<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dear AI/CS/ECE student</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,0,80)">/</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">scientist/engineer/enthusiast</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">,</span></p><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </div><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">t</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">he International AI Doctoral Academy (</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWA865df89a-fa93-2cdd-bed9-3686c8e0d1a7" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AIDA</a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">) is excited to invite you to register and attend the upcoming semester courses by <b>Prof. Ioannis Pitas</b>:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:11.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:11.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Host Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:11.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"> </p><ol start="1" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;display:flex"><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:11.65pt;list-style-type:"1. ""><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Computer Vision</b></span></li></ol><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-ker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li></ol><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">This course will cover the following topics:</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b> </b></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">Random variables and vectors. Decision functions. Classification algorithms utilizing decision functions. Classification based on distance. Classification based on Bayes decision theory. Artificial Neural Networks – Perceptron. Convolutional Neural Networks. Principal component analysis. Linear discriminant analysis. Estimation of probability distribution parameters. Analysis of similarity and web graphs. Vector quantization techniques. Programming assignments in C/C++ and MATLAB.</span></div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>ECTS</b>: <b>5</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Level</b>: <b>Senior undergraduate course</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Course attedance: Asynchronous online participation </b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>4 March - June 2024</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Join us and explore further</b></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">: <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/pattern-recognition-statistical-learning-4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk292153" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.i-aida.org/course/pattern-recognition-statistical-learning-4/</a></span><br aria-hidden="true"> </div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </div><ol start="3" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;display:flex"><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;list-style-type:"3. ""><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Autonomous Systems Perception</b></span></li></ol><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">This course will cover the following topics: </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">Autonomous systems. Visual and other sensors. Image/video basics, formats and digitization. Video processing. Video streaming and compression. Motion estimation. Deep learning for image and video analysis. Object tracking. Object detection. Object pose estimation. SLAM. Face/person detection. Facial expression recognition. Activity recognition. Video description. Video indexing and retrieval.</span></div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>ECTS</b>: <b>7,5</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Level</b>: <b>Postgraduate course</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Course attedance: Asynchronous online participation </b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>4 March - June 2024</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Join us and explore further</b></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">: <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/autonomous-systems-perception-4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk227145" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.i-aida.org/course/autonomous-systems-perception-4/</a></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"><br aria-hidden="true"> </div><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Registration</b>: Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in these semester courses:</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;display:flex"><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Register in each course by sending an e-mail to </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(112,48,160);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><a class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWAccf33d5a-6756-e641-8eaa-074601ad8e4a" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">secretariat@i-aida.org</a>.</span></p></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11pt"><b>For AIDA students only*</b>: On the top of the above registration, enroll in each course through the above AIDA course pages, so that a successful attendance of these courses appears in the AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance.</p></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:30px 0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">*AIDA Students are PhD students/candidates or Postdoc researchers belonging to any<a href="https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk169438" title="https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> AIDA member</a>.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:30px 0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Compulsory bibliographical and/or programming assignments are foreseen to be carried out during the courses.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);line-height:11.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">In order to pass each course, you will be requested to:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">1.       study the course lecture pdfs (in English) and fill the respective understanding questionnaires:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">2.       do an obligatory bibliographical project (in ppt and tex)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">3.       do an obligatory programming project</span></p><p style="color:rgb(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