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SUMMARY:Search Images with AI: A Hands-On Introduction to CLIP
DTSTART:20260610T140000Z
DTEND:20260610T163000Z
DTSTAMP:20260616T202300Z
UID:indico-event-297@events.asc.ac.at
CONTACT:training@ai-at.eu
DESCRIPTION:Start date:  10 Juni 2026\, 16:00 (CEST)   Entry level:  B
 asicEnd date:  10 Juni 2026\, 18:30 (CEST)   Subject area:  Artificial
  Intelligence (AI)Location:  ONLINE (Zoom)     Topics:  Computer Visi
 onLanguage:  English     Target audience:  Industry\, public admin\, 
 academiaPrice:  Free (for eligible participants)     Organizers:  AI:
 AT & ASCWhat if you could search images for specific contents – even if 
 they’re not tagged? In this hands-on training\, you’ll get to know CLI
 P (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-Training)\, how to prepare your data\,
  and build a smart image search that “gets” both images and text.Disco
 ver how modern AI can connect images and text in powerful new ways. In thi
 s hands-on webinar\, you’ll learn how to work with a CLIP model from Hug
 ging Face\, how to prepare and load your data\, and to generate embeddings
  for text-based image retrieval.We’ll guide you step by step through bui
 lding a similarity pipeline\, showing how to rank images based on how well
  they match a given text prompt. You’ll dive into practical evaluation t
 echniques\, including precision and recall\, to understand how well your s
 ystem actually performs.You’ll also explore how to interpret results\, s
 pot common pitfalls\, and recognize the real-world limitations of pretrain
 ed models. Whether you’re building search systems\, recommendation engin
 es\, or multimodal AI applications\, this session will give you the practi
 cal skills and critical insight needed to get started with confidence.Agen
 da & ContentFor a detailed timetable and additional information\, please s
 ee Agenda & Content in the left menu.Target audience\, eligibility & price
 sEveryone is welcome who wants to get a deeper understanding of how and wh
 y AI systems make decisions.This course is open and free of charge for all
  participants from academia\, industry\, and public administration from EU
  and/or EuroHPC JU member countries.Entry level & prerequisitesBasic – P
 articipants are expected to be familiar with basic python programming\, pr
 ior machine learning experience is not required.Course formatThis course w
 ill be delivered as a LIVE ONLINE COURSE (using Zoom).Hands-on labsAll par
 ticipants will get a temporary user account on one of the ASC systems to d
 o the hands-on labs.You will use your own laptop or workstation to connect
  conveniently from your browser to the ASC Jupyterhub and do the hands-on 
 exercises on a suitable CPU or GPU partition of the ASC.Accepted participa
 nts will be contacted a few days before the course and asked to do a short
  pre-assignment that has to be completed before the course starts.Lecturer
 Michela Vignoli (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)       
                   Michela Vignoli is Data Scientist at A
 IT Austrian Institute of Technology and PhD candidate in Digital Humanitie
 s at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on applying Artificial Int
 elligence and Machine Learning to humanities data\, with a particular inte
 rest in multimodal approaches and image–text analysis.LanguageEnglishDat
 e\, time\, and location10.06.2026\, 16:00 – 18:30 (CEST)\, LIVE ONLINE C
 OURSE (Zoom)RegistrationRegistration is required\, the registration form c
 an be found on top of this page in the menu on the left.Please register wi
 th your official institutional email address to prove your affiliation.You
  will get an automatic confirmation by email (subject starting with "[Indi
 co] Registration")\, please check your Spam/Junk folders.Following your su
 ccessful registration\, you will receive further information a few days be
 fore the course.Please do not hesitate to contact us at training@ai-at.eu 
 if you have any questions.WaitinglistAfter the number of registrations has
  reached its maximum or the registration form has been closed\, you may wa
 nt to send us an email (training@ai-at.eu) stating that you are interested
  to be put on the waiting list (vacancies may occur due to cancelations\, 
 etc.).To be able to do the hands-on labs on the ASC systems please provide
  your full international mobile-phone number for the two-factor authentica
 tion required to login to the ASC systems.Modification\, withdrawal & no-s
 how policyYour registration is binding. Please only register for the cours
 e if you are really going to attend.You can update your registration data 
 or withdraw your registration anytime before the registration form has bee
 n closed via the link "Manage my registration" which you can find at the b
 ottom of your automatic email confirmation (subject starting with "[Indico
 ] Registration").Alternatively\, or after the registration form has been c
 losed\, please inform us about your cancelation or any change in your regi
 stration data (especially your mobile-phone number) via email (training@ai
 -at.eu).No-show policy: If you do not cancel and do not show up at the cou
 rse you will be blacklisted and excluded from future training events.Organ
 izers                This course is jointly organized by AI Fa
 ctory Austria AI:AT and Austrian Scientific Computing ASC (aka ASC Researc
 h Center\, TU Wien).AcknowledgementsAI Factory Austria AI:AT has received 
 funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU
 ) under grant agreement No 101253078. The JU receives support from the Hor
 izon Europe Programm of the European Union and Austria (BMIMI / FFG). \n\
 nhttp://events.asc.ac.at/event/297/
LOCATION:Zoom (ONLINE)
URL:http://events.asc.ac.at/event/297/
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