AIDA Short Course: “Machine learning for video summarization”, 28/06/2022

Course title: Machine learning for video summarization

 

Lecturer name & affiliation: Dr. Ioannis Mademlis, imademlis@csd.auth.gr, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory (AIIA)

 

Host Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 

Content and organization: Video summarization is the problem of automatically selecting important key-shots and/or key-frames from an input video, in order to construct a brief summary of the original sequence, capturing its essential content. Both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods have been employed for solving video summarization tasks, ranging from simple video frame clustering to sophisticated deep learning approaches. It is a task of immense practical importance to media and WWW professionals, since it allows them (or remote users) to browse through endless hours of filmed footage without having to actually watch the entire content. Video summarization is highly significant in automation solutions for TV/movie production, video surveillance, sports coverage, media archiving, etc. This short course will present the various types of video summaries and the most important families of learning algorithms that been developed over the years to tackle video summarization, focusing on the prominent problem of key-frame extraction. The short course is composed of two consecutive 2.5-hour lectures, covering pre-deep learning and purely neural methods, respectively. A 30-minute coffee break will intercede between them.

 

Level: Postgraduate

 

Course Duration: 5 hours

 

Course Type: Short Course

 

Participation terms: Free to anyone. Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in this short course.

If you are an AIDA Student* already, please:

Step (a): Register in the course by inserting your details into the relevant Google form.

 

AND

Step (b): Enroll in the same course in the AIDA system using the “Enroll on this Course” button in the AIDA website, so that this course enters your AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance.

 

If you are not an AIDA Student do only step (a).

 

*AIDA Students should have been registered in the AIDA system already (they are PhD students or PostDocs that belong only to the AIDA Members listed in this page: Members)

 

Lectures plan: From 16:00 to 21:30 CET

 

Proposed schedule: 28 June 2022

 

Language: English

 

Modality: Fully on-line via Zoom.

 

Notes: Only attendance of the lectures is foreseen (no exams).

 

More Infos: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/machine-learning-for-video-summarization/

 

Early registration: Invitation to join 2022 Summer ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision’, 24-26th August 2022

Dear Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Digital Media engineers, scientists and enthusiasts,

 

you are welcomed to register in the  CVML e-course on ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision’,  24-26th August 2022:

https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep-learning-and-computer-vision-2022/

 

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 programming workshops delivered through a tele-education platform (Zoom). Its focus is on upgrading your programming skills in various Deep Learning and Computer Vision topics. You will be provided programming exercises in Python, CUDA, PyTorch, OpenCV etc to this end. Application focus will be in Digital Media. 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).

 

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 and programming workshops

Part A (8 hours), Deep Learning and GPU programming

Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs.

Parallel GPU and multi-core CPU architectures – GPU programming

Image classification with CNNs.

CUDA programming

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:

https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep-learning-and-computer-vision-2022/

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

This programming 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+.

 

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

 

Post scriptum: To stay current on CVML matters, you may want to register in the CVML email list, following instructions in: https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml

DeepLearn 2023 Winter: early registration July 4

8th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
 
 
DeepLearn 2023 Winter
 
 
 
Bournemouth, UK
 
 
 
January 16-20, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Co-organized by:
 
 
 
Department of Computing and Informatics
 
Bournemouth University
 
 
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
 
Brussels/London
 
 
 
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Early registration: July 4, 2022
 
 
 
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SCOPE:
 
 
 
DeepLearn 2022 Winter will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Luleå.
 
 
 
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, bioinformatics, etc. etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
 
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.
 
 
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
 
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
 
 
Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2023 Winter is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
 
 
VENUE:
 
 
 
DeepLearn 2023 Winter will take place in Bournemouth, a coastal resort town on the south coast of England. The venue will be:
 
 
 
Talbot Campus
 
Bournemouth University
 
 
 
 
 
 
STRUCTURE:
 
 
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
 
 
Full live online participation will be possible. However, the organizers highlight the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.
 
 
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
 
 
Yi Ma (University of California, Berkeley), CTRL: Closed-Loop Data Transcription via Rate Reduction
 
 
 
Daphna Weinshall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Curriculum Learning in Deep Networks
 
 
 
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), It Is Time for Deep Learning to Understand Its Expense Bills
 
 
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
 
 
Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for 3D Vision
 
 
 
Matias Carrasco Kind (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Anomaly Detection
 
 
 
Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Representation Learning
 
 
 
Seungjin Choi (Intellicode), [introductory/intermediate] Bayesian Optimization over Continuous, Discrete, or Hybrid Spaces
 
 
 
Sumit Chopra (New York University), [intermediate] Deep Learning in Healthcare
 
 
 
Marco Duarte (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), [introductory/intermediate] Explainable Machine Learning
 
 
 
