Organizers
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Dr. Basilis 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Conferences and Workshops(e.g. ICDAR 2009, ICFHR 2010, ICDAR 2011, CBDAR 2011, AND 2011, International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing 2011).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 co-chair at ICFHR 2014. |
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Dr. Georgios Louloudis (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~louloud/) was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. He received his Bachelor in Informatics and Telecommunications (2000), his Master’s degree in Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia (2002) and his Ph.D. degree in Character Recognition of Historical Documents (2009) from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he is working at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece at the field of handwritten historical document image processing as a research associate and participates at the EU funded project IMPACT (http://www.impact-project.eu/). His main research interests are in Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Document Image Analysis, Processing of Historical Documents and OCR. |
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Nikolaos Stamatopoulos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~nstam/) was born in 1984, in Athens, Greece. He received his Computer Science Diploma in 2006 and his Ph.D. degree in 2011, both from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His Ph.D Thesis is on Optical Process and Analysis of Historical Documents. He is currently working 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, Processing of Historical Documents, OCR and Pattern Recognition. |
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Dr. Anastasios Kesidis received his Diploma and Ph.D. degree both from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi , Greece . His Ph.D. thesis is on the inverse Hough transform and its applications on digital image processing. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey , UK . From 2002 to 2005 he worked at BSI S.A. as Project Manager and Head of R&D. Currently, he is with the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunication, NCSR "Demokritos", Athens , Greece . Since 2004, he is also serving as instructor (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Surveying Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. His main interests include pattern recognition, document analysis, medical image processing, computational tomography and image watermarking. |
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Dr. Ioannis Pratikakis is 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 Computer Science 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 Conference co-chair of ICFHR 2014. |
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Dr. Konstantinos Zagoris received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and his PhD on Content and Metadata Based Image Document Retrieval from the same university in 2010. He worked as Research Assistant at Salford University in 2011. He is currently working as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Democritus University of Thrace. His research interests include document image retrieval, colour image processing and analysis, document analysis, pattern recognition, databases and operating systems. He is author of more than 20 publications in journals and international conference proceedings and has participated in several research programs funded by the Hellenic Republic or European community. His research interests include document, image and multimodal retrieval, color image processing and analysis, document analysis and pattern recognition. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. |