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University of Eastern Finland (UEF) hosts a number of different summer courses in August 2018. The course on Machine Learning Applied to Speech Technology and Autonomous Agents is co-organized by the School of Computing of the UEF and Department of Automation and Systems Technology of Aalto University. Contact teaching takes place from August 13th to 17th, 2018. Individual optional project work is from August 20th to 24th, 2018.
The course is intended to be self-contained with limited or no prior knowledge of machine learning required. It gives a brief overview of the relevant machine learning concepts and their applications to speech technology and autonomous agents. Despite the two different application themes, there are no parallel sessions but the participants learn about both topics.
The first day includes course introduction, introduction to machine learning, linear mixed models and basics of deep learning for modeling sequential data. The next two days focus on audio topics (speaker & speech recognition, speaker diarization, speech enhancement, audio steganography), while the last two lecture days focus on reinforcement learning and autonomous software and physical agents (robots). The teaching takes place at the Joensuu campus of the UEF.
The speech portion of the course is especially recommended for PhD students (and MSc students close to graduation) who might be already familiar with the basics of signal processing and are interested in obtaining a brief overview of basic principles, state-of-the-art techniques and selected emerging trends, especially in speaker and language recognition.
The reinforcement portion of the course gives basics of how autonomous agents, whether physical (robots) or software, can be designed and trained in end-to-end fashion. Portion of the course is useful for any PhD or MSc students close to graduation, who is interested to learn more about the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI).
Venue: Joensuu campus Dates: 13-24 August 2017 Credits: 2 or 5 ECTS Teaching language: English Level: Doctoral, Master Study materials: https://moodle.uef.fi/course/view.php?id=17032 Program codes: https://github.com/trungnt13/uef-summerschool2018
The course amounts to either 2 ECTS or 5 ECTS, depending on the mode:
A. Lectures + learning diary (August 13 - 17), total 2 ECTS B. + additional individual project (August 20 - 24), total 5 ECTS
The course contains 5 days of lectures, hands on practicals, project work (1 week) and learning diary. The course will be assessed as pass/fail. Students who pass the course will receive a course certificate.
The course involves social programme organized by the UEF. The activities will mostly be included in your course fee, but some of them may have a small participation fee. For more details, see http://www.uef.fi/en/web/summerschool/social-programme-in-joensuu.