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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dear Autonomous Systems (cars, drones) engineers, scientists, and enthusiasts,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>you are welcomed to register to the 2020 Summer School on Autonomous Systems having focus on autonomous drones, cars and marine vessels:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/aiia-summer-school-on-autonomous-systems-2020/">http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/aiia-summer-school-on-autonomous-systems-2020/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>It will take place on 17-21/8/2020 as an e-school hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. As Greece had an excellent record <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>on combatting COVID-19 (no case in AUTH), we shall also consider the case of a physical school at AUTH (in parallel to the e-school, same registration), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>if regulations permit it. See details in the summer school course www pages, as provisions slightly vary from course to course.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The summer school consists of two short courses:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>a) ‘Short course on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020’, 17-18th August 2020:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><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></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>b) ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems’, 19-21th August 2020:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/">http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>You can follow the above-mentioned links for registration on either or both courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <<span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="mailto:koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr">koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr</a></span>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The first course contains 16 lectures providing an in-depth presentation of computer vision and deep learning problems algorithms with applications on autonomous drones, cars and marine vessels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The second programming short course and workshop offers a mix of lectures and programming workshops (hands-on lab exercises) and aims at developing registrants’ programming skills for Deep Learning and Computer Vision, with focus on drone planning/control and imaging.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Both short courses are organized by Prof. I. Pitas, IEEE and EURASIP fellow, He is AUTH prime investigation for H2020 project AerialCore, Coordinator of the European Horizon2020 R&D project Multidrone, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. He is ranked 249 top Computer Science and Electronics Scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thessaloniki is a very pleasant city at the end of August, very close to world-class resorts in Chalkidiki peninsula. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the biggest University in Greece and in SE Europe. It is highly ranked internationally and its campus is at the city center.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Relevant links:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>European Horizon2020 R&D projects Aerial-Core: <a href="https://aerial-core.eu/">https://aerial-core.eu/</a>, Multidrone: <a href="https://multidrone.eu/">https://multidrone.eu/</a>, AI4Media: <a href="https://ai4media.eu/">https://ai4media.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>AIIA Lab: <span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/">http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Prof. I. Pitas: <span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el">https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Course descriptions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>a) ‘Short course on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020’, 17-18th August 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><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></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Part A (8 hours), Computer vision topic list<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction to autonomous systems imaging<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction in computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Image acquisition, camera geometry<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Stereo and Multiview imaging<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction to neural networks. Perceptron, backpropagation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction to multiple drone imaging<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Drone mission planning and control<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Part B (8 hours) Deep learning topic list<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Localization and mapping<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep learning for object/target detection<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Object tracking and 3D target localization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Parallel GPU and multicore CPU programming. GPU programming<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Fast convolution algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Drone cinematography<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction to car vision<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Introduction to autonomous marine vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>b) ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems’, 19-21th August 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/">http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Part A (8 hours), Deep learning sample topic list<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep learning for target detection<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>PyTorch basics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Target detection with PyTorch<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Object oriented Tensorflow in Google Colab<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Part B (8 hours), Computer vision sample topic list<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>2D target tracking<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Parallel GPU and multi-core CPU architectures . GPU programming<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>CUDA programming<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>OpenCV programming for object tracking<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Drone mission simulations<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Part C (8 hours), Drone planning/control sample topic list<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Drone mission planning and control<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Drones with ROS and Gazebo simulations<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Sincerely yours<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Prof. I. 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