VLC @ECSUoS

Vision, Learning and Control (VLC) research group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton

[Kate Farrahi 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇧 @kfarrahi]

Huge congrats to my PhD student Zygis and collaborator Jo for making the back cover of Digital Discovery (IF 6.2!) (@digital_rsc @unisouthampton @EcsVlc ), nice work!

[VLC @ECSUoS @EcsVlc]

It is indeed VLC conference day🎉

[VLC @ECSUoS @EcsVlc]

Congratulations to all winners! Special mentions go to VLC members @KateriEirini and @DanielaMihai13

[The Doctoral College @UoSDocCollege]

Congratulations to all of our winners and nominees! 🥳

It's been great to come together ​and celebrate all of your achievements over the past year

Thanks also to those who nominated a PGR for an award and to everyone who joined us today!

[VLC @ECSUoS @EcsVlc]

Congratulations to our @KateriEirini and thank you for your contribution to VLC group!

[The Doctoral College @UoSDocCollege]

Citizenship & Community winners cont'd:

- Eirini Kateri, Engineering & Physical Sciences

For her significant investment in building a PGR community within her research group; organising a wide variety of social and research events

[VLC @ECSUoS @EcsVlc]

Research Award ECS runner-up @DanielaMihai13

[The Doctoral College @UoSDocCollege]

The Research Awards runners-up for Engineering and Physical Sciences​ are:

- Daniel Lawson, Physics & Astronomy​

- Andreea-Daniela Mihai, Electronics & Computer Science​

- Han Peng, Engineering

[Kate Farrahi 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇧 @kfarrahi]

Join in this afternoon to hear Prof Mascolo talk about wearables for health. I'll be the insights speaker @EcsVlc @ECSUoS @unisouthampton

[AISciNet @AISciNet]

Our 11th AI3SD Seminar Series is on 9/9 at 2pm by @nathanbroon from @benevolent_ai on Using #ArtificialIntelligence to Optimise Small-Molecule Drug Design in the Age of #COVID19! Sign up here: https://t.co/hA9LeurIpB #AI #Molecules #AI3SDAI4SmallMoleculeDrugDesign #DrugDiscovery

[Kate Farrahi 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇧 @kfarrahi]

Our work featured in El Pais this morning https://t.co/LRzHKE5ZwB @remiemonet @unisouthampton @EcsVlc

[Kate Farrahi 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇧 @kfarrahi]

Our digital contact tracing work (https://t.co/3YwwiMZsMv), possibly the first published paper on this topic, featured by the Max Planck Society @remiemonet @EcsVlc @unisouthampton

[Ethan Harris @ethanwharris]

Really pleased to see that FMix (https://t.co/knwe3Hmd7N) from our recent preprint has been used for the second place result (by The Zoo: @ph_singer @dott1718 - congrats!) in the @Kaggle Bengali AI handwritten grapheme classification competition - https://t.co/nTZ3tb88Dl

[Trending Papers @PapersTrending]

[5/10] 📈 - Understanding and Enhancing Mixed Sample Data Augmentation - 64 ⭐ - 📄 https://t.co/SoMSmkXMOh - 🔗 https://t.co/BaX6keNMGf

[neptune.ai @neptune_ai]

We have a treat for all @PyTorch users out there!

"8 Creators and Core Contributors Talk About Their Model Training Libraries From PyTorch Ecosystem"

First-hand info about:
- Philosophy
- Build-in features
- Extension capabilities
- and way more

https://t.co/sh6XrHFNb7

[Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi بشير CBE FREng FRS @hashimi_bashir]

Looking forward to attend the kickoff workshop tomorrow in Monterey of @EPSRC funded international-2-international center @spatialmlnet, to interact with our research collaborators. Delighted to see my @unisouthampton colleagues on the flight to SF (Geoff Merrett&Jon Hare)

[William Falcon ⚡️ @williamfalcon]

https://t.co/L2LydZKsUZ

Excited to announce that torchbearer and PyTorch Lightning have partnered to continue to improve the research experience of PyTorch. The founders of torchbearer are joining the core contributor team of @PyTorchLightnin!

[Jeff Chen @thisisjeffchen]

@Winston_Fan I use @williamfalcon ‘s pytorch lightning

[Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi بشير CBE FREng FRS @hashimi_bashir]

It is imperative to train engineers with understanding and application of AI and data, if the UK is to continue its leading role in Engineering. I describe this in @timeshighered here: https://t.co/fI9WnD3IIS

[Adam R. Kosiorek @arkosiorek]

This paper had the biggest subjective "wow" factor for me at #NeurIPS2019: "Deep Set Prediction Networks"
by Yan Zhang, Jonathon Hare, Adam Prügel-Bennett https://t.co/Z8Qc9cUKBF. The idea is very simple, and yet I find it mind-blowing.

[Arturo Deza @ArtDeza]

An amazing paper!

[SVRHM 2022 Workshop @svrhm_workshop]

Irina Higgins, a Senior Research Scientist at
@DeepMindAI, will be our second speaker tomorrow at SVRHM addressing the question: What is disentangling and does intelligence need it?