mean fawning. Friendliness is
the middle between ingratiation and rejection. This is
the area where we all feel most comfortable. And also
these three “goddesses” know how to distinguish very
precisely. Their eyes are not blind through the glasses.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
Whether a man considers a woman to be “beautiful”
depends on the “class” in which he himself ranks. So
to find a woman who is not outstanding “beautiful” says
more about the man than about the woman. That is why
men who are not “urgently looking for a wife” should in
principle refrain from such unnecessary flattery.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
Women want the extraordinary, and at the top
of the wish list: A man who has his own opinion.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
So is it unfair to the three ladies not to call
them “pretty”? Na! But it would be unfair to-
wards Pam, because she is really beautiful.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
Poor America. Only permissible conclusion: “To
whom can I sell my body the most expensive?”
https://www.studyfinds.org/why-are-marriage-rates-down-study-blames-lack-of-economically-attractive-men/
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
The loneliness of better partnerlessness of women in top
positions has long been known, since women naturally
always “orient themselves upwards”. They can’t “look
up” anymore.But their biology still demands a supplier.
These conditioned materialists cannot accept that men do
not bring home at least $10,000 a month (for them alone).
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
Their voices have be-
en artificially lowered.
https://dailypost.ng/2015/10/06/new-research-shows-womens-voices-are-deeper-than-men/
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
These are (so obvious) details that normally
only women themselves notice. And of cour-
se some “initiated” men who are desirable.
4 years ago
In an emergency, this little step could
even protect against Muslim “taxi dri-
vers” who don’t transport guide dogs.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
However, there is still an app missing that ma-
kes “liberals” see. Probably, however, a whole
branch of brain research is necessary for this.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
The scientific question would be: How is it rationally possible
for a liberal to demand “Refugees Welcome!” when he buries
his stabbed only son or looks his raped daughter in the eye?
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
You CAN edit your previous comment instead of replying over and over and over. YOU KNOW THAT YET?
4 years ago
Yes the Truth is not blind
4 years ago
Israelis develop something to help people cross the streets all the while muslims help people die in the streets.
4 years ago
I wish people who can see would put away their Smart Ass Phones away while crossing the street!
4 years ago
And this years arab contribution? Just like every other year: Absolute Zero.
4 years ago
Your Israel Plus series is a wonderful
approach to constructive journalism.
A negativeness-free zone.
You can’t have a positive
life and a negative mind.
4 years ago
Reply to
Newsnet
Ask any DemonRat and/or LIBERAL and they will tell you that YOU CAN. Yet, they are the ones who can’t CREATE, DISCOVER, OR IMPROVE ON ANYONE ELSE’S LIFE, except their own. The liberal youth today, graduating from liberal colleges, are the ME, MYSELF, AND I generation.
4 years ago
The Israeli youth helping mankind. How wonderful.
Meanwhile, on the side of the sewer, palestupidan students are getting fitted for burqas bomb-making underwear and how to properly prepare a goat for dinner after you’ve had your way with it.
4 years ago
Israel! A light unto the nations!
4 years ago
In Australia we have audible buttons on our traffic light poles.
4 years ago
Fascinating!
Good work!
4 years ago
Can someone identify a single innovation or significant scientific discovery made by a Muslim in the past 100 years?
4 years ago
Reply to
Badger
BINGO! I knew they had done something innovative, but no one is left to collect the Nobel Prize. I’m sure they are anxious in Oslo to make the award.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
The only things Muslims are good at is CHAOS, MAYHEM, AND DEATH.
And, this is why AMERICANS NEED TO FIGHT TO KEEP THE 2ND AMENDMENT WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS! Dems are and have been allowing Muslims into America on Visas and they continue to do this under our noses!
NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT unless you want to be a SLAVE to the govt.
Any restrictions on our 2nd Amendment IS TYRANNY against the freedoms God gave us. A Basic background check when purchasing a firearm, is fine with me. ANY OTHER LAWS RESTRICTING OUR 2ND AMENDMENT IS NOT FREEDOM. IT IS TYRANNY.
Sorry, I had to rant a bit 😉
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Or, for that matter, the last 1400 years?
NO!!!!! The ‘zero’ was already in existence. All claimed advances by muzzies was stolen from the civilizations they invaded. They burned down the worlds libraries and took over what would make their reign of terror work more efficiently.
4 years ago
SUPER!!!
4 years ago
In Britain there is a small knurled knob concealed beneath the box that holds the button to request a green light to cross. Blind people, standing on the indented surface beneath the crossing light, can then feel the knob rotate when the light changes to green and it is then safe to cross.
Very few sighted people are aware of it. No doubt to protect it from vandalism.
4 years ago
Leave it to the Israelis to come up with wonderful and innovative ideas and products! They were responsible for separating out the THC in Marijuana and finding a beneficial substance that relieve arthritis and other minor pains, but when Obama was President, he forbid the FDA from allow Israel to market it in the USA. DEMS AND LIBERALS ARE SO BLIND WITH HATRED, THEY CAN’T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES!
America’s liberal Techs are so blinded with hatred, they haven’t invented anything in some time AND I think it is because they are all wrapped up in THEMSELVES and their HATRED of others who disagree with them.
American YOUTH: stop hating the Jews and anyone else that you don’t agree with and USE THE GIFTS GOD GAVE YOU FOR THE GOOD OF ALL!
God bless Israel.
4 years ago
Interesting idea, but in practice seems it may be a bit flaky.-
Salt Lake City uses different bird sounds to let you know when the Walk sing is lit for E/W or N/S cross walks. Works very well!
4 years ago
Sorry blind sheikh, not for you!,
4 years ago
And Muslims are still trying to figure out how to use toilet paper.
4 years ago
LOL! The blind leading the blind!
