Connectionists: VISUM 2019 Summer School :: Call for Participation! 2 ECTS + Industry Day Challenge + Project Competition

[Inês Domingues]

Call for Participation

The seventh edition of the Vision Understanding and Machine
Intelligence (VISUM) Summer School will take place between 4 and 12,
July 2019, at Universidade Portucalense (UPT), in Porto - Portugal.
This year the following topics will be covered:

1.      Computer Vision & Machine Learning Basics
2.      Computer Vision with Deep Learning
3.      Interpretability
4.      Deep Generative Models
5.      Reinforcement Learning
6.      Constraint Programming and Decision Optimization

World-renowned experts in the fields will deliver the courses, and the
material covered will guide you in building your own AI system as a
curricular project. Participants can request 2 ECTS given by UPT!

Aside from the theoretical relevance of the topics covered, and the
experience of building a practical AI application, the school aims to
provide a stimulating opportunity for students, young researchers and
professionals with interests in Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

The participants will benefit from direct interaction with
representatives from the most relevant industries in the field, as
well as top academics.

Prizes

1.      For the winning team of the Project
2.      For the winning team who solve the challenges of the Industry Day

Application deadline: 22 March 2019

Please send an email to visum at inesctec.pt to be eligible to apply to
the VISUM summer school 2019

Intended audience

In general, people that have been exposed to introductory topics of
Computer Vision and Machine Learning will find this to be an excellent
opportunity to grow their knowledge base. The target audience is
therefore:

1.      MSc and PhD students
2.      Researchers and Post-doctoral scholars
3.      Industry professionals


Social Program:

Porto is an eclectic city. Benefiting from low-cost flights, thousands
of tourists visit each year. You’ll get a chance to see why so many
people are attracted by the city. Well known by its cellars, resting
place for the famous wine, Porto as a lot to offer. In the social day
(Sunday), we’ll tour the city and check some of its coolest spots.


List of invited speakers:

Jose Costa Pereira, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, UK

Efstratios Gavves, UVA, NL

Mauricio Reyes, University of Bern, CH

Dinesh Jayaraman, UC Berkeley, USA

Mohamed Elhoseiny, KAUST, SA

Deepak Mehta, United Technologies Research Cente, Irland


Industry panel:

Bosch, PT

Abyssal, PT

NILG.AI, PT

NOTE: the completed list of speakers and industrial panel will be revealed soon!


Parternship:

We encourage students to participant in Future Computing Summer School
(https://futurecomp.uptec.up.pt/) for an incredible talk of NVIDIA
about parallel computing.


Website
visum.inesctec.pt