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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#000000" vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dear Autonomous Systems engineers, scientists, and enthusiasts, </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>you are welcomed to register in the 2020 'Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems'</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>,</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>with applications on </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>various </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>autonomous </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>systems, notably </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>drones. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>It will take place on 19-21th August 2020 as an e-course hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>providing a series of lectures and programming workshops </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>delivered through a tele-education platform.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'> </span><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'>Due to the special COVID-19 circumstances, the course is scheduled to take place primarily as web course (default mode). Remote participation will be available via teleconferencing. </span><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;color:windowtext'>Students will be helped on line for executing the programming workshops while at home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A physical meeting (second short course mode) is also planned for the same dates, provided that</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> a) AUTH and national regulations allow it and b) there are sufficient physical attendees.  </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Greece has had an excellent COVID-19 epidemic record (one of the best worldwide) and our University had no reported COVID-19 cases, whatsoever. We intend to take all appropriate measures to ensure this record in the future as well.<br><br>The </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>programming </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>short course consists of a good mix of lectures and programming workshops (hands-on exercises) aiming at developing registrants’ programming skills for<br>Deep Learning and Computer Vision, with focus on autonomous systems planning/control and imaging/perception. It is organized three parts (one per day):</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>1) Part A aims at deep neural network programming (Convolutional NN and their use in target/object detection, PyTorch, Tensorflow).<br>2) Part B aims at computer vision programming (target tracking and localization, GPU architectures and programming, CUDA, OpenCV programming, drone mission simulations).<br>3) Part C aims at autonomous systems perception and programming (ROS, Gazebo, AIRSIM).<br><br><b>You can use the following link for course registration</b></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/"><span style='color:black'>http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/</span></a></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <a href="mailto:koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr"><koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr></a><br><br>The short course is sponsored by the European Horizon2020 R&D project Aerial Core. It is organized  by Prof. I. Pitas,  IEEE and EURASIP fellow, Coordination of the European Horizon2020 R&D project Multidrone, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. He is ranked 249 top Computer Science and Electronics Scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018).<br><br>The lectures and programming sessions will be delivered by very qualified Postdoc/PhD researchers </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'>and </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Professors, with a long R&D record in drone and autonomous systems programming from University of Seville (Robotics, Vision and Control Research Group) and AIIA Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.<br><br>Thessaloniki is a very pleasant city at the end of August, with vibrant night-life, very close to world-class resorts in Chalkidiki peninsula.<br><br>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.<br><br>Course registrants may also want to register (if so desired) in the back2back short course on ‘Short course on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020. Application focus on autonomous/self-driving cars', 17-18th August 2020:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'> <b><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/"><span style='color:black'>http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/</span></a></b></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext'> </span><span style='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'>Relevant links:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>1.                  H2020 project Aerial-Core: </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F4E79'><a href="https://aerial-core.eu/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>https://aerial-core.eu/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>2.                  AIIA Lab: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/"><u><span style='color:blue'>http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/</span></u></a></span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>3.                  Prof. I. Pitas:  </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el"><u><span style='color:blue'>https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el</span></u></a></span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br><br><b>Description of ‘Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems’, 19-21th August 2020.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> Part A (8 hours), Deep learning sample topic list</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Deep learning for target detection</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>PyTorch basics</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:1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