08:00 Gathering
Safdie Auditorium
Opening
Chair: Itzik Klein, University of Haifa
08:50
Safdie Auditorium Prof. Ron Robin, President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Ilana Berman-Frank Director, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
09:00 Keynote 1 Prof. Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers The State
The evolution of oxygen and other emergent properties
Safdie Auditorium University of New Jersey
09:50 Keynote 2 Prof. Mandar Chitre
The role of differentiable physics-based models in ocean acoustics
Safdie Auditorium National University of Singapore
10:40 -10:50 Break/Posters
10:50-12:20 Session 1 (Parallel sessions)
Safdie Auditorium AI in marine technology
Matan Yuval, Tali Treibitz, University of Haifa 3D Imaging for Coral Reef Ecology
Izhak Fabian, Amir Dayan, Nir Zagdensky, Tali Treibitz, Self-Supervised Cross-View Cross-Modal Object Attention
University of Haifa
Rami Zghyer, Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Hybrid Hydrodynamic Model for Maneuvering Simulation and Prediction
Institute in Operational Conditions.
Benthic habitat classification from synthetic aperture sonar and its
Ole Johannes Sørensen et al, University of Haifa
application for ecological modeling
Ilan Git, Matan Samina, Shachar Givon, Moshe Kiflawi, Real-time Tracking of Marine Targets Using a Single Moving
Ronen Segev, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of Autonomous Receiver and AI
the Negev
Spatial Visibility Trajectory Planning Using Inverse Reinforcement
Oren Gal, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Learning
10:50-12:20
Room 223, 2nd Session 2 (Parallel sessions)
floor, Multi- AI in marine sciences
Purpose Building
Aviv Solodoch, Andrew L. Stewart, Andre McC. Hogg, Feasibility Test of Overturning Circulation Inference from Satellite
Georgy E. Manucharyan, University of California in Los Observables using Machine Learning
Angeles and Hebrew University
Tamar Guy-Haim, Khristina Ermak, Noa Aviv, Merav Gilboa,
Arseniy Morov, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Using Machine Learning to Monitor Plankton in the Mediterranean Sea
Research Institute
K-Means Clustering for Identification of Recurring Circulation Patterns
Itamar Avishay, Steve Brenner, Bar Ilan University in the major Levantine Basin Water Masses
Tomer Sagi, Yoav Lehahn, University, Aalborg and
The Ocean Data Integration Initiative (ODINI): Status and Future Plans
University of Haifa
Yizhak Feliks, Aviv Solodoch, Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University The spatial structure of ISO modes in the sea and atmosphere in the
of Jerusalem Eastern Mediterranean
Quantifying microbial growth dynamics in uncharacterized
Tomer Antman, David Zeevi, Weizmann Institute of Science environments
12:20 – 12:30 Break/Posters
12:30-13:30 Session 3 (Parallel sessions)
Safdie Auditorium Invited Session on Core AI
Michael Erlihson, Salt Security Generate any visual data with Text2Image diffusion models
Yakov Miron, Robert Bosch Technologies and University of
A short introduction to the fundamentals of reinforcement learning
Haifa
Chaim Baskin, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology Learning from limited and imperfect data
12:30-13:30
Room 223, 2nd Session 4 (Parallel sessions)
floor, Multi- Sea challenges 1
Purpose Building
Talmon Alexandri, Roee Diamant, University of Haifa Characterization of Shipping Underwater Radiated Noise
On the development of a mid-depth Lagrangian float for littoral
Yuri Katz, Morel Groper, University of Haifa
deployment
Guy Gubnitsky, Roee Diamant, University of Haifa Discriminative features for sperm whale clicks detection
AUV Close-Range Localization and Guidance Employing an Electro-
Yevgeni Gutnik, Morel Groper, University of Haifa
Magnetic Beacon
13:30 – 14:40 Lunch Break/Poster Session
14:40 Keynote 3 Prof. Yaniv Romano, Technion—Israel
Uncertainty quantification in modern machine learning
Safdie Auditorium Institute of Technology
15:30-16:30 Session 5 (Parallel sessions)
Safdie Auditorium Special Session: Model and learning methods for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation
Chair: Nadav Cohen, University of Haifa
The BeamsNet Series: Data-Driven Methods for Improving Autonomous
Nadav Cohen, Itzik Klein, University of Haifa
Underwater Vehicles' Navigation
MissBeamNet: Learning Missing Doppler Velocity Log Beam
Mor Yona, Itzik Klein, University of Haifa
Measurements
Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik Klein, University of Haifa DVL calibration using neural networks
Kobi Libero, Itzik Klein, University of Haifa DVL-based acceleration aided INS
15:30-16:45
Room 223, 2nd
Session 6 (Parallel sessions)
floor, Multi-
Sea challenges 2
Purpose Building
From Genomes To Oceans: Challenges In Understanding The Lives Of
Osnat Weissberg, Daniel Sher, University of Haifa
Marine Cyanobacteria
Grigory Solomatov, Derya Akkaynak, University of Haifa Spectral Sensitivity Estimation Without a Camera
Oren Elmakis, Semion Polinov, Amir Degani. Technion—Israe
UAV-USV system for marine monitoring tasks
Institute of Technology
Yoav Lehahn, Daniel Sher, Uri Shavit, Tamar Lotan, Dror
Imaging of jellyfish swarms - current state and challenges
Malul, Aviv Solodoch, Omri Tal, University of Haifa
Noam Ginio, Michael Lindenbaum, Barak Fishbain, Dan Efficient machine learning method for spatio-temporal water surface
Liberzon, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology waves reconstruction from polarimetric images
16:45-17:15 Closing and award ceremony
Safdie Auditorium Chair: Itzik Klein, University of Haifa