It is time for another edition of the PyData Eindhoven meetup. Join us on the 25th of October at DAF for an evening of technical talks for technical people.

We were humbled by the large interest in presenting at PyData Eindhoven, but unfortunately, there were not enough speaker slots for this event. However, we will keep all submitted talks in mind for future events and reach out to those who did not get a chance to share their stories. If you want to give a talk, we're hosting a big conference on the 2nd of December as well. You can submit a talk here: https://pydata.org/eindhoven2022/

This PyData Eindhoven Meetup will be hosted by DAF at their campus in Eindhoven.

Agenda:
17:30 - Doors open
18:00 - Computer Vision for Intelligent Transportation Systems - Erkut Akdag
18:30 - Dinner/Drinks
19:15 - A quick introduction to micro-Python - Wouter van Ooijen
19:45 - Assessing the performance of autonomous vehicles by using computer vision - Willem van der Geest & Steffen Buergers
20:15 - Drinks and networking

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Title: Computer Vision for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Description:
An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is one of the core elements of smart cities, enhancing public safety and relieving traffic congestion. Detection and classification of emergency vehicles, and various type of anomalies in traffic flow, such as distracted driver behaviours, forbidden movements in traffic, and traffic accidents, are crucial use cases for ITS. We mainly develop deep-learning-based algorithms to address these requirements of smart cities.
Presenter: Erkut Akdag
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erkut-akdag/
Company: TU/e

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Title: A quick introduction to micro-Python
Description:
A microcontroller has all elements of a computer (CPU, storage, I/O) in a single chip. Such a chip is typically programmed in languages like C, C++, and more recently Rust, to make efficient use of its scarce resources. Unlike their bigger cousins used in desktops, microcontroller chips are still getting bigger and faster. A reasonably-priced microcontroller can now run a Python compiler and interpreter with a decent application, all on the chip itself. Like the Arduino has done before, this removed a barrier to programming embedded systems for non-specialists.
In this talk, I will introduce micro-Python and show how it can be used to create a simple embedded application using freely available resources.
Presenter: Wouter van Ooijen
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/woutervanooijen/
Company: CBoost

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Title: Assessing the performance of autonomous vehicles by using computer vision
Description:
The rise of autonomous vehicles (AV's) leads to new challenges for road authorities, as they have to assess whether their roads are already capable of having those AV's. At Royal Haskoning DHV, we are developing an application (Infra4AV) that uses advanced computer vision algorithms to do this road assessment automatically. This application uses object detection algorithms, multi output classification models and segmentation models (among others) to inspect road conditions and investigate their impact on the performance of self-driving cars. In this talk, we'll discuss some of the deep learning techniques that we are using here.
Presenter: Willem van der Geest & Steffen Buergers
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/willemvandergeest/
linkedin.com/in/steffen-buergers/
Company: Datacation & Royal Haskoning DHV

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Attendee profile:

• People who want to learn about Python, Julia, R in the context of Data
• Interested in seeing how others use Python for solving real problems
• Interested in being part of the Python Community in Eindhoven
• No Recruiters
• No Sales
• Only people who speak Data