<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Dear Colleagues,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word">We <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​​</div>are organising the Deep Learning for Visual Computing <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Winter</div> School 2017 (DLVC 2017<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ WS​</div>) during <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​19-23 December 2017</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​coordinated by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India ​</div>at the <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ITER Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India​</div>. This event provides you with a unique opportunity to learn about the basics of deep learning for visual computing applications from practicing experts through <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​19​</div> lectures and 1<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​2​</div> hands-on tutorials. Also you stand the chance to win exciting prizes to accelerate your deep learning experience by participating in the DLVC 2017<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ WS​</div> Challenge on the last day of the program.</span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><br></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Topics to be covered include:</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Deep learning with neural networks</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Autoencoders</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN, LeNet, AlexNet, VGGNet, GoogLeNet)</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Residual connections in very deep networks (ResNets, DenseNets)</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​* Hardware acceleration of deep learning</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Transfer learning of Deep Networks</div></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-line;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">* Hand-on Tutorial on Intel Xeon Phi based HPC with <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Py​</div>Torch and Python2​</div><br style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br style="word-wrap:break-word"></div>This is brought at affordable registration rates with support from <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ITER-SOA University and </div>Intel. Details for the program and registration at: <span class="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-Object" id="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4560_com_zimbra_url" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-Object" id="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4567_com_zimbra_url" style="word-wrap:break-word"><a href="http://www.ee.iitkgp.ac.in/ispschool/" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">http://www.ee.iitkgp.ac.in/isp<wbr>school/</a></span></span><br style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br style="word-wrap:break-word"></div>We encourage strong participation and deadline for the <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​limited number of ​</div>discounted rates early bird is <span class="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-Object" id="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4562_com_zimbra_date" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-Object" id="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4569_com_zimbra_date" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​5 November 2017.</div></span></span><br style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br style="word-wrap:break-word"></div>With regards,<br style="word-wrap:break-word">Debdoot</span></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><div class="m_6323654948155310437m_-7298855755215085530gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:small" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><b><div style="display:inline">​</div>Debdoot Sheet</b>,<i> PhD</i></font><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444"><i>Assistant Professor</i>, Department of Electrical Engineering, </font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kharagpur, WB 721302, India</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#444444">(voice: <a href="tel:03222%20283%20082" value="+913222283082" target="_blank">+91 3222 283 082</a>) (room: N 201) (web: </font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~debdoot/" target="_blank">www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.<wbr>in/~debdoot/</a></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Editor</i>, IEEE Pulse</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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