Picterra will be giving on Monday 3rd Decembre a IUCN Geospatial Brown Bag Lunch entitled “Deep learning and earth observation imagery: Artificial Intelligence as a Service”.

Combining deep learning with human expertise to extract structured insights from large volume of drone, aerial and satellite images, to detect objects and trends, and to monitor change over any area or period of interest.

About the speaker:
Dr Frank de Morsier has received a Master degree in Information Technology with a Minor in Space Technologies from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2009. He holds a PhD in machine learning for remote sensing imagery from the EPFL-LTS5 and worked in the private industry in the field of remote sensing image processing since 2014. He is also lecturer of the “Image Processing for Earth Observation” master course at EPFL. He has an extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of machine learning, data mining and pattern recognition for image processing. Co-founder and CTO of Picterra, his focus is on the development user-friendly interfaces enabling new applications of machine learning algorithms for Earth observation. He is passionate about trying to make technology accessible to anyone.