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Due to the availability of general purpose programming interfaces like CUDA, the immense speed of graphics cards can be put to work for a multitude of parallel tasks. Algorithms for the analysis of images mostly work independently on different regions of an image. These algorithms are therefore inherently parallel and can greatly profit from parallel hardware.

Speedup factors in the order of two magnitudes make it possible to process and extract information from huge datasets, for example the images of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. When experimenting with learning algorithms, the experiment duration is drastically reduced.

In the Lab, we learn how to implement learning algorithms from the area of visual pattern recognition and accelerate them using graphics processing unit (GPU). We will implement learning algorithms with the help of PyTorch which is a popular deep learning framework. The lab will have weekly meetings. We'll agree on a time slot for these meetings in the first session.

Prerequisites

• Programming skills in python
• Knowledge in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning would be helpful.
• Recommended: have completed at least one of the following lectures
• MA-INF 4111 – Intelligent Learning and Analysis Systems: Machine Learning 
• MA-INF 4204 – Technical Neural Nets 
• MA-INF 2313 Deep Learning for Visual Recognition