[AI Fundamentals] Understanding CNNs for AI Research Engineers

When researching AI or conducting a project using it, basic paper implementation is essential. Let's upgrade our practical skills by implementing an actual paper through this lecture!

You will learn how to process images and videos with OpenCV, and how to identify and recognize faces and various objects using deep learning. This is a course where you will learn fun projects such as drowsiness prevention, age and gender identification, counting the number of people passing by, face tracking, and YOLO that finds bad apples and tangerines, along with theories.

Hot image generation model! Let's understand it by implementing it from the basics! Let's implement AUTO ENCODER / VAE / GAN / DIFFUSION together!

Learn deep learning through PyTorch. Ultimately, the course covers image classification.

To design AI semiconductors such as NPUs, transformer accelerators, and mini LLMs yourself, you need to understand theoretically why the computations inside them occur. This course distills and condenses into three parts only the essential theory required for hardware design, covering everything from a single neuron to CNNs, transformers, and LLMs. Rather than memorizing formulas, a professor with 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry connects software theory with hardware implementation through an intuition for “why it works that way.”

Learn how to build a real-time fire detection system using Next.js, YOLOv11, and FastAPI.

This is a comprehensive machine learning project course that learns various useful machine learning regression and classification projects along with theory using Python and TensorFlow 2 based on Boston Marathon big data.

AI Artificial Intelligence, it goes without saying that mobile is the trend. But how do you learn machine learning and deep learning and use them on mobile? Now, let's learn useful mobile Computer Vision projects that are used in daily life.

Many people have learned FPGA and Verilog but get stuck at the question, "So, how do I actually build an AI accelerator?" This course resolves that curiosity. Using just a single entry-level FPGA and free tools, you will start from a hand-designed 3×3 kernel, train a CNN yourself, quantize the trained weights to INT8 to load onto the hardware, and verify that the results are Bit-True—not deviating by even a single bit from the Python model. As a professor with 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, I teach only verified content as 'working circuits' on actual FPGAs. By gaining the experience of designing and proving it yourself rather than just learning theory, you will acquire practical skills that are recognized in the fabless design and AI semiconductor fields.

This lecture examines the entire process of generating a photo mosaic from an algorithmic perspective. The input image is reduced to a set of representative colors matching the number of tiles through K-means clustering, then the Hungarian algorithm is applied to optimally match each color with a tile in a 1:1 correspondence. Through this, you will understand how image processing and combinatorial optimization algorithms combine to create a single visual output.

Putting a neural network on an FPGA—the phrase is familiar, but few have actually done it. If you want to stay a step ahead in capstone projects, competitions, or graduation projects, you must be able to go beyond just training a model and actually build and prove how those computations run inside a real chip. This course bridges that exact gap between theory and physical hardware. You will complete a neural network accelerator (NPU) for MNIST digit recognition from start to finish—from reading specifications to Python golden models, Verilog RTL design, and FPGA verification. From Conv layers made with line buffers and parallel MACs, through ReLU, MaxPool, and Flatten, to fully connected layers and Argmax—you will integrate nine blocks into a single chip and prove for yourself that "the Python reference and the hardware output do not differ by even a single bit (Bit-True)." I have even included how to overcome those frustrating moments when the simulation runs fine but the results are subtly different. I will guide you through practical know-how that general deep learning textbooks don't cover, such as integer quantization, array axis reordering, and accumulator overflow prevention. I have distilled the trial and error I experienced over years of RISC-V CPU design and FPGA Bit-True verification into this course so that you don't have to repeat them. By the end of the class, you will have a completed hardware project that allows you to say, "I designed and verified it myself."

Let's create a web app that uploads an image and uses OpenCV to process it and detect faces.

Solve the point where 80% get stuck at makeathons. Complete Raspberry Pi · Computer Vision · LLM · 3D Design in 4 weeks! Achieve top rankings at makeathons with a demonstrable smart mirror PoC!

If you want to properly learn OCR technology that's truly used in practice, this one course is all you need! Aiming for over 98% accuracy even with unstructured documents and complex layouts, based on the latest SOTA models and real-world know-how, we build enterprise-level OCR projects together.