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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 3D Image analysis from the
Electronics Engineering and Informatics department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in
January 1999. From March 1999 to March 2000, he was at IRISA/ViSTA group, Rennes, France as an
INRIA postdoctoral fellow. From January 2003 to June 2010, he was working as Adjunct Researcher
at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications in the National Centre for Scientific
Research ?Demokritos?, Athens, Greece. His research interests lie in image processing, pattern
recognition, vision and graphics, and more specifically, in document image analysis and
recognition, medical image analysis as well as multimedia content analysis, search and retrieval
with a particular focus on visual content. He has served as 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 Senior
Member of the IEEE, member of the Board of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society for the
period 2010-2014 and member of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics).
Last but not least, he will be the co-organiser of the International Conference on Frontiers in
Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014).
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Dr. Basilis G. Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/)
was born in 1967, in
Athens, 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
110 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 and Workshops(e.g. ICDAR 2009, ICFHR 2010, ICDAR
2011, CBDAR 2011, AND 2011, International Workshop on Historical
Document Imaging and Processing 2011). He will be the Conference
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Konstantinos Ntirogiannis (http://users.iit.demokritos.gr/~kntir/)
is a Ph.D. student at
the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of Athens
University. His research is conducted in collaboration with the
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National
Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos",
in Athens, Greece.He is working at the field of historical
document image processing and participates at theEUfunded
projectIMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text)(http://www.impact-project.eu/).
His research is focused on document image binarization and its
performance evaluation and has participated in several
conferences (ICFHR 2008, DAS 2008, ICDAR 2009, ICFHR 2010,
ICDAR 2011). He is also a
co-organizer of the Document Image Binarization Contests from
2009-2011, namely DIBCO'09, H-DIBCO'10 and DIBCO'11.
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