<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Autonomous Systems, DSP/DIP, Social Media Engineers, Scientists and Enthusiasts,<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">you are welcomed to register and attend Web e-Courses consisting of one or more of the 21 CVML Web e-Course Modules on offer (Lecture Series having 208 lectures in total).<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Th</span>ese<span style="color:black"> asynchronous </span>Web <span style="color:black">e-</span>C<span style="color:black">ourse </span>Modules (Lecture Series) <span style="color:black">provide an overview and in-depth presentation of </span>21 different domains:<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Deep Learning and Neural Networks: </b>Machine Learning (12 Lectures), Neural Networks/Deep Learning (14 Lectures), Advanced Deep Learning (7 Lectures)<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Deep Learning and Computer Vision Foundations and Tools:  </b>Mathematical Foundations (9 Lectures), SW Development and Programming Tools (3 Lectures)<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Computer Vision/Image Processing and 3D Imaging:  </b>Computer Vision (12 Lectures), 2D Computer Vision/Image Analysis (8 Lectures), Image Processing (21 Lectures), Video Processing and Analysis (17 Lectures), 3D Imaging (9 Lectures), 3D Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (5 Lectures)<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Autonomous Systems: </b>Autonomous Systems principles (8 Lectures), Robotics and Automatic Control (3 Lectures), Autonomous Cars (8 Lectures), Autonomous Drones (15 Lectures), Autonomous Marine Systems (4 Lectures).<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Human centered computing. Social Networks. Graph Theory: </b>Human Centered Computing (15 Lectures), Network Theory. Social Media Analysis (10 Lectures).<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Digital Signal Processing and Applications: </b>Signal and Systems (11 Lectures), Digital Signal Processing and Analysis (7 Lectures), Medical Image and Signal Analysis (4 Lectures), Acoustics, Speech, Natural Language Processing and Analysis (4 Lectures), Communications (2 Lectures).<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You can combine CVML Web e-Course Modules to create CVML Web e-Courses (typically consisting of 16 lectures) of your own choice that cater to your personal education needs.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Each </span>CVML Web e-Course you will create (16 lectures) provides you with material that can cover a semester course, but you can master it in approximately 1 month.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Asynchronous tutor support will be provided in case of questions.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CVML Web e-Course Module materials<span style="color:black"> typically consist of: a) a lecture pdf/ppt, b) lecture </span>self-assessment <span style="color:black">understanding questionnaire and lecture video, programming exercises, tutorial exercises (for several modules/lectures) and overall course module satisfaction questionnaire.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Course materials have been very successfully used in many top conference keynote speeches/tutorials worldwide and in short courses, summer schools, semester courses delivered by AIIA Lab physically or on-line from 2018 onwards, attracting many hundreds of registrants.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Course materials are at senior undergraduate/MSc level in a CS, CSE, EE or ECE or related Engineering or Science Department. Their structure, level and offer are completely different from what you can find in either Coursera or Udemy.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b> </b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>You can find sample Web e-Course Module material to make up your mind and/or can perform CVML Web e-Course registration in</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"> 👇</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/" target="_blank">http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For questions, please contact: <a href="mailto:koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr" target="_blank">koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Academic/Research/Industry offer and arrangements</b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Special arrangements can be made to offer the material of these CVML Web e-Course Modules at University/Department/Company level:<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">by granting access to the material to University/research/industry lecturers to be used as an aid in their teaching,<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">by enabling class registration in CVML Web e-Courses<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">by delivering such live short courses physically or on-line by Prof. Ioannis Pitas<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">by combinations of the above.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The CVML Web e-Course is organized by Prof. I. Pitas, <span lang="EN-GB">IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow</span>, <span lang="EN-GB">Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab</span>, Chair of International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), past Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe R&D project TEMA </span><a href="https://tema-project.eu/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://tema-project.eu/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> , AUTH principal investigator in H2020 R&D projects Aerial Core, AI4Media (</span><a href="https://www.ai4media.eu/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.ai4media.eu/</span></a> <span lang="EN-GB">one of the 4 H2020 ICT48 AI flagship projects) and Horizon Europe R&D projects AI4Europe, SIMAR. </span>He is ranked 249-top Computer Science and Electronics scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018). He has 36500+ citations to his work and h-index 90+. <span lang="EN-GB">According to </span><a href="https://research.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">https://research.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> he is ranked first in Greece and 319 worldwide in the field of Computer Science (2022).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The informatics Department at AUTH ranked 106th internationally in the field of Computer Science for 2019 in the Leiden Ranking list.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Relevant links:</b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Prof. I. Pitas: <a href="https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el</a></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA): <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank">https://www.i-aida.org</a></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>AIIA Lab</b>: <a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" target="_blank">https://aiia.csd.auth.gr</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Sincerely yours</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Prof. I. Pitas</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Post scriptum: To stay current on CVML matters, you may want to register to the CVML email list, following instructions in <a href="https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml" target="_blank">https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml</a></span></p></div>