CVML Programming Short Course and Workshop on Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Big Data Analytics

The Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki welcomes you to the CVML Programming Short Course and Workshop on Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Big Data Analytics 2024, a 21-hour course that will take place at KEDEA, 3is Septemvriou – Panepistimioupoli, 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Scientific Director of the Program is Ioannis Pitas, Professor, School of Informatics, AUTh.

Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of AUTH and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities.

His current interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, image/video processing, human-centred computing, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 970 papers, contributed to 46 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 15 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 23 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 5 international conferences. He delivered 129 keynote/invited speeches worldwide. He co-organized 38 conferences and participated in technical committees of 291 conferences. He participated in 75+ R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator in 47 such projects. He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe R&D project TEMA ( https://tema-project.eu/) , AUTH principal investigator in H2020 R&D projects Aerial Core (https://aerial-core.eu/), AI4Media (https://www.ai4media.eu/ one of the 4 H2020 ICT48 AI flagship projects) and Horizon Europe R&D projects AI4Europe (https://www.egi.eu/project/ai4europe/), SIMAR (https://simar-project.eu/). He is chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) (https://www.i-aida.org/).  He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative (https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/). He has 37300+ citations to his work and h-index 92+.

Email: [email protected]

AIIA Lab: https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/

Useful links: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=en&user=lWmGADwAAAAJ

https://research.com/university-rankings/computer-science/gr

Start Date: 27/08/2024

End of the course: 29/08/2024

Duration: 24 hours

Applications are submitted online from 23/04/2024 to 27/08/2024

Certificate/ECTS: Yes/3

Teaching Staff
Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Ioanna Valsamara, Evangelos Charalampakis, Nikolaos Marios Militsis, Erofili Alexaki, Dimitrios Psarras, Matthaios Dimitrios Tzimas.