Design and Implementation of a Deep-Learning Course to Address AI Industry Needs

Abstract

Industry in Europe and worldwide currently has high interest in deep learning, but many medium-sized and smaller companies fear significant investments in specialized hardware and shortage of qualified personal. The goal of our work is to address these two issues. The University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern is starting to offer a deep learning course in its new computer science master program. The course specifically addresses industry needs by focusing on the practical applications of deep learning in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing. We enable our students to perform deep learning projects by teaching hands-on technical expertise and programming tools that are required to do so using cloud systems. We believe that our work will help to enable local industry partners to develop deep learning supported artificial intelligence solutions in the near future.