February 2022 - EuroCC Montenegro

28.02.2022.27.10.2022.

Successful Round Table: HPC/AI and Montenegrin S3

We have implemented a very successful round table event with panel discussions on HPC/AI and its relation to priorities identified in Montenegrin S3, namely agriculture and food production, health and tourism, and energy. We had panelists from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. The event is organized by EuroCC NCC Monteengro in collaboration with NCC Slovenia. The agenda is available by clicking the following link.

Round Table on HPC/AI and Montenegrin S3

The event took place at the UDG, in a full amphitheater AS on Saturday, 26.02.2022. The panelists gave interesting presentations, considerations, presented project results, and there was a very interesting discussion and Q&A session at the end. The event was attended by students, professors, and industry representatives. The event was advertised locally and nationally via national news portals.

Panelist gave talks, presented project results, and participated in Q&A

Finally, face 2 face events, amphitheater AS

27.02.2022.27.10.2022.

Psychology in the Future Development of AI

On Friday, February 25th, at 4 pm, via Zoom platform, the Axon Association of Applied Psychology Students in cooperation with UDG held the first of three multidisciplinary lectures in the summer semester as part of a series called ‘’The Era of Artificial Intelligence’’.

Professor Dr. Danko Nikolic, from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, gave a lecture on “The Role of Psychology in the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies”.

Professor Nikolic is an expert in brain research and artificial intelligence. He spent many years leading the electrophysiology laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. He is also involved in the development of commercial solutions from artificial intelligence, where he leads the Data Science group as part of his responsibilities. He studied psychology and civil engineering in Zagreb. He defended his doctorate on the topic of cognitive sciences, at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

24.02.2022.27.10.2022.

Round Table Event Promoted on National News Portals

EuroCC Montenegro and UDG are organizing a Round Table event titled “Driving the future with HPC and AI innovations in Smart Specialization Areas in Montenegro”. The event was promoted and announced on national news portals, i.e. CDM and AntenaM. See you on Saturday!

23.02.2022.27.10.2022.

Round Table: Driving the Future with HPC/AI Innovation in Montenegrin S3

University of Donja Gorica (UDG) will organize a round table which will be held on Saturday 26.02.2022. at 10:00 at the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) in amphitheater AS. The round table will be organized on the topic of Driving the future with HPC and AI innovations in Smart Specialization Areas in Montenegro in the framework of the project“EuroCC – National Competence Centre in the area of high-performance computing (HPC)” which aims to establish a network of national centres of competence for high-performance computing in 33 member states of the Joint Undertaking for European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU) within Horizont2020 programme.

The aim of the round table is to awake interest in this area among participants, companies and students who are interested in learning more, and especially to inform them about the possibilities of using and applying advanced HPC (High Performance Computing) technologies and AI in various fields such as agriculture, tourism and medicine.

The round table will be opened by Rector of UDG, prof. dr Veselin Vukotic, while prominent experts in this field, as well as students of doctoral and postgraduate master’s studies, will have their presentations on this topic. The round table will be held on Saturday, 26.02.2022. starting at 10:00 at the University of Donja Gorica, amphitheater AS and detailed information can be found in the Agenda attached (link).

21.02.2022.27.10.2022.

EuroCC Workshop Featured at National News Portals

IT2022 Conference and EuroCC Workshop on HPC and AI were featured in national news portals today. Most notably we got coverage in CDM and AntenaM. For that purpose EuroCC Montenegro prepared a short video covering the conference and workshop activities.

Click on video to play

19.02.2022.27.10.2022.

First Semester of the New AI Master Program

The first semester of the new Master program in Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies, University of Donja Gorica, is being wrapped up. The program is implemented with the support from EuroCC Montenegro.

The first semester of the new Master programme in AI is being wrapped up

Students worked hard both in theoretical and practical aspects of the curriculum. Some of the students took part in research projects and some have already presented their first papers at scientific-technical conferences. Our graduate students attended the following courses:

History of ideas
Research methodology
Engineering Mathematics
Advanced Programming
Data Science and Big Data
Digital Transformation

Moving on towards new challenges in the next semester!

19.02.2022.27.10.2022.

A Scientific Paper on Parking Occupancy Detection Using Deep Learning

A paper titled “Image-Based Parking Occupancy Detection Using Deep Learning and Faster R-CNN”, authored by Z. Scekic, S. Cakic, T. Popovic and A. Jakovljevic, was presented at the 26th International Conference on Information Technology, IEEE IT2022. The paper was presented by a young researcher Ms Zoja Scekic, Faculty of Applied Sciences, on 17 February 2022 in the paper presentation session at IT2022. The paper discussed the use of machine learning and HPC to develop prediction models that could be embedded into edge AI setting for Smart parking solutions The effort was supported by the EuroCC Monteengro team.

ABSTRACT – Smart city is one area with the growing use of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. The concept of smart cities relies on making quality of life better, and solving important problems, such as global warming, public health, energy and resources. Smart parking management is one of the smart city use cases. This paper describes the use of deep learning algorithms to process images of parking lots and determine their current occupancy. The development of prediction models was done using PKLot dataset with 12417 images, Detectron2 software library, and Faster R-CNN algorithm. The resulting models can be integrated into parking space sensors and used for building smart parking solutions, and thus lead to more efficient use of space in urban areas, reduced traffic congestion, as well as reducing parking surfing to minimum.