Mission:
Federate researchers in the area of deep learning and machine learning for AI
Provide a platform for collaboration and co-supervision
Share human resources as well as infrastructures and computer networks
Provide a unique access to the state-of-the-art to a pool of companies which can benefit from the opportunities opened up by machine learning
Scientific Mission:
Understanding of fundamental principles
Supervised learning and pattern recognition
Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
Representation learning, and deep learning of representations
Computer vision applications
Applications in natural language precessing
Applications in modelling signals such as speech
Applications to healthcare
Applications on large scale data (big data)