João Gama (University of Porto), [introductory] Learning from Data Streams: Challenges, Issues, and Opportunities
 
 
 
Claus Horn (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Biotechnology (to be confirmed)
 
 
 
Nathalie Japkowicz (American University), [intermediate/advanced] Learning from Class Imbalances
 
 
 
Gregor Kasieczka (University of Hamburg), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning Fundamental Physics: Rare Signals, Unsupervised Anomaly Detection, and Generative Models
 
 
 
Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Processing: Automatic Speech Recognition and beyond (to be confirmed)
 
 
 
David McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), [intermediate/advanced] Information Theory for Deep Learning
 
 
 
Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University), [intermediate] Exploiting High-performance Computing for Deep Learning: Why and How?
 
 
 
Fabio Roli (University of Cagliari), [introductory/intermediate] Adversarial Machine Learning
 
 
 
Richa Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur), [introductory/intermediate] Trusted AI
 
 
 
Kunal Talwar (Apple), [introductory/intermediate] Foundations of Differentially Private Learning
 
 
 
Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks
 
 
 
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [intermediate] Natural Language Processing using Deep Learning
 
 
 
Bram van Ginneken (Radboud University Medical Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
 
 
 
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba
 
 
 
Yu-Dong Zhang (University of Leicester), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Networks and Their Applications to COVID-19 Diagnosis
 
 
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
 
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.
 
 
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
 
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.
 
 
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
 
 
Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 8, 2023.
 
 
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
 
 
Rashid Bakirov (Bournemouth, local co-chair)
 
Nan Jiang (Bournemouth, local co-chair)
 
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
 
Sara Morales (Brussels)
 
David Silva (London, organization chair)
 
 
 
REGISTRATION:
 
 
 
It has to be done at
 
 
 
 
 
 
The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
 
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
 
 
FEES:
 
 
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.
 
 
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
 
 
Accommodation suggestions are available at
 
 
 
 
 
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
 
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
 
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
 
 
 
 
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
 
 
Bournemouth University
 
 
 
Rovira i Virgili University
 
 
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
      

IEEE R9: Invitation to Send Papers to 2022 IEEE ICA-ACCA

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Dear Region 9 Members:

We are inviting you to present papers at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation / XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA) has IEEE Conference record # 5676, organized by IEEE Chilean Chapters on Control, Cap. on SMC and Cap. IEEE on Engineering Education. This conference gives the opportunity to share, discuss, defend, validate your innovations, research, development during the technical sessions.

Call for Papers is attached. Deadline is July 15, 2022.

The Scope of Conference includes all areas of automation, communication and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, power engineering and industrial engineering (see call for papers or webpage https://controlautomatico.org/ica_acca2022). For the importance for our countries, the conference has special track on digital agriculture. We invite you to present paper in these areas if you are working in this field. Our Lema is “For the development of sustainable Agricultural Systems”.

This Conference will be held from October 27 to 24, via online, and face-to-face in Universidad de Talca, in Curicó, Chile. In other words, you can choose to submit papers virtually (which will be presented online) or attend to present them at the Universidad de Talca (these will be broadcast live online). Please, let us know. 

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.

We look forward to your work.
 

Gaston Lefranc
President of the IEEE ICA ACCA
Professor Honoris Causa Agora University, Romania


Attachments:

IEEE ICA ACCA v46

Latin America – Region 9 : https://r9.ieee.org/

Deadline is Approaching: IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) 2022 – Call for Papers and Tutorials

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Call for Papers and Tutorials: IEEE LATINCOM 2022 – Latin-American Conference on Communications
Paper/Tutorial submission deadline: 30 June 2022
Conference dates:  30 November – 2 December 2022
https://latincom2022.ieee-latincom.org/authors/call-for-papers/
https://latincom2022.ieee-latincom.org/authors/call-for-tutorials/

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In 2022, the 14th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) returns to Brazil, to the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro is harmonically shaped by mountains and sea, lying in the narrow alluvial plain between Guanabara Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Its fantastic landscape comprises a series of green mountains cascading down to the coast, where visitors have the privilege to stare at iconic natural beauties, the Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açúcar) and Christ the Redeemer (Corcovado), from the emblematic beaches of Copacabana, Leblon, and Ipanema. Rio de Janeiro is also famous for its cultural miscegenation, remarkable architecture, exciting history, all-year-long hot weather, and hospitable people.

IEEE LATINCOM 2022 will be held from 30 November to 2 December 2022. The most important conference on communications in Latin America is held annually and attracts submissions and participants from all around the globe. This 3-day conference is known for bringing together audiences from both industry and academia to learn about the latest research and innovations in communications and networking technology, share ideas and best practices, and collaborate on future projects. IEEE LATINCOM 2022 is organized by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Latin America Region, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).

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