Israeli First Responders in Turkey

 Emergency response combining rapid attention and needed data for complex care and communication. 

Israeli First Responders in Turkey Use Real-Time Tech for Remote Victim Care

Times of Israel, Sharon Wrobel, February 9, 2023

Emergency responders from Israel dispatched to Turkey following the recent earthquake are using cloud-based technology created by Israeli-founded startup Carbyne to share real-time location data, video, and images with remote medical teams in Israel. Zohar Eli at Israeli emergency response nonprofit United Hatzalah said volunteers using Carbyne's system send accurate data to dispatchers, who employ the system's video capabilities "to get better visibility into events on the ground to conduct consultations and provide accurate remote assistance." Emergency responders and remote volunteers use real-time information displayed on a dashboard at the call center to consult with doctors and other Israel-based professional entities on rescue operations conducted in the field.

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Universal Face Masks Defeating Facial Recognition

More on this, practical for general use? 

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Researchers Defeat Facial Recognition Systems with Universal Face Mask

By Help Net Security

Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Tel Aviv University found that facial recognition (FR) systems may be thwarted by fabric face masks boasting adversarial patterns.

The researchers employed a gradient-based optimization process to generate a universal perturbation and mask to falsely classify each wearer as an unknown identity.

BGU's Alon Zolfi said, "The perturbation depends on the FR model it was used to attack, which means different patterns will be crafted depending on the different victim models."

Zolfi suggested FR models could see through masked face images by training them on images containing adversarial patterns, by teaching them to make predictions based only on the upper area of the face, or by training them to generate lower facial areas based on upper facial areas.

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Israeli Military Launches Radical New Google Maps Alternative

New approaches at detailed street maps.

Israeli Military Launches Radical New Google Maps Alternative
Forbes
Zak Doffman
June 30, 2020

The Israeli military has adopted artificial intelligence (AI), multi-source data fusion, and augmented reality (AR) to weed out terrorists from civilians in urban areas. Similar to Google Street View, the military is using an AR overlay from the fusion of multiple sources of highly classified intelligence and open source data on the terrain and environment, along with AI running pattern analytics from previous combat experiences to gauge the hidden enemy's next move. The AR display, which is shown to soldiers on a smartphone or tablet or streamed directly into their binoculars or weapons sights, helps them understand why a location has been deemed hostile. Final targeting decisions are left to the soldiers on the ground. The AI tool is tasked with distilling terabytes of intelligence every day into useful and relevant data, and soldiers have just five to 10 seconds to decide on any action they take based on that data.  ..."