INVITED TALKS
– 11.2017 Mobile AR interaction with virtual 3D artefacts. TA4 experts meeting – H2020 CSA Virtual Multi-Modal Museum (ViMM), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
– 06.2016 Recording and 3D modelling of Cultural Heritage sites – Lessons learnt. ITN-DCH
Summer School: “Cultural Heritage Simulations in Mixed Reality”, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
– 09.2015 Visual Tracking in Dynamic Scenes. “Trends in Photogrammetry”: A Colloquium on the occasion of Inaugurating Prof. A. Gruen with the Honorary Doctor Degree, Thessaloniki, Greece.
– 07.2014 Robust Model-based 3D Upper-body Pose Estimation in RGB-D Sequences. BMVA Symposium “Vision for Language and Manipulation”, London, UK given by Trahanias P.
– 09.2013 From Photogrammetry to Robotic Vision. Gender Imbalance Meeting, ICT COST Action IC1005: “HDRi – The digital capture, storage, transmission and display of realworld lighting” and at special session for young female highschool students Heraklion, Greece.
– 11.2011 Vision processing for action recognition. Tutorial “Joint Action for Social Robotics:
How to Build a Robot that Works Together with Several Humans”, within the International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
– 04.2006 Image matching, point transfer, DSM generation. International Summerschool “Digital Recording and 3D Modelling”, Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, organized by ISPRS Commission VI Special Interest Group “Technology Transfer Caravan”.
– 04.2006 Digital aerial cameras. International Summerschool “Digital Recording and 3D Modelling”, Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, organized by ISPRS Commission VI Special Interest Group “Technology Transfer Caravan”.
– 05.2006 Radiometric characteristics and processing of satellite imagery. Training course “Mapping and 3-D Information Extraction from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery”, CRCSI, University of Melbourne.
– 05.2006 Image pansharpening, image matching, interest operators and feature extraction. Training course “Mapping and 3-D Information Extraction from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery”, CRC-SI, University of Melbourne.
– 05.2006 Digital surface model generation. Training course “Mapping and 3-D Information Extraction from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery”, CRC-SI, University of Melbourne.
– 11.2005 How to get base geospatial data for SDI from high-resolution satellite images. Africa GIS 2005 Tutorial, Pretoria, South Africa given by Baltsavias E. (together with: Baltsavias E., Zhang L., Eisenbeiss H., Poli D., Zhang Ch., Remondino F., Fraser C.)
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD Thesis
– 2015 M. Sigalas (Co-supervised with P. Trahanias), Dept. Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece. Title: “Full-body pose tracking under severe occlusions: The Top-View Reprojection Approach”.
– 2006 Kh. Al-Manasir (Co-supervised with C. Fraser and External evaluator at the defense stage in 2007), Geomatics Dept., University of Melbourne, Australia. Title: “Fusion of laser ranging data and imagery for generation of 3D virtual models”.
– 2006 E. Tjahjadi (Co-supervised with C. Fraser), Geomatics Dept., University of Melbourne, Australia. Title: “Splines as geometric constraints in automated image orientation”.
Msc Thesis
– 2006 M. Tsacha (Co-supervised with Prof. Patias), Master program Geoinformatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Title: “Evaluation of the ICP algorithm and its extensions for the automatic registration of 3D point clouds”.
– 2003 N. Champion (Co-supervised with E. Baltsavias), Master program Digital Photogrammetry-3D Vision – metric images (mastere Photogrammeetrie numerique – Vision 3D – image metrique) as part of the bilateral agreement of Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques (ENSG), Marne la Vallee, France and Inst. of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETHZ, Switzerland. Title: “Modeling of breaklines using image data from the airborne digital sensor ADS40 and DSM”.
Diploma Thesis
– 2007 A. Agisilaou and A. Anastasiadis (Co-supervised with Prof. Patias), School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Title: “Generation of photorealistic 3D model using Laser Scanner: The test case of Panagia Kera Basilica”.
