you are welcomed to register in the  CVML e-course on ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision’,  25–27^th August 2021:

http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep-learning-and-computer-vision-for-autonomous-systems-2021/

It will take place as a three-day e-course (due to COVID-19 circumstances), hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, providing a series of live lectures and workshops delivered through a tele-education platform (Zoom). They will be complemented with on-line video recorded lectures and lecture pdfs, to facilitate international participants having time difference issues and to enable you to study at own pace.  You can also self-assess your knowledge, by filling appropriate questionnaires (one per lecture). You will be provided programming to improve your programming skills. You will also have accesses to tutorial exercises to better your theoretical understanding of selected CVML topics.

This course is part of the very successful CVML programming short course and workshop series that took place in the last four years.

Course description ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision’

The programming short course and workshop e-course consists of 16 1-hour live lectures & workshops organized in two Parts (1 Part per day):

Part A will focus on Deep Learning and GPU programming.

Part B lectures will focus on deep learning algorithms for computer vision, namely on 2D object/face detection and 2D object tracking.

Part C lectures will focus on autonomous UAV cinematography. Before mission execution, it is best simulated, using drone mission simulation tools.

Course lectures

Part A (8 hours),

Deep Learning and GPU programming

Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs.

Deep learning for target detection.

Image classification with CNNs.

Target detection with PyTorch.

Part B (8 hours), Deep Learning for Computer Vision

Deep learning for object/face detection.

2D object tracking.

PyTorch: Understand the core functionalities of an object detector. Training and deployment.

OpenCV programming for object tracking.

Part C (8 hours), Autonomous UAV cinematography

Video summarization.

UAV cinematography.

Video summarization with Pytorch.

Drone cinematography with Airsim.

You can use the following link for course registration:

http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep-learning-and-computer-vision-for-autonomous-systems-2021/

Lecture topics, sample lecture ppts and videos, self-assessment questionnaires, programming exercises and tutorial exercises can be found therein.

For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr>

The short course is organized by Prof. I. Pitas, IEEE and EURASIP fellow and IEEE distinguished speaker.  He is the coordinator of the EC funded International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), that is co-sponsored by all 5 European AI R&D flagship projects (H2020 ICT48). He was initiator and first Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. He is Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was Coordinator of the European Horizon2020 R&D project Multidrone. He is ranked 249-top Computer Science and Electronics scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018). He has 33800+ citations to his work and h-index 86+.

AUTH is ranked 153/182 internationally in Computer Science/Engineering, respectively, in USNews ranking.

Relevant links:

1) Prof. I. Pitas:

https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el

2) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Aerial-Core: https://aerial-core.eu/

3) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Multidrone: https://multidrone.eu/

4) International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA): http://www.i-aida.org/

5) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project AI4Media: https://ai4media.eu/

6) AIIA Lab: https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/

Sincerely yours

Prof. I. Pitas

Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab)

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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