Program
Summer School Overview
possibly funded for African participants, open to international students
July 14-24 (10 days) 2024, Nairobi, Kenya
mornings and afternoons split into lectures, group activities, and coding projects
lectures by internationally acknowledged computer vision experts from Africa and across the world. See our speaker list.
Program (tentative)
Participants will gain insights into the fundamentals and intricacies of
deep learning and advanced architectures for computer vision,
3D geometry and other mathematical groundwork,
self-supervised learning and foundational vision models (VLMs),
scene understanding and applications to robotics, social, medical, etc.
ethics and pressing issues related to bias, fairness, and diversity,
generative models and conditional image synthesis.
The daily agenda will include lectures and practices run by renowned and rising international speakers from Africa and across the world (full list TBD).
A few keynote talks will also allow an in-depth exploration of the most advanced aspects of computer vision.
Secondary Objectives
coaching students on educational leadership, to place seeds for future generations
uniting students within Africa and connecting them with international students and mentors
discussion among faculty especially in African institutions on how to improve computer vision education in Africa
Daily schedule overview
08:00 - 08:45 🥐 Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 🎓 Lectures
12:00 - 13:30 🍴 Lunch
13:30 - 16:30 🛠️ Practice, Tutorials
16:30 - 18:00 🧠 Research keynote / Projects
18:30 - 20:00 🍽️ Dinner
20:00 🎵 Socials
The detailed program will be published soon, stay tuned.
