The curriculum runs over 3 semesters (18 months) and consists of 14 modules: 10 basic and 4 advanced. You follow the basic modules during the first two semesters and the advanced modules in the final semester.

Along with your studies, you pursue a work-based learning for the company.

The 90 ECTS credits of this MSc are distributed as follows:

Mandatory modules

ECTS2
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

This course covers Linear Algebra from basic matrix/vector operations to singular value decomposition and probabilities from fundamental basics to Markov chains and limit theorems, which are prerequires for most of the AI courses.

The course will be directed by examples and intuition rather than formalism. Python language will be used in examples and exercises. Octave (matlab) equivalent will also be available for the linear algebra part.

Although this course covers most of the basics, it is assumed students have some notion and background in linear algebra, probability and coding.

Labs will be application exercises (numeric or not) and exercises aiming at introducing aspects or notions that are not discussed in the course.

 

Lecturer

Dr Théophile Gentilhomme
Dr Ina Kodrasi

Assistants

Elisa Messori
Christine Marcel

ECTS4
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

The course gives global knowledge in data structure and algorithms. It is organized in 4 parts:

1. Introduction

2. Data structures and algorithms

3. Advanced algorithms

4. Computing tools

Lecturer

Olivier Bornet

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Philip Abbet
William Droz
Salim Kayal
Flavio Tarsetti

ECTS4
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

1. Signals and Signal Processing

Classification of Signals

Simple Time-Domain Operations, Filtering, sampling

 

2. Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

Time-Domain Representation

Sampling Rate Alteration

 

3. Discrete-Time Fourier Transform

The Continuous-Time Fourier Transform

The Discrete-Time Fourier Transform

Discrete-Time Fourier Transform Theorems

Digital Processing of Continuous-Time Signals

 

4. Discrete-Time Systems

Discrete Time System Examples

Classification of Discrete Time Systems (FIR/IIR)

Frequency Response

 

5. Finite-Length Discrete Transforms

Orthogonal Transforms

The Discrete Fourier Transform

Relation Between the Fourier Transform and the DFT and Their Inverses

Circular Convolution

DFT properties and theorems

Computation of the DFT of Real Sequences

Linear Convolution Using the DFT

 

6. z-Transform

Computation of the Convolution Sum of Finite-Length Sequences

The Transfer Function

Transfer Function Expression, relation to frequency response

 

7. LTI Discrete-Time Systems in the Transform Domain

characterization of LTI systems, stability

filter design

 

8. DSP Algorithm Implementation

Computation of the Discrete Fourier Transform

Splines and wavelets • Multirate Filter Banks and Wavelets

Reading recommendations

Compulsory Literature:

Fawwaz T. Ulaby and Andrew E. Yagle, “Signals and Systems,” ISBN: 978-1-60785-486-9 (harcopy)/978-1-60785-487-6 (electronic)

 

Additional Literature:

Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, “Discrete-Time Signal Pro-cessing (3rd Edition)” Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series, ISBN-13: 978-0131988422, ISBN-10: 0131988425

Sanjit Mitra, “Digital Signal Processing,” Mcgraw Hill Higher Education; 4th edition (2010), ISBN10: 0071289461, ISBN-13: 978-0071289467

Martin Vetterli, Jelena Kovacevic, Vivek K. Goyal “Foundations of Sig-nal Processing” 3rd Edition ISBN-

10: 9781107038608, ISBN-13: 978-1107038608

Lecturer

Prof. Dr Michael Liebling

Assistants

Christine Marcel

ECTS4
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

The syllabus is divided into five topics each spanning two weeks. The first two topics are introductory, covering basic statistical modelling. The three subsequent ones are more involved, covering the estimation of parameters (the core of machine learning), inference (the basics of AI), and finally testing.

 

Topic 1: Discrete distributions

Introduction to the course, it’s teaching staff and structure

Origins and characteristics of some important discrete distributions

Introductory exercises and python notebook based labs

 

Topic 2: Continuous distributions

Derivation of some important continuous distributions

Introduction to Bayesian concepts including conjugacy

Conclusion of the first two “introductory” topics

 

Topic 3: Estimation

Bayesian estimation

Minimum mean squared error

Maximum likelihood and Maximum a-Posteriori concepts

 

Topic 4: Inference and priors

Bayesian inference and the predictive distribution

Prior elicitation

The non-informative (Jeffreys) prior

Beta credible interval

 

Topic 5: Testing

Hypothesis testing

Tests based on a normal assumption

Approximating non-normal cases

Lecturer

Dr Philip N. Garner
Dr Ina Kodrasi

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Haolin Chen
Louise Coppieters

ECTS2
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

AI and the Law

AI and Data Protection

AI and Ethics

Reproducibility, What is it?

Data Organization and Evaluation

Version Control with git

Code Sharing with GitLab

Unit Testing and Continuous Integration

Documentation and Reporting

Packaging and Deployment

Lecturer

Olivier Bornet
Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr André Anjos

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Marie-Constance Landelle
François Charlet
Flavio Tarsetti

ECTS4
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

Linear regression

Logistic Regression

Decision Trees

Boosting

Multi-layer Perceptron

Lecturer

Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr Jean-Marc Odobez
Dr André Anjos
Andre Freitas

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Oscar Alfonso Jimenez del Toro
Michael Villamizar
Anshul Gupta
Marco Valentino

ECTS4
Semesterautumn semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 2
Description

This class covers basic concepts in image and video processing as well as computer vision. Topics include image formation and sampling, image transforms, image enhancement, and image and video compression. Computer vision topics include points of interest, optical flow, and camera calibration.

