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Deep Learning is emerging as one of the most successful tools in machine learning for feature learning and classification. This course will introduce students to the basics of Neural Networks and expose them to some cutting-edge research. In particular, this course will provide a survey of various deep learning-based architectures such as autoencoders, recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks. We will discuss merits and drawbacks of available approaches and identify promising avenues of research in this rapidly evolving field. Various applications related to computer vision and biometrics will be studied. The course will include a project, which will allow students to explore an area of Deep Learning that interests them in more depth.