– 2007 T. Georgantas, C. Stamatopoulos, A. Tsakiroglou (Co-supervised with Prof. Patias), School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Title: “Laser scanning and Photogrammetric Application in accurate surveying of monuments
and recti ed frescoes”.
Practical Training, Project work
– 2015 S. Kateros, Practical Training, R& D in Virtual Reality Applications, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Crete, Greece. Title: “Physical interaction and movement of virtual characters”.
– 2015 S. Georgiou, Practical Training, R& D in Virtual Reality Applications, Institute of Computer
Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Crete, Greece. Title:“Physical interaction and movement of virtual characters”.
– 2015 N. Lytadakis, Practical Training, R& D in Virtual Reality Applications, Institute of Computer
Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Crete, Greece. Title: “Reduction of geometric surfaces”.
– 2014 S. Savvaki, Msc Project for CS-695 “Directed Personal Studies”, Computer Science Dept., University of Crete, Greece.Title: “Automatic methods for solving puzzles solving of scalable complexity using digital image processing methods”.
– 2006 D. Koukouviadis and S. Pantoulia (Co-supervised with Prof. Georgoula), MSc Project in Management of Photogrammetric Production, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Title: “Processing of laser data for architectural applications”.
– 2003 O. Gut, O. Heller (Co-supervised with E. Baltsavias) 9th semester Blocktraining (Vertiefungsblock),
Inst. of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETHZ, Switzerland. Title: “Das Potential von IKONOS und Quickbird fuer die genaue Punktbestimmung”.
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
– Computer Graphics International 2016 , Program and Organizing Committee, 28.06-01.07.2016, Crete, Greece.
– 1st Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction “Robots in public spaces: towards multi-party, short-term, dynamic human-robot interaction” , held within the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013), Program Committee, 27.10.2013, Bristol, UK.
– 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Administrative assistance & organization, 05-11.09.2010, Crete, Greece.
– International Summer School “Digital Recording and 3D Modeling”, Program and Organizing Committee, 25-29.04.2006, Crete, Greece.
– International Workshop on Recording, Modeling and Visualization of Cultural Heritage, Program and Organizing Committee, 22-27.05.2005 Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland.
– 6th International Conference on Optical Measurement Techniques, Organizing Committee, 22-25.09.2003, Zurich, Switzerland.
– 3rd International Workshop on Automatic Extraction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images, Administrative assistance & organisation, 10-15.06.2001, Ascona, Switzerland.
– ISPRS Workshop Commissions V/2 and V/5 on Photogrammetric Measurement, Object Modeling and Documentation in Architecture
and Industry, Administrative assistance & organisation, 07-09.07.1999, Thessaloniki, Greece.
REVIEWER
– Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Publisher: Elsevier)
– Information Sciences (Publisher: Elsevier)
– International Conference on Robotics and Automation – ICRA (Publisher: IEEE)
– International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems – IROS (Publisher: IEEE/RSJ)
– ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Publisher: ACM)
– Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Vision Systems Theory, Tools and Applications
– International Conference on Arti cial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI)
– Computer Graphics International
– Sensors (Publisher: MDPI)
– Remote Sensing (Publisher: MDPI)
– International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
– Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
– Member, Evaluation Committee of National Research Proposals in Tourism, Culture and Creative Industries.
– Member, Special Scientific Committee of Cartography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing of TEE, Greece (since 2008).
– Member, Working Group of the Technical Chamber of Greece on the Monitoring of arbitrary buildings in the Prefecture of East Attica by satellite imagery and automated methods (2007-2010).
– Member, Technical Chamber of Greece (since 2000).
– Member, Working Group on e-Learning of the Technical Commission on Education and Outreach (WG VI/2) of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (2004-2006).
– Member, Working Group on Surface Reconstruction of the Technical Commission on Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image Analysis (WG III/2) of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (2004-2006).
– Member, Working Group on Cultural Heritage Documentation of the Technical Commission on Close Range Sensing: Analysis and Applications (WG V/2) of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (2004-2006).
– Member, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) (2002 -2006).