• Introduction to Digital Image processing (imaging types and

formats, applications)

• Point operations, image histograms

• Spatial Filtering and convolutions

• Edge detection

• 2D Fourier Transforms and representation of images, sampling, and image resizing (low pass filters, pyramids)

• Color images and color transformations

• Interest points (detection, representation, invariance, matching, RANSAC...)

• Calibration

• Optical Flow

Reading recommendations

Compulsory Literature:

• Andrew E. Yagle and Fawwaz T. Ulaby “Image Processing for Engineers,” Michigan Publishing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-60785-488-3 (hardcopy), 978-1-60785-489-0 (electronic)

 

Additional Literature:

• Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, “Digital Image Processing Third Edition,” Pearson, ISBN 9780131687288, 2008

Lecturer

Dr Jean-Marc Odobez
Prof. Dr Michael Liebling

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Michael Villamizar
François Marelli
Pierre Vuillecard
Arya Farkhondeh

ECTS4
Semesterautumn semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 2
Description

• Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering

• Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines

• Graphical Models

• Exact and Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks

• Probability Distribution Modelling

Reading recommendations

Compulsory Literature:

C. Bishop, “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”, Springer, 2006.

Lecturer

Dr Jean-Marc Odobez
Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr Sébastien Marcel
Dr André Anjos
Andre Freitas

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Michael Villamizar
Samy Tafasca
Oscar Alfonso Jimenez del Toro
Anshul Gupta

ECTS4
Semesterautumn semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 2
Description

This course will introduce the students the fundamentals of speech processing and provide them with the key formalisms, models and algorithms to implement speech processing applications such as, speech recognition, speech synthesis, paralinguistic speech processing, multichannel speech processing.

 

Course content

 

Introduction

why speech processing? speech production, speech perception, basic

phonetics

 

Speech signal analysis

Sampling, Quantization, Time domain processing, Frequency domain

processing, linear prediction, cepstrum, speech coding

Practical: Speech signal analysis in Octave and Praat

 

Machine learning for speech processing

Static classification, Sequence classification, Regression

Practical: Statistical pattern recognition, Hidden Markov models in Octave

 

Automatic speech recognition

Dynamic programming, Instance-based speech recognition, Hidden

Markov model-based speech recognition, Evaluation measures

Practical: Kaldi tutorial

 

Text-to-speech synthesis

Concatenative speech synthesis, Statistical parametric speech synthesis, Evaluation measures

Practical: Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, HMM-based speech synthesis

 

Paralinguistics speech processing

Emotion, gender, accent, pathological speech assessment, Evaluation

measures

Practical: OpenSMILE tutorial

Reading recommendations

Suggested textbooks:

1. B. Gold, N. Morgan and D. Ellis, ``Speech and Audio Signal Processing", Wiley Publications, 2011.

2. P. Taylor, ``Text-to-Speech Synthesis", Cambridge University Press, 2009.

3. X. Huang, A. Acero and H-W. Hon, ``Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development", Prentice Hall, 2001.

4. B. Schuller and A. Batliner, ``Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language", Wiley, 2013.

 

Online Literature:

SCOOT (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/scoot)

 

Software tools: Octave, Praat, Kaldi, HTS, OpenSMILE (needed for practical)

Lecturer

Dr Mathew Magimai Doss

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Enno Hermann
Zohreh Mostaani
Tilak Purohit
Mutian He
Karl El Hajal
Eklavya Sarkar

ECTS4
Semesterautumn semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 2
Description

The “deep learning” course aims at providing an overview of the deep learning area (theory, methods, applications, and tools) to the students and to use the most important tools via practical sessions.

 

Labs content

Bias-variance dilemma through k-NN and polynomial fitting, mini deeplearning framework in numpy, PyTorch basics, MLP on MNIST and CIFAR, LeNet5 on MNIST and CIFAR, optimisation algorithms, finetuning on a pre-trained network, creation and training of model for person detection from top-view depth images, YOLOv3 for object detection, adversarial examples, distribution of activation maps as embeddings.

Lecturer

Dr Olivier Canévet
Dr Olivier Canévet

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Alexandre Nanchen

ECTS10
Semesterspring semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 1
Description

The module provides the student with project planning skills. The goal is to define the project(s) that will be developed in module P02. It can be divided in 6 parts:

• Familiarize with and understand your company, its corporate culture and strategy.

• Determine how the artificial intelligence takes part in your com-pany’s strategy

• Analyze state-of-the-art development of AI in the field of inter-est

• Design proof(s) of concept to guarantee the success of your project(s)

• Set a roadmap to plan your project(s) development

• Define the terms of reference of your project(s)

Lecturer

Olivier Bornet
Dr Joël Dumoulin

Assistants

Christian Michelet
Christine Marcel
Christian Jaques

ECTS30
Semesterautumn semester
Target AudienceStudents from semester 2
Description

The aim of Module P02-AI Project(s) development is to develop the project(s) the student defines in Module P01 – AI Company strategy and Project(s) definition.

Lecturer

Olivier Bornet
Dr Joël Dumoulin

Assistants

Christine Marcel
Christian Jaques
Simon Franzen

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