Organizers
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Dr. Ioannis Pratikakis (http://utopia.duth.gr/~ipratika/), is
an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. He received the Ph.D. degree in
Applied Sciences from the Department of Electronics Engineering and Informatics
at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in January 1999. From March 1999 to
March 2000, he was at IRISA, Rennes, France as an INRIA postdoctoral fellow.
Since 2003, he was working as Research Scientist at the Institute of Informatics
and Telecommunications in the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
Athens, Greece. His research interests include 2D & 3D image processing and
analysis, 2D & 3D image sequence analysis, document image analysis and
recognition, 3D computer vision, graphics and multimedia search and retrieval
with a particular focus on visual modalities. He has published more than 100
papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings in the above areas.
He has participated in more than 15 national and international R&D projects. He
has served as a co-chair of the Eurographics Workshop on 3D object retrieval
(3DOR) in 2008 and 2009 as well as Guest Editor for the Special issue on 3D
object retrieval at the International Journal of Computer Vision. He is member
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the European Association for Computer
Graphics (Eurographics). He will be the co-organizer of ICFHR 2014 in Greece. |
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Dr. Basilis Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/)
was born in 1967, in Athens, Greece. He received his Electrical Engineering
Diploma in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in 1998, both from the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi,
Greece. His Ph.D. thesis is on Optical Character Recognition Techniques. In 1993
he was awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and
Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", where he worked till 1996. From 1997 to
1998 he worked as a Software Engineer at Computer Logic S.A. From 1998 to 2001
he worked at Lambrakis Press Archives as a Director of the Research Division in
the field of digital preservation of old newspapers. From 2001 to 2003 he worked
at BSI S.A. as Managing Director of R&D Division in the field of document
management and recognition. He is currently working as a Researcher at the
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for
Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. His main research interests
are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, OCR and Pattern
Recognition. He has more than 90 publications in journals and international
conference proceedings and has participated in several research programs funded
by the European community. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of
the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Document Analysis and
Recognition (IJDAR) and program committee member of several international
Conferences (e.g. ICFHR 2008, AND 2009, ICDAR 2009, ICDAR 2011). |
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Kostantinos Ntirogiannis is a Ph.D. student at
the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of
the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens,
Greece. He is working at the field of historical
document image processing and participates
at the EU funded project IMPACT (http://www.impact-project.eu/). |
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