Dear Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Autonomous Systems students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts,
Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is proud to have launched the live CVML Web lecture series that covers very important Computer Vision/Machine Learning topics. Two new upcoming 45 min lectures will take place soon:
1) Deep Semantic Image Segmentation
2) CVML software development tools
Date/time: Wednesday 17th June 2020, 19:30-21:00 EEST for both lectures (9:30-11:00 am California time, 12:30-13:00 pm New York time, 00:30-2:00 am Beijing time).
Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/
Registration for asynchronous access to CVML live Web lecture material (video, pdf/ppt) for any past/present lecture can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/
Lecture abstracts
1) Deep Semantic Image Segmentation, Wednesday 17th June 2020, 19:30-20:15 EEST
Summary: Semantic image segmentation is a very important computer vision task with several applications in autonomous systems perception, robotic vision and medical imaging. Recent semantic image segmentation methods rely on deep neural networks and aim to assign a specific class label to each pixel of the input image. This lecture overviews the topic and addresses some of the semantic image segmentation challenges, notably: Deep semantic Image Segmentation architectures. Skip connections. U-nets. BiSeNet. Semantic image segmentation performance, computational complexity and generalization.
2) CVML software development tools, Wednesday 17th June 2020, 20:15-21:00 EEST
Summary: This lecture overviews the various SW tools, libraries and environments used in computer vision and machine learning: Robotic Operating System (ROS). Libraries (OpenCV, BLAS, cuBLAS, MKL DNN, cuDNN), DNN Frameworks (Neon, Tensorflow, Pytortch, Keras, MXNet), Distributed/cloud computing (MapReduce programming model, Apache Spark), Collaborative SW Development tools (GitHub, Bitbucket).
Lecturer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. His current interests are in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 860 papers, contributed in 44 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 69 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 41 such projects. He has 31000+ citations to his work and h-index 83+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas lead the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/ and is principal investigator (AUTH) in H2020 projects Aerial Core and AI4Media. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/.
Lecturing record of Prof. I. Pitas: He was Visiting/Adjunct/Honorary Professor/Researcher and lectured at several Universities: University of Toronto (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), EPFL (Switzerland), Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), University of Bristol (UK), Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Yonsei University (Korea), Erlangen-Nurnberg University (Germany), National University of Malaysia, Henan University (China). He delivered 90 invited/keynote lectures in prestigious international Conferences and top Universities worldwide. He run 17 short courses and tutorials on Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, most of them in the past 3 years in many countries, e.g., USA, UK, Italy, Finland, Greece, Australia, N. Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan.
Relevant links: a) Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el b) AIIA Lab www.aiia.csd.auth.gr
General information: Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required.
These two lectures are part of a 15 lecture CVML web course ‘Computer vision and machine learning for autonomous systems’ (April-June 2020):
Introduction to autonomous systems (delivered 25th April 2020)
Introduction to computer vision (delivered 25th April 2020)
Image acquisition, camera geometry (delivered 2nd May 2020)
Stereo and Multiview imaging (delivered 2nd May 2020)
Structure from Motion (delivered 9th May 2020)
2D convolution and correlation algorithms (delivered 9th May 2020)
Motion estimation (delivered 20th May 2020)
Introduction to Machine Learning (delivered 20th May 2020)
Artificial Neural Networks. Perceptron (delivered 27th May 2020)
Multilayer perceptron. Backpropagation (delivered 27th May 2020)
Deep learning. Convolutional NNs (delivered 3rd June 2020)
Deep object detection (delivered 3rd June 2020)
Object tracking (delivered 10th June 2020)
Localization and mapping (delivered 10th June 2020)
Deep Semantic Image Segmentation (to be delivered 17th June 2020)
CVML programming tools (to be delivered 17th June 2020)
Sincerely yours
Prof. Ioannis Pitas
Director of Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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