Organizers:
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Alexandros Papandreou
was born in 1985 in Athens, Greece and he received his Diploma in
Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 from Democritus University
of Thrace. Currently he is awarded a full scholarship and he is
working on his Ph.D. in "New Techniques of Document Image
Processing" in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of
the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" and the
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. He participated at the EU funded
project IMPACT (http://www.impactproject.eu/).
His main research interests are in Document Image Preprocessing and
Normalization, Pattern Recognition, Historical Image Processing and OCR. |
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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
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, ICFHR2010, ICDAR 2011, CBDAR2011, 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Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing 2011).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 in 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. He participated at the EU
funded project IMPACT (http://www.impactproject. eu/).
His main research interests are in Pattern Recognition, Image
Processing, Document Image Analysis, Processing of Historical
Documents and OCR. |
 | 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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