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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dear Autonomous Systems engineers, scientists and enthusiasts,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>you are welcomed to register in the 'Summer short e-course on Deep Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020' with applications on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>autonomous cars, drones and marine vessels. It will take place on <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>17-18/8/2020 as an e-course (due to COVID-19 circumstances), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Thessaloniki, Greece, providing a series of live lectures delivered through<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>a tele-education platform. They will be complemented with on line video<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>recorded lectures and lecture pdfs, to facilitate international participants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>having time difference issues and to enable everybody to study at own pace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The short e-course consists of 16 1-hour lectures organized in two parts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>(one per day):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part A lectures provide an in-depth presentation to autonomous systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>imaging and the relevant architectures as well as a solid background on the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>necessary topics of computer vision (Image acquisition, camera geometry,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Stereo and Multiview imaging, Mapping and Localization) and machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>(Introduction to neural networks, Perceptron, backpropagation, Deep neural<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>networks, Convolutional NNs).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part B lectures provide in-depth views of the various topics encountered in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>autonomous systems perception, ranging from vehicle localization and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>mapping, to target detection and tracking, autonomous systems communications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>and embedded CPU/GPU CVML computing environments. They also contain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>application-oriented lectures on autonomous drones, cars and marine vessels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>(e.g. for land/marine surveillance, search&rescue missions,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>infrastructure/building inspection and modeling).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>You can use the following link for course registration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/">http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Lecture topics, sample lecture ppts and videos can be found therein.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <<a href="mailto:koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr">koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>You may also want to register to the complementing <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>‘Programming course on Autonomous Systems’ 19-21/08/2020</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>:</span></strong></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoPlainText><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>providing skills for programming autonomous systems, focusing on drones (Pytorch, Tensorflow, OpenCV, CUDA, ROS, Gazebo, AirSim). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The short course is organized by Prof. I. Pitas, IEEE and EURASIP fellow,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative, Director of the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Coordinator of the European Horizon2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>R&D project Multidrone. He is ranked 249-top Computer Science and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronics scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018). He is head<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>of the EC funded AI doctoral school of Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>AI4Media (1 of the 4 in Europe).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>AUTH is ranked 153/182 internationally in Computer Science/Engineering,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>respectively, in USNews ranking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Relevant links:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>1) Prof. I. Pitas:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el">https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Aerial-Core: <a href="https://aerial-core.eu/">https://aerial-core.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>3) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Multidrone: <a href="https://multidrone.eu/">https://multidrone.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>4) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project AI4Media: <a href="https://ai4media.eu/">https://ai4media.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>5) AIIA Lab: <a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/">https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Course description<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part A (8 hours)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>1. Introduction to autonomous systems imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2. Introduction in computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>3. Image acquisition, camera geometry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>4. Stereo and Multiview imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>5. Introduction to neural networks, Perceptron,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>6. Multilayer perceptron. Backpropagation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>7. Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>8. Introduction to multiple drone imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part B (8 hours)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>1. Localization and mapping<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2. Deep learning for object/target detection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>3. Object tracking and 3D localization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>4. CVML software development tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>5. Fast convolution algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>6. Drone mission planning and control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>7. Introduction to car vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>8. Introduction to autonomous marine vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Sincerely yours<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Prof. I. Pitas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Lab)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Post scriptum: To stay current on CVMl matters, you may want to register to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>the CVML email list, following instructions in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml">https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>