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<div style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Structures and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Houston invites students interested in
<b>deep learning, computer vision, or structural health monitoring</b> to participate in the
<b>2nd International Competition on Structural Health Monitoring</b> (IC-SHM 2021). The competition is organized by the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology (ANCRiSST), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harbin
Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJU-UIUC Institute), and the University of Houston. All interested students and young scholars are invited to participate in the competition.
<b>More details can be found here: </b></span><a href="https://sail.cive.uh.edu/ic-shm2021/" id="LPlnk" style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>https://sail.cive.uh.edu/ic-shm2021/</b></span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">This year</span><span style="margin:0px"><span lang="zh-CN" style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">’</span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">s
competition is designed to further extend the frontiers of computer vision-based civil infrastructure inspection and monitoring. The problem descriptions can be found
</span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://sstl.cee.illinois.edu/ic-shm2021/The*202nd*20International*20Project*20Competition*20-*20FINAL.pdf__;JSUlJSUl!!LkSTlj0I!Q1jwur_WDpooBzXNL8FCrzEHn6hkJ8eUhYvHQAQCqbN2ljzcAzikTAlyKhxFA5szOGc$" style="outline:0px; border-radius:2px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>here</b></span></a></span><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#1e1e1e" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>. </b></span></font></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Note
that to broaden the participation, tutorials are being provided for the competition projects to get new students started along a productive path (see website link above). The first tutorial is to introduce the participants to basic deep learning algorithms
(semantic segmentation algorithms) used in Projects 1 and 2. The second tutorial is to introduce the participants to the basics of computer vision-based displacement measurement and damage identification. </span></p>
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<span style="display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Students and young scholars are eligible to participate in this activity</span><span style="display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span lang="zh-CN" style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">–</span><span style="display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>both
individuals and teams are welcome</b>. T</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">he participants should register online at </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/EuEjUVPTZH__;!!LkSTlj0I!R3Ys94ULnBBRB6DgF3umr3Jx6gJEhfa3Q82qqTQ3Ka3fBE_0MpJmvoDi2CzPKxVTTo5Q$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://forms.office.com/r/EuEjUVPTZH</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <b>before
July 17, 2021</b>. The datasets for competition will be released to all participants after the registration deadline. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Those interested in participating in a team,
but needing more members, should <b>contact Dr. Hoskere at vhoskere@central.uh.edu for possible team assignments</b>. </span><br>
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