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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 80 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 and program committee member of several international Conferences (e.g. ICFHR 2008, ICDAR 2009).

Nikolaos Stamatopoulos was born in Athens, Grecce in 1984. He graduated in 2006 from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. From November 2006 he is a Ph.D. candidate at the same university. Currently, he is working at the EU  funded project "IMPACT" (http://www.impact-project.eu/), at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos". His main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, Processing of Historical Documents. 

Georgios Louloudis 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  He is  working at the field  of handwritten historical  document  image  processing  and participates  at the  EU  funded project  IMPACT  (http://www.impact-project.eu/).




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