There is no camera 
[laughing]
I’d better sit this way
[laughing]
Can we cut out my stammering later?
I am working with Kate on
the emotion recognition project
We need to detect emotions and substitute them
with the corresponding emojis
The first step is to look for data right away
We started looking for datasets and I understood with
some uneasiness that there are not many of them
Medical project is way out of my comfort zone
It is about skin diseases
That is, classifying  malignant and 
benign dermatologic conditions
They are called ‘lesions’
There is a good dataset but its samples
are tricky to analyze
Because there are a lot of images
that look much the same
Moreover, most early-stages lesions look like healthy
skin while also having a lot of similarities between them
One needs to devise unconventional ways
to accurately classify them
The teachers are very forthcoming and willing to help
Constantly asking whether we understand everything
He was explaining to us how
neural networks work for two hours
And it was evident he wanted to go even deeper
but had to finish the lecture
They [teachers] don’t answer just for the sake of it
They want you to learn more
They spend time after the classes to explain you
the stuff you didn’t understand
They are interesting people; 
you can bombard them with questions
I enjoyed communicating with them a lot
I definitely gained a lot from Abto Summer Camp
[I have gained] base knowledge that I was lacking
And also filled the major gaps in my technical skills
I was interested in Data Science for some time and
have also learned classical Machine Learning
However, Computer Vision and Neural Networks
was an untapped field for me
This Summer Camp was a place where I got
the opportunity to learn it
I have previously solved some related tasks
but have never actually worked with Neural Networks
We haven’t covered everything [during Abto
Summer Camp] - but it is probably impossible
I got acquainted with AI technologies here
[at Abto Summer Camp]
Now I am working on the project I would
have never done otherwise
I think the graduation project will be the most
memorable part of the Summer Camp
Because you apply your knowledge to practice
It [Abto Summer Camp] was impeccable;
just what I needed!
